The News & Observer

HONORS MOSBY'S DEAD
A MONUMENT UNVEILED AT FRONT ROYAL, VIRGINIA.
Among Those Present Were Many Grizzled Veterans Who Followed the Dashing Cavaliers, Stuart and Ashby.

Richmond, Va., Sept. 23.—Five thousand Virginians, West Virginians, old Confederates from nearly every Southern State and men and women from as far north as New York, witnessed the unveiling at Front Royal, Va., today of a monument erected by the survivors of Colonel John S. Mosby's famous command to seven of their comrades shot and hanged at that place during the War between the States. Jeb Stuart Camp of Confederate Veterans, of Berryville; Stover Camp of Strasburg; Turner Ashby Camp of Winchester; Rosser Gibbon Camp of Luray and William Richardson Camp of Front Royal were in the procession. Over 200 of Mosby's men were in attendance, the largest number of members of this band which has been together since 1865. In the parade besides the organizations named were the Warren Memorial Association and the survivors of the Forty-third Virginia regiment.
The monument is on an eminence in Prospect Hill Cemetery and around this gathered the great throng at 2:30 o'clock to hear the addresses. Colonel Giles Cook made a short address. Rev. S. G. Ferguson offered an eloquent prayer and then a fine oration was delivered by Major A. E. Richards, of Louisville, Ky. At the conclusion of the oration, Martha Megath Strother, grand-daughter of Captain Thomas E. Anderson, one of the seven men to whose memory the monument was erected, and Mary Wilkinson, grand-niece of Henry Rhodes, also one of the seven, drew the cords which bound the veil hiding the shaft from view, and there were mighty cheers from thousands of throats as the beautiful shaft stood disclosed.
An eloquent address of acceptance was made by Hon. R. H. Downing on behalf of the ladies of the Warren Memorial Association. Fair women then placed thirteen laurel wreaths around the base of the monument typifying the thirteen States of the Confederacy.
General Wm. Payne, of Fauquier made a happy address and the exercises were concluded by the singing of an original war song by Captain Frank Cunningham, of Richmond.
A free dinner and a most bountiful one, was served to everybody who would eat.
The monument is a beautiful granite shaft 25 feet in height and is on a commanding eminence in the beautiful cemetery. Inscribed on the base are the names of the men who were executed: Anderson, Carter, Overby, Wells, Love, Jones and Rhodes.