Soldiers & Sailors Newspaper: The New York Times · Apr 29, 1903

The New York Times · Apr 29, 1903

MONUMENT TO CONFEDERATES.

Statue Will Be Unveiled at Baltimore on Saturday.

Special to The New York Times:

BALTIMORE, April 28.-The Confederate Monument on Mount Royal Plaza in this city will be unveiled next Saturday by the Maryland Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States. The memorial has been erected through the efforts of the Maryland Daughters of the Confederacy to commemorate the valor of Maryland soldiers.

Miss Margaret Lloyd Trimble, great-granddaughter of Major General Isaac R. Trimble, and Miss Nannie Young, Hardcastle, great-granddaughter of Admiral Franklin Buchanan, will draw the veil from the bronze statue representing an angel bearing a laurel wreath in one hand and with the other supporting a wounded soldier. The design is by F. Wellington Ruckstuhl, the New York sculptor. After the unveiling the Daughters will heap flowers about the base of the statue.

Capt. G. W. Booth, First Vice President of the society in Maryland, will present the monument to the city, and Mayor Hayes will accept it. Major Gen. Andrew C. Trippe, Commander of the Maryland Division, United Confederate Veterans, will Introduce the orator of the day, Capt. McHenry Howard.

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