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Confederate Veteran.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTEREST 01 CONFEDERATE VETERANS AND KINDRED TOPICS.

VOI.l'ME X.

S. A. CUNNINOHAM. EDITOR VND Propriktor.

Nashvilj i . Ten n . 1902.

INDEX— VOLUME X.

Adams. Charles Francis 319

Afloat, Afield, Afloat

Aftermath of Hartsville 29

Alabama Booklet

Alabama Women j I '

Allen, Capt. John

Appeal, Anoither Thrilling

Appomattox, Reminiscences of 77

Armor Plate -•'

Battle Abbey for each State •••■

Battle Abbey, Houss "•!-'.

Battle of Cedar Creek

Battle of Chickasaw Bayou 16, 2."',

Battle of Franklin, Reminiscences

Battle of Gettysburg

Battle of Jenkins' Fi n \

Battle of Leesburg or Rails' Blurt 68

Battle ol M ■field. \V. Va

Battle of Murfreesb i i I ixperli rices at

Battle of Near Adaiirsville.,

Battery Wagner

Beall, Capt. D. T

Beall. John Veates

Beauregard at Shiloh 78,

Beauvolr Purchased

Blakely, Andrew K 178,

Book List

Boj Company. Forty-Fifth Alabama R Imenl

Brother against Brother

Bullock. John II

Burial Service, Capt. L^tane

Capture of the Mazeppa

Children of the Confederacy, Anne Lee Chapter.

k Children of the Confederacy, Julia Jackson Chaptea Christmas Thoughits Confederate Dead at Harrodsburg Confederate Dead al Elmira tonfedcrate Home oi Ahe.un. Confederate Home of Georgia Confederate Home of Kentucky

Confederate Memorial Association 62, 150, 151,

Confederate Memorial Day < 'rigiu

Confederate Soldiers of Kentucky

' Nuifedernto Vol. a. in AeroStlC

1 Jorrecl History Demanded

Correction of Errors

I irlsls, An Awful

I'rosses el" II >r

Crosses of Honor at Hlg-fflnsvMle, Mo

Crosses of Honor in North Carolina,

Crosses of Honor In Virginia

Cumming, Mai. ,1ns. B

.-,3 109

22 25S 600 211 899

69

:■< it i

3".')

II ■j-.i;

177

89

: :

356

!01

::■>,-

IS8 338 898 190

r.r,s

153

r> 3

■;s 1 v

I

.. 162

I ■■•

357

Davis, Jeffei on, Arch 313

Davis. Jefferson, al LaGrange, Qa 3!I

Davis, Jefferson, Honored in California lie

Davis, Jefferson. Memorial Hi

r Monument 1. 55

Davie, Jefferson, Monument fund from S. C 120, 1X3

Davis, Mrs. Jefferson 1(H)

Jefferson, Sister of jCij

Davis. Jefferson. Tribute to Stonewall Jackson -'■

Davis, Jefferson C, Kindness of 172

Davis Sam

Davis, Sam. Monument Fund 240,201

Davis, Bam, Honor.'. I in California 389

Davis, Sam, Scout with

Dickinson, Col. A. G 181

Dod.l. David O

Doles-Cook Brigade

D lOTStep 1;. mi nis. one. 5 453

Dormitory for Daughters ol the Confederac; 267

Dunlap, Ma] J. R MS

Earls Days of the War

R p rt to Lee 305

Editorials 8, 64, 105, 151, 206, 248, 266, 29S, 349, 392, 448, 492, a40

Eighth Tennessee Infantry 162

Enlistments for the War 6

Enrollments In Confederate Army 694

Jas. I'"

\ 1.1 1 in ail Gal* eston 101

Fals ■ Historli s Ous ed In I

Family Losses In War 79

iux, w I 223

.1 Spy, Hanging of 30

Fisher's Hill and Sh ridan's Ride

i .v Walthall's Veterans

1 hirl v -Ninth Alabama

Of Fifty-Third Virginia

Ing 1] Stealing?

I-'., r. i - ■, is In War

EVwrest's Troopers Notice I 1

Foui Fourteenth N01 th Cat oMns

Frenoh, Gen S ' '•

Freshet in T nm

Full hei to W

;!ss

1,:, ■

150

..:?

s

L2S

63

Gait, Laura Talb il ,;;?- L;''

. Miss [one ""

o52

19]

340

ra

George Capl .1 11 .lion. Gill, Mrs. Turner A Grove 1 ipl D E

irton, Col. w. 11 ••■

Hampl n, Gen Wade 1;G

Harris, Capl F S

IllwUin Col W S

Heroism at Franklin

Hero \ T5 pli al Oonfedi 1 ite

Hill Fam Ij

Hill, Mi D., Letter

Hood Children Fund

Hudson, Arthur F

SOU 313 320 41:1 407 3fi6 201

15

r.

Innlsf alien

johnny's Game, Warning Against

• E I

Keller, Dr i>nd Mrs "'45

- Wi M T

KUlen Brothers m

e Col « 'I ,5G

Lady Managers, St. Louis Exposition

: 1 V\ ord The

Laurence, Sam

Lee, Gen. G. w. C

Lee's 1: E Blrthdaj Celebrations 5, 22.

1. R. 1: . Written Orders

Lees', Mrs, s. P., Gift

Leesburg, tnddenl in Baittli of

■ Id, Andrew

Liberty of the Press

i:i. bl 1 ' " re it, Correotton

Little Yank A

Lytic Gen. Win

229

il .

61 (69

356 112 364 262 163 22

4<y. 7

18 2 Oft 9

Maryland Confederates 1C6

MoOomb, Gen, Wm 320

Qoi)federat(^ l/eterai?

Owen Kenan

McLure. Mrs. M. A. E "117

Memorial Da.y -

Memorial Das Discrimination 3.s

Memorial Day at Clinton, La ::'

Memorial Day at Farming-ion. T.-nn

Memorial Daj ai Springfield, Mo BW

Memorial Work in New York City ?26

Methodists Help Confederate ~o

MUler. Mrs. Hug*

MUler, Col. W A ^'

Mississippi '

Mississippi;! n- in Virginia

Mon t eagle

Monument ",;

Monumental Baltimore, Md 133

Monument at Camp Chase Cemetery

Monument a,t Kansas City. Mo -

Monument at Shepher.lstown. W. Ya 113

Monument at Valley Mountain 3SS

Mtonument Chalmette «34

Monument to Southern Women 101, 102,440

Monument to Gen. W. H. T. Walker 102

Moore. Col. Sydenham 168

Morgan's Men, in Ohio 404

Artillery -h-

bur Caii derate Dead '■'"9

Outing with the President 436

Prize Drill in Army SIS

Quinlan, Mrs. W. C 339

Quitks Scouts at Dallas 181

Kecords, C. S. A. Veterans IBS

Regiment til Histories 5

Re-enlistments by Confederates 171

Re-enlistments at Dalton 399

Re-enlistments in Army of Tennessee 351

Re-enlistments in Second Florida Regiment 270

Re-enlistments in Western Army 259

Relies i.f a Confederate Colonel 16

Relief for Confederate Soldiers 2"2. 353,355

Reminiscences from a Texas Veteran 71

Reunion al Dallas 3, 64, 76, 195, 193

Reunion at Dallas, Returning from 355

Reunion at Fisher's Hill «S8

Reunion at Owensboro, Ky 342

Reunion at World's Fair M7

Reunion of Aged Veterans 4;2

Reunion of A. P. Hill Camp, Petersburg, Va 66

Reunion of Glade Springs Rifles 15

Reunion of Grand Camp of Virginia 555

Reunion in North Carolina 334

Reunion Changes 400

Reunion Memorial Services 360

Reunion of Texas Brigade 109

Reunion Not. s. General 99, 31S

Reunion Suggestions 52, 4E4

Review of Histories 550

Ride into Jaws of Death 259, 354,504

Rixey 1 J.ill 177

Sohoheld's Tribute to Confederates 20C

Second Florida Regiment 26, 276

Scott, Dr. .Too. 0 29

Sexton. Mrs. J. L 13

Seventh Georgia Society 407

Shelton. .1. W., and His Flag 334

Shiloh 106, 163, 212, 317

Sixteenth Confederate Cavalry 221

Smith. Mrs. J. Pinckney 493

Sons and Daughters of Confederates SS

Southern Arms at Shiloh 106

Southern Leadership 311

Spindle, Capt. T. W 156

Sponsors and Maids of Honor 179

Statistics of the War 454

_• a Yank' Captain 30$

ins Church, Ashwood 557

Stevens, O. T., Loss oi 504

Stewart. Wal ter 7

Story of tin Q] a War 17

Stout, Dr. S. H

Survivors Oompanj D First T nneesee 366

iph Men at Vieksburg TJ

Maj. Jno. W I7S

-ee Conference and Soldiers' Home 180

Terry's Texas Rangers .and Flag 159, U'tS

Third Florida Regiment '

"Thoughts i' Brutus" SS

i Hinder 392, 440.514

nt of Paroled Confed i irtt - 188

Twelfth Mississippi 1: 155

Twiggs. Mai. 11. I'. D., tit Batters Wagner 23

'two Great A i 59

"Two Wats'' 86. 134, 325

U. i'. v., Alabama alid Sons of 25

r. C. V. A. N. Y. Department 3M

TJ. C. V. Camp at Hot Springs, Ark 7

' ' V. Camp at Forney. Tex 3-18

U. C. \. Camp al Mexia, Tex 340

i C ..''ampat New York City 110.313

U. C. V. i.'atiip at Wo. tllawn, Ala 16

U. C. V. Camp List 394

1". C. V. in Montana 63

r. C. v. Regiment Organized SBS

1". C. V. Trans-Mississippi Department 51

U. H. C. Convention (New Orleans) 441, 8, 348, 435, 532

F D. C. Criticised 3

I'. D. C. Christmas with Louisiana Veterans 12

!\ D. C. Department 9. 54, 115, 216, 100

1'. D. C. in Alabama -aS

U. D. C. in Arkansas 61

U. D. C. in Cincinnati 117

U. D. C. in Nashville, Tenn 11»

U. D. C. in New York City Jl

U. D. C. in Louisiana 59

U. D. C. in Philadelphia US

U. D. C. in Tennessee 61

U. D. C. in Virginia. 60

TJ. D. C. in South Carolina. 56

IT. D. C. in Washington, D. C 4^9

I". D. C. in St. Joseph. Mo 4.43

U. D. C. Grand Division of Virginia 487

I' I). C. Address by Miss D. movant 74

TJ. D. C, Origin and Objects 396

TJ. S. C. V 538

U. S. C. V., General Order No. i! 6

TJ. S. C. V„ History of 101

U. S. C. V. in Baltimore, Md 346

U. S. C. V. in Texas 104,346

TJ. S. C. Y. in Virginia 347

IT. S. C. V. Minutes 390,391

IT. S. C. V. Purchase Beau voir 177

Uncle Tom's Cabin 13, 121. 491

Underwood Law Suits 249, 340, 349. 460. 540

Union Veterans Dec'are Truth -13

Van Dora at Holly Springs 455

Vieksburg Piano 439

Virginia Lady's Good Deeds 358

Virginia Military Institute Cadets 227

Walker. Gen. W. H. T 402

War in tin West 443

What Confederate Flag Was It? 389

Wing'o, Dr. T. R !38

Women of the Oonf edieracy 444

Wood, Dick 554

World's Fair, St. Louis 469

Zollicoffer Barracks Disaster 264

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Atlanta's Maimed Veterans 551

Children of Confederancy— Fort Worth 397

Qopfederate l/eterai}.

o

Children Who Unveiled Monument 337

Club House Lake Contrary 447

College Home LaGrange. Ga 4S7

Confederal- I tenerals 1

Confederate Monument at Charleston 313

Confederate Slates Steamer Gaines 497

Confederate States Steamers 4i»'.l

Confederate Veteran Camp al LaGra'nge Ga 529

Desha's Pistol ?,, >

Floral Carri igi at Charleston Exposition 229

Gander Pullin' 57

Croup V. D. ''. a l.j'.: ii . 181

Gen. Polk's Grave and Monument 193

W. LeaveH's Family 500

Dan. Maj. J 467

Howdy Martin Camp. Hoke, K. L

3S7

495

Innisfall.ii .'lev.s 515

Jim I'i.r, . . amp

Jeff D.i ii Train

Kentucky I Ion federal <■ I

553 531

386

l aura, i ;a n ' Badge t Medal 437

Lee Monument al New Orleans 633

i ."a ■ - '' ai Ennls 289

Memphis Company < '. V 266

Misslssipppi Delegation at New Ot 536

Monument at Albany, Ga 2:

Baltimore, Mar; land 43",

at lla.rrodsburg, Kentucky l^\

City, Miss, .mi 503

Mountain

Monument at VlckBburg 505

Monument to Curin's I'.a 26

Monument to W H. r. Walket

Monteagle Scene 23u

Morgan's Men- Group

Oriental 11 1

Moniiiu. ii Monumi ni Monument al ! Monument al Vallej

182

Shephi rdstown Monument and Cent 113

Sam Davis Monument Site 245

Sam Davis Monument Design

S] "I'S and Maids a I St. Joseph. . , 146

Sponsors and Sous C. V 506 7. 8, 9, 10, 11. 12, S8, 9, 48, 9

St. Charles Hotel 178,616

St. John's Church, Ashwood 557

Soldiers' Home Louisiana 534

Survivors First Tennessee Regiment 366

Tennessee Division 1". D C 28'J

Rangers at Dallas 208

'I'll.. President al Chlckamauga 43:;

The President's latter 437

Transportation Methods I6J

Typieai camp Scene 542

Unveiling at LaGrange, Ga 529

War Time Fori at Bowling Green, Ny 560

Abernathy, T. C. Adams, J. T

LAST

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224

Allbrighl. Capt. W. B 275

Anderson. Col, I'has. D. . Anderson, i',,,i I'.W'itt,

Anderson, Col. Jno. 11

Armstrong, S. It

Atkinson, it. A

ii 420 465 321 273

Baohman, Capt. \\ K.. . S74

I tanks. Dr. E. A

504

Barnej . Capt. J. N 420

Bell, Gen. Tyree H 461

Belo, Col. A. it. it S3

Benson, Amos 85

Hill.,., .1 C 873

Blllups, Ma.i. .1. M S75

Brandon, Alex W 565

Booock, Hon. T. S 132

Rrooeks, Col. Jno. II. 165

ROLL. Broun, Dr. Win.

Burton, H. W

Caldwi II, J. s

Campbell. Capt. Jas Chapman, Oapt. R. Cheek, Orln Polk...

Chlnn, A. B

Clark, capt. C. J... Cochran, Jas. A

Coleman. P. H

Cook, ''■ E

Cook, H. M

CoS'l.-y, T. W

Cowles, Coi. \v. H. Crump, I.t. Jno. C, Curd, Capt. Will C, Cuthbert, Ecch •

Dantzter, g. h

Davis, Jackson

I ,i l; on

, 225 , 370 126 322 273 3<2 561 172 J21 2"3 418 224 i65 126

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3e9 421 222

Deane, S. H

Derbanne, J. H.

.36, 86 .... 41S

Desha. Capt. Joe 871

Dlcklson, Gen. J. J 4)9

Dixon, Dr. J. E 21"

\!a,i. J. P 3?:'

Dunovant. Capt. Wm 42:

Durrett, D. L 561

A 56::

Ezell. J. H 417

Ferguson, \\ . A i2-

Ferr.ll. L. s' >4

Finch. David 224

Fisher, W. H 33

Flinn, Mrs. W. B

J. \ 417

Fran, is, Ma.i. Jno. W 321

iii \ Q :.:

Frier. .1 «'

i'i ! . Cap \\ m 32

Fulki Capt. G.

lie, \ .

i, M . W. W.. 370

J. 1. 27'

Grim 1GJ

Gustavus, W. V '22

Jno. W

Hall. 1. T. H 12!

Han. j. A. T .'21

llar.l

Harrison. I S I2i

Hays, ' m 272

Hemphill, Col W. A

Hester, Joseph

Hill. U " ■ S 121

Hiram l'.i

Holland, Capt Wm

... 226 ... 121

Mitchell, Dr. B. C

f. Com. J. Montgomery, J. J

a. J. A

Holt. J. D

Hopkins. Col. W. M. Hurt, w in B

Hutchison. G< 0. W .

. 464 . 416 . 419 . 417

Col. Roger 32

Moore. W. E 418

Morrison, A. G 324

a W. P 273

. J. N 419

Murphy. Ma.i. R. D 269

Calmer. Dr. B. M 226

Caraniore. Col. J. B 169

it S67

II. N 126

F 36, 2-'2

Ml ell 271

Mrs. R. N 275

R. K r,61

Trnsien 367

Pool .1. M 269

W. T 122

. i tol. \\ m 372

Mrs. J. S 31

\ 271

Ramsey, Jno. W 32

1 224

MaJ. S. H 324

, W, T 464

J 465

M i.i. B. A 423

W. It 128

C. B 131

.V. A r-61

. Judge 461

Simmons, ft. L 324

Sun- W. Kd 324

D. H 48S

H. L 322

In .. L 321

. 665 . 370 . 665 . 127

Stans.a. . ',.!, M. L.

S i | -. A. J

Stevi H-. i ' A

S;, wart, Ma.i. J. T.

Jenning i 127 Stock.-n. p. M 323

Jennings, I \

in, Dr. \\ II

i 'apt. W. A

Kellej . Jno. D 37

. F. M 12:

Kennedy, Mrs. l: M 122

lerl, Mrs. Isabella, 37|

Miss Blanche

lallard. Col. Jno

I.ittleii MaJ .1 II S3

i lovelace, t leo, W 321

Marl., rry, T. .1 168

Martin, Jos. T, T

Btoni r \v r

270

M ii. J. W 272

McOorley, J. T

il.C ii. lM. I ' \l

McDonald, Dr. J. R.

.. 269 .. 122 .. 121

MeFirland. S K 224

Mi Kay, N. K 274

McKay. MaJ. T. II 411

McLemore, Col. O. K 367

MeLure, Mrs M A. E 129

Menet'eo, Rev. T. A.. IJJ

Miller. .la, ob 224

Miller, !•:, R 165

Tax lor, R. Z 502

Mr< |t B 122

r A. W 374

Turner, Col. J. J 33

Tyler 1 $21

\\ a Ik i - . n. J. A 34

\\ ...lion, J. F 468

W alien. S. M 225

W< Iclh, I'i 11. M 465

,1 M 85

Mai. Douglas 125

Thos, Billopp 125

W. H 84

\\ illiams. C. C 273

Williams, MaJ. s, a 272

Williams. Mrs. C. L 122

Woodward, Capt. J. F 417

Woodward, J. M 32

■ 11. A 127, 275

roe, Col. Geo. P 224

Young, Gen. W. H 31

Zimmerman. J. C 222

AUTHORS.

Ak.rs. Mrs A P 489 Beall, D. T j-,9

Allison, Mrs. Jno. P 442 t:-al\ T. B 400

Anderson. Chas. L 166 Beaumont, H. F 113

Anderson. E. S 2til Beaumont, Dr. G. N 3:19

182009

Antony. Mrs. A. H 605

Baird, Oscar 256

Ba rr. Jas 164

Barron. S. B (56

Baylor, H. B 41:

n Mrs W. J 4

ng, Miss A. C 5511

I. J. R 456

Bingham, Jno. it 70

Bishop, C. R 407

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Confederate Vete-ai?.

Blanchard. E. W 339, Hawkins. W. S...

Bobbltt, Jno. H 70| Hickman, Jno. P.

Bocton, W. W 356 Hill. Mrs. W. A.

Boyd. E. H 157, 603

Bowyer, N. B O

Boyd. L Wl

Bransford. Maj. J. S 2GS

Breen, Alice B8

Broadway. Mrs. M. L 325

tl4

SUG

553

Hill. J. Booton 255

Hasan, N. B i'''

Hockersmi.h, H. H....1C, 70, 259 Holmes, Geo. S 365

Brockingti n. Mrs. AH 70

Brown, Irene Fowler 149

Brown, Julius L MS

Bruce, A. C IT!

Buchanan. Marian S15

24

41U

121

490

397

51

62

23

I'.n, k. Capt. S. D

Bunn, Judge H. G

Bryan, St. Geo. T. C...

