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SUBSCRIPTION LIST FOR
SOLDIERS' MONUMENT, 
AT FREDERICKSBURG, Va. 

At a public meeting held on the Battle-field of Fredericksburg, Va., October 12th, 1865, several hundred soldiers and loyal citizens being present, it was resolved to collect together the remains of our heroic defenders, now buried in the surrounding fields, to deposit them along with many hundreds now lying in an old ice house in the centre of the battle-field, and to erect over their remains a SOLDIERS' MONUMENT, of suitable size and with appropriate designs and inscriptions. This Monument will be in the rear of town, and in full view of the railroad on which passes the great Northern and Southern travel, and will also be in the very centre of the plain over which our brave soldiers repeatedly charged to carry the celebrated stonewall, and the heights held by the fee. To collect together these remains, and to mark their last resting place with a column of stone, a
 
MONUMENT ASSOCIATION

was formed, composed of the following officers: General T.M. HARRIS, commanding district, President; Colonel S. Moffit and Joseph Williams, Vice-Presidents; Charles W. Tankersley, Secretary; and John R. Elvans, 309 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, D.C., Treasurer. Directors--Generals A.E. Burnside, Rhode Island; Joseph Hooker, Massachusetts; Daniel E. Sickles, New York; governor Curtin, Pennsylvania; Governor Fenton, New York; Hon. E.M. Staunton, Pennsylvania; Hon. James Harlan, Iowa; Hon. John W. Forney, Pennsylvania; and Charles Williams, James W. Hunnicut, A. Watson and John J. Rollow, citizens of Fredericksburg. 

The following letter was read at the meeting: 
NEW YORK, October 8, 1865. 
Joseph Williams, Esq.: 
My Dear Sir: Absence from home has delayed the receipt of your kind letter of the 4th inst. Please accept my thanks for your invitation to be present at the meeting on Thursday next, for the purpose of organizing a Monument Association which will have for its object the erection of a monument commemorative of the heroic deeds of the officers and soldiers who fell in defence of the Union at the battle Fredericksburg. Nothing but the most important and imperative business engagements would prevent my acceptance. You will readily imagine how entirely my sympathies will follow you in your good work; and I beg to say that I will be glad to aid the Association with such an amount as I can afford to give for such a purpose. Please let me know the result of your meeting, and the course you decide upon, that I may direct my efforts in aid of the association in the proper channel. 
With the hope that you and your Association may succeed in your noble work, and with congratulations upon the re-establishment of the authority of the Government, I remain 
Very truly, yours, 
A.E. BURNSIDE.

you will see by this that I have been active before
Yours J Williams 

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