Jane Lathrop Stanford Papers

commendable purpose of commemorating in a substantial manner an event of so much interest.

General Schofield reports that the monument can readily be so placed as not to interfere with any batteries which it may be found expedient to erect at that point at any future time, and that it will only be exposed to the remote chance of destruction in the improbable event of such batteries being subjected to the fire of an enemy.

I would suggest that you confer with Colonel G. H. Mendell, Corp of Engineers,