Confederate Magazine 1893 Volume 1 the very words of our Southern Confederate brethren

Confederate Veteran  Magazine 1893

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Vol. I. Nashville, Tenn., January, 1893.

No. 1.

I S. A. ITNNINUHAM,
I Editor and Manager.

Application made for entry at the Post-office at Nashville as
Mecond-dass Matter.

Special club rates to the Press and to Camps— 25 copies 810.

An extra copy sen! to each person who sends six subscriptions.

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count : Half year, one-eighth ; one year, one-fourtli.

The Confederate Veteran greets you! It is not
sent t<> any one at random, but addresses you through
friendship, personal obligation, or because you have
been commended as one who might take an active in-
terest in the cause for which it is published.

Please read it carefully. Although the first issue
lias been edited from a sick. room, and there is defect
in the arrangement, you will find its contents useful
and interesting. Read every article.

Please consider this: If each person addressed
would send two subscriptions «ith SI, the publication
would lie assured as a perpetuity. (ret a friend to
join yon in it, please. If you cannot send a single
subscription, please read it carefully and persuade
others, as you think it deserving.

The Confederate Veteran is intended as an or-
gan of communication between Confederate soldiers
and those who are interested in them and their
affairs, and its purpose is to furnish a volume of in-
formation which will he acceptable to the public, even
to those who fought on the other side. It will at once
he sent to every Confederate Veteran organization in
existence and the patronage of such bodies is earnest-
ly sought.

The commendation of the Confederate Veteran
from extremes of the South and from our friends at
the North gives an immediate promise of usefulness
and influence which should enlist the pride of every
Southerner and the respect of all others.

It is designed to publish advertisements in the Co\-
kedrate Vkteran, but the illness referred to prevent-
ed that feature in this issue. No other publication of
equal circulation is as good a medium for notice of
Southern literature. The next issue will contain a
list of books as premiums.

Whatever may he desirable to put before representa-
tive people of the entire South and Southerner else-
where may be printed advantageously in the Confed-
erate Veteran. Put the thought in your pipe and
sm,oke it. Smokers read the Confederate Veteran.
A hint to the wise!

The next issue may be expected earlier in the month
February).

(‘apt. R. E. Park, of Macon, in sending subscription

says: “I wish you success in your enterprise, and
stand ready to help you in any way that I call.”

Mrs. Alice Tri’eheart Buck, who is spending the

winter in Washington, is zealous for the Confederate
Veteran, and offers to be agent and correspondent

gratis.

Dr. .1. Wm. .b.NKs. Atlanta: “The prospectus is all

right unless, indeed, it is too modest. Put me down
as a subscriber and count on me to do all in my power
to promote its circulation. I’ll write for you occa-
sionally.”

Monroe Park, the place selected by a committee of
1’nited Confederate Veterans, is a very happy one. It
is about a mile west from the old Confederate capitnl,
and promises ere long to be a very central point
Now the entire Southern people are to build ibis mon-
ument. Who will be slow to do his part?

The ohl South, published at Coleman, Texas, has a
very kind article in behalf of the Confederate Vet-
eran, which concludes as follows: “We expect that
every Confederate and every son of a Confederate will
become a subscriber at least to the CONFEDERATE
Veteran. They can use their judgment about the
Old Smith.”

HKAD<iCAHIKRs I’mTKJ) CONFEDERATE VETERANS

New Orleans, La., September 20, 1892.
<S”. A. Cunningham, d’eneml AgenJ. Jefferzon Dari* Monnmenl Fund,
Nanhmlle, Tain.:

Your prospectus of the Confederate Veteran, to
be published monthly “in the interest of the Davis
Monument Fund and Veterans in general,” promises
to supply a very useful place. It will enable the
Southern people to see from what sections the money
is given, and also by whom. It will enable Veteran
organizations to know of each other, whether of the
l T .’ C. V. organization or not, and it will create re-
newed zeal generally in behalf of those who stood to-
gether throughout the South’s great struggle for sepa-
rate independence. It will give me pleasure to supply
you with data from this office as frequently as desired.

George Moorman,

Adjutant- Qrnerat and Chief of Staff.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

HONOR FOR TIIK SOUTH.

AI.I. THE PEOPLE TO MILD A MONUMENT TN HONOR
v DA Via AND Ills FELLOW
CONJ E DERATES.

The impulse to build to Jefferson Davis a monu-
ment, iypical of the South in the war, was bo univer-
sal when the great hero died that a general agreement
was had in a few hours by telegraph. The movement
was inaugurated by the Southern Press Association,
and it is co-operated in by Confederate veterans every-
where. The Jefferson Davis Monument Association
at Richmond, chartered under the law? of Virginia,
has special charge of the worjc. The active co-opera-
tion of every newspaper and periodical in the South
is sought in behalf of this Fund. It is very desirable
to procure name and postofnce of every contributor of
81 or more.

Let every Southerner and friend of his people look
at the situation, and he or she will want to do some-
thing. In our National Capital there is an equestrian
bronze statue at nearly every turn, to some hero of
the war, but none of them are for our side. Proud
patriots want for this final tribute not less than $250,-
000. Twice as much has been raised-at the North for
one individual monument. Shall we stop short of
half as much for one symbolic of our cause ?

Here are a few extracts from the thousands that
have been published:

R. M. Johnson, editor Houston Daily Post, Houston,
Texas, says : ” I will give the matter attention at
once, and will aid the movement in every way in my
power.”

I A. Read, editor Times, Lewisville, Texas, says:
” I am fully in accord with the movement and will
give the matter prominence in the Times. It will af-
ford me pleasure to help the cadse all I possibly can.”

” Mr. Davis deserves a monument, as lasting as our
native hills, for the splendid record he made in the
cause of liberty. As an exemplar his character should
be held up to the youth of the country; as an embodi-
ment of everything good in human nature.”

An ex-Union soldier, a popular humorist and lec-
turer, volunteered to “give a night anywhere at any
time for Jeff Davis,” and added: “Think of that
man’s integrity, of what he accomplished with the re-
sources at hand — he was an American 1″

A beautiful sensation occurred at a reunion of the
ex-Confederates of Tennessee at Winchester, Gen.
G. W. Gordon, of Memphis, in an oration said :

” There is one whom we would remember to-day.
We cannot forget him who has left to his countrymen
and to posterity one of the noblest examples un-
faltering devotion to truth and principle of which the
political history of the human race gives an account ;
one who presented in his own person a sublime in-
stance of an unmurmuring and heroic endurance of
unmerited suffering. When feeble, sick and helpless,
and in prison indignities and chains were added. He
loved the people of the South, and was true to them

t” the last. And I trust they will erect a monument
tn his memory so magnificent and imposing that it will
have no equal upon the vast shuns of America — a
monument that will tell the world that lie was a
patriot ami that the cause for which we fought and our
comrades died was constitutional, right and just.
Then let the monument he built. Ami let it be built
with a munificence ami magnificence commensurate
with the fame and fidelity of the man and the grandeur
of the principle it is intended to commemorate.”

J/ust here Chief Justice Turney handed him this
letter from a venerable lady seventy-eight years old,
who was the architect of her own fortune and is dis-
pensing it with Christian zeal:
S. A. Cunningham :

Seeing from the papers that you have been appoint-
ed bv the committee to collect funds for our beloved
and honored Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, I
desire to offer you the small sum of 85(H)— the widow’s
mite. I had the pleasure of entertaining him and
his wife at my home in Havana, Cuba, soon after his
release. To Mr. Davis, one of the brightest intellects
of his time, the truest and most honorable of men,
who sacrificed everything for the South and those he
loved, I hope every man, woman and child will do all
they can to raise the highest and grandest monument
ever built to mortal man. Resp’y, S. E. Brewer.

The committee appointed by Gen. J. B. Gordon, of
Georgia, Commander of the United Confederate Vet-
erans, of one from each state, met in Richmond, Sept.
’92, by direction of the Chairman, Gen. W. L. Cabell,
of Texas, to consider the location, cost of construction,
plans, etc., for the Davis Memorial. Richmond Asso-
ciation participated in the proceedings by invitation.
The general purpose was set forth by the Chairman
and a series of resolutions were adopted :

They were that “as Richmond was the capital of
the Confederacy, and has been selected by Mrs. Jeffer-
son Davis as the burial place of her husband, it is re-
garded the most appropriate place for the erection of a
monument to his memory. The United Confederate
Veterans will co-operate with the Davis Monument
Association of Richmond and the Southern Press As-
sociation in its efforts to erect the same.”

Also, that State organizations be formed, and ” that
the Chairman appoint for each Southern State and for
the Indian Territory a sub-committee of five members,
each of which shall have within its territory the
entire control and supervision of all matters pertain-
ing- to this sacred object, including the collection of
funds by popular subscription, and shall have
authority to name a suitable and responsible person
as Treasurer, to receive the same and forward quarter-
ly to the Treasurer of the Richmond Association.”

Monroe Park was selected for the location of the
monument, It was resolved^ too, that the character,
probable] cost and plans be determined by the Rich-
mond Association, and as soon as a sufficient amount
of money is in hand to justify it, the work of erecting
the monument be commenced.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

In an address to the Southern people, the
committee has ratified the preference expressed by
Mrs. Davis for Richmond, Va., as the proper site for
such memorial. It has determined that not les.» than
$250,000 shall be raised for that purpose, and that
there shall be an organization in every state in the
South, through which the offerings of the people may
flow to the accomplishment of this patriotic and pious
work. Continuing its appeal the committee say:

“This money will be raised speedily. This monu-
ment will rise, and soon, to • be an everlasting
memorial, not only to the patriot and statesman who
purely and bravely led your fortunes in the times that
wrung your souls, but of the ineffable valor and
devotion of the must heroic soldiery which the world
ever saw, whom he typified while he commanded.

No other hands than ours can be relied dpon to put
stones upon this pile. Our own hard-earned mite
must mainly accomplish its rearing. Our own sweal
must chiefly stream upon its uplilting.

[f our poverty has been and continues to be great,
it has at least made us rich in love for each other, [f

Oltr lives have I u one. long tale wf sacrifice, and

threaten more, t hi’ most willing of those to come must
be that one which will keep green forever the memo-
ries nf our loved land ami of our” dead brothers,

Love and self-sacrifice build more monuments than
money ever did or ever will, and we now gladly and
confidently bid you to illustrate it. The men and the
women who fought for the Confederacy and their de-
scendants, must quarry this monument out of their
heart’s blood if need be. It were I >cst in every casi
that they should. There is nol a discordant element
anywhere. Let us all be at work !

All remittances for this purpose should be made to
John 8. Ellett, President of the State Hank at Rich-
mond, Ya., who is the bonded Treasurer of the gen-
eral organization.”

STORY OF AX EPITAPH.

THE KIND OF MEMORIAL.

Various opinions prevail about the kind of structure
to be reared. Some want a shaft with Mr. Davis on
horseback, others want groups of figures in a temple,
etc. In his oration before the United Confederate
Veterans at their last reunion. New Orleans, Senator
John W. Daniel, of Virginia, said :

“Let there be reared no unmeaning shaft, but a tem-
ple, in which his own figure shall be the central
object, and around which shall be grouped the heroic
relics of the battles of the Confederacy, and the
pictured faces and the sculptured forms of the great
and true and brave men who fought them. I hope to
see the movement grow until the temple shall stand
— the Battle Abbey of the South — the undying me-
morial of the people who fought their own battles in
their own way, for their own liberty as they conceived
it, for their own ^dependence as they desired it, and
who need give to the world no other reason -why.”

Soon after the fall of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston
at the battle of Shiloh,and the transfer of his remains
to New Orleans, a lady visiting the cemetery found
pinned to a rough board that rested on the temporary
tomb the following beautiful epitaph. It was written
in a delicate hand with a pencil, and the rain had
nearly obliterated the characters, but she made a
vVrbatim copy of the manuscript and sent it to one of
the New Orleans papers with the request that if pos-
sible the name of the author should be published.
This was gladly done, and the exquisite lines went
the round.- of the press of this country and England
as a model of English composition. Lord Palmerston
pronounced it “a modern classic, ‘Ciceronian in its
language.” Public curiosity being aroused, the auth-
orship was traced to John Dimitry, a young native of
New Orleans, and a son of Alexander Dimitry, who
before the war occupied a distinguished position in
the State Department at Washington. Young Dim-
itry, though only a boy. served in Johnston’s army
at Shiloh, and on visiting New Orleans and the
grave of his dead chieftain wrote the lines on the in-
spiration of the moment and modestly pinned them
on the headboard as the only tribute he could offer.
When the question arose concerning the ‘form of epi-
taph to be placed on the monument erected to the
memory of the dead Confederate General the com-
mittee of citizens in charge with one voice decided
upon this, and it is now inscribed upon the broad
panel at the base of the statue. — Exchange.

IN MEMORY.

Beyond Oils stone is laid,

I or a season,

Albert Sidney .Johnston,

A(ieniral in ih*> Army of the Confederate States,

Who fell Hi shiloh. Tennessee,

I in the sixth daj of April, A. D.,

Eighteen hundred and sixty. two;

A man tried in many high offices

And critical enterprise.

And found faithful In all.

His life was one long sacrifice of Interest to conscience ;

And even that life, on a woeful Sabbath,

Did he yield as a hol<>cauBt at his country ‘6 need.

Not wholly understood was he while he lived ;

But, In his death, his greatness stands confessed In a people’s tears

Resolute, moderate, clear of envy yet not wanting

In that finer ambition which makes men great and pure.

In his honor — Impregnable;

In his simplicity— sublime.

No country e’er had a truer son— no cause a nobler champion •

No people a bolder defender— no principle a purer victim

Than the dead soldier

Who sleeps here.

The cause for which he perished Is lost —

The people for whom he fought are crushed —

The hopes In which he trusted are shattered—

The flag he loved guides no more the charging lines,

But bis fame, consigned to the keeping of that time, which.

Happily, Is not so much the tomb of virtue as Its shrine,

Shall, In the years to come, Are modest worth to noble ends.

In honor, now, our great captain rests;

A bereaved people rnoucn him,

Three commonwealths proudly claim him

And history shall cherish him

Among those choicer spirits who, holding their conscience unmlx’d

with blame,

Have been, In all conjectures, true to themselves, their country

and their God.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

JEFFERSON DAVIS AT EIGHTY.

Jkkkkikon Davis was born in 1808, and lived 81 years.
His birth place was in a broad, low house at Fairview,

a small village in Christian— now Todd — County,
Kentucky. He visited the place in 1886 and partici-
pated in the dedication of a pretty brick Baptist
church, that had been erected on the site of the old
house. There was a largo gathering of people from
the neighborhood, while others had gone many miles
through excessive rain. It was a most disagreeable
day. As the venerable gentleman stood in the midst
of the congregation, whose happy faces are indelibly
impressed upon the mind of the writer, he used this
language: ” Many of you may think strangely of my
participation in this service, not being a Baptist. My
father was a Baptist, and a better man.”

In her Memoirs of Jefferson Davis his wife copied
just as he furnished them to a stenographer, facts
about his family and his own career, points of which
are embodied in this little sketch.

Three brothers came from Wales in the early part
of the Eighteenth Century and settled in Philadelphia.
The youngest, Evan Davis, subsequently removed to
Georgia, then a colony of Great Britain. He was the

grandfather of Jefferson Davis. The father, Samuel
Davis, had moved from Augusta, Ga., to Southwest-
ern Kentucky, and resided at Fairview when Jeffer-
son, the tenth and last child, was horn.

Samuel Davis had entered the army of the Revo-
lution at the age of sixteen, with two half brothers
named Williams, and while a boy soldier, met the
beautiful Jane Cook in South Carolina, who became
his wife anil the mother of Jefferson Davis. In his in-
fancy the family moved to Louisiana, but ill health
induced their return to Wilkinson County, Miss.
Three of his brothers we’re in the War of 1812, and the
fourth volunteered, but ” was drafted to stay at home.”
The Mississippi home of Samuel Davis was rather on a
divide, whereby to the west on rich land were Vir-
ginians, Kentuekians and Tennesseans, and to the
east on inferior soil were South Carolinians and
Georgians. The settlements were sparse, however, for
Mississippi was then of the territory ceded by Geergia
to the United States, and there were but few schools.
At the age of seven Jefferson Davis was sent on horse-
back through the ” wilderness” to a Catholic school
in Washington County, Kentucky. He journeyed
with Maj. Hinds, who commanded the Mississippi
Dragoons in the battle of New Orleans, and his
family. On reaching Nashville they went to the Her-
mitage for a visit to Gen. Jackson. In the reminis-
cences Mr. Davis dwells upon that prolonged visit of
several weeks and upon his “opportunity to observe a
great man,” and he had always remembered “with
warm affection the kind and tender wife who presided
over his house.” Gen. Jackson then lived in ” a roomy
log house, with a grove of fine forest trees in its front.”
In that Catholic school- for a time young Davis was
the only Protestant boy and he was the smallest. He
was very much favored and roomed with the priest.
One night he was fjersuaded by some associates to
blow out the light in the reverend father’s room that
they might do some mischief, which they did in a
hurry. He was interrogated severo’y, but said he
” didn’t know much, and wouldn’t tell that.” Finally
he agreed to tell a little about it on condition that he
be given his liberty. That little was that he blew out
the candle. After two years steamboats had been
put on the river, and by a steamer the lad returned
home from Louisville.

Conforming to a plan proposed by his brother, who
went after him, the happy lad,- with throbbing heart,
approached his dear old mother and asked if she had
seen any stray horses round there. She had seen a
“stray boy,” and clasped him to her arms. He ran to
the field where he found his father, who took him in
his arms with much emotion and kissed him.

Young Davis went afterward to neighborhood schools,
which were very poor, but one Mr. Shaw, from Boston,
advanced him more than any other teacher he ever

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

had. Shaw married in Mississippi, and lie preached
•while teaching.

Jefferson Davis was sent again to Kentucky, and
placed at the Transylvania University, near Lexing-
ton. Afterward he was one of six United States Sen-
ators who were fellow-students at that University. At
the early age of fifteen he was given a cadetship at
West Point,

Here is a literal extract from his dictation : ” When I
entered the United Suites Military Academy, that
truly great and good man, Albert Sidney Johnston,
had preceded me from Transylvania. K\ .. :ni incident
•which formed a link between us, and inaugurated a
friendship which grew as years rolled by, strengthened
by after associations in the army, and which remains
to me yet, a memory of one of the greatest and best
characters! have ever known. 1 lis particular friend
was Leonidas Polk.”

Mr. Davis then gives an account of Polk’s religious
convictions, and of his joining the church. It is
known that he afterward was a Bishop in the Episco-
pal Church. I’olk was a Lieutenant General, in the
Western Army with Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, whom he
confirmed into church membership only a few weeks
before he was killed by a cannon shot from the enemy.
The dictation ended too early. In referring to it, he
said to his wife, ” I have not told what I wish to say
of Sidney Johnston and Polk. I] have much more to
say of” them.”

The history starts on from the dictation in a manner
worthy the distinguished wife.

Our people generally know quite well how meanly
the publishers treated the author in regard to the roy-
alty on her hook, and that she succeeded in stopping
its sale when they owed her a little more than
$4,000. When legal technicalities arc removed, and
she can procure what is due her on sales, there will no
doubt be many orders given for the work, both he
cause of its merits and the wish to show an apprecia-
tion 01 her noble service in its presentation.

FROM TWO TRIBUTES TO MR. DAVIS.

In one of the successful entertainments given at
Nashville for the benefit of the monument fund, there
were two short addresses, from which the following is
taken. Col. H. M. Doak, the first speaker, said :

“Jefferson Davis built his own monument firmly in
the history of his country — a heritage for the world.
It rises, firm and true, out of his struggles as a typical
American youth; out of his service to his country on
the fields of Mexico; out of his planter’s life, adorned
by domestic love and the affection and confidence of
neighbors and slaves; out of his earnest, stormy po-
litical struggles; out of his able organization and sup-
port of the American military system, as Secretary of
War, and as a statesman ; out of his far-sighted pro-
jection of a transcontinental railway; out of his long
•and able career as a statesman; out of his faithful
struggle to preserve the Union as it was, and out of his

sad out resolute departure to enter upon inevitable
civil strife; out of his able civil administration as
President ; out of his capable preparation for and con-
duct of war; out. of his clear and able State papers;
out of his unfaltering devotion to civil liberty, in the
midst of arms, when laws arc silent; out of his pres-
ervation of the forms and spirit of civil government,
when the military necessity for a dictator must have
tempted him strongly to sweep aside all that stood in
the way of the military arm; out of his stubborn en-
durance in war: out of the ignominy of unjust chains
.mil prison; out of bis long and dignified endurance
of obloquy; out of his life as a man and a citizen, a
neighbor, husband and father; out of his quiet but
able part in church and business assemblies, when he
was denied all part in political affairs. Out of tie

iditions of his busy life rises the monument he
builded— more enduring than bronze or marble. To
ourselves we owe it to build a material monument
symbolic of these virtues.”

Mi Arthur H. Marks, of Winchester, gifted, and of
great literary promise, but who has since died — he
was the son of the late ex-Governor Marks — said;

“Jefferson Davis was the man not only of his gen-
eration, but of his day. His unique personality would
have fitted nowhereelse. Hisdestiny was as broad as
his country, and there was no other gap of American
history wide enough to receive it. To us, as to all the
world, be -till stands for the Confederacy. He was
covered with it. Between the dates of his birth and
death was written all of that stormy chapter. In the
name of Jefferson Davis we must raise a monument
to the (»1,1 South, for in his long career the glory of
that Old South lies like a sword within its scabbard,
Me losed from hilt to tip with years of precious service.
To you < ‘onfedi rate veteran- Jefferson Davis is a mem-
ory, but to the young men of the South he is an in-
spiration. For you lie revives the past, but for us he
animates the future. To you be is a majestic figure of
battle smoke looming up in the haze and distance of a
generation ago, Hut to US be i< a living presence, an
example of a man striding on before all of our ambi-
tions, showing us by his knightly footsteps where we
should tread.”

A CHRISTIAS’S NEW YEAR C/REETTM!.

To My Dear Aunt, S. E. B.:
Again the clock of time doth strike, ’tis eighteen ninety-three;
Again the love-chords of my heart, dear aunt, I’ll tune for thee.
Our Father in His wisdom hath kindly shut from view
All t lint the coming future shall bring to me and you;
But may His richest blessings be sent thy heart to cheer,
And may no bitter sorrow becloud thy glad new year.
The angels sang a chorus of ” peace on earth, good will ;”
May the spirit of that anthem our hearts forever nil I
Again, the loving words, ” I’ll not leave thee, nor forsake,”
Inspires our fainting energies, and we fresh courage take.
Thus on and on we Journey, »tlll trusting In His word,
Walllngstlll and watching for the coming of our Lord.
With the rapids almost past, we can see within the veil—
Our God doth hold the rudder, and safe will be our sail ;
And when wc reach the haven we’ll lay our burden down,
And with the many ransomed receive the promised crown.
Jacksonville, Ala., Jan. 1, 1898. Mabt D. C.

The recipient of the above stands first in practical
advancement of the Monument cause.

Please supply information to this journal about con-
tributors to Confederate Homes or Monuments.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

FAVORS RECEIVED AND VI. 77 77″.V> REVISED.

Public and grateful acknowledgment is made for
favors from many railroad and navigation corpora-
tions. In the list i- the Atlantic Coast Line, the Rich-
mond A: 1 tanville Railroad ( lompany, ( reorgia Railroad
Company, Central Railroad Company of Georgia, At-
lanta & Florida Railroad, Savannah. Americus &
Montgomery Railroad, Kansas City, Ft. Scott & Mem-
phis Railroad. St. Louis & Southwestern Railroad.
East 4 West Railroad of Alabama, Knoxville, Cum-
berland Gap & Louisville Railroad, Rome Railroad,
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Missouri Pa-
cific Railroad. Louisville, New Orleans & Texas. Ten-
nessee Midland, the Texas Pacific Railway, Evansville
& Tern- Haute Railroad. St. Louis & Tennessee River
Packet Company, Nashville. Paducah & Cairo Packet
I -in]. any. Nashville & Evansville Packet Company,
the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad, and
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad gave liberal aid
to some profitable entertainments.

Nearly all the foregoing companies have been un-
stinted in furnishing transportation, and in addition
to this, acknowledgment is made to many other rail-
road- for transportation on application.

In this connection report is made to the Southern
Press Association and to the public, that application
was made to the Pullman Palace Car Company, with
n quest for favor, and a special visit was made to Chi-
cago, with strong letter of introduction to Vice Presi-
dent Wickes, and credentials of which any man might
be proud. Maj. Wickes was absent, and at the sugges-
tion of his clerk, request was made of Superintendent
Garcelon. After waiting more than half an hour on
one clerk and another, I was finally told that I could
not see Mr. Garcelon. I then made request of him
for trip pass from there to Dallas, and was refused.
In subsequent correspondence with Vice President
Wi«kes, I explained to him that the Pullman Com-
pany had not done its share towards the press with
the railroad companies, and that I made earnest plea
for favor, representing the newspapers of the South
and the Southern people generally, in behalf of the
cause that was dear to them all, and insisted upon
his granting the request, but no concession was
made.

Seeing that the Pullman company did more than
ten millions of dollars of business last year, with a
large proportion in the South, and on learning that
its President, Mr. Pullman, contributed more than
$75,000 to the last Republican campaign fund, and
early after the election he was in conference to con-
sider what further might be done for the benefit of
his party, it occurred to me that his subordinates may
have known well enough that no concession in the
direction of my plea would be tolerated.

REUNION ov BAUSON’S KV.XTVCKY BRIGADE.

Col. \V. 1. Clarke, of. the famous Orphan Brigade,.
who now resides in Nashville, attended its last re-
union at Paris. a nd was one of the speakers. After
words of greeting that thrilled the many thousands
pr< -cut. li>- -aid:

I am not here to indulge in sentiment— although
the sentiment allied to the service of these old gray-
haired and battle-scarred veterans is deep enough and
broad enough to justly merit the poetic strains of a
Father Ryan, as lie mused of them in years gone by,
or of the outbursts of praise of their virtues, as they
have gone forth in melodious rapture from the almost
hallowed lips of our idolized women of the South.
We are here to-day as. surviving members of that
heroic old brigade, whose deeds of prowess will adorn
the brightest pages, when passion shall have subsided,
and impartial history be recorded. We arc here as
living exponents of the greatest truth ever contended
for by brave and self-sacrificing spirits.

More than a quarter of a century has passed, since
by the arbitrament of war we sheathed our swords
and laid down our arms. Not, however, with spirits
crushed and characters gone. Conscience told us with
unmistakable emphasis that we were right — and he
who is right is true and brave.

We accepted the decrees of war. Lost fortunes had to
be recuperated ami prospects all blasted re-established.

This was hard indeed, but remembering our Loved
ones, we brought into requisition the same persistency
of purpose, the same energy of will, and the same old
redoubtable spirit, that characterized us in days of
horrid war — never forgetting for a moment tha,t the
sacrifices, denials and anxiety, made and shown for
us, by our much loved ones, demanded this labor of
love that the brave only can truly appreciate.

How well we have succeeded is evidenced by the
benignant smiles of Providence that have attended
lis. But seldom do you hear of a worthless, improvi-
dent, returned Confederate, especially a follower of
the fortunes of this old brigade. *****
God helping us we will never, by word, deed or
thought, make explanation of our conduct that would
compromise our lofty standard of honor and right —
bring reproach upon the memory of our fallen heroee
— or endeavor by canting words of a cringing suppli-
ant to ingratiate ourselves with those who did not
have the moral or physical courage to go out and bat-
tle for principle and truth, or whose conceptions of
right and wrong were of such a nature as to prefer ig-
nominious submission to a manly strife for the
glorious blessings of civil liberty.

All honor to the brave men who fought us — who
were honest in their convictions and sincere in their
actions. They have no respect or toleration for such
a miserable apologist. Therefore, with no apologies
to make, no excuses to offer, we will go along with
our heads up during the remainder of our days, with
the proud consciousness of having done our duty,
cherishing the memory of our lamented and mucn-
loved heroes who fell by our side on the crimson field
of battle or who have since left us and are now in the last
sweet embrace of sleep, while we indulge in the blessed
assurance of hope that it may be ours to meet them
in the blissful realms above. * * If I had nothing
else to bequeath my children, my service and conneo-,
tion with this old brigade would be a sufficient heritage.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS.

RECORD AS PROCURED IN REGARD TO THE- MONU-
MENTS ERECTED AND UNDER WAY.

New Orleans has taken the lead. The following
sketch of her monuments was kindly furnished by
Mr. W. Miller Owen. He did not give the cost as pub-
lished, but that was procured by a committee of gen-
tlemen who were familiar with all the enterprises.

The Confederate Monument in Greenwood Ceme-
tery, built by the Ladies’ Benevolent Association, is
of white marble, surmounted by a figure of a Confed-
erate infantryman “on guard.” Around the pedestal
are the busts of Lee. Sidney Johnston, Polk and
“Stonewall.” Under the mound on which it stands
are vaults containing the remains of many Confed-
erate soldiers. It was unveiled 1867. Value, $ 25,000.

Monument of the Army of West Virginia. — A
column 50 feet above the ground, or 38 feel above the >
mound on which it stands. On the summit is a stone
statue of Stonewall Jackson, 8 feet 9 inches high.
Under the mound arc vaults for the dead Jefferson
Davis’ remains are dep tsited there at present. Un-
veiled May, 1881. Value, $25,000.

Monument of Washington Artillery.— Marble
.shaft on mound, statue of an artilleryman on top,
sponge staff in hand. On the base arc inscribed the
names of those members of the command who were
killed or died in service, also the names of sixty en-
gagements in which the command participated. Un-
veiled Feb. 22, 1880. Value, $15,000.

Robert E. Lee Monument.— A Doric column of
granite on a grassy mound, surmounted by bronze
statue of Lee 15 feet high. Entire height, 106 feet 8
inches. Column, GO feet. Unveiled Feb. 22, 1884.
It is in St. Charles Street. Value, $40,000.

Monument of Army of Tennessee. — Mound con-
taining tombs for deceased members, surmounted by
equestrian statue of Albert Sidney Johnston in bronze.
At the entrance to vaults is a marble life-size figure of
a Confederate Sergeant calling his roll. Value $35,000.

Winchester. Va., has erected a $10,000 monument to
the unknown Confederate dead in Stonewall Cem-
etery. In addition to this principal monument, dif-
ferent States have erected shafts. There is one for
Virginia that cost $1,000. Maryland has a superb
structure, capped with a statue of a private soldier, by
O’Brien, that cost $2,500. The statue was made on
an order that failed and the work was procured at a
small percentage of* its value.

Culpepper, Va., has a monument that cost $1,0* K).
“”Woodstock, Va : Subscriptions have been made
in this county for the Lee monument at Richmond,
Jackson, Lexington and elsewhere.

A monument is being erected near Newport News,
Va., to cost between one and two thousand dollars. It
is the work of the Lee Camp of Confederate veterans
and their friends at Hampton Va.

Shepardstown, Va. : A Confederate monument has
been erected at Shepardstown at a cost of $2,500. It
is a marble shaft.

The ex-Confederate Association of Grayson County,
Texas, are preparing to erect on the public square at
Shannon a $2,500 monument to the memory of Con-
federate soldiers.

Anderson, S. (‘.: “Our noble women have organ-
ized a Confederate Memorial Association and are now
raising funds to erect a monument in our city.”

Newberry. S C: “Our ladies have erected a Con-
federate monument on the public square which cost
$1,300. It i.- of marble.”

Natchez, Miss.: “We have built a very handsome
monument to our Confederate dead costing ¥^,<khi. It
is a shaft with life-size soldier in marble. Statue
made in Italy.”

The Ladies’ Association of Montgomery, Ala., has
well under way a monument on Capitol Hill, where
the Confederate Government was first established.
The monument is an imposing structure to cost
S 4″>.( w m>. About half of this money has already been
expended.

Richmond, Va., Dec. 30, 1892.
Editor Confederate Veteran, Nashville, Turn.:

My Di \i: Sir — At your request I enumerate, rely-
ing on my memory alone for the facts and figures, the

following Confederate M ui m inent s here :

Monument to 12,000 Confederate dead in Hollywood
Cemetery, a granite pyramid 45 feel square and 90 feet

high, erected by the ladies of the Hollywood Memo-
rial Association at a cost of about $50,000, now almost
covered by” that beautiful evergreen vine, the Vii
creeper.

Monument to 17,000 Confederate dead in Oakwood
Cemetery, a massive granite obelisk, erected by the
ladie- of the Oakwood Memorial Association, at a cost
of about $5,000.

Monument to the Private Soldiers and Sailors of the
Confederacy, in Marshall Park, overlooking the site of
Libby Prison, a copy of Pompev’s Pillar, surmounted
by a heroic bronze figure of the Confederate Infantry-
man, erected by private subscriptions at a cost of
about $50,000.

Bronze Equestrian Statue of Gen. R. E. Lee, by
Mercie, ornamental granite pedestal, from designs by
Pujot, at the western extremity of Franklin St., erected
by private subscriptions at a cost of about $75,000.

Heroic Statue, in bronze, of Gen. T. .T. Jackson, by
Foley, presented by admiring Englishmen to the peo-
ple of Virginia, erected in Capitol Square on a granite
base, at the expense of the State. Aggregate cost,
about $15,i hn i.

Bronze Heroic Statue of Lieut. -Gen. A. P. Hill, by
Sheppard, erected over Hill’s remains on the Hermit-
age Road just north of the city, by private subscrip-
tions, at a cost of about $15,000.

Bronze Heroic Statue of Gen. Wm. C. Wickham,
by Valentine, provided by private subscription, and
erected in Monroe Park on a granite base at the ex-
pense of the city. Total cost, about $15,000.

Collections of the Southern Historical Society, office
in the State Capitol, R. A. Brock, Esq., Secretary,
which cannot be valued by a standard of dollars and
cents.

Monuments over the grave of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart,
in Hollywood Cemetery, to the dead of Pickett’s Di-
vision and the dead of Otey Battery — both on Gettys-
burg Hill in Hollywood— and to the Richmond How-
itzers, on Howitzer Place, just west of Monroe Park,
represent an outlay of approximately $10,000.

There may be others which I cannot at the moment
recall. I think that three quarters of a million dol-
lars in the aggregate will about represent the invest-

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CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

ment in Confederate Memorials al present existing
here. This includes the Confederate Home, Davis

.Mansion. .etc

“In addition to these, besides the great crowning
monumental work in which you are so active, move-
ments are well advanced for an Equestrian Statue of

(Jen. .1. E. B. Stuart, and a monument to Gen. John
R. Cooke.”

T!i.- ex-Confederate Association of Grayson County.
Texas, are preparing to erect on tin public square at
Sherman, a 82.5im> monument to the memory of ex-
Confederate soldiers.

A monument is being erected near Newport New6,
Ya.. to cost from one to two thousand dollars, to It
erected by tin Lee Camp of Hampton, Ya.. and three

friends.

Newberry, S. C. : “The ladies have erected a ruoi
umenl to the Confederate dead from this county in
the court house square. It is of marble, and costs
11,300.”

Anderson, S: C: “Our noble women have organ-
ized a Confederate Memorial Association, and are now
raising funds to erect a monument in our city.”

A Confederate monument has been erected at
Shcpardstown, Ya., a marble shaft to cost about $2,500.

‘I’hc people of Tipton Co. Tenn., are raising funds for
county monument, and have contributed more than
$50 to the Davis monument.

A movement was started for a Confederate monu-
ment at Fayetteville, Tenn., but it was abandoned on
account of a disastrous cyclone which swept the town.

All honor to our good women at Knoxville, Tenn.,
who organized a Memorial Association iti May, 1K68,
and struggled on persistently, year after year, until
they have secured one of the most beautiful monu-
ments in the country. The monument is a graceful,
well-proportioned shaft, twelve feet square at the base
and twenty-four feet high. It is surmounted with a
heroic statue of a private soldier, standing at parade
rest. The inscription “Commemorates the heroic
courage and unshaken constancy of more than l,(i(H)
soldiers of the South, who, in the great war between
the States, 1861 to 1865, were inspired by the holiness
of a patriotic and impersonal love, and in the
mountain passes of Tennessee, whether stricken in
the field or in hospital ward, gave ungrudgingly their
lives to their country.” The monument is of Ten-
nessee gray marble, and is extremely handsome foT
the cost, 84,500. The unveiling was last Memorial
day, May 10. Tho general address was by Senator W.
B. Bate. ex-Union soldiers co-operated in making the
event a success. The daily press, Republican and
Democratic, gave very eulogistic accounts of the event.
Many gentlemen were helpful to the ladies in their
work, one of whom was Col. P. A. Moses, a member
of the Da’vis Monument Committee for Tennessee.

The Confederate monument in the grassy court-
house yard at Bolivar, Tenn., is very beautiful. It cost
$2,700, is of marble, about thirty feet high from
ground to top, urn on top, shaft draped with flag.
The ornaments are cannon, tents, drums, flags, etc.
Inscription on south side, ” To the Confederate dead
of Hardeman County;” west, “Hardeman County
erects this monument to the memory of her sons fallen

in the service of the Confederate States; 1 ‘ east, “In
hope of a joyful resurrection;” north,

“Though men deserve.

Th- \ inav not win BQOC686.
The brave will honor the i>rave,

\ anqutahed uonc the Laea.”

There is no place in Dixie where more credit is due
for the Confederate cemetery and monument than
Fredericksburg. The wifeofCapt. J. N. Barney, of
that old town, who raised $5,100 for the Confederate
cemetery, with which marble headstones replaced
rotting wood, and a creditable statu, of a private sol-
dier was placed in the center. In telling of the work she
said: “I received several shower baths of cold water
thrown on me by doubting people, who said the South
wa.» too busy trying to make a living to attend to put-
ting headstones to its dead soldiers, but I did not
mind a word they said. First. I put a box on my hall
table for the babies to drop pennies in. It was fine
fun for the servants to make the little fat hands un-
fold for the purpose. Then the children brought me
the five-cent pieces; boys and girls on their way to
school would contribute their money to put tomb-
stones to the soldiers who died to save their homes.
I succeeded in stirring my poor, little battle-scarred
town until I secured $250 from voluntary contribu-
tors. Then I branched off into all the States. Maj.
Spurr, of Nashville, will tell you how I tormented his
unfailing courtesy and patience. Simply by using my
pen and bringing the matter to the hearts of the dear
Southern people, I raised $5,100, and you saw the re-
sult.” In conclusion, she said: .”We must have that
monument to Mr. Davis, and that shortly, while our
generation lasts. It is due our Lost Cause that we
should.”

Helena, Ark., has done herself credit in local mon-
uments. Mrs. Paralee Haskell, Secretary of the Asso-
ciation, writes: The main monument cost $4,500.
The soldier is of fine Italian marble (through M. Mu’l-
doon & Co., of Louisville), was sculptured in Italy and
cost $1,000. The monument is worthy to commemo-
rate our heroes. It was dedicated on May Jo last, with
appropriate ceremonies, the orator of the day being
Col John R. Fellows, of New York. Every dollar for
the monument was paid before it was dedicated. Near
by stands a monument erected a year previous to the
memory of Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne. It is a shaft of
white marble, 25 feet in height, with the following in-
scription on the western side:

PATRICK RoNAYNE CLEBURNE,

Major-Oeneral of C. S. A.,

Born In County of Cork, Ireland, March 17, 182X.

Killed at the Battle of Franklin, Tenn.,

November, 1864.

On the north side the word “Chickamauga” and the
Confederate seal, and the following words from the
poem of Mrs. Virginia Frazer Boyle:

A rift of light
Revealed the horse and rider, then the scene was dim ;

But on the Inner works the death hall
Banc In Cleburne’s ears a battle hymn.

On the east side was the sunburst and the legend
“Franklin.” On the side facing the south was the
harp of Erin entwined with the shamrock, below
which was the stanza, ” Memory ne’er will cease to
cherish deeds of glory thou hast won.” After appro-
priately decorating the graves, Confederate and others,
the spectators departed for the outgoing trains and
boats, which bore away the various crowds who joined
in commemorating and honoring the noble Confede-
rate of rank and file.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

Jackson, Term., has erected a tall shaft 70 feet high,
including the figure of a Confederate soldier at parade
rest. It is in the court-house yard.

Hon. D. N. Kennedy, of Clarksville, kindly fur-
nishes us the following data about a monument in
course of erection there: It is to be 48 feet high, 9
feet by 13 feet at base; will be capped by a bronze
statue” 9 feet high. There will be two granite statues
7 feet high, 12 feet above the base. The monument is
being constructed from Barre granite. It is to cost
$7,500, and to be completed in the early spring, and to
be dedicated in May. In a strong speech for that
movement at the last Confederate reunion there Mr.
Kennedy made the effective point that he would not
be willing to omit having a part in it. [It is a fact
worthy of note that Mr. Kennedy is president of the
oldest bank in Tennessee. It was established in 1854
and never suspended, not even during the war. He
and the vice president, Mr. .James I,. Glenn, have
ever been associated in the institution.]

Savannah, Ga., has a Confederate monument that
would be a credit to any city and to any cause. An
extended description of it may be expected in our
next issue. The cost was about $35 ,( * * ‘

The greatest monument to a Confederate that has
ever been erected, size and quality of material con-
sidered, is the Lee monument in Richmond. .In the
reference to it elsewhere no idea of its magnitude i ail
be had except that it cost 175.000. A more accurate
description may be expected hereafter.

.Macon, Ga., has a superb Confederate monument in
the most prominent street crossing in the city. It is
of very white Italian marble, is 37 reel high, ‘including
the statue of a private soldier, 10 feet 6 inches. The
base is of (Georgia) Stone Mountain granite. The in-
scriptions: Great seal of the Confederacy, by copy
belonging to Charles Herbst, a Kentuckian, but ” resi-
dent of Macon almost long enough to be a native,” to
ouote from the Irishman. Then it is ornamen* dwith
the coat-of-arms of Georgia, cannon and other im-
plements of war. It is decorated on all mei^orial
days bv the ladies aud cared for constantly by Mr.
Herbst. It cost 84,500. Hon. John P. Fort, then ol
Macon, paid the expenses of its dedication in 1878 —
$500.

HOMELESS VETERANS IN GEORGIA.

The general public, interested in such matters,
knows how zealously and successfully our people in
Georgia worked to secure a Home in the vicinity of
the capital for disabled Confederate veterans, and that
the State Legislature has refused again and again to
accept the property, coupled with a provision to ap-
propriate a maintenance fund. The trustees, not
content to surrender the cause, have considered several
plans for carrying it on. Col. Brewster submitted a
plan to them, which meets with general favor, for or-
ganizing a stock company of persons who will take
the property, giving so much annually, as necessary
to its support, and then to own it when its special
uses are done.

The Constitution says :

” It is fortunate that the trustees of the Soldiers’
Home have been called together for an early meeting.

“Public sentiment has crystalized into the proper
shape for action, and we are gratified to see that the
suggestion of Colonel Brewster, in regard “to organiz-
ing astock company to run the Home is very gener-
ally indorsed. Other good suggestions will doubtless
be made, and it is to be hoped that the trustees will
feel encouraged to make another effort to save this
splendid charity for our needy and homeless veterans.”

The Richmond Dispatch says:

” It is a lamentable sight to see a battle-scarred sol-
dier of the Confederacy in a poor-house. It is well-
calculated to arouse the suspicion that there is more
buncombe than heartfelt sympathy in the often-heard
praise of the men who fought our battles.

If these Soldiers’ Homes did no more good than to
save a few of these veterans from the poor-houses, we
could well afford to maintain them. It is disgraceful
that any worthy veteran of the Confederate Army
should be forced to live the life of a pauper. It is a
fact, too, that many veterans who have homes, so-
called, an- neither welcome nor comfortable in them.
To these, also, the Soldiers’ Homes offer shelter, food
and respectable companionship.

