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| 159 the Great Southern. The latter attended the Fifth Veteran Corps. General Fitzhugh Lee was the chief marshal of the parade. The Maryland Confederate organizations taking part were the Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States in Maryland; the Association of the Maryland Line; and the Murray Confederate Association, commanded by J. McKenney White. The Maryland Confederate Societies' division was commanded by General Bradley T. Johnson. On the last day of the stay of the Fifth Regiment in Richmond, they were visited, at their quarters, by the Washington Artillery, of New Orleans. Probably the most applauded feature of the Fifth's trip was the unannounced and graceful tribute paid to the Southerners in the evening before the departure for home. The regiment was inarched out to the Lee Monument, and standing at present arms and with the band playing "Maryland, My Maryland," a magnificent floral design was placed at the base of the statue. This was at an hour when all Richmond was employed at Hollywood Cemetery with memorial exercises, which annually occur there for the Confederate dead. It was supposed that the Fifth would simply have a dress-parade at the monument site. The real purpose of the parade was kept a secret. The officers felt that as the Fifth had so gracefully placed floral tributes on the Union Shrines in Boston, on the occasion of the Bunker Hill Centennial Reunion in 1875, the command could do no less in the Virginia capital in honor of the great leader of the Southern Armies on Memorial Day. Major William H. Grim furnished the design of the Roman fasces for the model of the floral tribute placed on the monument of Lee. In the floral reproduction of the design the rods—13 in number—were red and white, and the band blue, studded with white stars. Above the bundle of rods was the axe, done very cleverly in white flowers. The whole was set on a floral base, and about five feet high. After the ceremony of placing the tribute at the foot of the pedestal in front of the steed and his |