the surface of the ground to the bottom of the brick walls of the graves of President Tyler and his second wife. It is composed of I part Portland cement, 2 sand, and 4 gravel, and was machine mixed. The upper 2 feet of the concrete is reinforced with 19 threefourths-inch Ransome twisted bars, 6 inches between centers, crossed by and wired to 5 supporting bars of the same make and size, about 2 feet 5 inches between centers.

The monument is of Rockport, Mass., granite. It was erected between May 24 and May 27, 1915. Its description follows:

The base stone is 10 feet square by 12 inches thick, with a 4-inch astragal molding along the top of its four sides. On the base is a pedestal 3 feet 6 inches high, 5 feet 3 inches square at the bottom and 3 feet 8 inches square at the top. On the pedestal stands a monolithic obelisk 16 feet 8 inches high, 3 feet 6 inches square at the bottom, and 3 feet square at the top. The obelisk is surmounted by a bronze finial about 5 feet 5 inches high. The design of the finial is a Grecian urn having as supporters two American eagles with open wings. On the east side of the monument is a pedestal 6 feet high by about 22 inches square holding a bust of President Tyler, heroic size. This pedestal is joined to the eastern face of the monument, and appears to form an integral part of it. The four faces of the obelisk are paneled. In the northern and southern faces life-size allegorical figures in bas-relief are cut in the stone. The relief on the north face is a draped female figure, representing Memory, bearing a laurel wreath in one hand, while the other holds a small tree, representing the young Republic. The relief in the south face is also a draped female figure, representing the Republic, standing near a shield with the great seals of the United States and the State of Virginia.

The monument bears the following inscription in Roman capitals. The letters of the inscription are all V-sunk in the stone, except those on the pedestal of the bust, which are of bronze, attached to the stone with prongs. On the north face:

Erected by the Congress of the United States, MCMXV.
In the west panel of the obelisk:

President John Tyler; married first, Letitia Christian, born
November 12, 1790, died September 10, 1842; interred at Cedar
Grove, New Kent County, Va. Married second, Julia Gardner,
born July 23, 1820, died July 10, 1889; interred by his side.

On the front or east face of the bust pedestal:

John Tyler, President of the United States, 1841-1845; born in Charles City County, Va., March 29, 1790; died in the city of Richmond, January 18, 1862.

The contract was completed June 4, 1915, by the resodding of the lot on which the monument is situated. The expenditures on account of supervision, inspection, and travel expenses during the fiscal year amounted to $319.44.

July 1, 1914, balance unexpended.

June 30, 1915, amount expended during the year for works of improvement_‒‒‒‒

July 1, 1915, balance unexpended_.
July 1, 1915, outstanding liabilities_._.

$9,711. 89

5, 379. 44

4,332. 45 4, 332. 45

Contract in force.

With the T. F. McGann & Sons Co., for erecting a memorial monument to the late President Tyler in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va.

Dated May 18, 1914.

Approved June 23, 1914.

Date for completing work, June 30, 1915.

Price, $9,200.

Contract completed June 4, 1915.

ERECTION OF MONUMENT IN THE WILMINGTON, N. C., DISTRICT.

District officer: Maj. Horton W. Stickle, Corps of Engineers. Division engineer: Col. W. C. Langfitt, Corps of Engineers, since September 2, 1914, and Col. John Biddle, Corps of Engineers, prior to that date.

MONUMENT TO COMMEMORATE THE BATTLE OF GUILFORD COURTHOUSE, N. C., AND IN MEMORY OF MAJ. GEN. NATHANAEL GREENE AND THE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY WHO PARTICIPATED WITH HIM IN THE BATTLE OF GUILFORD COURTHOUSE.

By act of Congress approved February 13, 1911, the sum of $30,000 was authorized to be appropriated for the erection of a monument on the battle field of Guilford Courthouse, Guilford County, N. C., to commemorate the battle fought there on March 15, 1781, by the American forces, commanded by Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene, and in memory of Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene and the officers and soldiers of the Continental Army who participated in the battle of Guilford Courthouse. The appropriation of the $30,000 for this purpose was contained in the sundry civil appropriation act approved March 4, 1911, which provided that the funds should be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and by such officer as might be designated by him.

The duty of the supervision of the construction of the monument was assigned to the Wilmington district office by the Chief of Engineers by first indorsement on letter 64922/4 dated May 23, 1911.