We shall not presume to offer any advice to the gal-
lant people of the great State of Georgia, but we can
truly say that the Confederate Home here has been of
vast service It could be of greater service still, if it
had more funds at its disposal. * * *

“This we know from what we saw of theGeorgio sol-
diers in the battles around Richmond, that no pro-
vision the Legislature of that State could make for
caring for them in their old age and helplessness would
be beyond their deserts.”

The St. Louis Republic urges the Trustees not to give
up the Home, and hopes that the people of Georgia
will support it freely and voluntarily. It thinks that
the ladies of the State would take care of it.

“From every quarter come expressions of surprise
and indignation at the defeat of this patriotic enter-
prise. In self-detenst — in order to set Georgia right
before the world — our people must come to the rescue
of the home,, and show that they do not propose to
have any of their old defenders sent to the poor-house
while they have it in their power to aid them.

” W • are not committed to any particular plan, but
we hope that the trustees will give the situation their
careful consideration, with a view to opening and
maintaining the Home for the next twenty years. A
stock company organized on the proper basis can make
the institution a success, and get its money back out
of the property with a good profit.”

“Comment upon the situation by the Sunny South :
The Legislature is of fifty days and’full of buncombe;
it assembleth with great dignity and adjourneth with
much joy, and four dollars per diem ; it mnketh a trip
to the World’s Fair, and payeth its expense out of an
appropriation ; it cometh back and sitteth down on
the old veterans with a loud noise; it appropriateth
much lucre to educate the colored man, but verily it
knoweth it to be a good investment, for it shall re-
turn after many days through the convict lessee.”

If New Orleans can erect $150,000 worth of Confed-
erate monuments, and Richmond near that amount,
should the entire South hesitate in an undertaking to
cost only $250,000?

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CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

WORK OF THE VETERANS.

PLAITS ADOPT! D FOB A PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION IX

Mississippi.

The State* Committee appointed to raise funds for
*
the monument to Jefferson Davis, at Richmond. Va.,

for the state of Mississippi, met in the Governor’s

office on Thursday. The members of the committee

present were Maj.-Gen. Stephen D. Lee, Chairman;

Gov. .’. M. Stone, ex-Gov. Robert Lowry and Col. C.

C. Flowerree, Lieut. -Col. Fred J. V. LeDand, the other

member, absent.

The committee passed the following resolutions:

1. That Col. J. L. Power be appointed a committee
of one to correspond and ascertain what amount of
money has been subscribed in different localit : ‘ is
the State to erect a monument to Jefferson Davis, and
if said money ran be used for the monument in
Richmond.

2. That for purposes for organization, the Chair-
man of this committee, Gen. Lee, open correspondence
with the Sheriff of each county in the State, who,
with the Chancery and Circuit Clerks, will be re-
quested to send him the names of six representative
Confederate ladies of the county, who will be a Cen-
tral Committee for the county to raise funds for the
” Jefferson Davis Monument,” in Richmond, with such
other local committees throughout the county in each
supervisor’s district, as they may appoint to assist
them. That Jan. 2, 1893, be named as a day to get
subscriptions for the monument, and thereafter on
each first day of succeeding months till the amount
is obtained. Subscriptions to be not less than 25
cents or more than 81 for each individual. Gen. Lee
to perfect the organization and arrange for the receipt
of the money.

3. That the Chairman of the eomirlittee, Gen.
Lee, appeal to comrades Col. J. L. Power, Col. J. R.
Binford, Col. T. H. Jones, Col. P. M. Savery and Col.
J. R. Mcintosh, to deliver addresses or lectures in
their own and adjacent counties and in such other
localities as they desire in the State, for the purpose of
raising funds for the erection of the monument to
President Davis at Richmond, Va., and that Gen. Lee,
in making this request known to the comrades
mentioned, state that this committee feels confident
that they can rely on their compliance in this work
that is so near the heart of every Confederote veteran.

4. That the Chairman, Gen. Lee, be requested to
appeal to the press of the State to assist the committee,
the different local organizations, the lecturers and
other instrumentalities in carrying out the purpose in
view.

Gen. E. D. Hall, Chairman for North Carolina, in a
recent letter says: “Please forward to me all infor-
mation possible that may assist in the work. As you
will see by the papers I have commenced operations,

and I intend t>> push it to the utmost of my ability.!

I shall ba\ ( the bulk of the work, but North Carolina
will do hi i share.

Gen. B. T. Duval reports organization of the follow-
ing Camps in Arkansas: .The Ben T. Duval, at Fort
Smith; Pen MeCulloeh. ;it Creenwood; Stonewall
Jackson, at Hockett City; Cabell, at Alma; John
Wallace, :it Van Buren ; • Gratoit, a< Hope; Joe Neal,
at Nashville: Haller, at Centre Point; R. W. Harper,
at Morrillton; Jeff Davis, at Conway : W. LI. Hrooks.
at Favetteville, and thai there are others in process of
organization.

In an address to Mississippians, Col. .1. L. Power
says: ” Being anxious tp discharge the duty assigned
me to the best of my ability, I will be thankful for in-
formation as to the whereabouts of amounts already
subscribed for, a monument to Mr. Davis. Imme-
diately after his death a State Monument Association
was organized in Jackson, and subscriptions were
made in several places — some on condition that the
Monument should be in Mississippi, and others with-
out such condition. The Commanders of Camps of
Confederate Veterans, and the Sheriffs, are specially
requested to inquire as to these funds, and have them
forwarded to John S. Ellett, President of the State
Bank, at Richmond, Va., and advise me of the amount
and date when forwarded.”

IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

Hon. John L. Webber, of Charleston, S. C, sends
out this circular: ” Dear Sir — I desire to call your at-
tention to the action recently taken by the combined
associations working to raise funds for the erection of
a monument to President Jefferson Davis. It has
been decided that this monument shall be erected at
Richmond, the Capital of the Confederacy, and $250,-

000 is wanted for the work. We feel sure that this
amount will be easily and quickly raised. The South-
ern people owe it to themselves that a fitting memo-
rial should be erected to the man who will stand in
history as the chief representative of principle-, that
are dear to their hearts. I feel that it is useless to
urge this matter. I hope you will take steps at once
to raise as much money from your friends as you can.

1 would suggest the enlistment of the ladies in this
cause, and feel sure that considerable money can be
raised during the fall and winter through entertain-
ments of various kinds. All moneys collected should
be sent at once to Mr. John S. Ellett, Richmond, Va.,
who is the bonded Treasurer of the combined Monu-
ment Funds.

Gen. Ben T. Duval, Chairman for Arkansas, expects
to convene his committee at Little Rock this month
during the session of the Legislature.

Some of the States have not organized because .of
the inability of the Chairman to take charge of the
work. Preparation is being made to supplv these de-
ficiencies, and it is expected that organization will be
completed in the States, also in New York and Chicago.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

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UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS.

The first article of the constitution of the asso-
ciation declares : ” The object and purpose of “this or-
ganization will be strictly social, literary, historical
and benevolent. It w ill endeavor to unite in a gen-
eral federation all associations of the Confederate vet-
erans, soldiers and sailors, now in existence or here-
after to, be formed ; to gather authentic data for an im-
partial history of the war between the States; to pre-
serve the relics or mementoes of the same; to cherish
the ties of friendship that exist among the men who
have shared common dangers, common Buffering and
privations ; to care for the disabled and extend a help-
ing hand to the needy; to protect the widow and or-
phan and to make and preserve the record of the serv-
ices of every member, and as far as possible of those
of our comrades who have preceded us in eternity.”

The last article provides that neither discussion of
political or religious subjects nor any political action
shall be permitted in the organization, and any asso-
ciation violating that provision shall forfeit its
membership.

(l§n. J. B. Gordon, the Commander of the Veterans,
in an address to the soldiers and sailors, said:

Comrades, no argument is needed to secure for those
objects your enthusiastic indorsement. They have
burdened your thoughts for many years; you have
cherished them in sorrow, poverty and humiliation.
In the face of misconstruction you have held them in
vour hearts with the strength of religious convictions.
fto misjudgments can defeat your peaceful purpose –
for the future. Vour aspirations have been lifted by
the mere force and urgency of surrounding conditions
to a plane far above t he palt ry considerat ion of parti-
san triumphs. The honor of the American govern-
ment, the just powersof the Federal government, the
equal rights of States, the integrity of the consti-
tutional union, the sanctions of law and the enforce-
ment of order have no class of defenders more true
and devoted than the ex-soldiers of the South and
their worthy descendants. Hut you realize the great
truth that a people without the memories of heroic
suffering or sacrifice are a people without a history.

To cherish such memories and recall such a past.
whether crowned with success or consecrated in de-
feat is to idealize principle and strengthen character, in-
tensify love of country and convert defeat and disaster
into pillars of support for future manhood and noble
womanhood. Whether the Southern people under
their changed conditions may ever hope to witness
another civilization which shall equal that which be-
gan with their Washington and ended with their Lee,
it is certainly true that ‘devotion to their glorious past
is not only the surest guarantee of future progress and
the holiest bond of unity, but is also the strongest
claim they can present to the confidence and respect
of the other sections of the Union.

In conclusion, I beg to repeat, in substance at least,
a few thoughts recently expressed by me to the State
organization, which apply with equal force to this
general brotherhood.

It is political in no sense except so far as the word
” political ” is a synonym of the word ” patriotic.” It

is a brotherhood over which the genius of philan-
thropy and patriotism, of truth and of justice will
preside; of philanthropy, because it will succor the
disabled, help the needy, strengthen the weak and
cheer the disconsolate; of patriotism, because it will
cherish the past glories of the dead Confederacy and
transmute them into living inspirations for future
service to the living republic ; of truth, because it will
seek to gather and preserve as witnesses for history
the unimpeachable facts which shall doom falsehood
to die that truth may live, of justice, because it will
cultivate National as well as Southern fraternity and
will condemn narrow-mindedness and prejudice and
passion, and cultivate that broader, higher and nobler
sentiment, which would write on the grave of every
soldier who fell on our side : ” Here lies an American
hero, a martyr to the right as his conscience con-
ceived it.”

I rejoice that a general organization too, long neg-
lected, has at last been perfected. It is an organiza-
tion which all honorable men must approve and
which heaven itself will bless. I call upon you,
therefore, to organize in every State and community
where ex-Confederates may reside, and rally to the
support of the high and peaceful objects of the United
Confederate Veterans, and move forward until by the

Eower of organization and persistent effort your
eneficent and Christian purposes are fully accom-
plished.

UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERAN I WIT-.
ALABAMA.

POST-OFI II I . CAMP. NO. OKU

Bessemer Bessemer 187… W. H. Jones, N. H.Sewall.

Birmingham W.J. Hnnlee 8»…Oen. F. 8 Ferguson, R. E.

Jot:

Eutaw Banders. U Capt. G.H. Dole, T.H.Mundy.

Mobile.. Raphael Semmes n Cant. Thos. T. Roche. Wm.

E. HI

Montgomery. .Lomax 151…Capt. Emmet. Selbels, J. H.

‘ Higglns.

ARKANSAS.

Benton vllle ……Cabell 89 Capt. N. 8. Henry, A. J. Bates.

Fort Smith Ben T. Duval 146.. .Capt. P. T. Devaney, John T.

Duval.

FLORIDA.

Brookvllle W. W. Loring 13 Oeii. John (‘. Devant, Col.

Fred L. Robertson.

Dade Cltv Pasco C. V. Ass’n…. 57. ..Capt. John B. Johnston, A.

H. Ravesles.

Fernandlno Nassau 104. Thos. A. Hull.

Iverncss Geo. T.Ward 148 Capt. W. C. Zimmerman. W.

s. Turner.

Jacksonville ..R. E. I,ee 5K Gen. Wm. Baya, C. W. Smith.

Jasper Slewarl 156. ..Capt. H. J. Stewart.

Lak. i Lty. .Columbia Co 150…Capt. W. R, Moore, W. M. Ives

Marlanna Milton 132. ..Capt. W. 1). Barnes, Frank

Philip.

Montlcello Patton Anderson… 60 …Capt. W. C. Bird, B. W. Part-

ridge.

Ocala MarlonCo.C. V. A 56 < apt. J. J. Flnley, Wm. Fox.

Orlando Orange Co 54. ..Capt. W. H. Jewell, B. M.

Robinson.

Palmetto Geo. T.Ward 53…Japt. J. C. Pelot.J.W. Nettles.

Pensacola Ward C. V. Ass’n 10.Gen.Geo. Reese, C.V. Thomp-
son.

Quinev . D.Ij. Kenan. 140. ..Capt. R. H. M. Davidson, D.

M. McMillan.

st. Augustine ..E. Klrby Smith 17″> (‘apt. J. A. Enslow, Jr.

Sanford a Gen. J. Flnnegan 149 Capt. A. M. Thrasher, C. H.

Lefler.

Tallahassee Lamar 161. ..R. A. Whitfield.

Tampa HUlsboro 36 …Capt. F. W. Merrln, H. L.

Crane.

Tltusvllle Indian River 47. Capt. Jas. Prltchett, A. D.

Cohen.

GEORGIA.

Atlanta Fulton Co., Ga 159. ..Gen. W. L. Calhoun, John F.

Edwards.

12

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

Daltoo Jos.E. Johnston 84. ..Capt. A. F. Roberts, J. A.

Blanton.

Spring Place John B. Gordon 50.. .Capt. R. E.Wilson, W. H.

Ramsey.
ILLINOIS.

Chicago Ex-Con. Ase’n 8…Capt John W. White, R Lee

France.

INDIAN TERRITORY.

Ardroore John H. Morgan 107… Capt. J. L. Gaut, R. Scales.

McAlester Jeff Lee 88.. Gen. N. P. Guy, R. B. Cole-
man.

KENTUCKY.
Bowling Green.Bowllng Green 148 ..Capt. W. F. Perry, James A.

Mitchell.
Cynthlana Cynthlana 99 Capt. D. M. Snyder, Thos. 8.

Logwood.

Georgetown Georgetown..

… 98. ..Capt. A. H.Sinclair, Thos. S.

Logwood.
Hnrrodsburg Harroddsburg 98. ..Capt. Bush W. Allln, Thos. 8.

Logwood.
Lawreneeburg…Lawrenceburg 101. ..Capt. P. H. Thomas, Thos. S.

Logwood.
Lexington Lexington 100. ..Gen. John Boyd, Thos. S.

Logwood.

Paducah A.P.Thompson 174. ..Cant. W. G. Bullitt, J. M.

Browne.

Paris Paris ft”>…Capt. A. T. Forsyth, Thos. S.

Logwood.

Russellville John W. Caldwell. ..139… Mol. J. B. Brlggs, W. B. Mc-
carty.

Versailles Versailles 96. ..Capt. Jos. C. Bailey, Thos. 8.

Logwood.

LOUISIANA.

Alexandria Jeff Davis O…Gen. Geo. O. Watts, Capt. W.

W. Whittlngton.

Amite City Amite City 78.. .Capt. A. P. Richards, G. W.

Bankston.

Baton Rouge Baton Rouge 17. Gen. John McGrath, F. W.

Heroman.

Berwick Winchester Hull 178… Capt. M. W. Bateman, F. O.

Brian.

Donaldson vlllcMaJ. V. Mauiln 38.. .Capt. 8. A. Poche.P. Ganel.

Evergreen R L. Gibson 83. Col. Win. M.Ewell, I.C. John-
son.

Lake Charles Calcasieu C. Vet 02. ..Capt. W. A. Knapp, W. L.

Hutchlngs.

Mansfield Mouton 41. ..Capt. Cbas. Schuler, T. G.

Peg lies.
Merrick Isaiah Norwood 110. ..Capt.. D. T. Merrick, J. Jewell

Taylor.
Nad liltoches… Natchitoches 40 ..(.’apt. J. Alp. Prudhomme, C.

K. Levy.
New Orleans Army of N. Va I. ..Col. W. R Lyman, Thos. B.

O’Brien.
New Orleans Army of Teun 2. ..Gen. John Glynn, Jr., Nicho-
las Cuny.
New Orleans Wash. Artillery 15. ..Col. B. F. Eshelmnn, Lteut.-

Col. L. A. Adam.
New Orleans Henry St. Pnul 1(1.. .Gen. Jos. Demoruelle, Col. M.

T. Docros.

OpelOUKlls It. E. Lee 14. ..Capt. L. D. Prescott, Col. B.

Blooinncld.
Plai|iienilne Iberville 18. ..(‘apt. (‘bus. H. Dickinson,

John L. Durdcnne.

Hayvllle Rlelllillld

Husttn Knstln

1,12 .. (apt. Johns. Sunwnerlln, O.

T. Smith.

7…t’iipt. Allen Baikdale, J. L.

Bond.

Shrevcport- Gen. Lcroy Stafford 3 …Cant. Wm. Kinney, Will H.

I’unnarri.

Tiinglpuhou Cninp Since..

(K) (apt. O. P. A mucker, O. R.

ant. O.
Tn) lor,

MISSISSIPPI.

Boonevllle W. H. H. Tlson 1711. ..(apt. D. T. Henll, J.W. Smith.

Columbus Ishnm Harrison 27. Dr. It, A. Vuiiglniii, W. A.

Campbell.
Crystal Sp’gs Bon Humphreys 19 Capt. C. Humphries, .1. M.

Haley.
Edwards W. A. Montgomery 20…C«pt. W. A. Montgomery, H.

YV. Barrett.
Fayette J. J. Whitney 22 …Cupt. W. L. Stephen, W. K.

Penny.

Hattlcsburg Hattlcsburg 21 …Cupt. Geo. D. Harttleld, Evan

II. Harris.

•Holly Springs. ..Kit Mott 23. Capt. Jus. F. Flint, Sum. H.

Pryor.

Jackson Robt. A. Smith 24. ..Capt. W. D. Holder, George s.

Green.
Macon Jas. Longstreet 180.. Capt. W. H. Foote, J. L.

Griggs.
Meridian Walthall 2.1. .Capt. W. F. Brown, B. V.

White.

Miss. City Beauvalr.., 120. ..Gen. J. R Davis, F. S. Hewes.

Natchez Natchex….. ‘….■ 20.. Lieut. -Col. F. J. V. LeCand,

E. L. Hopkins.

Port Gibson Claiborne 187. ..Capt. A. K. Jones, Wm, W.

?apt. A.
Moore.

Rosedale Montgomery 52. ..Col. F. A. Montgomery, Chas.

C. Farrar.

Tupelo John M.Stone 181. ..Gen. John M.Stone, P. M.

Savery.
Vlcksburg Vlcksburg 82…Capt. D. A. Campbell, Clem

Davis.
Woodvllle’ Woodvllle 49. ..Capt. J. H. Jones, P. M.

Stockett.
Yazoo City Yazoo Camp 176. ..Capt. S. D. Bobertson, W. R.

McCutcheon.

MISSOURI.

Kansas City Kansas City 80. ..Capt. Jos. W. Mercer, Geo. B.

Spratt.

NORTH CAROLINA.
Clinton Sampson 137. ..Capt. R. H. Holliday, C. P.

Henlng.
Newton Catawba 162. ..Capt. J. <i. Hull, L. K. Whlt-

ener.

OKLAHOMA.

Oklahoma C’t. D. H. Haninion.. 177. ..Capt. J. W. Johnston, John

O. Cusler.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

Aiken Barnard E. Bee 84. ..Capt. B. H. Teugue, J. N.

Wlgfall.

St. Georges Stephen Elliott B1…J. Otey Reed.

TENNESSEE.

Chattanooga N. B. Forrest 4. ..Gen. J. F. Shlpp, L. T. Dick-
inson.

Clarksvlllc Forbes 77. ..Cant. T. H. Smith, Clay

Stacker.

Fayettevllle S’kelford-Fulton 114. ..Col. James D. Tillman, W. H.

Cash Ion.

Franklin..

..John L. McEwen . —…Capt. B. F. Roberts, R. N.

pt. B. F

Richards

Jackson John Ingram 37 ..Cupt. E. 8. Mallory, S. E. Ker-

tolf.

Knoxvllle Felix K. Zolllcoffer…46… Capt. John F. Horn, Chas.

ipt. John
Ducloux.

KiKixvllle Fred Ault 6. ..Col. Frank A. Moses, MaJ. J.

W. S. Frlerson.
Lewlsburg Dibrell 55…Capt. W. P. Irvine, W. G.

Lloyd,.
McKenzle…. Stonewall Jackson.. 42. ..Capt. Marsh Atklsson, Dr. J.

P. Cannon.

Memphis Con. His. Ass’n 28.. .Col. C. W. Frazer, R. J. Black.

Murfreesboro.. .. Joe B. Palmer 81. ..Capt. W. S. McLemore. Wm.

Led better.

Nashville Frank Cheutham… 35. Elder R. Lin Cave, Col. John

P. Hickman.

Shelby vi Me Win. Frlerson..

B3 …Capt. John M. Hastings. Jno.
G. Arnold.

Tulluhomn Pierce B. A nderson.173… Capt. J. P. Bennett, W. J.

Travis.

12.. .Capt. W. H. Brannan, J. J.

Martin.
TEXAS.

Abilene Abilene F2…T. W. Dougherty.

Abilene Taylor Co 69…Col. H. L. Bentlcy, Theo.

Heyck.

Winchester Turney

Alvarado..

..Alvurado 160. J. R. Posey.

Athens Howdy Martin 65. ..Capt. D. M. Morgan, W. T.

Eustace.

Atlanta Stonewall Jackson.. 91 ..Cant. J. 1). Johnson, James

N. Simmons.

Austin John B Hood 103. .. Capt. Wm. M. Brown, Chas.

H. Powell.
Beaumont A. S. Johnston 75. ..(‘apt. Jen” Chaisson, Tom J-

Russell,

Beltow Bell Co. ex-Con As .122. (‘apt. H. M. Cook, R H.Tur-
ner.

Bonhum Sul Ross 164. ..(‘apt. J. P. Holmes.

Brownwood Stonewall Jackson .118.. .Capt. Carl Vincent, R. L.

Bryan

..J.B.Robertson 124. .. Cupt. H. B. Stoddard, W. H.

Harmon.

Buffalo! iup Camp Moody — ..Capt. Ben F. Jones, J. J.

Ewbank.

Calvert W. P. Townsend 111. ..Capt. J. H. Drennon, C. W.

Hlgglnbotliain.

Cumersou Ben MeCullough 29.. . Capt. E. J. Mclver, Joseph B.

Moore.

..union James L. Hogg i:«…Cnpt. T. J. Towles, W. D.

Thompson.

Carthage Hornce RAiidnll 163…J. R. Bond, J. M. Woolworth.

Cleburne Pat Cleburne 88.. Capt. O. T. Plummer, 8. C.

Scurlock.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

13

Colorado Albert Sidney — ..

Columbus Shropshire-Upton …112;.

Coleman John Pi lham 76..

Corpus Christ!.. .Jos. E. Johnston 63..

Corstcana C. M. Winkler 147..

Crockett.” Crockett 141..

Caldwell Camp Rogers 142.

Dallas Sterling Price 31..

Decatur Ben McCulloch 30..

Denton Snl Ross 129..

Dublin Erath A Comanche H i

Fairfield Win. I.. M ly 87..

Farney Camp Bee 180..

.Capt. W. V. Johnson, Tbos.

Q. Mullin.
..Capt. Geo. McCormlck, J. J.

Dick.
Capt. J. J. Callan, James M.

Williams.
Capt. H. R. Sutherland. M. C.

Spvnn.
Capt. R. M.Collins.
Capt. Enoch Branson, J. F.

Martin.
.J. F. Matthews.
Capt. J. J. Miller. Gen. Wm.

L. Thompson.
Capt. Will A. Miller, A. Ed-
wards.

(‘apt. Hugh McKenxie, J. R.

Burton,
(ien. J. T. Harris, L. E. (iil-

lett.
.Capt. (Jeo. T. Bradley. L. G.
Sandlfer.

Capt, T. M. Daniel, 8. G.

Fleming.

Sulphur Sp’gs…Matt Ashcroft 170. ..Capt. R. M. Henderson, M. G.

Millar.

Taylor A.S.Johnston 165.. Capt. M. Ross, P. Hawkins.

Tyler A.S.Johnston 48. ..Capt. James P. Douglas, Sid

S. Johnson.
Vernon Camp Cabell 125 ..Capt. Shem E. Hatehett, M.

D. Davis.
• Waxahachle Jeff Davie 108. ..Capt. R. P. Mackey, W. M.

McKnight.
Weatherford Tom Green 1*9. Capt. J. P. Rice, M. V. Kln-

nlson.
Wichita Falls… W. J. Hardee 78. Capt. C. R. Crockett. N. A.

Robinson.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Washington Wash. City Con 171 .MaJ. Albert Akers.

Fort Worth It. K. Lee 158 Col. B. B. i-addock

Frost R. Q, MilN Kw;

Gainesville Jos. E. Johnston 1 1 «•

Galveston…. Magruder 106.

Gatesvllle Ex-C. A. Coryell Co 185

Goldthwalte Jerl Davis 117..

Gonzai.-s Gonsale* 156

Graham …. Young County 127..

Gran bury Granbnry 87

Hamilton A. S. Johnston 116..

Hemstead Tom (ireen 188

Henrietta Sul Ross 172..

Hlllshoro Hill County

.Kaufman Gto. D. Manlon US..

Kingston A. S. Johnston 71

Ladonla Roht. E.Lee 126.

I.aGrange Col. B. Tlmnions 61..

Lampasas R. E. Lee 6H.

Lubbock F. R. Lubbock 188..

Madisonvllle Johh O. Walker 128 .

Meridian A. S. Johnston 115

Merkel Merkel 79.

Mexia Joe Johnston 94

Mlnneola Wood County 153..

Mt. Enterprise Kosscr 82

Mt. Pleasant Col. Dud Jones 121..

Montague Bob stone 93.

McKlnney Collin County 109..

Navasota Pat Cleburne 102

Palestine Palestine 44..

Pails A.M. Johnston 70

Paint Rock…… Jeff Davis 168..

Rockwall Rockwall 74.,

Roby W. W. Lorlng 1.54 .

San Antonio A.S.Johnston 144..

Capt. A. Chamberlain, Dr. M.
F. Wakefield.

Capt .1 M. Wright, John T.
Walker.

Gen. T. X. Waul, Chris C.

H, avails.
W. I.. Saunders.

Ma], .1. E. Martin, F. H.Tay-
lor.

Maj. W. B. Savers, M. East-
land.

Capt A. T. <iay. Y. M. Ed-
wards.

.1. A. Formlvalt. I. R. Morris

(apt. W. T. Sax, .11. 1 <
Powell.

(‘apt. Van B. Thorn ton, Barn
Schwarz.

Capt. F. J. Barren, c. B. Pat-
terson.

Win. A. Fields.

Cant. Jos. Hufi’master, K. S.
Pipes.

Capt. J. F. Puckett. T. J. Fos-
ter.

.Cant. (i. W. lllakcn.y. F. W.

‘apt. (J. W.
Rlakeney.

Capt. R. H. Phelps. Nalt H,,l

man.
.1. S. Lauderdale. D. c .

Thomas.
(apt. W. D. Crump, (i. W

Shannon
R. Wiley.
Capt. Robert Donnell, J. W.

Adams [acting).
(ape J. T Tucker, A. A.

Baker.
Capt. (‘. L. Watson, H. W.

Williams.

(“apt. J. H. Huftmastcr. Geo;
A. Cage.

(apt. Thos. Turner, Ben Bird-
well.

Capt. (‘. L. Dlllabnnty. .1. C.
Turner.

Capt. Bob Eean, R. D. Rng-

eley.
.Gen. W. M. Bush, H. C. Mack.
Capt.W. E. Barry. R. M. West.
Capt. J. W. Ewlng, J. M. Ful-

llnwider.

(‘apt. Geo. H. Provlne, John
W. Webb.

Capt. W. T. Melton, J. W.
Ratchford.

.(‘apt. M.S. Austin, X. C Ed-
wards,
(‘apt. D. Speer, W. H. Smith.

Cant. John S. Ford, Taylor
McRae.

Monument to be Erected in Chicago. — An address
of the Ex-Confederate Association of Chicago says:
“This Association has appointed a committee for the
purpose of raising funds with which to erect a monu-
ment over 7,000 American soldiers who did while
prisoners of war at Camp Don glass, ah d who now lie
in unmarked and neglected graves at Oakwoods Cem-
etery, near this city, where several acres have been
assigned us through the medium of the War Depart-
ment, on which we purpose to erect this monument
as a fitting memorial to our former companions in
arm-. And we trust that a- it is lifted toward the
peaceful skies it may he symbolical of that sweet and
enduring peace with which a great nation emphasizes
its unstinted, brotherly reunion. On our committee
are the names ol three honorary members of our Asso-
ciation who were gallant soldiers of the Union Army,
viz., (ien. I. X. Stile-. Gen. Joseph Stockton and
Charles I’. Packer, President of the Park National
Hank of Chicago, which is t lie depository of the fund.
We re<|urst our friends to send contributions to the
above-named bank. Any information in regard to the
matter can be obtained by addressing either Col John
George Ryan, chairman, or F. It. Southmayd, secre-
tary. Room 615, No. ‘i’io Dearborn street, Chicago.

pessi< >m:i;s ixder pay of the hoyersmf.st.

Washington, Nov. 30. — The annual report of Mr.
Greene B. Raum, Commissioner of Pensions, made
public to-day, shows that there were oil the pension
rolls June 30, 1892, 876,068 pensioners, an increase
during the year of 199,908.

The total amount expended during the fiscal year
was 8139,03-5,612. For the present fiscal year $144.-
956,000 is appropriated. The Commissioner estimates
that a deficiency appropriation of 110.508,621 will be
necessary. An estimate of $165,000,000 is submitted
for tlie next fiscal vear.

THE PERCY <!RE<. HISTORY.

Capt. T. H. C. Peery, R. J.
Browning.

Seymour Bedford Forrest 86

Sherman Mildred Lee, 90. C

Sweetwater E. C. Walthall 92

H

alker.

Capt. W. D. Beall. J. H. Free-
man.

Messrs West. Johnston & Co., of Richmond, have
published recently a history of the United States
“from the foundation of Virginia to the reconstruction
of the Union.” It is an octavo volume and sold at
$2.50. The work is by an enlightened Englishmen,
who “has beon brave enough” to give the South an
impartial and just place in history, and, as such,
merits the approval and interest of all Southerners.

The English edition is entirely out of print, copies
of it cannot be had at any price.

14

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

THE REBEL YELL.

Many people think of the three measured huzzas
given now and then as “the rebel yell.” It ie shock-
ing to an old Confederate to consider such deception.
The venerable widow of Hear Admiral Raphael
Semraee, in attending a Confederate reunion at Mem-
phis a couple of year.- ago, modestly expressed her
wish to hear “the rebel yell.” Something of an old
time cheer came from the throats of men who gladly
tried to compliment the wife of the eminent naval
commander. Kellar Anderson, who was of the Ken-
tucky Orphan Brigade and had heard the yell, wrote a
reminiscence for the Memphis Appeal. It is this
saint Anderson, called Captain and again Gen. Ander-
son, who honored his native Kentucky, his adopted
Tennessee and American heroism some months ago at
i ‘oal Creek, in defying the miners who had captured
him and demanded ransom for his head, when it
seemed but madness to refuse their demands. One
thing is sure, he had heard “the rebel yell.”

” There is a Southern mother on this stand who
says she wants to hear the rebel yell once more.”

” The announcement transforms, and in an instant
1 find myself acting the humble part of file-closer to
Company I. Fifth Kentucky Infantry, with pieces at
the right shoulder, the brigade in route column.
With the active, strong, swinging stride of the en-
thusiastic trained soldier, they hold the double cpuick
over rocks, logs, gullies, undergrowth, hill and vale,
until amid the ioliage of the trees above them, the
hulling shell and hissing shot from the enemy’s field
guns gives notice that if retreating they have missed
the way. Yet, there is no command to halt. Direct,
on unchanged course, this battle-scarred and glory-
mantled battalion of Kentucky youths continues,
and as thev reach the open woods, in clarion tones
comes the order, ‘Change front, forward on first com-
pany,” etc. The order executed found them formed
on ground but recently occupied by a battalion of
their foes, and few of these had left their positions.
The battalion of Kentuckians were in battle array
where once were they, but now the ground was almost
literally covered with the Federal dead, the entire
length of our regiment of 700 men. Men, did I say?
Soldiers is the word; there were few men among them,
they being youths, but soldiers indeed. The increas-
ing’spat, whirl and hiss of the minnie balls hurrying
by, left no doubt of the fact among these soldiers.
They are about to enter the action again and forward
is the order. ‘Steady, men, steady; hold your fire;
not a shot without orders. It is hard to stand, but
you must not return it. We have friends in our front
yet. They are being hard pressed, and their ammu-
nition is almost expended, but they are of our proud-
est and best, and Humphries’ Mississippians will hold
that ridge while they have a cartridge.

” It is nearing sunset, and after two days of fearful
carnage — aye, one of the best contested battles of the
times, the enemy has been driven pell-mell from
many parts of the field. Our losses are numbered by
thousands, and we are now advancing in battle array,
the little red flag with blue cross dancing gaily in the
air over heads of those who were there to defend it.

The last rays of the setting sun had kissed the
autumn foil ige when we stepped into open ground
and found that we were amid the wreck of what a
few short minutes ago bad been a superb six-gun bat-
tery! The uniform of the dead artillerymen and the
gaily caparisoned bodies of the many dead horses,
proclaimed this destruction the work of our friends.
We look upon the dead, pull our cartridge boxes a
little more to the front and resolve once more to face
the destruction we are now entering. The boom of
artillery increases. The rattle of musketry is steady
— aye, incessant and deadly. The sulphurous smoke
has’ increased until almost stifling. Only fifty yards
of space separates us from the gallant Mississippians,
we are there to support. They have clung to the
ridge with a death-like grip, but their last cartridge
has been fired at the enemy, and their support being
at hand these sturdy soldiers of Long-treet’s corps are
ordered to retire.

” Simultaneously the support was ordered forward.
As the Mississipiaiis retired, the deep-volumed shouts
of the enemy told us plainer than could words that
the enemy thought they had routed them. Oh, how
differently we regarded the situation! If they .mid
have seen them as we — halting, kneeling, lying down,
ranging themselves in columns of files behind the
large trees to enable us to get at the enemy with an
unbroken front, each man as we passed throwing cap
high into the overhanging foliage in honor of our
presence — then I imagine their shouts would have
been suppressed. ‘Steady in the center! Hold your
fire! Hold the colors back!’ The center advanced
too rapidly. We are clear of our friends now, only
the enemy in front, and we meet face to face on a spur
of Mission Ridge, which extends through theSnodjirass
farm, and we are separated by eightv yards. Thud!
and down goes Private Robertson. He turned, smiled
and died. Thud! Corporal Gray shot through the

neck. ‘Get to the rear!

id I. Thud! Thud!

Thud! Wolf, Michael, the gallant Thompson. Thud!
Thud! Thud! Courageous Oxley, the knightly
Desha, and duty-loving Cummings. And thus it goes.
The fallen increase, and are to be counted by the hun-
dreds. The pressure is fearful, but the ‘sand-digger’
is there to stay. ‘Forward! Forward!’ rang out
along the line. We move slowly to the front.

“There is now sixty yards between us. The enemy
scorn to fly ; he gives back a few paces ; he retires a
little more^ but still faces us, and loads as he backs
away. We are now in the midst of his dead and
dying, but he stands as do the sturdy oaks about him.
We have all that is possible for human to bear ; our
losses are fearful, and each moment some comrade
passes to the unknown. At last Humphries’ Missis-
sippians have replenished boxes and are working
arounil our right. Trigg’s Virginians are uncovering
to our left. I feel a shock about my left breast, spin
like a top in the air, and come down in a heap. I
know not how long before came the sounds ‘Forward!
Forward! Forward!’ I rise on my elbow. Look!
Look! There they go, all at breakneck speed, the
bayonet at charge. The firing appears to suddenly
cease for about five seconds. Then arose that do-or-die
expression, that maniacal maelstrom of sound; that
penetrating, rasping, shrieking, blood-curdling noise,
that could be heard for miles on earth, and whose

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volumes reached the heavens; such an expression as
never yet came from the throats of Mine men. l>ut from
men whom the seething blast of an imaginary hell
would not check while the sound lasted.

” The battle of Chickamauga is won.

” Dear Southern mother, that was the Rebel yell,
and only such scenes ever did or ever will produce it.

“Even when engaged, that expression from theCon-
federate soldier always made my hair stand on end.
The young nun and youths who composed this un-
earthly music were lusty, jolly, clear-voiced, hardened
soldiers, full of courage, and proud to march in rags,
barefoot, dirty and hungry, with head erect to meet
the plethoric ranks of the besl equipped and best fed
army of modern times. Alas’ now many of them are
decrepit from ailment and age, and although we will
never grow mid enough to cease being proud of the
record of the Confederate soldier, and the dear old
mothers who bore them, we can never again, even at
your bidding, dear, dear mother, produce the Rebel
yell. Never again : never, never, never.”

RELIGION IN THE SOUTHERN ARMY.

JUDGE TURNEY ON” MR DAVIS.

Tin: jurist’s or/.v/o.v of the fallen < inrFTAiy.

In a speech at ( darks vi lie. Ten n., Judge Turney said
he did not care to make a speech except to keep him-
self identified with the immortal idea of constitutional
gO\ eminent.

This was not altogether an occasion of mourning.
The South had much to he thankful for, Her grand
leader had lived long, enough to see the* intense- hatred
and slander horn of the war pass away, and to know
that the divisions among his own people were healed,
and all believed that he acted upon conscientious and
upright judgment.

He spoke of Mr. Davis as a comrade as well as a
.statesman. He had seen him risk his life on two
battlefields. He remembered seeing him at the first
Manassas, and he felt outraged that the great
guiding brain of the Confederacy as he considered
Mr. Davis, should take such risks. Again, when the
noble Hatton fell Mr. Davis was on the field. He saw
Hatton ‘s troops go into the fight, and, noting Hatton
at its head, Mr. Davis said : “That brigade moves in
handsomely, hut it will lose its commander.” Mr.
Davis thought for others but not for himself.

He thought Mr Davis the ablest defender of consti-
tutional law in the Union. From his sacrifice he
could come to no other conclusion than that Mr.
Davis believed in the justice of the South’s cause as he
believed in the Christian religion. He had absolutely
no doubt of the right of a State to go out of the Union
when the terms of the Union were violated. His
State papers would live as long as Jefferson’s. He was
the equal of Jefferson, Calhoun and Webster, and
superior to all who lived when he breathed his last.
Mr. Davis was immortal. He would live while man-
hood lasts.

[From the New York Evangelist.]

Dear Dr. Field: I have just read- your article on
Stonewall Jackson in Harper’s Magazine, and it is as
if I had been to a good church service. Indeed, I
could baldly have shed so many tears under a sermon.
When you speak of the religious spirit in the South-
ern army, it takes me hack to Dalton, and the great
Johnston-Sherman campaign. That you can see the
truth so clearly, through the many mystifying glasses
through which you looked before coming face to face
with us, amazes me when I read from your pen, that
is always so kind and just.

There has never been, even in the army of Crom-
well or G ust a v us Adolphus. a stronger religious feeling
than there was in the army under Joseph E.Johnf
That great commander, who strengthened the con-
fidence of his men while on retreat, was confirmed in
the Episcopal Church by one of his Lieutenant Gen-
erals, Bishop Polk. That day was a sort of half holi-
day in the army.

Hut it was to tell you of the experiences among the
boy soldiers that I intended to write, and to tell you
of my o\\ 11 personally.

Late one afternoon 1 asked to go with me, to a se-
cluded spot, a young comrade, who had been my
schoolmate, classmate, and intimate associate, whose
conversion a few days previous had causedhis face to
be ihanged so that hg exhibited a meekness which
was not natural to him. He was thoroughly convert-
ed. 1 sought an interview with him, that I might get
comfort. We left our place of conference just before
dark, to go directly to tlfe night service. It was a new
camp near Dal ton, and just before the beginning of
that campaign of one hundred days’ fighting over the
one hundred miles back to Atlanta.

After the sermon I was off in the dark in an agony
of prayer that something would arouse me to realize
the uncertainty of life. Mv friend had remained in
the altar place, talking ami praying with penitents.
Suddenly there came a heavy, dull thud, like the fall-
ing of a tree in the forest, as indeed it was, an old oak
that had been burned off at the roots. Rut the tragi-
cal part of it was. that it struck in its fall a file of
young ni( n who were in its path, of whom ten were
killed by the stroke, anil lay dead in a row under the
huge trunk. They were all bright young fellows, full
of life and promise of the number was this life-long
friend, whose sweetest counsel had been given me just
before that service. I was his only watcher that night.
Profanity, which is so common among soldiers, was
almost entirely given up. There were no scoffers at
the religion that had such a hold upon the army.

Thank you, Dr. Field, for the tribute to Stonewall
Jackson, and for all vour generous and courageous
words about the South” ! S. A. C.

•

The above was written as a private letter. Its ap-
pearance in print was a surprise, and this reproduc-
tion is rather accidental.

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CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

The (Confederate *Jctevan.

Fifty Cent* a Year. 8. A. CUNNINGHAM. Editor.

Office at The American, Corner Church and Cherry 8ts.

■ This publication Ib the personal property of S. A.Cunningham.
Money paid for It docs not augment the Monument Fund directly,
but as an auxiliary Its benefit cerlalnly makes It eminently worthy
the patronaxe of every friend of the cause.

Thk Confederate Veteran appears as an organ of
all the brotherhood in the Southern States, and
wherever else they may sojourn. It has for a leading
object their complete organization into such enter-
prises as will promote their general welfare. It will
merit the co-operation and favor of every survivor of
the Confederate service. It rises for duty.

First, it is committed to a cause that should and
will illustrate the undying devotion of the living to
the memories of their sacred dead. The misfortunes
of the struggle through those awful years of privation
and trial, wherein some blamed others for failures
that at last proved fatal to all, are remembered now
with the utmost commiseration, and not only have
controversies between generals ceased, but every true
man is devoted to all of his fellows, and all alike
revere devoutly the memory of our Chieftain, whose
intelligence and devotion to principle caused him to
suffer without murmur to the end. Since Mr. Davis’
death the sentiment has grown to erect a memorial to
liim at Richmond, where he is to be buried, at the
request of his wife, and to make it typical of the
Souths heroism and sacrifice.

This issue of the CONFEDERATE VETERAN will give
a sort of out outline of what it may be expected to
contain. Some practical requests are male of every
reader who desires to aid it.

First — Consider its circulation, solicit subscribers,
and send the money. There are club rates, so any
one can get it free who will procure five others with as
many half dollars.

Second — Suggest to business men who want to reach
the best people everywhere South that they advertise.
The rate is low. It is an excellent medium to make
known the merits of Southern literature.

Third — Please examine the lists of contributors to
the monument and report any errors. Maybe you
can have names added; suggest some kind of enter-
tainment to aid it.

Again, look to the reports of Confederate monu-
ments and supply any omission and correct any error.
It is intended to republish and revise until this
feature becomes a matter of much interest.

Richmond has shown a very patriotic spirit in re-
gard to the Davis monument. Early in the action of
Southern people upon the subject, resolutions were
adopted favorable to liberal action regardless of where
the monument may be located. A subscription fund
was started there and about $4,(XX) raised. It is
understood that the city will supply not less than
120,000, since the location has been given to Rich-
mond.

A revised list of the committees appointed by
General Cabell for the States, etc., will be published
February. It was not possible to get an accurate re-
vision for this issue.