Calhoun. W. L

i "am ton, Anna A

Cabell, Gen. W. L

Camp Ward Pensac-ola. Capers, Col. H. D.

, Col. J. G. Hoss, Dr. E. E....

II,, id, H. E

213

220 51s 352 91 410

Cayce, Newman KO Lencht, Rev. l

Charter, J. T

Mis. F. A .

Childs, Mary F

Chiaolm, Col. A. R. Coles, R T

2G3

443

411

..107, 212 43 >

Confederate Woman MB

Cone, A. J 30

Cooke, Rev. J. J '"H

Courtney. Maj. W. A 79

Cumming, Jos. B 404,51

Cumm ngs. C. C 69,356

Hoyt, Rev. X. A

Hudson, A. F

Hutton, A. W

Irby, Richard i-ol

Johnston, J. Stoddard.... !0i, 200

Jones, J. Wm 21, 360

Joins. Mrs. J. Wm 360

Jouvenot, Mrs. M. M 11

Kersb, Mrs. Wm 353

Knauss, Col. W. H 203, 456

Lawrence, Geo. W 161

Deavell, Geo. W. W 500

349

16s

262

l.inilsiy, R. H

lav,- y, E. H

Loidand, Chas

Lyman. Col. W. R

Lynn. Jno. 11

Mann. Jas. R

Marr, Fannie H

Maxwell, Mrs, M. M.

Daffan, Katie 340iMcCorquda'e, Jno

Daughtry, C. L 30S

Daves. Graham 6

Davis. Mrs. V. Jefferson.... 366

Davis, Mrs. W. L 26

Dozler, Mrs. T. P 2G7

Dunovant. Miss A. A 71

Eason, J. T

Ellis, Mrs. W. T

Kwing. Z. W

Faulkner. J .M

Finley. Mrs. S. P

Fitzgera, d, Bishop O. P.

Fleming, F. P

Frazi.T. J. \V. B

Foster, A. B

i'MSl'T, J. B

McLxws. Gen. L.

•;;:„

410

225

43'

206

276

1J3 "1

554 French, S. G... ...454, 557

Gaines, J. N 181, 318

Gardner, Washington 1~3

Garner. C. H 326

Garrelt, Judge J. B 276

Gay, C. L 163

Glib rt, Miss A. W 108

cliird n, Jno. H 78

Graber, H. W 197J PoMapd, C, R..

Gracey, J. C =62 Polk. Dr. W. L

.. 15 .. 259 .. 319 .. 2KA . . 26

McAm'bj . Rosa F SI

McCauley, Capt 172

McClelland, W. H S58

.. 229 .. 170

McDemore, Mrs. Anne 43S

MoNoUley, Rev. J. H 24S, 311

MoPhail, R. C 158

Meriwether. Colyer 394

Messenger, Mrs. L. R 551

Montgomery, J. h' 101

Moore, Henry 33 J

M . Rev. J. A EO

Moore, Gen Jno. C 316.401

Moore, John Tro4.wood 246

Moore, \V. T 354

Moorman, Gen. Geo.. 156, 207. 435

Morris. J. Uid 193

Morton, Capt. J. W 150-1

Nichols, J. H 162

Nickerson. Miss E. A 444

Obenchain, -.laj. Wm 309

Ogilvie, W. H 412

Orr, Mrs. oamuel 201

Owen, i'ol. Edw 112

Owoll, R. T 437

Peddi'C i i. K. F 214

Pickett. Col. W. D 17i

31'

557

Graybill. Jno. H 78 Porter R«. r <51

Grc.ne. N. L....7, 54, 115, 215, 299 Post, C. W 471

Greenwood. Albert 3,175, 35s Powell, C. A '. 463

Hale, W. T 361 Powell. T. J 64

Hall, Tom 155. 509 Prince, Folk 161

lladen. Mrs. Kathrin S12J Pugh, Mrs. T. B 442-3

: ,augh, T. C 263, 509, 510 Quarles, R. T 164

Hamilton, H. H 261 Randolph, Mrs. N. V 133. 313

Harris. F. S

Harris, G. W

Harris. J. J

Harris. J. B

Harris. W. W. S. Harris n, H. H.. Harrison, P. D... Haughton, R. B. Haughton, R. H.

459 Rea, R. N 354

517 Reagan. Jno. H 209

271 Reese, Gen. Geo 100

71 Ridley, B. L 66, 295

S2 Ritchey. J. S 395

22, Rhea. W. L 398

134 Roberts. M 355

?4i Rober'.son, Gen. F. L, 400

101 Rogers, J. M 491

Roseneau, J 4661 Thompson, Capt. E. P 43S

Rounsaville Mrs. ll. A. .483, ,36 Toiley, Capt. W. P 177

Rountr e, Mis. M. M 159 Torrance, Eli 343, 544

C. B 105 Trawlek, Dr. A. M 317

Rowland. Miss K. M 15, 176 Traylor, Jno. H 22

Sanford, W. D 53, 16 1 Tunnn. M. R 7S

Sayers, Governor i.<6 Tyree, Jn >. H 357

Sayers. Robt 555

ah. J. L 531

S. ield, Gen 20J

Scott, Dr. J. 0 2.i

Smith. E. W ■'■■■'

Smith, Dr. I. C 312

er. clay :>"5

Stanton, P 1 24M

Stinson, J. E 160

Stone, 'I'h, s. P 44i

Storey, Hon. L. J 14

Stent. Dr. S. 11 26u

Templeton, J. A 26)

Tench. Maj. Jno. W US

Ti. lienor. Dr. G. H 304

Ticrnan, F. C 493

Timrod. Henry 470

Thompson, Mrs. C. A

Union Veterans		203
		220
Vance, Z. B		493
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Websti r, w. M		114
Wilcox, Ella W		244
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Worcester, Mrs.	D. L..	362
Wright, Mrs. D.	G	433
Young, T. J		68

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Adkinson, Clifton 3S1

Allbright. W. B 275

Allen, Capt. John 32)

Allison. Miss Margaret 139

Anderson, Capt. Jno. H.

Asliuty. Mrs. A. E

Atchison, G. C

Baehman, Capt. W. K.

Banks, Dr. E. A

Bannerman, Mrs. S. G.

Barney. Capt. J. N

Barron, S. B

Beadles, Mrs. L,. \\ —

Bell, Gen. T. H

Belo, Col. A. H

Blake. Nena

Blakeley, A. R

Bocock, Thos. S

Bowyer. N. B

Brandon. A. W

Broocks. Col. J. II

Brown, J. L

Bruce, Jno. A

Bullock. E. C

Bullock, Jim. H

Bunn, H. G

Calhoun, W. L,

Chase. Mrs. F. A

Chisolm, Col. A. R

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Cockrell, Senator 452

i Jompany B., C. V H5

Conway, Elizabeth 179

Cook, Judge H. H 131

Cook, James 366

Cook, H. M 221

Cooper, S. C 297

Courtenay, W. A 514

Crowe, Josephine 159

Crump, John 562

Cumming, Jos. B 406

Cunningham. P. D 513

Cunningham, S. A 'i4S

Cunningham, W. W 366

Daffan, Edna ISO

Daffan, Katie 7, 99, ISO

Davis, Cora 366

Davis. Sam 350

Dean, Maj. J 403

Deane, S. H 37. (-6

Desha, Capt. Joe 370

Dickins n, Col. A. G...

Dickison. Gen. J. J

Dicks. J. R

Dickson. W. H

Dixon. Dr. J. E

Douglas. Maj. .1. P

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Durrett, D. L

Elgin, Clifton

England. Fannie

Estill, Col. J. H

Evans, M,rs. S. A

Fagan, Gen. J. F

Fayssoux, W. L '._'S

Ferrell. L. S S5

Flanigan, Miss Nora 4-6

Forrest. N. B 97

Frazier. Sarah R 159

Freret, Mrs. F. G 4S4

Fulcher. Capt. J. W 63

Funkhonser. Col. R. D 556

Furrow. Anna 151

Gall. Laura Talbot 292

Gardner. Washington 174

Gaston, lone 2,4

Gill, Mrs. T. A 340

Gilman. Nellie 156

Gordon. Gen. G. W 150

Governors of Tenn 16S

Graber. H. W 2I1S

Grayson. Tsianina 175

Green. Mrs. L. R 555

Grove. D. E 72-3

Grundy, Felix 453

Hajldeman, Clara B ISO

Hall, Mrs. M. H 155

Hampton. Gen. Wade 156

Hardison, Mrs. R. C 223

Harrell. Katherine 154

Harris. Capt. F. S 320,388

Harrison, Douise 450

Harrison, W. H 293

Haughton, R. H H01

Hawkins. W. S 413

Hester. Joseph 126

Hemphill. Col. W. A 373

Hickman. Miss Bessie 63

Hickman. Jno. P 156, 4S4

Higginbotham, Jno. M 369

Higginbotha'tn, J. W 210

Hill Family 201

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Hopkins, Capt. W. M 42]

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Hudson, A. F

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Hume, W. D. and Wife

Hutton, A. \V

Jackson, Stonewall 21,

Jackson, Mrs. Stonewall

Jackson, Uncle Alfred

Jamis in, Anna .1

Johnston, A. S

Johnston, J. E

Kelley, Maj. Jno. I>

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Latham. Mrs T. .1

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Lee, i ; il G. W. C

Lee, Gen K E

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Malhcrry. T, J 4GS

Martin, Jos. P

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McLure, Mis M. A. E 129

McLemore. 0. K 36S

McDonald, Maj. Jno. R 123,

McNeilley, Mayme 19?;

McQulstlan, Miss C R 109

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Miller. Hallie 248

Miller, Mrs. Hugh 310

Miller, Col. W. A 1S1

Monroe, Mrs. F. A 4v;

Montgomery, J. E 41u

Montgomery. J. J 41. *

Montgomery, K<-sa 150

Moore, Col. Roger 32

Moore, W. E 4'^

M.Miis. Fanny E 2 M

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Murphy, Elizabeth 17:*

Nash, Governor 293

XI- h PS 'i Miss E. A 444

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Tallin r, lir. B. M 226

I'ii ker Mis, J H U

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Mrs M W 45!)

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PlUett, Oriana 365

Polk, ' ' i|it, R. K Ji.l

Polk, G n Li nidas 201

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Porter, Miss M. B 101

Prowell, Mis. J. J i-<

Pugh, Judge 294

Pugh, Mrs. T. B isl

Quayle, Opl. Wm 373

Qutnlan, Mrs W. C 33'

Rapley, Mis A. W 535

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Jas P 389

Rosenberg, Mrs. M. R 4S1

Rounsaville, Mis. 11. A 483

Rouss, C. B 131

Rouss Memorial Committee. 152

Rug ! y, n. D 461

Russell Col. E. L 502

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Tow, i !ol. C C SI

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Traylor, A. W 371

Turner, Col. J. J 3}

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Scanland, Mis. W. ll 4S5

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- irs and Sons C. V J90

Stewart. Miss Mina 7

Stansel. Col. M. L 565

Stewart, Maj. J. T 127

Stidham. Leola 175

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St. Martin. Mrs. J. V 48S

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Sj k s. Miss M, E 102

Sykes, Mis- Mary L 599

Walk.o I.. McLean 403

Walker, Gen W. 11. T 404

Walker, Gen. G A.

Walsh, Miss Mamie 4S5

Walthall, Gi n. W, C 314

Ward, John Shirley 389

Wihs. W .11 84

Williams, HC 505

Williford, Nana 153

Wils n. Alma 171

Wilson. Mrs R. E 115

Wingo Dr. T. R 438

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No. 1

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OBN> SAMUEL COOPER.

JEFFERSON DAVIS) PRSS. At 1 X H. STEPHENS, V. PR] (.1 \. JOHN H. REAGAN, P. M

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C hoirs of angels sing of peace

O n earth, good will to men j

jVew Year greetings bid increase

F or truth, for right s that sin

E nsnare no more those temples

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*R enewing lofty thought, making eager to begin

A multitude of kindnesses,

T'hat warmth may enter in.

E 'en where life is callowest, where virtue hath

not been, V ouchsafe to Thy children all, E nduring God of Hosts, T he strength to rise from every fall s E nrich the heart that boasts *R aiment of the flesh, nor craves A. nchorage 'gainst the heavenly coasts ^Vear to the Love that saves.

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L'ROPKIETOR.

CHARLIE KANE.

ALBERT GREENWOOD, NEWPORT, IND.

When the sun went down we lay

In our uniforms of gray, Where the tight had heen the fiercest on the plain ;

By my side, with glazing eyes,

Like a lion when he dies, Was my fallen, wounded comrade. Charlie Kane.

He was such a gallant lad,

All the chum 1 ever had; And when round shot through our column cut their lane,

He was always by my side,

My encouragement and guide, And my loyal, daring comrade. Charlie Kane.

He was out when iron hailed.

And when all but heroes quailed, From the bound of Sumter's guns upon the air,

And of all the glory won,

Since the awful war begun, A Spottsylvania grave must be his share.

With his head upon my knee,

By the camp fire I could see That the season of our comradeship was o'er ;

And the Chattahoochie banks,

And his comrades in the ranks Would know his measured footsteps never more.

He'd a sister in the West,

Where the daylight goes to rest ; She was all the friend his childhood ever knew ;

And he said : "My dear old boy,

It would fill my heart with joy Could I leave the care of Marjorie to you."

There wc laid him in his grave,

In the mantle of the brave, The blanket that grew ragged through the years

We had followed after Lee

In our struggle to be free, And the pale moon in the heavens saw our tears.

Now forty years have passed,

Since the bullet's deadly blast Swept the wilderness, the mountain, and the plain ;

And with Marjorie I wait

For the opening of the gate, And the footfall of my comrade, Charlie Kane.

DALLAS REUNION, APRIL 22-25. 1902.

Gen. George Moorman, Adjutant General, sets forth in Order No. 267 that : "The General Command- ing announces, under the custom established by the Association, leaving the dates of the reunions to the General Commanding ami the Department Command- ers by unanimous agreement, and at the desire and acquiescence in by "Our Host," the next reunion will be held at Dallas, Tex., on April 22, 23. 24, 25, 1902, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

He also directs that four days be designated for the reunion on account of the rapid growth of the Associ- ation, and the immense accumulation of business which demands urgent attention at the coming ses- sion, unless the business is sooner disposed of by the delegates.

1 If adds : With pride the General Commanding also announces that 1,390 camps have now joined the As- sociation, and applications received at these head- quarters for many more, and he urges veterans every- where to send for organization papers, for camps at once, and join this Association so as to assist in carry- ing out its benevolent and patriotic objects.

DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY CRITICISED.

The dying throbs of sectionalism are conspicuous in the progress of good will that has been engendered by the proven patriotism of the Southern people — a patriotism that has not increased but which was dem- onstrated by the Spanish war.

Southern women have exhibited the spirit of good will at their meetings in conventions as United Daugh- ters of the Confederacy, and they have animated dor- mant spirits to realize that men who dare imperil life for principle, as they understand it, are to be honored living and dead.

A Rip Van Winkle, who is as of water to oil, who in- cidently came South as a missionary of the M. E. Church, wkhout the spirit of the Master, has distin-

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guished himself by being the first to condemn these noble women in a published editorial against their or- ganization. It is given in full as copied by another paper, that the spirit of it may be fully understood:

There is an organization in this country known as the "Daughters of the Confederacy." We have regarded it as a harmless affair, affording an opportunity for some little en- tertainment in the line of mutual admiration. But such it does not seem to be. It takes itself quite seriously, or thinks it does, and emphasizes its self-assumed mission hy misrepre- senting the heroes and principles of the American Union. One essayist read a paper glorifying the Confederacy and asserting that its principles were right. .Vow if this sort of treason is permissable why not allow Emma Goldman, the high priestess. nay, the "Daughter of Anarchy," to address audiences also and declare the principles of anarchy to he right? Lincoln was assassinated by a man inspired by the Confederacy idea, McKinley was assassinated by Gzolgosz inspired by anarchy, and if Emma Goldman is to be refused free speech, and Herr Most is to be put in prison for publishing anarchistic litera- ture, has the "Daughters of the Confederacy" any right to be glorifying the Confederacy which cost the blood of a nation to suppress?

The N. B. Forrest Camp, U. C. V., the membership of which is noted for its conversatism in sectional mat- ters, at its recent meeting passed resolutions condemn- ing said article and its author as follows :

Whereas, The foregoing article was taken from the columns of the Methodist Advocate Joiirnal, the organ of the Northern Methodist Church in this locality, which is edited by one R. J. Cooke, who is also the head of Grant University at Athens, Tenn., one branch of said university being located at Chatta- nooga, and

Whereas, In the law department of said university, located in this city, every one of the instructors, except one, are South- ern men, and some of them were in the Confederate army, and

Whereas, In view of the previous history of this university, the fact that our lawyers, who are Southern men, are gratu- itously serving as instructors in this institution, lending it their aid, influence, and services, should be evidence of the fact that they, in common with the people of the South, be- lieved that sectionalism was dead, and that all good citizens are willing to enter heart, head, and substance into the devel- opment of true Americanism, and the upbuilding of every- thing that tends to benefit the whole country, blot out sectional differences and develop the highest type of American citizen- ship ; and

Whereas, During the past few years, when the government was in need of soldiers, the whole South, with a patriotism uncqualed by any other section of the country, rallied around the flag of their country, and freely contributed their blood and treasure in defense of a common country, is further evidence of the maliciousness of this article. Therefore be it

Resolved, I. That our self-respect demands that we call upon the people of the South to withhold from Grant University (or any other institution) all aid, patronage, encouragement, or sympathy so long as its officials indulge in such unwar- ranted misrepresentation of a noble organization, as was in- dulged in by this fellow, and the publication of such vile slan- der of our noble women.

2. That the vicious attack, made upon the Daughters of the Confederacy in the foregoing article is unwarranted, malicious, coarse, slanderous, and beneath the dignity of a gentleman, and demands to be resented by every true gentleman, old and young.

3. That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the camp, and a copy furnished the city papers for publication.

JEFFERSON DAVIS MONUMENT, Mrs. W. J. Behan sends out an appeal as President of the Confederated Southern Memorial Association in which she states that that Asioc;ationanct the United Daughters of the Confederacy are cooperating in the work entrusted to the women of the South by the United Confederate Veterans — namely, the erection of a monument to President Jefferson Davis. When we assumed this great responsibility, it was with the firm belief that the men of the South would give us their generous assistance. Veterans, do not delay, let us erect this monument while you, the living heroes of that incomparable army, are here to bear testimony that Jefferson Davis was an unselfish patriot, that he served his people faithfully, that he was a noble, Chris- tian gentleman, and that he suffered imprisonment and was manacled and put in irons, for the simple rea- son that he was your representative and chosen leader, in your struggle for Southern rights. We feel confi- dent that every man, woman, and child will consider it an honor and a privilege to contribute to this fund. United Sons of Confederate Veterans, we ask your earnest cooperation in this work — remember, that in honoring the memory of Jefferson Davis, you honor every man who wore the gray. In accordance, there- fore, with Article III. of General Order No. 263, here- in inclosed, you are requested to contribute one dollar ($1.00) either individually, or collectively by Camps, and all Division Commanders and Commanders of U.

C. V. Camps, and Camps of United Sons of Confed- erate Veterans are urged to bring this matter before their respective commands.

Additional signatures to the appeal are Mesdames Martha Dandridge Bibb, Montgomery Ala. : Junius Jordan, Fayetteville, Ark. ; W. D. Chipley, Pensacola, Fla. ; S. H. Melone, Atlanta, Ga. ; Rosa Lobrano, New Orleans, La. ; Charles Gascoigne Wright, Vicksburg, Miss.; LeRoy B. Valliant, St. Louis, Mo.; Garland Jones, Raliegh, N. C. : Alice A. Gaillard1 Palmer, Charleston, S. C. ; Letitia Frazer, Memphis, Tenn. ;

D. C. Richardson, Richmond, Va.

Let us all help this worthy cause. Remittances should be made to Mrs. Randolph, Chairman of Cen- tral Committee, or to Mrs. Edgar D. Taylor, Treas- urer. All Confederate organizations should co- operate speedily, and do what they intend to for this cause, so the Association may know what amount they can use in the desitrn, which should be selected soon.