Under date of August 4, 1911, a program of competition for the memorial monument was issued. Competition was restricted to those artists who had been or might be invited by the Secretary of War to submit models. Models to receive consideration were to be delivered and erected at the War Department, Washington, D. C., on or before December 15, 1911, and to be exhibited for 15 days prior to rendering final decision. The United States was to select from all the models submitted three which were considered the most meritorious, and to pay to the three artists submitting the models selected an honorarium as follows: Three hundred and fifty dollars for the model first in order of excellence, $300 for the model second in order of excellence, $250 for the model third in order of excellence. The final selection was to be made from the three models thus chosen and the honorarium which was paid on the model finally selected was to be a part of the contract price for the monument. The three models considered most meritorious were as follows: First, model submitted by F. H. Packer.

Second, model submitted by Augustus Lukeman.
Third, model submitted by Henry H. Kitson.

The honorariums of $350, $300, and $250 were ordered paid in the order named. Payment of the second and third honorariums were made, and the payment of the first deferred pending the signing and approval of the contract.

The Secretary of War directed that the award be made to Mr. F. H. Packer, of Great Barrington, Mass., provided he made certain indicated modifications in the architectural setting of his first model submitted in competition. These modifications were made and approved by the Secretary of War and the Commission of Fine Arts, and the contract was entered into under date of September 16, 1912, and provided for the completion of the memorial within 12 months after date of notification. To allow the contractor sufficient time to enable him to do his best work the time for completion was extended one and one-half years, or until April 11, 1915, by supplemental agreement dated May 14, 1913.

The act provided that the site should be within the limits of the battle field of Guilford Courthouse and donated free of cost to the United States. By deed dated February 6, 1911, the Guilford Battle Ground Co. conveyed to the United States a piece of land 100 feet square for a site for the memorial. To allow the placing of the memorial on higher ground an additional piece of land 50 feet by 100 feet, adjacent to the first piece, was conveyed to the United States by the Guilford Battle Ground Co. by deed dated December 10, 1914, making the site 100 feet by 150 feet. The site is very near the geographical center of the battle field and overlooks the entire field. After the approval of the contract Mr. Packer started the preliminary work of looking for portraits and costumes of Gen. Greene. After these preliminaries work was started on the models and the working models-one-third size-were finished and approved by the Commission of Fine Arts on December 4, 1913. The full-size model for the equestrian statue was completed and approved by the same commission on July 24, 1914, and the full-size model for the allegorical figure was completed and approved on January 11, 1915. These models were immediately placed in the bronze foundry and bronze castings made. The equestrian statue was delivered at the site on May 6, 1915, and the allegorical figure a few days later. There was considerable delay by the United States in approving the inscription for the bronze tablet for the small pedestal, and this tablet was not delivered at the site until June 9, 1915. On account of this delay the time limit for completion was waived for a reasonable time and the charges for inspection, etc., remitted to June 26, 1915.

The actual erection of the memorial at the site started on April 20, 1915, the various stones having been previously cut to size at the quarry, and erection was finally completed June 26, 1915, and appropriately dedicated under the auspices of the Guilford Battle Ground Co. on July 3, 1915.

The monument is erected of finely tooled Mount Airy white granite on a concrete foundation. The portrait equestrian statue, allegorical figure, and tablet are of standard statuary bronze. The foundation is of concrete and is 32 feet 8 inches by 43 feet 8 inches over all, and extends down 3 feet below the ground line. The granite exedra is 31 feet by 42 feet over all, and forms a raised esplanade 2 feet above the ground line. This esplanade is paved with buff paving

brick and is approached by three granite steps extending around the front and ends. On the back a parapet wall 2 feet thick and 3 feet high above the pavement extends from the center of the main pedestal to the edges of the exedra, with a 12-pounder bronze "Napoleon gun mounted on each end. The equestrian pedestal is 10 feet high above the pavement, and the bronze equestrian statue is 15 feet 9 inches high, and its plinth base 5 feet 8 inches by 11 feet. The pedestal to the allegorical figure is 3 feet 2 inches above the pavement and the allegorical figure 7 feet high. The bronze tablet which is placed on the front face of the allegorical-figure pedestal is 2 feet 6 inches by 3 feet 8 inches. The total height of the memorial above the ground line is 27 feet 9 inches.