In the preparation of this^first issue, under the se-
rious disadvantage referred to elsewhere, it was decided
to use a story of the battle of Franklin, under the
heading, “Death of Gen. (). F Strahl,” as it was
mainly in type, but there was not room enough in the
space assigned, and these notes are given:

The author of the article, who is the editor of he
Confederate Veteran, made a visit last Summer to
Mrs. J. S. Sigler, near Hepler, Kansas, a favorite sister
of Gen. Strahl, and learned, with much interest, de-
tails of the life of the General. Inquiry was made of
Mrs. Sigler as to her theory of why her brother, an
Ohioan, could have become so enlisted for the South as
to fight to his valiant death in her cause. The follow-
ing explanation was given: His grandfather, Philip
Strahl, married Miss Mary Lee, of Virginia, a sister of
Jonathan Lee. She was a loyal Southerner, and a slave-
holder. His maternal grandmother was a Miss Ander-
son, of Baltimore. She, too, was a slave-holder

The article as published on page :’,1 is a carefully
prepared account of S. A. Cunningham’s experience,
and what he saw. It lacks to complete it, as origi-
nally published, the following:

These personal recollections are all that I can give
as the greater part of the battle was fought after night-
fall, and once in the midst of it, with but the light of
the flashing guns, I could see only what passed di-
rectly under my own eyes. True, the moon was shin-
ing; but the dense smoke and dust so filled the air as
to weaken its benefits, like a heavy fog be/ore the rising
sun, only there was no promise of the fog disappear-
ing. Our spirits were crushed. It was indeed the
Valley of Death.

An earnest plea is made to every person who is
friendly to this enterprise to do as quickly as practi-
cable what is merited. Write to correct errors ■ n
names of contributors and amounts immediately. If
you like the publication and intend to subscribe, do
so as speedily as possible. If you want to procure
other subscribers, please attend to it right away. It
is intended to furnish as complete list of Confederate
monuments as it is possible to procure, giving descrip-
tion and cost, and pictures occasionally. Please help
in this. It is also intended to give as full accounts as
possible of Confederate Homes.

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The fund aggregating nearly $1,800 raised by the
Young Men’s Democratic Club, of Nashville, is the
largest yet furnished by any single orgtnization for
the Davis monumenf. At first a ball was planned,
but the management concluded a different sort of en-
tertainment to be more fitting the cause.

Then a “benefit” at the Vendome was undertaken,
the leading feature of which was an address from
Chief Justice, now Governor-elect Turney. Mrs. .1.
W. Childress, Mrs. M. B. Pilcher, Miss White May,
Mrs. A. H. Stewart and Miss Annie Brennan were the
•committee of ladies. They were assisted by Mrs. John
Overton, Mrs. H. W. Clark and Miss Henri Kwing.

The club agreed in the outset to guarantee $500, hut
when they got to work they far exceeded that amount,
as the following statement will show: John 11.
Reeves, manager, became responsible for HHi tickets at
♦1. Thomas J. Ryan took a like number. John P.
Hickman, Jesse Johnson, (has. E. Curry, Allen G.
Hall, W. L. Cranberry, (‘has. A. Miller each took 50
tickets in like manner. Jesse Johnson and John P.
Hickman sold many more than their fifty each. Then
W. (). Vertrees, W. T. Smith. T. J. Slowey, E. M.
Carell, P. F. deary. Jr., J. F. Lipscomb, D. B. Cooper.
J. W. Childress, Chas. Sykes. C. P. McCarvcr, G. 11
Armistead, E. YV. Carmack and M, A. Consadine each
took 25, and Jere Baxter bought $250 worth. Main
others deserve mention. l»ut these comdrise the com-
mittess. That entertainment may be referred to as a
model. The net receipts, it is believed, are in excess
of any entertainment ever given in Nashville in one
evening for any charitable purpi

The Cumberland Almanac for 1893 appears with the

opening day of the year, under the careful and ex-
cellent supervision of Mr. YV. H. Trafford. The Cum-
berland Almanac is the property of the Nashville
American. It is sixty-two years old, and has had a
fine reputation for a half century. The present issue
is nearly twice as large as its predecessors, and it has
an extensive collection of interesting data and is, per-
haps, as accurate as can be found in any periodical of
the kind. The liberal and patriotic act of devoting a
page to the Davis monument and Confederate Vet-
bran is acknowledged.

In Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, there is an
irregular-shaped, small spot of ground, enclosed with
a neat iron fence. On the gate is the name “Jefferson
Davis,” and on the marble headstone is engraved:

JOSEPH,
Soil of Our Beloved President

JEFFKR90N DAVIS.

F.reeted by the Little (ilrls and Boys of the Southern Capital.

It will be recalled by the older people that the lad
lost bis life by falling from a window of the Confed-
erate ” White House,” during the war.

The camp that will send 100 subscriptions can have
appropriated one column in its interest this year.

Col. Wells H. Blodoett, of St. Louis, who saw
much of Mr. Lincoln before he became President, tells
this funny story: Mr. Lincoln was sitting in the-
office of his friends, Judd & Blodgett, in which young
Blodgett was reading law. When Mr. Judd asked him
if he was going to the National Convention, he said :
“Well, Judd, I do not know; I am almost too much
of a candidate to go, and hardly candidate enough to
stay away.” It was the convention thatmominated him.

Col. Wm. Henry Stewart, of Norfolk, who did
much gallant service in the intersectional war, pub-
lishes an account of the battles and engagements
where he took part. The narrative, while generally
interesting, will amaze those who have not had ex-
perience at man’s capacity for endurance. His great
grandfather, Charles Stewart, was an officer from Vir-
ginia in the Colonial army of the American Reso-
lution. His story of the battle of “the Crater” will
have attention in our next issue.

A MOVEMENT has been inaugurated in Washington
( ‘ity for holding a series of entertainments in aid of a
fund for the establishment of a Confederate Veterans’
Home in Washington. Col. M. S. Thompson, of the
Confederate Veterans’ Association, called to order the
assembly, consisting mostly of ladies, and explained
the object of the meeting. It was in furtherance, he
sa,id, of a plan proposed some time ago to erect a home
for Confederate soldiers and their widows in Wash-
ington.

Rout. I.. Travlor, Esq., of Richmond, has been so
thoughtful in behalf of the Confederate Veteran
that acknowlegment must he given. Mr. Travlor is
a native Virginian, but resided in Tennessee by the
great river long enough to capture one of our loveliest
women. He is diligent, as he has opportunity, in col-
lecting rare volumes and curios. He has perhaps the
finest collection of autograph letters of eminent men
of all nations and generations to be found in the
South. He had the special good fortune to get an
original daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe, which is
believed to be his last portrait, and the only one of
him known to be in existence which has never been
reproduced. It was taken at the gallery of Pratt, of
Richmond (builder of the unique structure known as
Pratt’s Castle), and was presented by Poe but a short
time before his death to Mrs. Sarah Elmira (Royster)
Shelton, whom he had engaged to marry. The pur-
pose of a trip to the North, undertaken by him about
that time, was to complete arrangements for his wed-
ding to that lady. On his way to New York he was
seized at Baltimore by the illness which resulted
fatally Oct. 7, 1849. The portrait was treasured jealously
by Mrs. Shelton until a few years since, when it came
into the possession of Mr. Traylor. He has refused
$1,000 for it. It is not for sale.

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CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

THE OLD VIRGINIA TOWN, LEXINGTON.

Willi-.}- I.l.i AND STONEWALL JACESON ARE BURIED-

RBMXNIBCENCBa “F STONEWALL JACXSON,

BY DR. J. WM. JONES.

Lexington, Va., is the mosl interesting town of it-
size in the South. The Washington-Lee University
founded by the “father of his country ” and presided
over by Robert K. Lee, when he surrendered life’s
duties, i- tin- most prominent and conspicuous institu-
tion of the place. It ha- a beautiful chapel, across the
campus from the University main building, in whirl,
the body of Gen. Lee rest-, and over which is that life-
like work of Edward V. Valentine, representing, in
white marble, the soldier and Christian as if asleep on
hi- couch. The old’mansion in which Gen. Lee re-
sided is near by, and it is the residence of Gen. Curtis
Lee, his son, and successor as President of the Univer-
sity. It is the family residence as well, the daughters
residing there

The Virginia Military Institute grounds adjoin
those of the Washington-Lee University, and are en-
tered through its campus. Thisold place, with its an-
cient cannon ornamenting the grounds, was especially
interesting on the occasion of the visit which induces
thi< article, for it was in honor of its President, who
went tn the front with its corps of cadets in L861, and
never returned until he had “crossed over the river,”
honored second to no soldier hero of any country or
time.

This writing is from memory of an only visit made
there .Inly 21, 1891, an account of which was written
at the time hut never published, and the copy lost.

The l.ee- wire all at home and cordially interested
in honoring the memory of (Jen. Thos. .1. Jackson. It
was the greatest day in the history of old Lexington,
for the attendance was much larger than that when
the formal presentation of the recumbent figure of
(ion, Lee occurred

A superb colossal bronze statue of Stonewall .lack-
son had been provided, and his body had been re-
moved from the original family lot to the central cir-
cle in the old cemetery of the town, and the bronze
figure <it is also by Mr. Valentine) was in position.

The principal ceremonies were had under the broad
shades of the University campus, some half a mile
away, at the conclusion of which the great procession,
numbering perhaps i>(mkiii, passed through the main
streets and near the old church, where Jackson taught
his Negro Sunday-school. The military — infantry,
cavalry and artillery — passed by the cemetery and
formed on an adjacent slope in rear.

By the statue, still under a white mantle, there was
a platform -covered in while bunting, upon which
Mrs. Jackson ascended, taking her two grand-children
with her. She was dressed in black, her heavy black
veil thrown over her shoulders, and the noble face

giving cheer to the little children who were to pull the
-I’d. Both children were dressed in white, their

white face- and waxen curls producing the strongest

contrast with tie- devoted widow of Stonewall Jack-
SOn. The writer occupied a position that could not
have been improved for the sight and. meditating
upon it all. he thought much of whether he would not
give his life, it’ by so doing all the South could have
the comfort of the BCene.

‘ At the signal little Julia Jackson Christian pulled
the cord, and the magnificent figure of the Christian
soldier stood- as if in life, mid the shouts of thousands
w ho followed him to the death, ami other thousands
of women, maidens ami young men who had grown
up in the faith that a greater soldier than Stonewall
.lack-on had never gone to battle. The bright child
who exclaimed “I vinderveiled it.” was frightened by
the noise of cannon, musketry and human voice.- that
followed her act.

The hospitality of the people was remarkable. The
pride and gratitude that their little town among the
hills was the home and the burial place of Lee and
Jackson was enough to bestir the entire people to the
utmost to make every visitor a guest. The writer was
fortunately assigned to the delightful home of Mr.
McDowell!

Every old soldier present must have wished that he
had served under Stonewall Jackson. The negro men
of the town who had the honor of being taught by
him in his Sunday-school, wherr boys, were proud of
it. One practical old man of the town, in comment-
ing upon him as teacher at the Institute, said he was
never proud of him until the Sunday that he started
for the war. Then, dressed in military uniform, with
spurs and on horseback, he seemed to be exactly in the
proper place.

1)R. .1. WM. JiiNK.s’ RECOLLECTIONS OF STONEWALL JACKSON.

It seems fitting in this connection to give reminis-
cences of Gen. Jackson, by Dr. J. YVm. Jones, who was
first to write and commend the CONFEDERATE Ykt-
BRAN through its prospectus. It was written at the
time referred to above for the Atlanta Journal:

I have to-day, after a lapse of thirty years, a very
vivid recollection of his appearance, and how- he im-
pressed inc.

Dressed in a simple Virginia uniform, apparently
about 37 years old, six feet high, medium size, gray
eves that seemed to look through you, ‘light brown
hair, and a countenance in which deep benevolence
seemed mingled with uncompromising sternness, he
impressed me as having about him nothing at all of
“the pomp and circumstance” of war, but every ele-
ment which enters into the skillful leader, and the in-
domitable, energetic soldier, who was always ready for
the tight.

At First Manassas Jackson won the sobriquet of
“Stonewall.” which has supplanted his proper name,
and will cleave to him forever.

The chivalricand heroic Bee, who had been steadily

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borne bactk all of the morning, and his little handful
■of brave fellows nearly swept away by the blue waves
which threatened to overwhelm everything before
them, rode up to Jackson and exclaimed almost in
despair: “General, they are beating us back.” “No,
sir,” said Jackson, his eves fairly glittering beneath
the rim of his old cadet cap, “they shall not beat us
back. We will give them the bayonet.”

It was then that Bee, about to yield up his noble
life, galloped back to the scattered remnant of his
command and rallied them by exclaiming: “Here
.stands Jackson like a stone wall! Rally behind the
Virginians! Let us determine to die here and we
shall conquer!”

And thus was the name of the heroic Bee linked
forever with that of ” Stonewall ” —

“One of the few immortal names,
That \v<*re not born to die.”

But thr soubriquet given was as inappropriate as
can be imagined. Jackson was more like a cyclone, a

tornado, a hurricane, than a stone wall.

Jackson was accustomed to keep his plans secret
from his stall’ and his higher officers as well as from
the people, ami once said : if I ran deceive our own
people I will be sure to deceive the enemy as to my
plans.”

It was a very common remark in his corps: “If
the Yankees are as ignorant of this move as we are
old Jack has them.”

His QUICK DECISION \M> I uisr ORDERS.

Ja.kson was noted for the quickness with which he
decided what to do, and his short, crisp orders on the
battlefield.

I happened to be sitting on my horse near by, when
Col. A. S. Pendleton, of Jackson’s staff, rode up to
Gen. Early, at Cedar Run. and touching his hat quiet-
lv said: “Gen. Jackson sends compliments to Gen.
Early and says advance on the enemy and you will
be supported by Gen. Winder.”

“(ien. Early’s compliments to (ien. Jackson, and
tell him I will do it.” was the laconic reply, and thus
the battle opened.

On the eve of another battle a staff officer rode up
to Jackson and said: “(ien. Ewell sends his compli-
ments anil says he is read v.” “(ien. Jackson’s com-
pliments to (ien Ewell am! tell him to proceed,” was
the quiet reply. And Boon the noise of the conflict
was beard. At Cold Harbor, on the memorable 27th
of June, 1861, after he had gotten his corps in position,
the great chieftain spent a few moments in earnest
prayer, and then said quietly to one of his staff:
“Tell Gen. Ewell to drive the enemy.” Soon the ter-
rible shock was joined, and he sat quietly on his sor-
rel sucking a lemon and watching through his glasses
the progress of the fight. Presently a staff officer of
Gen. Ewell galloped up and exclaimed : “(ien. Ewell
says, sir, that it is almost impossible for him to ad-
vance further unless the battery (pointing to it) is
silenced.” “Go tell Major Andrews to bring sixteen
pieces of artillery to bear on that battery and silence
it immediately,” was the prompt reply.

Soon the battery wa< silenced. ” Now,” he said,
“tell Gen. Ewell to drive them,” and right nobly did
Ewell and his gallant men obey the order. When on
his great flank movement at Chancellorsville, Gen.
Eitz Lee “sent for him to ascend a hill from which he
could view the enemy’s position, he merely glanced at

it once, when he formed his plan and said quickly to
an aide: “Tell my column to cross that road.”

Just before he was wounded at Chancellorsville he
gave to A. P. Hill the order, “Press them and cut
them off from the United States ford,” and as he was
borne off the field bleeding, mangled and fainting, he
roused himself to give, with something of his old fire,
his last order, “Gen. Pendleton, you must hold your
position.”

ms Ricin. DISCIPLINE.

He was very stern and rigid in his discipline, and
would not tolerate for a moment the slightest devia-
tion from the letter of his orders. He put Gen. Gar-
nett under arrest for ordering a retreat at Kernstown.
although his ammunition was exhausted and his bri-
gade was about to be surrounded, preferred charges
against him, and was prosecuting them with utmost
rigor when the ( bancellorsville campaign opened. He
insisted that Gen. (iarnett should have held his
position with the bayonet; that the enemy would
have retreated if be had not, and that under no cir-
cumstances should Garnett have fallen back without
orders from him (Jackson) After the death of Jack-
son, (ien. Lee. without further trial of the case, re-
stored (ien. (iarnett to the command of his brigade.
and this brave soldier fell in in the foremost of Pick-
ett’s famous charge on the heights of Gettysburg. A.
brigadier once galloped up to Jackson in tlie midst of
battle, and said : “(ien. Jackson, did you order me to
charge that battery?” pointing to it, “Yes, sir. I did.
Have you obeyed the order ; ” ” Why, no, general ; I
thought there must be some mistake. My brigade
would lie annihilated, literally annihilated, sir, it we

should move across that field.” “Gen. .” said

Jackson, bis eyes flashing tire and his voice and man-
ner betraying excitement and even rage, “I always try
to take care of my wounded and bury my dead. Obey
that order, sir, and do it at once.”

I heard one day, on the Valley campaign, a colloquy
between Jackson and a colonel commanding one of
his brigades Jackson said quietly: “1 thought,

Col. , that the orders were tor you to move in the

rear instead of in the front of (ien. Elzcy’s brigade
this morning.” ” Yes, I know that, general ; but my
fellows were ready before Elzey’s, and 1 thought it
would be bad to keep them waiting, and that it really
made no difference anyhow.” ” 1 want you to under-
stand, colonel.” was the almost fierce reply,” that you
must obey my orders first and reason about them
afterwards”. Consider yourself under arrest, sir, and
march to the rear of’your brigade.” Jackson put
(ien. A. P. Hill under “arrest (for a cause that was
manifestly unjust) on the second Manassas campaign,
and be probably put more officers under arrest than
all other of our generals combined. There is no doubt
that Jackson was sometimes, too severe, and that he
was not alwavs just, and yet it would have greatly in-
creased the discipline and efficiency of our service if
others of our Confederate leaders had had more of this
sternness and severity towards delinquents.

HIS ATTENTION TO MINI’TK DETAILS.

He was unceasingly active in giving his personal at-
tention to the minutest details. He hail an interview
with his quartermaster, his commissary, his ordinance
and his medical officer every day, and he was at all
times thoroughly familiar with the condition of these
departments. It is a remarkable fact that, despite his

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rapid marches, he rarely ever destroyed any public
property, or left so much as a wagon wheel to the
enemy.

Not content with simply learning what his maps
could teach him of the country and its topography
he was accustomed to have frequent interviews with
citizens, and to reconnoitre personally the country
through which he expected to move, as well as the
ground on which he expected to fight. Being called
to his quarters one day to give him some information
concerning a region with which I had been familiar
from boyhood, I soon found out that he knew more
about its topography than I did, and I was constrained
to say, “Excuse me, General, I have known this
section all my life, and thought I knew all about it;
but it is evident that you know more about it than I
do, and that I can give you no information at all.”

Often at night, when the army was wrapped in sleep,
he would ride out alone to inspect roads by which, on
the morrow he expected to move, to strike the enemy
in flank or rear.

After all the crowning glory of Jackson, as it was
;il<o of Lee, was his humble, simple-hearted piety, his
tirin trust in Christ as his personal Savior, his godly
walk ami conversation, and his life of active effort for
the good of others. * * * * Suffice it to say, that
as I saw him frequently at preaching or at the prayer-
meeting drinking in the simple truths of the gospel,
beard him lead the devotions of his ragged followers
in pravcrs that I have rarely heard equalled and never
surpassed in fervid appropriateness, knew of his active
efforts for the spiritual good of the soldiers, and con-
versed with him on the subject of personal religion, I
was fully (satisfied that this stem soldier not only de-
serves a’plaee beside Col. Gardner, and Gen. Hancock,
and Capt. Vicars, and other Christian soldiers of the
century, but that the world has never seen an unin-
spired man who deserves higher rank as a true Chris-
tian.

I recall here just two incidents. In the early spring
of 18(13 I was one day walking from our camp to a
meeting of our chaplains’ association, when I heard
the clatter of horses’ hoofs behind me, and, turning
my head, recognized (Jen. Jackson riding along as was
his frequent custom. As he came up we saluted, and
he asked if. 1 was going to the chaplains’ meeting,
and, receiving an affirmative response, he at once dis-
mounted and, throwing his bridle over his arm,
walked with me about two miles.

I shall never forget that walk of the humble preach-
er with the great soldier. Military matters were rare-
lv alluded to, and when 1 would introduce them he
would promptly change the conversation. We talked
of the recently organ i zee I chaplains’ association, and
how to make it more efficient; of the need of more
chaplains and other preache*s in the army, and how-
to secure them ; of the best way of procuring and cir-
culating Hibles and religious literature; of certain
officers and men in whose salvation he felt peculiar in-
terest, and for whom he asked that I would join him
in special prayer and effort ; of the necessity of having
chaplains stick to the post of duty even more faith-
fully than other officers and men, and other kin-
dred topics. And then we got on the subject of per-
sonal piety, the obstacles to its growth in the army
and the best means of overcoming them, and as he
quoted readily, and applied aptly some of the most
precious promises of (Jod’s word, I almost imagined

that I was talking, instead of to this grim son of Mars,,
to one of the grand old preachers of the olden time
who knew nothing about ” new theology,” but was
content to follow implicitly the word of (Jod, and to
sing with the spirit and the understanding.

I may now barely allude to his glorious death, the
logical sequence to his noble life of simple trust and
self-sacrificing toil in the vineyard of the Lord. Cut
down in the execution of what he regarded as the
most successful military movement of his life, shot by
his own men, who would have died rather than will-
ingly harmed a button on his old gray coat, his bril-
liant career ended in the full tide of his ambitions
and hopes of future service for the land and cause he
loved so well,’ he could yet calmly say to weeping
friends who stood around. ” It is ail right. 1 would
not have it otherwise if I could. I had hoped to live
to serve my country, but it will be infinite gain to be
transplanted and live, with Christ,” And in his de-
lirium, after saving with the old fire of battle, ” Pass
the infantry rapidly to the front,” “Tell A. P. Hill to-
prepare for action,” “Tell Major Hawkins to send for-
ward rations for the men,” a peaceful smile passed
over his placid countenance, and his last words were,
” Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade
of the trees.”

And this great man died! Nay, he did not die!
The weary worn marcher went into bivouac — the hero-
of a hundred battles won his last victory, and went
to wear his “crown of rejoicing,” his fadeless laurels
of honor, and heaven and earth alike have echoed the
plaudit:

“Servant of (iod, well done ;

Rest from thy loved employ.
The battle’s fought, the victory’s won.

Enter thy Master’s Joy !”

THE CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY

HOW THE MOVEMENT, STARTED SOUTH, CAUSED THE
NATIONAL EVENT IN HONOR OF SOLDIER DEAD.

Many Southern people do not enjoy, as they de-
serve, the knowledge that our women started the
movement which gives a National holiday of May 30.
It is decoration day for the graves of all Union
soldiers.

The widow of (Jen. John A. Logan told how it
came about in a letter of May 14, 1892, to the New
York Mail and Express. (Jen. Logan was the second
Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic.

HOW T1IK FIRST SUGGESTION WAS MADE.

In the letter referred to Mrs. Logan states : ” During
the winter preceding the order Mr. Charles L. Wilson,
of Chicago, invited (Jen. Logan and myself to ac-
company him and some fronds to visit the battlefields-
and fortifications around Richmond, Petersburg and
their vicinities. The political situation in the House
of Representatives touching reconstruction, impeach-
ment of Mr. Johnson, and such questions, was such
that he would not go away, but I did go with them.
* * * * j n telling Gen. Logan of what we had
seen we mentioned that we had been much impressed

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by seeing -the graves of the Confederate dead all
marked by little white flags, faded wreaths of laurel,
and such tributes to their memory, that had been
placed there by their friends. His tender heart was
deeply touched. He said it was most fitting;, that
the ancients, especially the Greeks, hail honored their
dead, particularly their heroes, by chaplets of laurel
and flowers, and that he intended to issue an order
designating a day for decorating the grave of every
soldier in this land, and if he could he would have it
made a National holiday.

“He issued the order and secured an appropriation
of money to preserve the proceedings of the first Memo-
rial day, which were compiled from the reports that
weir sent to the headquarters of the Grand Army.
But. owing to the voluminous character of these pro-
ceedings, I think hut one volume entitled ” Memorial
Day” was ever published by Congress. These records
have been left to each State to take such action as
they desired in the matter, consequently they are
very incomplete. * * * * The order is so elo-
quent in its appeal for its perpetuity that we are sure
it will be observed as long as tin- is a tree and grateful
nation.

” He appealed to the ex-soldiers and sailors all over
the country to join the organization, lie interested
many prominent officers, who promised active co-
operation in their States, that the veterans might be
banded together in some common interest that would
insure assistance when any of them was in trouble,
and would commemorate the deeds of both the living
and the dead. He was always thinking of something
for the benefit of the men who had served their
country.”

In concluding a long order. Gen. Logan said:

“Let no wanton foot tread rudely on such hallowed
grounds. Let pleasant paths invite the coming and
going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no
vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time
testify to the present or to the coming generations that
we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and
undivided republic. If other eves grow dull, other
hands slack and other hearts cold in the solemn trust,
ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth
of life remain to us.

“Let us, then, at time of appointment, gather round
their sacred remains, and garland the passionless
mounds above them with the choicest flowers of spring
time. * * * * Let us in this solemn presence
renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they.
have left among us, a sacred charge upon a nation’s
gratitude — the soldier’s and sailor’s widow and
orphan.

“It is the pleasure of the Commander-in-Chief to
inaugurate this observance with the hope that it will
be kept up from vear to year while a survivor of the
war remains to honor the memory of his departed
comrades. He earnestly desires the public press to
lend its friendly aid in bringing this order to the
notice of comrades in all parts of the country in time
for simultaneous compliance therewith.”

The foregoing suggests. the fitness of the assertion
that in all the thirty years no Southern man has ever
been irreverent at the graves of Union soldiers. Con-
federates have often helped to strew flowers and oth-
erwise honor the brave men who fell in battle for the
Union.

COysiDERATIOX FOR OLD SOLDIERS

Mrs. M. Louise Myrick, of Americus. Ga., whose
father. Col. Seudder. a Tennessean, lost an eye in
Mexico, and whose uncle. Gen. B. Davidson, was a
well-known Confederate, concludes an article about
soldiers in this way :

To my thinking, nothing is too good for the old sol-
lier. He should be crowned with every available
honor, ami if there are any soft places in the rank- of
business, gratefully bestow them upon him. Whether

they wore the blue or the gray, true SOldierS deserve to

be honored by this generation, who now live in peace
and prosperity.

The common soldier who fought and spilled his
blood in the defense of the South can hope for no
comforting government pension. If in need or dis-
tress, hi- only source of relief in bis declining years
must come from sympathetic and generous voting
Southern men. who arc bound by the ties of blood and
memories ever sacred, to the Old South, which pro-
duced some of the most chivalric spirits that ever left
an impress upon a nation’s history.

To the dead we owe a more sacred duty. Their
memory should ever be kept fresh and green. The
noble women of this broad land will remain faithful
to this (rust. They will teach their children to per-
petuate the beautiful memorial custom. When the
faithful of this age are silent in death, generations yel
unborn will be found ready to don the mantle of pa-
triotism so honorably worn by their mothers and
grandmothers.

Yes. there will ever be patriotic women, who will
wreathe ill garlands nature’s choicest offerings, the
laurel and the rose, with which to cover the mounds
of the heroic dead.

The time-honored custom will live as long as lasts
the country that holds tin 1 sacred dust, and as the
South grows richer, shining shafts of marble will be
raised in every lodge and hamlet, emblazoned with
golden inscriptions for those whose lives of sacrifice
are now a blessed memory.

Ohio’s MoNIWIK.NT AT THE WoRI.n’s FaIU — The Ohio
monument, in honor of Ohio’s heroes in civil and
military life, will be one of the attractions of the
World’s Fair. It will stand in front of the Ohio
building, ami. when dedicated, ex-President Have-
will deliver the oration. It represents Ohio standing
proudly above the sculptured features of six eminent
sons and saying, ” These are my jewels.” The figures
ure of (irant, Garfield, Sherman, Chase, Stanton, Sher-
idan. The sculptor is Levi T. Schofield, an architect
of Cleveland, and the State of Ohio pays him 125,000
for the work. The height of the entire monument ‘is
31 feet, the Ohio figure being 10 feet, and the figures
below each being over 7 feet high. After the Fair the
monument will be placed in the State-house at
Columbus, ( ).

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WHITE HOI’SE OF THE CONFEDERACY.

PROPERTY OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND— HOW TO BE
UTILIZED.

Miss Clara Reese, in the Pittsburg Commercial, gives
the following description of the Jefferson Davis man-
sion at Richmond, as it appeared recently :

Unlike many buildings of historic interest, the
Davis mansion has much to reward the visitor. The
building, a square three-storied structure, with a base-
ment of half story above the ground, is of smooth,
gray stone, and stands out directly on the street, the
pavement in front shaded by three thick trees. A
flight of eight stone steps, these worn in hollows by
the tramp of seventy-five years, lead up to the main
doorway, the small portico of which is guarded by two
slenderpillars. An outer reception hall leads into a
still larger one, this in its turn opening upon a wide
porch, which runs the entire rear of the building, and
from which eight gigantic pillars, with circumference
as great as the large timber wheels used in hauling
from the Pittsburg mills, reach upward to the roof,
which stands outward above the highest story. It is
from this porch the 11-vear-old son of Mr. Davis fell
and broke his neck. The distance is probably twelve
feet to the ground. The porch looks out upon a grass-
grown yard, enclosed by a high brick fence newly
whitewashed. The yard is shaded by a number of
trees — horse chestnut, English walnut, magnolia and
•evergreen.

VIEW OF THE INTERIOR.

From the reception hall, which looks out upon this
porch, three doois open into large apartments, now
used as school-rooms. Doors are brown with age. The
double-doors to the right arc carved in the Grecian pat-
tern. Floors are finished iji hard pine, walls have all
had their special tint of paint, and the ceilings are
all richly ornamented with stucco-work. Pieces of
this ornamentation have fallen off, but in the pristine
beauty the effect must have been elaborate. On state
occasions it is presumable that the doors of these
apartments were thrown open into the reception room,
now used as the principal’s office.

In the first reception hall are two alcoves, each con-
taining a bronze figure, life size. One figure represents
Ceres and one Comus. To the right a winding stair-
way reaches to the upper floors. Two alcoves are in
the wall along the line of stairway, these probably
adorned in the past by statues. Banisters are plain,
but along the Hat ends of the stairs runs a vine of con-
ventionalized flowers and leaves and the base of the
stairway supports a pillar for the illumination, lamp
at first, at present gas. The private office of Mr.
Davis is still further to the right of the stairway. It
is a small apartment. A marble mantle of plain con-
struction has a place, the only mantle at present in
the building. There are probably twenty apartments
beside hallways, large closets, basement and observa-
tory. Rooms are all large and well lighted. Win-
dows, though sinall-paned, arc generous in size, those
in the rear of the first floor extending almost from
•ceiling to floor. There are inside shutters to all the
windows, and from the observatory a fine view may
be had over the city. On the whole, in spite of the
wear and tear of seventy-five years, the mansion is
still in comfortable and habitable condition, and the
ladies of Richmond arc deserving of the highest praise

for their laudable intention to keep intact the historic
landmark, one certainly dear to every loyal Southern
heart.

A DREAM IN MARBLE.

Miss Reese gives the following description of two
old mantels that have been secured by a gentleman in
the vicinity of the mansion:

The mantels are of good, though not exaggerated
height, the shelves are wide and perfectly plain, and
the ornamental work down each side of the fire-place
rests on a plain, substantial base. The whole beauty
lies in the perpendicular supports from shelf to base,
and the horizontal panels directly over the fire-place.
The horizontal panels are in has relief, and as deli-
cately chiseled as a cameo, while the side-pieces are
carved to stand out almost to the depth of tree pieces
of statuarv. On one mantel the side pieces represent
Cupid and Psyche. The figures are in kneeling post-
ures upon an ornamental piece of carving resembling
a leaf-cushioned trunk of a tree, and occupy the full
space between this and. the mantel-shelf. Cupid on
the right-hand panel has just shot an arrow from his
bow, and is intently watching its destination. His
long curls hang gracefully, the poise of the kneeling
figure is admirable, while the dimples of hand and
feet and the curves of the figure are artistic and ex-
quisite. On the other upright panel Psyche has
caught the arrow upon her knee, and grasps it won-
deringly. The lines of drapery, the delicately chiseled
features, the curves of throat and shoulders, the
rounded arms, the posture, are indicative of the skill
which guided the hand of the sculptor.

The horizontal panel in its delicate, pure, cameo-
like outlines, represents the familiar picture of ” Au-
rora,” or the “Coming of the Morning.” Clouds form
the misty base. A beautiful maiden is in advance of
the chariot and its attendants, a dancing circle of
cloud nymphs, and scatters blossoms above the sleep-
ing earth. The chariot is drawn by three magnificent
horses, and above flies the winged herald of the com-
ing.

The second mantel is also a dream in marble. On
one of its upright sections stands out almost in free
relief the exquisitely-chiseled figure of Hebe, the cup-
bearer, and on the other that of Niobe, the figures
standing. Hebe carries low in one hand a pitcher,
and in the other, partly outstretched, the cup. The
poise of the head, the grace and dignity of the figure,
and the outline of the body, as expressed through the
delicacy of the drapery, gives to the whole an exqui-
site beauty. The figure of Niobe is likewise a dainty
and exquisite piece of chiselled work. Draperies are
scanty, and the dimpled curves of the graceful figure
are wondrously chaste and beautiful.

The horizontal panel represents Apollo in his char-
iot in the heavens. Three horses draw the car of the
god, their proportions suggestive of strength, while
the god, with arms outstretched, grasping the reins,
which are at t heir highest tension, stands out in relief,
strong, and magnificent. The horizontal panels could
be easily removed from their places and form has re-
lief slabs, fit to grace the finest art museum in the
land.

CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL SOCIETY.

The ladies have banded themselves together under
the name of the Confederate Memorial Literary
Society, with Mrs. J. Taylor Ellyson, wife of Mayor

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Ellyson, chairman of the permanent Museum Com-
mittee. They were obliged to insert the word •■liter-
ary” in the name of the organization for charter pur-
poses. The women have a strong organization in
Richmond, known as the Hollywood Memorial Asso-
ciation, whose object is to keep in constant trim the
cemeteries of the Confederate dead. It is this body
that made application for the mansion and expected
simply to make the new work a department of Holly-
wood.’ Technicalities of law, however, required an-
other name, though practically the two bodies are the
same. The strength and devotion of the Hollywood
Association, whose record for thorough work lias long
since been made, is assurance of the Zealand devotion
t<> come in the prosecution of the new work.

“The object of the ladies,” Said Mrs. Kllyson, ” is
to restore the mansion as far as practicable to the exact
condition in which it was left by President Davis,
ami to establish a permanent museum of Confederate
relics. We have appealed to our sisters throughout
the South, and expect that branch organizations will
lie formed among them, whose object will be to secure
valuable Confederate mementos A regent will be
established in each State, and our plans are to give to
each Southern State a room of its own, where it may
deposit and arrange its own mementos. Young peo-
ple’s auxiliaries are also to he formed to assist in the
work. We have no fund yet, but expect to have one
soon by gifts, and through the giving of entertain-
ments. We have already held entertainments ‘with
success. It is not our intention to buy relics. We
think that the sentiment of the South will be all-suffi-
cient to turn into the safe-keeping of a chartered insti-
tution the sacred mementos of the dead. We have
already the promise of several pieces of furniture that
formerly-graced- the Confederate White -House,- and a
number of letters notifying of keepsakes that will
gladly be turned over — clothes, arms, money, and other
belongings — as soon as we are ready for them. The
glory, the hardships, and the heroism of the war are a
noble heritage for our children. To keep green such
memories, and to commemorate such virtues it is our
purpose to gather together and preserve in the Execu-
tive Mansion of the Confederacy the sacred relics ot
those glorious days.”

BLUE AND GRAY AT CHICAGO.

Publication has been made that there will be a
grand reunion of the old soldiers of the country at
Chicago next summer. The notice is as follows:

The World’s Fair managers and the leading 0. A.R.
men of Chicago, and the best business men of that
city heartily approve of the reunion, and will assist in
the matter. A committee, consisting of the leading
ex-soldiers of the G. A. R. were selected to have charge
of the work at Chicago, ‘and a like committee will as-
sist them, composed of the ex-Confederate soldiers
living in Chicago. They are all well-known business
men. The reunion is now an assured success, and the
old veterans of the North and South, who faced each
other on so many battle-fields, will meet in peaceful
reunion, to talk over their old battles and attend the
World’s Fair together.

On May 30, 1893, there will be a grand union mem-
orial service held, and the blue and gray will decorate
with (lowers the graves’ of the 6,000 Confederate sol-
diers buried at Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, and the
graves of the Union soldiers buried there.

There will be a National Committee who will assist
the committee at Chicago in this reunion. Tents will
be furnished by the Covernment to camp in, and the
iild boys who wore the blue and the gray can go into
camp by States, and have one good time together
before they pitch their tents beyond the silent river.
There are hundreds all over the land who wore the
blue and the gray, the best men. both North and
South, who arc offering their services to make this the
greatest reunion ever held on American soil »

A mass meeting of the survivors will be held during
the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic
at Detroit, Mich., to boom this reunion. All true sol-
diers who wore the blue or the gray are invited to this
meeting, and to the grand reunion at Chicago in 1893.

THE “ORPHAN BRIGADE.”

The First Brigade of Kentucky Infantry. Confed-
erate Army, now more popularly known as the “Or-
phan Brigade,” was early in the field, held steadfastly
to its convictions to the last, and maintained them
against all comers in bloody battle, and was about the
last ( ‘on federate troops east of the M tssissippi, if not the
very last, to fight the foe. The remnant that was left
was closed with its adversary near Camden, S. C, when
the news of Lee’s surrender reached the field and the
combattants drew off to await reliable intelligence.

When it was announced that Johnston had capitu-
lated to Sherman, the Kentuckians maTched back to
Columbia, thence to Washington, Ga., where they sur-
rendered their arms May 6, 1865. While many of
them sought their homes individually; the brigade
can hardly be said to have disbanded until it reached
Kentucky, and every man set out for his own home.
There were comparatively few of them left, but they
were nearly all young men — quite a number not yet
old enough to vote; and now, more than twenty-
seven years from the time they came back to peaceful
avocations, the majority of them still living, and
many of them look as though they could go through
another four years’ campaign and come home, if alive,
to take an active part again in the work-a-day world.

COXFEDERATE VETERAN CAMP OF NEW YORK.

Maj. Edward Owen, Secretary of the Executive
Committee of this Camp, sends out a circular as fol-
lows. It is to comrades ;

A new constitution, embracing a history of the
Camp from its origin to date, names of all officers,
committees, and members of the veteran and depart-
ment ” Sons of Confederate Veterans” organizations, is
about to be printed.

This book will be gotten up in handsome style, and
will have a wide circulation.

It has been reported that many contemplate joining
the Camp and the ” Sons,” but delay action. Members
are therefore requested to get in all applications of
eligible parties at he earliest possible date, in order
that the names may be included in the lists of mem-
bers to be published.

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THE HERMITAGE.

—■»-

The Ladies’ II er- g
raitage ‘ Association !
was organized in 188$,
and tin- State Legis-
ature conveyed the I
house a n <1 twenty-
five acres of ground, s
that they might pre-
serve the property as
a perpetual memorial
to Genera] Andrew
Jackson. In the res-
idence are the por-
trait- and household
furniture belonging
to Genera] Jackson,
numbering four hun- (

dred pieces. These th

have been in the Hermitage nearly three-quarters of a
century, and they speak of his life, and remind an

>■…, ^tmtrrf’Vm

GENERAL AND MRS. JACK

E HOME OF “OLD HICKORY ”

observer of the times and character of the great hero.

The Ladies’ Hermitage Association has worked inde-
fatigably to purchase these works, which are the prop-
erty of ( !ol. A ndrew Jackson, and are now makings last
final struggle to raise the purchase money, viz, 817,500.
They are making constant appeals to the puhlic for
this sum. Should they fail, the ” Hermitage,” the
home of the old hero of New Orleans, will be disman-
tled. “The walls will testify, and empty rooms will
speak, of the lack of appreciation of his countrymen.
These historic works will be scattered throughout the
country, their owners heing compelled by financial
necessity to part with them for a monied value, and
the State of Tennessee and the ‘Hermitage’ itself
will lose these beautiful mementos of the past.”

The Association, in redeeming its trust to the State,
have put a new roof upon the building, painted the
exterior, refenced the twenty-five acres, and restored
the old historic cabin from almost utter decay. Other
minor improvements have exhausted their treasury
as fast as the moneys were accumulated, but they do
not despair of finally raising this money. They hold
an option expiring July 1st, Of this year.

Mrs. Judge Nathaniel Baxter President, and Mrs.
Duncan K. Dorris, the Secretary, have worked with
unremitting /.eal for this cause.

[NSCRIPTIONS AT THE TOMB.

On the shaft:

GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON.
Horn March 10th, 17H7. Died June Kth, 1845.

On a slab, placed there evidently by the General :

“Here lie the remains of Mk-s. RACHEL Jackson, wife of President
Jackson, who died the 22d of December, W2S, aged HI years. Her face
was fair, her person pleasing, her temper amiable, her heart kind;
she delighted In relieving the wants of her fellow creatures, and cul-
tivated that divine pleasure by tin- most liberal and unpretending
met hods ; to the poor she was a benefactor ; to the rich an example ;
to the wretched a comforter; t” “»e prosoerous an ornament; her
piety went baud In hand with her benevolence, and she thanked her
Creator for being permitted to do good. A being so gentle and so vir-
tuous slander might wound hut could not dishonor; even death,
when he bore her from the arms of her husband, could but transport
her to the bosom of her (iod.”

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

25

ABOUT CONFEDERATE HOMES.

[It is intended to revise and re-publish the account of Confederate
Homes iu next issue, and to make the best showing possible for this
cause. ]

Mrs. 0. M. Spofford, in sending a $100 check, for
the Confederate Home near Nashville, says : ” I send
it with the hearty wish that each dollar may hring
three-fold aid to our poor Confederates, who have
nothing to look to save the generous assistance of
their neighbors. She gave $100 to the Davis Monument.
Lee Camp Soldiers’ Home, spacious and beautiful
grounds ami buildings, situated just west of the city
adjoining Reservoir Park, on the fashionable driveway.
provided by private munificence at an aggregate out-
lay approximating $200,000, and maintained by private
subscriptions, supplemented by annual appropriations
from the city and State, earing for about lot’ inmates,
The chapel on these grounds contains numerous Con-,
federate memorial stained glass windows,

The ex-Confederates of Missouri and their friends
have ever been zealous in their efforts for their dis-
abled comrades and their honored dead. They have
been very zealous during the past two years in the
procurement of a Home for disabled soldiers, The
record they have made deserves publicity, [n. two
years they have raise. 1 iu the aggregate tor the pur-
pose $74,889.92. The Daughters of the Confederacy
and other lady’s societies throughout the State raised
$18,025. The’ Daughters of the Confederacy of the
State of Missouri have assumed the task of erecting
the main building on this Confederate Home, which
is to cost $22,000, The building is now up and under
roof, and will lie finished by May next. It has a
frontage of ‘.Id feet, it is lid feet deep, and is ar-
ranged for 100 to 125 inmates. The buildings already
in use for the home have 82 men. women and children,
who are being cared for by the Associat ion. The < ‘on-
federate Home of Missouri is now one of the es-
tablished institutions of the State, and one which is
paid for entirely by private contributions of her citi-
zens, and of which she may lie proud. If there is an
ex-Confederate soldier or any member of his family in
a poor-house in the State of Missouri it is because the
fact of such service is not known. The manner of
procuring this large fund is worthy of imitation. The
State was laid off into fourteen districts and in every
district creditable zeal was displayed. The smallest
sum raised in anyone was $636, and the largest $4,067.
The head officers of the ex-Confederate Association
of Missouri deserve great credit for their zeal in he-
half of the Home and their maintenance of the or-
ganization. Its officers are President, .lames Banner-
man, St. Louis; Vice President. Harvey W. Salmon,
Clinton: Superintendent, M. I.. Belt, Higginsville;
Surgeon. .1. .1. Fulkerson, M. D, Higginsville; Treas-
urer, H. A. Ricketts, Mexico ; Secretary, W. P. Barlow,
3812 Cook avenue, St. Louis. Executive Committee :
K. F. Peddicord, Hannibal; F. L Pitts, Paris; A. C.
Cook, Plattshurg; Elijah Crates, St. Joseph; John B.
Stone, Kansas City; F, P. Bronaugh, Boonville; W.
H Kennan, Mexico; Henry Guibor, St. Louis; Frank
Gaiennie, St. Louis; Geo. T. MeNamee, St. Louis; E.
G. Williams, Waynesville ; W. C. Bronaugh, Lewis
Station ; I). C. Kennedy, Springfield; G. H. P. Catron,
Springfield.

