The Baltimore Sun · Nov 7, 1934
FUNDS READY FOR $100,000 MONUMENTS
Memorial to Lee and Jackson Provided For In Ferguso Will
NOTICE RECEIVED BY ART SOCIETY
Committee Named to Select Site Within Ten Miles of City Hall
Plans for the erection of a statue commemorating the last meeting of Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson were being formed yesterday as a result of the death on October 10 of Mrs. Ella F. Ward.
The executors of the estate of J. Harry Ferguson have notified the Municipal Art Society that they are prepared to pay to it $100,000 left by Mr. Ferguson in 1928 for the erection of the memorial. Mr. Ferguson provided in his will that the money should become available on the death of Mrs. Ward, his sister.
To Select Site
Mr. Ferguson specified that the monument be erected in Maryland within ten miles of the City Hall, and left the selection of a site to nine men whom he named in his will. They are:
Charles Morris Howard Charles McHenry Howard
Arthur W. Machen, Jr. R.E. Lee Marshall
George A. Colston James McConkey Trippe
William L. Marbury
A. Sterett McKim
Should the Municipal Art Society be unable to assume charge of the construction, the work is to be done by the Maryland Historical Society.
The last meeting of Lee and Jackson at Chancellorsville, Va., just before Jackson was mortally wounded, was specified by Mr. Ferguson as the subject of the memorial.
His “Boyish Heroes”
“They were my boyish heroes,” Mr. Ferguson wrote in his will, “and maturer judgment has only strengthened my admiration for them. They were great generals and Christian soldiers. They waged war like gentle-men, and I feel that their example should be held up to the youth of Maryland.”
The model which is expected to be used in constructing the monument is an engraving by. Julio, showing Lee on Traveler and Jackson on Little Sorrel. Jackson has his hat off and is looking across Lee’s horse in the direction in which Lee is pointing his hand. Other Confederate officers are shown in the background.