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1893

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CAPT. R. E. PARK, of Macon, in sending subscription says: "I wish you success in your enterprise, and stand ready to help you in any way that I can."

MRS. ALICE TRUEHEART BUCK, who is spending the winter in Washington, is zealous for the CONFEDERATE VETERAN, and offers to be agent and correspondent gratis.

ALL THE PEOPLE TO BUILD A MONUMENT IN HONOR OF JEFFERSON DAVIS AND HIS FELLOW CONFEDERATES.

The impulse to build to Jefferson Davis a monument, typical of the South in the War, was so universal when the great hero died that a general agreement was had in a few hours by telegraph. The movement was inaugurated by the Southern Press Association, and it is co operated in by Confederate veterans everywhere. The Jefferson Davis Monument Association at Richmond, chartered under the laws of Virginia, has special charge of the work. The active co operation of every newspaper and periodical in the South is sought in behalf of this Fund. It is very desirable to procure name and postoffice of every contributor of $1 or more.

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

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

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

C. A. Read, editor Times, Lewisville, Texas, says: " I am fully in accord with the movement and will give the matter prominence in the Times. It will afford me pleasure to help the cause all I possibly can."

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

An ex Union soldier, a popular humorist and lecturer, volunteered to "give a night anywhere at any time for Jeff Davis," and added: " Think of that man's integrity, of what he accomplished with the resources at hand he was an American!"

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

There is one whom we would remember to day. We cannot forget him who has left to his countrymen and to posterity one of the noblest examples unfaltering devotion to truth and principle of which the political history of the human race gives an account, one who presented in his own person a sublime instance of an unmurmuring and heroic endurance of unmerited suffering. When feeble, sick and helpless, and in prison indignities and chains were added. He loved the people of the South, and was true to them to the last. And I trust they will erect a monument to his memory so magnificent and imposing that it will have no equal upon the vast shores of America a monument that will tell the world that he was a patriot and that the cause for which we fought and our comrades died was constitutional, right and just. Then let the monument be built. And let it be built with a munificence and magnificence commensurate with the fame and fidelity of the man and the grandeur of the principle it is intended to commemorate.

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

Seeing from the papers that you have been appointed by the committee to collect funds for our beloved and honored Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, I desire to offer you the small sum of $500, the widow's mite. I had the pleasure of entertaining him and his wife at my home in Havana, Cuba, soon after his release. To Mr. Davis, one of the brightest intellects of his time, the truest and most honorable of men, who sacrificed everything for the South and those he loved, I hope every man, woman and child will do all they can to raise the highest and grandest monument ever built to mortal man. Resp'y, S. E. BREWER.

The committee appointed by Gen. J. B. Gordon, of Georgia, Commander of the United Confederate Veterans, of one from each state, met in Richmond, Sept. '92, by direction of the Chairman, Gen. W. L. Cabell, of Texas, to consider the location, cost of construction, plans, etc., for the Davis Memorial. Richmond Association participated in the proceedings by invitation.

The general purpose was set forth by the Chairman and a series of resolutions were adopted :

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

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

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

DR. J. WM. JONES, Atlanta: "The prospectus is all right unless, indeed, it is too modest. Put me down as a subscriber and count on me to do all in my power to promote its circulation. I'll write for you occasionally."


MONROE PARK, the place selected by a committee of United Confederate Veterans, is a very happy one. It is about a mile west from the old Confederate capitol, and promises ere long to be a very central point. Now the entire Southern people are to build this monument. Who will be slow to do his part?

THE Old South, published at Coleman, Texas, has a very kind article in behalf of the CONFEDERATE VETERAN, which concludes as follows: "We expect that every Confederate and every son of a Confederate will become a subscriber at least to the CONFEDERATE VETERAN. They can use their judgment about the Old South. ' '

STORY OF AN EPITAPH.

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

IN MEMORY.

Beyond this stone is laid,
For a season,
Albert Sidney Johnston,
A General in the Army of the Confederate States,
Who fell at Shiloh, Tennessee,
On the sixth day of April, A. D.,
Eighteen hundred and sixty two,
A man tried In many high offices And critical enterprises,
And found faithful in all.
His life was one long sacrifice of interest to conscience,
And even that life, on a woeful Sabbath,
Did he yield as a holocaust at his country's need.
Not wholly understood was he while he lived ,
But, in his death, his greatness stands confessed in a people's tears
Resolute, moderate, clear of envy yet not wanting
In that finer ambition which makes men great and pare.
In his honor impregnable, In his simplicity sublime.
No country e'er had a truer son no cause a nobler champion
No people a bolder defender no principle a purer victim
Than the dead soldier Who sleeps here.
The cause for which he perished is lost
The people for whom he fought are crushed
The hopes in which he trusted are shattered
The flag he loved guides no more the charging lines,
But his fame, consigned to the keeping of that time, which,
Happily, is not so much the tomb of virtue as its shrine,
Shall, In the years to come, fire modest worth to noble ends.
In honor, now, our great captain rests,
A bereaved people mourn him,
Three commonwealths proudly claim him
And history shall cherish him
Among those choicer spirits who, holding their conscience unmix'd with blame,
Have been. in all conjectures, true to themselves, their country and their God.

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

HOMELESS VETERANS IN GEORGIA.

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

The Constitution says:

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

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

The Richmond Dispatch says:

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

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

We shall not presume to offer any advice to the gallant people of the great State of Georgia, but we can truly say that the Confederate Home here has been of vast service. It could be of greater service still, if it had more funds at its disposal. * * * 
This we know from what we saw of the Georgia soldiers in the battles around Richmond, that no provision the Legislature of that State could make for caring for them in their old age and helplessness would be beyond their deserts."

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

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

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

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

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

Confederate Veteran January 1893

UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS.

The first article of the constitution of the association declares : " The object and purpose of this organization will be strictly social, literary, historical and benevolent. It will endeavor to unite in a general federation all associations of the Confederate veterans, soldiers and sailors, now in existence or hereafter to be formed, to gather authentic data for an impartial history of the war between the States, to preserve the relics or mementoes of the same, to cherish the ties of friendship that exist among the men who have shared common dangers, common suffering and privations, to care for the disabled and extend a helping hand to the needy, to protect the widow and orphan and to make and preserve the record of the services of every member, and as far as possible of those of our comrades who have preceded us in eternity."