St. Lot is. Dec. 31, 1892,
In a letter sent with the above date W. P. Barlow,.
Secretary of the State Association, says: “You will see
from this the reason why we can not aid the V. C. V.’s
in their splendid work. ‘ We could not ask our Legis-
lature to build this Home, as the States farther South
can and have done * * * All our energy must
he entered on caring for the living. As many of our
Southern friends do not understand this, it will be a
great favor if you will explain it in your article.”

Jefferson Davis Mansion, the ” White House of the’

Confederacy.” Clay Street, corner of Twelfth, is the gift
of the city of Richmond to the Hollywood Memorial
Association, to be perpetually maintained as a Con-
federate Museum. It is worth about $30,000.

Residence of Gen. R. E. Lee. 7<>7 East Franklin St..
benefaction of the Stewarts, of Brook Hill, providing
a permanent home for the Virginia Historical Society..’
Worth about $20,000.

Memorial stained glass windows to Gen. H. E. Lee
in St. Paul’s Church. Gift of the Stewart family, cost-
ing several thousand dollars.

THE SOUTH AS OTHERS SEE IT.

Introductory to a comparison in church matters,
the New Vork Ecu, q, list, in its first 1893 issue, says:

” It is now more than twenty-seven years since the-
dose of our civil war (Gen. Lee surrendered on the
‘.’tl’i of April, 1865), but we remember it as if it were
yesterday. Of course it tilled the North with rejoic-
ing, but the triumph was saddened by thoughts of the
thousands who had gone out from Northern homes,
never to return; and when we had recovered from the
first excitement and began to think soberly of what
had been lost and gained, we soon came to the con-
clusion that the result- wen not nil m, on t side. For the
time the strength of the South seemed to have been
annihilated; and the Southern soldier, altera display
of courage as magnificent as any in history, lav ap-
parently dead upon the field. ‘ But some said, es-
pecially those who met him on the field and knew
what tremendous vitality he had, he is not dead,
though he is for the time in a state of collapse, but
hy-and-hy the blood will come back into his veins,
and he will stand again on his feet and show signs of
his old power. Others went farther still, and predict-
ed for the South not only a resurrection to life, hut to
a’ more vigorous life than she ever had before. They
said, ‘ We of the North claimed the victory, but the
result will be a greater gain to the South than even to
us, for war has done what peace could never do, it has
destroyed slavery, the terrible incubus which has hung
upon the South for generations, and which could only
be shaken off by some tremendous convulsion, and
now, after a time, we shall see the South start forward
on a career of progress such as she never had before,’
a prophecy which a quarter of a century has gloriously
fulfilled. The South has gained more than the
North, so that, strange as it may seem, the issue of
the war has been a victory for both sides, as it has
finally brought them together into a more perfect and
more glorious union.”

t6

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

THE DAVIS MONUMENT FUND.

..1ST OF THOSE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED.

The list “f contributors is arranged under two heads,
First, those whose names are given, and second, the
sums collected where the names of donors are not
known. It ie earnestly requested that for next issue
name8.be supplied for the other lists, so the record of
contributors may be as complete as possible. The
names from Birmingham and other Alabama points
are to appear in the next issue.

This important list i^ incomplete. It will be re-
i and republished. Kadi name represents 81.

ALABAMA.

P.iitMiN’.HAM — .1 I. Buford.

(iKKENVIU.E — I. aura E Abrams, E R Adams, J T
Beeland, .1 G Daniel & Co, I) G Dunklin, YV J Dunk-
lin. Dunn & Ezekiel, C B Herbert, L M Lane, Robt
A Lee, .1 A Me(iehce. (.’has Newman, Chas Newman,
T \V Peagler, Wm Pierce, Mrs \V Fierce, Mrs It Y Por-
ter, J I! Porterfield, J B Powell,.! C Richardson, F C
Smith, I C Steiner, J M Steiner, S J Steiner. A Stein-
hart, A G Stewart. T .1 Thomas, Rev G It Upton, J H
Wilson, Mrs E S V Wilson.

Gadsden — J Aiken, \V (I Brockway and A L Glenn,
85; Wm Chandler, A -I Collingsworth, L W Dean, A
B Dunny, \V A Dungan, W H Denson,85; HG Earnest,
Frank & Haysdon, M L Hicks, L E Humphreys, Meek
Jc Johnson, $5; .1 H Standifer, Abe Thompson, J E
Whaley, K A Mitchell, R Goldman and L Smith,
•f Queen City Bank #5.

IIintsv n.i.K — Miss Jeanie Sheffey.

Moiiii.k — J R Burgett, \V W Dugger, Van Dorn sta-
tion; \V<; Duggar, Gallion station; Miss M B Kirk-
liride, T T Roche, Louise B Sprague, .1 It Tompkins,
.1 I. Tucker, Price Williams, .Jr.

Piiatt Mines— I) M B Hasslet, J T Massingen, T E
Mitchell, J ii Moore, W N Polk, J W Randall, L M
Bccse, .1 A Rhodes, P .1 Rogers, 82; W L Rogers, C A
Simmons, E A Smith, Walton & Peteel, E E Wiggins.

Union Spkings — 1) S Bethunc, Virginia A Black-
inon, N M Blidsoe, II G Bryan, Annie E Buford, J R
Buford, II P Coleman, Mrs S •) Foster, C C Frazer, Mrs
N II Frazer, W H Fuller, E H Goodwin, R H Hajas,
Annie I. Hobdv, Jennie McKay Hobdv, .1 B Hobdy,
Marie Hobdv, Marv Hobdy, R L Hobdv, R L Hobdy,
Jr., Chas L .links, A Miles’, Mrs F M Moseley, Mrs A
I! I’hillips, Mrs .1 E Pickett, W W Rainer, T P Han-
dle. E T Handle, J L Roberts.

ARKANSAS.

AriirsTA — James Eblin.

Batesvim.e — Nathan Adler, Simon Adlcr, James
A Luster, John F Alien, W E Bevens. J \VCase,Jas A
Carter, J P Collin, R M Desha, W J Erwin, I) C
Ewing, John W Fen-ill. J C Fitzhugb, E L Givens, S
A Hail, H M Hodge, T J Home, W B Lawrence, T M
Mack, Robt Neill, T J Owens, I N Reed, James Ruth-
erford, M A Wycough, MAR Wycough.

Hot Springs — Dr Holliday, ?•”).

Moohefield — Jesse A Moore, J E Ross.

GEORGIA.

Blackshear — A P Brantley, Nettie Brantley, Henry
J Smith, Jennie Smith.

Chu KAMAtcA — S F Parrott.
Macon — Chas Herbst.

ILLINOIS.
Chicago — Col G Forrester, Gen W A C Ryan. Mrs
Ryan, Col. J G Ryan, Mrs E A Shannon.
Lilly — E W Bacon. Miss Lilly Bacon.
Mackinaw— Mrs L E Brock.

INDIANA.
Evansvii.i.e — A J Thomas, So.
Indianapolis — G F Miller, 85.

KENTUCKY.
Fairview — Bethel Sunday School, $8.50; R W Dow-
ner, 83; P E Downer, $2.50; S B Jesup, B D Lackey,
H E Morton, J L Moselv, $1.50; R L Moselv, 81.50;
W R Vaughn.

Pembroke— R T Chilton, Mrs. R T Chilton.

Hopkinsville — W B Dicken.

Frankfort — W T Havens.

Georgetown — A H Sinclair, $5.

Henderson — R H Cunningham, W M Hanna, M
M Kimmel, J W Lockett, Sights & Johnston, Mont-
gomery Merritt, D J B Reeve, J J Reeve, P K Snead,
F Walker.

RissELLVii.LE— T J Bailey, $6.05; Dr R N Beau-
champ, $1 ; J B Briggs, $5; George R Beall, $1 ; Wil-
son Beard, 81 ; R B Chastain, $1; Joseph Cumbett,
$1 ; John W Caldwell, 5 ; Dr B F Kidd, 81 ; W B
McCarty, 81; James M McCutchen, 81; John G.
Orndorff, 81 ; William Smith, 81 ; C. W. Swanson, 81 ;
M B Stovall, $1.

LOUISIANA.

New Orleans, La., Nov. 23, 1892.

W. R. Lyman, A. A. General, New Orleans:

Comrade — Complying with general orders No. 9, IT.
C. V., dated Oct. 8, 1892, 1 beg to submit the following
detailed report of all collections for account of the
Jefferson Davis Monument Fund turned over to me as
Treasurer for Louisiana for that fund, and the dispo-
sition I have made of the same, from June 22, 1891,
to Nov. 23, 1892′:

1891.

June 22, John T. Block, La. Div. A. N. V 8 102 65

June 22, Wm. McLaughlin, Vet. C. S. C… 54 00

Julv 1, J. Y. Gilmore, La. Div. A. N. V 55 00

July 1, J. B. Levert, Sugar and Rice Ex 100 50

July 1, J. B. Levert, Vet. C. S. C 40 50

July 1, Jos. Demoruelle, C. H. St. Paul 22 00

July 8, Lawson L. Davis, C. H. St. Paul 43 00

July 9, Col. Wm. P. Johnston, Soldiers and

Sons of Soldiers of Avery’s Salt Mines 11 25

July 10, Gen. Oeo. O. Watts, Jefferson Davis

Camp 25 00

July 10, Gen. Geo. 0. Watts, Citizens and

Soldiers of Blue and Gray 64 00

July 16, Pilcher Bros, and W. H. Pilcher,

proceeds of Pilcher, concert, July 10 <>6 00

Julv 17, Chas. D. Dclerev, Armv of Tenn. La.

Div. fund created ” 102 50

July 22, A. W. Hyatt, A. of T. La. Div 75 00

Julv 22, J. B. Levert, Vet. C. S. C 60 00

July 22, J. B. Levert, Sugar and Rice Ex 8 50

July 22, A. N. Block, La. Div. A. N. Va 9 50

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

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July 22, Lawson L. Davis, C. H. St. P 10 00

July 22, Jos. Demoruelle, C. H. St. R 36 50

July 22, B. F. Eschelman, C. Wa. Art 150 10

July 22, Alden McClellan, La. Div. Armv of

Tenn 72 00

Aug. 17, Octave Fontenot, La. Div. Army of

Tenn. at Opelousas 40 00

Sept. 10, Paul Conrad, C. H. St. Paul 221 50

Oct. 27, Oliver Normand, R. L. Gibson Camp

and Ladies of Evergreen 75 IS

1892.
Jan. 8, Judge F. A. Monroe, members liar,

Bench and Officers C. D. Courts 310 <k»

Jan. 15, R. McMillan, C. Wash. Art 17 50

Feb. 10, John T. Block, Armv of N. Va. La.

Div., collected by J. M. Wilson 22 00

April 13, J. Lyons, citizens of New Orleans… 33 00
Oct. 11, Nicholson & Co., sundry collections

of N. 0. Picayune 78 50

Oct. 11, Nicholson & Co., subscription of the

N. O. Picayune ‘ 100 00

Nov. 18, J. W. Fairfax, sundry collections of

Daily City Item ‘ 50 50

Less disbursements to date as per vouchers

on Hie 17 75

»2,0i is 7m
Oct. 10, remitted to J. S. Ellett,

treasurer, Richmond, Va 82,018 20

Nov. 22, remitted to J. S. Ellett,

treasurer, Richmond, Ya 50 50—12,068 70

Respectfully submitted,

A. W HYATT,

Treasurer for Louisiana.

RECAPITULATION of RECEIPTS.

Camp Henry, St. Paul S 333 00

Members 01 the bar. bench, and officers of

the Civil District Courts 310 <*>

Armv of Tennessee, La. Division 289 50

(amp Washington Artillery.. 197 60

Army of Northern Virginia, La. Div 189 I” 1

New Orleans Picayune 17 s 50

Veterans C. S. Cavalry 154 50

Sugar and Rice Exchange.. bin 1 m i

R, L.Gibson (‘. and ladies. Evergreen, La…. 7″> 45

Pilcher concert 66 00

Citizens of Alexandria, L.a 64 00

Daily City Item ,… 50 50

Citi/ens of New Orleans, by J. Lyons 33 00

.let!’ Davis Camp, Alexandria, La 25 00

Avery Salt Mines 11 25

Total collections 82,086 45

M wskield— J W Adams, C W Blair, $5; T J Book-
er, F M Brownfield, C T Raunnman, Henry Burns,
John S Bailey, James Brown, Dr B D Cooper, Dr \V
X Cunningham, Cash, .las Dilzell, DeSoto Democrat,
&5; .1 B Dillon, J Douglas, W J Elaiu C W Elam, W
F Fraser, S B Foster, E N Foster, Dr J YV Fair, Wm
Goss, 85; H D Gibbons, John Glossill, S A Guy, R T
Gibbs,L II Hanson, W P Hall, W T Haden, J E Hewett,
John Huson, W B Hewitt, A M Hewitt, B F Jenkins,
85; \V T Jackson, J B Lee, J T MeClanahan, W H
Mason, W E May, R R Murphy, W L Minter, E A
Nabors, J M Nabors. E R Nabors, W T Pegins, E B
Pickels, J W Parsons, A V Roach, C W Page, B B
Powell, G Rives, Sallie Rascoe, E B Rogers, J H Ras-

coe, Q Roberts, P H Ricks. Dr A V Roberts, $2.50; J
Reilev, Albert Rives, M Ricks, Jas A Rives, J C Rives,
CaptAV P Sample, 85; Dr S J Smart, C J Smoote, W
E Singleton, Dr Stoakes, Dr W Sutherland, O H P Sam-
ple, E \V Sutherland, G H Sutherland, Miss Belle
Tavlor, Sam Williams, W N Williams, B Wilier, B N
Wimple, T J Williams, J B Williams, Chas P Will-
iams, J B Williams. Jr., Dr J F Walker, Y Wemple,
J Wemple, L B Wilcox, J L Williams, G B Will-
iams.

MISSISSIPPI.

Fayette — James Archer, F Braws, Thos Davenport.
W L Faulk, H McGladery, T .1 Key, W W McAa, A
K McNair, W K Penny, W L Stephen, J J Whitney.

Holly Springs — Jas T Fant.

Oi ean Sim;]\..s Mrs A A Staples.

Rockney — Geo Hickler.

NEW JERSEY.

Hoboken — James Coltart, 85; Miss Yirginia M Col-
tart, Harriet Monk, John Stansrield.

TENNESSEE.

Adams Station — M L Johnston.

Alamo— W H Riggs, J B Fleming, C A Goodbar,
J B Humphreys, $2; I’ B Nance, W H Poindexter, T
N Skelton, .1 I’) Wortham.

Bells Station— Wm B Late, Capt. Dawson, 1′. S
MeLemore, J.C W Nunn, J H Thomas, D H Thomas.

Brownsville Judge John Bond.

I \IR11 — W J Lambert.

Castalian Springs Geo Harsh.

Chattanooga— G Andrews, Jr., N G Atkins, Creed
F -Rates, W M Rearden, P F Craig, W R Crabtrec, D
W Clem, H L Goulding,|5; J R Pound, W T Plumb.
G H Snead, J F Shipp, T E YanYalkenburg, L G
Walker.

CLARKSVILLE — Arthur H Munford.
Covington— R B Green fund, 854
Red Lick — Jos Kling.
Crockett — J T Stamps.

Friendship — J M Cochran, B H Harman, D B
Woodson.

Gallatin — Jas W Blackmore, David F Barry, C S

Douglass, W C Dismukes, J R Harrison, Jas J Turner,
Geo E Seay, J A Trousdale, S F Wilson.

Jaikson— E L Rullock, 85.

Johnson’s Grove — J R Worrell.

Hartsviu.e — John D Stalker.

Maury City — Sid Avery, W H Carter, Dr R Moore,
C Peal, Bryant Stallings.

McMinnville — I W Irwin.

Monroe — Dr J M Shelton.

Nashville— Jos W Allen, Mrs J W Alien, R R
Allen, Kate M Allen, Lieut Samuel M Allen, Mrs R R
Allen, Walter Aiken, S T C Doak, A J Grigsby, W C
Kelvington, 810; John J Yertrces, Rev W R L Smith.

Sweetwater — T T Hagar.

YiCKsniKt;.— Through Col. D. A. Campbell, $40′.t.

Waverly — H C Carter.

TEXAS.
Roz — R F Forrester.

Rrownwood— G H Adams, J L Harris, F W Hender-
son, C C Jones, J R Smith, E R Stanley, Ed T Smith.

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CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

(•(.i.k.man— .1 B Coleman, I. E CollinB,C I. Coleman.
Pilham Coleman, W <‘ l>il>rcll. •”>.

Waxahachie— A J Baxter, John P Cooper, E Chas-
ka, Joe P Cooper, G H Cunningham, Miss Meta Coop-
er. $11; J A Harrow. Dr W E Farmer, B F Forrester,
J A Gray, B H Lattimer, M W McMight, L H Peters,
Win Stilus. T F. Thompson, M B Templeton.
VIRGINIA.

Abingdon — Virgie M Gildersleeve I now Mrs. Taylor).

Birmingham — I) Walker.

Brenner lii.ru— W U Holman

Bybee— R S White.

Charlottesville — M Duke George Perkins.

Ci’i pepper— D A Grundy.

Palmyra— M P Pettit, Pembroke Pettit, William
Schlater, J Shepard, G M Winn.

St’OTTSVILLE — 1> W Anderson.

Union Mills — Dr. Dudley R Boston.

Wilmington — John \V Adams.

CONTRIBUTIONS .Nut I N< I.I l>l”.l> ELSEWHERE.
ARKANSAS.

Aiikadelphia— J 11 Abraham, $2.50; C K Boswell,
F.I Carpenter, Adam (lark. . I VV Conger, R T Cook,
$2.50; I) T Dale. $2.50; .1 II Crawford, T M Ewing,
$2.50; Goo Fuller, $5; E L Jones, C V Murray, E H
McDonald, E (‘ McDonald, .1 A Ross, $2.50; re
Scott, $2.50; John Smoker. $2.50; Ed Thomas, A W
Wilson, .1 W Wilson.

Ei. Dorado— W It Applcton.

Hope— Mrs C A Forney

Moiikillton — West 1 1 umphrej’s.

l-i.

FI/HUDA.

-Mrs l.etitia A Nutt, Miss

N:

S.WIItKI.

Nutt. $5.

UEORG1A.

A.mekmus — C B Hudson, $2; W E Murphy.

Atlanta — E L Anthony, Geo ‘J’ Bccland, Charles
Recrmann & Co, $15; .1 L ‘Bishop, F C Bitgood, B M
Blackburn, W II Black, $2; I. R Blcckly, $5: N s
Blum, $2; S D ltauhvill, $2; .1 D Brady, $2; Robert
Bra/.elton, G S Brewster, $2 ; E C Brown, S E Brown,
T.1 Bumcy, David .1 Bush, $2; Milton A Candler, S
N Chapman, .1 II Clifton, Philip Cook, $5; II U Cobb,
A 1′] Con, C.I Daniel, II I! Daman, M K Dennis,.! A
Foote, L B Folsom, W E Fonti, Harry Frank, $2;
Arnold Gedman, M BGihnox, WC Glenn, $5; Peter
(i Grant, II II Green, $2; D R G rover. R G Guinn, -I
I. Harrison, Rev W M Hayes, $2; \V M Hawkes, R II
Hightower, .las K Hincs, $5; .Jerry Ilolmos, Joseph
Jacobs, $2; II Jennings, Mark W Johnson, J C Joiner,
GeoH Jones, $2; -I Win Jones, $50; .las L Key, $2;,
Dr .1 .1 Knott, $2; Lamar & Rankin, 85; S II I. ami rum,
Thos J Leftwick. $5; Walter T Me Arthur, 82; D E
MeCartv, llv MeCaw, 1! I, Mcintosh, $2; C K Mad-
dox, $5′; I H Martin, $2; 11 A Matthews, V A Menard,
C W Morgain, F II Moses, A J Moss, J W Nelms, $2;
R T Nesbitt, $5; W M Newborn, $2; Newton, Baker
& Co, II 1. Nippert, $2; Robert A Nishett, 82; John
Perry, 82; Wm H H Phelps, 82; .1 B Pickett, P
Roman, 85; Lavender Ray ,$2 ; K Reed, H N Ried,
$2; Sidney Root, 810; W E Seabrook, Geo W Scott,
$25; W L Seddon. $5; John W Shackelford, A G
Smart, $2; Burgess Smith, John Clay Smith, 82; Hoke

Smith, $oO; W J Speairs, J C Steerman, 82; R E
Stockton, $2; J r> Stokes, Jos Thompson, $o; B Vig-
noux, 82: C Z Weinmaeter, 82; W A Wright, $2; A
R Wright. 82: Wm A.Wright, $5.

Augusta — Wm II Fleming.

Arlington— H C Hefiield, 82.50.

Burin — James Youilg.

Carrollton — J M Hewitt, 82.

CEDARTOWN — J H Sanders. 82.

Crawford — 1 G Gibson, $2.
Danville— T L Hill, S W Sapp.
Dublin — T L Griner, John M Stubbs.
Georgetown — John C Guilford.
Glennville — J P Collins, $5.
Handy — W L Crouder.

Macon— J O Bel), 82: Mrs A S Cope, 82 ; J W Hin-
ton, 82; -las M Sapp.

MlLLEDGEVlLLE — I C Woodward.
Moher — B F Hoodspette.
Montezuma — K Chambers.
Palatka — Capt S H Gray.
Smithboro — James Thomas Smith.
Sonoraville — P T Reese.
Sylvania — E W Frey.
I’kmpi.k — Rohert II Faber.
Van’s Valley — Alex White.
Walkersville — J W Johnson.

INDIAN TERRITORY.

Choteau— J H Baugh, M G Butler, W A Cantrell,
V Gray, 82; C Hayden, A G McDaniel.
Pryor Creek — Tom A Hancock.
Sherman — M L Elzy.

ILLINOIS.
Chicago — James Fentress.

MISSOURI.

II R F:stes. $2.50.

NEW MEXICO.
Silver City — C A Thompson.

NORTH CAROLINA.
Jackson — J A Burgwyn,GeoPBurgwyn, J B McRoe,

R B Peebles.

TENNESSEE.

Bolivar— P W Austin, W T Anderson, C H Ander-
son, Ophelia P Rills, L M Carrington, W C Dorion, D
E Durrett, R E Diirrett, W W Farley, JL Foot. C S
Ganden, H P Joyner, Kahn Bros., Austin Miller, f E
Moore, A T McNeal, J J Neely, Jr., M N Perry, J C
Savage, II W Tate, Julia M Upshaw, Hugh Williams,
It II Wood. Bv oversight the amounts were not put
to the Bolivar list that exceeded 81. The collection
there is 812:5 not yet forwarded.

Fayetteville— J P Buchanan, J L Buchanan, W
II Calhoun, A J C.uloss, N P Carter, James Cashion,
W R Cashion, Andrew fashion, W H Cashion, A
Cashion, H B Douglass, HC Dwiggins, $5: J C Demer,
A II Edmondson, S W Fleming, Hugh Francis, J C
Goodrich, Theo Harris, Jr. E J Higgins, H K Holman,
T C Little, R K Locker, C A McDaniel, W C Morgan,
J D Parks, W C Parks, J H Pitts, G F Pitts, G F Ren-
egar, B T Boach, Robertson & Goodrich, J W Scott,
J W Smith, H D Smith, A E Smith, J M Stewart, O
C Tallant; E S Terry, Thomas Thomison, W P Tolley,
R D Warren. H C Dwiggins’ address is Petersburg.

Crank Junction -W C Mauldrin.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

29

MONEYS RECEIVED FOR THE MONUMENT — THE NAMES OF
DONORS TO BE SUPPLIED.

Request is made for all lists of names procurable
from the following :

ALABAMA.
Anniston — Through Mrs. R. Gardner, 821.
Birmingham — Through Mrs. R. Gardner, $200.
Eutaw — Sanders’ Camp, $6.

Montgomery— Through Mrs. M. D. Bibb, 8143.85
Tuscumbia— Through Col. A. H. Kellar, $13.15.

ARKANSAS
Little Rock— Hon. John G. Fletcher, $11.25.

FLORIDA.
Jacksonville — Gen. William Baya, $500.

GEORGIA.
Au<;usta— Patrick Walsh and others, 84(H). ill.
Sparta — Through Mrs. Middlebrooks, $41.75.

MISSISSIPPI.
V1CK8BURG — The Vicksburg (‘. V. Camp, through
Col. D. A. Campbell, $409.55.

MISSOURI.
Harrisonnille — Jeff Bur ford, $75.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Charlotte — Through the Observer, $29.50.
Salisbury— Sent to Judge W L Calhoun, $15.25.
Statesville — Through J. P. Caldwell, $4
Waynesville— R..Y. Dylus, 88.25.

TENNESSEE
Lewisburc, — Through Capt. W. (J. Loyd, 8*5.
McKenzie— Through – — , $103.20.’

TEXAS.
Corpus Christi — M C Spann, collection, $177.75.
Fort Worth— Through Mrs. B. B. Pollard, $101.70.
, Mrs S R Coggm, $7.

lected quite a sum from various sources. In Julv last
General Burbridge addressed to the Times-Unum a
communication — which was published —suggesting
that if the contributors to the Relief Fund, of which
he was custodian, offered no objection, this money
might be turned over to the Davis Monument Fundf,
and he sent his check for $25 as a contribution to the
monument movement.” This “relief fund” was
offered to Mrs. Davis, but she declined to accept it.

SOME who have helped the fund.

Louisville — Miss Martha A. Sneed, $10; Miss Jo-
sephine Walker.

New Orleans — Mrs. May Poitevant, $5.

Mansfield — Miss Belle Taylor.

Clarksville — Little Miss Huckner, $5.

J. W. Simmons, of Mexia. Tex., reports the follow-
ing contributions for $1 each: W. H. Williams, C. L.
Watson, J. W. Simmons, H. W. Gray, J. M. Rombo,
Joe Wilder, H. A. Boyd, E. B. McCoy, Bennett Hunt
and Mrs. D. A. Murphy, of Mexia, and Capt. T. B.
Tyers, of Groesbeck, and adds: ”I will send a large
list after the concert.” Preparations are being made
for an entertainment there the 27th inst. for the pro-
motion of the fund.

Jacksonville. Fla., has done a splendid part for the
Davis Monument Fund. Much credit is due that
people for their zeal. It will be recalled that the pop-
ulation of Jacksonville is very largely Northern. The
Times-Union has this to say of the fund raised there,
which has been forwarded to Richmond through the
General Agent: “Gen. William Bayabecame treasurer
of the local fund. The principal solicitor was W. D.
Matthews, who raised, in all, 8205.50. — most of it in
small contributions, ranging from 25 cents to $5. Mr.
Matthews devoted a good deal of his time to the work,
as he could spare it from his regular daily business,
and the people of Jacksonville will be indebted to him
for a large portion of the credit which they receive for
their generosity. Mr. Clarence W. Smith also col-

THE CONQUERED BANNER.

BY FATHER ABRAM .1. RYAN, THE l’OET PRIEST OF THE 80CTB.

Furl that banner, for ’tis weary,
Round Ms Mutt ’tis drooping dreary;

Furl I’, fold It, It Is bent:
For there’s not a man to wave it,
And there’s not a sword to save It,
And there’s not one left to lave It
In the blood which heroes gave It.
And It* foes now scorn and brave It-
Furl It. hide It, let It rest.
Take the banner down — ’tis tattered,
Broken Is Its staff and shattered,
And the valient hosts are scattered

I >\ er wbom It floated high.
< Hi • t is hard for us to fold it,
Hard to think there’s none to hold It,
Hard that those who once unrolled II

Now must unfurl it with a sigh.
Furl that banner, furl It sadly—
Once ten thousand hailed It gladly,
And ten thousa< d wildly, madly.
Swore It should forever wave,
Swore that foeinan’s sword could never
Heart* like theirs entwined dissever.
Till that flag would float forever

o’er their freedom or their grave.
Furl It, for the hands that grasped It,
And the hearts that fondly clasped It,

< ‘old and dead are lying low :
And the banner, it Is trailing.
While around It sounds the walling

of It* people In their woe.
For, though conquered, they adore It,
Love the cold, dead hands that bore It,
Weep for those who fell before it,
Pardon those who trailed and tore It,
And oh: wildly they deplore It,

Now to furl and fold It so.
Furl that banner! true ‘lis gory,
Yet ’tis wreathed around with glory,
And ’twill live In song and story,

Though Its folds are in the dust ;
For its fame oir brightest pages,
Penned by poets and by sages,
Shall go sounding down the ages,

Furl Its folds though now we must,
Furl that banner, softly, slowly,
Treat it gently— It is holy—

For It droops above the dead ;
Touch It not, unfold It never,
Let It droop there, furled forever.
For Its people’s hopes are dead.

3°

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

SOME M7/’/ HAVE WORKED FOR THE CM <iE.

■I. L. Buford, of Birmingham, Ala., who was a mem-
lyton Guards, First Alabama Regiment,
di’l this clever thing in t lection with tin’ monu-
ment Fund: tie subscribed 110 for himself and nine
others. One of the contribution books was sent him
t<> insert their names, which In- forwarded t” Ins sister
Mi– Am. i. E. Buford, of Union Springs, Ala., and
.-!,. -• ■ urv.l twenty names, with ?1 each.

Mrs. R. Y. Porter, of Greenville, Ala., on being ap-
plied to, felt discouraged with the pros] t. hut when

ibscription 1 k was sent her, she procured thirty

nam. -. « ithl

Bright little Miss Louise Beverly Bprague, of Mobile,
sends nine nanus with 81 each.

James Rutherford, of Batesville, Ark., sends in
twenty-six names with 81 each.

James W. Blackmore, of Gallatin, Term., thirteen
names with as many dollars, which he “gathered up”
among his friends.

\ good many halves and quarters come from Pratt
Miles, Ala.

Mi– Jennie Smith, of Blackshear, Ga., sends $4,
with as many names.

In the contribution of Joseph W. Allen, of Nash-
ville, the list includes the name of his son, Lieut.
Samuel M. Allen, C. S. A., killed by bushwhackers
while on furlough at a friend’s house near Memphis,
Tcnn.. March, 1864.

A splendid list will be seen from B. F. Jenkins,
President of the Davis Monument Association, Mans-
field. La., which aggregates §107.

•I. T. Cornell, of Cairo. Tcnn., furnishes twenty-
eight “names with (28 to the fund.

\V. L. Stephens, Fayette, Miss., sends a batch of
name-, nearly all for 81 each. Money forwarded to
1! ichmond.

U. \V. Downer sends 824 from the little old village
of Kaiiview. f\y., where Jefferson Davis was born. If
all the other places would do as well in proportion, the
South would have a Memorial Temple second to none
other on earth.

Col. John (ieorge Ryan sends from Chicago live dol-
lar subscriptions, one of which was in the name of his
brother, Gen. W. A. C. Ryan, of the United States
Army, ” who was one of those taken from the steamer
Virginius, and murdered at Santiago del Cuba, Nov.
1. 1873;” and another for their mother, deceased,
\\ ho was an admirer of Southern chivalry.

James Coltart, of Hohoken, N. J., sends a contribu-
tion of So with three other names of $1 each.

Maj. John J. Reeve, sends from Henderson, Ky., ten

names, including his own, with 810.

Maj. J. B. Briggs, of the John W. Caldwell Camp,
Russellville, Ky., sends 828, including 8.”) for himself,
and a similar amount for the gentleman in whose
honor the camp is named.

Miss Meta Cooper, of Waxahatchie, Texas, sends a
meat little note with ten subscriptions to the Monu-
ment, of $1 each, except that qf ioel Cooper, which is
for $2.

Miss Mollie Cunningham, of Waxahatchie, Texas,
sends three names with SI each.

M. B. Burgwin, Jackson, X. C, sends 14 with the
names of four friends..

Mrs. c. 1′. Morrow, of Chonteau, I. T.. sends ten
names with as many dollars, including V. Gray, who

put- |2 1″ her li-t.

\V. P. Renwick, of Monroe, La., writes of the col-
lection of $64, which lias been forwarded to Rich-
mond. He adds: “There is a prevailing notion that
it is the duty of the Southern people to build a suita-
ble memorial to the Confederacy through its Presi-
dent, Davis, and a well organized movement will surely

Succeed.”

In a remittance of fifteen dollar-. January 2d, from
Otis s. Tarver, of the Joe Finnegan Camp, Sanford,
Florida, I notice contributions from three little dar-
lings, three, four, and six years. The names-are Linda
C. Barnes. E. V. Barnes, and Hannah Myerson.

The following list of ladies comprised the gen, ral
committee of the Chrysanthemum Fair, held at Nash-
ville. Now 11, the proceeds of which, when forwarded
to Richmond, aggregated 81,178, the largest sum vat
procured, except by the Young Men’s” Democratic
Club of Nashville :

General Committee — Mrs. M B. Pilcher, Chairman ;

Mesdames M . C. ( ioodlet t . W.J. W 1, Dr. McMurray,

Dr. Maney, Burroughs, Locke, Hardison, John Johns,
R. R. Pope, J. B. Lindsley, Mary Porter )# Jere Baxter.
N. Baxter. Sr., .las. Frazer, Baskerville, E. W. Car-
mack, Theo. Plumnier, R. C. Morris, John Overton, -I
M. Dickinson. W. M. Hume. Col. Clark. \V. C. Smith,
Nat Gooch, H. M. Doak.D. B. Cooper, John Bransfofd,
W. 11. Jackson. John \V. Thomas, Jr., Tims. Malone,
Shade Murray, Thos. Gibson, Will Eastman, J. M.
Head, E. W. Cole, S. A. Champion, Norman Farrell,
Martha Scruggs, John Hill Eakin, M. A. Spurr, A. J.
Warren, Monroe Cheatham, Thos. Weaver, W. G.
Bush. Sam’1 Keith, Mark CockrilL Stephen Childress,
Robert Riddle, Horton Fall, Edward Buford; Albert
Harris, R. B. Allen, Horace Lurton, John Hickman.
H. W. Grantland, A. S. Marks, R. II. Dudley/ W. I…
Wilson, Thos. W. Wrcnne, AVm. Duncan, A. W» Wills,
V. 0. Wardlaw, Mary Robertson, F. II. East, John C
Brown, Graham Horton, Marsh Polk, Julius Sax,
Richard Douglas, Ernest Billow, Isaac Reese, J. I’.
Drouillard, L. Rosenheim, Mprgan Brown, Fannie
Cheatham, Cnllum, T. D. Crafignead, Andrew Mar-
shall, John M. Bass, Richard ciieatham. .las. F.Cald-
well, Wm Morrow, M. B. Tonev, J. C. Warner, J. X.
Brooks; E. B. Stahlman, W. H. Mitchell, Ann E. Sny-
der, Geo. Guild, Mary Raul McGEfire, Dr. Baird, Frank
“Green, M. J. C. Wrcnne. W. T. Glasgow, D. C. Scales,
Mary Clare, Roger Eastman, Lewis Eastman, Nat Bax-
ter, ‘Robt. Hollins, H. B. Buckner, W. L. Settle,
Eugene Criddle, G, P. Rose, Dupree, Harry McAllister,
John M. Gaut, T-hos. Plater, Van Kirkman, Leslie
Warner, Baxter Smith, Alex. Porter, Thos. Kendriek,
G. H. Baskette, Robt. Morris,- Ida Rutland, Cherrv, J.
B. O’-Bryan, Will Cranbery, J. W. Thomas, W. C.
Collier, Ross Reno, Mary Hart, J. P. W. Brown, Percy
Warner, W. H. Peck, Will Scoggins, Misses Sallie
Brown, White May, Mollie Claiborne, Henri Ewing,
Nannie Seawell.

Elsewhere reference is made to the Young Men’s
Democratic Club of Nashville, whose fund is the
largest that has -ever been secured by any one organ-
ization,and>to other Workers for the cause.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

3i

DEATH OF GEN. STRAHL.

AN ACCOUNT -OF ONE OF THE MOST
EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS CON-
NECTED WITH THE WAR.

This sketch of the battle of Franklin,
though not intended as an especial trib-
ute to Gen. Strahl, is published in this
connection with no greater desire than
to honor the memory of that gallant sol-
dier and devout Christain.

The removal of Gen. Johnston and the
appointment of Hood to succeed him in
command of the Army of Tennessee,
was an astounding event. So devoted
to Johnston were his men that the pres-
ence and immediate command of Gen.
Lee would not have been accepted with-
out complaint. They were so satisfied
that even in retreat they did not lose
their faith in ultimate success. They
were not reconciled to the change until
the day before the battle of Franklin.
The successful crossing of Duck River
that morning at an early hour, and the
march to Spring Hill, where the Federal
retreat was so nearly cut oil! a failure for

which it was undent 1 Gen. Hood was

not to blame), created an enthusiasm for
him equal to that entertained for Stone-
wall Jackson after his extraordinary
achievements. That night the extensive
valley east of Spring Hill was lighted up
by our thousands of camp tires, in plain
view of, and close proximity to, the re-
treating lines of the enemy”. The next
morning, as we marched in quick time
toward Franklin, we were continued in
our impressions of Federal alarm. 1
counted on the way thirty-four wagons

that had been abandoned on the si th

turnpike. In some instances whole
teams of mules had been killed to pre-
vent their capture. A few miles south
of Franklin the Federal lines of infantry
were deployed, and our progress was
checked ; but we pressed them without
delay until they retired behind the outer
works about the town. Soon after they
withdrew from the range of hills south,
overlooking the place, and we were ad-
vanced to its crest. 1 happened, though
in the line of battle (as I was ”right
guide” to my regiment), to be close to
where (Jen. Hood halted his staff ami
rode alone to the top of the hill, and
with bis tield glasses surveved the situa-
tion. It was an extraordinary moment.
Those of us who were near could see, as
private soldiers rarelv did, the position of
both armies. Although Franklin was
some two miles in the distance, the plain
presented a scene of great commotion.
But I was absorbed in the one man
whose mind was deciding the fate of
thousands. With an arm and a leg in
the grave, and with the consciousness
that he had not until within a couple of
days won the confidence which his army
had in his predecessor, he had now a
very trying ordeal to pass through. It
was all-important to act, if at all, at once.
He rode to Stephen D. Lee, the nearest
of his subordinate generals, and, shaking
hands with him cordially, announced his
decision to make an immediate charge.

-10 event of the war perhaps showed
a scene equal to this. The range of hills
upon which we formed offered the best
view of the battlefield, with but little
exposure to danger, and’there were hun-
dreds collected there as spectators. ( >ur
ranks were being extended rapidly to
the right and left. In Franklin there
was the utmost confusion. The enemy
was greatly excited. Wecould see them
running to and fro. Wagon-trains were
being pressed across the Harpeth river,
and on toward Nashville. Gen. l.oring,
of Cleburne’s division, made a speech to
his men. Our Brigadier-General Strahl
was quiet, and there was an expression
of sadness on his face. The Soldiers
wore full of ardor, and confident of suc-
cess. They- had unbounded faith in
(en. Hood, whom they believed would
achieve a victory that would give us

Nashville. Such was the spirit of the

army as the signal was given which set
it in motion. Our generals were ready,
and some of them rode in front of our

main line. With a quickstep, we moveu
forward to the sound of Btirring music.

This is the only battle that 1 was in, and
they were many, where bands of music

Were used. I was right guide to the

I orty-first Tennessee, marching four
paces to (be front I bad an opportunity of
viewing my comrades, and I well n mem-
ber the look of determination that was
on evi rv bee. Our bold movement
1 tin> enemy to give up, w ithout
much firing, its advanced line. As they
fell back at double-quick, our men rushed
forward, even though they hail to face
the grim line of breastworks just at the
■ dge “f the town.

Before we were in proper distance for
small arms, the artillery opened on 1m, th
sides. Our guns, tiring over our heads

10111 the bills in the rear, used ammuni-
tion without stint, while the enemy’s
batteries were at constant play upon our
lines. When they withdrew- to their
main line of works, it was as one even
plain for a mile. About fifty yards in
front of their breastworks, we came in
contact with formidable chevauxdi :
over or through which it was very diffi-
cult to pass. Why half of us were not
killed, yet remains a mystery ; for after

iovii.<r forward so great a distance, all
tne ume unuer rue, me aetennon, imme-
diately in their front, gave them a very
great advantage. We arrived at the
works, and some of our men after a 1 lub
fight at the trenches, got over. I he
colors of my regiment were carried in-
side, and when the arm that held them
was shot off, they fell to the ground and
remained until morning. Cleburne’s
men dashed at the works, but their gal-
lant leader was shot dead, ami they gave
way, so that the enemy remained on our
flank, and kept ud constant enfilading
fire.

Our left also fair I o hold the works,
and for a shor ,dist« _’e we remained ami
fought until t.e di . a was almost full of
dead men. Night came on soon after
the hard fighting began, and we fired at
the flash of each other’s guns. Holding
the enemy’s lines, as we continued to do
on this part of them, we were terribly
massacred by the enfilade firing. The
works were so high that those who fired
the guns were obliged to get a footing in
the embankment, exposing themselves
in addition to their flank, to a fire bv

men in houses. One especially severe
was that from Mr. Carter’s, immediately
in my front. I was near Gen. Strahl”,
who stood in the ditch, and handed up
guns to those posted to fire them. I had
passed to him my short Enfield (noted in

the icgimentj al t the sixth tune. The

man w ho had been tiring cocked it and
was taking deliberate ami, when he w as
shot and tumbled down dead into the
ditch upon those killed bet’,. re him.
When the men so exposed were shot
down, their places wore supplied by
volunteers until these were exhausted,
and it was necessary lor Gen. Strahl to

■ all upon other-.. I le turned to me, and
taough I was several feet back from the

I r,se up immediately, and walk-

\er the wounded ami dead, took

p isition with one toot upon th-.: pile of

l>0 lie- of my dead fellows, and tic other

in the embankment, and Bred guns
w hieh the General himself handed up to
me until he, too, was shot down. One
other man had bad position bu uij 1

and assisted i:i the tiring. The” battle
1 until not. an efficient man was li tt
between us and the t olumbiaBike, about
fifty yards to our right, and hardly
1 nougll behind us to hand up the guns.
We could not hold out muuu long, 1. for
ind ed, but 1 w ol us were then 1. 1< aii\e.
It seemed as if we had no choice but to
in uder or try to get away, and when
I aske I the General for counsel, be sim-
ply answered, ” Keep tiring.’ i.ut just
is tue man to my right was shot, and tell
against me witn terrible groans, Gen.
Strahl was shot. He threw up his hands,
falling on his face, and I tliOUglt turn

■ lead, hut in asking the dying man,
who still lay against my shoulder t,s lie
sank forever, how he was wounded, the
( .en. ral, who had not been k ill. , I, think-
ing my question was to him, raised up
saying that he was shot in the neck, and
called f«~r Col. Stafford to turn over his
command. He crawled over thed.a.l,
tne ditch being three deep, about twenty
feet to where ( ol. Station! was. His
Stall’ Officers started to carry bun to the
rear, but he received another Bhot, and
directly the third, which killed him in-
stantly. Col. Stafford was dead in the
pile, as the morning light disclosed, w ith
01s feet wedged in at the bottom, with
other dead across and under him alter
he fell, leaving his body half standing as
if ready to give command to the chad I

By that time but a handful of us were
left on that part of the line.and as I was
sure that our condition was not known,
I ran to the rear to report to Gen. John
C. Brown, commanding the division. I
nut Major Hampton of his staff, who
told me that Gen. Brown was wounded,
and that Gen. Strahl was in command.
This assured me that those in command
did not know the real situation, so I
went on the hunt for General Cheatham.
By and by relief was sent to the front.
This done, nature gave way. My shoul-
der was black with bruises from tiring,
and it seemed that no moisture was hit
in my system. Utterly exhausted, 1
sank upon the ground and tried to sleep.
The battle was over, and I could do no
rnsre ; but animated still with concern
for the fate of comrades, I returned to
the awful spectacle in search of some
who year after year had beeu at my side.
Ah, the loyalty of faithful comrades in
such a struggle 1

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CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

WELCOME TO VETERANS AT Fort sSUTrt.