Confederate Calendars. — The Confederate Cal- endar which is being sold for the Jefferson Davis Monument Fund is indeed a beauty ; with its first page showing in brilliant colors the four flags and the many superb engravings representing typical scenes in dif- ferent states with bits of valuable information regard- ing the Confederacy. Mrs. N. V. Randolph, Chair- man of the Central Committee, for the Monument Fund has charge of its sale. It is sent for the modest sum of twenty-five cents, and should bring thousands

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of purchasers. Remit to Mrs. Randolph, Richmond, Va. Let four club together and send a dollar bill.

Since the above is ready for press the following comes fron.1 Mrs. William Robert Vawter, Chairman Confederate Calendar Committee, Richmond: "We had to have an extra thousand calendars, making 6,000 sold for 1901. I have turned over to the Treas- urer of the Jefferson Davis Monument Fund, $492-°4 cleared on the sale of calendars. This year I had 10,000 printed (for 1902), ana hope to sell every one." Money remitted to either of t»e ladies will have prompt attention.

LEE'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS.

January 19 is an important date in the Confederacy ; nay, in the broad world, for on that day, with the veil ■of years softening all discord, wherever the name of Robert E. Lee is known, tribute is paid to his transcendent virtue and ability. Celebrations of the date of his birth take place in many Southern States, and in Virginia much attention is being paid to it. A programme for children in the public schools, prepared by Miss J. N. Forbes, "i Virginia Beach, suggests the study of historic periods in his life — his birth, youth, early manhood, and later his- tory. Forty-two questions are suggested, such as, "For what profession was lie educated?" "What of his life at West Point?" "How did he come into posses- sion of the White House, and When of Arlington?" Following the many questions in which close research is desirable, are suggestive recitations, such as "The Sword of Lee," "Lee to the Rear.' etc.

Mr. Rixey, of Virginia, in discussing appropriations for the pension bill in Congress the other day, offered a resolution providing that United States Soldiers' Homes be opened for the Confederates. The Associ- ated Press reported two notable speeches upon the subject — one by Mr. Gardner ( Republican 1. of Michi- gan, and the other bj De \.rmond, of Virginia. To this matter other notice is intended.

Mr. De Armond's speech referred to Gen. R.E.Lee: "I believe that in all the Christian era there has not arisen a leader of men with all the better elements of manhood, a nobler and more magnificant specimen of the best that manhi « id can do in its proudest and most glorious and successful moments, than Gen. Robert E. Lee." i Applause.)

REGIMENTAL HISTORIES THEIR IMPORTANCE

The importance of regimental histories is such that it behooves every veteran soldier to contribute there- to. Commanders of regiments, if living, should be diligent to prepare a record. The surviving officer of highest rank, if only a captain, might secure the co- operation of officers and men from the various com- panies and divide the work so a history might be se- cured which would be of inestimable value to the future.

The inspiration to this duty would come to many a veteran if he could read the diary of Col. J. P. Mc- Guire, of the Thirty-Second Tennessee Regiment.

He deferred the work for many years, but was spared to write at his convenience from diary and other data the history of his regiment from the beginning to the end. It is a valuable heritage to his children — Mrs. Neil and Mrs. Corson — and will ever be, when pub- lished, an interesting story for those who served in that command, and a credit to Tennessee.

This record shows that Col. McGuire was promoted from major over Lieut. Col. W. P. O'Neal, one of the finest men in all history, who had been in ill health, ! and wrote the Secretary of War that he waived his | seniority of rank, and requested that Maj. McGuire be advanced to colonel of the regiment. A pleasant rec- ollection of the editor of the Veteran is that of being with these two officers at their last meeting on earth, and just before Col. O'Xeal's death.

COL. J. p. m<;cire.

The record referred to, made by Col. McGuire, con- tains the letter from the Secretary of War, James A. Seddon, notifying him that President Davis had ap- pointed him colonel. Then there is other correspond- ence in his behalf at the reorganization of the army by Gens. J. B. Palmer, John C. Brown, W. B. Bate, C. L. Stevenson, S. D. Lee, D. II. Hill. W. J. Hardee, and J. E. Johnston, all in high praise. The testimony is that of Gen. Palmer approved by the others, which is, in part, as follow-,: lie commanded one of the largest regiments in Palmer's Brigade; that in a number of severe battles heavy skirmishes, and in remarkablv trying marches he evinced the highest qualities of the man, officer, and soldier. In the drill discipline and general management of troops he had few equals and no superiors. Gen. Brown regarded his as "one of the very best officers in our army." Gen. S. D. Lee mentioned him as one of the most gallant and efficient

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officers in the army. Gen. D. H. Hill mentions that he led the skirmishes of Lee's Corps temporarily in his command in the battle of Bentonville, N. C, and "was distinguished on that occasion for gallantry and efficiency." Gen. Bate stated : "No colonel in our army has a better reputation for gallantry and effi- ceincy." Gen. Hardeecordia.il) indorsed all the fore- going concerning his gallantry and efficiency as a sol- dier, and Gen. J. E. Johnston wrote, in conclusion: "Col. McGuire has won a very high reputation in the Army of Tennessee, which fully justifies the preceding reputations, which fully indorse."

Col. McGuire was born in Lincoln County, Tenn., January 23, 1833. After the war he engaged in mer- chandizing for some years at Pulaski, and later he es- tablished a wholesale business at Nashville, and speed- ily became one of the most prominent merchants in his State. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church and active in Y. M. C. A. enterprises. He died at Nashville, October 12, 1888.

ENLISTMENTS FOR THE WAR.

Graham Daves writes from Newbern, N. C. :

From time to time there are notices in the columns of the Veteran, with comments of just approval, of the "reenlistment for the war," in the war between the States, of volunteer organizations whose term of origi- nal enlistment was about to expire. Such action on the part of the volunteers was in the highest degree patriotic and praiseworthy, and, in what is said in this connection, 1 would not be understood as undervalu- ing or depreciating it in any respect.

But if it was commendable, as it certainly was, to re- enlist for the war, I respectfully submit that it was even more so to enlist for the war originally at the outset. The first ten regiments of North Carolina troops as numbered, called State troops, were enlisted for the war at their organization. Eight of these regi- ments were infantry, one, the Ninth, cavalry, and one, the Tenth, was artillery. Two other regiments were enlisted in the same way, and also for the war — viz., the Nineteenth or Second Cavalry, and the Thirty- Third Infantry. It is said that many other commands, especially those in the artillery, enlisted for the whole term of the war at the beginning. This I doubt not is true, but I have no personal knowledge of the fact ex- cept from hearsay.

If, therefore, praises be awarded to men for re- enlistment, as is most justly due, still more should it be accorded to our North Carolina troops who re- quired no reenlistment, but were in for the war from the first.

Comrade Daves may be surprised at the suggestion, but the Veteran feels that it was more creditable to reenlist after it was demonstrated that the war was no "frolic." It vies with him, however, in giving praise to the men of the "Old North State," and believes that no men could have reenlisted more patriotically than the "Tar Heels."

Those who are interested in the Veteran and de- cline to accept commissions can easily procure some of the book premiums, or nearly any other that have been advertised in its history. Write for sample copies to be sent to such friends as would like the Veteran.

UNITED SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS,

The Commander-in-Chief, R. B. Haughton, St. Louis, announces standing and other committees :

The Historical Committee is as follows : William F. Jones, Chairman, Elbertou, Ga. ; Prof. P. H. Mell, Auburn, Ala. ; Hon. Roy D. Campbell, Little Rock, Ark. ; Hon. Duncan U. Fletcher, Jacksonville, Fla. ; W. W. Davies, Esq., Louisville, Ky. ; Hon. Monroe McClurg, Jackson, Miss.; Frank B. Williams, Esq., Springfield, Mo. ; Prof. Charles L. Coon, Salisbury, N. C. ; James A. Hoyt, Columbia, S. C. ; J. M. Harle, Mortistown, Tenn. ; Brant H. Kirk, Esq., Waco, Tex.; Judson S. Bosher, Richmond, Va. ; Fontaine Broun, Esq., Charleston, W. Va.; William M. Franklin, Ard- more, I. T. ; C. L. Brown, Washington, D. C.

Chairmen of the other committees are:

Relief, Robert G. Pillow, Little Rock, Ark.

Monumental, D. A. Spivey, Conway, S. C.

Finance, W. H. Langford, Pine Bluff, Ark.

Women's Memorial, Jas. Mann, Esq., Nottoway, Va.

The Constitutional Committee is comprised of Hon. Walter T. Colquitt, (Chairman), Atlanta, Ga. ; Judge R. W. Nicholls, Helena, Ark.; and Edwin P. Cox, Esq., Richmond, Va.

Suggestions as to changes in the constitution should be sent to the chairman of the Constitutional Committee, for report at the General Reunion, to be held in Dallas, Tex., in April, 1902.

J. C. Graham, of Ardmore, is the commander of the Indian Territory Division.

GENERAL ORDER NO. 6, ISSUED BY THE SONS.

Comrades : The most striking thing in connection with the war of the secession was the conduct of the women of the South. But for their loyalty, devotion, and inspiration, the armies of the Confederacy would have made no such brilliant record as they did. The records of their courage, arduous labors, and self-sac- rifice are the brightest pages of its history.

Since the close of the war, they have cared for needy old soldiers, have built monuments to commemorate the glories of the Confederacy and of its people and have, year after year, with loving and gentle hands, strewn with fair flowers the graves of its soldiers who had answered to the last roll ; and it has been largely their unceasing demand that has caused the organiza- tion of Southern societies to right the wrongs that histories had recorded against the Southern people.

As a partial return for their constancy, devotion, and heroism, our organization has pledged itself to commemorate them in an enduring form. Had we not already done this, every sense of duty would im- pel us to it ; but having taken up the task, we will com- plete it fully, conscientiously, and promptly.

A great many camps made liberal subscriptions for this fund at the last reunion. If any of these have not yet remitted, they are urged to raise the money — the full amount — and remit it at once.

Camps which have not subscribed are asked to make a subscription, and pay it as soon as possible. No member of our organization can afford to be found missing from the roll of contributors to this grand cause. The commander-in-chief believes that we have not a single member who is not only willing but

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anxious to do so. No cause was ever presented to the sons of Southern men that should more strongly appeal to them ; and we should show, at once, in this, that we still have the chivalric spirit of our fathers.

The chairman of the committee on Women's Memo- rial is James Mann, Esq., Nottoway, Ya. Subscrip- tions and remittances should be sent to him, or to the committeeman of the division from which sent.

We should have $10,000 reported in hand at the next reunion. Every member of our organization should contribute at least one dollar to the fund. Many camps have averaged more than double that amount, and several individual comrades have given fron $10 to $100 each.

Vgainst Unearned Titles.

During the past few years, a custom has grown up among our members of addressing our Division and Department Commanders as "Major-General" and "Lieutenant-General," respectively, and the Command- er-in-chief as "General," and of giving various mili- tary titles to subordinate officers. This has been en- couraged, unintentionally perhaps, by many of the vet- erans who have used such titles in addressing our of- ficers. While those of our members who have at- tained official position are entitled to be honored by an appropriate title, we should be careful not to adopt designations that will do injustice to others. There are still living among us (we are happy to remember) a great many heroic men who have earned the right to high military title by service in actual warfare. Any appropriation by us of the titles properly belonging to them necessarily deprives them to that extent of the honor attaching to these titles. There are other rea- sons why we should discontinue this custom, which will readily suggest themselves. For these reasons, the Commander-in-chief announces that in future he will carefully abstain from the use of such titles in ad- dressing our officers, and he requests that other mem- bers adopt the same course. Until our constitution shall be changed, if a change is desired, providing short and distinctive titles for our officers, we should use those designated in the present constitution. The fact that a great many of the veterans object to this custom will, without doubt, cause all of our mem- bers to discontinue it, were other reasons insufficient. It may be added that many of our comrades have ex- pressed a similar objection.

Arrangements have been perfected for having badges very handsomely made, and they can be se- cured from headquarters.

Every officer of our organization who is not already provided, should apply to headquarters for his official commission. Blank forms, in colors, on handsome bond paper, have recently been provided for these and they will he issued promptly. This applies to all offi- cers, whether general staff, subordinate staff, depart- ment, division, brigade, camp, elected, appointed, or of whatever nature. The charge is $1 each: if en- grossed in old English letters, $1.25 each. Each mem ber, whether an officer or not, is entitled to an official certificate of membership upon application. The charge for this is $1.

Upon the suggestion of comrades feeling the lack of this, the Commander-in-chief requests that all the

officers of our organization and as many of the other members as may desire to endeavor to keep in touch with each other by means of the interchange of letters, general orders, circulars, newspaper articles, etc. Let all in each division try to become as well acquainted I with each other as possible, and also cultivate a closer acquaintance with those in other divisions. A free interchange of ideas will help all and will strengthen ! our general organization. The Commander-in-chief ' will be glad to hear from any comrade who may have suggestions to offer.

\ suggestion is made that some plan be devised bv which opportunity will be given for the veterans and our members to see more of each other and of the pro. ceedings of both organizations at general reunions. The Commander-in-chief desires ideas on this lim .

Comrade George II. Packwood, who so loyally served his State, Louisiana, as Major General U. C. V., sent sometime ago interesting data concerning Com- rade Walter Stewart, of ^^^^ Woodland, East Felici- ano Parish, who at the outbreak of the war of the sixtn v. promptly enlisted in Company E., of the First Louisiana Cavalry Regiment, commanded by the gallant Col. John S. Scott. By his quiet unas suming manner yet readi-

rade Stewart won the es- teem of the command with which he was con- nected throughout the

war He served largely Mlss MINA STE„.ART.

in Tennessee and Ken- tucky during the time. Returning to Louisiana, after the war, he engaged in planting, which occupation he has since followed.

The S. E. Hunter Camp elected Miss Mina Stew- art the sponsor for the State reunion at Baton Rouge, and she chose as her maid of honor, Miss May Hor- ton, of Clinton.

Albert Pike Camp. U. C. V., Hot Strings, Ark.

Nothing unsatisfactory led up to the adoption of the resolution copied below, which I am directed as adjutant of the Camp to request you to publish in the Veteran :

"Be it resolved by this Camp that annual reports of all moneys received and disbursed by the Adjutant General be furnished by him to each Camp, as well as to the General commanding. And if not a constitu- tional requirement, that our delegates to the next (Dallas) reunion be instructed to urge it as a require- ment and proper duty for the guidance of the Camps."

C. W. Frv, Commander.

J. M. Harrell, Adjutant.

List of officers of D. T. Beall Camp No. 1,327, of Rienzi, Miss.: Commander. W. H. Rees : Lieutenant Commanders, B. M. Savage and Jesse T. Churvse ; Adjutant. C. B. Culere : Chaplain, W. W. Edge.

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S. A. L IN N(N'(, HAM, Editor and Proprietor. Office: Methodist Publishing House Building, Nashville, Tenn.

This publication is the personal property of S. A. Cunningham. All per- sons who approve its principles and realize its benefits as an organ for Asso- ciations throughout the South are requested to commend its patronage and to cooperate in extending its circulation. Let each one be constantly diligent.

The tenth vear of the Veteran is begun under aus- picious circumstances. The first issue, in January, 1893, was with anxious concern for the favorable re- gard of the Southern people, but soon the magnetism of the name stirred many a heart that has ceased to beat. The succeeding years brought increased strength, and high hopes for universal zeal of Confed- erates were indulged from year to year, and although thousands who worked and prayed for its success have Crossed over the River, the list has been maintained and strongest evidence of approval continues.

The new year begins with unusual interest of friends in remote sections of "Dixie's Land." No more im- portant matter can concern the Southern people than proper interest in the Veteran. It should be a com- mon cause.

Some unhappy things occur frequently. A comrade may die in arrears, and the family, after waiting a year or two, will write of the death, and that they cannot pay what is due. Every friend of the principles advo- cated by the Veteran ought to see to it that not a cent is lost on their account. Dear old comrade, won't you admonish your family not to overlook the impor- tance of this thing, and ask your wife and children to send some account of you for record when you are dead? Then, good friends, do not be discouraged with the idea that you can do but little. If you can send one new subscriber, the aggregate will be a great deal in the end. To send one dollar for the Veteran is good, but it is so much better to get some friend to join in with y< 111, as it will not cost any more to include that subscription with yours.

An important help to the Veteran is to give atten- tion to advertisements in it. No business can secure insertion in its pages unless there is faith that it has genuine merit. The firms using it are referred to with gratitude, and generally with pride. Take, for in- stance, the B. H. Stief Jewelry Company of Nashville using four pages in the November Veteran. If you want anything in their line, order as indicated, and you may lie sure of getting the article exactly as repre- sented. Then refer to the Phillips & Buttorff Manu- facturing Company for anything in their line, assured that they are thoroughly responsible and reliable. When you order anything from any other source that you find advertised in the Veteran, mention that it is the medium that induced you to order it. Other ad- vertisers are just as reliable, and if any misrepresenta- tion ever comes through your orders, be sure to let the Veteran know wherein it occurs.

Contributors are requested to be patient for their articles to appear. There seems to be nearly as much good material in type now as in this issue, and it is not alwavs the best that is first used. When articles have

been held over beyond a reasonable time, please call attention ; it is a rare thing that contributions are dis- carded, but some of the best are occasionally "side- tracked" too long.

The editor of the VETERAN stands alone in responsi- bility. For nine }ears he has done his best, and in- tends to continue zealously. He realizes more than the average Confederate, perhaps, how much good might be accomplished if the cooperation pleaded for was exercised by all who believe in the cause. He will do his own duty, and with that should be content, ex- cept that he feels obliged to urge eternal diligence. A valiant officer in the war called at the office some time since very feeble, and as he entered, leaning on the arm of a stalwart son, said : "Have the Veteran come on. My dying won't make any difference."

Honor to Admiral and Mrs. Schley. — The Nashville Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy, join with other patriotic orders of Nashville, in an elegant reception given in honor of Admiral and Mrs. Schley on February 1. The entertainment will be held in the beautiful drawing rooms of the Maxwell House. Prominent members of the Chapter will serve on the reception committee. The officers are : Mrs. W. J. McMurray, President; Mrs. W. L. Hardi- son, Mrs. Isabella Clark, Vice Presidents; Mrs. Wil- liam Hume, Historian ; Miss Martha Hill, Recording Secretary; Mrs. W. T. Young, Corresponding Secre- tary • Mrs. Lizzie Merrill, Treasurer ; Mrs. John P. Hickman, National Recording Secretary, will also be in the receiving party.

On Sunday the Hermitage Association will enter- tain the gallant hero and his wife at "The Hermitage," and they will attend services in the little chapel there, occupying Gen. Jackson's pew.

HONOR TO GEN. FRENCH AT HIS HOME

A letter from Pensacola contains the following: An event occurred in this city one day in December last that deserves notice in the Veteran. It was a delightful dinner given as a compliment to Gen. S. G. French by William H. Knowles, who was too young to be a veteran, but native to the soil. The desire to do honor to Gen. French was inspired by reading his book, "Two Wars." Mr. Knowles is a great admirer of Gen. French. He had a jolly company of twelve old vets to meet the General. It would be impossible to de- scribe this elegant dinner and the joy of the veterans at meeting in a social way the distinguished soldier and author. About ten courses were served, consisting of most delicious viands, prepared under the supervision of the host's sister. Plenty of wine of the finest quality helped to make lively the old soldiers, who could not help comparing this with many dinners eaten in the dark days of the sixties. The participants can never forget the host for this high compliment, not so much to the individual as to the representative of those grand heroes who fought and died for constitutional rights. Let us hope that the young men of the South will read to advantage true history of the great war and its causes, such as Gen. French writes, and be led, as Mr. Knowles, to honor the old Confederate soldiers. The writer said to the sister of Mr. Knowles, a few days after : "The only thing lacking at the feast was the presence of the ladies." Her reply was that it did her heart good to peep in and see us enjoy ourselves.

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Conducted iJ£ Nanc^ Lewis Greene

The heart is uplifted with hopes of good gifts in the hands of the new born year, and the mistakes of the past serve as stepping stones to higher undertaking.

