Pickett - Buchanan Camp Confederate Veterans
Report of the Committee on Monument
Norfolk, Va. May 30, 1898
A special meeting of the Pickett-Buchanan Camp Confederate Veterans, was held in its hall this (Monday) evening at 8 o’clock.
Present
Geo. M Todd Commander
Fred Greenwood 1st Lieut. Comdr.
Past Commanders
Heugh Garrett , & Taylor
T. R. Jackson Adjunct
C Greekruit Collector,
Wash n Taylor (Cairman) Executive Committee
R. A. Dobie Executive Committee
And a number of Comrades,
The meeting was called to order by the Commander who stated that the Camp had been call to receive the report of the committee on Monument.
Comrade Col. Walter H. Taylor, submitted on behalf of the Committee the following report which was, on motion, received and the recommendations adopted.
Report of the Committee on Monument,
To the Commander and Comrades of Pickett – Buchanan Camp, Confederate veterans, Norfolk, Va.
Comrades,
Our efforts to secure a renewal of the old subscriptions to the Fund for the erection of a Monument in our City to the memory of the Confederate dead, that had expired by limitation of time, has been partially successful, and we now submit the following report of the present condition of this fund,
1868
March 1. Amount originally deposited in the Franklin Savings Bank to the credit of the Norfolk Monumental Asociation Genr. R. L. Page. President, 120.04
Accumulation of interest to date. 354.33 $474.37
1890
May 12, Amount of popular subscription in response to an appeal from Pickett – Buchanan Camp, 1000.59
1892
April 1, Amount received from F. Greenwood, Jn War Tabbaux 455.12
1893
May 11. The Tucker Boys & associates 2.00
1894
Jan 3 do ditto 2.00
30 do John A. Day 5.00
Mar. 19 do Mrs. J. S. Taylor 10.00
April 17 do The Tucker Boys & associates 3.52
June 11 do Alfred P Thorn 50.00
23 do Excursion Steamer Pocahontas 25.00
Dec. 6 do Jno L. Stevens, SAR 1.00
1895
Jan 31 do Col A. W. Stark 25.00
Mar 4 do Unknown thru Mrs. C S Granby 1.00
6 do Kirmess Ester Farument Thru Mrs J S J Leigh, 504.50
May 15 do Miss Blanche Baker 25.00
Aug 10 do John H. Day 10.00
1897
Mar 26 do Dr. Frank A. Walke 100.00
29 do John H. Day 10.00
Aprl 30 do Mrs. Anna M D. Smith 10.00
May 15 do The pupils of Mrs. Masis School 1.90
Do “ “ Norfolk Academy & Mrs Hunter 11.87
19 Do “ “ Mrs. Smiths School 2.55
do “ “ Miss Filchetts school 3.70
May 24 Amount received from
the pupils of Leach Wood School 5.45
Ditto “ Phillips West “ 2.00
Ditto “ Charlotte Street “ 2.84
Ditto “ Bank St. Primary “ 1.14
Do “ Norfolk College Young Ladies. 3.25
29 do “ Forth Ward School 6.30
June 12 do “ Juvenile Ben Society, NC, YL. 2.60
24 do “ the pupils Norfolk High School 7.36
Aug 2 do Frank Dusch 100.00
1898
Apr 16 do Allen Burrow 10.00
23 do M. Monleuby 5.00
May 28 do Geo. W. Dey 25.00
2,655.69
Accumulations of interest to date 492.64, 3,148.33
Total amount of cash on hand $3,622.70
The following subscriptions, most of them renewals, are immediately available,
Mrs. James F. Cecil 500.00
Mrs. L. P. Selden 1000.00
The Misses Selden 400.00
C. W. Granby 400.00
Wm. E. Taylor 200.00
Richard Walke 200.00
M. L. T. Davis 100.00
C. A. Nash 200.00
A. H. Granby 100.00
Wm. H. White 100.00
J. W. Perry 200.00
C. A. Woodard 25.00
Wm. W. Old 100.00
Wm. Sainb 100.00
Washington Taylor 100.00
J. W. McCarriek 100.00
Rev. B. D. Tucker 100.00
W. H. Taylor 200.00
Robertson Taylor 100.00
W. A. S. Taylor 100.00
W. W. Hunter 100.00
W. T. Cooke 50.00
A. J. Dalton 100.00
J. E. Etheredge 100.00
Miss C. L. Andrews 500.00
B. P. Loyall 100.00
T. R. Borland 100.00
Chas Reid & son 100.00
W. W. Chamberlaine 100.00
O. E. Edwards 100.00
John deBree 100.00
R. B. Tunstall 100.00
Peter Smith 50.00
James E. Barry 100.00
Geo. Newton 100.00
Wm. C. Dickson 100.00
N. M. Weston 100.00
Mrs. M. V. F. W. McCullough 150.00
T. S. Garnett 100.00
Barton Myers 100.00
J. R. Briggs 100.00
Mrs. Wm. A. Graves 10.00
W. B. Rogers 10.00
Umstadter Crlbyers 50.00
Henry Walke 50.00
L. D. Starke 50.00
E. M. Henry 50.00
H. D. Oliver 100.00
C. G. Elliott 50.00
Geo. M. Todd 50.00
Miss W. W. Todd 50.00
N. M. Osborne 25.00
Total $7,220.00
Which added to the cash in hand makes an aggregate of $10,842.70 available for the work in hand.
Your Committees regrets that after several years of Eurnest Endeavor it cannot submit a more favorable report.
The desire to have a Confederate Monument in our city through the voluntary offerings of our people does not seem to be generally felt, and discouragement and indifference were encountered in many instances when least expected.
We are admonished however, by the progress of time, that if our hopes for such a Monument are ever to materialize, we should commence the work at once, and we recommend that the Monument be placed at the head of old Market square, and that all the money now available be expended in the erection of a granite shaft, complete in itself somewhat after the design submitted by the Couper Marble Works, with provisions for heroic statues at the base and on the top of the Monument, whenever we have funds in hand for their purchase.
Your Committee recommends that the cash in hand and the subscription pledges be placed in the hands of a Board of Trustees, with authority to contract for a Monument and to expend the money in paying for the work as it progresses. The subscribers have been told that 25% of their subscriptions would be called for at once and the residue as required in making payments for the work.
Your Committee recommends that application be made at once to the City authorities for the location of the Monument as proposed and for such material aid in the erection thereof and in appropriate arrangement of the square as they may have it in their power to extend.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the Committee,
(signed) Walter H. Taylor, Chairman
On motion, the action of the camp on March 29th in delegating to the Committee on Monument the authority to select 5 of its members as Trustees, was confirmed.
On motion the ungratified thanks of the Camp were tendered the Committee for their untiring zeal in obtaining funds with which to erect a Monument to the Confederate Dead.
On motion the Commander was requested to make proper application for permission to erect the Monument on the spot chosen and to petition the City authorities for substantial aid as recommended by the Committee.
Adjourned
T. B. Jackson
Adjutant.
Historic Documents related to the monument
1895 Monument of Peace, 1895 Kirmess, 1897 Raising Money, Report of the Committee on Monument, Board of Trustees, Monument Approval, Communication from City Treasurer, Signing Monument Contract, 1899 Ground Braking, 1899 Plans For Laying The Corner Stone, 1899 Laying The Corner Stone, 1902 History of the Monument, 1907 Standard Bearer, 1907 Memorial Day
Source of Information
Picket - Buchanan Camp of Confederate Veterans minute book 1898
in the collection of
Jean Outland Chrysler Library,
Room 1003, Barry Arts Building, 4600 Monarch Way, Norfolk, Va. 23508, (757) 664-6205.