Editor Williams, of the Fort Smith, Ark., T,
gave out this welt ome at the late reunion of that city :

Welcome, Veterans! United Confederate Veterans,

w eli ome ‘

Thrice welcome, seven times welcome — yea. a
thousand times welcome to the Border City.

Wc are of you and with you, and (lotl being our
helper, we shall stand by you.

The political questions that made it necessary for
the Southern soldier to prove himself worthy of the
name and fame of his patriotic ancestry wore settled
in a soldierly way, and when settled, were settled for-
ever: and that settlement was the deliverance we cel-
ebrate.

Vour four years of service under the stars and liars
shed new luster upon our common country; and
whether on the driven march or in the tented field, in
the hour of victory or in sore defeat, your re. ord adds
new splendor to American .history.

The Southern soldier challenges the world for a
milder achievement upon the battlefield. Oak Hills
ami l-‘lk Horn. Pea Kidge and I’rairie drove, Poiso-
Springs and the Post of Arkansas— fields of carnage
made sacred by the Mood of as brave a soldier as ever,
dealt death at Thermopylae, or bore a polished spear
for Sparta.

Back in the homes you fought for were the tremu-
lous hands that lilessed your heads, the motherly lips
that bade von he brave and trust in heaven, the loving
arms and tearful eyes that told you to do your duty
and leave the rest to ( !od.

How noblv vim did tliat duty all the world knows.
In marble and bronze posterity shall read it, and
tongues tipped with lire from the altar of all that is
pure and holy, shall tell it to the ages to come, am!
when the everlasting stream of time shall reach the
great ocean of eternity’s wealth, the character of the
Southern soldier will tower grandly above all that
linds lodgement there.

In the days of your youthful- vigor, when the eye
was clear and the sinews strong and supple, with
swelling hearts and blushing pride you donned the
sombre gray. In your later years you have put on
another gray of whiter hue Worn and weary the
world hears heavily on you. Bent and tired you pick
your doubtful way. No grateful government helps to
hear your burden. No monthly pension aids your
tottering steps. No place of profit is set apart for
vour easement. No exemption from the general load
is vours. But you have the proud consciousness of
duty nobly done, and the blessings of that line of
patriots of which Washington was one, Jeff Davis an-
other, and Lee and Jackson a sainted two.

The divine right of kin^s passed awav with cruel
despotism, but the divine blood of American patriots
(lows on forever, and you, Confederate Veterans, are
in the line of noble succession ; and all the winds and
all the waters of this wicked world cannot deprive
you of one atom of your glorious heritage.

By the quips of fortune, and thClove that lingers
one for another of those who worshipped at a common
shrine and resigned themselves t» a common sorrow,
you have come together in our city, in the name of
whose people of all creeds we welcome you. In their
business and social relations the people of Fort Smith
know neither politics nor religion, but in their love of

country they believe the cause of good government .
best subserved where .the people worship according to
the dictates of their conscience, and celebrate freely
the anniversaries of the .lavs they love. Sin lies not
in pleasure but in excess. ‘Fort Smith swings all her
gates open to you. On the vine there is vet a cluster,
: ‘ n ‘ “» the fig tree Mill hangs some luscious fruit.
Make yourselves comfortabte. He freeandeasy; and
if in need of help sound the revielle— a city is at vour
service.

KENTUCKY STATE GUARD WAR SOKG.

lain^ forth the flag, Kentucky’s noble standard.
, > Wa\ e .1 … high tui II,.. wind shakes each fold .mi ;
■))■■. dly ii floats, nobly waving In tbe van-guard,

Then cheer up. boys, cheer, with a lusty, long bold snout.

l Hums :
Cheer, boys, cheer, we’ll march away to hattle—

cheer, buys, cheer, for our sweethearts and mir wives—
i heer, boys, cheer, we’ll nobly do our duly,

Ami give Kentucky our hearts, our arms, our lives.

Although we marc’ with heads all lowly hen. line.

Let us Implore a blessing from on high ;
(Hi. ‘use is just, the right from wrong defending,

Anil I he Coil of battled will listen to our cry.— Uho.

Though to our homes we never may return,
Ne’er press again our loved ones in our arms—

I Cer our lone graves their faithful hearts will mourn,
Then cheer up. hoys, cheer, such death has ilnims. . n<>.

s.e. hoys, sec. the thunder clou. is before us.

Hear tin- loud crash of musketry and gun
Bring forth the tlaa and proudly wave It o’er us—

Then cheer up. hoys, cheer, for the victory Is won I ho.

Note.— Sung in the “Camps” of the First Kentucky Itrigade Ii
fantry durtngthe war, 1801 (15, and since reprinted for Charles Herbal
who was of/the Second Kentucky Infantry.

MRU. M. IK PI fill’s APPEAL.

The Ladies’ Memorial Association, which rocked tin
cradle of the Confederacy at Montgomery, and hr
ever maintained an active life, has had two Presidents
the late venerable widow of Judge Benijah Bibb, am
their daughter, Mrs. M. 1 >. Bibb, a worthy suceessot
The latter, in connection with a programme for an en-
tertainment in behalf of the Davis Monument, wrote,,’

We earnestly appeal to the patriotic people of the
city and country, old men and matrons, young men
and maidens, to unite with us in rendering this occa-
sion a most brilliant success. Surely a cause which
called into action all that was noble in human nature,
lofty patriotism and sublime courage, self-sacrificing
devotion and heroic endurance, commands the grate-
ful homage of every Southern heart. Could we make

i e fitting offering than to build a monument to

the illustrious chieftain, in whom was concentrated
all these \ irtucs, and who was made a vicarious sacri-
fice upon the altar of the Confederacy?

We trust that Montgomery, the fi’st capital of the
nation whose brief existence tills the most brilliant
and pathetic page in history, will prove true to her
noble birthright, and render tribute to the hero and
statesman, whom the world will yet claim as one of
the grandest and best of the sons of men.

May we not hope that the gallant men and noble
women of our city will supplement the efforts of the
Ladies’ Memorial Association in making an offering
worthy of n cause so great, by their generous patron-
age a pc hi ‘ring presence.

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Build up a shaft to Davis ! Lrt it tower to the Bkies.
Let those who fell in battle see the stately colu won

riee.
‘Twill represent the cauBe they loved, the cause

they d»ed to save,
And shadow forth our deep respect for every sol-
dier’s grave. ..
For right or wrong, our brethren fell on every

bloody field,
They ‘hought the cause they loved was just, and

.eeling so, to yield
AVere baser than all baseness Is, and greater to be

feared •
Than all the guns that ever roared since heaven’s

light appeared.

For DaTis neither better was nor worse than those

he led ;
He Mmply represented all we did, or thought, or

said.
He was the chieftain of our State, the leader of our

band,
Duly chosen from amongst us, to assume and give

command.
lie erred ? It was but human. Which of us that

has not erred?
When we made him chief in power, we assumed

his every word.
So far as it had bearing on the common cause, we

knew ;
And all his acts as chief of State were ordered in

our view.

He failed to win the aim he sough ( ? Why ’twas

the State that failed.
They thrust him into dungeons — every man he led

was jailed.
The irons that upon his weak and wasted limbs he

wore
Were those that as their chief of State he for his

people bore.
The criticism and abuse he silently endured,
Were only of the nature that his chieftaincy

insured.
And shall we now forget the men who suffered in

our stead ?
Corel be the craven spirit who deserts hits household

dead I

We yet are in our father’s house ; we lov our

country’s flag.
Long may its folds unchallenged fly on sea and

moan tain crag 1
Long may Columbia’s gonfalon float proudly to the

breeze !
And let no man with angry hand tho sacred em-
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But let us grieve over every wound wherein our

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We love the brave of every faith ; we mourn our

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Secure against fraternal hate they sleep beneath the

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The Lord of Hosts hath summoned them. Their

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dreds of subscriptions have been given upon the splen-
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inclusive, and elsewhere. It is a most remarkable
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Personal friends should nut expect the compliment
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knowledge receipt of copy, if ii” more. The publica-
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nerve, just the same, until the great work is completed.

There are only two sources of revenue to the publi-
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cheapest first-class publication in America. Anybody
can afford to take it. It’ every zealous friend would
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Please be diligent to secure subscriptions and adver-
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Contributors to the monument fund are certainly
friendly to this enterprise, and deserve complimentary
subscriptions, but it must work its own way. and their
co-operation is earnestly solicited.

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ive illustrations. Let comrades furnish, briefly as
possible, humorous reminiscences. Let us live over
again the incidents that gave sunshine on dark days.

Whatever may be desirable to put before represent-
ative people of the entire South and our people else-
where may he printed ad vantageously in the CONFED-
ERATE Veteran.

The personal relations between Jefferson Davis and
Alexander H. Stephens having never been well under-
stood, even in the South, the writer once on a visit to
Beau voir expressed a desire for information in regard
to it. Mr. Davis replied cordially by relating an amus-
ing incident: .^prisoner at Anderson ville had writ-
ten Mr. Stephens, expressing a conviction that he had
conceived a plan whereby the war might be speedily
terminated, giving to the South her independence.
Mr. Stephens was so impressed that he wrote Mr. I >a\ i>.
requesting that the man be given his liberty, wherebj
such conception might be considered in official coun-
cil; and not having r lived a reply to his letter, Mr.

Stephens wrote a complaint in angered spirit some
weeks afterwards. Mr. Davis replied that he had de-
layed answering the letter in order to investigate the
reputation of the prisoner, and ascertained that there
was no reason why importance should be given any
theory of his; and, moreover, that he was already
dead. This is the only unpleasant thing that ever oc-
curred between them of a personal nature.

What an extraordinary man was Alexander H.
Stephens! His physical debility intensified interest

in him. Late in life he told me that ho hardly re-
membered the time when lie exported to live longer
than two years. Frail as he w ;is. however, and poor
at the start. — his education having been furnished on
credit, — he possessed a will power and mental acuteness
that enabled him to rise out of poverty to affluence
and to eminence. During about half of his life, of
three score ami ten years, he was in public service as
state and national legislator, as Vice President of the

Confederate States, and. last of all, as Governor of
Georgia, in which commonwealth he was born and

died.

Mr. Stephens educated about lift v v voung men before
the war and half as many after it. His general career
is well known history. When I first met him, a few
years before his death, he was at Catoosa Springs, near
Tunnel Hill, Ga. 1 had gone there to confer with
him about his contemplated visit to Chattanooga,
where preparations had been made to give him a grand
reception. He had abandoned the trip because the
wife of his favorite nephew, John A. Stephens, had
sprained her ankle, and an old black woman at Craw-
fordville, formerly his slave, had a lawsuit and no
money to employ a lawyer. To get home and plead her

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cause, his decision was irrevokable about going home
on the afternoon of the next day. He was induced,
however, to go into Chattanooga in the forenoon, ac-
cept the hospitality of the city, and take the evening
train for Crawfordville, which he did. There were
thousands of people to greet him, but no persuasion
could induce him tn neglect the lawsuit, and he went
home as he had planned.

( hatting with him one day. I expressed surprise
that he opposed Greeley so persistently for the Presi-
dency, when it was indirectly advancing the claims
of General Grant, who it seemed might have exercised
better influence for the South as President. He be-
came animated in praising Grant, and then, changing
the subject suddenly, he asked if I had read the life
of his l.iotlier. Linton Stephens. “Nay” being the
answer, he rolled his chair — he could not walk in his
later years — to a table in his room covered with slips
of white paper, and told his black servant. ” Alex.” to
get him a postal card, across the address side of which
In- wrote an order to his publishers in Atlanta, which
1 was to carry in person the next day for a copy of the
book. Amused at his using the postal card in such a
way, and wishing his autograph, I remarked that 1
would show them the order, hut would like to retain it.
“Well,” he exclaimed, “if you wish to do that, I will
try and write it better!” and he so defaced another
postal, both of which are still preserved. The last
time I saw this able patriot and statesman was a few
nights before his death. He had gone to bed, and re-
ceived me in his chamber at the Executive Mansion,
Atlanta, lie was almost half silting, propped by great
pillows under shoulders and head. The picture of
snow white linen and the pale, emaciated face which
gave a contrast to the large black eyes, is indellible.
Although not safe in party loyalty, his wisdom and
personal integrity created and maintained for him a
reputation that will he augmented as it is reproduced
in the lives of great men. One of his last acts as Gov-
ernor was the pardon of a noted criminal, and in reply
to a criticism by a prominent New Yorker, who con-
cluded his letter, “1 did so admire you once; why
have you done this senseless, evil tiling?” he wrote:
“Of one thing you may he assured: my act in the
matter meets with the full approval of my own con-
science.” It is my fortune to have in part the diary
of his prison life at Fort Warren, and a part of it may
he expected in the next ConkkdkhatE VETERAN.

statement from a hoy soldier, as the general was riding
by, he would give the commissary notice that such
must not occur again when possible t>> avoid it.

On Hood’s march into Tennessee, Cheatham was
commander of a corps, and yet he was general wagon-
master of his command whenever trouble occurred
with the train. As the army passed down Sand Moun-
tain, some of the wagons had mired in the valley
ahead. The general was making his way down the
steep mountain in the darkness, where the men were
piled in the roadway asleep. Working his way on
patiently for ‘some time, and feeling that he must go
on. he exclaimed, “D — n it, hoys, you know I don’t
want to ride over you!”

Tins pathetic incident is recalled in connection with
Gen. frank Cheatham: He was always extremely
popular with the soldiers. While many a private was
repelled by the austere manner of his colonel or brig-
adier, he would apply to “Mais Frank” for relief
against any grievance, assured of immediate attention.
For instance, if rations were short, upon the simple

The late Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar was one of the most
remarkable men that the South ever produced. He
commanded not only the respect, hut the esteem, of
the North. His thrilling oratory and his undaunted
courage were leading characteristics. A Republican
journalist wrote: “I was anxious to know something
of his experiences when the diplomatic agent of the
Southern Confederacy sought the aid of France and
England, lie chatted pleasantly on this phase of his
career, and among other things said: ‘We lost our
cause, but we won the respect of the world by our
courage, our endurance, and our devotion. Europe
had long regarded the Southerners, I think, as a lot of
braggarts. We had talked and t hreatened much. When
the war came we were equal to it. We made a proud
name lor ourselves, and I can honestly say that I
would rather be where we are to-day, with an unex-
ampled record, than to be back where we were before
the war. with our slaves.’ ”

While he was a Senator, in a discussion of the pen-
sion arrears bill, Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, of-
fered a proviso that ”no pension should ever be paid
to .Jefferson Davis.” Mr. Lamar indignantly resented
the insult, and, after being called to order, said: “Now,
sir, I do not wish to make any remarks here that will
engender any excitement or discussion, but 1 say that
the Senator from Massachusetts connected that name
with treason. We all know that the results of the war
have attached to the people of the South the technical
crime of rebellion, and we submit to it, but that was
not the sense in which the gentleman used that term
as applied to Mr. Davis. He intended to ailix — I will
not say he intended, but the inevitable effect of it was
to affix upon this aged man, this man broken in for-
tune, suffering from bereavement — an epithet of odium
and imputation of moral turpitude. Sir, it required
no courage to do that; it required no magnanimity to
do it; it required no courtesy; it only required hate,
bitter, malignant, sectional feeling, and a sense of per-
sonal impunity. The gentleman, I believe, takes rank
among Christian statesmen. He might have learned
a better lesson, even from the pages of mythology.

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When Prometheus was bound to the rock it was not
an eagle — it was a vultun — that buried his beak in
the tortured vitals of the victim.”

Mrs. V. Jefferson Davis in her Memoirs gives an
interesting sketch of the Howell family. Her grand-
father, Maj. Richard Howell, fought in the battles of
the Revolution. He helped to destroy tea landed by
the ” Greyhound ” al Greenwich, N. J., in November,
1774. In 177″> be was captain of a company. In 177o
he was promoted to major, and commanded his bat-
talion in several successful engagements. He had a
furlough to go, and was in the act of starting, to see
his twin brother, Surgeon Lewis Howell, who was dy-
ing, the day before the battle of Monmouth, hut waited
and went into the engagement as a private in citizens
clothes. Gen. Washington commended him for his
personal sacrifice. Having waited for the battle, he
never saw his brother alive any more.

In 17.S.S Maj. Howell was appointed Clerk of the
Supreme Court, which position he held until his elec-
tion as Governor of New Jersey, and was continued
for eight years, when he dec lined to he a candidate on
account of impaired health. He died in 1802. His
daughter Sarah was one of the dozen young ladies
selected to scatter Sowers in Washington’s path at
Trenton bridge.

Mrs. Davis’ lather. William Burr Howell, fourth son
of < rov. Howell, was appointed an officer in the Marine
Corps, and served under Commodore Decatur in the
War of 1812. In a close engagement his scat — a stool
— was shot from under him, and another ball knocked
from his grasp a tin-CUp of water. I [e was commended
in orders three times for gallantry in action. After
the war was over, in 1815, he went down the Missis-
sippi in a llatboat to Natchez. He met and became
intimate with Joseph E. Davis, brother of Jefferson
Davis. In 1823 Mr. Howell married Miss Margaret
Louisa Kempe. Joseph Davis acted as groomsman,
and the first child born to the couple was named Joseph
Davis. “Thus the intimacy grew apace and ripened

into three intermarriages in three generations.”

Mr. and Mrs. Howell and their friend, Joseph E.
Davis, went on along journey to t he North in 1825,
and they together visited Mr. Davis’ “little brothel”
(Jefferson Davis) at West Point on the trip. Her
father referred to him afterward as a “promising
youth,” and her mother spoke of “his open, bright
expression,” in a letter that was preserved.

During his cadetship young Davis and a school com-
panion went off on a little frolic without leave, and,
hearing that one of the instructors was going to where
they were, they started back by a near cut to the acad-
emy, when young Davis fell over an embankment, a
distance of about sixty feet, but happily he caught at
a stunted tree, which broke the force of the fall. His
companion, greatly distressed, leaned over the preci-

pice and inquired, “Jeff, arc you dead’.'” It was al-
most a fatal fall, and he was expected to die for weeks
afterward. In this connection another story is told of
Cadet Davis. One of the professors, who disliked him,
was delivering a lecture one day upon the value to a
soldier in having presence of mind under trial. He
looked at young Davis significantly. A few days after-
ward when tin 1 large class was being taught how to
make fire-balls in a room full of explosives, one of
(Ik in caught on tire. Instantly the uncongenial pro-
fessor said, “Run for your lives!” and then did so
himself. Young Davis instead threw it out of the
window, thus saving the building and many lives.
The modesty of the author deprives the interesting
history of a full subsequent account of the Howell
family as the public deserves. She supplemented the
Howell name by becoming the wife of Jefferson Davis,
February 26, 1845.

SPIRIT “/ At’PEAL FOR THE DAVIS MEMORIAL.

In an address to the Southern people, this

committee has ratified the preference expressed by
Mrs. Davis for Richmond, V*a., a- the proper site for
such memorial. It has determined that not less than
.«’_>;.i i.i k k i shall be raised for that purpose, and that
there shall be an organization in every state in the
South, through which the offerings of the people may
flow to the accomplishment of this patriotic and pious
work. Continuing its appeal the committee say:

“This money will be raised speedily. This monu-
ment will rise, and soon, to be an everlasting
memorial, not only to the patriot and statesman who
purely and bravely led your fortunes in the times that
wrung your souls, but of the ineffable valor and
devotion of the most heroic soldiery which the world
ever saw, whom he typified while he commanded.

” No other hands than ours can be relied upon to put
stones upon this pile. Our own hard-earned mite
must mainly accomplish its rearing. Our own sweat
must chiefly stream upon its uplifting.

” If our poverty has been and continues to be great,
it has at least made us rich in love for each other. If
our lives have been one long tale of sacrifice, and
threaten more, the most willing of those to come must
be that one which will keep green forever the memo-
ries of our loved land and of our dead brothers.

” Cove and self-sacrifice build more monuments than
money ever did or ever will, and we now gladly and
confidently bid you to illustrate it. The men and the
women who fought for the Confederacy and their de-
scendants, must quarry this monument out of their
heart’s blood if need be. It were best in every case
that they should. There is not a discordant clement
anywhere. Let us all be at work ! »

“All remittances for this purpose should be made to
John S. Ellett, President of the State Bank at Rich
mond, Va., who is the bonded Treasurer of the gen-
eral organization.”

Thanks to Dr. I). M. Goodner, of Fayetteville, Tenn.,
for efficient service to solicitor for the Confederate
Veteran.

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Gen. G, P. Thruston, of Nashville, Tenn., who was
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federate Veteraf) Camp, of New York, Maj. Edward
Owen says:. “It is a very good and useful paper to
( ionfederates.”

Dr. \V. N. Cunningham. Mansfield, La. : “As an evi-
dence of my appreciation of your enterprise, and my
desire for its success. I send five dollars, for which send
three copies to the persons named, and the others to
our Camp. I want these for veterans who are unable
to subscribe.”

Gen. John Boyd, Lexington, Ky. : “I am very much
pleased with the Veteran, ami, as the subscription is
so low, no Confederate soldier should be without it.

I hope to see the day that it will be like ‘ bitters

— everybody takes it.’ Inclosed find three subscrip-
tions. I will do what I can for you.”

Gen. Stephen D. Lee, Agricultural College, Miss.:
“I like it very much. The lack of such a journal has
been long felt among old Confederates; such a means
of communication is absolutely necessary. I inclose
my subscription; and whenever I can help you, call
on me, and I will do all in my power.”

A prominent “Veteran, Washington City: “I read

every word in the January number, and can only say
if subsequent publications equal it the paper will suc-
ceed on its own merits. Individual canvassers will
not be needed. I predict for it a successful future, and
will give it a good word with Confederates here. I
hope it will take and hold a high standard.”

Dr. \V. M. Yandell, El Paso, Texas, February 1 : ” I
enclose postal order for ten dollars to pay for enclosed
list of twenty names. Hope to get you more next
week. Send me ten copies of same to use in getting
you ten more subscribers. Your first issue is splendid
and worth more than the subscription for a year. I
went out in the ‘Orphan Brigade.’ You shall have
half a dollar for each subscriber — I don’t want twenty-
five for ten dollars.”

Of the many letters sent with clubs here is one from
\V. D. Matthews, Jacksonville, Fla.: ” 1 was so pleased
with it that I thought I would get you a number of
subscribers. After securing some I concluded to get
one hundred, so we might have the benefit of a col-
umn for our Camp as you propose.” Then he adds:
” Vim need make no apology for the Confederate
Veteran. I have heard nothing but praise of this
initial number.”

Gen. George Moorman, of New Orleans, who has
done much more than any other man to organize the
United Confederate Veterans’ Brotherhood, writes:
“You have greatly exceeded my expectations in the
elegant and complete paper you have issued. So far
it is the best Confederate paper I have seen since the
war. It does great credit to your patience and ability
and I hope your efforts will be crowned with com-
plete success.”

M. S. Kahle, Cleburne, Texas, February 2d: “Capt.
0. T. Plummer of our Camp handed me a copy of the
Confederate Veteran. Its caption struck my heart
and I immediately went to work. You are in a noble
cause, a glorious work which will be felt in every Camp
organization in our Sunny South. I have read it
through and through and it has given me entire satis-
faction. It will be a welcome visitor to my house,
yea, thrice welcome. Find enclosed a list of twenty-five
subscribers for your noble paper.”

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

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Mrs. M. D. B., Montgomery, Ala.: “Its bright face
and cheering words betoken the success it’ so richly
deserves. It has a noble mission to perforin in edu-
cating the youth of our land to revere the memory and
emulate the virtues of men whose self-sacrificing de-
votion to the nation which rose so fair and fell with-
out a stain, commands the admiration of the world.
* * * I inclose two subscriptions.”

Rev. John R. Deering, now of Kentucky, who served
in the Twelfth Mississippi Infantry, Army Northern
Virginia, sends this letter:

“Versailles, Ky., January 20, L893.

“This is to thank you for the first issue of the CON-
FEDERATE Veteran, and to approve and prais.’ you
for the noble undertaking. You deserve and will
have the gratitude of every old soldier of the South,
and that of their wives, mothers, sisters, and children.
The Veteran is appreciated as a tribute to the valor
of the living and as an evidence of the enduring affec-
tion in which we hold our dead. It is valuable as an
organ for encouragement and unification of our peo-
ple in their great and sacrcil memorial work. It will
inspire general effort and promote worthy and har-
monious co-opcrat ion. The monument at Richmond
should represent Mr. Davis as he represented our
cause. I wish that it could be as magnificent as the
courage of the men who fought for it. and as enduring
as the devotion of the women who Buffered with them
Ah! gold is not good enough where love and tears and
blood were shed so lavishly. No man who knows
what that memorial will stand for, or cares for its im-
pressions upon the coming generations, would con-
sider a million of money too much to erect and pro-
tect’it. Let it be like the heroism and Buffering it
recalls — the wonder and admiration of menl

” Inclosed find a club of six subscribers to the Vet-
bran, with check. Wishing you all the success you
deserve, and holding myself ready to aid as I can. I
am yours in the strongest bonds.”

[The Nashville American.)

There is no page in the history of any people which
should arouse deeper sentiments of love for its beroi B
and admiration for their sacrifices than should the
memories of the lost cause inspire in the hearts of
the southern people for those who dedicated them-
selves to its service. This feeling is strongly entrenched
in the southern breast, yet it should be brought more
to the surface, that it may not possibly grow less. A
good publication has been needed to keep in activity
these patriotic memories. This want is now supplied
by a monthly publication entitled the Confederate
VETERAN, published at Nashville, and edited by Mr.
8. A. Cunningham. The first number has just been
issued, and contains thirty-two pages replete with in-
teresting articles, notes and memories pertaining to
the great civil war. It is published in the interest of
veterans in general and kindred topics, and is in-
tended as an organ of communication between Confed-
erate soldiers and those who are interested in them
and their affairs, and its purpose is to furnish a volume
of information which will be acceptable to the public,
even to those who fought on the other side. Its price
is fifty cents per annum. Its wide circulation will
greatly promote the laudable objects of its publication.
The first issue has not a page which does not contain
interesting matter for the perusal of all Confederate
veterans and the southern people generally.

From the current issue it appears that the sum of
$251 1,1 K K I is wanted to erect a monument to Jefferson
Davis at Richmond, Ya. Commenting upon this sub-
ject the Veteran says proud patriots ask this much.
In our National Capital there is an equestrian bronze
statue at nearly every turn to some hero of the war.
but none of them are for our side. We should not lag
behind in a matter which pertains so strongly to our
patriotism and glory. Twice the above sum has been
raised at the North for one individual monument.
New ( Irleans has erected $150,000worth of Confederate
monuments, and Richmond near that amount. The
entire South should not hesitate in an undertaking to
cost only $250,000.

We bespeak for the new publication the hearty sup-
port of the public. Its object appeals to our patriot-
ism, to our glory, to our love for the memory of those
who sacrificed their lives upon the altar of country,
and to our respect for our chosen Chieftain, a pure
type of heroic southern manhood, of whom it may be
truly said, thai under the direst trial, and when in
captivity, his proud spirit was as undaunted as when
in supreme authority at his Capital, and that the
honor and dignity of his country, entrusted to his
keeping, had a noble custodian and defender.

Mr. Cunningham, the editor of the Veteran, is
zealously interested in the general purposes of the
publication, and public support rendered him will be
worthily bestowed.

[The Nashville Mirror.]

It seems tiding that so great a number ef “true and
tried” men as comprise the Confederate veterans of
to-day should have an organ through which informa-
tion njay be conveyed to every section. That need
seems to have been met in a practical way by the
Confederate Veteran, as edited by Mr. S. A. Cun-
ningham, whose initial signature. ‘ S. A. (‘..” has been
well known and popular in Tin Daily American for
several years. Mr. Cunningham’s service as general
agent of the Davis Monument Fund for more than a
yeai has given him a thorough knowledge of the need
for an organ of Confederate veterans, and right well
has he begun it. The January issue is brim full of
good things, loyal in every thought to his comrades,
vet so dignified and respectful to the other side as to
command universal good will. The current number
has many articles of value.

[Nashville American, January 30.)

Notice of The Confederate Veteran, published a
week or so ago, may have seemed a little extravagant
in a mere glance at the publication, but it has been a
success throughout the Southern country. Without
attempt at display Mr. Cunningham touched the
hearts of southern people, without publishing a line
offensive to others, and he showed the need of just
such a publication, making it worthJ(^a place in any
library, and so cheap that club rates nav«been ignored.
Eminent women of the South have S\iM«cribed and are
volunteer solicitors.

[Farmlngton, Mo., Times.]

It ought to receive the encouragement of all ex-Con-
federates and others as well, who take a pride in com-
memorating our heroes, whether they wore the blue or
the gray. The brave deeds and noble sacrifices of the
soldiers on both, sides bear the stamp of genuine
American manhood and, alike, the heritage of a re-
united, patriotic and prosperous people. Honor our
dead heroes.

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CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

[The Nashville Banner.]

*** It is a very neat publication, contains much
information and a variety of reading on subjects relat-
ing to the Confederate Bide of the great civil war. Mr.
Cunningham is an experienced newspaper man, and
ha- a very extensive acquaintance throughout the
South. Be is the agent for the Davis Monument
Fund, and a gentleman so well deserving that his
army of friends will heartily wish hi m success with
his worthy publication.

Fori Smith, Ark.. Dally Times.]

It is full of delightful reading, is typographically
clear and clean, and altogether pleasing. The price is
only fifty cents a year, which ought to insure it a cir-
culation equal in’ number far greater than the num-
ber of gray-haired Confederate veterans in the land.
Every family of the South whose ” vacant chair” is a
memory of the Lost Cause should endeavor to hold
up the hands of the editor of the CONFEDERATE VET-
ERAN.

[The Nashville Sunday Times.]

Volume 1, Number 1, of this splendid paper is on
our table, and does full credit to the South. Every
family of our Southland should subscribe for and read
it, for it will keep green dear and sacred memories,
and will serve as an educator to the young upon issues
with which all southerners especially should be fa-
miliar.

[The Memphis Commercial.]

The Confederate Veteran is a new publication,
right up in the van of current periodicals. It is de-
voted to a noble cause, and is a very interesting, read-‘
able monthly, too. The Confederate Veteran has
the Commercial’s good will and godspeed upon its new-
venture.

[Lawrenceburg, Tenn., Democrat.]

Such a publication has long been wanted and need-
ed to keep active pure patriotic memories. We hope
the VETERAN may live long to bring these dear mem-
ories to mind of the southern veteran.

[Benton, Ark., Courier.]

.The title is an index to its contents, and we advise
every ex-Confederate to subscribe. We will send the
Saline Courier and Confederate Veteran to any ad-
dress on receipt of $1.25.

[Nashville Christian Advocate]

It is full of interesting matter and ought to have a
wide circulation. We think that we detect in it the
hand of our good friend, Mr. S. A. Cunningham.

[The Lovejoy, Oa., Picayune.]

Every southern man should subscribe fortius paper
— only fifty cents a year — and aid its editor in his
grand work for the Jeff Davis Monument Fund.

FROM GEN. W. I.. CABELL.

The IJeutejjlanV General commanding the Trans-
Mississippi l>r>par,tment of the United Confederate Vet-
erans, writes as follows:

“Dallas, Texas, January 17, 1893.
“The Confederate Veteran (I am glad to see that
you dropped the ‘ex’), for January, was received to-
day. Being confined to the house with a bad cold, I
have read every word of it, and several times I imag-
ined I was talking to some old comrade, of glorious old
Mars Jell’, of Generals bee, Albert Sydney Johnston,
Stonewall Jackson, and other old heroes, as everything
seem,., | so fresh ami so truthful, that 1 lived for a few

hours in the past, and forgot that 1 was sick and un-
able t” l’o Out in the cold.

“The letter written by that noble lady (God bless
her! i of Americus, Georgia,— Mrs. Louise My rick, — is
worth more than live years’ subscription. Every word
she has written shows her to be a true southern woman,
one who is proud of the South, proud of her State, and
proud of the gallantry and services of the old Confed-
erate soldier, both living and dead. She says there is

‘nothing too g 1 for the old soldier.’ The soldier

who ‘fought and spilled his blood in defense of the
South has no pensions,’ but he must look for relief to
sympathetic southern friends. Now, this is also true.
Thank God, the old soldiers who wore the gray want
no pensions from the Government. Cur people can
not only take care of them while living, but when
dead will wreath in garlands the laurel and other rare
southern Mowers and place them on his grave every
year. The true people of the South will never forget
the old Confederate soldier. The sons and daughters
of these noble old heroes and glorious southern women
will never forget the heroism of their fathers and the
trials and Bufferings their glorious mothers had to en-
dure. I am proud to know that we have such true
ladies all over the South. .

“I must change my subject, as I find that I could
almost fill your paper if I were to write as I feel in
reference to our duty to the living Confederate soldier.
In this State we have made ample provision for him,
and will take care of him until he is called to attend
the last ‘ tattoo.’

“I am glad to see that some interest is manifesting
itself in reference to the Jeff Davis Monument Fund.
In a few weeks we will send a pretty good sum to # our
treasurer in Richmond. I hope that you will stir
them up all along the line. This State I have divided
into five districts, and all are at work I am inclined
to think that our Camps will average (&100) one hun-
dred dollars each, not only in this State, where we
have (120) one hundred and twenty Camps, but also
in the Indian Territory and Arkansas. A number of
new Camps have been organized in Arkansas, and also
in this State, and will, no doubt, join the Association
of United Confederate Veterans in time to be with us
at Birmingham on the 19th and ’20th of July. * * *
“Your friend and comrade, W. L. Cabell ”

Dr. Cicero It. Barker, of Salisbury, N. C, in send-
ing check for $1:5.50 with twenty-seven names, states:
” We don’t want club rates for such a paper and such
a cause.”

Col. J. F. Bryant, of Franklin, Va., seeing a notice
in the Richmond Dispatch, secured a sample copy,
sends subscription, and will solicit the co-operation
of his Camp. He adds: ” I like the first number very
much, and think it richly deserves the hearty sym-
pathy and support of the entire South.”

Capt. J. L. Lemon, Acworth, Ga. : “I am glad to
know you are meeting with such success It will be
taken from Maine to Texas. When I have time I will
increase your list.”

Miss Mary Desha, Washington, D. (‘., after having
subscribed ami read it : “I shall be delighted to do all
I can.”

Many beautiful tributes are not included in the fore-
going, but they are sufficient to satisfy everybody that
there is need for the Confederate Veteran, and that
it starts in the right way.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

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CAUSE OF CONFEDERATES IN MARYLAND.

AN HONORED RECORD OF FAITHFUL MEN AND WO.VEX.

The Society of the Army and Navy of the Confed-
erate States in the State of Maryland, was organized
in 1871. Its ohject is to preserve the material for a
truthful history of the late war between the Confed-
erates States and the United States of America; to
honor the memory of our comrades who have fallen ;
to cherish the ties of friendship among those who sur-
vive, and to fulfill the duties of sacred charity towards
those who may stand in need of them.

In 1874, with the aid of an appropriation from the
State of Maryland, the bodies of Marylanders who fell
in the Confederate service, were gathered from all the
battlefields, from Petersburg to Gettysburg. Comrades
were employed for this purpose, and brave soldiers
were taken from fence corners and hedge rows where
they had been laid. These bodies were reintered in
the Confederate lot in Loudon Park Cemetery, where
are erected the central monument, ” The Confederate
Soldier,” by Volck, and the monuments to Companies

H and A of the First and Sec 1 Maryland Infantry.

and that dashing Cavalryman. Lieut-Col. Harry Gil-
mor. This beautiful plot contains about four hundred
bodies. It is the property of the Society, and pro\ is-
ion has been made for its perpetual care, by payments
to the cemetery company. About ten thousand dol-
lars has been expended upon this work. The bodies
of all Confederate prisoners who died in Baltimore are
also buried in our lot, and each grave is marked with
a marble headstone, with the name, regiment and
State, whenever known, of the soldier who sleeps be-
neath. Since 1873 the Society has always arranged
for the observance of Memorial Day, June 6th, when
hundreds of ladies and our comrades arc conveyed to
Loudon Park Cemetery, to strew flowers on the graves
of our dead, and the graves of our soldiers and sailors
in other cemeteries also receive like attention.

The Society has done much more than this:

In 1878 about $1,000 was realized by means of a
Musical Festival, for the Lee Monument at Richmond.

In 1880 a life size statue of a Maryland Confederate
Infantry Soldier was erected by the Society in the
Maryland lot in the Stonewall Cemetery at Winches-
ter, Virginia.

In 1882 a donation of about $l>00 was made to the
Southern Historical Society, Richmond, which enabled
that Society to continue its work at that time.

In 1885 a bazaar, held under the auspices and pat-
ronage of the Society, realized about $31,000, which
was invested in an annuity fund, terminating in twen-
ty-five years, producing a present annual income of
about $2,700, which is distributed, in cash, to needy
and worthy comrades, and is also used for the burial
of the dead. No Confederate soldier is denied assist-

ance while living, nor permitted in death to lie in a
pauper’s grave. No matter how unfortunate his cir-
cumstances in life, a respectful burial, with proper at-
tendance, in the Confederate lot is accorded him.

The Beneficial Association of the Maryland Line
also dispenses among its needy members or their fam-
ilies about $1,000 per annum, making total disburse-
ments each year nearly $4,000.

In 188(5 a monument was erected on Culp’s Hill,
Gettysburg, to the Second Maryland Infantry. It is
massive granite block, costly and imposing, and its in
scriptions testify the valor of the men who fought
where it stands.

In 1888 the former United States Arsenal buildings
at Pikesville were secured from the Legislature of
Maryland as a Confederate Home, with an appropria-
tion of $5,000 a year. The rooms have been furnished
as memorial offerings, and the Home now shelters in-
mates from different States, but citizens of Maryland
at time of entry.

From time to time many addresses have been de-
livered by distinguished Confederates, and numerous
pamphlets have been published by the Society.

The only stated public appearances of the Society
are at annual banquets and on Memorial Days. It
has made no public parades, except on the occasions of
dedications of monuments at Richmond, Lexington,
Winchester, Front Royal, Staunton, Hagerstown,
Frederick and Gettysburg, or at the funerals of distin-
guished comrades.

The So, let y now numbers above 1,000 members, the
annual dues being $1. An accurate record of e.-n h
member, certified by commanding officers or comrades,
18 entered in the Historical Register of the Society.
No unworthy soldier or deserter is permitted to be-
come a member.

The sons of Confederate soldiers and sailors are en-
titled to membership in the Society. as “male descend-
ants.” upon arriving at the age of fifteen years.

All persons who are in sympathy with ourcause,but
who were not in the service of the Confederate States,
are eligible to “auxiliary membership.”

The successive Presidents have been: Maj.-Gen.
Isaac R. Trimble, 1871 ; Maj. John R. McN’ulty, 1875 ;
Lieut. Mellenry Howard, 1883; Gen. Bradley T. John-
son, 1883. Gen. Johnson is now President.

The annual report for last year shows how much
practical good is being done. This is from it:

* * * During the vear the committee has expended
(2,663.38 in relieving the necessities of our sick and
destitute comrades and in burying our dead. Of this
amount $2,509.38 has been taken from the Confeder-
ate Relief Bazaar Fund and $154 from the treasury, of
the Beneficial Association of the Maryland Line.

During the year relief has been granted to 202 per-
sons, being six less than the previous year. Of this
number 190 have been relieved from the Confederate
Relief Bazaar fund and twelve from the treasury of the

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Beneficial Association. We have buried fifteen com-
rades during the year.

The members of the committee, with a few excep-
tions, have shown great interest in the work in which
we arc engaged, ami the rarity of cases of distress
among ex-Confederates is due. in a great measure, to
the labor of the members of this committee. The
thanks of the committee are due to those members of
the Confederate societies who have assisted the com-
mittee by acting as pall-bearers at funerals and assist-
ed us in many other ways.

THK BIRTHDAY OF LEE.

ANNUAL 1>I.\.\ER IN HIS HONOR BY THE CONEEDERATE
VETERAN CAMP OF SEW YORK.

The Confederate Veteran Camp of New York gave
its third annual banquet January 19th, Gen. Lee’s
birthday.

Among the distinguished guests present were Mrs.
V. Jefferson Davis and daughter, Miss Winnie. The
Camp arose in honor of the “first woman,” and the
” daughter of, the Confederacy.”

There was on the stage a large oil painting of Gen.
Lee. Major Edward Owen managed the proceedings
with high credit.

Of the responses by guests invited who could not
attend, Mr. Cleveland wrote: ” It would give me great
pleasure to accept your invitation if other engage-
ments permitted, but the eares and duties now press-
ing upon my time are too numerous to permit of my
attendance.”

Mr. Cleveland’s name was heartily cheered, and so
was that of T. W. Topham, commander of U. S. Grant
Post, G. A. It., who wrote: “I should be glad to help
honor the memory of one of America’s greatest sol-
diers.” A similar statement from Gen. McMahon was
also applauded heartily.

One of the leading speakers, ex-Gov. Thompson, of
South Carolina, in speaking of Lee, said: “He was
not misled by military politicians. In one of his let-
ters he wrote. L I can conceive of no greater evil than
the dissolution of the Union.’ When he returned to
Virginia all his pride and devotion to the army in-
spired him to remain with it. He was told he could
have command of the Union Army if he remained.
This was a dazzling offer. But he believed that his
first duty was to Virginia, and when Virginia called
he felt it his duty to answer without regard to per-
sonal considerations.”

The speaker paid an eloquent tribute to (Jen. Lee’s
virtues, his Christian character, his resignation in the
hour of defeat, his courage and breadth of mind. In
closing Mr. Thompson said: ” I deem it fortunate that
we have lived to see this day — never again to see
brother arrayed against brother. We are fortunate to
have lived to sec what Grant prayed for and Lee la-
bored for.”

Written inr the Uohtbdebath Vktkhan.

I.KE.

I1Y 11. II. DYKEBS, WAYNES VI I.I.K, N. C.

Be fought the fight tn tlnish,
And his soldier work is done;

Lee i v. r stands Immortal I
Freedom’s model of a son.

As In the ‘lav of liattlc,
fir on his great retreat,

The center of attraction;
We come, our Lee to meet.

We’ve tried to mould Ills features,
To clothe him with a form; .

To hold him np for men to see
How much he can adorn.

He came not home trlttmphant,

Hut a hero lie did come;
With honor pure, unsullied,
And a love excelled by none.

No pathway strewn with Rowers
Welcomed I.ee back from the war,

But an anguish for his country
And the ruined homes he saw.