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

Gen. J. B. Gordon, the Commander of the Veterans, in an address to the soldiers and sailors, said:

Comrades, no argument is needed to secure for those objects your enthusiastic indorsement. They have burdened your thoughts for many years, you have cherished them in sorrow, poverty and humiliation. In the face of misconstruction you have held them in your hearts with the strength of religious convictions. No misjudgments can defeat your peaceful purposes for the future. Your aspirations have been lifted by the mere force and urgency of surrounding conditions to a plane far above the paltry consideration of partisan triumphs. The honor of the American government) the just powers of the Federal government, the equal rights of States, the integrity of the. constitutional union, the sanctions of law and the enforcement of order have no class of defenders more true and devoted than the ex soldiers of the South and their worthy descendants. But you realize the great truth that a people without the memories of heroic suffering or sacrifice are a people without a history,

To cherish such memories and recall such a past, whether crowned with success or consecrated in defeat is to idealize principle and strengthen character, intensify love of country and convert defeat and disaster into pillars of support for future manhood and noble womanhood. Whether the Southern people under their changed conditions may ever hope to witness another civilization which shall equal that which began with their Washington and ended with their Lee, it is certainly true that devotion to their glorious past is not only the surest guarantee of future progress and the holiest bond of unity, but is also the strongest claim they can present to the confidence and respect of the other sections of the Union.
In conclusion, I beg to repeat, in substance at least, a few thoughts recently expressed by me to the State organization, which apply with equal force to this general brotherhood.

It is political in no sense except so far as the word " political " is a synonym of the word " patriotic." It is a brotherhood over which the genius of philanthropy and patriotism, of truth and of justice will preside, of philanthropy, because it will succor the disabled, help the needy, strengthen the weak and cheer the disconsolate, of patriotism, because it will cherish the past glories of the dead Confederacy and transmute them into living inspirations for future service to the living republic, of truth, because it will seek to gather and preserve as witnesses for history the unimpeachable facts which shall doom falsehood to die that truth may live, of justice, because it will cultivate National as well as Southern fraternity and will condemn narrow mindedness and prejudice and passion, and cultivate that broader, higher and nobler sentiment, which would write on the grave of every soldier who fell on our side: " Here lies an American hero, a martyr to the right as his conscience conceived it."

I rejoice that a general organization too, long neglected, has at last been perfected. It is an organization which all honorable men must approve and which heaven itself will bless. I call upon you, therefore, to organize in every State and community where ex Confederates may reside, and rally to the support of the high and peaceful objects of the United Confederate Veterans, and move forward until by the power of organization and persistent effort your beneficent and Christian purposes are fully accomplished.

CONSIDERATION FOR OLD SOLDIERS.

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

To my thinking, nothing is too good for the old soldier. He should be crowned with every available honor, and if there are any soft places in the ranks of business, gratefully bestow them upon him. Whether they wore the blue or the gray, true soldiers deserve to be honored by this generation, who now live in peace and prosperity.

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

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

Yes, there will ever be patriotic women, who will wreathe in garlands nature's choicest offerings, the laurel and the rose, with which to cover the mounds of the heroic dead.
The time honored custom will live as long as lasts the country that holds the sacred dust, and as the South grows richer, shining shafts of marble will be raised in every lodge and hamlet, emblazoned with golden inscriptions for those whose lives of sacrifice are now a blessed memory.

Confederate Veteran January 1893.

SOME WHO HAVE WORKED FOR THE CAUSE.

J. L. Buford, of Birmingham, Ala., who was a member of the Clayton Guards, First Alabama Regiment, did this clever thing in connection with the Monument Fund: He subscribed $10 for himself and nine others. One of the contribution books was sent him to insert their names, which he forwarded to his sister Miss Annie E. Buford, of Union Springs, Ala., and she secured twenty names, with $1 each.

Mrs. R. Y. Porter, of Greenville, Ala., on being applied to, felt discouraged with the prospect, but when a subscription book was sent her, she procured thirty names, with $30.

Bright little Miss Louise Beverly Sprague, of Mobile, sends nine names with $1 each.
James Rutherford, of Batesville, Ark., sends in twenty six names with $1 each.

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

A good many halves and quarters come from Pratt Mines, Ala.

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

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

A splendid list will be seen from B. F. Jenkins, President of the Davis Monument Association, Mansfield, La,, which aggregates $107.

J. T. Cornell, of Cairo, Tenn., furnishes twenty eight names with $28 to the fund.

W. L. Stephens, Fayette, Miss., sends a batch of names, nearly all for $1 each. Money forwarded to Richmond.

R. W. Downer sends $24 from the little, old village of Fairview, Ky., where Jefferson Davis was born. If all the other places would do as well in proportion, the South would have a Memorial Temple second to none other on earth.

Col. John George Ryan sends from Chicago five dollar subscriptions, one of which was in the name of his brother, Gen. W. A. C. Ryan, of the United States Army, " who was one of those taken from the steamer Virginius, and murdered at Santiago del Cuba, Nov. 4, 1873," and another for their mother, deceased, who was an admirer of Southern chivalry.

James Coltart, of Hoboken, N. J., sends a contribution of $5 with three other names of $1 each.

Maj. John J. Reeve, sends from Henderson, Ky., ten names, including his own, with $10.

Maj. J. B. Briggs, of the John W. Caldwell Camp, Russellville, Ky., sends $28, including $5 for himself, and a similar amount for the gentleman in whose honor the camp is named.

Miss Meta Cooper, of Waxahatchie, Texas, sends a meat little note with ten subscriptions to the Monument, of $1 each, except that of Joel Cooper, which is for $2.

Miss Mollie Cunningham, of Waxahatchie, Texas, sends three names with $1 each.

M. B. Burgwin, Jackson, N. C., sends $4 with the names of four friends.

Mrs. C. P. Morrow, of Chonteau, I. T., sends ten names with as many dollars, including V. Gray, who puts $2 to her list.
W. P. Renwick, of Monroe, La., writes of the collection of $64, which has been forwarded to Richmond. He adds: "There is a prevailing notion that it is the duty of the Southern people to build a suitable memorial to the Confederacy through its President, Davis, and awell organized movement will surely succeed."

In a remittance of fifteen dollars, January 2d, from. Otis S. Tarver, of the Joe Finnegan Camp, Sanford" Florida, I notice contributions from three little darlings, three, four, and six years. The names are Linda C. Barnes, E. F. Barnes, and Hannah Myerson.

