From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, 9/14/1913, p. 17, c. 7

UNION OFFICER HELPED
Dug Ground for Erection of Monument to Confederate Dead.

Colonel S. W. Snyder, of Jersey City, N. J., who is visiting his daughters, Mrs. C. P. Johnson, of Davis Avenue, and Mrs. Roe C. Tupman, of Highland Park, called to mind when walking through Hollywood Cemetery the other day an interesting incident in connection with the erection there of the monument to the Confederate soldiers.

At the time Colonel Snyder was superintendent of the Tredegar Iron Works. A committee of women asked General Anderson, president of the company, to enlist his support in having a Union soldier interested in the work. He appointed Colonel Snyder, and placed him in charge of all the general work preparatory to the erection of the monument. The ground was dug under Colonel Snyder’s supervision, and he had the honor of throwing out the first shovelful of earth. Thus an officer of the Union army was made a party to the erection of this imposing monument.

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