He, who could stand undaunted
‘Midst tin- crash ami clang of arms,

Grew grander when, disabled,
Leading comrades to their farms.

For he tread the path of duty,
And he w*»n respect and fame,—

The proudest wreath of laurels
That a mortal man can claim.

‘Tis not the smoke of battle,
The carnage, or the flame;

But we hold our Lee close to us,—
We love to call his name.

And we tell all we know of him;

And the nation yet uuborn
Shall learn to know and love him

Like the fathers that have gone.

The Mary Washington Monument. — A “Woman’s
Movement” to erect a monument at the grave of Mary
Washington is not succeeding as it deserves. Mary
Ball Washington, the daughter of Col. Jfoseph Ball, of
Lancaster, Va., was born in 1706; married Augustine
Washington, March 6, 1730, and died August 25, 1789,
aged eighty-three years. She was buried on the spot
chosen by herself on her own home plantation,” Ken-
more,” on the Rappahannock, near Fredericksburg.
Forty years after, a patriotic citizen of New York, Mr.
Silas E. Burrows, presented a handsome marble mon-
ument for the spot, the corner-stone of which was laid
by President Andrew Jackson in 1833, that was nearly
but not entirely completed, and is now in such a state
of dilapidation and ruin as to be irrecoverable. Au-
gustine Washington, lather of George, died 1743, and
his body was deposited in the family vault in West-
moreland county, Virginia.

Since the above was put in type, news comes from
Fredericksburg:

“The small Mary Washington Association here is
much stirred up because they hear the National Asso-
ciation has contracted for an $11,000 monument of
Vermont granite, to be commenced early in the spring.
They expected the women of the country to do better
than that.”

The camp that will send 100 subscriptions can have
appropriated one column in its interest this year.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

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CARNAGE AT “THE CRATER,” NEAR PETERSBURG.

Lieut, Col. William II. Stewart, of the Sixty-first
Virginia, Mahone’s old brigade, gives a thrilling ac-
count of the battle of “The Crater,” from which the
following extracts are made. He was asleep under liis
little rly tent, when “a deep, rumbling sound, that
seemed to rend the very earth in twain,” startled him
from his slumbers:

“The whole camp had been aroused, and all were
wondering from whence came this mysterious explo-
sion. It was the morning of Saturday, the 30th Say
of July, 1864. The long talked of mine had been
sprung, a battery blown up, and the enemy were al-
ready in possession of eight hundred yards of our en-
trenchments.

“Two hundred cannon roared in one accord, as if
every lanyard had been pulled by the same hand.
The gray fog was Moating over the fields, and darkness
covered the face of the earth, bul the first bright streak
of dawn was gently lifting the curtain of night.

“The sun rose brilliantly, and the great artillery
duel still raged in all its grandeur ami fury.

“Soon after, Capt. Tom Bernard, Gen. Mahone’s
courier, came sweeping up the lines on his white
charger to the headquarters of Brig. Gen. I>. A. Wei-
siger. Then the drums commenced rolling off the sig-
nals, which were followed by ‘fall in’ and hurried roll
calls. We were required to drive back the Federals.
who had gotten almost within the very L r :ites of the
city of Petersburg. It was startling new-, bul our sol-
diers faltered not, and moved off at quick step.

“Wright’s Georgia Brigade and our Virginia Brig-
ade, the latter numbering scarcely eight hundred mus-
kets, constituted the force detailed to dislodge the
enemy, who held the broken lines with more than
fifteen thousand men, and these were closely supported
by as many more. 1 rememberthal our regiment, the
Sixty-first, did not exceed two hundred men, includ-
ing officers and privates, which I am quite sure was
the strongest in the two brigades. 1 suppose we had
marched the half of a mile when ordered to halt and
strip off all baggage, except ammunition and muskets.
We then tiled to the left a short distance to gain the
banks of a small stream, in order to be protected from
the shells of the Federal batteries by placing a range
of hills between. The enemy were making disposi-
tions to attempt their capture, for they were the very
keys to the invested city. When nearly opposite the
portion of our works held by the Federal troops, we
met several soldiers who were in the works at the time
of the explosion. Our men began ridiculing them for
going to the rear, when one of them remarked: ” Ay,
boys, you have hot work ahead — they are negroes, and
show no quarter.” This was the first intimation that
we had to fight negro troops, and it seemed to infuse
the little band with impetuous daring, as they pressed
onward to the fray. Our comrades had been slaugh-
tered in a most inhuman and brutal manner, and
slaves were trampling over their mangled and bleed-
ing corpses. Revenge must have fired every heart and
strung every arm with nerves of steel for the hercu-
lean task of blood. We filed up a ditch, which had
been dug for safe ingress and egress to a/id from the
earthworks.

“The ‘Crater,’ or excavation, caused by the explo-
sion, was about twenty-five feet deep, one hundred and

fifty feet long, and fifty feet wide. About seventy-five

feet in rear of the supporting earthworks there was a
wide ditch, with the bank throw n up on the side next to
the fortifications. This was constructed to protect par-
ties carrying ammunition and rations to the troops.
Between this irregular and ungraded embankment and
the main line the troops had constructed numerous
caves, in which they slept at night to be protected
from the mortar shells. The embankment from the
bottom of the ditch was about ten feet high, and com-
manded tic outer or main line. The space from the
outside of the fortifications to the inner edge of the

ditch was more than one hundred feet wide.

“The ‘Crater.’ and the space on both sides for some
distance, were literally crammed with the enemy’s
troops. They were five lines deep, and must have
numbered between fifteen and twenty-five thousand
men. Their historians admit that their charge was
made by the whole of the Ninth Corps, commanded
by Gen. A. E. Burnside, and that the Fifth and a part
of the Second Corps were massed in supporting dis-
tance

“Mahone’s old brigade, alter being deployed, < overed
their front from the center of the ‘ ( rater’ to the right.
Our little band were desperate, and reckoned not the
host^ that confronted them. I recollect counting seven
standards in front of our regiment alone. ( >ur column
was deployed in the valley before mentioned, in full
view of these hostile thousands. As the soldiers filed
into line, ( leu. Mahone walked from right to left, com-
manding the men to reserve their tire until they
reached the brink of the ditch, ami after delivering
one volley to use the bayonet. < Mir line was hardly
adjusted, and the Georgians had not commenced to
deploy, when the division of negroes, the advance line
of the enemy, made an attempt to rise from the ditch
and charge. Just at that instant Gen. Mahone ordered
a counter charge. The men ru-lied forward, officers
in front, with uncovered heads and waving hats, and
grandly and beautifully swept onward over the inter-
vening space with muskets at trail. The enemy sent
in the ranks a storm of bullets, and here and there a
gallant fellow would fall: hut the files would close,
still pressing onward, unwavering, into the jaw- of
death!

“The orders of Mai. Gen. Mahone were obeyed to
the very letter, the brink of the ditch was gained be-
fore a musket was discharged, the cry of No quarter!’
greeted us, the one volley responded, and the bayonet
plied with such irresistible vigor as insured success in
the shortest space of time. Men fell dead in heap-,
and human gore ran in streams that made the very
earth mire beneath the tread of the victorious soldiers.
The rear ditch being ours, the men mounted the rug-
ged embankment and hurled their foes from the front
line up to the .very mouth of the ‘Crater.’ In the
meantime the Georgia Brigade had charged, but were
repulsed; and soon after it was re-formed in column
of regiments and again charged, but was met by such

a withering fire that it again r< iled with a heavy

slaughter.

“Our bloody work was all done so quickly that I
have scarcely an idea of the time it required to accom-
plish it ; sonic say it was twenty minutes. It was over,
1 am sure, about noon; and then, for the first time,
we realized the oppression of the scorching rays of that
•Inly sun, and many almost sank from exhaustion.
The brigade captured fifteen battle-flags, and our own

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regiment owned five of the seven that I had counted
in its front .

“The wonderful triumph had been won at the price
of tin- blood of the bravest, and best, and truest. Old
Company ‘ F.’ of Norfolk, had carried in twelve men,
all of whom were killed or wounded. The Sixth R< sg-
iment, t<> which it was attached, carried in ninety-
eight men, and mustered ten for duty at this time.
The Sharpshooters carried in eighty men, and sixteen
remained for duty. Nearly half or our own regiment
had fallen, ami the Twelfth, Forty-first, and Sixteenth
Regiments had suffered in like proportion. Up to this
time only an inconsiderable number of prisoners hail
been captured.

•■ During the charge, ( ‘apt. John W. Wallace, of Com-
pany ‘•’.’ Sixty-first Virginia Regiment, was stricken
down with a broken thigh. He lay upon his hack,
refusing to allow his men to take him from the field
till the battle was over, waving his hat and urging his
men to ‘Go on; go forward.’

“When Maj. W. II. Etheredge, of the Forty-first
Regiment, jumped in the ditch, a brave Federal in the
front line fired through the traverse and killed a sol-
dier at his side. lie immediately dropped his empty
musket and snatched another from a cowering com-
rade to kill Maj. Etheredge. At this juncture the
Major, with remarkable self-possession, caught up two
Federals, who were crouching in the ditch, and held
their heads together between himself and his deter-
mined opponent, swinging them to and fro to cover
the sight ol the musket, the Federal doing his hest to
uncover it SO as to unharm his friends by his bullet.
Peter ( ; i lil is. of the Forty-first Virginia Regiment,
rushed to the assistance of the Major, and killed his
foe. Gibbs was a gallant soldier, and fought with
great desperation. It was said at the time that he
slew fourteen men that day.

”The Alaliamians made a grand charge under a ter-
rible fire, reaching the crest of the ‘Crater’ without
faltering, and here a short struggle ensued. They
tumbled muskets, clubs, clods of earth, and cannon
halls into the excavation on the heads of the enemy
with telling effect. This novel warfare lasted only a
few minutes, when Bartlett ordered up the white Hag,
an I about five hundred prisoners marched to our rear.
The negroes among them were very much alarmed,
and vociferously implored for their lives. One old

cornfield chap exclan 1: ‘My God, massa, 1 never

pin ted a gun at a white man in all my life: dem nasty,
stinking Yankees fotch us here, and we didn’t want to
come fus! ‘

“The appearance of this” rough, irregular hole beg-
gars description. It was estimated that it contained
six hundred bodies. The importance of reconstruct-
ing this broken line of earthworks at mice prevented
the removal of these bodies; therefore, they were buried
as they had fallen, in one indiscriminate neap. Spades
were brought in, and the earth thrown from the sides
of the ‘Crater’ until they were covered a sufficient
depth. By three o’clock in the afternoon all was over,
and we were enjoying a welcome truce.”

Here follows an account of the odor on that hot af-
ternoon, that is omitted from this account.

” There weic thousands of captured arms around us,
and during the night some of our men would shoot
ramrods at the enemy just for the fun of hearing them
wdiiz. One that was sent over drew from a Federal
the exclamation : ‘ Great God ! Johnnie, you are throw-

ing turkey spits ami stringing us together over here.
Stop it’.’

” A correspondent of one of the New York dailies.
writing a description of this battle from accounts ob-
tained from wounded officers who had arrived at Wash-
ington, uses the following language: ‘Often have the
Confederates won encomiums for valor, but never he-
fore did they tight with such uncontrollable despera-
tion. It appeared as if our troops were at their mercy,
standing helpless or running in terror, and shot dow n
like dogs. No such scene has been witnessed in any
battle ot the war. The charge of the enemy against
the negro troops was terrific. With fearful yells they
rushed down against them. The negroes at once ran
hack, breaking through the line of white troops in the
rear. Again and again their officers tried to rally them.
Words and blows were useless. Tiny were victims of
an uncontrollable terror, and human agency could not

stop them.’

“Next morning was a bright and beautiful Sabbath,
and nothing of moment occurred. At least throe thou-
sand of the Federal dead were still on the field, putri-
fying under the scorching rays of the sun. I remem-
ber a negro between the lines, who had both legs blown
off, crawled to the outside of our works, stuck three
muskets in the ground, and threw a small piece of tent
cloth over them to shelter his head from the hot sun-
shine. Some of our men managed to shove a cup of
water to him, which he drank, and immediately com-
menced frothing at the mouth, and died in a very
short time afterwards. He had lived in this condition
for nearly twenty-four hours.

“On Monday morning a truce was granted, and the
Federals sent out details to hury their dead between
the lines. They dug a long ditch, and placed the bod-
ies Crosswise, several layers up, and refilled the ditch,
and thus ended the tragic scenes of three days in and
around the ‘Crater.’ ”

The Statue of William Penn — The greatest work
of art at the Columbian Exposition, no doubt, will be
the bronze statue of William Penn, made to surmount
the great dome at City Hall, Philadelphia. Its im-
mense proportions are as follows: Weight, (it), ood lbs.;
height, 37 ft.; hat, 3 ft. diam., rim, ‘_’:’> ft. in circum-
ference; nose. Pi inches long; eyes. VI ■in. long, 4 in.
wide; mouth, from corner to corner, 14 in.; face, from
hat to chin. 3 ft. 3 in.; hair, 4 feet long; shoulders, 28
ft. circumference, 11 ft. diam.; arms, 12 ft. 6 in. long;
coat sleeve, 9 ft. 6 in. circumference; cuffs on coat, 3
ft. long; waist, ’24 ft. circumference, 8 ft. 9 in. diam.;
buttons on coat, 6in. in diam.; hands,*! ft.il in. cir-
cumference, 3 ft. wide and 4 ft. long; fingers, 2 ft. Gin.
long; finger nails, Min. long; legs, from ankle to knee,
10 ft.; ankle, fi ft. circumference; calf of legs, 8 ft. 8in.
in circumference; feet, 2’2 in. wide, 5 ft. 4 in. long;
tree, Hi ft. 4 in. in circumference.

The foregoing account may not be as impressive to
tlie reader as it was to the editor of the Confederate
Veteran, who stood at the foot of the enormous statue
a few weeks ago in Philadelphia.

In sending his subscription to the Confederate
Veteran, Cel. W. P. Barlow, Secretary of the Ex-Con-
federate Association of Missouri, says: “My impres-
sion is that you have struck the right gait for a long
march.”

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SECRET SERVICE FUND. CONFISCATING PRIVATE PROPERTY.

CONFEDERATE GOLD PAII> To UNCLE SAM BELONGING
TO THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT.

.1 REMINISCENCE CONNECTING GEN. FISK AND PRESI-
DENT ANDREW JOHNSON.

The editor of the Confederate Veteran had occa-
sion to call on Capt. Ernest Cucullu, of New Orleans,
and the conversation disclosed the fad that the last
official Confederate order was issued to him. He had
been on the staff of Gen. E. Kirby Smith from the
time that officer was able to resume command after liis
terrible wounds at Mannassas.

Mr. Davis had communicated to Gen. Kirby Smith
the fall of Richmond and the surrender of General
Lee, and that hi’ would endeavor to get to Cuba, and
thence cross over to Texas, when’, with 37,000 men
west of the great river, they would make a stand at
Hempstead, Tex. It was understood that in this last
rally the best terms possible for capitulation would he
made.

Captain Cucullu was directed to take $10,000 in gold
and go to Cuba, SO as to aid Mr. Pavis in his plans.
The Captain suggested that >c>,iHnim gold would he
Sufficient, and he only took that amount.

Gen, Kirby Smith’s headquarters were at Shreve-
port. hut lie had gone to Galveston with his aide, and
the money sachel had been taken on board tie Gray-
hound, which was ready to run the blockade. While
they waited, a flag-of-truce boat hove in sight. It
brought the news that General Buckner had surren-
dered at Shreveport. Then there was nothing to do
by the man whom Mr. Pavis entrusted with “greater
power than” he “due give in writing” hut to surren-
der, and turn over the Confederate gold in his posses-
sion, A plea was made in behalf <>( several general
officers, and it was agreed that they he paid in the ag-
gregate $1,700. The general commanding had due him
thousands of dollars salary, hut declined to take any
part of it. Here is the order, which i- certainly the
last one ever issued :

Galveston Harbor, June 3, 1865, Captain: When

you reach New Orleans you will, after deducting your
necessary traveling expenses, turn over to Major-Gen-
cral Canby, United States Army, commanding, etc..

S”.. 300, being the secret seiviee funds Confederate

States, remaining in your possession. Respectfully,
your obedient servant. E. Kirby Smith. General.
( ‘apt. Ernest Cuculu.

After taking the money to General Canby, and get-
ting his receipt, Dr. David Yandell. of Louisville.” and
another officer were found to be destitute, and General
Canby gave them $270, and allowed $1, which was
charged by Captain Cucullu for a carriage in New < >r-
leans. General Canby’s receipt is as follows:

Headquarters Department of the Gttlf — New
Orleans, June 6. 1865 -Received of Capt. Ernest Cu-
cullu, aide-de-camp on the stall’ of General E. Kirby
Smith, the sum of $3,029 in specie, being the balance
in his hands of the ” secret servicefund” of the Trans-
Mississippi Department. Ed R. S. Canby.

General Canby seemed surprised that such a fund
was turned over to him, but said: “It is just like
Kirby, the soul of honor.” They were fellow-students
at West Point.

J. B. White, in a letter from Tyree Springs, Tenn.,

gives some interesting reminiscences of wartimes at
Nashville. He describes vividly the confiscation of
Gen. Donelson’s property, near Hendersonville, not
many miles from Nashville, and how his application
to restore it to the family after Donelson’s death was
treated. His petition for its restoration was emphati-
cally refused, with the comment, “No. sir; we will
never give up that property whilst the Government
lasts.” l L>- refused to put in writing his decision, un-
til Judge Lawrence, a Tennessean, but who had en-
listed in the Union cause, suggested that he write on
the application, ” Refused,” which he did. –
( Continuing his letter, Mr. White says:

“The General occupied the home ‘if John M. Bass,
on Church Street, now owned by E. W. Cole. His
headquarters were luxuriously furnished, and he was
attended by a troop of handsome, well-dressed ser-
vants, both men and women. He sustained the great-
ness and dignity of the Government in grand style.

“After leaving the headquarters of the General, 1
went to see Mrs. Donelson, and told her the result of
my petition and the failure of my application. I
handed her the petition with the General’s indorse-
ment, ami adv ised her to write to President Johnson,
enclose tin papers t<> him, and ask him to order Gen
😮 give her tic possession of her home. I told
her to explain to the President fully her condition and
that of lei family, and to remind him of the former
relations that existed between himself and her hus-
band,and to lei me see her letter before she mailed it.

I called to see her next day. She had her letter ready
and read it to me. It was a -mart, admirable letter.

well written, reminding the President that they were
both natives of North Carolina, and were residents of
the same city — Raleigh; that her father was Gov.
Branch, of North Carolina, and was Secretary of the
Navy under Gen. Jackson, and that he had lived in
Washington City with her father’s family, where she
was married to Gen. Donelson, and had removed with

her husband soon thereafter to Tennessee; and that
Gen. Donelson had always been his personal and po-
litical friend, and had supported him for Governor of
Tennessee against ( !ol. < ientry, his own hrother-in-law.
a man for whom he had the highest respect, yet his
political and personal friendship was stronger than
family ties; ami now, her husband being dead and his
family without a home and dependent upon others
for a shelter, -he applied confidently to him to see that
-he was restored to her home, as she was advised that
she had a right to it. She believed he would never
forsake a friend in adversity. She had entertained
him at her house, and her husband had been his friend
when he needed friends.

“This letter presented her case much better than I
had presented it in my petition to Gen. Kisk. A
woman can write much hotter than a man when her
feelings are enlisted. 1 told Mrs. Donelson her letter
was well conceived and better executed. It was mailed
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h ippened to be at the White House on buBiness with
the Presidi nt. East said when the President got Mrs.
Denelson’s letter ami read it. he got into a towering
passion, and Bwore thai her father, Gov. Branch, was
the first public man that ever noticed him or spoke a
kind word to bim : that one morning when he was oul
very early sweeping the pavement in front of the simp
in which he was learning the tailor’s trade, a tall, gray-
haired man came walking by and spoke kindly to bim,
commending his industry, and Baid: ‘That is right,
my son: always be honest and industrious and you
Will make a man of yourself.’ He told me lie was
Gov. Branch, ami gave me a silver half-dollar to keep
in remembrance 01 him ami the advice he had given
me. He said lie had the half-dollar now with him at

the White Ilmise. and 1 rdered his private secretary.

Browning, to go ami get it: he wanted tn show it to
.1 udge Bast.

“The President then ordered his secretary to send a
telegram to Gen. Fisk to give up the farm to Mrs. Don-
elson, which was done that night. (Jen. Fisk paid no
attention to t lie dispatch, believing, as he told me,
that it was bogus. Mrs. Donelson waited .some weeks
and received no reply to her letter. 1 told her to write
again, as the letter might have miscarried; she wrote
again. This was answered, and a peremptory order
on (Jen. Fisk to give up the place to Mrs. Donelson,
and report to the President immediately why he had
not complied with his first order; and if his reasons
were not entirely satisfactory, some one would he put
in his place who would obey his orders.

” Fisk came mar losing nis position, and he made
up for the delay of action by immediate restoration of
everything possible to the 1 lonelson family.”

The foregoing story is not meant to convey implied
comment on the action of the President. It is given
-imply as a reminiscence of war times. Judge Law-
rence, wdio is referred to, was connected with the Union
forces through much of the war. and made friendships
for heroic service- in behalf of citi/ens who were mal-
treated by the army. The family of the late Col. G.
A. Washington will ever have pathetic memory for
hi- kindness to them, when two sets of soldiers went
to Wessyngton and got into a quarrel over which
should take his life because he had killed a soldier
who was stealing one of his horses.

GEN. GRANT AT SHIFOH.

.1 NASHVILLE LADY QIVR8 VALUABLE HISTORIC TES-
TIMONY.

KNOWLEDGE OF GEN. WHITESIDE WASTED.

Aberdeen, South Dakotah,
November 20, 1892.
Dear SlR — Can you furnish me the present address
of a Gen. Whiteside who, in l.s<;2 and lsc;*,, com-
manded a brigade of Confederate Cavalry, and in a
light engagement | 1 think i at Lamar, Miss., was
wounded and taken prisoner. A friend of mine has
a pair of silver spurs which he at that time took from
the General, and would now like to return them to
him or his family. The lapse of time has, in my opin-
ion, made them very valuable to their former owner
as a relic, and my friend would take great pleasure in
returning them. Respectfully yours,

i). McGlachlin.

Sin- writes to T. M. Hurst, Assistant Postmaster at

Nashville, in reply to a letter of inquiry. The home
of the lady was. at that time, on the Tennessee River
bluff at Savannah, a few miles below where the battle
of Shiloh was fought :

” N \-u \ 111 k. Tknn., December li, 1892.
” Dear Sir— Your letter of inquiry concerning ‘(Jen.
Grant’s physical condition on the morning the battle
of Shiloh began.’ is received. You will please accepl
my assurance, gladly given, that on the date men-
tioned 1 believe (Jen. Grant was thoroughly sober.
He was at my breakfast-table when he heard the re-
port from a cannon. Holding, untasted, a cup of cof-
fee, he paused in conversation to listen a moment at
the report of another cannon. He hastily arose, say-
ing to his stall’ officers, ‘Gentlemen, the ball is in mo-
tion; let’s be off.’ His flagship (as he called his spe-
cial steamboat^ was lying at the wharf, and in fifteen
■minutes he. stall’ officers, orderlies, clerks, and horses
had embarked.

” During the weeks of his occupancy of my house he
always demeaned himself as a gentleman; was kind,
courteous, genial, and considerate, and never appeared
in my presence in a state of intoxication. He was
uniformly kind to citizens, irrespective of polities, and
whenever the brutality to citizens, so frequently in-
dulged in by the soldiers, was made known to him, he
at once sent orders for the release of the captives or
restoration of the property appropriated. As a proof
of his thoughtful kindness, 1 mention that during the
battle on Sunday he wrote and sent to my mother a
safeguard to prevent her home being used for a hos-
pital. Yielding to the appeals of humanity, she did.
however, open her home to the wounded and sick for
three months in succession, often administering to
their wants and necessities in person. In such high
esteem did fJeu. Grant hold such magnanimity under
the most aggravating circumstances, that he thanked
her most cordially, assuring her that, considering the
great losses and gross indignities she had received from
the soldiers, her nobility of soul was more to be ad-
mired than the fame of a general leading an army of
victorious soldiers.

“On one occasion he asked to be introduced to my
mother and family, saying. ‘If you have no objections
to introducing me, I will be much pleased.’ I replied,
‘ Not because you are a great general, but because I be-
lieve you to be a gentleman, I will unhesitatingly in-
troduce you to them.’ In deference to the fact that I
was a southern lady, with southern proclivities, he
attired himself in a full suit of citizen’s clothes, and,
touching himself on the shoulder, said, ‘I thought
you would like this best,’ evincing delicate courtesy
and gentlemanly instincts of which the honors of war
or merited promotion had not deprived him.

“I feel that it is due to the surviving members of
(Jen. Grant’s family to mention some evidences of his
great-hearted ness as shown in kindness to southern
people. ‘Military necessity ‘ was not to him a term
synonymous with unlicensed vandalism or approval
of terrorism. He was too great and too true to his
manhood to be fettered by prejudice.

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45

“lam pleased that t can give these reminiscences
of a man who, as a soldier and statesman, received
and merited the homage of a nation; for they are tes-
timonies of his inner life and innate characteristics
worthy to be recorded with the magnanimity of ‘kin-
ship over self,’ as manifested on the day of Gen. Lee’s
surrender. ” Respectfully,

“Mrs. YV. H. Cherry.”

A CON FEDERATE AT THE TOMB OF GRANT.

The principal oration at the tomb of Grant lasl
memorial day was delivered by Col. Charles Marshall,
who was chief of staff to General Lee. He said, in
part :

“It is not easy to express the thoughts that the scene
before me inspires in my mind, and in the mind of
every man who understands the full meaning of this
occasion. Men who were arrayed against each othei

in deadly strife are now met together to ■!” I ir to

the memory of one who led one part of this audience
to ;i complete and absolute victory over the other, yet
in the hearts of the victors there is no feeling of
triumph, and in the hearts of the vanquished there is
no bitterness, no humiliation.”

Col. Marshall said that both the North and the
South rejoice that the voyage across a tempestuous sea
of blood and teats is over. After referring to the bit-
terness of the conflict, and the fad that the combat-
ants so quickly dispersed at the end, be said :

“No such peace as our peace ever followed imme-
diately upon such a war as our war. The exhausted
South was completely at the mercy of the victorious
North, and yet the sound of the last gun bad scarcely
died away when, not only peace, but peace and good
will, were re-established, ami the \ ictors and the van-
quished took u]i the work of repairing the damages of
war, and advancing the common welfare of the whole
country, as if the old relations — social, commercial and

political between the people of the two section-, bad

never been disturbed.”

Of Grant be said :

“Great as were bis achievements in war, I think his
crowning glory was that of a peacemaker, and that to
him belongs the blessing promised to peacemakers.”

SOUTHERN (iRAXITE FOR THE MONUMENT.

New Orleans Times-Democrat.]

A correspondent suggests that as the Davis monu-
ment is to be a Southern affair it be constructed oi
stones from the various Southern States, the design
contributed by Southern artists and the work done by
Southern men.

This proposition seems reasonable enough to us
under the Circumstances, and not smacking of section-
al sentiment.

When Mr. Davis died but few sympathizing mes-
sages came from the other side of the Ohio; there
marched in his funeral procession none from the
Northern States – they left us to bury our dead. It
was an affair in which the South alone took part, al-
though to Mr. Davis the far Western States owed
their birth and prosperity, and once were proud to
honor him. Had the Southern cause succeeded, we
might have called on the marble of Greece to com-

memorate it, but the Lost Cause will be best re-
membered in the stone of the Southern land, where
defeat awaited us.

Even if the South were barren of tine stones and
its monument bleak and desolate in consequence, it
would be a true memento of the South, which went
into this titanic struggle unprepared and without any
of tin’ resources necessary for warfare. Fortunately.
however, it will not be necessary to build a monument
of boulders. Since the death of the Confederacy, the
Southern States have been discovered to be rich in the
finest building and monumental stones. The marble
of Tennessee now finds its way over the entire Union,
and is good enough for the National Capitol itself, the
granite of Georgia is paving the streets of Cincinnati
and many other Western cities: syenite of Missouri is
among the handsomest building stones in thiscountry.
From tne quarries of the Southern States we get hand-
some stones, so that the Davis monument will not
only be Southern throughout, but as grand and
beautiful as it should be, an evidence not only of
Southern patriotism and devotion, but of the South’s
wealth <<( resources. The quarries of neither Maine
nor Greece ‘an contribute anything more beautiful
than the Southern States can themselves give to the
memory of their dead leader ami tin 1 Lost Cause.

Every State in the Union has contributed stone to
the Washington monument; every State in the South
should give to the Davis monument, which will com-
memorate the four years’ life of a nation which has
passed away the Confederate States of America.

UNITED i <>.\ FEDERATE VETERA*’* COMMITTEES.

\- a “Historical Committee, and on Southern
School History” to formulate a plan to secure a true
and reliable history of the late civil war. and to select
a proper and truthful history of the United States to
recommend for use in the public and private schools
of the South: Lieut. -Cen. E. Kirby Smith, Chairman,
Sewaiiee. Tel in.: I’rof .1. N. Stubbs. Woods’ ( ‘rose Roads,
Gloucester county, Va.; Prof. Alonzo Hill. Tuscaloosa,
Ala.; Lieut. Gen. S. D. Lee. Starkville, Mi– Maj.-
Gen. Ellison Capers, Columbia, S. C; Col. H. L. Hent-
ley, Abilene, Tex.; Prof .1. W. Nicholson, Baton
Rouge. La.

As a committee whose duty it shall be to memorial-
ize the Governors and Legislatures of the several States
and Territories which comprised the late Confederate
States (which have not already done so i. requesting
that adequate provision be made for maimed and
helpless Confederate veterans and their widows, to-
wit: General Wade Hampton, chairman. Colum-
bia, S. (‘.; Hon. John W. Daniel. Richmond, Va.; Ex-
Gov. Robert Lowry, Jackson, Miss.; Ex-Gov. L. S.
Ross, College Station, Tex.; Ex-Gov. James L.Eagle,
Little Rock, Ark. .

To serve on the committee to memorialize the Gov-
ernors and Legislatures of the States and Territories
which comprised the late Confederate States, to pen-
sion Mrs. Y. Jefferson Davis. Gen. Alexander W.
Archer, Richmond, Va.

Dr. H. M. Manson, a well-known Confederate, of
Rockwall, Texas: “I sent you $10 this morning tor
the Davis Monument. The incoming mail brought
the Confederate Veteran, and I send you six sub-
scribers; will send more.”

46

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERAN CAMPS.

AI.AHA.MA.
TOSTO! PICK. ‘ \M P. HO. 01 J l< i KS.

Bessemer Bessemer i 57 w. R. Jones, N. H.Sewall.

Btrmlogbam-… W.J. Hardee 89 Gen. P. B Ferguson, R. E.

Jones.

Kutaw Banders 64 Capt. O. H. Cole, F. II. Mun.ly.

Mohii.- Raphael Semmes. m Capt, Thos. T. Roche, Wm.

E. Mlckle.
Montgomery. ..Lomax

,151…Capt. Emmet Selbels, J. II.
Higglns.

ai;k i.N8AS.

Alma Cabell 202

Beotonvllle I abell v » Capt. N.s. Henry, A. .!. Bates.

I • itn Point .. Haller 182

Charleston Pal Cleburne… 191…

Conway Jefl Davis 213

Payettevllle W. H. Brooks 218…

Port Smith n.uT. Duval l Hi Capt.P.T. Devauey, R. M.Fry.

Qreenwood Ben McCulloch . …194…

Hack. -it City… Stonewall 199…

Hope Gratiot 208…

Morrllton Robert W. Harper .2(7…

Nashville roe NeaJ 202…

VanBuren John Wallace 209

FLORIDA.

Brookvllle W. W. Loring 18 Gen. John C. Devant, Col.

Kred I.. Robertson.

Chipley Chlpley ‘JIT…

Dad.- City Pasco C. V. Ass’n…, 57 (‘apt. John B. Johnston, \.

H. Ravesles.

Fernandino Nassau 104. ..Thos. A. Hall.

Inverness Geo. T. War.l 118. ..rapt. \V. C. Zimmerman, W.

s. Turner.

Jacksonville. ..R. E. Lee 58 .Gen. Wm.Baya, W.W.Tucker.

Jasper Stewart 155 Capt. H. .1. Stewart, John E.

Banna.

Lake City Columbia Co 150…Capt.W. R. Moore, \V. M. Ives.

Marlaona Milton 132. ..Capt W. D. Barnes, F. Philip.

Montlcello Patton Anderson…. 59… Capt. W. C. Bird, B. W. Part-
ridge.

Ocala Marion Co.CV. A… 56…’ apt. J. J. Flnley, Wm. Fox.

Orlando Orange Co 54…Capt. W. 11. Jewell, li. M.

Robinson.

Palmetto Geo. T.Ward 63… Japt. J. C. Pelot,J.W. Nettles.

Pensacola Ward C. V. Ass’n 10.. Cant. It. J. Jordan, C. V.

‘ill’. tllps, ,ii.

Qulncy D.L.Kenan 140. ..(apt. It. H. M. Davidson, D.

M. McMillan.

St. Augustine. ..E. Klrby smith 175…I lapt. J. A. Enslow, l r.

Sanford Gen. J. Finnegan 149. ..Capt. A. M. Thrasher, ( ‘. II.

I.eiler.

Tallahassee Lamar 1(51 …R. A. Whitfield.

Tampa Hillsboro 3H…l”t. F. W. Merrln, H. L. Crane.

Titusvillc Indian River 47…CI. J. Pritcbett, A. D. Cohen.

GEORGIA,

Atlanta Fulton Co., Ga IS9…Gen. W. L. Calhoun, John F.

Edwards.
Dalton Jos.E. Johnston 34. ..Capt. A. F. Roberts, J. A.

Blanton,

Ringgold Ringgold 206…

Bprlng Place… John B. Gordon 50.. Capt. R. K.Wilson, W. H.

Ramsey.
ILLINOIS.
Chicago Ex-Con. Ass’n B…C’t. J. W. While, it. I,. France.

INDIAN TERRITORY.

Ardmore John H. Morgan 107. ..(‘apt. J. L. Gaut, K. Scales.

Mc Vlester Jeff Lee 08. Gen. N. P.Guy, R. B. Coleman.

KENTUCKY.
Bowling Green-Bowling Green 148. .. Capt. W. F. Perry, James A.

Mitchell.

(ynthiana Ben Desha 9S…Capt.D. M.Snyder, J.W.Boyd.

Danville. I. Warren Grlgshy… 211. ..(‘apt. K. M. Green, John II.

Baughman.

Georgetown Georgetown 98. ..Capt. A. H. Sinclair, J. Webb.

Harrodsburg William Preston.., . 96…Capt. B. W. Allln, John Kane.

Luwrenceburg…Bcn Hardin Helm. ..101. ..(‘apt. P. H. Thomas, John P.

Vaughn.

Lexington L C. Breckinridge …100…Gen. J. Ho. v. I, G. C.Snyder.

Ml. Sterling ,Roy S. I ‘hike -2.il. .. Col. Thomas Johns W. T.

Havens.

Paducab \. P. Thompson 171 ..( “t.w.G. Bullitt, J. M. Brown.

Paris lolni H. Morgan 05. ..Capt. A. T. Forsyth, Will A.

Gaines.

KENTUCKY— Continued.

I’ostoi i n B. CAMP. NO. orFICBBS.

Richmond Thomas B. Collins. ..215…Capt- .las. Tevls, N. H. Death-

erage.

Russellvllle. lobn W. Caldwell…l89…MaJ. J. II. Brlgt;s, w. H. Mc-
carty.

Versailles Uex Buford no. ..Capt. Jos. c. Bailey, Russell

V. Bishop.

LOUISIANA.

Alexandria Jeff Da\ is 6. ..Gen. Geo. O. Walls. Capt. W.

W. Whlttlngton.

Ainii.ctty Amite City 78. ..(‘apt. A. P. Richards, G. W.

Bankaton.

Baton Rouge Baton Rouge. 17. ..Gen. John McGrath, I’, w.

Heroman.

Berwick. Winchester Hall 178… Capt. M. W. Bateman, F. 0.

Brlen.

Donaldsons llle. Ma). V. Mau-ln 38.. .Capt. S, A. Poche, P. Ganel.

Evergreen K. L. Gibson Si. ..Col. Wm. M. Ewell, I. (‘.John-
son.

Lake Charles Calcasieu C. Vet 82. ..Capt. W. A. Kl.app. W. I,.

HutchingB.

I,. Providence Lake Providence 198…

Mansfield Mouton 41. ..Capt. C. Schuler, T.G. l’egues.

Merrick Isaiah Norwood 110… Capt.. D. T. Merrick, J. Jewell

Taylor.
Natchitoches.. ..Natchitoches 40 ..(‘apt. J. Alp. Prudbomme, c.

K. Levy.
NewOrleans \rmv of N. Vn l…Col. W. R. Lyman, Thos. &

O’Brien.

New ( n leans Army of Tenu 2…Gen. J. Glynn Jr., N. Cnny.

NewOrleans Wash. Artillery 15. ..Col. B. F. Kshelman, I.ieut.-

Col. L. A. Adam.
New Orleans Henry st. Paul l6…Gen. Jos. Demoruelle, Col. M.

T. Dncros.

1 ipelousas…

,.R. B. Lee….

iloomticl.l.

Plaquemlne Iberville 18. ..(‘apt. Chas. II. Dickinson,

John L. Dardenne.

Rayvllle Richland 152.. .Capt. J. dm s. Summerlln, O.

T. Smith.

Rusiin Rustin 7…Capt.A.Barksdale, .1. 1.. Hon. 1.

Shreveport’ Gen. Leroy Stafford 3. ..Capt. Wm. Kinney, Will H.

Tunnard.

Tangipahoa Camp Moore 60.. .Capt. 0. P. Amacker, (i. II.

Taylor.

Thil.odaux Braxton Bragg 196…

MISSISSIPPI.

Boonevllle W. H. II. Tlson 170. ..(‘apt. D. T. Beall, J.W.Smith.

Columbus Isham Harrison 27 …Dr. B. A. Vaughan, W. A,

1 ampliell.
CrvsialSp’gs Hen Humphreys 19. ..Capt. (‘. Humphries, J. M.

Haley.

Edwards W. A. Montgomery 26. ..Capt. W. A. Montgomery, H.

W. Barrett.

Fayette J.J.Whitney 22. ..Capt. W. I,. Stephen, W. K.

Penny.

Greenw I Hugh A. Reynolds…218…

Grenada W. K. Harksdale 189…

Hattiesburg Hattlesburg 21. ..Cant. Geo. D. Hartilcld, Evan

H. Harris.

Holly Springs… Kit Mott 23…Capt. J. F. Kant. S. H. 1’ryor.

Jackson Kol.l. A. Smith 24. ..(‘apt. W.D.Holder. (J. S. Green.

Macon las. I gstreei iso… Capt. W. H.Foote, J. L.Griggs.

Meridian Wall I. all 25. ..(“t. W. K. Brown, 11. \’. White.

Miss. City Beauvoir l20…Gen. J. R. Davis, F. S. Hewes.

Natchez Natchez 20…Lieut.-Col. F.J. V. Let and,

K. L. Hopkins.

Doit ( .ii.son . ( llalborne 167…Capt.A.K.Jones, W.W. Moore.

Rolling Fork .Pal Cleburne 190…

Rosedale.. Montgomery 52. ..Col. F. A. Montgomery, (has.

c. Farrar.
Tupelo luliii M. Stone 131. ..Gen. John M. Stone, P. M.

Savery.

Vlcksburg Vlcksburg 32… Capt. D.A.Campbell, C. Davis.

Woodvllle W Iville 49.. .Capt. J. H. Jones, P. M.

Stockett.
Yazoo City Yazoo camp 176.. .Capt. s. D. Robertson, W. R.

McCuteheon.

MISSOURI.
Kansas City Kansas City 80. ..(“t. J. W.Mercer, G. B.Spratt.

NORTH CAROLINA.

Clinton Sampson 137. ..It. II. Holliday, C. K. Helling.

( ‘on cord (‘alia rr us Co. ( ‘. Y. A. .21 2…

Newton Catawba 182…C’t. J. G. Hall, L. R.Whitener.

OKLAHOMA.

Norman Gen. J. B. Gordon. ..200…

Oklahoma (“I. D. II. llaminon .I77…(‘apt. J. W. Johnston, John

(i. easier.

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47

SOUTH CAROLINA.

POSTOFFK’E. CAMP. NO. OFFICERS.

Aiken Barnard E. Bee SI. ..Capt. B. H. Teague. .1 \ T

Wigfall.
St. Georges Stephen Elliott 51.. .J. Otey Reed.

TENNESSEE.

Chattanooga N. B. Forrest 4. ..Gen. .1. V. Shipp, I,. T. Dick-

inson.
Clarksvillc Forbes

77 ( apt. T. H. Smilli. Clay
stacker.

Fayetteville s’kel ford-Fulton… 114. ..Col. .Tames D. Tillman, W. H.

I a-hnm.

Franklin John L. McEwen.. -…Cant. B. F. Roberts, K. N.

Richardson.
Jackson John Ingram 37. ..(‘apt. I-:. s. Mallory, s. E. Kit-

r..lf.
Knoxvllle Felix K. Zollleoffer…46 Cant. John F. Horn, (has.

Ducloux.
Knoxville Fred Anil 5. ..Col. Frank A. Moses, MaJ. J.

W. s. Prlerson.
Lewlsburg Dibrell 55…Capt. w. P. Irvine, \v. ti.

Lloyd.
McKenzIe. …….. Stonewall Jackson., 12…Capt. Marsh Atklsson, Dr. J.

1′. i lannon.

Memphis Con. His. Ass’n 28 Col. C. W. Fraser, R.J. Black.

Murf reesboro…. Joe B. Palmer 81…Capt. \v. s. McLemore. Wm.

Ledbei tei
Nashville Frank Cheatham…. 86… Elder K. I. in Cave, Col. John

P. Hickman.
Bhelbyvllle Wm, Frlerson 88 Capt. John M. Hastings. Jno.

• .. Arnold.
Tullahoma.. Pierce B. Anderson 17:; (apt. J, p. Bennett, W.J.

Travis.

Winchester, Turnej 12. ..Cant. W, H. Brannau, .1. .1.

Martin.

TEXAS.

Abilene Vbllene 72 . T. W. Dougherty.

Abilene Taylor Co ….. <•:’ Col, II. I.. Bentley, Theo.

Alvarado..

Hej ik.

Alvarado .. UV .1. H. Posey.

Athens Howdy Martin 65. ..(‘apt., D M. Morgan, W. T.

Eustace.

Atlanta Stonewall Jackson- 91. ..Cant. J. 1’. Johnson, .lames

N . sim nions.

Austin John I! Ilood 103 Cant. Wm. M. Brown, (has.

11. Powell.

Beaumont A. S. Johnston 75. ..Capt. Jed Chalsson, Tom J-

Russell,

Bellow Bell Co. ex-Con As 122. ..Capt. H. M. Cook, R. H. Tur-
ner.

BOnham Sul Boss Kit I ‘apt. J. P. Holmes.

Brownwood Stonewall Jackson. .118. ..Capt. Carl Vincent. R. I,.

Archer.

Bryan J. B. Robertson 124. .. Capt. H. II. Stoddard, \V. II.

Harmon.
Buffalo Gap (amp Moody — …(‘apt. Ben !•’. Jones, J. J.

Kuban k.
Calvert W. P. Townsend HI. ..(‘apt. .1. H. Drennon, C. W.

Higglnbotbain.
Camerson Ben McCullough…., 29.. . Capt. E. J. Mclver, Joseph li.

Moon-.