For the Daughters of the Confederacy I hope an especially pleasant and profitable future is in store. We have done and are doing noble work, and its sa- credness should keep us from all danger of internal jealousy and strife.

Standing on the threshold of 1902, let us drop the curtain completely upon any part of 1901 which tend- ed to cause the least ill feeling or friction. Let us ac- cept our world as a perfectly white and fresh one, to be filled only with what the good in us may dictate; then it will indeed be a Happy New Year to all!

Texas Division U. D. C. in Convention.

It has been said that Texas is a country of itself, so large is its territory and so individual a part has it al- ways taken in American affairs ; and if this be true generally, it is also true regarding its importance in U. D. C. work. The State convention held last month in San Antonio, covered so much in a business way, and has representation from so many large chapters, that it warrants almost as much space herein as if it had been a general convention.

No Division in the Union has more loyal hearts, more energetic workers, or truer patriots in the cause than that of Texas. It had the largest representation at the last General Com ention, and when Miss Dalian. the State Secretary, read her report, its excellence and contents elicited the greatest enthusiasm.

The address of the President, Mrs. Cone Johnson, at the San Antonio Convention gave a clear insight into the State's importance in tin- following paragraph:

"At Wilmington, Texas led all the States in number and in good work. We had 159 votes, with Georgia following us with 88. Our organization, numbering 25,000 members, is now the largest organization of women in the United States, and Texas has 4,033 of these members."

Dallas is to have the next annual convention of the Confederate Veterans, and for this reason, also, inter- est centers upon Texas. The Daughters of the Con- federacy discussed means of helping the city to ex- tend a hospitable welcome to all visitors upon the occasion, feeling a personal pride in the success of the coming event.

S \x VNTONIO'S Wl I COME.

The beautiful and hospitable city of San \ntonio gave welcome to the U. D. C. at their sixth annual convention, with fair warm weather ami bright skies, 1*

donning the red and white with hospitable intent and making elaborate preparations. Appropriate decora- tions adorned the interior of the church in which the sessions were held; bunting and greenery, palms and cut flowers adding beauty to the scene, and above all the flags- — State and Confederate flags of rich hues and texture. The flag of Texas hung at its points with that of the Confederacy. A portrait of Gen. Barnard E. Bee, for whom the San Antonio Chapter was named, and who was killed at the battle of Mannas- sas. occupied a conspicuous place. Upon the wall hung another banner, tattered and old, made by Texas women and carried throughout the war by soldiers under Gen. Hamilton P. Bee. Across the flag of Texas hung the silken emblem of the Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, United Confederate Veterans and on each side flags of the Union. Right royally did the San Antonio women entertain the delegates. District Attorney Carlos Bee delivered an address of welcome, and Mrs. Lee Cotton, of the local chapter, responded.

One paragraph of her speech deals with the follow- ing important question : For what purpose do we meet and why this organization of the U. D. C? She said : "This question is often asked even by our own people, and a moment's reflection would bring a ready answer. We have formed these organizations and hold annual meetings not to rebel at fate and stir up a feeling of bitterness and enmity, as some seem to think, but rather to keep alive that feeling of love (or and loyalty to thos1» who sacrificed everything for principle, and suffered untold hardships for a cause which they believed to be right ; a cause which meant to them liberty, justice, honor, all! We meet to per- petuate the memory of brave and heroic deeds of those noble sons of the South, our ancestors. Were we to do less, we must surely have the scorn and de- rision of the civilized world, for although others may not have been in sympathy with us. they must admire and reverence the great generalship, heroism, and ennobling sacrifices made at the altar of principle. In defeat these gallant souls were heroes still, and shall remain so until history shall have recorded its last period of time. That we do honor to our fallen heroes, and care for and comfort those still spared us, does not make us the less good citizens, rather bet- ter, for if we are unjust and ungrateful to the one we will surely be to the other. Who responded more promptly and with more patriotic zeal to their coun- try's call in our late war with Spain than the heroes of the South and their descendants? We all rejoice

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lhat «t are once more a reunited country." Airs. Cotton added: "Hospitality is the corner stone of Southern tradition. Jt is said that the latch strings of our doors hang ever out ; we have taken our doors off their hinges this time, and receive you with open doors, open arms, and open hearts."

An Hour of Sadness.

The only cloud that shadowed the proceedings hung for a time over all when tender memorial .services to the dead took place upon the second day. Honor was paid to the memory of Mrs. Benedette B. Tobin, the late State President, and of other loyal daughters who died during the year. Among those who paid tribute to the dead were .Mrs. Hallie M. Dunklin, Mrs. Ella Hutchins Sydnor, Rev. John M. Moore, and Miss Dunovant, who delivered an original ode to the mem- ory of Mrs. Tobin. Previous to this, several fine re- ports were read, among them the historian's able con- ception, dealing with the principles which actuated the South in its efforts to secede. Reasonable and logi- cal, and sustained by the greatest Southern States- men were her arguments, which proved conclusively that the South acted within the Constitution and that force, not right, was the cause of defeat. ■ One of the most important actions of the business session was the selection for the next place of meet- ing. The Fort Worth delegation, under the leader- ship of Mrs. W. P. Lane and Miss M. K. Melton, gave a most efracious invitation indorsed by all the officials of that city which was chosen without a dissenting voice.

Mrs. Lane, the efficient registrar of the division, road a report which made a splendid showing for Texas in growth of the organization.

For Chickamauga Park.

A letter from Judge W. C. Kroeger, of Company G., Terry's Texas Rangers, was read before the conven- tion, which shows how much the veterans need the cooperation of the Daughters, and in which he stated : "The United States Government bought the territory on which the battles of Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Mission Ridge were fought, and has dedicated the same to all future generations of the United States as a public park to be used by each State that furnished troops, to perpetuate the acts and deeds of their soldiers and to commemorate the heroism of their sons. The park was so dedicated in 1895. All the Northern and most of the Southern States have come up to the same level of those patriots who origi- nated this movement to have a more cemented and better union of states. The different States had monuments erected on the spots on which their troops fought and suffered the most, had the battle lines sur- veyed and tablets erected where their sons fought and suffered and died. But our great and rich state of Texas, although she was represented on those san- guinary battlefields by six different commands — to- wit : Grandbury's, Ector's, and Hood's brigades of In- fantry, Ross's and Harris's brigade of cavalry, and Douglass's Battery, has done nothing to commemo- rate the heroic Texans who fell in those battles. Ow- ing to no appropriations, our then Governor, C. A. Culberson, appointed ten gentlemen as commission-

ers to represent this State, and he appointed such as could pay their own expenses.

Ex-Senator R. Q, Mills told me three years ago that he was present as one of the commissioners of tlie Xational Park and that he had some stakes driven, designating the lines where his brigade (Grandbury's) fought the hardest and suffered the most.

Now, members of the Division of Texas, United Daughters of the Confederacy, this is not as it should be. The Texas subdivisions of the Army of Tennessee did their full duty. They crimsoned with their blood that hotly contested field of battle, and their heroism, devotion, and sacrifices should be rec- ognized and appreciated by this and future generations of Texans.

I have personally and by writing appealed to your Legislature time and again, but to no avail. For this reason I come to you, my good Southern women, for help, and for you to undertake and to bring to a suc- cessful issue what I have failed to accomplish, and ask you to pass resolutions this year and next to re- quest the next Legislature and all subsequent Legis- latures to accomplish this result by appropriating sufficient funds to erect monuments where Ross's bri- gade fought, where Grandbury and Douglass made that glorious charge on the noon of September 20, where Hood's Brigade broke the center of the ene- my's lines, and where Harrison's Brigade started in on the morning of the 19th; and, not only this, but that each of you personally appeal to each Senator and Legislator for this appropriation and such help as loyal Southerners should ^rant.

Mrs. A. V. Winkler moved that the division take up the work suggested bv Judge Kroeger during the coming year, and the motion carried unanimously.

Annual Election of Officers.

Officers elected for the coming year were : President, Miss Adelia A. Dunovant, Houston ; Vice Presidents, Mrs. Fannie J. Halbert, Corsicana ; Mrs. A. R. Howard, Palestine; Mrs. W. R. Banks, Bryan; and Mrs. Mary J. Lane, Marshall; Secretary, Mrs. B. F. Eads, Marshall ; Treasurer, Mrs. J. Mayrant Smith, Bclton ; Registrar, Miss Mollie Connor, Eagle Pass; Historian, Mrs. S. H. Watson, Waxahachie. Miss Dunovant and Mrs. Cone Johnson were both very popular and warmly-supported candidates for the Presidency. Miss Dunovant is one of the ablest women in the whole organization, logical and brainy, and full of ability. Mrs. Johnson, the retiring presi- dent, is popular and influential, and has been a faith- ful worker in the cause. An Austin paper says of her : "It is not generally known that it was chiefly through the noble work and fine executive ability of Mrs. Cone Johnson, of Tyler, State President of the Daughters of the Confederacy, that an appropriation of $10,000 was made by the second called session of the twenty- seventh legislature for the erection of a monument to Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. When it became ap- parent that the Governor would call a special session of the legislature, Mrs. Johnson went to work in a quiet way and wrote almost every newspaper in Texas for their support of the movement to secure an appro- priation for the monument, and as is well known, her efforts were rewarded with success."

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Mrs. M. L. Hardy, of San Marcos, moved that a vote of sympathy be extended the editor of the Con- federate Veteran on the death of his noble son. Mrs. Winkler, of 'Corsicana, is devot- ing- much time and energy to the Texas room in the Confed- erate museum at Richmond, for which she is State regent, being re- elected for six vears at the annual meet- ings of the Confed- erate Memorial and Literary Society of Virginia. She pre- sented an interesl ■ing report of her work. Tt included a list of the relics of the Confederacy to be placed in the Texas room at the museum. She also •exhibited to the delegates a splendid design of the Gen. John B. Hood me- morial window to be placed in the Texas room, and reported

that Maj. Littleneld, of .Austin, had offered to supply the money necessary to secure the Terry Ranger's window. It is now proposed -to provide a window in memory of Dick Dowling and his men. This an nouncement was greeted with great applause. Mrs. Winkler urgently recommended that the division place a portrait of Mrs. Benedettc B. Tobin in the Texas room. A subscription was started at once for this purpose, and the sum of sixty-seven dollars was subscribed in a few minutes.

Miss KAT1K DAFFAN.

Reports of good work done in North and South Carolina will appear in subsequent issues. An inter- esting account of contributions made in South I Una to the Jefferson Davis Monument Fund has been contributed.

Satchel That Contained the Confederate Seal. — Among the interesting relics shown at the San Antonio Convention U. D. C, was a satchel in which the great seal of the Confederacy was carried from England ; a gift from Capt. R. T. Chapman, C. S. A. Navy, Wharton, Tex., to the museum at Rich- mond. Mrs. Sally Sawyer Avers presented dupli- cates to the State Historical Association to the Uni- versity, and to each State Division U. D. C. One of the pulleys used for the grappling hook of the "Harriet Lane." which boat was sunk at Galveston, was also exhibited.

THE NEW YORK CHAPTER.

United Daughters of the Confederacy feel a just pride in the New York Chapter, and particular inter- est in it was shown at the Wilmington convention. One reason for this interest was the fact that New York being so northernlv situated, and having such a large, live Chapter of Daughters of the Confeder- acy serves to show how really strong and general the organization is, and how true and loyal the sentiment which Southern hearts inspire wherever they go. From New York to Texas, the writer goes in this New Year's report, finding women as responsive to Confederate work in the one as in the other. What a vasl country lies between, and yet how firmly united it is in this bond of fellowship! Another reason why New York occupied a distinct place in the hearts of

;ates was because of the graciousness, beauty, and tact of its President, Mrs. James Henry Parker. At the business meetings or at the receptions her stateli- ness and loveliness shone supreme. Adorned in sim- ple yet rich attire and showing that kindly responsive- ness which is so large a part of a Southern woman's charm, remembering her quickness at repartee, her aptitude to gjve up all personal interest — pride in her

type of fair women of the old South is rekindled. A typical colonial dame she was. wearing many patri- otic orders with unconscious grace; among these the jeweled badges of the D. A. R.. the U. D. C, the Co- lonial Dames, and the latest patriotic organization called the Order of the Crown, which consists of worn en whose ancestors took part in making the Constitu- tion of the United States. As Miss Jones, of Charles- ton, she was a reigning belle in the most exclusive so- ciety; as mistress of her northern home she is still the Southern woman in heart and interests. Her re-

of the New York Chapte is given below :

Mrs. Parker's Retort.

It is with pleasure and pride that I stand before this gathering o) women of our beloved Southland in convention assembled, to extend the greetings of the \'ew York Chapter, which 1 have the honor of rep- resenting, and to make a brief report of its work din- ing the past year. We number now one hundred and sixty-four members and fifty associates, and these lat- ter, ladies, I believe to be original with the New York- Chapter. They are Southern men of good standing, largely members of the Confederate Veteran Camp of New York. They pay their annual dues, and arc- invited to all social functions of the Chapter. The clause concerning them in our by-laws is as follows :

A'SSOi i Art's of the Chapter. — Any member may present, through the Corresponding Secretary for the consideration of the Executive Council, names of Southern men who will promote the objects of this Chapter, and upon the unanimous vote of the Execu- tive Council, may invite said men to become Associ- ates. The acceptance of the invitation and the yearly payment of two dollars as annual dues, shall consti- tute them "Associates of the Chapter.''

I commend the consideration of the admittance of associates to all chapters. It brings men and women together in their work and keeps camp and chapter in close touch ; and it is well for our men to know what our women are doing.

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Since I had the honor to be elected to the Presi- dent's chair last March, thirty-one associates have joined us and thirty-one full members have been added to our roll, a showing extremely gratifying to me. I am happy to report the chapter more prosperous than ever before. It numbers many of the most promi- nent Southerners of New York among its members, and is animated with a spirit of harmony and union as lovely as it is unusual in so large a body of women.

MRS. JAMES HENRY PARKER.

The meetings are fully attended and the deepest in- terest in our work evinced.

The first object to which I gave very earnest thought and attention on becoming President was the revision of our Constitution and By-Laws, which was sorely needed, the Chapter having entirely out- grown the original Constitution and By-Laws with which it started some six years ago. Although feel ing our needs at that time it failed to meet our present requirements. An exceptionally able revision com- mittee have given us now a constitution and by-laws which we may well be proud of. The matter was turned over to Miss Fielde, of New York, the Parlia- mentarian and legal maker of constitutions, to ar- range and classify correctly, and she paid it high trib- ute by saying it was the ablest matter ever subjected to her. We sent fifty dollars to Jacksonville suffer- ers, and contributed one hundred dollars to the Jef- ferson Davis Memorial Fund, besides carrying on our work when appeals were made to us within our gates, and without as well, but in every case of this kind, from a Southerner, of course. In May of this year I had the pleasure of entertaining our President-Gener al, Mrs. Weed, beneath my own roof with the officers

of the chapter and your corresponding secretary, Miss Mary Mears (of Wilmington), and Mrs. Cooley, of Jacksonville. In May the Southern Crosses of Hon- or were presented to the members of the Confederate Veteran Camp with appropriate ceremonies at the Mt. Hope Cemetery, and a touching incident occurred that day which illustrates the kindly feeling of the old sol- diers who wore the blue toward those who wore the gray. A beautiful floral offering was sent by the com- mander of the LaFayette Post, Grand Army of the Re- public, to decorate the graves of our heroes, and our decorating committee, finding the lonely grave of a Union soldier nearby, tenderly laid some of our bios soms upon it, so that Northerner and Southerner united in acts of love and remembrance that afternoon in honor of those whose labors were ended.

The members of the camp have evinced the keenest appreciation of the Crosses of Honor which they wear, as a rule over their loyal hearts, and the Commander Colonel Owen, conferred with me recently as to the de- sirability of calling a special meeting of the chapter for the purpose of reading to it the beautiful and ten- der-worded resolutions which they wished presented to the U. D. C. at this convention. This was accom- plished on October 31, a large number of the Chapter responding to the summons and a number of dele- gates from the camp being present, and the Hon. J. S. Wise giving an elegant oration. In conclusion, I have the honor of reading the resolutions and pre- senting them to you, Madame President, as repre- senting the body general of the Daughters of the Con-

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CHRISTMAS WITH LOUISIANA VETERANS.

The following beautiful description of the Louisi- ana Daughters' loving work for Christmas to their soldier veterans is from the New Orleans Picayune:

Out upon the beautiful banks of the bayou St. John, with sunlight and shadow playing hide and seek in the trees and shrubbery that skirt the placid waters, stands the Soldiers' Home, where over one hundred and thirty old Veterans are spending their last days on earth, honored and cared for by a grateful State and their brother comrades and the devoted women of Louisiana.

Every year, at Christmas time, the old Veterans look forward to a great treat. The Home is invaded by the Daughters of the Confederacy, and the devo- tion and attention of these noble women seeking to bring a little Christmas cheer into the lives of the soldiers is beautiful to witness. Each chapter of the Louisiana State Division, of which Mrs. J. Pinckney Smith is president, sends some offering to the Christ- mas fete. Mrs. D. A. S. Vaught is the chairman of the relief committee of the Soldiers' Home, and never did woman so faithfully perform her duties as does this earnest and zealous daughter of a brave Confederate father — this devoted wife of a brave Confederate sol- dier. For several weeks past she has been at work cor- responding with all the State chapters in reference to the soldiers' Christmas. Right nobly did they reply, both to her appeal and that sent out by the president of the State division.

Every chapter sent its offering, and there were loads of turkeys and chickens and hams, cooked and un-

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cooked ; all manner of dainty home-made preserves, lams and marmalades, cake and bonbons, and with these came fruits galore. One chapter sent any amount of tobacco and pipes for the old soldiers, an- other sent pincushions for those who did not smoke, and still a third hallowed the day by sending a beau- tiful memorial bed, dedicated to the memory of Gen. Sparrow, by the chapter that bears his name. This touching offering, on which hung a wreath of Christ- mas holly, was placed in the infirmary. Not an old soldier was confined to bed on Christmas day. All were able to be up and partake of the good cheer.

Early in the morning Mrs. Vaught and her commit- tee of ladies were at the home. Later many of the Daughters of the Confederacy came and lent their aid in setting the tables, in making them bright with flow- ers, and in placing all the good things that kind friends had sent fqr the old soldiers.

And the beautiful part was that they got everything that was sent. There were no "rations" yesterday. What had come were gifts and the soldiers had them all. Their plates were bountifully supplied, and the table groaned, and when the noonday bell rang the old veterans filed in in military style and saluted the fair gathering of Southern women who had come to serve them with loving hearts and hands.

The feast began promptly at noon. A pipe and pack of tobacco were laid at each plate. Those who did not smoke, and there were only a very few of these, got a nice little pincushion as a token of Christmas. The ihdies of Chapter 76, New Orleans, did the serving. It was a beautiful and touching sight and will not soon be forgotten. Col. Andrew Blakely, the genial host of the St. Charles Hotel, and one of the bravest and truest Confederate soldiers, was there to cheer the veterans by the thought of the comrades who were still strong and hearty, and whose love and care went out to their old brothers in arms.

After the dining, the ladies and many of the old veterans adjourned to the infirmary, where a beauti- ful white enameled lied, draped with snowy bars and spotless coverlet, stood. It bore the inscription, "Donated by the Edward Sparrow Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Lake Providence, La." A wreath of holly tied with red ribbon was suspended from the canopy.

Mrs. J. Pinckney Smith, in a few appropriate words, referred to the eminent and conspicuous services of Gen. Sparrow, who was the colleague with Hon. Thomas J. Semmes in the Confederate Senate as the representative from Louisiana ; she then presented the bed to the board of managers for the infirmary in the name of the Edward Sparrow Chapter.

It was accepted by Comrade Carnahan, and Com- rade Legendre gave a few interesting reminiscences of the Sparrow family. Mrs. Nora Lewis Howard sang verv sweetly a verse of the beautiful old hymn, "Nearer. My God, to Thee." Then the old soldiers and the ladies adjourned to the library, where a great deal of merry making was indulged in. Mrs. Howard led in many beautiful old songs, and the veteran sol- diers joined in. Mrs. Howard accompanied on the piano, while Comrade Matthews played on the violin a sweet obligato that touched the heart. Dan Keegan, the famous old bugler, who played the last reveille for

Gen. Lee"s army the day of the surrender, and has in his possession the proud document signed by the great Confederate leader himself,, played sweetly on his fife "The Girl I Left Behind Me,'" "Dixie," and one or two of his own Southern compositions ; then he played the last air he played at Appomattox, and tears were in the eyes of all.