The following list of ladies comprised the general committee of the Chrysanthemum Fair, held at Nashville, Nov. II, the proceeds of which, when forwarded to Richmond, aggregated $1,178, the largest sum yet. procured, except by the Young Men's Democratic Club of Nashville:

GENERAL COMMITTEE Mrs. M. B. Pilcher, Chairman , Mesdames M. C. Goodlett, W.J. Wood, Dr. McMurray, Dr. Maney, Burroughs, Locke, Hardison, John Johns, R. R. Pope, J. B. Lindsley, Mary Porter, Jere Baxter, N. Baxter, Sr., Jas. Frazer, Baskerville, E. W. Carmack, Theo. Plummer, R. C. Morris, John Overton, J. M. Dickinson, W. M. Hume, Col. Clark, W. C: Smith, Nat Gooch, H. M. Doak, D. B. Cooper, John Bransford, W. H. Jackson, John W. Thomas, Jr., Thos. Malone, Shade Murray, Thos. Gibson, Will Eastman, J. M. Head, E. W. Cole, S. A. Champion, Norman Farrell, Martha Scruggs, John Hill Eakin, M. A. Spurr, A.J. Warren, Monroe Cheatham, .Thos. Weaver, W. G. Bush, Sam'l Keith, Mark Cockrill Stephen Childress, Robert Riddle, Horton Fall, Edward Buford, Albert Harris, B. B. Allen, Horace Lurton, John. Hickman, H. W. Grantland, A. S. Marks, R. H. Dudley, W. L.. Wilson, Thos. W. Wrenne. Wm. Duncan, A. W. Wills, V. O. Wardlaw., Mary Robertson E. H. East, John C. Brown, Graham Horton, Marsh Polk, Julias Sax, Richard Douglas, Ernest Pillow, Isaac Reese, J. P. Drouillard, L. Rosenheim, Morgan Brown, Fannie Cheatham, Callum, T. D. Craighead, Andrew Marshall, John M. Bass, Richard Cheatham, Jas. E. Caldwell, Wm Morrow, M. B. Toney, J. C. Warner, J. N. Brooks, E. B. Stahlman, W. H. Mitchell, Ann E. Snyder, Geo. Guild, Mary Paul McGuire, Dr. Baird, Frank Green, M. J. C. Wrenne, W. T. Glasgow, D. C. Scales, Mary Clare, Roger Eastman, Lewis Eastman, Nat Baxter, Robt. Hollins,H. B. Buckner, W.L. Settle, Eugene Criddle, G. P. Rose, Dupree, Harry McAllister, John M. Gaut, Thos. Plater, Van Kirkman, Leslie Warnter, Baxter Smith, Alex. Porter, Thos. Kendrick, G. H. Baskette, Robt. Morris, Ida Rutland, Cherry, J. B. O'Bryan, Will Granbery, J. W. Thomas, W. C. Collier, Ross Reno, Mary Hart, J. P. W. Brown, Percy Warner, W. H. Peck, Will Scoggins, Misses Sallie Brown, White May, Mollie Claiborne, Henri Ewing, Nannie Seawell.

Elsewhere reference is made to the Young Men's Democratic Club of Nashville, whose fund is the largest that has ever been secured by any one organization, and to other workers for the cause

Confederate Veteran February 1893.

FRIENDLY TO THE CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

NOTES FROM THE MULTITUDE OF KIND THINGS WRITTEN AND PRINTED.

George F. Miller, Indianapolis, Ind., "read it with much pleasure," and sends two subscriptions.

H. B. Stoddard, Adjutant General Texas Division, U. C. V., Bryan: " Will send you a few subscribers, it fills a long felt want."

Otis S. Traver, Sanford, Fla.: " Inclosed I send four subscriptions. Keep me posted as to what I can do for you, and I will do it."

In sending four subscriptions, Mrs. Joseph W. Allen, of Nashville, says: "You ought to, and I hope will, have one hundred thousand subscribers."

Richard T. Burges, Esq., El Paso, Tex., sends his subscription, "without waiting on a friend who is getting up a list," for fear he may miss a number.

Mrs. J. N. B., Fredericksburg, Va.: "I have read your valuable little magazine with great pleasure. I will take it around our city and solicit subscribers."

R. H. Dykers, Waynesville, N. C.: "I am glad to see the flame of our sacred altars is burning so brightly, and hope that it will warm our hearts to great endeavors."

F. O'Brien, Berwick, La.: "Inclosed I send $2, for four subscriptions. The want of just such a paper has long been felt. Will bring the matter before our Camp at next meeting."

Dr. J. P. Cannon, of McKenzie, Tenn., says: "We must make the VETERAN a success, we need such a paper, and I am glad you have undertaken the task of giving a good, cheap paper."

Col. John G. Ryan, Chicago, Ill.: "It reflects great credit. I send 'the widow's mite.' Send a few sample copies. When I see any of the ' old Confed.' boys, will call attention to their duty."

K. F. Peddicord, Vice President First District Ex Confederate Association of Missouri: "Have just received copy of CONFEDERATE VETERAN, and am pleased with it, inclosed find three subscriptions."

Mrs. P. P. H., Pewee Valley, Ky.: " You certainly deserve the co operation of everybody in the South. Send me two or three extra copies, and I will do my best to get you as many subscribers as I can."

James G. Holmes, Charleston, S. C.: "Herewith find a list of fourteen subscribers, with New York exchange. A copy of your excellent paper came to my hand accidentally, and after reading it I determined to subscribe and aid you by obtaining others."

Gen. G. P. Thruston, of Nashville, Tenn., who was Chief of Staff to Gen. Rosecrans, and was afterward with Gen. George H. Thomas, on the Union side: "I have read the VETERAN. It tells its story in a kind, fraternal spirit. Inclosed find amount of the subscription."
Dr. J. Wm. Jones, Atlanta, Ga.: " I regard the first issue as an admirable one. * * * I have every reason to believe that you will make the CONFEDERATE VETERAN a valuable medium of communication between Confederate Camps, a pleasant reminder of old scenes and memories, a valuable historic record of the brave old days of '61 '65. Whatever I can do to help you shall be freely done."

In sending subscriptions for himself and the Confederate Veteran Camp, of New York, Maj. Edward Owen says:. "It is a very good and useful paper to Confederates."

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

Gen. John Boyd, Lexington, Ky.: " I am very much pleased with the VETERAN, and, as the subscription is so low, no Confederate soldier should be without it. I hope to see the day that it will be like ' bitters everybody takes it.' Inclosed find three subscriptions. I will do what I can for you."

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

A prominent "Veteran, Washington City: "I read every word in the January number, and can only say if subsequent publications equal it the paper will succeed on its own merits. Individual canvassers will not be needed. I predict for it a successful future, and will give it a good word with Confederates here. I hope it will take and hold a high standard."

