Dekalb County GaArchives News.....MEMORIAL TO GENERAL LEE AT STONE MOUNTAIN IS DEDICATED : ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace [Teal] Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 July 26, 2006, 2:56 am "The Roanoke Leader" : Roanoke, Randolph Co., Alabama NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, April 11, 1928 MEMORIAL TO GENERAL LEE AT STONE MOUNTAIN IS DEDICATED Atlanta, Ga., April 9th Those who fought him and those who followed him gripped hands across the years Monday in homage to Robert E. Lee. Sixty-three years after Appomattox, ranks of gray and blue garbed veterans, in waning numbers, were simulated to this past expression of felicity by the unveiling of the huge equestrian figure of the Southern Army's commander-in-chief, the first unit in the colossal memorial to the Confederacy being engraved on a stupendous scale on the sheer granite side of Stone Mountain. Here to participate in the impressive ceremonies attendant on formal dedication of the gigantic monument, the largest in written history of man, were civil and military dignitaries from North and South, including a party of leading congressional figures from Washington, the governors of three states and official representatives of 20 more. To Mayor James J. Walker of New York, fell the honor of accepting the monument on behalf of the nation; Marcus W. Beck, justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, performed a similar function for the South. In the tiny hands of 5 year old Robert Edward Lee IV, great-grandson of the Gray leader, was the responsibility of loosening the folds of fabric that hung about the gargantuan sculpture and disclosing it to the eyes of the assembled multitude 200 feet below the deep cut head of Lee, almost complete, and the outline of his storied warhorse, "Traveller" whose finished equine image will measure 175 feet from eartips to tail. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/dekalb/newspapers/memorial1523gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb