ABSTRACT
The Monument Cemetery has a chapel, which answers the double purpose of a gateway and a place for religious services. Architecture and sculpture have from time immemorial been employed to perpetuate the memory of the dead. Monuments are raised as memorials of the glory of the departed, far from the place where their remains are interred, or they are shrines or sepulchres for the dust of death. To carry out the expression, and appropriate associations of a monument erected by those who would honour “the mighty dead,” such localities should be chosen as will best suit the character of the person thus commemorated. One of the most beautiful and appropriate sites for the monument of a hero, may be seen on the banks of the Hudson River. Amid the evergreens that crown the summit of the frowning Palisades, and where they are shaken by the cannon of West Point, rises the monument of Kosciusko.
