[North Side]

"His-grateful Countrymen Will-mourn-his-loss

And-cherish

his-memory.

To-his-comrades-in-arms
he-has-left
The-proud-recollection
of-his-deeds
and-the
Inspiring-influence
of-his-example"

Gen: R. E. Lee

Announcing-the-death-of

Gen: Stuart

To-his-army-May-20-1864.

HARRY TALBIRD

[Inscription on the monument erected to a negro slave in Marion, Alabama. The monument stands in the cemetery of Marion, not far from the Confederate Monument.]

[West Side]

HARRY

Servant of

H. Talbird, D.D.

President of Howard College

Who lost his life from injuries received while rousing the students at the burning of the college building on the night of Oct. 15th 1854.

Aged 23 years.

[North Side]

He was employed as waiter in the college, and when alarmed by the flames at midnight and warned to escape for his life replied "I must wake the boys first," and thus saved their lives at the cost of his own.

[East Side]

As a grateful tribute to his fidelity and to commemorate a

noble act, this monument has been erected by the students of Howard College and the Alabama Baptist Convention.

[South Side]

A consistent member of the Baptist Church he illustrated the character of a Christian servant "Faithful even unto death."

MARY ASHLEY TOWNSEND

[From Tablet in the F. W. Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.]

MARY ASHLEY TOWNSEND

"Who buildeth broadest

Buildeth best,

Who broadest blesses

Most is blest."

By the Quarante Club
MCMIII

MRS. KENNETH HAPPUCH TURNER

[Guilford Battle Ground, Guilford County, near Greensboro, North Carolina. This is said to be the first monument erected in the United States to a Revolutionary heroine.]

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A Heroine of '76

1902

MRS. KENNETH HAPPUCK TURNER

Mother of Elizabeth

The Wife of Joseph
Morehead of N.C., and
Grandmother of Captain
James and John Morehead.
A young N.C. Soldier under
Greene, rode horse-back from
Her Maryland Home and at
Guilford Court House nursed
To health a badly wounded son.

JAMES E. VALENTINE

[Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.]

JAMES E. VALENTINE.
Killed in a Collision,

Dec. 20, 1874, Aged 32 years.

In the crash and the fall he stood
Unmoved, and sanctified his life
That he might fulfil his trust.

Until the Brakes are turned on Time,
Life's throttle-valve shut down,
He wakes to pilot in the crew

That wear the martyr's crown.

On schedule time, on upper grade,
Along the homeward section,

He lands his train at God's round-house,
The morn of resurrection.

His time all full no wages docked;
His name on God's pay-roll,
And transportation through to Heaven
A free pass for his Soul.

MARIA A. VALK

[St. Michael's Churchyard, Charleston, South Carolina.]

Sacred to the Memory
of

MARIA A. VALK,

Whose mortal remains are here Interr'd.

Born 13th. Feby. 1815.
Died 21st. Septr. 1827.

Early, bright, transient,
Chaste, as morning dew,
She sparkled was Exhal'd,
And went to Heaven.

1818

ELIZABETH L. VAN LEW

[Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia]

ELIZABETH L. VAN LEW

1900

She risked everything that is dear to man-friends-fortune comfort-health-life itself—all for the One absorbing desire of her heart-that slavery might be abolished and the Union preserved

This Boulder

From the Capitol Hill in Boston is a tribute
from Massachusetts friends.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

["The author of this composition is not known. It has been transcribed from a manuscript copy, written on the back of a picture frame in which is a miniature likeness of Washington, and which hangs in one of the rooms of the mansion at Mount Vernon, having been left there sometime after Washington's death." Jared Sparks's 'Life of Washington.']

Washington,

The Defender of his Country, the Founder of Liberty

The Friend of Man.

History and Tradition are explored in vain

For a Parallel to his Character.

In the Annals of Modern Greatness

He stands alone

And the noblest Names of Antiquity
Lose their Lustre in his Presence.
Born the Benefactor of Mankind,
He united all the Qualities necessary

To an Illustrious career.
Nature made him Great,

He made himself Virtuous.

Called by his Country to the Defence of her Liberties,
He triumphantly vindicated the Rights of Humanity,
And on the Pillars of National Independence

Laid the Foundations of a Great Republic.

EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS

Twice invested with Supreme Magistracy
By the Unanimous Voice of a Free People,
He surpassed in the Cabinet

The Glories of the Field,

And, voluntarily resigning the Sceptre and the Sword,
Retired to the Shades of Private Life.

A spectacle so new and so sublime

Was contemplated with the profoundest Admiration;
And the Name of WASHINGTON,

Adding new Lustre to Humanity,
Responded to the remotest Regions of the Earth.
Magnanimous in Youth,

Glorious through Life,

Great in Death,

His highest Ambition the Happiness of Mankind,
His noblest Victory the Conquest of himself,
Bequeathing to Posterity the Inheritance of his Fame.

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And Building his Monument in the Hearts of his Country

men,

He lived the Ornament of the Eighteenth Century,
He died regretted by a Mourning World.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

[Statue in State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia.]

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth
Of Virginia have caused this statue to be erected,
As a monument of affection and gratitude to
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Who, uniting to the endowment of the Hero
The virtues of the Patriot, and exalting both
In establishing the Liberties of his Country,
Has rendered his name dear to his Fellow-Citizens,
And given to the world an immortal example

Of true glory. Done in the year of
CHRIST

One thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight
And in the year of the Commonwealth the twelfth.