Cope notifies the Quartermaster General that he approves of the site selected by the North Carolina Commission.ħ. Policy for “Monuments, Markers and Tablets,” as of January 18,1910 by President W.H. Cope to Quartermaster General U.S.A, (Includes War Dept. Cope informs the Quartermaster General of the visit (on September 28 th) mentioned by James Aumen in his December 14 correspondence and provides added detail of the site selected “on the east side of East Confederate Avenue,” 2,000 feet south of “Early’s Division marker.”Ħ. Cope, GNMP to Quartermaster General U.S.A, JanuSupt. A site was selected on East Confederate Avenue.ĥ. Boyden a member of the NC Gettysburg Memorial Commission. Hattes Murphy, Speaker of the NC State House of Representatives and General A.H. Aumen to Quartermaster General U.S.A., December 14, 1926Ī map with possible sites for a North Carolina monument is sent to the Quartermaster General after a visit on September 28 th by Mr. Pope with details of three most recent costs for monuments erected at Gettysburg.Ĥ. Acting Superintendent Aumen also provides Col. Pope to the Gettysburg Superintendent about the possibility of a North Carolina Monument at the Gettysburg Park and the need to prepare a map of suitable sites for it. This group of two documents reflect the way in which correspondence was handled within the War Department and specifically the Quarter Master Corps by which the Gettysburg Park was administered in 1926. Aumen, Acting Superintendent GNMP, December 11-14, 1926 Pope, Assistant Quarter Master Corps (Q.M.C.) and James B. In 1926 this was still the case and administration of the Park was overseen by a Military Organizational regimen.ģ. In 1895, legislation transferred the deed of the Gettysburg Park from the GBMNPA to the U.S. Cope Superintendent shortly after September 28, 1926 They are presented in chronological order.Ģ. These documents from the GNMP V17-58 North Carolina Monument Files are related to the NPS approval of the erection of the North Carolina Memorial on the Gettysburg Battlefield.
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