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Memorial Hall at West Point Brevet Major General George W. Cullum, Battle Monument, Cullum Memorial
Memorial Hall at West Point Brevet Major General George W. Cullum, Battle Monument, Cullum Memorial
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Nook version of vintage magazine article originally published in 1900. Contains lots of great info and illustrations seldom seen in the last 110 years.
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There are two important monuments at West Point, the Battle Monument and the Cullum Memorial. Neither was the gift of the nation. The Battle Monument was built by the subscriptions of the men commemorated, and of their brothers in arms, donated while on the field of battle, while the Memorial Hall was the gift of a graduate of the Military Academy. The monument is dedicated to the memory of the officers and men of the regular army—both graduate and non-graduate; while the Memorial Hall is commemorative of the graduates only, and the very few officers of the institution who were not graduates.
This hall, therefore, is distinctly a monument to West Point and all that it stands for, given by a son of the Academy to his brother alumni and their well beloved mother; designed to commemorate their deeds, to preserve their names, and to bear witness to the enduring work of the foremost military school of the age.
General Cullum's bequest was formally accepted by act of Congress, and provision for the carrying out of its purposes was entrusted to a board of trustees, selected from the Academic Board of the institution and headed by the superintendent as chairman ex officio. General James B. Fry, an intimate personal friend of General Cullum, was originally a member of this board, but his early death removed the only member not on the staff of the Academy. It was decided to entrust the work to the firm of McKim, Mead & White, of New York, and it became the special charge of Mr. Stanford White, who made it, with characteristic enthusiasm, a labor of love, and continues to devote time and labor to its memorials without other reward than that derived from pride of work and love of art.
Read excerpt -
There are two important monuments at West Point, the Battle Monument and the Cullum Memorial. Neither was the gift of the nation. The Battle Monument was built by the subscriptions of the men commemorated, and of their brothers in arms, donated while on the field of battle, while the Memorial Hall was the gift of a graduate of the Military Academy. The monument is dedicated to the memory of the officers and men of the regular army—both graduate and non-graduate; while the Memorial Hall is commemorative of the graduates only, and the very few officers of the institution who were not graduates.
This hall, therefore, is distinctly a monument to West Point and all that it stands for, given by a son of the Academy to his brother alumni and their well beloved mother; designed to commemorate their deeds, to preserve their names, and to bear witness to the enduring work of the foremost military school of the age.
General Cullum's bequest was formally accepted by act of Congress, and provision for the carrying out of its purposes was entrusted to a board of trustees, selected from the Academic Board of the institution and headed by the superintendent as chairman ex officio. General James B. Fry, an intimate personal friend of General Cullum, was originally a member of this board, but his early death removed the only member not on the staff of the Academy. It was decided to entrust the work to the firm of McKim, Mead & White, of New York, and it became the special charge of Mr. Stanford White, who made it, with characteristic enthusiasm, a labor of love, and continues to devote time and labor to its memorials without other reward than that derived from pride of work and love of art.
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