Canton. James L. Hogg lit (apt. T. J. Towles, W. I>.

Thompson.
Carthage Horace Randall …. I68…J. R, Bond, J M. Woolworth.

Cleburne Pat Cleburne 88.. (apt. o. T. Plnmmer, M. s.

Kalilc
Colorado Albert Sidney — …(‘apt. \V V. Johnson, Thos.

Q. Mullln.
Columbus Shropshire-Upton. ..112. ..Capt. Geo. Met lormlck, J. J.

Pick.
Coleman John Pi lham 76. ..Capt. J. J. Callan, Janus M.

Williams.
Corpus Chrlstl… Jos. E. Johnston.., S3.. .Capt. H. R. Sutherland, M. (‘.

Spann.

Corslcana (‘. M. Winkler 147. ..Capt. B. M. Collins.

Crockett Crockett Ill (apt. Enoch Braxson, .1. F.

Martin.
Caldwell camp Rogers 142. ..I. F. Matthews,

Dallas Sterling Price .11. ..(‘apt. .1. .1. Miller, Gen. Wm.

L. Thompson.

Dechtur Ben McCulloch 30…Capt. Will A, Miller, A. Ed-

wards.

Denton Sul Boss 120. ..Capt. Hugh McKenzie, J. R.

Burton.

Dublin Erath & Comanche.. 85 Gen. J. T. Harris, 1„ E. (■(!-

lett.

Emma Lone Star 198…

Fairfield Wm. I,. Moody NT. ..(‘apt. Ueo.T. Bradley. I,. (..

Sandlfer.
Famey Camp Bee l80…Capt T. M. Daniel, S. U.

Fleming.

TEXAS— Continued.

POStOFFICE. (‘AMI’. MO. OFFICERS.

Fort Worth R. K. Lee 158. J. W. Friend. Eugene Burr.

Frost R. u. Mills lOti.Capt. A. Chamberlain, Dr. M.

F. Wakefield,

Gainesville los. E. Johnston 119.. Capt. J. M. Wright, John T.

Walker.

Galveston Magruder 105.. (Jen. T. N. Waul. Chris c

Beavans.

Gatesvllle Ex-c. A.Coryell Oo. I8S W. 1.. Saunders.

Goldthwaitc Jefl Davis 117. Mai. J. E. Martin, F. M. Tay-
lor.

Gonzales Gonzales 166. Mai. W. iv Bayers, M. East-

land.

Graham ..Young County 127. ..(apt. A. T. Gay, Y. M. Ed-

wards.

Granbury Granbury 67…J. A. Formivalt. I. H. Morris.

Hamilton A. S. Johnston UK. (apt. W. T. Saxon, c. C.

PoW.ll.

Hemstead Tom Green 186 ..Capt. Van B. Thornton, Sam

Sell ware

Henrietta .Sul Roes l72…Capt F. J. Barrett, C. B. Pat-

terson.

llillsboro Hill County l(»i Wm. A. Fields.

Houston Dick Bowling 197

Kaufman. ..Geo. D. Manlon …145 (apt. los. II nil master, E. s.

Pipes.

Kingston \ 3. Johnston 71 …Capt. J. F. Puckett, T. J. Fos-

ter.

l.adonia Rol.t.E.I.ee lit; Cant. G. W. Rlakene.\ . F. W.

Blakeney.
LaGrange ..Col. B. Tlmmons 61. ..Capt. B. H. Phelps, N. Ib>l-

man.

Lampasas B. E. Lee «i J. S. Lauderdale. D. C.

Thomas.

Lubbock F. K. Lubbock i > Capt W. D, Crump, (i. W.

Shannon.

Madisonvill, .lohh (i. Walker 128…R. Wiley.

Meridian A. s. Johnston 115 ..(‘apt. Robert Donncll, I. W.

Adams acting).
Merkel Merkel 79 (apt. J. T. Tucker. A. A.

Baker.
Mevi.i Joe Johnston … . »i Capt. C. L. Watson, 11. w.

Williams.

Mlnncola Wood County 153.. Capt. J. H. Huflmaster, Geo.

A. (age.
Mt. Enterprise Rosser. 82 ‘ apt. T. Turner. B. Birdwell.

Mt.Pleasant Col. Dud Jones Ul i apt . c. L. Dillahnnty. .1. C.

Turner.

Montague … Bob –lone 98 Capt. R. Bean, R. D. Rugeley.

McKlnney Collin County 109 (Jen. W.M. Bush. II. (. Mack.

Navavota Pat Cleburne 102 Capt .W. E. Barry. B. M. West .

Oakvllle loh n Donaldson …. — …

Palestine Palestine 44. ..Capt. .1. W. Ewlng, J. M. Ful-

1111 wider.
Paris I.S.Johnston 70 Capt. Geo. H. Pro-vine, John

apt.

W. Webb

Paint Rock. . ..Jeff Davis ..168 Capt. W. T. Melton. J. W.

Ratcbford.
Rockwall Rockwall 74 Capt. M.S. Austin, N. C Ed-

wards.

Rob} w. w. Loring 134 .Capt D. Speer, W. a, smith.

San Antonio A.S.Johnston 141. Cant. John s. Ford. Taylor

Mcltae.
Seymour Bedford Forrest so (apt. T. H. c. Peery, R. J.

Browning.
Sherman . ..Mildred Lee 90. ..Capt. J. T. Wilson, R. Walker.

Sweetwater E. C Walthall 92. (apt. W. D. II. all. J. H. Free-
man.

Sulphur sp’gs Matt Ashcrofl 170 (apt. R. M. Henderson, M. G.

Miller.

Taylor A. S. Johnston Hie. (apt. M. Boss, P. Hawkins.

Tvler i.. 8. Johnston 18. ..Capt James P. Douglas. Bid

s. Johnson.

Vernon Camp Cabell 125…Capt Sheni E. Hatchett >*.

D. Davis.
Waxahachie leff Davis 108 Cant R. P. Mackey, W. M.

McK night.

Weatherford Tom Green 169. ..Capt. J. P. Rice, M. V. Kin-

nison.
Wichita Falls …W.J. Hardee 73. ..Capt. C. R. Crockett. N. A.

Robinson.

VIRGINIA.

Reams Station.. J. E. B. Stuart 211…

Richmond George E. Picketts..204…

Roanoke William Watts.. ,.205

Williamsburg ..McGruder-Ewell 210…

WASHINGTON, D. c.

Washington Wash, cily Con 171. …Maj. Albert Akers.

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CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

i’hc (fonfcdcvutc llctcvan.

Fifty CentB^T Year. S. A CUNNINGHAM. Editor.

Offlce ;i t The American, Corner Church and Cherry Sta.

This publication Is the ;•■ rsonal property of S. A. < unnlngham.
Honey paid f”r n does not augment the Monument Fund directly,
but as au auxiliary Its benefll certainly makes it eminently worth]
the patronage of every frlmd of the c

The death of ex-President Rutherford B. Haves.
which occurred since our last issue, removes from the
walks of life the last ex-President except Mr. Cleve-
land. Mr. Hayes was in many respects a good man,
and ‘hiring his administration it was generally ac-
cepted at the Smith that, by the removal of the mili-
tary and other similar acts, he did more for cur people
than Mr. Tilden could have done.

I knew him personally while President, anil was
frequently with him afterward. The justification of
his accepting the Presidency, from his standpoint, was
the firm conviction, expressed to me, that the vote in
certain Southern States was not correctly counted.

This circumstance is recalled: When in Nashville.
a few years ago, attending an Association of Charities,
Mr. Hayes sat facing an old man, to whom I said, in
cordial spirit. ” We are loyal! ” The response was, ” If
you are not, we will make you!” This remark irri-
tated the ex-President very much, and he immedi-
ately turned to me, remarking: “You will remember
he was not one of the lighters.” Mr. Hayes evidently
would have relinked him, hut for the remark having
been made by quite an old man.

THINGS PERTINENT TO WAR TIMES.

The editor of the Confederate Veteran has ever
had a most earnest wish to promote the well being of
the southern people, and especially to have it known
that the Confederate soldier element is alive to issues
Of the times. Stimulated with this desire, and feeling
a persona], friendly interest in behalf of the family of
President Harrison’s brother, living in Tennessee, I
wrote Gen. Harrison a letter soon after his election,
in which I mentioned the circumstance of having been
six months a prisoner in his city, Indianapolis; also
of having barely escaped capture again at Resac’a,
where he, Gen. Harrison, was promoted for gallantry ;
and again of having confronted his brother in the bat-
tle of Franklin. 1 stated that I knew his brother well,
and felt that “our people,” regardless of party, would
be gratified if he would give him a good appointment.
In the letter 1 explained that 1 was a Democrat, ami
concluded by saying that an “acknowledgment is not
expected,” not wishing to encumber the President-
elect with any care. To that letter the following re-
sponse was received: “Though you have set me free
from any obligation to acknowledge your letter of the
L8th inst., it is so generous that 1 can not, accept the
discharge from the pleasant duty of telling you how
highly 1 appreciate your friendly words in behalf of a
brother whose plan of life was spoiled by the call of
his country to military service.”

“While ymi are writing about Joe Brown, you
might say something of the pikes received recently by
tli. Tennessee Historical Society.” This suggestion
was i licited by reference to the Georgia Senator’s ex-
traordinary career. 1 1 is connection with the war. his
long official career as Governor, and his antagonisms
with the Confederate Ail ministration at Richmond, arc
matters of history. Conspicuous in this respect was his
refusal to have Georgia troops sent out of that State.

Concerning weapons, it will be remembered that
Tennessee volunteers carried bowie knives. What an
industry it was to get them ready! Trifling fellows,
who were untidy in their dress, and trilling in every
other sense, would work away in the sand, semiring
their “butcher” knives, as if the brighter they glis-
tened the more tremulous would be the foe, when the
contemplated hand to hand encounter would begin.
Soon they were allowed to rust and drop by the
line of march.

But as to the “Joe Brown pikes” — they were of a
little more intelligent conception, particularly in
anticipation that some Confederates would have
to fight without guns. They consisted of two pieces
of timber about six feet long, banded together
with iron, the corners rounded, with an aperture near
one end, in which a blade fifteen inches long was in-
serted, and, by means of a spring, could be protruded
at will, and firmly held in place. It is useless to say
they were never used. The Historical Society had
better label them with an explanatory note, for those
who do not know of the silly things done in the be-
ginning of the Confederate war would never imagine
what thev were intended for.

I was quite amused one morning about eight years
ago at a remark of General Sherman, who was ray fel-
low’ passenger on the Western & Atlantic Railroad.
As the train was running into Graysville, he pointed
to the stone mill by the Chickamauga creek, an hun-
dred yards away, and said: “An Englishman living
here, made sabres for the Confederacy in that house.”
He referred to Mr. Gray, who was really an English
subject. This Mr. Cray built the long tunnel at Tun-
nel Hill, below Graysville, and was a man ‘of great
executive ability, but the “sabres” he made for Geor-
gia troops are known as the “Joe Brown pikes.”

By the by, as one of the smallest soldiers in that
campaign wherein Sherman, by constantly increased
numbers, flanked again and again the Confederates
under Johnston, compelling the latter to fall back
1(H) miles during the “all-summer” campaign, I note
the interesting coincidence that I was with Johnston
on his first trip over that road by daylight after the
war, and was with Sherman on his first, if not only
journey afterward. Johnston’s knowledge and rec-

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ollection of local i tic-; was most remarkable after
fifteen years. As the train darted along, turning its
many short curves, he would point to places where
batteries had been established, ami where resistance
was intended. He explained, too, how the enemy
managed to turn our right or left Hank.

Johnston did not know, however, all the territory,
for he said of his engineer, Lieutenant Buchanan, a
few years ago when that capable officer was in Wash-
ington to witness the transit of Venus, that he had
planned many a battle from his maps without ever
having seen the premises.

The modest professor is mentioned in Johnston’s
Narrativeas “that very intelligent officer.” Mr. Buch-
anan’s employment in the geodetic service of theGov-

emment to survey Tennessee, a pursuit that he has
followed through several vacations from his duties in
the University at I. el. anon, was fortunate for the de-
partment, according to official report. He has com-
pleted the first duty assigned, and can tell the distance
with astronomical accuracy, between Nashville, Knox-
ville and many places intervening.

MISSWG.

On the journey referred to Sherman was much in-
terested in passing scenery. While by the Chicka-
mauga station he pointed to a particular locality, and
said: “A negro stepped on a gun that lay in the mud ‘
there. It went off and wounded three of my men in
the legs.” When I told him of a recent journey with
General Johnston along then’, and how vividly he
recalled many things, his face brightened with a pleas-
ant smile, and he said: ”Was he through here?”
What memories are recalled in this connection ‘ Sher-
man issued a circular when he had pressed Johnston
many miles back into Georgia, in which he said that
if we had given up at a certain time we might have
retained all our property, but we had lost that oppor-
tunity, and he concluded with a warning that if we
persisted much longer, we need not expect to escape
with our lives. That threat intensified our men
afresh. However, it seems that with all of his bitter-
ness, a cordial personal relation ever existed between
him and Johnston.

General Sherman hail abundant evidence of the
South’s forbearance with him. The writer recalls this
illustration: On that journey through Georgia thir-
teen years ago, l(Hi or so of the citizens assembled to
see him at Cartersville. He walked out on the plat-
form and stood looking over the crowd, when some one
said : “General, we have improved since you was here.”
“Yes,” he replied, “we left a clean field for you.”
At this moment the “all aboard” was announced, and
Sherman added: ” I see you have the same depot, but ‘
you have put a new roof on it.” Cartersville was in
the area that he had lain waste with the torch, but
not a word of reproach was spoken; neither did any
one applaud him.

Ofl duty near Malvern HUL,

Foraged one of Hampton’* Legion,
In a glen with running rill.

‘Twas In the Seven Days 1 Battle region.

In a thicket, on grassy bank,
(irew summer flowers and berries sweet.

on Nature’s couch the soldier sank
And slept in this retreat.

The battle rages in his dream.
Battalions charge and caunons thunder.

While beside him, near the Btream,
Lies one down to death’s dread slumber.

The soldier starts! before Ills ryes.
There on the sward with fruit and flowers,

‘I’ll-‘ li.inv frame of a lost one Mrs.

Bleached to whiteness by sun and showers.

•■ \ mother’s son. a brother or lover.”
Mused the Vet.; “from shot and shell hissing

Wounded, had crept to cover.
And this is how he came up missing.”

Ah, the numbers on that sad list

( if ” Missing “—Blue and (iray !
Lei us hope they’ll be first to “hist!”

When the roll is called on Judgment Day.

A note with the above, from (‘apt. B. H. Teague, of

Aiken. S. C, explains: “While searching for wild
strawberries on one of the battlefields during the war.
I came across the -keleton of a Union soldier in a
thicket, who had probably been killed during the
‘ seven days’ tight.’ ”

SIX HUNDRED CONFEDERATE OFFICERS.

HOW THBT HERE EXPO.SK/) TO CONFBDSRAT1 CANNON
—A RETALIATORY MEASURE,

The following story cometffrom J. L. Lemon, of Ac-
worth. Ga., who says lie thinks the story has
Keen published:

” Doubtless you will oiler your columns as a medium
for recording interesting historical incidents connected
with the war. My experience while a prisoner was
thrilling and tragic in many respects, and varied as
the winds.

“1 was in Gen. Longstreet’s command in his move-
ment to take Knoxville, in November, 1863, and was
severely wounded and taken prisoner. Some time
later 1 was removed to the penitentiary at Nashville,
then to Camp Chase, and from there to Fori Delaware,
where two thousand five hundred or more Confederate
officers were confined. On our way from Camp Chase
to Fort Delaware we passed through Columbus, Ohio,
where I had a view(?) of the Ohio penitentiarv.

” In the summer of 1864, six hundred of theofticers
were taken from the pen at Fort Delaware and put
aboard the steamer ‘(‘resent’ and carried to Morris
Island, victims of retaliation for some alleged wrong
to the Federal prisoners at the hands of the Confeder-
ate. authorities. On the way we planned an escape,
the crew in charge of us being Confederate sympathiz-
ers. We were to land at Georgetown, overpower our
guards and the guards of the town, and escape. The
steamer, on Hearing the shore, struck a bar and pre-
vented its possibility.

“When we were awaiting to be taken upon the isl-
and we were without water, and suffered tortures from

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tin- beat in our crowded condition. We were taken
in charge <>n the island by a negro regiment, « ho were
instructed to take all V. S. blankets, clothing, can-
teens, and all other trinkets marked U. S., which they
did, leaving some of our men nearly bare. We were
kept under range of tin- Confederate batteries on Sul-
livan ami James’ Islands and battery wagons for forty-
two ‘lays. We obtained the water we drank while on
the island by digging holes in the sand for the water
to accumulate in : tins, you perceive, n as fine i ? i water
in August! Our negro guards treated us roughly for
awhile. Issuing our scanty rations to us. they poured
the hardtack and thin slices of meat into the tent on
the sand. By and by, through persuasion, we gained
their sympathy and they were kinder to us. stealing
for us extra rations and paying us most extravagant
prices for our horn, bone, and wood rings, and other
trinket- fashioned in our leisure.

“We were removed to Fort Pulaski and Hilton
Head. Some parties hail escaped from Andersonville,
and said they were fed mi sour sorghum and eorn
bread; in retaliation we were given pickles and refuse
corn meal, the result of which had almost completely
broken down our six hundred, none of whom were
Scarcely aide to drag themselves along.

“This awful affair has never been printed before, so
far as I know. “I am very respectfully,

“Joseph L. Lemon.”

GALLANT TENNESSEAN KILLED NEAR RICHMOND.

This little Confederate Veteran lias put many
people to looking up old documents that will ever be
sacred to them. Mrs. T. S. Colley, of Franklin, kindly
-end.- a copy of an article from the Richmond Enquirer,
of July 17, 1862. Its literal reproduction will be in-
teresting to young rcadej-s. as it breathes the spirit of
the time that it was written. In Col. Shackleford’s
lnmor the Bivouac at Fayetteville was named. Maj.
F. G. Buchanan is its President, and W. H. Cashine
tin- Secretary:

” Among the noble brave who fell in the recent bat-
tles near Richmond, perhaps no one deserves more
honorable mention than Lieut. John C. Shaekleford,
of the First Tennessee Regiment, who fell on Friday,
the 27th of June, while gallantly leading his regiment
in the first charge at Gaines’ Mills. Col. Shaekleford
was in the battle of Seven Pines, and also commanded
his regiment in the light at Ellison’s Mills on Thurs-
day before the battle in which he fell. In every ac-
tion, though but twenty-six years of age, he showed
himself to possess in an eminent degree the qualities
of a good commander, to w it., coolness, self-possession,
and bravery. So gallantly did he demean himself
upon the field in the thickest of the light that the sol-
diers would often exclaim: ‘Surely Col. Shackleford’s
nerves are steel!” When shot he was waving his
sword above his head and cheering his men on, but
so thick and terrible was the leaden storm that our
men were ordered to retreat. A soldier offered to take
him oil’ the Held, but he said : ‘No: it is no use; take
care of yourself.” lie was universally popular, and
was t’ne favorite of his own regiment. The First Ten-
nessee will ever cherish his memory with the most
grateful recollections, lie was a most ardent and en-
thusiastic devotee to the southern cause, was among

the first to respond to his country’s call, and was in
the service of the Confederate States in Virginia he-
fore his native State had seceded from the old Union.
With him love of the Confederacy was a passion, and
he seemed to but carry his. life in hi- hand, that he
might throw it upon the altar of his own loved native
South whenever her interest demanded it. His devo-
tedly affectionate parents, brothers and sisters, are
sadly bereaved in the loss of so noble, gifted, and
promising a son and brother, but may they be con-
soled in the reflection that he died at his post, in the
full discharge of his whole duty, and now fills a hero’s
grave.”

<ol. Shaikh ford was commanding Col. (now Gov-
ernor) Pete Tumey’s regiment at the time of his death.
The fatality in this famous regiment was awful. When
this genial, brave man was killed Col. Turney was suf-
fering from an almost fatal wound. He was succeeded
by McLauglin, who was also killed, and he by Maj.
Buchanan, who was wounded.

TO DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS.

Dead Girls — In these days, when disintegration
threatens to overturn society, when i>erpltxed philos-
ophers bring up the question of single tax as a rem-
edy for all existing governmental disorder, we south-
ern women keep one little old adage locked close to
our hearts — “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the
world.” It speaks to our hearts as nothing else does,
and we are satisfied to do our part through this me-
dium. In preceding generations the women of our
Southland have made it the very birthplace of enno-
bling qualities. In this connection I speak especially
of the kindergarten. It is progressive in the highest
sense. Woman’s nature is in thorough sympathy with
that of the little child. Let us advance shoulder to
shoulder under the Kentucky motto, ” In unity there
is strength.” We look on the little child as a beauti-
ful plant given to us by our Divine Master. The child
plant is growing, growing, growing! He will be a
man — an element for good or evil in society even be-
fore we know it. Quick, then, let tis surround him
with happy, moral influences, because the tender roots
of his nature are reaching out and they will assimi-
late what thev find. You remember who said, “Suf-
fer little children to tome unto me, and forbid them
not.” If society is cold and selfish — if every man is
for himself, with no interest in his fellows, it is be-
cause the religion Christ taught did not touch his soul
when a little child. If religion was made a joy to the
child, so that he would love it, and take it in, and as-
similate it as the Mowers do the sunshine, the world
would grow better in his manhood. Does the present
state of society tell you there is anything lacking?
Man has a three-fold nature — mental, moral, and phys-
ical, to be supplied with food. The statistics of peda-
gogy show – that in preceding generations (Jrccian edu-
cation finally failed because it gradually lost sight of
the moral side. Shall we fail for this cause? The
kindergarten meets the higher demands as well.

There are kindergartens in most of the large cities
of the South, and there should be in the towns and in
the country. Women of the South, this is our herit-
age, and 1 tell you that one hour with children is
worth more than all other antidotes for worry, care,
and sorrow. Mas.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

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GREAT SOURCE OF WEALTH F<>1! THE SOUTH.

All the South hails joyfully the introduction of that
which will tend to the practical development of her

resources. For this reason the CONFEDERATE VETERAN

emphasizes with pride the intelligence, which is assur-
ing, that the manufacture of steel is to be a most ben-
eficent factor for us all. The following extract from a
letter to Messrs. .1. II. Imnan. of New York; X. Bax-
ter, Jr., and A. M. Shook, of Nashville all of whom
were Confederates — written by the Hon. Abram S.
Hewitt, of New York, will he read with gratifying in-
terest. Tile letter is Hot of Verv recent (late, hut till’

facts are not known by the people generally. Mr.
Hewitt, in the investment referred to at Chattanooga,
leul the co-operative aid of his father-in-law, the bene-
factor, the late Peter Cooper, of New York:

“1 may be pardoned for recalling the fact that I was
the purchaser of the rolling mill at Chattanooga, from

the Government at the close of the war. and put it
in operation for the purpose of show ing that the iron
business could he successfully carried on in the South-
ern States. From the very outset I was aware of the
difficulty in the way of making steel, due to the pres-
ence of phosphorus in your ores, and hence 1 watched
the progress of the basic process w it h tin- greatest pos-
sible interest, and so long ago as 1862 1 was aware of
the experiments made by Mr. Snelus, which Berved to
show that lime could he used to neutralize phosphorus
in pig iron. Messrs. Thomas & Gilchrist, however,
first made a successful application of this principle,
and I always intended, it the works remained under
my control, to establish t he manufacture of basic steel
in Chattanooga. For this purpose I secured the orig-
inal control of the patents in this country, but cir-
cumstances occurred which made it impossible tor me
to execute my plans.

” It was, however, with the greatest possible satisfac-
tion that I was able to give Mi. Shook the informa-
tion which led to his visit to Europe, and to his study
01 the process at Brymbo Works, conducted by my
friend, Mr. Darby, where 1 knew that the difficulties
were even greater than those which existed in the
Southern States, and that they had been successfully
surmounted. Nevertheless, it required much money,
great energy and high courage on the part of the gen-
tlemen who associated themselves together for the in-
troduction of this new process. They have done their
work well, and tiny are entitled not only to honor,
hut to profit, which 1 hope they will realize. The
South i- the natural home of the basic process, just as
the North must necessarily he the great producer of
acid steel. It is an interesting fact that these products
have each their proper held of usefulness, and that the
basic steel of the South will undoubtedly finds mar-
ket north of the ( >hio river, just as the pig iron of the
South has invaded the Northern territory.

“‘ It has often been said that steel will drive out iron,
hut the fact is that the production of puddled iron
has increased and not diminished since the introduc-
tion of the improved steel processes, for some pur
poses iron will continue to he used, hut when basic
steel shall he supplied at low cost in adequate quanti-
ties, the domain in which iron can he used will he
greatly restricted. The future, therefore, for the new

product is very bright, and the demand will soon take
all of this admirable material which can he supplied
at a reasonable cost.

” 1 am afraid the Southern people do not appreciate
how much they owe to the managers of the great rail-
way system of the South for the remarkable progress
which has been made in the development of the coal
and iron resources of the Southern country. 1 know
of nothing in the history of industry more remarkable
than the intelligence with which the railway mana-
gers hav< recognized the necessity tor low freights on
raw materials, and if to-day the South has demon-
strated its ability to hold its own in the markets of the
North for its products, this result is due entirely to the
views which Mr. Inman and other gentlemen asso ;
ciated with him ami in other railway systems have
adopted in dealing with tie great problems of 1
portation. Instead of striv ing t” embarrass the plans
and restrict the powers of these benefactors of tie
South, the Southern States ought to give them carh
blanch to .any out their plans on the broadest po^si-
ble scale, and free from injurious conditions which
only impede the work of production, and increases the
cost of commodities to the consumer. To- 1 lay the South
has the cheapest transportation in the world, and hence
it i< emphatically the most prosperous region in the
world.

/ ETTER FROM II. M COOK.

Belton, Ti \ v-. January 23, 1893.
The sample copies of the Confederate Veteran

forwarded to me were received, and as the result of an
hour’s work with them, on the streets of Helton. I 1 n-
close herewith the names of seventeen subscribers,
accompanied by postoffice order for $8.50.

This publication in the interest of tie- Davis Monu-
ment, at the remarkable low price of 50 cent- per an-
num, was a happy thought, and if properly distrib-
uted will d<> more t” revive the seemingly collapsed
interest manifested in that subject throughout the
South than any other agency. Two years ago enthu-
siasm on the subject was unbounded. The Jeff I’av is
Monument was the principal topic, liberal contribu-
tions were made throughout the Southern Stati B, and
especially in Texas: even in the little town of II. It m
1 raised two hundred dollars, which was no exception
to the liberality of other towns, This money was for-
warded to (on. \V. F. Cabell, the Confederate Vice
President for Texas.

Altera time, however, the enthusiasm measurably
subsided; theSouth’s great sorrow was in sum. degree
mollified by time, the great healer, and action in the
monumental question was held in abeyance. As no
report was ever published of the amount of money
received from the different States ami sources, the
public was left in ignorance of results. Now. the
question propounded by the people is, How much has
been collected, and what has been done with the
money? While I have no doubt hut the money con-
tributed has been honestly cared tor, yet I know that
with the masses tie money question is a dedicate one:

hence, for the benefit of tin’ incredulous, ami for the
satisfaction and encouragement of all, I think it would
facilitate the work very materially to make a complete
exhibit of the amount received from each State, and
all sources, since the conception of the monument
idea, and amount on hand to date, through the Con-
federate Veteran.

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CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

SOME SOUTHERN WAR BEROES.

MSMBBBS OF Till: (JALLANT OLD WARD OF I 111: CON-
FEDERACY.

[Tin- st Louie l llobi Democrat

Passing, one by one. into the Bilent land, the heroic
leader.-; who struggled desperately to save “the lost
cause” have been dropping out of mortal ken during
tin past quarter of a century, until now a very small
group is left. Very interesting are tin’ figures which
make up the little hand, men of hoary hair and falter-
ing Btep they are now, hut their names recall memo-
ries of the days when they were active and alert, brav-
ing shot and shell “ii the field and cheerfully hearing
privation and hardship in the camp or on the march.
In those time-, in the cities of the East and the farm
houses and homes of the West, their names were exe-
crated, ami on the hotly contested border land their
approach was dreaded with sinking heart. The new
generation which has grown up to manhood since that
time has learned to look at them in a more kindly
light. Their valor and their devotion are come into
recognition; their disappointment and their failure
plead for them, and we remember that they, too, are
Americans whose prowess does honor to our race.

Busily occupied with business affairs in New Or-
leans, the last surviving general of the Confederacy,
Gen. Pierce Gustave T. Beauregard, still exhihits the
untiring, indomitable energy which characterized him
during the four years of war. In spite of his seventy-
four years, he retains the old pugnacity of his youth
and middle age. He does not wield the old weapons,
hut the man who has the hardihood to cross the old
general’s path and oppose his plans speedily learns
that he has an antagonist who can adapt himself to
any mode of warfare, and has lost none of his strategic
skill.

The general has a certain right to speak authorita-
tively, so far as experience can give the right, he hav-
ing had the honor and the responsibility of opening
The hall, by directing the attack on Fort Sumter, and
of commanding, in conjunction with Gen. J. E. John-
ston, at the battle of Bull Run. The general explains
with graphic force how, if that battle had been fought
as he planned it, and if he had been permitted, even
after the battle had taken place, to add his later plans,
he could have”crushed Patterson, liberated Maryland,
and captured Washington.” He surrendered with Gen.
-1. K. Johnston to Gen. Sherman, in April, 1865.

Associated with Gen. Beauregard of late years is that
other prominent soldier of the South, Gen. Jubal A.
Marly. The two men are congenial associates, having
many characteristics in common. The same dash and
impetuosity, the same impatience of contradiction or
control, distinguish Early as they do Beauregard, and
the same effects arc seen in both their lives in numer-
ous and bitter enemies. Gen. Early, who is seventy-
six years old, has been a soldier since boyhood, though
more than once he has abandoned a martial career for
law or business. He had a West Point training, and
first smelled powder in the Florida War of 1837. lie
quitted the army at the close of the war and com-
menced the practice of law; subsequently he sat in
the Virginia Legislature for two years. The outbreak
of the Mexican War lured him ‘from the pursuits ol
peace. He served as a major of volunteers, and acted
as Governor of Monterey the last two months of its

occupation. He returned to the practice of law when
tin- army was disbanded, and served for ten years as
attorney of the commonwealth. He was appointed
colonel on tin- outbreak of the Rebellion, and took
part in the battles of Hull Run, Fredericksburg, and
Gettysburg. In 1864 he was sent to tin- Valley of the
Shenandoah. There, after a few minor successes, he
fought the disastrous battle of Cedar Creek. Six
months later, in ( October, 1864, a still more severe dis-
aster hefell him at Waynesboro, where Gen. Custer
almost annihilated his command. Lee, who still re-
tained his faith in Early’s capacity, was unable to re-
sist the popular feeling in the army against the de-
feated general, and felt himself obliged to remove him
from his command. In his letter relieving him from
duty, Lee, with the delicacy of the true gentleman,
softened the blow by assuring Early of his own regard,
but reminded him that the country and the army
would naturally judge by results, and consequently
there could be no doubt that his influence would in-
crease the already serious difficulties accumulating in
Southwest Virginia. Early at once quitted the army
and spent some time in Europe.

A conspicuous figure among the survivors of the
great struggle is Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, who a
few years ago was elected Governor of Kentucky. He
was one of the pall-bearers at the funeral of Gen. Grant,
whom he always admired and honored. He was the
general to whom Grant sent the dispatch which stirred
so much enthusiasm in the North early in Grant’s ca-
reer, and which history has immortalized. The North
thought it had the right ring, and that the man who
wrote it was the man for the hour. The words, which
soon became famous, were: ”I propose to move imme-
diately upon your works.” This was at Fort Donelson.
Buckner’s two superiors, Officers Floyd and Pillow,
had made their escape, when they found the position
no longer tenable; but he declared that he would stay
with his men and share their fate. He remained, and
after the capitulation was sent as a prisoner of war to
Boston, Mass., where he was kept until exchanged, six
months later. On his return to the field he com-
manded under Bragg in Tennessee. He fought at
Murfreesboro and Chickamauga, and surrendered w’lth
E. Kirby Smith at Baton Rouge, in May, 1865. Buck-
ner was another of the West Point graduates, and had
also, like so many of his comrades and foes, done gal-
lant service in the Mexican War. He is now sixty-
nine years old.

Now sitting in the United States Senate for his na-
tive State of Georgia, is another brave officer of the
southern army, Gen. John Brown Gordon, who has
just passed his sixtieth birthday. He hears on his
body evidences of his valor in the shape of eight
wounds received in battle. He entered the Confeder-
ate Army as a captain of infantry, but before the close
of the war had risen to the rank of lieutenant general.
He was one of the officers who surrendered to Grant
at Appomattox.

Last, but not least remembered, of the old chivalric
guard of the Confederacy come those sturdy heroes,
Stephen I >. Lee and Ambrose P. Stewart. Gen. Lee
now holds a position of responsibility in a university
at Starkville, Miss., while Gen. Stewart, who is living
quietly at Oxford, Miss., was recently appointed Con-
federate commissioner on the committee for the con-
struction of a national Cemetery on the site of the
old battlefield of Chickamauga, where so many of the

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sons of the Confederacy fell fighting for the stars ami
bars.

The animosities of the war have long since been
buried, and by none more completely than by the men

who fought most bravely and sacrificed most in the
struggle. The North unites most heartily with the
South in recognizing the heroism of the men who
fought so gallantly fur their convictions. In the clos-
ing years of their lives the chieftains of the old Con-
federacy enjoy the love and honor that is accorded to
true soldiers, and when they finally pass away from
the scenes of their struggles they will not lie among
those who are soon forgotten.

RE\fF.\fRRANCE OF GREAT OCCASIONS.

Observations in New York on the centennial of tin 1
evacuation by the British; again, of Washington’s
first inauguration, which occurred by the bronze statue
near the sul i-t reasury in Wall Street ; again, in ( Ihicago,
where ninety thousand people were seated comfortably ,
and nearly as many more standing or strolling under
one roof; or hack in war times, when forty thousand
( Confederate soldiers were under review by < ten. Joseph
E. Johnston and the President of the Confederate
States at Grenada, Miss., when every soldier could see
every other.

The scene referred to above in Chicago was perhaps
the most remarkable that will be witnessed by any-
body of this generation. The writer was of a group
stationed about fifty yards from the center towards the

eastern end. At that extreme of the building there
was an elevated platform, on which there were more
than five thousand people. It was under the fine light
of a day suited to such occasions, hut the distance was
SO pieat that none of our party could tell whether they
were children or soldiers, not even whether they were
men or women. Indeed, it was so great it seemed
certain that no human voice could have penetrated
the distance of the building. In this connect ion “the
rebel yell.” so thrillingly described in the Confeder-
ate Veteran for January, is recalled. It might have
been heard. That wonderful assembly in a building
covering over forty acres, and the building, too, may
have attention in subsequent issues.

Rev. F. W. E. Peschau, of Wilmington, X. (‘., hut
formerly of Nashville, writes : “Success to you; it is
full of interest.” Mr. Peschau is the chaplain of Vet-
erans in North Carolina. On a recent visit to the old
” blockade city,” Mr. Peschau took kindly interest in
finding the old Freeman residence, where 1 was enter-
tained with thorough hospitality when hoard was sixty
dollars per day ami when my salary was eleven dol-
lars per month. The genial minister reminds me of a
great event at Wilmington last summer, when Gen.
F. 1). Hall, who is vigilant for the Davis Monument,
had twelve hundred to thirteen hundred of the wound-
ed, crippled, and maimed ones visit the seashore, where
they hail free board, etc., for three days, after having
had free railroad transportation from all parts of the
State, lie said he had never seen a more pathetic

sight, “these brave soldiers, injured in so many ways.
The chaplain preached to them midst the roar of the
sea waves breaking on the shore, and these men sang,
as with one voice,

• Nearer, my God, to Thet !

It was a sweet, sublime scene, and many a tear rolled
down the war-worn cheeks of these way-worn war-
riors.”

GREETING FROM WASHIXGTON.

From the Nation’s Capital, from the shores of the
Potomac, the .lames, and the beautiful valleys and
mountains of our section, and many loving hearts, a
cordial welcome is watted to you.

To preserve the memory of our departed heroes, and
care tor the living who are dependent, is largely wo-

man’s work, which she deems her privilege and pleas-
ure, even as she smiled through her tears and said to
them a quarter i if a century ago. ” Your country calls ;
go, and God bless you.”

The writer is not willing to admit that chivalry in
America i- dead, or that southern women are ready to
accept any substitute for it. We all honor ami Love
each other, and if we have been too poor since the war
to show our sympathy and respect in a substantial
way, let us rejoice that the time has passed. We can
easily take up the privileges of the changed South,
without giving up or forgetting the glories of the old.

The Smith ha- nobly worked out her independence,
ami we believe -he will contribute liberally to the
cause we all 1<>\ e. Those who have not money to give
may appeal confidently to the rich, ami where hearts
are united purses fly open. The noble work begun
will go on.

Enclosed find, pll a8e, a small amount for the grand
monument. 1 could not he happy without knowing
that it included my mite. It will he built by those
who are able to do it. and I hope, too, that the day is
not t’ar distant when not a single uncared for Confed-
erate will be found any where. Oncemore,”God bless
them all.” says the wife of one of the bravest of them
all. Alice Trueheart Bui k.

Washington, V. < ‘.

THE SAME CANTEEN.

i here are bonds of all sorts in this world of ours.
Fetters of friendship una tics -a flowers,

\mi true lover f s knots. I ween;
The girl Mini the i»\v are bound by a kiss.
Hut there’s never a bond, eld friend, like this,

We have drank from tin- same Canteen!

It w:is sometimes water, and sometimes milk,
\ini Bometlmes apple-jack “fine us silk:”

But whatever the tipple has been
We shared It together in bane or bliss.
And I warm to you, friend, when I think of this,
We drank from the same Canteen!

The rich and ureal sit down to dine,

They quafl ‘” each other in sparkling wine,

From glasses of crystal and green:
Bui I guess in their golden potations they miss
The warmth of regard to he found in this.

We drank from I lie- sanu Canteen!

We have shared our h’ankets ami tents together,

And have marched and foughl in all kinds of weather,

And hungry and full we have been;
Had days of battle and days of rest.
But this memory I cling tii and love the best,

We drank from the SWM Canteen!

For when WOUnded I lav on lie renter slope.
With my blood flowing fast and but little hope

Upon Which Day faint spirit could lean ;
oil! then i remember you crawled to my side,
Vnd bl iinu so fast ii seemed both must have died.

We drank from the same Canteen.

54

COX FE DER ATE VETE RAN .

THE DAVIS MONUMENT FUND.

INT OF lllnsi: Wlln HAVE CONTRlRUTKli.

The li-t of contributors ia arranged under two heads,
First, those whose names are given, and second, the
sums collected where the names of donors are nol
known. It i- earnestly requested that for next issue
names be -applied for the other lists, so the record of
contributors may be as complete as | •• ■>> i 1 > 1< ■. This
important list is incomplete. It will be revised and
republished. Bach name represents one dollar:

ALABAMA.

ANmsTON Through Mrs. R. Gardner, 821,

Birmingham 3 I. Buford; through Mrs I! M Gard-
ner, two hundred dollars.

Eutaw -Sanders’ Camp, mx dollars.

Gadsden — J Aiken, \V < ‘• Brockway and A L Glenn,
$5; Win Chandler, A .1 Collingsworth, I. W Dean, A
B Dunny, W A Dungan, W II Denson,85; II G Earnest,
Frank* Haysdon, M L Hicks, I. E Humphreys, Meek
A- Johnson, 15; .1 II Standifer, Abe Thompson, -I E
Whaley, R A Mitchell, R Goldman and L Smith,
of Queen City Bank, $5.

Greenville- I. aura E Abrams, E R Adams, J T
Beeland, -I G Daniel & Co, D G Dunklin, W .1 Dunk-
lin. Dunn & Ezekiel.C B Herbert, I. M Lane, Robt
A Lee, J A McGehce, Chas Newman, Chas Newman,
T W Peagler, Wm Pierce, Mrs W Pierce, Mrs R V Por-
i. r, .1 I; Porterfield, .1 B Powell, .1 (‘ Richardson, F (‘
Smith, .1 (‘ Steiner, -I M Steiner, S .1 Steiner, A Stein-
hart, A G Stewart, T .1 Thomas, Rev G R Upton, J II
Wilson, Mrs E S V Wilson.

Hintsvii i i Mi– Jeanie Sheffey.

Mobile -I R Burgett, W W Dugger, \’an Dorn sta-
tion: WG Duggar, Gallion station; Miss M B Kirk-
bride, T T Roche, Louise I! Sprague, -I I! Tompkins,
.1 I. Tucker, Price Williams, Jr.

Montgomery — Mrs M I) Bibb, Miss-Jennie I! Crom-
melin ; through Mrs M D Bibb, 81 13.85.

Pratt Mines— D M B Hasslet, -I T Massingen, T E
Mitchell, .1 G Moore, W X Polk, .1 W Randall, I, M
Reese, J A Rhode3, I’ .1 Rogers, 82: W I. Rogers, C A
Simmon-, E A Smith, Walton A- Peteel, E E Wiggins.

Ti si i mbia— Through Col. A. II. Kellar, $13.15.

Union Springs— D S Bethune, Virginia A Black
mon, X M Blidsoe, II D Bryan, Annie E Buford, J It
Buford,H P Coleman, Mrs SJ Foster,CC Frazer, Mrs
X II Frazer, W II Fuller, E II Goodwin, R II Hajas,
Annie I. Hobdy, Jennie McKay Hobdy, J B Hobdy,
Marie Hobdy, Mary Hobdy, It L Hobdy, R I, Hobdy,
Jr., Chas L Jinks, A Mil.-‘. Mrs F M Moseley, Mrs A
B Phillips, Mrs .1 E Pickett, W W Rainer, f V Ran-
dle, E T Ranclle, J L Roberts.

ARKANSAS.

Arkadelphia- -■) II Abraham, It T Cook, DT Dale,

T M Ewing.J A Ross, C C Scott, John S ker, $2.50

each: Geo Fuller, $5; C K Boswell, F .1 Carpenter, J
W Conger, Adam Clark,. I II Crawford, E L Jones, C
V Murray, E II McDonald, EC McDonald, Ed Thomas,
A W Wilson, .1 W Wilson.

A i gusta— James Eblin.

Batesvili.E Nathan Adler, Simon Adler, .lames
A Luster, John F Allen, W E Bevens,J WCase,Jae A

(aiter. .1 I’ Coffin, K M Desha, W .1 Erwin, D C
Ewing, John W Ferrill,J C Fitzhugh, E L Givens, S
A Hail, II M Hodgc,TJ Home, W B Lawrence, T M
Mack, Robl Neill, T .1 Owens, I X Reed, James Ruth-
erford, M A Wycough, M A R Wycough.

El 1 »ou ido W II Appleton.

I Iope M r- C A Forney

Hot Springs — Dr Thomas E Holland, five dollars.

Little Rock -Hon. John G. Fletcher, $11.25.

Moori field Jesse A Moore, •’ E Ross.

Morrili.ton West Humphreys.

FLORIDA.
Jacksonville -Gen. William Baya, $500.
Sandford C II Adkins. It S Dickens, (‘apt •» S
Tarver, Col A M Thrasher.

Sanibel Isi.ami — Mrs Letitia A Xutt. Miss Nannie
Nutt, live dollars.

GEORGIA.

Americus — CB Hudson, $2; W E Murphy.