"UNCLE TOM'S CABIN" OBJECTED TO IN KY.

1 he Lexington Ky., Chapter Daughters of the Con- acy created a sensation recently by requesting the manager of the local opera house "never again ' to book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as an attraction. The petition was indorsed by the whole chapter represent- ing the most influential and exclusive circles of the blue grass region. The women of the South are very much in earnest about having a just representation in history, and rightfully object to the portrayal of an exaggerated and sensational coloring of events as found in Mrs. Stowe's book. The Lexington Chapter is to be commended for its decisive, fearless, and ear- nest action in demanding the suppression of such mis- leading productions and have won the admiration of their associates in every state.

The manager's reply that "the war had been over thirty six years," serves as a forcible reason that it should no longer be kept up in such plays. The true purpose for producing this drama — for it has degener- ated into such a purpose — is to catch the hard-earned wages of the negro, for few besides now patronize it, especially in the South. They are excited and em- bittered by it. and for this reason alone, if for no other, it should lie suppressed.

The Lexington Daughters of the Confedcracv in asking that it should be excluded entirely in the fu- ture give as good reasons that the best citizens and . old families living in and about the city were once slave owners, as a heritage, not of their own choosing. That the incidents of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" are not typical of slave life in the South, but of isolated cases. that the production of the play and its being advertised with bloodhounds and pictures of an old negro in chains and a slave owner with a whip in his hand, give a false idea of the history of the times to the children of the city, ami is disrespectful to Southern gentlemen and good citizens.

\\ ktiiv Praise to Mrs. Sexton.— The Mecklen- burg Camp, No. 382, Confederate Veterans, of Char- lotte. N. C, recently presented Mrs. J. L. Sexton with a handsome canteen in appreciation of her aid and in- terest in the organization. A little surprise had been arranged, and the veterans in full uniform, wearing their medals of honor, went to her home bearing the gift of love and acknowledgement, which Dr. J. B. Alexander presented, addressing his words to "the patron saint of Mecklenburg Camp, No. 382." He said : "For the last four years Mrs. Margaret Branch Sexton has only breathed love for Mecklenburg Con- federate soldiers. She has taken care of the poor that are unable to provide the necessities of life. There is a warm place in our hearts for our patron saint, and we hope that this canteen may be a token of that refreshing pleasure that a soldier often drew from it in the hours of wearv march or the shock of

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battle." .Mrs. Sexton returned her thanks feelingly, ami did not let the veterans depart without dainty re- freshment.

A PLEA FOR PRACTICAL SERVICE TO OUR DEAD.

.Mrs. M. M. Jouvenant, Sherman, Tex., writes of it:

'1 here is a practical view to even the most sentimen- tal situation. The material things of life must cater to its loftiest effort. While "man does not live by bread alone," yet he cannot live without it. In the history of our organized work there was at one time a decision rendered in the interest of sentiment which I believe to have been essentially a mistake

With this prelude I crave your thouhtful at- tention to an argument in favor of a reconsideration of that step. The step or decision referred to being the repudiation of a proposed material appropriation for the proper care and keeping of our Confederate dead. The noble and patriotic words of our late la- mented President recommending the adoption of such a measure, did more to smooth away and obliterate the acrid sense of division between the North and South than any other expression of policy could ever have done; and while in the generous pride of the moment the suggestion was declined both by the Vet- erans and their auxiliaries, yet it seems but reasonable that a second thought should be given to this subject ; while the opportunity is ripe and before time shall have set his inevitable seal upon the question of "who is entitled to a perpetual memorial of national rever- erence." It is conceded that the issues for which these heroes suffered were correct in principle, and as President McKinley said, the glorious record of sac- rifice and valor made by the Southern soldier- is the mutual heritage of the whole people, and should re- ceive equal recognition, both historic and monumen- tal. Now it seems to me the proper and dignified course for us to pursue is to accept our share of what is our own. We are not stepchildren of this great country, but equal citizens paying our pro rata of taxes, upholding her laws, fighting her battles, and in ever)- way occupying an unquestioned place as sover- eign citizens. And since the revenue that has been appropriated to beautify and maintain special ceme- teries for the nation's dead is equally our own, why should we decline to not only accept, but claim our reasonable share, using it to collect the scattered re- mains of our loved ones, and to establish a memorial to them as permanent as the government which claims and receives our duty?

If we are to transmit to posterity a vindicated mem- ory of our struggle we must have some basis of per- manency in our work. Now a very large endowment, indeed, would be required to continue the memorial work after the last survivor of that glorious epoch has passed away. Even if the work were satisfactorily accomplished in the present, we would have the future to provide for ; and alas for human mutability, you have but to ask any Camp or Chapter how easy it is to enlist any considerable amount of interest in their routine of memorial work. Enthusiasm lags in the absence of those object lessons, while we have not means to secure beautiful cemeteries, sustained by a sufficient and permanent fund. Can an organization like ours afford to risk the consequences of a contrast growing sharper every day in its educational ten-

dency ? Even if history were impartial thousands will have books on their dusty shelves while they and our children daily witness the honor paid to our conquer- ors, and the neglect of our own heroes.

In days to come, strangers from other lands will be- come American citizens, adopting the traditions of our fathers, and will not fail to espouse the only visible guide to truth. They will find on the one hand, amid waving trees, the green shaven sward, the winding walks, the gleaming shafts of marble that bear the record of patriotic deeds ; on the other hand, sunken leaf-covered mounds, broken fences, insufficient or utterly absent records of a pathetic and glorious en- deavor whose simple recital would forever ennoble and inspire whatever people might inherit these tradi- tions. In this view the verdict of posterity is easy to foretell, for education will proceed according to visi- ble evidence, and to all outward seeming "we will have forfeited our privilege of immortal fame ; have retained citizenship by concession and sufferance alone, and our past is better forgotten."

The hand of brotherly conciliation is extended toward us. Let us not be less magnanimous. Re- member that cherished resentment is tacit confession of error. Why yield our rights to those already en- joying a plethora ? Do Southern people disclaim a share of the monied aid provided for river and har- bor or other improvements? Then why stand stub- bornly in the way of our only possible method of suc- cess ? We know that all human effort is like the flight of a bird dependent on action. When the motion ceases the bird or motive falls. It therefore becomes our policy to anchor our memorial work to a basis of national permanency. The present generation, with its altogether inadequate sentiment, will soon pass. But accepting our rightful place and enjoying nation- al recognition, which is the surest vindication, we can establish forever that living and perpetual memorial which our martyred heroes dumbly claim at our hands.

Concerning the Execution of Capt. J. Yeates Beall. — John H. Graybill Woodstock, of Virginia, wrote to H. B. Baylor, of Cumberland, Md., some months ago, stating : "The February Veteran, of this year, contains a brief account of 'Why Booth Killed Lincoln.' I have two articles upon this subject, one of which is simply credited to an old scrapbook, the other is from the Charleston News and Courier. It is stated that Senator Hale, Washington McLean, and Booth, together, visited Mr. Lincoln to make an ap- peal in behalf of Beall. I wrote to John R. McLean, inquiring whether the report was true. He replied : 'That my father tried to save Beall is true ; that I re- member well. He also had many interviews with President Lincoln, and brought every influence he could to bear. I don't know who went with him to see the President. . . . Am sorry that I cannot give you more information. ... I was a prisoner at Johnson's Island, and was a member of a sworn or- ganization, whose object was the capture of the island and the release of all the prisoners. I probably know more of the inside history of that organization than any one living to-day. Beall was cooperating with us, and I well remember the day when he captured the 'Philo Parsons' and the 'Island Oueen.' "

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WARNING AGAINST "JOHNNY'S GAME."

Miss Kate Mason Roland, Richmond, Va.

I wish to call attention, through the Veteran, to a children's card game, in which false history is taught, a game which is being sold for ten cents here in \ ir- ginia, and 1 suppose throughout the South generally. It has been bought as a Christmas gift by unsuspect- ing Southern parents. It does not deal exclusivelj with the war between the States, and some of the in- formation given has an appearance of fairness. It is published by Parker Brothers, Salem, Mass.

Questions about the Revolution are mixed up with those about the war against the South, and there are some few questions on other points in American his- tory. But the children are told that "50,000 Union soldiers were confined -in Andersonville without she! ter and proper food," and no word is spoken of the real causes of the hardships of Andersonville, what ever they wcie, and of tlie inexcusable privations and sufferings inflicted upon < onfederates in Northern prisons. The children are taught that the "Monitor" defeated the "Menimac." when it was the "Virginia" (formerly "Meirimac") that defeated the "Mom and revolutionized the naval architecture of the v The children are taught that Sheridan was "the lead ing cavalry general of the civil war, with his famous ride." and Sherman who "marched three hundred miles through a hostile country," is held up for their

admiration. Two of the most names in the

history of civilized warfare are here set down as tho of heroes. Though the war is spoken of in general as the "civil war," in one place il is designated by that insolent term "rebellion," and Andrew Jael achievements are summed up by these words "who put down secession in South Carolina in 1832." Here is as flagrant an historical falsehood as can be found anywhere. But it is now taught in the popular North- em "histories" of Andrew Jackson.

Is there no prospect of getting the "(lame of Con- federate Heroes" reduced in price so that it can com- pete with this cheap Yankee game? I am sure many Southern mothers would like to buy it for their chil- dren, and would give twenty five cents for it rather than pay ten cents for the Yankee game, but they cannot afford to pay fifty cents

The "Game of Confederate Heroes" is about as nearly perfect as was ever seen. The price is high, but the first edition is too expensive for redui Besides, the author contribute. 1 her work entirety and bought many packages at the full price in order that every cent o) profit be a contribution to the Sam Davis Monument Fund. The supply is now quite low, and there max not be another edition.

Practical Utility of a Monument to Southern Women. — Earnest and practical are the ideas set forth in this letter written by a Southern woman: "With characteristic gallantry the Confederate soldiers have agitated the subject of erecting a monument to the women of the South. While this is entirely laudable and praiseworthy, I would like to suggest a monument which 1 believe Southern women would appreciate more than any creation of marble or bronze, and

which is vastly more enduring. It is this — the erec- tion of an industrial school in the central South for the children of ex-Confederates who have never re- gained their lost means and are unable to educate and lit their children for positions in life.

"Southern mothers would thus be honored and their children benefited and a crying need of the South be filled. If we want our children educated, wc must cer- tainly furnish or help to furnish the means, and i whose purses are filled and whose families have every advantage, should remember the many less fortunate, and there can be no more enduring monument erect- ed than fitting the 'young South' for battles of life. I believe if left to a vote, the women would vote unani- mously for the school.

"A recent issue of the VETERAN suggests several monuments, or rather that each state ereel its own monument. Why not decide upon some central loca tion, and each state contribute a room or a wing and In the industrial school be a reality." C. M.

Fl M> FOB THE < Mil OKI \ OB GEN. J. 1'.. 1 [OOD. —

Capt. W. R. Lyman, now President ol the Lincoln

Parish Hank, at Ruston, La., and who was formerly

President of the Crescent Insurance I ompany, New

Orleans, was asl ed for some data oi his career, and

^..-..•f.rT-r.T-,^ ieciall) his connection

w 11 h the fund raised for

the children

Hood, soon after both

parents w e r e fatally

stricken with y e 1 1 O w

ie\er. In reply he wrote . "] simply tried to do my full duty as a soldier in the glorious old army of Northern \ irginia ; was captain of infantry in the Thirty- F i r si Virginia Regi- ment, and toward the end acted as adjutant for Mai. Jim Breathed, and finally was made captain in the Stuart Horse Ar- tillery. As Chairman of the fund raised for Gen. Hood's children I can say about $20,000 was donated originally to that fund, and that by investment and reinvestment it was increased to something over $34,000, which sum was equally divided among the children surviving about five years ago.

Glade Spring Rifles. — A notable reunion oc- curred i^\ June 14, 1901. at Liberty Ilall, Va., the oc- casion being the first gathering of Company F, Glade Spring Rifles, Thirty-Seventh Virginia Infantry. The address of the day was rrade by P. S. llagy, and the combination of tears and cheers that followed the speaker attested his power to arouse old memories from their sleep. His words of counsel and loving greeting to the descendants of his old comrades were couched in terms of purest sentiment, and they rested on the assembled crowd of Veterans, matrons, and Sons and Daughters like the benediction that follows prayer.

CAPT. W. R. LYMAN.

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BATTLE OF CHICKASAW BAYOU, MISSISSIPPI.

H. II. Hockersmith writes from South Union, Ky. :

Of all the genuine, clean-cut victories, save, perhaps, that of Bull Run, Chickasaw Bayou is in the lead. Gen. Sherman's corps was in search of a Christmas gift, but being a little behind time (this battle was fought on December 27th and 29th), only arrived in time to receive a holiday present of hot lead. The onslaught was directed against the Third and Thirti- eth Tennessee, the enemy, four lines deep, making three successive charges, which were gallantly re- pulsed, and the enemy driven, with heavy loss, entirely from the field. Capt. Bledsoe's Missouri Battery held a full hand in this battle, and with lightning speed, poured bomb and cannister into their ranks, mowing them down upon all sides. December 28 was given to the enemy in order to bury their dead and remove the wounded. On December 29 the order was given to "forward !'* and Sherman's army was driven to their fleet of transports, and had it not have been for the terrible and incessant shelling from their gunboats, thus preventing the planting of a battery, the greater part of the army would have found a stopping place at the bottom of the Yazoo river.

The Second Texas, deployed as skirmishers, ad- vanced to the bank of the river and shot quite a num- ber from off the top of the boats, notwithstanding a perfect hail of bombshells were hurled at them from those river monsters.

It was here that Lieutenant Colonel of that regi- ment was wounded, but he stayed with his men to the last. All honor to these brave Texans !

A note was left upon the field stating that they would see us again. Well, we again met them face to face at Chickamauga, and the second drubbing they received was equal to the first, for they were driven at every point. After the battle of Chickasaw, Capt. S. R. Simpson, of Gallatin, gathered up the spoils, con- sisting of guns, pistols, and sabers, and turned them over to the quartermaster at Vicksburg, and now holds the receipt for same. I have Gen. Sherman's report of his killed, wounded, and missing before me, in which nine regiments lost in killed, 162 ; wounded, 762; missing, 528. Total, 1,452. Strange as it may seem, our loss in the two regiments was only three killed, Sergt. Dickey, of the Thirtieth, and Maj. Tuck- er and a private, of the Third Tennessee. Dickey had just captured seven prisoners and was bringing them in, when a shell burst in their midst, killing the entire party. Well, the odds in this fight was at least seven to one, and the brave Dickey was only gathering in his quota.

Other troops took part in this battle, as indicated, but the Third and Thirtieth Tennessee received the main shock and met it as they did scores of times afterwards. There were plentv of troops as good as these, but there were none who were better soldiers.

Valuable Relics for Family of a Confederate Colonel. — Gen. Stephen D. Lee sends the following letter to the Veteran, received by him while the writ- er was on a visit to old battlefields in the South :

"Gen. S. D. Lee: Dear Sir. — During the day of April 7, 1862, 1 found a Confederate colonel lying dead in a ditch under his horse, which was also killed, near

Shiloh church. The Colonel had on his body a fine gold-mounted officer's sword and field glass, also an ivory-handled six shooter, which 1 took from his body. I have the articles in my possession yet, at my home in Oklahoma. I wish to return these things to the Colonel's friends if they can be found. I have written of the articles and how 1 obtained them in the Nation- al Tribune several times, but have received no re- sponse. I examined his body trying to find who he was and to what regiment he belonged, but failed."

Address Jospeh H. Gilpilan, Perry, Oklahoma Ter.

This generous Union soldier served as quartermas- ter sergeant. Company K, Second Indiana Cavalry.

MONUMENT TO CARNES' BATTERY.

The above illustrates the only Confederate monu- ment on the Chickamauga battlefield to a single com- mand. It is suggested that other commands do like- wise, as the states are not likely to do more in that way. This monument was erected by private sub- scriptions. It marks the spot where the battery fought on Saturday with Cheatham's Division.

A fine Camp, U. C. V., has been organized at Woodlawn, Ala., fifty charter members being en- rolled. Officers elected are as follows : W. H. Rey- nolds, Commander; Dr. Felix Wood, Dr. R. D. Jackson, J. L. Johnson, Lieutenant Commanders ; A. W. Key, Adjutant ; Rev. J. L. Gilbert, Chaplain.

A Chapter of, Daughters of the Confederacy and a Camp of Sons have been organized here.

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THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR.

In an address by Hon. L. J. Storey, Railroad Com- missioner of Texas, delivered at the San Antonio In- ternational Fair, October 23, 1901, he said:

It is meet that on all proper occasions the rem- nant of Confederate soldiers still left in the land of the living should assemble themselves together, and in the presence of a new generation discuss the issues of the past, to the end that history may be vindicated and that posterity may not be deceived and taught to believe a lie.

Mv Comrades, nearly forty-one years ago the tocsin of war was sounded throughout the length and breadth of this once happy land of ours. The ordi- nary pursuits of life were abandoned, the wheels of commerce for a time ceased to roll, the streets of the towns and cities were crowded with anxious inquir- ers for the latest news from political centers and offi- cial circles. To the forum and the press the people looked for news and for advice. War and rumors of war were almost the only topics of conversation. Se- cession from the Union on one side was threatened as the only means of preserving constitutional rights. On the other side war seemed to be welcomed, and coercion of sovereign States, for the first time in the history of the government, seemed to be seriously contemplated. The Southern people believed that the constitutional rights of the South were held foi naught by a number of the Northern States, while the laws of Congress, passed in strict accordance with a plain provision of the Constitution, were nullified and publicly denounced by the press, pulpit, and statesmen of the North.

The excitement ran high. The military arm of the general government began to move ; while in the Smith military companies, regiments, ami brigades rapidly formed, and soon the roar of cannon, the rat- tle of musketry, and the tread of armies declared that the day of compromise had passed, and that the struggle of the South to maintain its constitutional rights had been transferred from the halls of Con- gress to the field of carnage, where the sword was to be the only arbiter ; and for four long and weary years two of the grandest armies that ever trod the earth marched under their respective flags, and on many fields of blood those mighty men of war fought, bled, and died as only heroes can fight, bleed, and die

The first hostile gun was fired at the bombard- ment of Fort Sumter. April 12, 1861, and the last battle was fought at Palmetto Ranch, Tex., May 13, 1865, where the soil of Texas was once again bathed in the blood of her gallant sons in defense of her con- stitutional rights as a sovereign State, and to drive from her soil a hostile invading foe.

But why, we are asked by the misinformed of this day and time", did the South rebel and bring on that cruel and disastrous war? The story is a long one, and yet the truth, without details, can lie told in few words. T would that T had the attentive ear to-day of the sons and daughters of every Confederate sol dier in the land, for I have no apologies to make for the South or for the manner in which I shall deal with this subject. No true son of the South should treat the case with sugar-coated pills. History has been so grievouslv perverted .that everv true man

must, on this subject, dare to speak the truth, ''though the heavens fall." We owe it to ourselves, to pos- terity, to truth, and to justice to "hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may."

A few days ago in the capital city of Texas I stood, with uncovered head, at the base of a splendid mon- ument being erected to the memory of the Confed- erate dead, and upon its most prominent front I read this inscription :

"Died, for State Rights, guaranteed under the Con- stitution. The people of the South, animated by the spirit of 1776 to preserve their rights, withdrew from the Federal compact in 1861. The North resorted to coercion. The South, against overwhelming num- bers and resources, fought until exhausted. During the war there were 2,257 engagements. Number of men enlisted: Confederate armies, 700,000; Federal armies, 2,859,132. Losses from all causes: Confed- erates, 437,000; Federals, 485,216."