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

Of the many letters sent with clubs here is one from W. D. Matthews, Jacksonville, Fla.: " I was so pleased with it that I thought I would get you a number of subscribers. After securing some I concluded to get one hundred, so we might have the benefit of a column for our Camp as you propose." Then he adds : " You need make no apology for the CONFEDERATE VETERAN. I have heard nothing but praise of this initial number."

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

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

Confederate Veteran February 1893.

Mrs. M. D. B., Montgomery, Ala.: " Its bright face and cheering words betoken the success if so richly deserves. It has a noble mission to perform in educating the youth of our land to revere the memory and emulate the virtues of men whose self sacrificing devotion to the nation which rose so fair and fell without a stain, commands the admiration of the world. * * * I inclose two subscriptions."

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

VERSAILLES, KY., January 20, 1893. 

This is to thank you for the first issue of the CONFEDERATE VETERAN, and to approve and praise you for the noble undertaking. You deserve and will have the gratitude of every old soldier of the South, and that of their wives, mothers, sisters, and children. The VETERAN is appreciated as a tribute to the valor of the living and as an evidence of the. enduring affection in which we hold our dead. It is valuable as an organ for encouragement and unification of our people in their great and sacred memorial work. It will inspire general effort and promote worthy and harmonious co operation. The monument at Richmond should represent Mr. Davis as he represented our cause. I wish that it could be as magnificent as the courage of the men who fought for it, and as enduring as the devotion of the women who suffered with them. Ah! gold is not good enough where love and tears and blood were shed so lavishly. No man who knows what that memorial will stand for, or cares for its impressions upon the coming generations, would consider a million of money too much to erect and protect it. Let it be like the heroism and suffering it recalls the wonder and admiration of men

FROM GEN. W. L. CABELL.

The Lieutenant General .commanding the Trans Mississippi Department of the United Confederate Veterans, writes as follows:

''DALLAS, TEXAS, January 17, 1893.

''The CONFEDERATE VETERAN (I am glad to see that you dropped the 'ex'), for January, was received today. Being confined to the house with a bad cold, I have read every word of it, and several times I imagined I was talking to some old comrade, of glorious old Mars Jeff, of Generals Lee, Albert Sydney Johnston, Stonewall Jackson, and other old heroes, as everything seemed so fresh and so truthful, that I lived for a few hours in the past, and forgot that I was sick and unable to go out in the cold.

The letter written by that noble lady (God bless her!) of Americus, Georgia, Mrs. Louise Myrick, is worth more than five years' subscription. Every word she has written shows her to be a true southern woman, one who is proud of the South, proud of her State, and proud of the gallantry and services of the old Confederate soldier, both living and dead. She says there is 'nothing too good for the old soldier.' The soldier who 'fought and spilled his blood in defense of the South has no pensions,' but he must look for relief to sympathetic southern friends. Now, this is also true. Thank God, the old soldiers who wore the gray want no pensions from the Government. Our people can not only take care of them while living, but when dead will wreath in garlands the laurel and other rare southern flowers and place them on his grave every year. The true people of the South will never forget the old Confederate soldier. The sons and daughters of these noble old heroes and glorious southern women will never forget the heroism of their fathers and the trials and sufferings their glorious mothers had to endure. I am proud to know that we have such true ladies all over the South. 

I must change my subject) as I find that I could almost fill your paper if I were to write as I feel in reference to our duty to the living Confederate soldier. In this State we have made ample provision for him, and will take care of him until he is called to attend the last ' tattoo.'

I am glad to see that some interest is manifesting itself in reference to the Jeff Davis Monument Fund. In a few weeks we will send a pretty good sum to our treasurer in Richmond. I hope that you will stir them up all along the line. This State I have divided into five districts, and all are at work I am inclined to think that our Camps will average ($100) one hundred dollars each, not only in this State, where we have (120) one hundred and twenty Camps, but also in the Indian Territory and Arkansas. A number of new Camps have been organized in Arkansas, and also in this State, and will, no doubt, join the Association of United Confederate Veterans in time to be with us at Birmingham on the 19th and 20th of July. 
Your friend and comrade, W. L. CABELL."

Dr. Cicero R. Barker, of Salisbury, N. C., in sending check for $13.50 with twenty seven names, states: " We don't want club rates for such a paper and such a cause."

Col. J. F. Bryant, of Franklin, Va., seeing a notice in the Richmond Dispatch, secured a sample copy, sends subscription, and will solicit the co operation of his Camp. He adds: " I like the first number very much, and think it richly deserves the hearty sympathy and support of the entire South."

Capt. J. L. Lemon, Acworth, Ga.: "I am glad to know you are meeting with such success It will be taken from Maine to Texas. When I have time I will increase your list."

Miss Mary Desha, Washington, D. C., after having subscribed and read it: "I shall be delighted to do all I can."

Many beautiful tributes are not included in the foregoing, but they are sufficient to satisfy everybody that there is need tor the CONFEDERATE VETERAN, and that it starts in the right way.

Confederate Veteran February 1893.

CAUSE OF CONFEDERATES IN MARYLAND.

AN HONORED RECORD OF FAITHFUL MEN AND WOMEN.

The Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States in the State of Maryland, was organized in 1871. Its object is to preserve the material for a truthful history of the late war between the Confederates States and the United States of America, to honor the memory of our comrades who have fallen, to cherish the ties of friendship among those who survive, and to fulfill the duties of sacred charity towards those who may stand in need of them.

In 1874, with the aid of an appropriation from the State of Maryland, the bodies of Marylanders who fell in the Confederate service, were gathered from all the battlefields, from Petersburg to Gettysburg. Comrades were employed for this purpose, and brave soldiers were taken from fence corners and hedge rows where they had been laid. These bodies were re intered in the Confederate lot in London Park Cemetery, where are erected the central monument, " The Confederate Soldier," by Volck, and the monuments to Companies H and A of the First and Second Maryland Infantry, and that dashing Cavalryman, Lieut. Col. Harry Gilmor. This beautiful plot contains about four hundred bodies. It is the property of the Society, and provision has been made for its perpetual care, by payments to the cemetery company. About ten thousand dollars has been expended upon this work. The bodies of all Confederate prisoners who died in Baltimore are also buried in our lot, and each grave is marked with a marble headstone, with the name, regiment and State, whenever known, of the soldier who sleeps beneath. Since 1873 the Society has always arranged for the observance of Memorial Day, June 6th, when hundreds of ladies and our comrades are conveyed to London Park Cemetery, to strew flowers on the graves of our dead, and the graves of our soldiers and sailors in other cemeteries also receive like attention. The Society has done much more than this: In 1878 about $1,000 was realized by means of a Musical Festival, for the Lee Monument at Richmond.
In 1880 a life size statue of a Maryland Confederate Infantry Soldier was erected by the Society in the Maryland lot in the Stonewall Cemetery at Winchester, Virginia.

