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S. G.Sollenberger Acting Supt. GNMP to Mrs. Robert Hamilton Smith UDC President General March 21, 1963

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Mrs. Robert Hamilton Smith President, United Daughters of the Confederacy John Marshall Hotel Richmond, Virginia Dear Mrs. Smith: In accordance with our conversation on Tuesday morning, March 19, 1963, I am enclosing a map showing the possible sites for the proposed Confederate memorial. Also indicated are the location of the various Confederate State Memorials now in existence and the sites of the proposed South Carolina and Longstreet Memorials. You will recall that all are located along West Confederate Avenue, which follows the crest of Seminary Ridge, the high ground from which the Confederates launched their attacks on July 2 and 3, 1863. This avenue is lined with cannon marking Confederate battery positions and by tablets erected by the War Department which describe the operations of the various Confederate brigades, divisions, and corps at Gettysburg, excluding of course, those which fought on Culp’s Hill. As we indicated to you it has been the policy of the Park that Union and Confederate memorials face in the direction in which their units faced during the battle. Therefore, all Confederate memorials on Seminary Ridge should front toward the Union position on Cemetery Ridge a mile to the east. The sites which we inspected and are shown on the map are as follows: Site 1. This site is location a short distance south of the Alabama Memorial and across the avenue from the plot selected by Mrs. Longstreet as the site for General Longstreet’s memorial. It is an excellent setting which commands a view of the Round Tops. It is associated with Law’s Alabama and Benning’s Georgia Brigades and near the positions occupied by Reilly’s North Carolina and Zimmerman’s South Carolina Batteries.

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