That monument, my countrymen, quotes history. No well-informed patriot of this day and time will deny the doctrine of State rights under the constitu- tion of the United States as it was from the founda- tion of the government down to the close of the war. If this doctrine was not supported by the constitution and laws of the United States, then the people of the South were rebels and traitors to their country; hut if, as the South has always contended, the doctrine of State rights was supported by the constitution, the people of the South were true patriots, devoted to the constitution and laws of the land, and to maintain them in 1861, like their patriot fathers of 1776, "pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor," and for four long and bloody years they did sustain their cause against overwhelm- ing numbers and boundless resources.

( lur armies were made up of resident citizens of the Southland, the best Anglo-Saxon blood that ever traced through human veins. Without a navy and our ports all blockaded, our intercourse with the out- side world was meager indeed. For new recruits, arm)- supplies, and munitions of war we had to look, almost entirely, to our own people and territory; while the Federal government, with her free and un- restricted intercourse with every nation on earth, from all of whom she drew supplies, munitions of war, and new recruits for her armies at thirteen dol- lars a month, the conflict, indeed, was an unequal one. And again, the policy of the South was to with- draw from the Union, peaceably if possible, and stand on the defensive on her own soil with no thought of invading the North, while the policy of the North was to invade and coerce the South. Thus the policy ot both governments, from the beginning to the close of the war, was to make of the South the battle grounds, where the tread of mighty contending armies and booming cannon shook the very earth, and where devastation, rapine, and murder inevitably follow where such vast contending hostile armies march.

I have to some extent recently reviewed that part of our history which relates to the cause of the war, and 1 commend to you the facts as recorded by Hon. J. L. M. Curry in his new book, "The Southern States of the American Union Considered in Their Relations to the Constitution of the United States and to the Resulting Union."

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Let me remind you in the outset that this question of State rights, over which the war was fought, is no new question. It began at the formation of the gov- ernment, and upon the adoption of the constitution was, by the then contending parties, considered set- tled. The great Alexander Hamilton and followers, on one side, opposed the doctrine of State rights and contended for a strong Federal government, cen- tralizing all power in the general government ana making the States mere dependencies. He believed that a monarchy such as old England was the best form of government, "the happiest device of human ingenuity."

Thomas Jefferson led the State rights party, and in that conflict the Jeffersonian doctrine of State right prevailed, adopting that form of government, and submitted the constitution, which was in due time adopted by the States, and it thus became the organic law of the United States. Hamilton admitted his defeat in the convention, and advocated the adop- tion of the constitution by the States, expressing, however, his "doubts as to the success of the experi- ment," as he called it; and later, in 1791, he said: "I own it is my opinion, though I do not publish it in Dan or Beersheba, that the present government is not that which answers the ends of society by giving stability and protection to its rights, and that it will probably be found expedient to go to the British form."

The doctrine of State rights thus recognized oi course carried with it the right of each State to reg- ulate its domestic affairs in its own way, and Con- gress possessed no power not delegated to it by the constitution, or in the language of the constitution itself : "The powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively, or to the peo- ple." The domestic affairs of a State could not there- fore be interfered with by Congress, nor by the act of any other State. ' To illustrate : It will be admit- ted by every intelligent, honest man that each State had the constitutional right, for itself, and by its own laws prior to the war, to determine whether or not the institution of slavery should exist within its borders. This has never been denied by any one, except by the fanatic who appealed to a "higher law" doctrine, declaring that the constitution was a "league with hell," and should not be obeyed. A pro- vision of the constitution of the United States, then and still in force, reads as follows : "No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws there- of, escaping into another shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due." Seeking to enforce this plain provision of the constitution of the United States, Congress enacted what is known as the Fugitive Slave law. The State of Pennsylvania, as did fourteen other Northern States, sought to nullify this clause of the constitu- tion and law of Congress, and passed laws forbidding the execution thereof in their respective States, and in the celebrated case of Prigg vs. the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania (16 Peters's Reports, pages 611, 612), the Supreme Court of the United States, by a unanimous opinion, upholding the constitution

and laws of Congress, said : "Historically it is well known that the object of this clause was to secure to the citizens of the slaveholding States the complete right and title of ownership in their slaves as proper- ty in every State of the Union into which they might escape from the State wherein they were held in serv- itude. . . . The full recognition of this right and title was indispensable to the security of this species of property in all the slaveholding States, and, indeed, was so vital to the preservation of their interest and institutions that it cannot be doubled that it constituted a fundamental article without tlie adoption of which tiie Union would not liave been formed. Its true design was to guard against the doctrines and principles preva- lent in the nonslaveholding States by preventing them from interfering with or restricting or abolishing the rights of the owners of the slaves. . . . This clause was therefore of the last importance to the safety and security of the Southern States, and could not be surrendered by them without endangering their whole property in slaves. The clause was there- fore adopted in the convention by the unanimous consent of the framers of it, a proof at once of its in- trinsic and practical necessity. . . . The clause manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive, unqualified right on the part of the owner of the slave which no State law or regulation can in any manner regulate, control, qualify, or restrain."

Thus spake the Supreme Court of the United States. Human language could not have more em- phatically declared the true intent and meaning of the constitution. Daniel Webster, the greatest law- yer and statesman that Massachusetts or New En- land ever produced, is quoted as saying: "I do not hesitate to say and repeat that if the Northern States refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the constitution which respects the resto- ration of fugitive slaves, and Congress provides no remedy, the South would no longer be bound to ob- serve the compact. A bargain broken on one side is broken on all sides."

Again, in 1851, he said: "In the North the purpose of overturning the government shows itself more clearly in resolutions agreed to in voluntary assem- blies of individuals, denouncing the laws of the land, and declaring a fixed intent to disobey them. I no- tice in one of these meetings held lately in the very heart of New England, and said to have been numer- ously attended, the members unanimously resolved, 'That as God is our helper, we will not suffer any person charged with being a fugitive from labor to be taken from among us, and to this resolution we pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."

And Mr. Webster proceeds : "These persons do not seem to have been aware that the purpose thus avowed by them is distinctly treasonable. If any law of the land be resisted by force of arms or by force of numbers, with a declared intention to resist the application of that law, in all cases this is levying war against the government within the meaning of the constitution, and is an act of treason drawing after it all the consequences of that offense."

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stitutional. The difficulty was not in the construction of the constitution, but whether or not it was binding and should be obeyed or held for naught. It was perfectly natural that everv Federalist, being opposed to the State rights- doctrine and favoring a strong centralized government, should gradually fall into line with the abolition party, that claimed the right in Congress and in other States to nullify the constitu- tion and laws that sustained the doctrine, and as that party grew in numbers it became fanatical and more defiant of the constitution and laws of the land.

Mr. Edward Quincey said : "For our part we have no particular desire to see the present law repealed or modified. What we preach is not repeal, not mod- ification, but disobedience."

Another said : "The citizens of a government taint- ed with slave institutions may combine with foreign- ers to put down the government."

The constitution and laws to which we have re- ferred were denounced bv such leaders as Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison as "a covenant with death, an agreement with hell." And as early as 1848 Mr. Seward declared that there was an "irre- pressible conflict" between the sections on the ques- tion of slavery, and that the government could not exist in peace "half slave and half fice," an expres- sion so often used by Mr. Lincoln in his memorable canvass with Mr. Douglas in the State of Illinois in 1858. And when it became apparent that no honest judge of the Supreme Court could ever be found to declare that the constitution of the United States did not protect the rights of the people of the States in their local and property rights, many of them became so fanatical as to appeal to the higher law doctrine, and Mr. Seward himself is quoted as saying: "There is a higher law than the constitution which regulates our authority over the domain. Slavery must be abol- ished, and we must do it." Here was one of their political idols, who afterwards became Secretary of State under Mr. Lincoln. He here advocated the abolition of slavery, not by the States where slavery existed, the only constitutional way it could lie done, and the way it was finally done, but in obedience to the higher law — thai is, in spite of the constitution and the rights of the States thereunder. And then follows the demands of one of those "more-holy-than- thou" creatures, who was not satisfied with Almighty God. He said : "The times demand and we must have an antislavery constitution, an antislavery Bible, and an antislavery God." They had neither then, and wanted a change. Such language, if used to-day in denunciation of the government, the constitution and laws, would be justly and vehemently denounced as the utterances of crazy anarchists, and yet at the time used they were the utterances of beloved and hon- ored leaders in social, political, and religious circles of the North, and whose memory is still cherished throughout that section of the country. As one of the many evil fruits of such teachings the sovereign State of Virginia was invaded in October, 1859, by an armed band of cutthroats, murderers, and conspir- ators, led by John Rrown. a Northern fanatic, against the government of Virginia and the constitutional rights of her people. Such an open and deliberate act of treason, rapine, and murder ought to have re- ceived the emphatic and unanimous condemnation of

the people of the North as it did in the South. But not so. Appeals were made for the remission of the punishment prescribed by the laws of Virginia, and at the North this ungodly traitor, this foul murderer, has been canonized (declared a saint), and Mr. Curry said that "Hughes, in his 'Manliness of Christ,' places John Brown almost on a level with the Son of God.''

Well, the time did come when this nullifying sec- tional party secured an antislavery candidate for President, who had himself declared that "this gov- ernment could not endure half slave and half free," because he said, in substance, that there was an irre- pressible conflict between the sections upon this question of slavery ; that both slavery and the Union could not exist, and that the Union must be pre- served. And it was too true. There was an irrepres- sible conflict waged by a sectional party against the constitution and iaws of the land and the rights guar- anteed by the constitution to the people of the South.

I have thus quoted from speeches, letters, utter- ances, laws, the constitution, and decisions of the court of last resort, not for the purpose of reviving prejudices or sectional bitterness — far be it from me — but for the purpose of recalling to the minds of my hearers the signs of the times immediately preceding the war. showing the provocation to the South, the purity of her motives, and to justify her in the efforts she made to peaceably secede from the Union and form a government that would protect her in her constitutional rights.

Am! now, my comrades, since more than fort} years have passed away since the clash of arms in that cruel war began, when the smoke of battle has cleared away, and when the mental vision is no longer obscured by prejudice, and when reason is once again enthroned, let me say that when we remember the long years of struggle in and out of Congress to up- hold the rights of the States, guaranteed under plain and unmistakable provisions of the Constitution ; and when we remember that many of the State Leg- islatures of the North denounced the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States sustaining the State rights doctrine as an arbitrary power, and therefore null and void: and when we remember thai honored leaders of that rapidly growing sectional party, ever opposing State rights, were denouncing the constitution thus upheld by the Supreme Court as a "covenant with death and league with hell ;" and when we remember that "the voice of the law was no longer in the land," but that the Federal government, which prior to 1861 had administered the government in accordance with the requirements of the constitu- tion and laws, was now "browbeaten and defeated ;" and then when this sectional party, thus pledged to the destruction of the rights of the South and the centralization of the government, was about to seize the reins of government, what, T ask, was the South to do? She was thoroughly convinced that the consti- tution and laws of the United States were so despised and denounced by the leaders of the party comins: into power that they would no longer be enforced, and knowing that she had the legal and constitution- al right to withdraw from the Union when necessary to preserve her rights, no alternative was left her, as a free and sovereign State, but to withdraw from the Union, or to submit to what she believed would be

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an utter destruction of her rights, and to do so with- out a struggle was impossible for a brave and noble people through whose veins the blood of patriots and lovers of constitutional liberty flowed. She therefore seceded, and the war of coercion followed.

1 he last almost of the great statesmen and generals who took active part in that struggle have passed away, and the last of the rank and file of those great armies will have soon crossed over the river to ''rest under the shade." The Presidents of both govern- ments and the last of their cabinet officers save one are dead. The Hon. John H. Reagan, of Texas, sur- vives them all. An honest man, a true patriot, a wise counselor, and a great statesman, after an active and most eventful life of more than eighty-three years, he stands erect like a giant oak of the forest which has withstood the storms of a century, firmly rooted in the confidence, love, and affection of a great and noble people.

But, my comrades, the war was not fought in vain. It is true that the sacred cause for which we fought went down in gloom. The flag and gov- ernment we sought to maintain we lost forever. \\ ith the hallowed dust of our patriot heroes, and the sacred memories of the past, we laid them away with an abiding faith that posterity will yet see and admit what we know to be true — that is, that the South sought to secede for no other purpose than to protect her people in the enjoyment of a plain constitutional right, which the party coming into power had as- sailed for more than a generation with the avowed purpose of destroying it ; that the methods used and threatened to be used up to that time were an open violation of those rights by nullification of the consti- tution and laws that protected them ; that no people up to that time had been more devoted to the consti- tution and Union than the people of the South ; that no people had spent so much blood and treasure for the country's cause as her people ; that they had ever been ready to uphold the laws and defend the flag whenever and wherever assailed ; that no cause was ever more just than our efforts to peaceably secede from the Union to preserve a constitutional right.

No sacrifices so great, no people ever sustained a cause so long against such overwhelming odds and resources. No country so devastated : the resources of no country so completely exhausted, and no victor ever paid so dear for what he won. The flag of no country or cause ever went down in defeat crowned with such a halo of glory. No cause ever had a more devoted, self-sacrificing people to sustain it ; while the bravery, the devotion, the energy, the unselfishness, and heroism of the noble women of the South, throughout the entire struggle, is unparalleled in the history of the world. No armies were ever led to bat- tle by greater generals, and no generals ever com- manded better, braver, or more patriotic soldiers. And last, but not least, no brighter intellect or purer statesman, no patriot with clearer conscience, purer heart, or more lofty purposes ever wielded power or guided the ship of State than Jefferson Davis, the gifted and noble President of the Confederate States.

The war being over, the remnant of the Confed- erate army, the best that ever trod the earth, dis- armed and poorly clad, sought the desolated homes of their loved ones, and began anew the battle of life,

little dreaming that the horrors of reconstruction were yet to be endured. 1 pass over this uncalled for and disgraceful period in the history of our country, except to note as one of the results that at the close of the war the aggregate debt of the Southern States was $£7,193,933.33, and at the close of that period of robbery their aggregated indebtedness had increased to the enormous sum of $380,160,575.13. But finally rid of the oppressors, and her local affairs once again intrusted to her own keeping, she rose from the ashes, Phcenixlike, and is now challenging the admiration of the world. Her climate, her soil, her recuperative powers, her patriotism, her statesmanship, her devo- tion to justice, and her lofty ambition are forcing her to the front rank of every laudable enterprise, and he is blind indeed who cannot see that the time will come when she will, in the future, as she did prior to 1861, become the ruling power in what will then be recog- nized as the best government the world has ever seen. And then who can say, judging the future by the past, that New England will not again, as she did on one occasion when she thought the South was gain- ing in power, threaten to secede from the Union ; for, as it has been said by the distinguished Republi- can statesman, ex-Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, in dis- cussing the late amendments to the constitution, that "the right of secession, if it ever existed, exists now, so far as any declaration in our organic law is con- cerned. It has not been renounced, nor is the su- premacy of the nation affirmed in its charter." And it is true, but God grant that a cause for secession may never again occur.

For the honor that you, my comrades, have con- ferred upon me, in extending the invitation to address you, I return my grateful acknowledgments.

Who Shot Gen. Hooker at Antietam, Md. ? — C. Malone writes from Waldron, Ark. : "I was in hearing of first Manassas, and was 'in it all' at Yorktown, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Fair Oaks, and in the sev- en days' troubles around Richmond, also in the sec- ond Manassas, and helped take Harper's Ferry. We got in line on the battlefield of Antietam about noon on September 17, 1862. I was a private in Company F, Ninth Alabama Regiment, Wilcox's Alabama Brigade. We formed in a cornfield, and were ordered to lay down, although I stood up and saw a Federal general and staff of four men in our front on horseback. They came from behind a hill. I said: 'Boys, there is a Yankee general; pick him off!' About twelve fired; and at fire of our arms the general and staff turned and got behind the hill. I wonder if that was Gen. Hooker? We were on our (Gen. Lee's) right, and they were about four hundred yards from us. A col- umn of United States troops were lying down about halfway between us. As soon we fired a Federal battery opened on us, and I was severely wounded.

Francis L. Gait, of Welbourhe P. O., Loudoun County, Va., who was surgeon of the Confederate States steamer Alabama, writes of "armor plate :"

In an article in the Veteran of January of this year is a statement from Gen. F. S. Ferguson as to Miss Rowland's article in the Veteran of December last mentioning the disputed point as to Capt. Semmes's

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knowledge of the Kearsarge having been armor or chain-clad previous to the engagement with the Ala- bama off Cherbourg. In reference to this matter I will say that there was a rumor to that effect on board the ship as well as on shore, but there was no positive fact known on the subject. Neither Semmes nor Kell were on shore while we were there, and the matter was merely a gossip, to which the Captain and his executive of course paid no attention. After the challenge had been sent and accepted there was noth- ing to be done except take the consequences. Cer- tainly no one on board found any fault with Semmes or Kell in any way.

SPEECH OF PRESIDENT DAVIS.

His Tribute to Stonewall Jackson.

Rev. Dr. J. William Jones favors the Veteran from time to time with valuable historic manuscripts. The following is one of these papers and his own introduc- tion supplementing the address of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee :

At the unveiling of the monument to Stonewall Jackson by the Army of Northern Virginia Associa- tion in New ( 'rleans, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, made an eloquent oration, at the close of which the vast crowd present vociferously called for President Jefferson Davis, who was on the platform. He came forward, was received with the wildest enthusiasm, and as soon as the enthusiastic cheering subsided spoke, in clear and ringing voice, and with graceful gesture :

"Friends, Countrymen, Ladies, and Gentlemen: 1 am thrice happy in the circumstances under which you have called upon me. The eloquent and beautiful ad- dress to which you have listened has been so full in its recital as to require no addition. Again, the speak- er saw all, and was a large part of that which he de- scribed, giving a life and vigor to his narration, which could not be attained by one who only, at second- hand, knew of the events. Your honored guest and orator, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, rode with Stuart in his perilous campaigns, shared his toils and dangers, took

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part in his victories, and became the worthy successor of that immortal chieftain. When the army of North- ern Virginia made its last march to Appomattox C. H., a numerous foe hovering on his flanks and rear, "lit- tle Fitz" was there with the remnant of his cavalry to do and dare, and, if need be, die for Dixie. How vain it would be for any one to add to what has been said by such a witness.

"Again, and lastly, Jackson's character and conduct so filled the measure of his glory that no encomium could increase or adorn it. When he came from t he academic shades of the Virginia Military institute who could have foreseen the height of military fame to which the quiet professor would reach? He rose with the brilliancy of a meteor over the blood-stained fields of the Potomac, but shone with the steady light of the orb of day, a light around which no evening shadows gathered, but grew brighter and brighter the longer it shone. It is not alone by us that his merit has been recognized.

"In Europe, so far as I had opportunity to learn, he was regarded as the great hero of our war, and appreciative nun in England have contributed a bronze statue to him, the first and only one which they have given to one of our soldiers. The column which stands before me, crowned with a statue of enduring stone, which you have reared to commemo- rate his services and virtues, is a fit tribute from you, and teaches a useful lesson to posterity, because it is erected not to perpetuate the story of his military prowess merely, but also, and perhaps even more, to record his pure patriotism, his piety, and private worth.

"No place could have been more appropriate than this for such a testimonial, for the fame of Jackson is closely identified with the heroic history of Louisiana. In the beginning of the war the Confederate States were wanting in all the material needful for its prose- cution, and there was nothing which it was more diffi- cult to supply than field batteries. Then the Washing- ton Artilllery came full-armed to fill that want. From the first battle of Manassas, where Jackson won his sobriquet of "Stonewall," in the East and in the West, the guns of the Washington Artillery were heard wherever battles were fought. In the ever-memorable campaign of the Shenandoah, where Jackson, with the swoop of the eagle, attacked the divided columns of the enemy, and, beating them in succession, drove his vast host from our soil, the sons of Louisiana were a staff on which he securely leaned. At Port Republic a battle as noticeable for the strategy which preceded it as for the daring and resolution by which it was characterized, Jackson, in making the disposition of his forces, assigned an important duty to the Louis- iana Brigade commanded by Gen. Dick Taylor. This was to gain a position on the mountain side above the enemy's most effective battery, and descend to attack him in flank and reverse. After Taylor had put his troops in motion he went to receive from Jackson his final orders. He found him iii front of his line of bat- tle, which had just been forced back. Shot and shell were hissing and bursting around him, and there he sat motionless on his old campaigner, a horse as steady under -fire as his master. The bridle reins were hanging loosely, and Jackson was wrapped in prayer. He had done all which his human foresight could de-

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vise, and now was confiding himself, his compatriots, and his cause to the God of the righteous.

