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I’AliK AND CEMETERY. 
The long array of fine monuments that have been 
erected to the memory of William McKinley have been 
illustrated and described in these pages at various times 
in the past few years. The last of the public monuments 
to his memory is the one in South Brandywine Park, 
Wilmington, Del., which, in its simplicity and unique set- 
ting. is strikingly different from the elaborate statues that 
have been erected to AIcKinley. It is a simple undeco- 
rated monumental tablet of granite in which are set two 
bronze reliefs, one a portrait medallion, and the other a 
representation of a war scene in which President McKin- 
ley, as a young volunteer, is shown bringing water to a 
wounded comrade. It has been given a very effective and 
unusual setting in an alcove of boulders, built into the 
side of a hill by the park commission. 
It was particularly proper that a memorial to Gen. S. 
D. Lee should be the first Confederate memorial to be 
established at the National Military Park at Vicksburg, 
for General Lee was a member of the Park Commission 
and was closely associated with Captain William G. Rigby 
in the direction of laying out of the grounds. Henry Hud- 
son Kitson, the sculptor of the statue, was a close personal 
friend of the ex-confederate, whose death occurred about 
a year ago. 
The model was completed early in May at the artist’s 
studio, Quincy, Massachusetts. It is 9 ft. high. It re- 
presents General Lee as he stood at a critical moment 
in the siege of Vicksburg, when his division was stand- 
ing up against the assault that resulted in killing or 
wounding more than half his men. 
The monument erected by the National Government at 
a cost of $50,000 to commemmorate the valor of the reg- 
ular troops at Gettysburg, was unveiled by President Taft 
on Memorial Day in the presence of a large gathering. 
It is a simple obelisk of good proportion, 85 feet high, 
with a substantial architectural treatment at the base, and 
was designed and erected by William B. Van Amringe, 
of the Van Ambringe Granite Co., of Boston. 
President Taft, on his unveiling trip to Gettysburg, also 
dedicated the monument to General Hartranft and his 
Pennsylvania troops that took part in the siege of Peters- 
burg, Va. The memorial stands at Fort Mahone, near 
Petersburg, and is an imposing obelisk of rock-faced gran- 
ite, 60 ft. high, in front of which stands a spirited bronze 
statue of a color bearer modeled by F. Wellington Ruck- 
stuhl. The memorial was erected by the state of Penn- 
sylvania. 
The soldiers’ monument unveiled at Salisbury, N. C., 
May 10, is one of the most imaginative and appealing 
sculptural conceptions in America. It is a replica, with 
certain minor changes, of the well-known “Spirit of the 
Confederacy” in Baltimore, which has been illustrated in 
these pages, and is the work of F. Wellington Ruckstuhl, 
who has achieved a conception of great poetic feeling 
and executed it with rare sculptural charm and monu- 
mental dignity. 
STEPHEN D. LEE MONUMENT O'N 
VICKSBURG BATTLEFIELD. 
H. H. Kitson, Sc. 
McKINLEr MEMORIAL. WILMINGTON, DEL 
J. E. Kelly, Sc. 
