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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,