"Taylor's Brigade was marching in the rear of the column ; and Jackson, seeing the enemy advance in force where there was none to check him, directed Taylor to form line of battle for resistance. Taylor said this was done, though at fearful cost, and added : 'This brigade would, if ordered, have formed line to stop a herd of elephants.'

"I shall not, at this late hour, longer detain you. Jackson died confident of the righteousness of his country's cause, and never doubting its final success. With the same conviction I live to-day, and, reverent- ly bowing to the wisdom of Him whose decrees I may not understand, I still feel that the Confederacy ought to have succeeded because it was founded in truth and justice. In one sentence may be comprised the sub- stance of all I could say : Jackson gave his whole heart to his country, and his country gave its whole heart to Jackson."

BATTLE OF CEDAR CREEK.

Hon. John H. Traylor, who has served in both Houses of the Texas Legislature, and is ex-Mayor ol Dallas, Tex., writes :

In the August number of the Veteran a correspond- ent from North Carolina requests some one to write an account of the battle of Cedar Creek, which took place near Strasburg, Va., October 19, 1864. This I have often thought of doing in order to give the cause, as I saw it, of the rout of the Confederate arrav in the evening after the brilliant victory of the morn- ing of that day, and at the same time to suggest that, notwithstanding the Federals outnumbered the Con- federates four to one, had the army under Gen. Early been in the same condition of efficiency and morale it was one or two years prior to the date of this battle, Gen. Sheridan might have met a similar fate to that ol several of his predecessors who had met these soldiers in sanguinary combat, and the battle of Cedar Creek would have resulted in a great reverse instead of the crowning victory of his military career. Gen. Sheri- dan's military record was given more splendor by this single victory than in all his previous and subse- quent history. The flank movement and early morn- ing attack by Gen. Early, for boldness and strategy, was doubtless unsurpassed during the war. The plan and execution was grand up to the cessation of the pursuit of the flying enemy in the morning.

My conclusions were, and are, that had Gen. Early continued to press his victory after the rout of the Eighth and Nineteenth Federal Army Corps in the early morning instead of discontinuing the pursuit and giving the enemytime tore-form theirbroken columns and bring up a corps of fresh troops, greater in num- ber than his entire army, he would have achieved a gloiious victory instead of the unprecedented disas- ter of the evening. Gen. Early should have known, and evidently did know, that the morale of his army was not good ; that it had an apprehension of being flanked or attacked in the rear, and would not repel an attack with the same heroism as formerly.

The Lee Btrthday Dinner by New York Camp. — Commander Edward Owen, 280 Broadway, sends notice : "The New York Camp will hold its twelfth

annual dinner, in honor of the memory of Robert E. Lee, and other heroes of 1861-65, in the Grand Ban- quet Hall, at the Waldorf-Astoria, on Monday, the 20th of January next. Again, the interesting feature is that ladies can be invited to dine with us and join in the festivities and songs. The price of the tickets will be $5, exclusive of wine. The boxes, holding six chairs each, will be $6; and single chairs, $1. It is desired that Southerners in this city and vicinity join us on this occasion in paying tribute to the mem- ory of our heroes."

Gen. Lytye's Body on Battlefield.

Dr. W. H. Bramblitt, who was surgeon ot the Sixty-Third Virginia Regiment, writes from Pulaski, Va. : "In the September Veteran appears an article from B. L. Archer, of Gadsden, Ala., which must be erroneous in some minor particulars. On Saturday afternoon of the battle of Chickamauga, having nothing to do at the field hospital, no wound- ed coming in, I was riding out in the direction that I thought my brigade was located some half a mile in rear of the troops then engaged, when I saw lying on his back, to all appearances dead, a Federal officer, evidently of high rank, with a Confederate sergeant guarding the body, and he said it was Gen. Lytle.

GEN. WILLIAM LYTLE.

Being anxious to know the character of the wound that he had received — as it was my business to deal with wounds — I so stated to the sergeant, when he replied that he had orders not to permit any one to touch the body. He then said that he thought he was shot in the month. Sitting on my horse, I viewed the body, which to all appearances was life-

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less. I saw no side arms on the body, but his cloth- ing had evidently not been disturbed. He had on a dark overcoat, with braid on the sleeves and kid gloves on his hands. Everything about his clothing seemed to be in order, and I am satisfied that he was dead. In view of what has been written in regard to the death, etc., of Gen. Lytle, I make this statement for publication."

MISSISSIPPIANS IN THE VIRGINIA ARMY.

J. T. Eason writes from Fayetteville, Ark. :

In the September Veteran, page 410, there is a very inaccurate and misleading account of the battle of Leesburg or Ball's Bluff. While the Eighteenth Mississippi Regiment performed gallant service here and in numerous other battles from Gettysburg to Chickamauga, or from Bull Run to Appomattox, yet from this account, as given by your corre- spondent, no other commands were engaged. I was a member of Company I, Seventeenth Mississippi Regiment, and present at this battle. Just forty years ago to-day the battle began about daylight. Ball's Bluff is two miles above Leesburg on the Po- tomac River. Ball's Company of Virginia Cavalry were guarding this point. The brigade was camped near Leesburg, commanded by Gen. Evans, and was composed of the Eighth Virginia lnfantr\, ( ol Epper Hunton ; Thirteenth Mississippi, Col. William Barks dale; Seventeenth Mississippi, Col. W. S. Feather- stone ; and the Eighteenth Mississippi, Col. E. R. Burt.

On the 20th our pickets reported the enemy mov- ing up the river. That evening Col. Ball requested reinforcements, that the enemy were crossing to an island near Ball's Bluff. Company K of the Seven- teenth Mississippi, Capt. W. L. Duff commanding, was sent. Early next morning the fight began, and the enemy with superior force was driving this very small detachment. The Eighth Virginia was sent to their relief, fighting great odds for several hours ; then Col. Hunton asked for more troops, and the Eight- eenth Mississippi was sent, and soon again the Sev- enteenth Mississippi was sent at a fast double-quick. Company I was detached with orders to form on the right of the Eighth Virginia and Company K, Col. Featherstone forming the remainder of his regiment to the left of the Eighteenth Mississippi in a thick forrest, and in thunderous tones, for which he was al- ways noted, ordered the entire line forward, and to

"drive the Yankees into h or the Potomac!" and

better fighting was never during the war.

My recollection is that Col. Burt was mortally wounded about the time of our arrival. Col. Baker was in command of this detachment or six regiments. The Federal general then had also crossed the river wtih his brigade at Edwards's Ferry, three miles be- low Ball's Bluff, and was confronted by Col. Barks- dale's Thirteenth Mississippi, and a battery of the Richmond Howitzers. Col. Barksdale was very much disappointed that Gen. Evans would not allow him to attack Gen. Stone. Baker's command had crossed over in pontoon boats, and in their eagerness to escape many were drowned, over sixteen hundred captured, and seven to eight hundred were killed and wounded- — in truth they were practically annihilated.

W'e also captured four pieces of artillery, and over twenty-five hundred small arms, of all of which we were greatly in need. A Federal colonel, Adjutant Baker, was killed by John Fitzgerald, an Irishman of my company, while carrying a dispatch from Gen. Stone, asking him if he needed more troops. Fitzger- ald picked up the large envelope containing this in- quiry, and after the battle gave it to me, and I, think- ing it might be of importance, handed it to Col. Featherstone. Now, when the United States Con- gress began the investigation of this "disaster" Gen. Stone was under arrest, and this dispatch, I was in- formed, was sent by Gen. Beaureguard under rlag of truce to the Federal Commander.

Soon after this we retired to Goose Creek, and the Twenty-First Mississippi was sent to our brigade to take the place of the Eighth Virginia, and we re- mained together until the surrender.

The Eighteenth Mississippi was composed of as fine men as ever wore the gray, yet I don't think any member of this gallant regiment will claim superior ity over their comrade regiments. I had never heard of Col. Burt's personal encounter with Col. Baker on the battlefield, and as Col. Luce, afterwards com- mander of this regiment, is yet living, I think in Holmes County, Miss., and Comrade O'Hara, Mad- ison County, Miss., and others of these grand old heroes, I should be glad for their verification or cor- rection of my statements as here given. I was with them until the close at Appomattox. Their faithful service and valorous deeds are a glory to Mississippi and the whole South. Col. Burt was much loved and highly esteemed by his State ; and, if he had been spared, would doubtless have been promoted, as Cols. Hunton, Featherstone, and Barksdale* were. The latter, Barksdale, our brigade commander, sealed his devotion to the cause he loved with his life's blood at Gettysburg, on July 2, 1863. The memory of these men is precious to us all, and we delight to honor them.

MAJ. H. D. D. TWIGGS AT BATTERY WAGNER.

Col. Henry D. Capers, who commanded the Twelfth Battalion Georgia Artillery :

The memorable siege and defense of Charleston, S. C, from its commencement in June, 1863, to the evacuation of that city by the Confederate forces in February, 1865, presents one of the most interesting records in the annals of war. In all the details of this heroic defense, in all that fully illustrates the de- votion of the patriot garrison, in the many incidents of superb courage, heroic discharge of duty, manly endurance, and personal gallantry, there can be found no record superior to that made in the defense of Forts Wagner and Sumter, the outposts of the de- voted city. Permit me to describe a single incident which will, in a measure, give some idea of the en- durance, courage, and soldierly bearing which made every day and every hour of the siege of Fort Wag- ner one of the most brilliant, as it certainly was one of the most terrific, experiences of the "war between the States."

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rades of the Twelfth Georgia Battalion of Artillery. On reaching the city we were ordered to report to the officer commanding at Fort Wagner, on Morris Island, the extreme outpost on the sea front of the city and six miles therefrom.

The incident referred to will illustrate the ordeal the garrison at Fort Wagner passed through and en- dured for more than a year. At the time of this oc- currence the fort was in command of Brig. Gen. W. B. Taliaferro, a typical Virginia knight "Sans peur et sans reprodie." July 18, 1863, will long be remem- bered as one of the most noted and terrible bombard ments known to history. It was followed by an as sault at sunset, unsurpassed for its gallantry and fury. With the first dawn of day the large fleet of the ene my's monitors, battle ships, and their Ajax of floating batteries, the renowned Ironsides, steamed close in and took position in the sea front of Wagner. Before the sun had sent one cheering beam to brighten the gloom of this foggy morning, there came an eleven- inch shell from the Ironsides, the signal shot for the terrific bombardments referred to. Think of the guns from five monitors, guns of the heaviest cal- iber, whose fifteen-inch shells were exploding every few seconds over, against, and within the parapet walls of a bastioned earthwork that did not occupy the area of two acres ; add to this the steady fire of the Ironsides, with her immense batteries of eleven-inch guns, six on each side, and one each in the bow and stern ; to this add the accurate fire from two sloops, carrying batteries of two hundred pound rifle guns, and of five land batteries constructed on the island, with the heaviest modern armaments, within seven- teen hundred yards of Wagner, and the reader may have some idea of the infernal rain of death-dealing shot and sh^l that fell upon the fort on that long and memorable day. There were some vivid illustra- tions. A small redbird was found at the close of the bombardment with a wing torn from its body as it flew across the terreplein of the fort, and again three men who volunteered to draw a bucket of water from a shallow well, not more than twenty feet dis- tant from the entrance of the bombproof of the fort, were all killed before they reached the well. Late in the afternoon, in the midst of this terrific fire, it be- came necessary to ascertain the movement of the Federal troops in front of the fort and within the enemy's fortifications. A large body of their infant- ry, who were known to be formed behind the hills, had been ordered to assault Wagner as soon as the bombardment ceased, and, as the Federal general supposed, the fort would be practically dismantled, and what was left of the garrison demoralized by the bombardment. As it was growing late, and the crit- ical time approaching for the deadly assault, which was afterwards made, it became necessary (for the safety of the garrison) to learn whether the forward movement on the part of the assaulting column had commenced. Gen. Taliaferro communicated his anx- iety to the members of his staff grouped about him in the bombproof, but hesitated to designate an offi- cer to discharge this perilous duty.

Maj. H. D. D. Twiggs, then attached to the gen- eral's staff as inspector general (afterwards lieuten- ant colonel of his regiment, and now Judge Twiggs,

of Savannah), a handsome and gallant representative of a chivalrous family, quietly stepped in front of his chief, volunteered to leave the bombproof, to ascend the parapet, and make the necessary observation. I saw him when he left us, and I felt then, as did others, that it would be the last service that Twiggs would render for his country. I noticed Gen. Taliaferro standing near the entrance of the bombproof with the greatest solicitude depicted on his face, and could see from the movement of his lips that he was asking the intervention of Divine Providence in behalf of his gallant staff officer. With the utmost coolness Maj. Twiggs passed out into the exposed and open area. heedless of the storm of death falling all around him, reached the parapet of the fort, ascended it to its very summit, and standing there midst the bursting shells, flashing and thundering above and around him, he deliberately raised his field glasses and surveyed the enemy's batteries and surrounding sand hills, with apparently as much self-possession as if he were in an opera house and looking at the form and features of a prima donna. He had not remained in that posi- tion more than one minute when a fifteen-inch shell descended almost vertically, striking the parapet with- in two feet in front of him, and, burying itself in the earth, exploded with terrific force. Instantly, with a great cloud of earth and sand, Maj. Twiggs was thrown up into the air six or eight feet, and fell back from the parapet down upon the terreplein of the fort, completely covered with sand, and to all appear- ances dead. Several of us watching him immediately rushed to where he was lying, and bore his apparent- ly lifeless body into the bombproof. To our surprise he opened his eyes and made his report to Gen. Talia ferro. "General," he said, "the enemy are moving to the assault." He then became unconscious, but after the application of such restoratives as were at com- mand the surgeon exclaimed : "He is not dead, Gen- eral !" The next day Maj. Twiggs was fast recover- ing from a severe concussion of the brain, and in a short time rejoined his reginjent in Virginia, from which he had been temporarily detached for staff dutv. While I was an eyewitness to many "close calls" during the civil war, and had a few myself, I have always regarded the heroism of Maj. Twiggs as not only unsurpassed during the war, but his escape from death at Fort Wagner was most remarkable.

Vigilant Regard for His Commander. — Capt. S. D. Buck writes from Baltimore : "In my heart I thank you for the editorial note under article on page 390 of September Veteran. How any soldier who followed Gen. Early in the Valley campaign can speak ill of or censure him I cannot see. With the odds he had to contend with, Gen. Early kept fully 40,000 men from Lee's front while he had only one-fourth of that num- ber. He killed 1,948, wounded 11,890, and captured 3,121 ; total, 16,952. This is the report of Maj. Pond, U. S. A., in his 'History of the Valley Campaign,' pages 267 and 269. By the same author we find that Sheridan had, on September 30, 1864, 35,489; Early, 10,015. Every old Confederate who sees that book will think better of Early."

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ANNUAL MEETING ALA. VETERANS AND SONS.

On November 14 Montgomery, Ala., gave over the keys of the historic "Cradle of the Confederacy" to a host of Veterans and Sons of Veterans, both organ- izations meeting there in joint reunion. The latter perfected a State Division of the different Camps, and elected Warwick H. Payne as Commander, who had so served under appointment. Many interesting speeches were made. While the Veterans were in convention a pleasing incident gave proof of the love and veneration of the Sons. It was announced that a State delegation of the latter was present, and the Veterans arose to receive them. They were invited to participate in all the proceedings except the voting, and their spokesman, Hon. Tennent Lomax, was cheered with enthusiasm when he said that he had come to tell them that the Sons had that day perfected a State organization. "They bid me tell you," said Hon. Lomax ; "that they know the brilliant victories you have won; the splendid charges which you have made; to tell you that when, from disease and death, your ranks become extinct, we intend to keep up the honor of the Confederacy. I desire to tell you that the time will never arrive when they will become un- worthy of the task. The fame of the Confedrate sol- dier is too well known to need eulogy from any man. The cause you fought for is historic. It was born in this capital city."

This popular speaker also delivered the address of welcome before the convention of Sons upon the opening day in a historical and forceful discourse.

Address of Mr. Lomax.

Comrades: I care not where they meet or whose sons they may be, there cannot lie an assembly of the Sons of Confederate Veterans who have inherited a higher estate of honor and of glory than the Sons of the Confederate Veterans of Alabama.

With a population of a little over 600,000 white people in 1861, from that time to 1865 Alabama sent forth 120,000 men to die in glory with Sidney John- ston or to live in immortality with Robert Lee. Of this number, 35,000 never returned to the State whose colors they had heroically carried on a hundred en- sanguined fields.

In the thirty-six years that have elpased since the close of the war between the States — the greatest wai in the history of mankind — there has arisen no histo- rian who has had the courage and the manhood to tell the whole truth about the struggle for life of the "Storm-Cradled Nation that fell." This fact gave rise to the organization of which we are members, because the young men of the South resolved that, whatever might come in the future, one thing must come, and that was that history should, at last and finally, tell the truth, the eternal truth, about their fathers who had died in battle and about their mothers, who in spirit had died in grief and sorrow, even though their lives had been spared. If I understand our organiza- tion, its aims and purposes, this is its essential claim for life. The proudest title I own to-day is that I am the son of a Confederate soldier who died in battle for his country, and no honor has come, or can come, to you or to me which would eclipse the splendid glory of such a heritage. That heritage were useless, though, unless you can protect the memory of your

fathers from the ruthless efforts of those who have, for a third of a century, sought to brand them as trai- tors, and who have written it in some of the very school books used in Southern schools. In ancient mythology it was taught that the Goddess of Wai sprang full-armed from the brain of Jove. In all the history of the world the nearest approach to such a miracle took place in this historic city in 1861, be- cause, within three short months after the Southern Confederacy was born here "grim-visaged war" was organized on such gigantic scale as to eclipse all history in its strength and power and death anil car- nage, and to be the model of the world for all wars that are to follow in the future of mankind. This city, the cradle of that war, of the Southern Confederacy, with that great record, desires through me to extend to the sons of the men who went to the top of Cem- etery Ridge at Gettysburg, who took Snodgrass Iliii at Chickamauga, who defended the Bloody Angle in the wilderness, who charged over the breastworks at Franklin, who held the trenches at Petersburg, who, in very fact, made the "name and fame of the Confed- erate soldier so vivid and widespread" that they shine resplendent over the soldiers of all the years that are gone, and made him the model and exemplar for the soldier in all the years that are to come, a most cor- dial and chivalric welcome, both because they are worthy descendants of their noble sires and because they are united for the exalted purpose of securing, for all after time, a record, pure and undefiled, of the deeds of their heroic and godlike ancestors.

Assembled as you are lor such unselfiesh and holy purposes, you commend yourselves to every man, woman, and child in this historic city.

When the applause which followed the eloquent address had subsided Mr. ( )wen called forward Com- mander of the State Division, Warwick H. Payne, Esq., who delivered a response full of feeling, as well as noble and devoted thought. Mr. Payne's was well received, and was delivered with ease and much force On concluding his remarks, he formally assumed charge of the convention, and Mr. Owen retired to the floor.

Alabama Division Organized.

Mr. Owen then introduced the resolution, declar- ing the Alabama Division formally organized, which was unanimously adopted.

R. P. Grigg, of Camp Lomax, Montgomery, offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted :

"Resolved, That the United Confederate Veterans in reunion assembled, appreciating the patriotism of the ladies of the White House Association in endeav- oring to preserve the first White House of the Con- federate States, hereby indorse them in their work."

Other important matters taken up by the Sons in convention were: They resolved to aid the movement to buy a silver service for the battleship Alabama, and commended historical work. Mr. Thomas M. < 'won, who presided at the meetings as late Division Comnian.hr of Alabama, in his speech to the Sons, touched largely upon this subject, referring to the sig- nificant fact that the State was in the forefront with historical work in the South, and stating that in a few- years a full and accurate record of its annals would be published. Mr. Owen, who is a good writer, di-

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rects a "Department of Archives and History of Ala- bama" in the Montgomery Advertiser.

The Sons also pledged support to the Woman's Memorial Committee, and discussed the question of abolishing undeserved military titles.