The memorial occupies a commanding position near the center of the battle field and faces nearly west. The inscriptions are as follows: On the bronze tablet on front of the allegorical-figure pedestal:

March XV MDCCLXXXI. In the manoeuvering that preceded it, in the strategy that compelled it, in the heroism that signalized it, and in the results that flowed from it, the Battle of Guilford Court House is second to no battle fought on American soil. Over the brave men who fell here their comrades marched to ultimate victory at Yorktown, and the cause of constitutional self-government to assured triumph at Philadelphia. To officer and private, to continental soldier and volunteer militiaman, honor and award are alike due. They need neither defense nor eulogy, but only just recognition. A grateful nation erects this monument, therefore, as an expression of its solemn pride in the men who fought here, of its imperishable devotion to their memory, and of its unalterable confidence in the permanence of the principles which their example vindicated and their blood consecrated.

On the main pedestal, front:

Nathanael Greene, appointed major general in command of the Southern Army October 14, 1780. Born in Rhode Island, August 7, 1742; died in Georgia, June 19, 1786.

South side:

Harlem Heights, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown,
Monmouth.

North side:

Guilford Court House, Hobkirks Hill, Ninety-six, Eutaw Springs. On face of parapet wall, south wall:

Greene is as dangerous as Washington. I never feel secure when encamped in his neighbourhood.-Cornwallis. North wall:

It is with a pleasure which friendship alone is susceptible of that
I congratulate you on the glorious end you have put to hostilities
in the Southern States.-Washington.

Amount appropriated by the sundry civil act approved Mar. 4, 1911
June 30, 1914, amount expended during previous fiscal years---

$30,000. 00 1,223. 40

July 1, 1914, balance unexpended--

28, 776. 60

June 30, 1915, amount expended during fiscal year..
July 1, 1915, outstanding liabilities, covered by uncom-
pleted contracts

$18, 123. 16

9, 929. 44

28, 052. 60

July 1, 1915, balance available_-_.

724.00

Contract in force.

For erection of monument at Guilford Court House Battle Field, near Greensboro, N. C.

Contractor: F. H. Packer, Great Barrington, Mass.

Date of contract: September 16, 1912.

Date of approval: September 28, 1912.

Date fixed for completion: October 11, 1913; extended by supplemental agreement dated May 14, 1913, to April 11, 1915 (latter time limit waived). Date of completion: June 26, 1915.

ERECTION OF MONUMENT IN THE SAVANNAH, GA., DISTRICT.

District officer: Col. W. C. Langfitt, Corps of Engineers, since September 2, 1914, and Col. John Biddle, Corps of Engineers, prior to that date.

Division engineer: Col. W. C. Langfitt, Corps of Engineers, since September 2, 1914, and Col. John Biddle, Corps of Engineers, prior to that date.

MONUMENT TO GENS. SCREVEN AND STEWART, MIDWAY CEMETERY, GEORGIA.

The sundry civil act of August 24, 1912, appropriated $10,000 for the construction and erection of a suitable monument to the memory of Brig. Gen. James Screven and Brig. Gen. Daniel Stewart at Midway Cemetery, Georgia, 29 miles from Savannah, Ga., upon the old Oglethorpe Highway between Savannah and Darien, Ga.

This duty was assigned to the War Department and placed in charge of the Savannah district officer.

The design of the monument, made by the McNeel Marble Works, of Marietta, Ga., and later modified by Mr. George Burnap, was approved by the War Department and accepted by the Midway Monument Commission.

During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, the monument had been constructed, and the work of erection 95 per cent completed under contract. The work of erection, including the construction of a concrete walk, was completed on July 9, 1914. The monument was formally turned over to the Midway Monument Commission and accepted by them November 16, 1914. The ceremony of unveiling it took place April 26, 1915.

The monument is constructed throughout of light Stone Mountain Georgia granite. It has a height of 47 feet 5 inches, the upper 28 feet consisting of a monolithic shaft 3 feet square at the base, resting on a pedestal of 11 courses, the lowest one of which is 27 feet square. On each of the four sides there is a bronze tablet and also a bronze ornament above the tablet.

The inscriptions on the tablets are as follows:

On the east side facing the entrance to the cemetery

Reared by the Congress of the United States as a Nation's tribute to Brigadier Generals James Screven and Daniel Stewart.

On the north side

1750-1778. Sacred to the memory of Brigadier General James Screven, who fell, covered with wounds, at Sunbury, near this spot, on the 22nd day of November, 1778. He died from the effects of his wounds.