In 1882 a donation of about $600 was made to the Southern Historical Society, Richmond, which enabled that Society to continue its work at that time.

In 1885 a bazaar, held under the auspices and patronage of the Society, realized about $31.000, which was invested in an annuity fund, terminating in twenty five years, producing a present annual income of about $2,700, which is distributed, in cash, to needy and worthy comrades, and is also used for the burial of the dead. No Confederate soldier is denied assistance while living, nor permitted in death to lie in a pauper's grave. No matter how unfortunate his circumstances in life, a respectful burial, with proper attendance, in the Confederate lot is accorded him.

The Beneficial Association of the Maryland Line also dispenses among its needy members or their families about $1,000 per annum, making total disbursements each year nearly $4,000.

In 1886 a monument was erected on Culp's Hill, Gettysburg, to the Second Maryland Infantry. It is massive granite block, costly and imposing, and its in scriptions testify the valor of the men who fought where it stands.

In 1888 the former United States Arsenal buildings at Pikesville were secured from the Legislature of Maryland as a Confederate Home, with an appropriation of $5,000 a year. The rooms have been furnished as memorial offerings, and the Home now shelters inmates from different States, but citizens of Maryland at time of entry.

From time to time many addresses have been delivered by distinguished Confederates, and numerous pamphlets have been published by the Society.

The only stated public appearances of the Society are at annual banquets and on Memorial Days. It has made no public parades, except on the occasions of dedications of monuments at Richmond, Lexington, Winchester, Front Royal, Staunton, Hagerstown, Frederick and Gettysburg, or at the funerals of distinguished comrades.

The Society now numbers above 1,000 members, the annual dues being $1. An accurate record of each member, certified bycommanding officers or comrades, is entered in the Historical Register of the Society. No unworthy soldier or deserter is permitted to become a member.

The sons of Confederate soldiers and sailors are entitled to membership in the Society, as "male descendants," upon arriving at the age of fifteen years.

All persons who are in sympathy with our cause, but who were not in the service of the Confederate States, are eligible to " auxiliary membership."

The successive Presidents have been: Maj . Gen. Isaac R. Trimble, 1871, Maj. John R. McNulty, 1875 , Lieut. McHenry Howard, 1883, Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, 1883. Gen. Johnson is now President.
Confederate Veteran February 1893.

Beneficial Association. We have buried fifteen comrades during the year.

The members of the committee, with a few exceptions, have shown great interest in the work in which we are engaged, and the rarity of cases of distress among ex Confederates is due, in a great measure, to the labor of the members of this committee. The thanks of the committee are due to those members of the Confederate societies who have assisted the committee by acting as pall bearers at funerals and assisted us in many other ways.
CONFISCATING PRIVATE PROPERTY.

A REMINISCENCE CONNECTING GEN. FISK AND PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON.

J. B. White, in a letter from Tyree Springs, Tenn,, gives some interesting reminiscences of war times at Nashville. He describes vividly the confiscation of Gen. Donelson's property, near Hendersonville, not many miles from Nashville, and how his application to restore it to the family after Donelson's death was treated. His petition for its restoration was emphatically refused, with the comment, "No, sir, we will never give up that property whilst the Government lasts." He refused to put in writing his decision, until Judge Lawrence, a Tennessean, but who had enlisted in the Union cause, suggested that he write on the application, "Refused," which he did. Continuing his letter, Mr. White says:

The General occupied the home of John M. Bass, on Church Street, now owned by E. W. Cole. His headquarters were luxuriously furnished, and he was attended by a troop of handsome, well dressed servants, both men and women. He sustained the greatness and dignity of the Government in grand style. 

After leaving the headquarters of the General, I went to see Mrs. Donelson, and told her the result of my petition and the failure of my application. I handed her the petition with the General's indorsement, and advised her to write to President Johnson, enclose the papers to him, and ask him to order Gen. Fisk to give her the possession of her home. I told her to explain to the President fully her condition and that of her family, and to remind him of the former relations that existed between himself and her husband, and to let me see her letter before she mailed it. I called to see her next day. She had her letter ready and read it to me. It was a smart, admirable letter, well written, reminding the President that they were both natives of North Carolina, and were residents of the same city Raleigh, that her father was Gov. Branch, of North Carolina, and was Secretary of the Navy under Gen. Jackson, and that he had lived in Washington City with her father's family, where she was married to Gen. Donelson, and had removed with her husband soon thereafter to Tennessee, and that Gen. Donelson had always been his personal and political friend, and had supported him for Governor of Tennessee against Col. Gentry, his own brother in law, a man for whom he had the highest respect, yet his political and personal friendship was stronger than family ties, and now, her husband being dead and his family without a home and dependent upon others for a shelter, she applied confidently to him to see that she was restored to her home, as she was advised that she had a right to it. She believed he would never forsake a friend in adversity. She had entertained him at her house, and her husband had been his friend when he needed friends.

This letter presented her case much better than I had presented it in my petition to Gen. Fisk. A woman can write much better than a man when her feelings are enlisted. I told Mrs. Donelson her letter was well conceived and better executed. It was mailed to the President, and when he received it Judge East 
happened to be at the White House on business with the President. East said when the President got Mrs. Donelson's letter and read it, he got into a towering passion, and swore that her father, Gov. Branch, was the first public man that ever noticed him or spoke a kind word to him, that one morning when he was out very early sweeping the pavement in front of the shop in which he was learning the tailor's trade, a tall, gray haired man came walking by and spoke kindly to him, commending his industry, and said: 'That is right, my son, always be honest and industrious and you will make a man of yourself.' He told me he was Gov. Branch, and gave me a silver half dollar to keep in remembrance of him and the advice he had given me. He said he had the half dollar now with him at the White House, and he ordered his private secretary, Browning, to go and get it, he wanted to show it to Judge East. 

The President then ordered his secretary to send a telegram to Gen. Fisk to give up the farm to Mrs. Donelson, which was done that night. Gen. Fisk paid no attention to the dispatch, believing, as he told me, that it was bogus. Mrs. Donelson waited some weeks and received no reply to her letter. I told her to write again) as the letter might have miscarried, she wrote again. This was answered, and a peremptory order on Gen. Fisk to give up the place to Mrs. Donelson, and report to the President immediately why he had not complied with his first order, and if his reasons were not entirely satisfactory, some one would be put in his place who would obey his orders.