Atlanta — E L Anthony, Ceo T Beeland, Charles
Beermann A Co. $15; .1 L Bishop, F C Bitgood, B M
Blackburn, W II Black, $2; I. R Bleckly, $5: X S
Blum, $2; S I) Bradwill, $2: .1 I> llra.lv, ‘$2; Robert
Brazelton, G S Brewster, $2; EC Brown, S E Brown,
T.I Burney, David .1 Bush, $2; Milton A Candler, s
N Chapman, .1 II clit’ton, Philip Cook, $5; II II Cobb,
A E Cox, C J Daniel, II R Daman, M K Dennis, . I A
Foote, L I! Folsom, W E Fonti, Harry Frank, $2;
Arnold Gedman, M B Gilmox, W C Glenn, $5; Peter
G Grant, II II Green, $2; D It Drover. It G (in inn. -I
L Harrison. Rev W M Haves, $2; W M Hawkes, It II
Hightower, -las K Hines, $5; Jerry Holmos, Joseph
Jacobs, $2; II Jennings, Mark W Johnson, J C Joiner,
GeoH Jones, $2; -1 Win Jones, 850; Jas-L Key, 82:
Dr J -I Knott. sj; Lamar & Rankin, $5; S HLandrum,
Thos .1 Leftwick, $5; Walter T Mc Arthur, 82; D E
McCarty, Hy McCaw, B L Mcintosh, $2 : C K Mad-
dox,$5; I II Martin, $2; II A Matthews, V A Menard,
CW Morgain, F II Moses, A .1 Moss, J W Nelms, $2;
It T Nesbitt, $5; WM Newbern,$2; Newton, Baker
& Co, II I. Nippert, 82; Robert A Xishett, 82; John
Perry, $2; Wm II 1! Phelps, $2; .1 B Pickett. P
Roman, $5; Lavender Ray, 82 ; K Reed, II N Ried,
82; Sidney Root, $10; W E Seabrook, Geo W Scott,
82.”.: W L Seddon. $5; John W Shackelford. A (J
Smart, 82; Burgess Smith, John Clay Smith, $2; Hoke
Smith, $50; W -I Speairs, -I C Steerman, 82; It E
Stockton, $2; -I D Stokes, Jos Thompson, 85; B Vig-
noux,82; C Z Weinmaster, 82; W A Wright, 82; A
It Wright, 82; Wm A Wright, 85.

Augusta— Patrick Walsh and others, $400.91; Wm
II Fleming.

Arlington- II C Heffield, $2.50.

Blackshear— A I’ Brantley, Nettie Brantley, Henry
J Smith, Jennie Smith.

Blitch- -lames Young.

Carrollton -I M Hewitt, two dollars.

CEDARTOWN— I II Sanders, two dollars.

( Ihu’kamauga -S F Parrott.

Crawford -I G Gibson, two dollars.

Danville T I. Hill, S W Sapp.

Dri’.i.iN T I. Criner, John M Stubbs.

Georgetown — John (‘ Guilford.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN. 55

Glennville — F P Collins, five dollars. William Rodes, J (‘ Rogers, .1 Woodson Royster, S P

Handy \V L Crouder Salter, S G Sharp, J H Shropshire, Mrs .1 II Shrop-

Macon-J Bell, Mrs’ A S Cope, J W Hinton, $2 Bnirp ‘ **** le Smith Richard Squires, Michael Sulfi-

each; Jas M Sapp, Chas Herbst; Bibb Countv Associ- Y, a »; J ‘ ‘ ” ! 1 , “‘\ 1 ‘, A “STwV pin , g i? n u r’i

,• oicono ” I \ atieo. VV ilia \ llcy, Mat W alton. John H \V ioh ,

ation, ?l().).U ( .). , … . ,.. .,-• 1 i 1. 1 n , ,

‘ , , Jesse Woodi’un; a briend, J 1! Jewell, gave two dol-

Milledgeville— J C Woodward. larseach; Miss Nannie Smith and Solomon VanMeter,

Moher— B F Hoodspette. five dollars each.

Montezuma — E Chambers. Of the foregoing, seventy-five dollars was collected

Pai.atka Cant S II Gray. Dv ^ rs – ” A. Spurr, and remitted to the Treasure]’ at

, ,,,, ‘ Q ,, Richmond: and fourteen dollars, collected by Mrs. 0.

SMiTHBORO-James rhomas Smith. L Bradley, remitted totheGenerkl Agent at iLhville.

Sonoraville-P T Reese Louisvilli Miss Martha A. Sneed, $10; Miss Jo-

Spakta — Through Mrs. Middlebrooks, 141.75. sephine Walker.

Sylvania— E W Frey. p, MBR0K i R T Chilton. Mrs. R T Chilton.

Temple— Robert II Faber. I;, SSEIjLVII ,i E _T .1 Bailey, 16.05; .1 B Briggs, John

Van’s Valley — Alex White. W Caldwell, $5 each; Dr R X Beauchamp, George R

Walkersville — .1 W Johnson Beall, Wilson Beard, R B Chastain, Joseph Cumbett,

Dr B !•’ Kidd, W R McCarty, James M McCutchen,

ILLIN0I8. John G. Orndorff, William Smith. (‘. W. Swanson, M

Chicago Col G Forrester. (Jen W A C Ryan, Mrs B Stovall.

Ryan, Col .1 G Ryan, Mrs E A Shannon. James Fen- LOUISIANA.

tress. Mansfield .1 W Adams, C W Blair, 15; T.I Book-

Lilly — E W Bacon, Miss Lilly Bacon. er. F M Brownfield, C T Baunnman, Henry Hums.

Mackinaw— Mrs I, E Brock. •’.” ,m s Bailey, James Brown, Dr B D Cooper, Dr W

N Cunningham, Cash, -las Dilzell, DeSoto Democrat,

INDIANA. $5; .1 B Dillon, .1 Douglas, VV .1 Elam, C W Elam, W

Evansville— A .1 Thomas. live dollar-. ‘•’ Fraser, S B Foster, E N Foster, Dr J W Fair. Win

, ,.1’mh c j 11 ‘ Goss, $5; I D Gibbons, John Glossill, S A Guy, R I”

Indianapolis— G I Miller, live dollars ,..,, . …. wo -a n win 1 ii-n’

Gibbs, L H Hanson, \\ I 1 1 all, \\ I Haden, J E Hewett,

INDIAN TERRITORY John Huson, W B Hewitt. A M Hewitt. I! K Jenkins,

„ . ‘.. ‘ ‘. M ,, ., ,, ‘ … . ,. , .. 85; W T Jackson, .1 B Lee, .1 T McClanahan, W II

v,”” T ” : r,’~; . ^ \! J’l\ \ ACantrell, M: ,. lin w E May R R Murphy, VV I. Mintei r \

\ Gray, 82; ( Hayden, AG McDaniel. Nabors, J M Nabors. E R Nabore, w I Pegins, K It

Pryor Creek— Tom A Hancock. Pickels, J W Parsons, A V Roach, C VV Page, 1′. I’.

Sherman— M L Elzy. Powell, G Rives, Sallie Rascoe, E B Rogers, J II Ras-

coe, (J Roberts, P II Ricks. Dr A V Roberts, $2.50; .1

KENTUCKY. Reiley, Albert Rives, M Ricks, Jae A Rives, J C Hue-,

Chilesburg— Richard A Spurr. Capt W P Sample, $5; Dr S .1 Smart, (‘ .1 S te, VV

Fairview— Bethel Sunday Scl 1. $8.50; 1! W How, E Singleton, DrStoaltesDrW Sutherland, OH PSam-

ner,$3; I” E Downer, 82.50; S R Jesup, I’. D Lackey- P ,e > E NN Sn < IV, ,. and > *’. ‘! ,, “,’, i A, ,T S ‘.T’l’-‘

H E Morton,; J. I, Mosely, R I. Mosely. $1.50 each; Taylor Sam Williams, VV N VVilliams, B VV iller, B N

W I’ Vanillin ‘ ‘ Wimple. I .1 Williams, .1 B Williams,! has P Will-

” ” ,…„„ iams.J B Williams. Jr., DrJF Walker, O V Wemple,

Frankfort— \* 1 Havens. , Q WemplC] L B W ilcox, .1 L Williams, G B VVill-

Georgetown — A H Sinclair, five dollars. iams. Miss Belle Taylor.

Henderson-R II Cunningham VV M Hanna, M ,,,„., from ( . n]A w |h „, Treasurer For Louisi .

M Kimmel, J W Lockett, Sights & Johnston, Mont- an ^ Col w ,, L AA ,;. New Orleans;
gomery Memtt, P .1 R Reeve. . I .1 Reeve, p k Snead,

F XV:llk,>r – June 22, John T. Block, La. Div. A. N. V 8 102 65

Hopkinsville— W B Dicken. June 22, Wm. McLaughlin, Vet. C. S. C 54 00

Lexington— Mrs S R Anderson, R T Anderson, (‘ s July 1, J. Y. Gilmore, La. Div. A. N. V 55 00

Bell, Sr., W S Bell, Mrs Robert Berry, John Boyd, July 1. -1. 1’.. Levert, Sugar and Rice Ex Km 50

Hart Brown, .1 (‘ Bryant, R S Bullock, Mrs John’ H July 1, .1. B. Levert, Vet. C. S. C 40 50

Carter. John II Carter, CC Calhoun, W II Cassell, Mrs July 1. Jos. Demoruelle, < ‘. II. St. Paul 22 00

W II Cassell, A R Chinn, .lames B Clay, Horace Cole- July 8, Lawson L. Davis, C. H. St. Raul 43 00

man, Cicero Coleman, A A DeLong, C A DeLong, M July 9, Col. Wm. R. Johnston, Soldiers and

.1 Durham, Jerry Dclph, Edward F razor. Graves & Cox, Sons of Soldiers of Avery’s Salt Mines 11 ‘_’■”»

•I M Craves, Ed Grass, Mrs A M Harrison, Mrs Laura July 10, (Jen. Geo. 0. Watts, Jefferson Davis

V Hawkins, Miss Lillian Headley, James A Headley, Camp 25 00

John T Hughes, Joseph D Hunt, D H James, Moses July 10, Con. Geo. 0. Watts, citizens and

Kaufman, Theo Lewis, J L Logan, Joel c Lyle, J R Soldiers of Blue and Gray 64 00

Morton, T W Moore, Thomas WMcCann, H B McClel- July 16, Pilcher Bros, ami W. H. Pilcher,

Ian, Byron McClelland, Howard McCorkle, J H Nelms, proceeds of Pilcher concert, July K> 66 <m

Rush Nelson, Watts Parker, J T Patterson, Wellington July 17. (has. D. Delerey, Army of Tenn. La.

Payne, John S Phelps, Wickliffe Preston. II C Price, Div. fund created ‘ 102 50

Edward Price, Mrs L C Price, L C Price, J W Pryor, July ‘_»_’. A. W. Hyatt, A. of T. La. Div 75 <m

5 6 CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

July 22, J. B. Levert, Vet. C. S. C I GO 00 SAMsnnn Sent to Judge W L Calhoun, $15.25.

July 22, J. !’.. Levert, Sugar and Rice Ex S 50 gi itesville Througli J. P. Caldwell, four dollars

July22, A. N. Block La Div. A. N Va 9 05 WAYNESV.LLE-William Boggs, R II Dykers, G S

Juy22 law-,,,, I.. Davis C.H.St. F 10 00 FerguRon j E Hall ,,,, mk llalL A ., Reeve8 ,„.., „

.lulv 22, Jos. Deraoruelle, ( . II. St. I 6 50 «»

July-. B. F Eschelman.C. Wa. Art 150 10 CAROHNA

July 22, Alden McClellan, La. Div. Army of so ‘ ‘” CAROLINA.

Tenn 7’J «»> Camden II G Carrison, I C Clyburn, J G Hay, A

Aug. 17. Octave Fontenot, La. Div. Armv of ” Kennedy, I’ T Nuepigue, W M Shannon, Springs,

Tenn. at Opelousas • t 11 <ki Heath & Co, .1 B Steedman, •?•”> each; Chronicle, 1 M

in. Paul Conrad, C. H.St. Paul 221 50 Lemp,$3each; B B Clarke, A A Moore, $2 each ; G S

Oct. -2~, Oliver Norinand, R. 1.. Gibson Camp Higgins, Cash.

a, i,l Ladies of Evergreen 75 45 The above were collections by Dr. John W.Corbett,

1892. and sent t<> the Charleston News and Courier. He re-
Jan. 8, Judge !■’. A. Monroe, members Bar, ports about $110 raised at a concert given by the ladies

Bench and Officers C. D. Courts :;in (ki and sent to the News and Courier.

Jan. 15, II. McMillan, C. Wash. Art 17 50

Feb. 1″, John T. Block, Army of N. Va. La. TENNESSEE.

Div., collected by J. M. Wilson.. •_’■_’ 00 Arams Station -M L Johnston.

April 13, , J. Lyons, citizens of New Orleans… 33 00 A lamo-W H Biggs, J B Fleming, C A G Ibar,

Oct 11, Nicholson & Co, sundry collections } ,. Humphreys 82 fp B Nance, W II Poindexter, T

of N. O. P^ayune.. …… 78 50 x gkelton * ., ,-, Wi1i , 1ku „.

Oct. 11, Nicholson & Co, subscription oi tin- „ ‘ … „ _. A ,, _ ., ,

\ o Picayune UK) (H) Bells Station— Wm I. Bate, Capt. Dawson, BS

Nov. 18, .1. W. Fairfax, sundry collections of McLemore, .1 C \\ Num., .1 II Thomas, 1) II Thomas.

Daily City Item 50 50 Bolivar— P W Austin, \\ T Anderson, C H Ander-

Less disbursements to date as per vouchors son, Ophelia P Bills, L M Carrington, W C Dorion, D

on file . 17 75 E Durrett, It E Durrett, W W Farley, -I L Foote, C S

Ganden, II P Joyner, Kahn Bros, Austin Miller, T E

$’2,(iC»s 70 Moore, A T McNeal, -I -I Neely, Jr., M N Perry, .1 (‘

Oct. 10, remitted to J. S. Ellett, Savage, II W Tate, Julia M Qpshaw, Hugh Williams,

treasurer, Richmond, Va $2,018 20 RB Wood, By oversight the amounts were not put

Nov. 22 remitted to J. S. Ellett to the Bolivar list that exceeded $1. The collection

treasurer, Richmond, Va 50 50— 2,068 70 there is $123 nof yet forwarded.

Brownsville— Judge John Bond.

New Orleans— Mrs. May Poitevant, $5. Cairo— W -I Lambert.

MISSISSIPPI. Castalian Springs — Geo Harsh.

Fayette— James Archer, F Braws,Thos Davenport, Chattanooga— G Andrews, Jr., N G Atkins, Creed

W L Faulk. II McGladery, T .1 Key, W W McAa, A f Bates, W M Bearden, P I- Craig, \\ 1! Crabtree, I)

K McNair, WK Penny, W L Stephen, J .1 Whitney. ^ clem, |>, L Couldmg, ^ . . I! h,u,,d \\ 1 Plumb,

,. X ‘, •,.,., , J 1 Sneac , . F Ship,,. T E \ an \ alkenburg, L G

Holly Springs — Jas I Fant. ,,• ,, M

\\ alker.

Ocean Springs -Mrs A A Staples. ,, . ,, ,, ,, ,• , ,•.,, ,,- ,, ,

1 Clarksville — Arthur II Munlord; little Miss Buck-

IJn, knky— Geo Hicklcr. nerj five ( i ]] ars .

Vicksburg— The Vicksburg C. V. Camp, through Covington— R R Green fund, $54.35.

Col. D. A. Campbell, $409.55. ,, r „, c ,

1 Crockett — -I I stamps.

MISSOURI. Fayetteville— J P Buchanan, .1 L Buchanan, W

Harrisonville— Jeff Burford, seventy-five dollars. H Calhoun, A .1 Carloss, N 1′ Carter, James Cashion,

H R Estes $2.50. W R Cashion, Andrew Cashion, W II Cashion, A

……. ri7T , c _ v Cashion, II B Douglass, H C Dwiggins, $5 ; J C Dcmer,

ish.u .)kk.ski. A u K ,i ln , ,„,,„„, g \ V Fi em i n „ H ug h Francis, J C

Hoboken— James Coltart, $5; Miss Virginia M Col- Goodrich, Theo Harris, Jr, E J Higgins,H K Holman,

tart, Harriet Monk, John Stansfield. T c Little, I! K Locker, C A McDaniel, W C Morgan,

NEW MEXICO •’ ” I,;il ‘ ks < w c Parks > •’ n Pitts > (; F 1>itts ‘ (; F Ren ”

egar, H T Boach, Robertson & Goodrich, J W Scott,

Silver City -C A Thompson. .1 \ V Smith, 11 1) Smith, A E Smith, .1 M’ Stewart, O

NORTH CAROLINA. C Tallant, E S Terry, Thomas Thomison, W P Tolley,

_ T . , ,. ‘ . ,, , ,, It I) Warren. II C Dwii^gins’ address is I’etershurg.

Asheville Mrs EJ Aston, Mrs II A Gudger, Mrs ., T ,. ,, , „ ,, ,, ,f n

.1 A Hucler,$2 each; Mrs D Johnston, Mrs Theo D Frjendship-J M Cochran, B II Harman, D B

Johnston, Mrs H M Lee, C II Miller, Mrs M Penland, ” lson –

Miss Mary Penland, Mrs E L Rankin, R R Rawls, Gallatin— .las W Blackmore, David F Harry, C S

HenryRedwood,MissMaggieSmith,MissAnnaSmith, Douglass, WC Dismukes, J B Harrison, .las . I Turner,

Miss Louise Smith, Bessie Smith, Mann Smith. Geo E Seay, .1 A Trousdale, S F Wilson.

Charlotte— Through the Observer, $29.50. Grand Junction— W C Mauldrin.

Jackson— Emma W Burgwyn.J A Burgwyn,Geo P Hartsville— John D Stalker.

Burgwyn, J B McRae, R B Peebles. Jackson— E L Bullock, $5.

CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

57

Johnson’s Grove — J R Worrell.

Lewisburg— Through Capt.W. G. Loyd, $No.

Maury City — Sid Avery, W H Carter, Dr B Moore,
C Peal, Bryant Stallings.

McKenzie— Through , $103.20.

McMinnville — J W Irwin.

Monroe — Dr J M Shelton.

Nashville — Jos W Allen, Mrs J W Allen, B B
Allen, Kate M Allen, Lieut Samuel M Allen. Mrs B B
Allen, Walter Aiken, STC Doak, A .1 Grigsby, W C
Kelvington, -10; John .1 Yertrees, Rev W R L Smith

Red Lick — Jos Kling.

Sweetwater — T T Hagar.

Vicksbubg.— Through Col. D. A. Campbell, $409.

Waveri.y — H C Carter.

TEXAS.

Boz— B F Forrester.

Brownwood — G II Adams, J L Harris. F W Hender-
son, C C Jones, J B Smith, E R Stanley, Ed T Smith.

Coleman — J B Coleman, L E Collins, C L Coleman,
Pilham Coleman, W C Dibrell, 5.

Corpus Christi — M C Spann, collection, $177. 75.

Fort Worth— Through Mrs. B. B. Pollard, $101.70.

Waxahachie — A J Baxter. John P Cooper, E Chas-
ka, Joe P Cooper, G II Cunningham, Miss Meta Coop-
er, $11; J A Darrow, Dr W E Parmer, B F Forrester,
J A (fray. B II Lattimer, M W McMight, L II Peters,
Wm Stiles, T F. Thompson, M B Templeton.

, Mrs S R Coggin,$7.

VIRGINIA.

Abingdon — Virgie M Gildersleeve (now Mrs. Taylor).
Birmingham— D Walker.
Brenner Bluff — W II Holman
Bybee— R S White.

Charlottesville — M Duke, George Perkins.
Culpeppeb — 1> A Grundy.

Palmyra— M P Pettit, Pembroke Pettit, William
Schlater, ? Shepard, G M Winn.

SCOTTSVTLLE — D W Anderson.
Union Mills— Dr. Dudley R Boston.
Wilmington — John W Adams.

SOME WHO HAVE HELPED THE FUND.

A good many halves and quarters come from Pratt
Mines, Ala.

Miss Jennie Smith, of Blaekshear, Ga., sends ?4,
with as many names.

M. B. Burgwin, Jackson, N. (‘..sends $4 with the
names of four friends.

Bright little Miss Louise Beverly Sprague, of Mobile,
sends nine names with $1 each.

James Rutherford, of Batesville, Ark., sends in
twenty-six names with $1 each.

Miss Mollie Cunningham, of Waxahatehie. Texas.
sends three names with $1 each.

J. T. Cornell, of Cairo, Tenn., furnishes twenty-
eight names with $28 to the fund.

Maj. John J. Reeve, sends from Henderson, Ky., ten
names, including his own, with $10.

.Tame- Coltart, of Hoboken, N. J., sends a contribu-
tion of $5 with three other names of $1 each.

W. L. Stephens. Fayette, Miss., semis a batch of
names, nearly all for $1 each. Money forwarded to
Richmond.

Mrs. C. P. Morrow, of Chouteau, 1. T.. sends ten
names with as many dollars, including V. Gray, who
puts $2 to her list.

James W. Blackmore, of Gallatin, Tenn., thirteen
names with as many dollars, which he “gathered up”
among his friends.

A splendid list will he seen from B. F. Jenkins,
President of the Davis Monument Association, Mans-
field, La., which aggregates $107.

Mi-s Meta Cooper, of Waxahatehie, Texas, sends a
neat little note witli ten subscriptions to the Monu-
ment, of *1 each, except that of Joel Cooper, which is
for $’_».

Mrs. R. V. Porter, of Greenville, Ala., on being ap-
plied to, felt discouraged with the prospect, hut when
a subscription hook was sent her. she procured thirty
names, with 1

Maj. J B. BriggS, of the John W.Caldwell Cam]),
Russellville. Ky., sends $28, including $5 for himself,
and a similar ‘ amount for the gentleman in whose
honor the i amp is named.

Elsewhere reference is made to the Young Men’s

Dei sratic Club of Nashville, whose fund is the

largest that has ever heen secured hy any one organ-
ization, and to other workers for the cause.

R W. Downer sends $24 from the little old vi!

of Fairview, Ky., where Jefferson Davis was horn. It
all the other places would do as well in proportion, I

South would have a Memorial Temple sec ond to none
other on earth.

In the contribution of Joseph W. Allen, of Nash-
ville, the list includes the name of his son. Lieut.
Samuel M. Allen, c. s. A., killed hy bushwhackers
while on furlough at a friend’s house near Memphis,
Tenn., March. 1864.

In a remittance of fifteen dollars. January 2d, from
Otis S. Tarver, of tie .lor Finnegan Camp, Sanford,
Florida. I notice contributions from three little dar-
lings, three, tour, and six years. The name- are Linda
C. Barnes, F. F. Barnes, and Hannah Myerson.

Dr. .1. P. Cannon, of McKenzie, Tenn., writes of the
fund : ” 1 see you ask for the names of contributors to
the Monument Fund. I can not give the names ot
those who contributed the $103 from this place, a- it
was raised principally by Stonewall Jackson Bivouac
in different ways, assisted hy the citizens of the com-
munity.”

W. i\ Renwick, of Monroe, La., writes of the col-
lection of $64, which has been forwarded to Rich-
mond. He adds: “Theresa prevailing notion that
it is the duty of the Southern people to build a suita-
ble memorial to the Confederacy through its Presi-
dent. Davis, and a well organized movement will surely
succeed.”

Fli Perkins, on being introduced to the agent of the
Davis Monument Fund, made the generous offer to
deliver a lecture for the benefit of the fund at any
time and any place, and added, “Think of that man’s
integrity ami what he did with the resources at hand.
He was an American.” This genial humorist and lec-
turer is a Union Veteran.

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The fund aggregating nearly $1,800 raised by the
Young Men’s Democrati Club, of Nashville, is the
largest yel furnished by any single organization.

Col. John George Ryan send- from Chicago five dol-
lar subscriptions, one of which was in the name of his
brother. Gen. \V. A. C. Ryan, of the United States
Army. ” who was .me of those token from the steamer
Virginius, and murdered at Santiago del Cuba, Nov.
1. l v 7″>;” and another for their mother, deceased,
who was an admirer of Southern chivalry.

J. I.. Buford, “f Birmingham, Ala., who was a mem-
ber of the Clayton Guards, First Alabama Regiment,
did this clever thing in connection with tin 1 Monu-
ment Fund: He subscribed $10 for himself and nine
others. One of the contribution books was sent him
to insert their names, which he forwarded to his sister
Miss Annie E. Buford, of Union Springs, Ala., and
-he secured twenty names, with $1 each.

•I. W. Simmons, of Mexia, Tex., reports the follow-
ing contributions for SI each: W. H. Williams, C. L.
Watson. .1. W. Simmons, II. W.Gray, -I. M. Rombo,
Joe Wilder. II. A. Boyd, F. H. McCoy, Bennett Hunt
and Mrs. I). A. Murphy, of Mexia,’ and Capt. T. B.
Tyers, of Groesbeck, and adds: “I will send a large
list after the concert.” Preparations are being made
for an entertainment there the ’27th inst. for the pro-
motion of the fund.

ANNUAL ADDRESS TO VETERANS.

Gen. E. D. Hall, chairman of United Confederate
Veterans Committee for North Carolina, furnishes the
following:

“Wilmington, N. (‘., January 19, 1893.

“At a meeting of the committee (a quorum being
present) appointed to raise funds for the State of North
Carolina for the Jefferson Davis Monument, held at
Raleigh, January 13th, it was agreed to name one suit-
able person in each congressional district, whose duty
it shall he to recommend four persons, two males anil
two females, from each county in their district, for the
purpose of assisting in raising North Carolina’s share
of the funds necessary to erect the said monument at
Richmond, Va.

“It was further ordered that a circular letter should
he issued to the parties named by the chairman, Gen,
Hall, containing instructions, and they are requested
to answer as soon as possible, stating whether they
will serve.

“The persons named from the districts are as fol-
lows: First— Hon. W. A. B. Branch, Washington;
Second — Hon. Matthew Manley, Newbern; Third-
Col. W. J. Green, Fayetteville; Fourth— Gen. W. R.
Cox, Raleigh; Fifth — (Jen. James I). Glenn, Greens-
boro; Sixth — Col. H. C. Jones, Charlotte; Seventh —
(‘apt. J. G. Hall, Hickory: Eighth— Col. W. II. H.
Cowles, Wilkesboro; Ninth— Gen. R. B. Vance, Ashe-
ville.”

In concluding his appeal, (ien. Hall says:

“To the ladies and gentlemen of the committee, on
you depends North Carolina’s credit in this matter.
Let all work faithfully.

“To the ladies we mainly look for success. By en-
tertainments of various kinds much can be accom-
plished. To the men, hard work, soliciting subscrip-
tions, argument and persuasion.

“As soon as a reasonable amount of funds is col-
lected, remit the same to the chairman, E. D. Hall,
Wilmington, N. C, by postoffice order or otherwise.”

( i <m. W. I,. Cabell issues a circular. Dallas. Texas,
February ‘2. 1893, as the Commander of the Trans-
Mississippi Department of United Confederate Vet-
erans, in which he says: “It is with feedings of the
greatest pleasure, as well as pride, that I can greet you
at the end of another year ami say that a kind Provi-
dence has extended its shelteli ng w i Dg6 over our no-
ble Association, and that it is growing stronger and
stronger each year. Our old comrades are becoming
more familiar with and more and more interested in
the objects of our benevolent, social, and historical
Associat ion, and are increasing the number of Camps
in every section. The death roll has not been as great
as we might have expected. The dead have oeen
properly cared for, and the living Confederate veter-
ans who are incapacitated, by sickness or wounds,
from making a living, have been provided for by the
different States in this department. They have good
houses, are amply provided with food, raiment, and
shelter, where they can spend the evening of their
lives in quiet and peace as the honored guests of the
great States of Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, and the
Territory. I therefore urge upon you, my old com-
rades, to press forward the good work; that vou will
organize and join at once the Association of United
Confederate Veterans.” . . . He urges a large at-
tendance at Birmingham July 19 and 20, and adds:
“A committee on transportation for this department
has been formed, and will do all within their power
to secure reduced rates on railroads leading to Bir-
mingham. Local committees can communicate with
this committee.

“I would also call your attention to the fact that
every Camp, not only in this department but in the
department of the Fast, has been called upon to con-
tribute to the erection of a monument to our great
chieftain, Jefferson Davis. . . . Let us, then, put
our shoulders to the wheel and see to it that this mon-
ument is erected at once, so that all those now living
who followed the flag of the Lost Cause may be pres-
ent at the unveiling of the monument to be erected
in Richmond, Va.”

Col. Wm. L. Thompson, Adjutant General and Chief
of Staff to Trans-Mississippi Department, United Con-
federate Veterans: “The Coneedeijate Veteran is
before me, and 1 am greatly pleased with its contents,
ami wish you all success. Please send five copies for
this department.

In this issue of the Confederate Vetekan there is
an article upon the manufacture of steed in the South,
as set forth by a letter from Hon. Abram S. Hewett, of
New York. It is an able paper, and treats of an in-
dustry which, if successful, will tend largely to en-
riching the land we love. Col. A. M. Shook, who be-
gun at the bottom after getting out of his Confederate
suit in 1865, and is a leading spirit in the business, re-
ports prospects for the success which has been antici-
pated as good, although the inventions are not yet
demonstrated to perfect satisfaction.

W. A. Gillespie, Greenwood, Miss.: “Your circular

just received. I am glad to know that such a publica-
tion is in existence. Think I can raise a good club of
subscribers. I inclose fifty cents for sample copy.”

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THE TENNESSEE CONFEDERATE HOME.

CONFEDERATE MOM’ M ENTS.

IT COMPRISES THE GREATER PART OF THE HERMITAGE

—ANDREW JACKSON’S SOME— TEN MILES

FROM NASHVILLE.

There is no State in which greater zeal lias been ex-
ercised for a soldiers’ home, perhaps, than by friends
in Tennessee. This is saying much in the freshness
of what is being done now in Missouri, and what was
done recently in Georgia. It is saying all the more
in considering Louisiana and other States, in which
our people have honored themselves in this respect.

The Hermitage property, owned by the State for
many years, has all been turned over to a board of
trustees, except twenty-live acres, including the resi-
dence, which has been given into the custody of the
Ladies’ Hermitage Association.

The farm contains four hundred and seventy-live
acres, enclosed by eight and one-half miles of wire
fence with cedar posts. Many acres of the land was
poor and washed, but lias been admirably reclaimed
from underbrush and thicket and set in clover. Light
acres are also set apart for the garden. There are upon
the premises three fine wells and an inexhaustible
spring of pure water, which furnishes the supply for
the tank in the main building, a distance of thirty-
three hundred feet.

The main building is a handsome two-Story -tinc-
ture, of brick, with stone foundation, and suitable
trimmings. The central front of the building has an
inscription in raised letters, “The Confederate Sol-
diers’ Home.” The front of both wings is adorned
with galleries and rounded portico, sustained by neat
fluted pillars. The interior arrangements are excel-
lent and equipped with all modern improvements.
In the cellar there is a well constructed furnace, with
a self-regulating boiler, and distributing pipes to all
parts of the building, carrying both heat anil hot water.
From the enormous tank on top of the building, hold-
ing when full ten thousand gallons, water is supplied
to all portions of it. In the upper and lower corridors
there are attachments for hose Bufficienl in length to
be used against tire.

Of the many contributions to the Home, the most
liberal gift was the dining room furniture, including
a handsome sideboard, which was presented by the
family of the late Charles Nelson, a German-born citi-
zen of Nashville and a Union soldier. The firm of
Phillips, Hood A” Co. gave a range worth one hundred
and fifty dollars; Mrs. 0. M. Spofford contributed one
hundred dollars, and many others fifty dollars and less.
All the rooms were furnished by individual donations.

The executive committeemen — Mai. M. S. Cockrill,
Dr. W. .1. McMurray. and Maj. K. II. Dudley— who
were selected by the trustees to take charge of all the
work, deserve high praise for their zeal at all times for
the Home.

It would take a long chapter to enumerate in briel
the wholesome supply of everything that has been
furnished. It would gratify everybody who feels solic-
itude for the disabled soldier who shares its benefits.

The January edition of the Confederate: Veteran
was so short of meeting the demand, and as a history
of Confederate monuments, complete as possible, is
determined upon, some of the following statistics is
a repetition of what was published before.

The same is true in regard to those “who have
worked for the monument.” It is an honor list, and
deserves the knowledge and the gratitude of all other
patriots. The monument history will amaze the civ-
ilized world. With all the poverty and depression
that followed the fatal results of the war, the hun-
dreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars so ex-
pended, when computed, will be a dazzling record of
patriotism and affection for the heroes who rushed
into the jaws of death. Let every community see
that what they have done to honor our dead be com-
municated for publication in the Confederate Vet-
eran. It will be a feature, ere long, to compile a list
of memorials in different States and report tabulated
statements in the aggregate.

1 see that you do not mention the monument erected
at Georgetown, Kw. to the memory of the Confederate

dead. These soldiers were buried in different parts of
the county when Gen. Kirby Smith’s army was in
Kentucky in 1862. After the war their remains were
gathered up and buried in a separate lot in our beau-
tiful cemetery, and the ladies of the county raised
money by <>», doUa Uions and erected a monu-

ment at a cost of one thousand dollars. You will ob-
serve that all but two of these soldiers were strangers
in this county and State, only two being Kentuckians.
I give the names inscribed upon the monument, think-
ing perhaps they may meet the eye of pome one who
knows not of their resting place: William Simons,
Arkansas: W. Hall. Georgia; J. -1. Hensly, Georgia;
William Sutton. Georgia; Capt. John Black, Texas:
William Tanehill. Texas; Bryan Pitzpatrick, Texas;
W. T. Coppage, Kentucky; William Wood. South
Carolina; Richard Dumford, Arkansas; Wallace Ox-
ford, Texas; Archer Shrout, Texas; William Steele,
Georgia; William T. Ford. North Carolina: Cardwell

Jones, Georgia; Gunsaule, Kentucky: Unknown;

W. G. Wooten. Hodgenville, Ky. These two last
named were shot to death by order of Burbridge, the
“unknown” refusing to give his name, saying that he
did not wish his mother to know that lie had died
such a death. The monument is twenty feet high:
shaft, eleven feet. On the base, in front, is the Con-
federate cross, with drooping banner ami broken staff:
emblems of war lie under tin- fold of the banner. -On
the shaft are raised cannons in bronze, securely inlaid
and fastened to the granite. On each side of the mon-
ument are inscribed the names of the boys in gray
who sleep in a circle at the base. At the bottom of
the inscription in front are the words, ” 1861 — Confed-
erate Soldier — 1865.” Wishing you success, both in
your paper and the monument for Mr. Davis,

I am yours truly, A. II. SINCLAIR.

Monuments in New Orleans.— The Confederate
Monument in Greenwood Cemetery, built by tin- La-
dies’ Benevolent Association, is of white marble, sur-
mounted by a figure of a ( lonfederate infantryman ” on
guard.” Around the pedestal are the busts of Lee,
Sidney Johnston, Polk and ” Stonewall.” It was un-
veiled’ in 1867. Value, $25,000.

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Monument of Washington Artillery.- Marble
shaft on mound, statue of an artilleryman on top,
sponge staff in band. <iu the base are inscribed the
names of thus.’ members of the command who were
killed nr « I i « – < 1 in service, also the names of sixty en-
gagements in whirh the command participated. Un-
veiled Feb. 22, 1880. Value, 115,000.

Monument of the Army oi Wesi Virginia. — A
column 50 feel above the ground, or 38 feet above the
mournl on which it stands. On the summit is a stone
Btatue of Stonewall Jackson, 8 feel 9 inches high.
Under the mound are vaults for the dead Jefferson
Davis’ remains are deposited then’ at present. Un-
veiled May. 1881. Value, $25,000.

Monument of Army of Tennessee.— Mound con-
taining tombs for deceased members, surmounted by
equestrian statue of Albert Sidney Johnston in bronze.

At the entrance to vaults is a marble life-size figure of
a Cnn federate sergeant calling his roll. Value $35,000.
Robert E. Lee Moni ment. — A Doric column of
granite on a grassy mound, surmounted by bronze
statue of Lee L5 feet high. Entire height, 106 feet 8
inches. Column, 60 feet. Unveiled Feb. 22 1884.
It is in St. Charles street. Value, $40,000.

Natchez, Miss.: “We have built a very handsome
monument to our Confederate dead costing $3,000. Jt

is a shaft with life-size soldier in marble. Statue
made in Italy.”

The Confederate Monument at Camden, S. C. —
Dr. John W. Corbett supplies the following data:
“The Ladies’ Monumental Association was organized
in 1872, with Mrs. 11. I). DeSaussure for the first Pres-
ident. The next President was Miss C. M. Boykin.
At the time of the unveiling of the monument the
association had the following officers: Mrs. A. E.
Doby, President; Mrs. .lames Davis. First Vice Presi-
dent; Miss Emma Reynolds, Second Vice President;
Mrs. J. D. Kennedy, Secretary; Mrs. J. W. McCurry,
Treasurer, and Mrs. Herman Baum, chairman of the
Executive Committee. The corner-stone of this mon-
ument was laid on the loth of May, 1883, Memorial
Day, and it was completed in June.” The celebration
was a great event for Camden. The railway yard was
crowded with coaches and engines. Crowds went in
private conveyances from all portions of the county
and neighboring counties. The procession contained,
besides the civic lodges, four hands of music, sixteen
infantry companies, three cavalry companies and three
artillery corps, in all about seven hundred men in uni-
form. The stand near the monument was richly and
profusely decorated with festoons of palmetto ieaves
and jessamines, and almost completely covering the
stand was a great number of battle-scarred Hags. (Jen.
Wade Hampton was the orator of the day: Gen. M. I ‘.
Butler, Gov. Hugh S Thompson, Gen. J. D. Kenne.lv,
Adjt. Cen. Manigault, Col. E. M. Boykin, Rev. S. H.
Hay, and a few others were on the stand. The mon-
ument is a cylindrical shaft of marble, four feet in cir-
cumference and eight feet high, on a marble base; un-
der this base are three large blocks of Fairfield granite;
surmounting the shaft is an urn, on which is a dove;
the (love has its wings outstretched and is facing the
south; the total height of the monument is twenty
feet. The square base to shaft is inscribed as follows:
On the north, two swords crossed, with ‘1861’ on one
side and ‘ 1883’ on the other side of the cross; on the

south, a laurel wreath, enclosing the letters •(‘. S. A.’:

on the west, ‘This union t is erected by the women

of Kershaw county, in memory of her brave sons who
fell during the Confederate War. defending the rights
and honor of the South : ‘ mi the east, ‘ They died for

1 ie and country, and are gratefully remembered

wherever they be.

” OoiluUesa hearts have conned their story ;

Countless hearts grown brave thereby;

Let (is thank the God of glory.
We had such to die.” ‘

This monument is situated at an important street

crossing. An iron fence encloses it.”

Confederate Monuments in South Carolina. —
Concerning Confederate monuments in South Caro-
lina, Win. E. Breese, President First National Bank,
Asheville, North Carolina, writes: “I notice that you
omit South Carolina so far from your list of memo-
rial monuments. I know no State so full of them,
and none as fine, except in Richmond. In Charles-
ton the Washington Light Infantry have erected two,
one $8,000, the other $13,000; Irish Volunteers, one
for$15,(KK’); Charleston Fight Dragoons, $14,000; Ger-
man Artillery. 820,tK)(); Ladies’ Memorial Association,
$25,000; one to John Mitchell, the Irish patriot, $5,-
000; S. II. Anderson (Fighting Dick). $2,000; Gen.
Ripley, $2,000. The old Citadel Academy and all Un-
churches have on walls and vestibules memorial tab-
lets. Columbia has one, Camden, Cheraw, (ireenville,
Anderson, etc. I write only from memory, being a
former South Carolinian. I have always thought that
South Carolina headed the list. The Richmond mon-
uments were from contributions all over the South.
The South Carolina monuments are all home affairs.”

Newberry, S. C. : “The ladies have erected a mon-
ument to the Confederate dead from this county in
the court house square. It is of marble, and costs
$1,300.”

Anderson, S. C: “Our noble women have organ-
ized a Confederate Memorial Association, and are now
raising funds to erect a monument in our city.”

Monument at Knoxville. — It is a graceful, well-
proportioned shaft, twelve feet square at the base
and twenty-four feet high. It is surmounted with a
heroic statue of a private soldier, standing at parade
rest. The inscription “Commemorates the heroic
courage and unshaken constancy of more than 1,600
soldiers of the South, who, in the great war between
the States, 1861 to 1865, were inspired by the holiness
of a patriotic and impersonal love, and in the
mountain passes of Tennessee, whether stricken in
the field or in hospital ward, gave ungrudgingly their
lives to their country.” The monument is of Ten-
nessee gray marble, and is extremely handsome for
the cost, SI, “)00. The unveiling was last Memorial
day. May 19. Tho general address was by Senator W.
B. Bate. ex-Union soldiers co-operated in making the
event a success. The daily press, Republican and
Democratic, gave very eulogistic accounts of the event.
Many gentlemen were helpful to the ladies in their
work, one of whom was Col. F. A. Moses, a member
of the Davis Monument Committee for Tennessee.

Monument for Clarksvtlle. — It is in process of
erection, is to be 48 feet high, 9 feet by 13 feet at
base; will be capped by a bronze statue 9 feet high.
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above the base. The monument is being constructed
from Barre granite. It is to cost 17,500, and to be
completed in the early spring, and to be dedicated in
May.

The Confederate monument in the grassy court-
house yard at Bolivar, Tenn., is very beautiful. It cobI
$2,700, is of marble, about thirty feel high from
ground to top, urn on top, shaft draped with Bag.
The ornaments are cannon, tents, drums, flags, etc
Inscription on south side. ” To the Confederate dead
of Hardeman County;” west, “Hardeman County
erects this monument to the memory of her sons fallen
in the service of the Confederate States;” east, “In
hope of a joyful resurrection;” north,

“Though men deserve,

They may not win success.
The brave will honor the bi

\ anqulshed none i he less.”

A movement was started for a Confederate monu-
mental Fayetteville, Tenn., but it was abandoned on

account of a disastrous cyclone which swept the tow u.

Jackson, Tenn., has elected a tall shaft 70 feet high,
including the figure of a Confederate soldier at parade
rest. It is in the court-house yard.

The people of Tipton Co. Tenn.. arc raising funds for
county monument, and have contributed more than
$50 to the Davis monument.

The ex-Confederate Association of < l-rayson County,
Texas, are preparing to ereel on the public square at
Sherman, a 82,500 monument to the memory of ex-
Confederate soldiers.

Monuments in Ri< hmond. Monument to 12,000
Confederate dead in Hollywood Cemetery, a granite
pyramid 4″> feet square and ‘.mi feet high, elected by
the ladies of the Hollywood Memorial Association at
a cost of about $50,000, now almosl covered by thai
beautiful evergreen vine, the Virginia creeper.

Monuments over the grave of Gen. J. E. P>. Stqart,
in Hollywood Cemetery, to the dead of Pickett’s Di-
vision and the dead of Otey Battery both on Gettys-
burg Hill in Hollywood— and to the Richmond How-
itzers, on Howitzer Place, just west ol Monroe Park,
represent an outlay of approximately $10,000.

The greatest monument to a Confederate that has
ever been erected, size and quality of material con-
sidered, is the Lee monument in Richmond. In the
reference to it elsewhere no idea of its magnitude can
be had except that it cost $75,000. A more accurate
description may be expected hereafter.

Monument to the Private Soldiers and Sailors of the
Confederacy, in Marshall Park, overlooking the site of
Libby Prison, a copy of Pompey’s Pillar, surmounted
by a heroic bronze figure of the Confederate Infantry-
man, erected by private subscriptions at a cost of
about $50,000.