The Veterans.

At the convention of Veterans Gen. George P. Har- rison, Commander of the Alabama Division, made a plea for State reunions and paid a high tribute to tht Confederate cause. He said that it afforded him great pleasure to look into the faces of the Confederates, their mothers, daughters, and sons. When elected Commander of the Alabama Division in Charleston two years ago, he felt the necessity of holding a re- union in Alabama, where more of the comrades should meet. He was gratified at such a result, and at the reception extended the Veterans.

He spoke of the city of Montgomery, where the first capital of the Confederacy was located. He took occasion to thank the women and the local comrades tor their reception, and the people of Montgomery who furnished "the material aid." He wisely said: "My experience as a Confederate is that at all times we should stand shoulder to shoulder."

Gen. Harrison read extracts from the constitution. He told of the benefits of the State reunions. He said that it was more to the Confederate soldier than the reunions in Memphis, Louisville, or Dallas ; for many of those who carried the musket have not the money to attend these big reunions, so they are for the favored few. He also said that the reason Alabama had not erected more Confederate monuments was through the lack of their assembling more frequently, and that State reunions would relieve that misfortune.

RE-ENLISTMENT OF SECOND FLORIDA REGIMENT.

Mrs. M. W. Maxwell, of Jacksonville, Fla., refers to a mention of reenlistment for the war of some troops in the army of the West, as published in the Veteran for December, 1900, in connection with which she states that the following may be of inter- est to some of the Veteran readers :

At camp near Rapidan Station, Va., on the 28th of January, 1864, a meeting was held by the Second Florida Infantry for the purpose of considering the subject of reenlisting. Resolutions were adopted, and the next day the greater part of the regiment was mustered in for the war by Capt. C. Seaton Fleming, Chairman. The Richmond Enquirer says : "They come ! they come ! Gallant little Florida has the floor. We learn that the Second Florida Regiment on the 28th enlisted for the war. This regiment came to Richmond in July, 1861, as one-year volunteers, at the expiration of which time they reenlisted for two years. The other regiments, the Eighth and Fifth, were already mustered in for the war, rendering any further action unnecessary. The followng joint res- olution was passed by the Confederate Congress, showing their appreciation of the patriotic spirit man- ifested by the Second Florida Regiment: 'Resolved, That the thanks of Congress are due, and are hereby tendered to the officers and men of the Sec- ond Florida Regiment, who, after a service of distin- guished gallantry and heroic suffering for nearly three years, did, on the 28th ult., at a meeting held near Rapidan Station, Va., resolve to reenlist for the war!"

CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT ALBANY, GA.

Mrs. W. L. Davis, the Secretary, writes of it : The Ladies' Memorial Association of Albany, Ga., unveiled a beautiful monument to the Confederate dead on the afternoon of November 13. The monu- ment is rock and granite base surmounted by a life- size figure of a Confederate soldier. The figure was carved in Italy of finest white marble, pronounced by connoisseurs a very beautiful work and most ex- pressive face. Thirteen young ladies, daughters and granddaughters of Veterans, representing the seced- ing States, dressed in white and red, held the thirteen cords which removed the veil at a salute from the local military company. After a short but graceful speech from Veteran Capt. J. T. Hester, representing the city, the speaker of the day, the Hon. Joseph E Pottle, of Milled geville, Ga., was presented, and de- livered one of the strongest and most sensible ad- dresses recently made in the South. Before beginning his oration proper Mr. Pottle paid a fitting tribute to the following ladies, noted for their heroic work in the early sixties : Mrs. Robert Carter, of Columbus, Ga. ; Mrs. Winship, of Macon, Ga. ; Mrs. Samuel Hall, of Macon County, Ga. ; and also three surviving mem- bers of the Wayside Home of Albany. Mrs. A. H. Wohlum, Mrs. L. P. D. Warren, and Mrs. L. S. Tal- bot, who made the first Confederate flag used in Georgia. From a platform built around the monu- ment Mr. Pottle addressed over fifteen hundred peo- ple, the stores being closed, and the citizens of Alba- ny turning out en masse. The address was as follows : "The partial favor of the Ladies' Memorial Associa- tion of this typical Southern city has imposed upon me a responsibility not to be lightly assumed. Their choice is complete assurance that these good women do not esteem of supreme importance on an occasion so sacred as this the mere ability to set to music sen- tences which strike the ear. Claiming for myself no unusual power to make radiant phrases pleasing to the fancy, I do claim, with the earnestness of birth and training and the conscious dignity of history and the truth, the power at least to feel the influence of the splendid story whose unrivaled beauty is the heritage alike of the son of the South, whose daily toil makes to laugh her fruitful soil, and of him who dictates the destinies of State. And however halting and uncouth your complimented speaker of to-day may be, you will, I trust, sympathize with my purpose to tell the old, old story with truthfulness if not with eloquence, and with sincerity if not with beauty, for

I love to tell the story!

More wonderful it seems Than all the golden fancies

Of all our golden dreams.

I love to tell the story !

For those who know it best What seems, each time I tell it,

More wonderfully sweet.

I love to tell the story,

For those who know it best, Seem hungering and thirsting

To hear it, like the rest.

For we all know the reason we love it now so well : the old, old story is true.

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"The awful holocaust which shook the very centers of the civilized world, which brought ruin and devas- tation to the remotest confines of this great republic, and which for four long and bloody years wrenched the chain which made a union of these sovereign States, cannot be justified by an appeal to sentiment on the one hand or by the united voice of fanatic zeal on the other. With whatever passion or calmness, with whatever forgiveness or regret we may review the questions involved in that stupendous struggle, an eternal fact remains : that on the one side or on the other, Truth, pale-faced and earnest, sits in ceaseless vigil. And while the echoes of the past are fast reced- ing in the distance, it is well that we of the South on occasions like this shall not only pay homage to those whose death has testified their devotion, but that we shall also recall the facts of history which justify that supreme testimonial and which make doubly glorious the sacrificial sufferings of those who have survived the tempest and the storm.

"From the very brink of the grave, with the zephyrs of eternity fanning his silver locks, with the consciousness that his life was in the buried past, and his hope in the limitless future, Jefferson Davis said with trembling pathos : "Had I known all that was to come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again." In these words, so gentle yet so stern, so

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pathetic yet so courageous, the head of our loved Confederacy beautifully epitomized the spirit of the South. It is the same spirit which ignored and de- spised the tremendous power of numbers, and which forgot the force of unlimited wealth, and organized army, and a powerful navy. It is the spirit which laughed to scorn the proposition that promised gold for our slaves, for an abandonment of principles which had carried men smiling as their feet crimsoned with blood the ice of the Deleware ana the snows of Valley Forge. It is the spirit which glowed in the superb sentences of Toombs, as he hurled in the teeth of the wild fanatics of the North this sentence of defiance to the death: 'Refuse lo let us depart in peace, and you present us war. We accept it, and, in- scribing upon our banners the glorious words "liberty" and "quality," we will trust to the blood of the bravo and the God of battles for security and tranquillity.' It is the same spirit which inspired the phalanx to fol- low Pickett and others up those heights with the calm and splendid courage of the Light Brigade at the battle of Sedan, and which found expression in the gentle courtesy with which the helpless women of the fleeing enemy were treated by our soldiers. It is the spirit which glowed in the face of Sam Davis, the boy of Tennessee who went to the gallows rather than betray a sacred confidence, and which stilled the ag- ony at the hopelessness of Appomattox. It is the spirit which went with our torn and ragged heroes back to burned cottages, to graves of loved ones, to poverty, and to despair, and out of them wrought again the South of Henry Grady, to take the place of the South of Davis and Calhoun; and, thank God, it is the same spirit which even down to this good hour says to all the world, that the sons and daughters of the South hold in the most sacred recesses of their hearts the principles, which, though for the moment were hidden beneath the hate and the fury of fanat- icism and contempt of law, are eternal as 'the everlast- ing hills, and by them and for them we are ready as our fathers and our mothers were, to walk again, ii need be, through the valley and the shadow of death.

"Born when the arbitrament of arms had entered upon the record the judgment in the issue between the North and South, reaching the age of intellectual maturity when the infamies of the so-called recon- struction had faded away into a memory, when busi- ness interchange and social intercourse had resumed their wonted course between the lately hostile hosts, I have sought earnestly to look over the causes of the civil war with dispassionate calmness, and to reach a conclusion through the cool processes of the reason. I have carefully studied the partisan utterances of both sides, as well as the impartial statements of neu- tral critics; and, after it all, with the love of truth in my heart and the fear of God in my soul, I cannot see, from the beginning to the end of the disputes and re- criminations which culminated in the roar of cannon at Fort Sumter, a single issue upon which there was in the light of history, of personal and national honor, room for an honest difference of opinion. I believe with Bishop Pierce, of sainted memory, he of the golden heart as well as the golden tongue, that 'our Northern enemies, wise above what is written, mis- took sedition for liberty, cant for piety ; that, as loud- mouthed champions of the freedom of the black man,

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they trampled in the dust the most sacred rights of their people ; that, with peace on their tongues they brought on a gigantic war; that, swollen with vanity, they despised the lessons of the past, and, confident in the pride and power of numbers, they began tear- ing down their own government, with the hope of de- stroying us and that every step of their progress was marked with aggression, perfidy, and blood ;' and I say now, as reverently as he declared in 1861, that resistance to such a people was obedience to God.

"From the very moment when it became apparent to the Puritans of New England that the cessation under the constitution of the African slave trade, coupled with their bleak and inhospitable climate, meant a rapid curtailment of their revenues as sellers of slaves to the planters of the South, from the very moment that the industry and the genius of the cav- alier of the cotton belt made it certain that in the con- test for industrial supremacy the South was possessed of advantages almost insuperable the greedy selfish- ness which had fattened upon the horrors of the slave trade, discovered in the ownership of those slaves the very 'climax of sin and woe,' and within ten years after the trade in slaves was abolished by law, the spokes- men of the people who had grown rich in the nefa- rious business, gave expression to their selfish jeal- ousy by insisting as a condition precedent to the ad- mission of Missouri as a State, that slavery should not exist within her borders. . . .

"In the beginning of this jealous war on the people of the South the writers, the orators, the essayists of this fanatic faction made no pretense that the curtail- ment of the ownership of slaves, or the limitation of the rights of their owners was within the constitution. Phillips and Garrison and Lovejoy conceding in their harangues that the constitution guaranteed, on its face the property in slaves, as well as the right of slave-owners to take their property to any part of the common territory of the nation, and conceding also the right under the constitution to recover their slaves escaping to other States by due process of law, plant- ed themselves on what they were pleased to call a 'higher-law,' and demanded the abrogation of the sol- emn agreement between the States, on the ground that it was in conflict with what they held to be the declaration of divine inspiration.

"To the most casual reader of the history of his country it must be apparent even to Mr. Lincoln that the logical and inevitable result of the gigantic system of fraud and insincerity I have adverted to, con- ceded expressly the right of property in slaves by the citizens of the States, and by necessary implication the right of such slave owners to remove their prop- erty to any part of the common territory. In his first inaugural address he declared : 'I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclina- tion to do so.' And in his second annual message to Congress, in 1862, he said : 'In a certain sense the lib- eration of slaves is the destruction of property — the same as any other property. It is no less true for having often been said that the people of the South are no more responsible for the introduction of this property than are the people of the North, and when it is remembered how unhesitatingly we all use cotton and sugar and share in the profits of dealing in them.

it may not be quite safe to say that the South has been more responsible than the North for its contin- uance.' . . .

"I do not rejoice at these reminders of the past, at these monuments, these graves, these widows, and these orphans, but I do rejoice at the silent testimo- nals which they speak of, ready and willing sacrifice at the call of honor and of truth. I do not delight in the destruction of property, of fabulous wealth, and the impoverishment of my people, but I glory in that evi- dence that my people weighed not gold against the glory of a sacrificial offering to justice and the right.

"1 look around and see with pride the smoke stacks of factories, dotting the towns and villages of the South, and I hear with delight the hum of the ma- chinery as it turns the snowwhite cotton into the com- pleted cloth, and changes the metals of the hills into the steel and iron of industrial enterprise, and I am stirred to enthusiasm at the progress of our people. In the professions and the trades I see the children of the South taking again their high positions in the councils and the industries of the nation, and I recall with supreme delight that I am of Southern birth, parentage, and blood ; but the keenest pleasure of it all comes from the reflection that these things testify the courage of the race, whose unrivaled heroism makes it to leave the battlefield, the hopeless victim of power and oppression, and rebuild in a few short years the shattered fortunes of a nation.

"As I read the history of that period I do not be- lieve it possible to have avoided the conflict. It was indeed an irrepressible conflict ; irrepressible and in- evitable because a surrender of their rights under the law, to the power of force and numbers, without a struggle to the bitter death, was to the people of the South an absolute impossibility. . . .

Who Was the Confederate Private Soldier?

"He was the enthusiastic cavalier without the fiery zeal of the fanatic. He was the devoted, loving pa- triot without suspicion of mercenary motive. He was the tender, gentle father who put away his prat- tling infant as he shouldered his musket and marched away, not with stern gesture of the Puritan stoic, but with the earnest sorrow of the Christian and the gen- tleman. He was the Chevalier Bayard of Southern knighthood, who placed the farewell kiss on the pale forehead of his bride, and tried in vain to chase from his own face the emblems of keen anguish and regret as he smiled to her with confidence and with hope. He was the impersonation of that honor from whose shield shone the bright image of the truth. In his heart dwelt with unspeakable fondness the beauty and the loveliness of his own Southland. He loved hei with the intense affection of the Irishman for the Green Isle of the Sea. He yearned for her with the deep devotion of the Highlander for his Scottish mountain home. Through generations he had im- bibed the spirit of personal and of national honor. To the conquered enemy he was courteous and gen- tle ; to the conquering victor he was dignified and courageous. To women he bore himself with gallant tenderness, and to the sick and imprisoned he was patient and helpful.

To his loved land he gave, without a stain, Courage and faith. Vain faith and courage vain.

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"The civil war is over. The record is made up, the judgment of history is declared and published. With here and there a discordant note, the voice of history pronounces this eulogism on the Confederate soldier, whose heroic fame yon monument has built in endur- ing stone. That his cause was just, for he demanded only his rights under the constitution and the law; that his courage was unrivaled, for he battled against overwhelming odds and amidst unspeakable difficul- ties ; that his victories were achieved without crueltv or crime, for the page of his accomplishment shows no spot or blemish on his glory; that he was superb in defeat, for no childish tear of despair wet his cheeks when he looked into the face of the inevitable ; that he was unconquerable in surrender, for with the su- preme consciousness of the truth and the right ap- pealing to Almighty God and to posterity, he took up the burden of life again and hewed out from a black- ened wilderness of wretchedness and ruin the civiliza- tion which is to-dav the pride and the marvel of the world."

AFTERMATH OF HARTSVILLE.

IIV DR. JOHN O. SCOTT, SHERMAN, TEXAS.

Mrs. Halliburton was the patriotic lady who in the excitement of battle, with unhesitating zeal, bestowed her entire bed linen to serve as bandages for John Morgan's wounded who occupied every room in her spacious and elegant mansion. ' 1 ier home was located about one mile from the shady banks of the Cumber- land, and near three hundred yards from the eminence where Federal troops were encamped.

The battleground was about a mile from the village of Hartsville. Morgan's troopers, seated on their swift Kentucky thoroughbreds, with the velocity of the winds, made a rapid detour to the left of the ene- my, captured their garrison, attacked the Federals in flank and front, joining the Ninth and Second Ken tucky Infantry in line of battle opposite the eminence where the Federals were encamped. This battle, which resulted in the capture of several thousand Fed- eral prisoners, was of short duration, perhaps as long as three hours.

After this victory, which decked his brow with un- fading laurel. Gen. Morgan, with his usual celerity. crossed the steep banks of the Cumberland and with all his trophies safe in Dixie bade defiance to the 1'ni ted States forces, who, having heard the cannonading. hurried to the rescue of their beleagured comrades.

Perhaps some minor details of this battle might be of interest. Tt was my fate to be the only Confeder- ate surgeon left on the battlefield with the wounded, and the circumstances of this battle were different fiom any I have ever known. The victorious heroes, wiih their rich booty of prisoners, arms, provisions, and clothing, had left the dead and wounded on the field of carnage, and for an hour or more there reigned a silence as gloomy and profound as a gravevard din- ing the weird hours of midnight. Nothing was to be seen save here and there wounded soldiers and aban- doned worthless muskets. A wagon belonging to some negroes was pressed into service and a majority of the wounded conveyed to the mansion of the kind lady above mentioned.

Never will we forget the glaring explosion of a cais-

son of Cobb's Battery in the very commencement of the battle, scattering men and horses with a frightful noise which hushed the din of battle. Near this grewsome spot we found the mangled body of young Waits from Paducah. He was so shockingly disfig- ured from the explosion that we would nothave rec- ognized him but for the gay tinselled artillery cap we saw him so merrily smile under a few moments be- fore as, thoughtless of any mishap, he rode on that 1 caisson into the raging battle.

Close by lay Lieut. Ethridge, from Greenville, Miss., a noble specimen of the American soldier. Lit- tle did he think of his sad fate when, on the march, he jocosely requested us, should misfortune befall him, !o write his lady love on the "flowery banks of the majestic Mississippi." Near the crest of the hill where the enemy were entrenched we recognized Lieut. Thomas, wounded in tin left breast. At each gasping breath of the dying hero the blood spurted and be- smeared his richly gilded sword belt. Near by, lean- in;: against a large oak tree, sat his chivalric mess"- mate, Lieut. Rogers, of Phil Lee's company, lie ap- 1 almost lifelike, so much so that we called to him. No answer being given, we were assured that his brave spirit had found a home among the angels.

Near tin's hornet's nest of the battle, we found the body of ("apt. Crockett. It must have been a hand-

DR. JOHN 0 SCO!

Dr. John Orlando Scott was born at Locust Hill, near Frank- tort. Ky,. m 1837. He graduated from Center College, Dan- ville, Ky., in I1S56. Received the degree of M.D. from the University of Louisville, Ky.. February, 1862 ; was an assist- ant surgeon to the Second and Third Kentucky Regiments: Assistant Surgeon to Byrnes' Battery, and Surgeon of the Seventh Kentucky Regiment ; was in the battles of Shiloh, Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, Hartsville, and other engagements.

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to-hand fight, for he was so blackened with powder that we could scarcely recognize him. Here was the spot where in the charge up the hill under a galling fire of musketry there was some confusion. Then it was that McDowell, Lee, Joyce, Moss, Higgins, and others, with swords in hand, rushed forward and by command and cheer renewed the charge until victory was smiling on the star-flowering banners of a band of heroes as brave as ever heard bugle call on em- battled plain.

While at the hospital attending to the wounded the surgeons and nurses were ordered by a United States Cavalry officer to report to the commanding general, who had just arrived on the battleground. As we approached the hill where their forces were drawn up "in line belligerent," we expected to see some Butler or Burbridge who would send us manacled to the dismal cells of Fort Hamilton. I had no idea who was that red-headed, sandy-whiskered, military-look- ing commanding general, until one of our nurses who in antebellum days was one of John Harlan's political proteges, hailed the star-decked man with "How are you, John?" As soon as that social bomb shell was exploded, recognitions were mutual, and there was a general shaking of hands and greeting of friends, re- lations, neighbors, and schoolmates, and many were the earnest inquiries of the fate of brothers and cous- ins. Col. Hunt wished to know of his brother. Col. McKay, Whartorf, Capt. Noe, Davenport, and others, beset us with inquiries for friends. When we pointed to Mrs. Halliburton's house, containing the wounded, with the yellow flag floating over it, men and officers hastened there and vied with each other in cheering words and kind acts. It was a grand sight to see the man in blue assisting his brother of the gray in all kindness and affection.

Harlan entered into the enthusiasm of his gener- ous, noble-hearted Kentuckians. Without solicita- tion on our part he proffered sugar, coffee, medicines, medical assistance, and whatever the wounded need- ed. By the aid of his ambulances the wounded were conveyed to Hartsville, where the patriotic ladies vied with each other in nursing the wounded of their 'acored deliverer." Mrs. Lee kindly had young Craven Peyton, Morgan's orderly,