Fisk came near losing his position, and he made up for the delay of action by immediate restoration of everything possible to the Donelson family.

The foregoing story is not meant to convey implied comment on the action of the President. It is given simply as a reminiscence of war times. Judge Lawrence, who is referred to, was connected with the Union forces through much of the war, and made friendships for heroic services in behalf of citizens who were maltreated by the army. The family of the late Col. G. A. Washington will ever have pathetic memory for his kindness to them, when two sets of soldiers went to Wessyngton and got into a quarrel over which should take his life because he had killed a soldier who was stealing one of his horses.

GEN. GRANT AT SHILOH.

A NASHVILLE LADY GIVES VALUABLE HISTORIC TESTIMONY.

She writes to T. M. Hurst, Assistant Postmaster at Nashville, in reply to a letter of inquiry. The home of the lady was, at that time, on the Tennessee River bluff at Savannah, a few miles below where the battle of Shiloh was fought:

NASHVILLE, TENN

December 6, 1892. "

DEAR SIR Your letter of inquiry concerning ' Gen. Grant's physical condition on the morning the battle of Shiloh began,' is received. You will please accept my assurance, gladly given, that on the date mentioned I believe Gen. Grant was thoroughly sober. He was at my breakfast table when he heard the report from a cannon. Holding, untasted, a cup of coffee, he paused in conversation to listen a moment at the report of another cannon. He hastily arose, saying to his staff officers, ' Gentlemen, the ball is in motion, let's be off.' His flagship (as he called his special steamboat) was lying at the wharf, and in fifteen minutes he, staff officers, orderlies, clerks, and horses had embarked,

During the weeks of his occupancy of my house he always demeaned himself as a gentleman, was kind, courteous, genial, and considerate, and never appeared in my presence in a state of intoxication. He was uniformly kind to citizens, irrespective of politics,.and whenever the brutality to citizens, so frequently indulged in by the soldiers, was made known to him, he at once sent orders for the release of the captives or restoration of the property appropriated. As a proof of his thoughtful kindness, I mention that during the battle on Sunday he wrote and sent to my mother a safeguard to prevent her home being used for a hospital. Yielding to the appeals of humanity, she did, however, open her home to the wounded and sick for three months in succession, often administering to their wants and necessities in person. In such high esteem did Gen, Grant hold such magnanimity under the most aggravating circumstances, that he thanked her most cordially, assuring her that, considering the great losses and gross indignities she had received from the soldiers, her nobility of soul was more to be admired than the fame of a general leading an army of victorious soldiers. 

On one occasion he asked to be introduced to my mother and family, saying, 'If you have no objections to introducing me, I will be much pleased.' I replied, ' Not because you are a great general, but because I believe you to be a gentleman, I will unhesitatingly introduce you to them '. In deference to the fact that I was a southern lady, with southern proclivities, he attired himself in a full suit of citizen's clothes, and, touching himself on the shoulder, said, 'I thought you would like this best,' evincing delicate courtesy and gentlemanly instincts of which the honors of war or merited promotion had not deprived him.
I feel that it is due to the surviving members of Gen. Grant's family to mention some evidences of his great heartedness as shown in kindness to southern people. 'Military necessity' was not to him a term synonymous with unlicensed vandalism or approval of terrorism. He was too great and too true to his manhood to be fettered by prejudice. 

Not because you are a great general, but because I be I am pleased that I can give these reminiscences of a man who, as a soldier and statesman, received and merited the homage of a nation, for they are testimonies of his inner life and innate characteristics worthy to be recorded with the magnanimity of 'kinship over self,' as manifested on the day of Gen. Lee's surrender. "Respectfully, "MRS. W. H. CHERRY."
Confederate Veteran February 1893.

UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERAN CAMPS.

ALABAMA

POSTOFFICE CAMP. NO. OFFICERS.

Bessemer.........Bessemer 157... W. R. Jones, N. H. Sewall.

Birmingham W.J.Hardee....... 39... Gen. F. S. Ferguson, R. E. Jones.

Eutaw Sanders............ 64... Capt. G. H. Cole, F.H.Mundy.

Mobile Raphael Semmes.. 11... Capt. Thos. T. Roche, Wm. E. Mickle.

Montgomery Lomax...... 151... Capt. Emmet Seibels, J. H. Higgins.

ARKANSAS.

Alma Cabell................. .202...

Bentonville Cabell........ .......... 89... Capt. N.S. Henry, A. J. Bates.

Centerpoint Haller................ 192...

Charleston Pat Cleburne........... 191...

Conway Jeff Davis............... 213...

Fayetteville W. H. Brooks ......... 216...

Fort Smith Ben T. Duval........... 148... Capt. P.T. Devaney, R. M. Fry.

Greenwood Ben McCulloch ...... 194...

Hackett City Stonewall............... 199...

Hope Gratiot.................... 203...

Morrilton Robert W. Harper.. 207...

Nashville Joe Neal.................. 202...

Van Buren John Wallace......... 209...

FLORIDA.

Brookville W. W. Loring.......... 13... Gen. John C. Devant, Col. Fred L. Robertson

Chipley Chipley................... 217...

Dade City Pasco C.V.Ass'n,... 57... Capt. John B, Johnston, A. H. Ravesies.

Fernandino Nassau...................... 104... Thos. A. Hall.

Inverness Geo.T. Ward............ 148. .. Capt. W. C. Zimmerman, W. S. Turner.

Jacksonville R. E. Lee ..... 58... Gen. Wm. Baya, W.W.Tucker.

Jasper Stewart .. .... 155. .. Capt. H. J. Stewart. John E. Hanna.

Lake City Columbia Co. ...... 150... Capt.W. R. Moore, W. M. Ives.

Mariana. Milton ...... 132 Capt. W. D, Barnes, F. Philip.

Monticello Patton Anderson 59 Capt. W. C. Bird, B. W. Partridge.

Ocala Marion Co. CVA 56 Capt. J. J. Finley, Wm. Fox.

Orlando Orange County 54 Capt. W. H. Jewell, B. M. Robinson.

Palmetto Geo. T. Ward............ 53.... Capt. J. C. Pelot, J. W. Nettles.

Pensacola Ward C. V. Ass'n. .... 10. . Capt. R. J. Jordan, C. V. Thompson.

Quincy D.L.Kenan............. 140... Capt. B. H. M. Davidson, D. M, McMillan.

St. Augustine E. Kirby Smith.. ..... 175... Capt. J. A, Enslow, Jr.

Sanford Gen. J.Finnegan..... 149... Capt. A. M. Thrasher, C. H. Lefler.

