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Popular Science MontJily 



The march of the Confederate Army as it is to be immortalized in the Uving granite of Stone 

 Mountain, near Atlanta, Georgia. On the face of this mountain hundreds of men will be 



Carving the Confederate Army in 

 a Granite Mountain 



A^^IONUMENT to be carved out of 

 the living granite of a mountain, a 

 monument of flawless granite two 

 miles long and a thousand feet high — to 

 be built as an everlasting memorial to 

 the people of the South and the cause of 

 the Confederacy — such is the gigantic 

 task allotted to Gutzon Borglum, one of 

 America's foremost sculptors. 



This great monument is to be carved 

 from the solid granite composing Stone 

 Mountain, which is located near Atlanta, 

 Georgia, and which is called "the larg- 

 est pebble in the world," since it is one 

 solid stone, two miles long, without a 

 flaw or a fissure in its entire surface. 



Upon the face of the mountain hun- 

 dreds of men will be engaged for eight 

 years in carving companies of giant fig- 

 ures representing the Confederate Army 

 and its famous generals on the march. 

 Should Mr. Borglum wish to complete 

 the task alone, he would have to live for 

 centuries. The central portion of the 

 group, bearing the likeness of the leaders 

 of the army on horseback, will be approx- 

 imately thirty-five to fifty feet high. The 

 line of marchers will be nearly two thou- 

 sand feet in len<;th. 



Each State of the Confederacy will be 

 represented by one of the generals who 

 led the Southern Armies, and the char- 

 acters will be selected by committees 

 from the various states. Thirteen im- 

 mense columns will also be cut in the 

 base of the mountain, to represent the 

 thirteen Confederate States. 



The difficulties of construction, Mr. 

 Borglum asserts, will not be great. He 

 will build a studio, about one hundred 

 feet long, squarely upon the axis of the 

 face of the mountain, and from three- 

 quarters of a mile to one mile from its 

 face. In the side of the studio he will 

 have a window of such length as will 

 show the full field of the mountain in- 

 tended for the figures. Then he will 

 draw the figures on the window to scale, 

 cross-lining it, and on the mountain, as 

 it appears on the window, he will draw 

 in the entire work on the window itself. 

 By a little imagination, the drawings on 

 the glass will appear as figures on the 

 actual stone. 



By shifting his position the sculptor 

 can shift the whole scheme of his de- 

 sign to any part of the mountain ; and 

 by moving towards or away from the 



