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| 158 Governor Fowle, of North Carolina; Governor Richardson, of South Carolina; Governor Gordon, of Georgia, and Governor Fleming, of West Virginia. Many of the most distinguished soldiers of the Confederacy were at the dedication of the statue. Among them were Longstreet, who was escorted to Richmond by the Washington Artillery, of New Orleans; General Early and General Joseph E. Johnston, surviving members of General Lee's personal staff, and W. Stuart Symington, of Baltimore, who was Pickett's chief of staff, and rode with, him up Gulp's Hill. At night the festivities of the dedication began with a ball at the Richmond Theatre. It was given by the ladies of Richmond, aided by the resident Maryland Association. At this ball, which was so largely attended by Marylanders that it was called by some the Maryland ball, the governors of five States were present, and many men and women whose names were familiar throughout the Union. There was Miss Mary Lee, daughter of the great soldier; Mrs. Hearst, the wife of the Senator from California; Miss Florence Bayard, of Delaware; General and Mrs. W. H. F. Lee, and Miss Mildred Lee; ex-Governor Robert McLane, of Maryland; General and Mrs. Bradley T. Johnson, and Senator John W. Daniel. That day the Fifth Regiment Veteran Corps, 80 strong, under Colonel H. D. Loney, arrived on the steamer Charlotte from Baltimore. On May 29 the statue was unveiled in the presence of a great concourse of people. There were that day fully 50,000 visitors to Richmond, of whom 2,500 came from Baltimore, which had then, and still has, a larger population of Virginians than almost any city of the Old Dominion. In the great procession which marched to the statue, iar out in the outskirts of the town, the Fifth Maryland was the largest regiment, and the best uniformed and equipped, and formed the most conspicuous feature of the procession. The cross belts and white trousers were spotless, and made the regiment resplendant. There were three bands—that of the Fifth, the Naval Academy and |