Tallahassee Lamar....................... 161.. .R. A: Whitfleld.

Tampa Hillsboro.................. 36... C't. F, W.Merrin, H. L. Crane.

Titusville Indian River............ 47... C't. J. Pritchett, A. D. Cohen,

GEORGIA.

Atlanta.............Fulton Co., Ga......... l59... Gen. W. L. Calhoun, John F. Edwards.

Dalton..............Jos. E. Johnston...... 34... Capt. A, F, Roberts, J, A. Blanton.

Ringgold..........Ringgold.................. 206...

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

ILLINOIS.

Chicago.......... Ex Con. Ass'n.......... 8... C't.J. W. White, R.L. France.

INDIAN TERRITORY.

Ardmore............ John H. Morgan...... 107... Capt. J. L. Gaut, B. Scales.

McAlester........ Jeff Lee..................... 68... Gen. N. P.Guy, R. B. Coleman.

KENTUCKY.

Bowling Green.. Bowling Green........ 143... Capt.W. F. Perry, James A. Mitchell.

Cynthiana........ Ben Desha .............. 99... Capt. D. M. Snyder. J. W. Boyd

Danville... ....... J. Warren Grigsby... 214... Capt. E. M. Green, John H. Baughman.

Georgetown...... Georgetown.............. 98... Capt. A. H. Sinclair, J. Webb.

Harrodsburg.... William Preston..... 96... Capt. B.W. Allin, J

Lawrenceburg. Ben Hardin Helm 101 Capt. P. H. Thomas, John P. Vaughn.

Lexington........ J. C. Breckinridge ... 100... Gen. J. Boyd, G. C, Snyder.

Mt. Sterling..... Roy S. Cluke. ....... . 201... Col. Thomas Johnson, W. T. Havens 

Paducah........... A. P. Thompson...... 174. .. C't. W. G. Bullitt,. I. M. Brown.

Paris................. John H. Morgan...... 95... Capt. A. T. Forsyth, Will A. Gaines.

Richmond,........ Thomas B. Collins.. 215... Capt. Jas. Tevis, N. B. Deatherage.

Russellville...... .John W.Caldwell... 139... Maj. J. B. Briggs,W. B. McCarty.

Versailles.......... Alex Buford............ 96... Capt. Jos. C. Bailey, Russell V. Bishop.

LOUISIANA.

Alexandria........Jeff Davis................ 6... Gen. Geo. O. Watts, Capt. W. W. Whittington.

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

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

Berwick.............Winchester Hall..... 178... Capt. M.W. Bateman, F. O. Brien.

Donaldsonvllle..Maj.V. Manlin....... 38... Capt. S. A. Poche, P. Ganel.

Evergreen.........B. L.GIbson........ ..... 33... Col. Wm.M.Ewell, I. C.Johnson.

Lake Charles.....Calcasieu C. Vet....... 62... Capt. W. A. Knapp, W. L. Hutchings.

L. Providence...Lake Providence..... 193...

Mansfield........ Mouton.................. . 41... Capt. C, Schuler, T. G. Pegues.

Merrick.............Isaiah Norwood...... 110... Capt.. D. T. Merrick, J. Jewell Taylor.

Natchitoches....Natchitoches............ 40.. Capt, J.Alp. Prudhomme, C. E. Levy.

New Orleans....Army of N. Va.. 1... Col. W. R. Lyman, Thos. B. O'Brien.

New Orleans....Army of Tenn......... 2... Gen. J. Glynn Jr., N. Cuny.

New Orleans....Wash. Artillery...... 15... Col. B. F. Eshelman, Lieut. Col, L. A. Adam.

New Orleans....Henry St. Paul..... 16... Gen. Jos. Demoruelle, Col. M. T. Ducros.

Opelousas....... R. E. Lee.................. 14...Capt. L. D. Prescott, Col. B. Bloomfield.

Plaquemine... Iberville................... 18... Capt. Chas. H. Dickinson, John L. Dardenne.

Rayville.......... Richland.................. 152... Capt. John S. Summerlin, O. T. Smith.

Rustin............ Rustin....................... 7... Capt.A.Barksdale, J. L. Bond.

Shreveport ..... Gen. Leroy Stafford 3... Capt. Wm, Kinney, Will H. Tunnard.

Tangipahoa..... Camp Moore............ 60... Capt. O. P. Amacker, G. R. Taylor.

Thibodaux...... Braxton Bragg......... 196...
MISSISSIPPI.

Booneville.......W. H. H.Tison........ 179... Capt. D.T.Beall.J.W. Smith.

Columbus........Isham Harrison...... 27... Dr. B. A. Vaughan, W. A. Campbell.

Crystal Sp'gs,..Ben Humphreys..... 19... Capt. C. Humphries, J. M. Haley.

Edwards...... W. A. Montgomery 26... Capt. W. A. Montgomery, H. W. Barrett.

Fayette............ J. J.Whitney......:... 22... Capt. W.L. Stephen, W. K. Penny.

Greenwood......Hugh A. Reynolds... 218...

Grenada...........W. R. Barksdale...... 189...

Hattiesburg..... Hattiesburg.. 21... Capt. Geo. D. Hartfield, Evan H. Harris.

Holly Springs..Kit Mott................... 23... Capt. J. F. Fant, S. H. Pryor.

Jackson............Robt. A. Smith........ 24... Capt. W .D. Holder ,G. S. Green.

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

Meridian..........Walthall.................. 25... C't. W.F. Brown, B. V. White.

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

Natchez...........Natchez.................... 20... Lieut. Col. F. J. V. LeCand, E. L. Hopkins.

Port Gibson......Claiborne.................. 167... Capt. A. K.Jones, W, W.Moore.

Rolling Fork....Pat Cleburne............ 190...

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

Tupelo..............John M. Stone......... 131... Gen. John M. Stone, P. M. Savery.

Woodville....... Woodville.. 49 Capt. J. H. Jones, P. M. Stockett

Yazoo City Yazoo Camp............ 176... Capt. S. D. Robertson, W. R. McCutcheon.

MISSOURI.

Kansas City Kansas City 80 C't J. W. Mercer, G. B. Spratt.

NORTH CAROLINA.

Clinton...........Sampson.................. 137... R. H. Holliday, C, F. Hening.

Concord.........Cabarrus Co. C.V. A. . 212...

Newton..........Catawba.................... 162. .. C't. J. G. Hall, L. R.Whitenur.

OKLAHOMA.

Norman.........Gen. J. B. Gordon... 200...

Oklahoma.....C't. D. H. Hammond 177... Capt. J. W. Johnston, John O. Casler.

47 Confederate Veteran February 1893.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

POSTOFFICE CAMP. NO. OFFICERS.

Aiken .Barnard E. Bee........ 84... Capt. B. H. Teague J N. Wigfall.

St. Georges ..Stephen Elliott....... 51... J. Otey Reed.

TENNESSEE.

Chattanooga N. B. Forest 4... Gen.J.F, Shipp, L.T. Dickinson.

Clarkesville S'kelford Fulton .. 114. .. Col. James D. Tillman, W. H. Cashion.

.Franklin John L. McEwen .. ... Capt. B. F. Roberts, R. N. Richardson.

Jackson John Ingram........ 37... Capt. E. S. Mallory, S. E. Kertolf.

Knoxville Felix K. Zollicoffer.... l6... Capt. John F. Horn, Chas. Ducloux.

Knoxville Fred Ault... 5... Col. Frank A. Moses, Maj. J. W. S. Frierson

Lewisburg Dibrell....................... 55. .. Capt. W. P. Irvine, W. G. Lloyd.

McKenzie Stonewall Jackson.. 42... Capt. Marsh Atkisson, Dr. J. P. Cannon.

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

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

Nashville Frank Cheatham.... 35... Elder R. Lin Cave, Col. John P. Hickman.

Shelbyville Wm. Frierson......... 83... Capt. John M. Hastings. Jno. J. Arnold.

Tullahoma Pierce B.Anderson.. 173... Capt. J. P. Bennett, W. J. Travis.

Winchester Turney 12... Capt. W. H. Brannan, J. J. Martin.

TEXAS.

Abilene........... Abilene........ 72... T. W, Dougherty.

Abilene...........Taylor Co.... 69. .. Col. H. L. Bentley, Theo. Heyck.

Alvarado........Alvarado.... 160. . J. R. Posey.

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

Atlanta...........Stonewall Jackson.. 91... Capt. J. D. Johnson, James N. Simmons.

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

Beaumont......A.. S. Johnston......... 75... Capt. Jeff Chaisson, Tom J. Russell.

Beltow...........Bell Co. ex Con As. 122. .. Capt. H. M. Cook, R. H. Turner.

Bonham.........Sul Ross.................... 164... Capt. J. P. Holmes.

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

Bryan............J. B. Robertson ....... 124... Capt. H. B. Stoddard, W. H. Harmon.

Buffalo Gap..Camp Moody.......... ... Capt. Ben F. Jones, J, J. Eubank.

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

Camerson......Ben McCullough..... 29... Capt. E. J. McIver, Joseph B. Moore.

Canton..........James L. Hogg........ 133... Capt. T. J. Towles, W, V. Thompson.

Carthage.......Horace Randall..... 163... J. R. Bond, J M. Woolworth.

Cleburne.......Pat Cleburne............ 88... Capt. O. T. Plummer, M. S. Kahle.

Colorado......Albert Sidney........ Capt. W. V. Johnson, Thos. Q. Mullin.

Columbus.....Shropshire Upton... 112... Capt. Geo. McCormick, J. J. Dick.

Coleman.......John Pilham........... 76... Capt. J.J. Callan, James M. Williams.

Corpus Christi. Jos. E. Johnston....... 63... Capt. H. R. Sutherland, M. C. Spann.

Corsicana.......C. M. Winkler......... 147... Capt. R. M. Collins.

Crockett.........Crockett.................... 141... Capt. Enoch Braxson, J. F. Martin.

Caldwell........Camp Rogers........... 142. . J. F. Matthews.

Dallas............Sterling Price........... 31... Capt. J.J. Miller, Gen. Wm. L. Thompson.

Decatur..........Ben McCulloch........ 30... Capt. Will A. Miller, A. Edwards.

Denton...........Sul Ross.................... 129... Capt. Hugh McKenzie, J. R. Burton.

Dublin...........Erath & Comanche.. 85... Gen. J. T. Harris, L. E. Gillett.

Emma............Lone Star................. 198...

Fairfleld.... Wm. L. Moody 87... Capt. Geo. T. Bradley. L. G. Sandifer.

Farney...... Camp Bee 130 Capt. T. M. Daniel, S. G. Fleming

Fort Worth..... R. E. Lee.................. 158... J. W. Friend, Eugene Burr.

Frost............... R. Q. Mills........ ...... 106... Capt. A. Chamberlain, Dr. M. F. Wakefield,

Gainesville....Jos. E. Johnston...... 119.. Capt. J. M. Wright, John T Walker.

Galveston......Magruder.................. 105... Gen. T. N. Waul, Chris C. Beavans.

Gatesville......Ex C. A. Coryell Co.. 135... W. L. Saunders.

Goldthwaite..Jeff Davis........... 117... Maj. J. E. Martin, F. M. Taylor.

Gonzales.......Gonzales,........... 156... Maj. W. B. Sayers, M. Eastland.

Graham.........Young County.. 127... Capt. A. T. Gay, Y. M. Edwards.

Granbury......Granbury........... 67... J. A. Formivalt, I, R. Morris.

Hamilton....,.A. S. Johnston... 116... Capt. W. T. Saxon, C. C. Powell.

Hemstead.....Tom Green............... 136 .. Capt. Van B. Thornton, Sam Schwarz.

Henrietta......Sul Ross.................... 172... Capt. F.J.Barrett,C. B. Patterson.

Hillsboro.....Hill County.............. 166... Wm. A. Fields.

Houston.......Dick Bowling.......... 197...

Kaufman......Geo. D. Manion........ 145.. Capt. Jos. Huffmaster

Confederate Veteran February 1893.

CARNAGE AT "THE CRATER," NEAR PETERSBURG.

Lieut. Col. William H. Stewart, of the Sixty first Virginia, Mahone's old brigade, gives a thrilling account of the battle of "The Crater," from which the following extracts are made. He was asleep under his little fly tent) when "a deep, rumbling sound, that seemed to rend the very earth in twain," startled him from his slumbers:

The whole camp had been aroused, and all were wondering from. whence came this mysterious explosion. It was the morning of Saturday, the 30th day of July, 1864. The long talked of mine had been sprung, a battery blown up, and the enemy were already in possession of eight hundred yards of our entrenchments. 

Two hundred cannon roared in one accord, as if every lanyard had been pulled by the same hand. The gray tog was floating over the fields, and darkness covered the face of the earth, but the first bright streak of dawn was gently lifting the curtain of night.

The sun rose brilliantly, and the great artillery duel still raged in all its grandeur and fury. 

Soon after, Capt. Tom Bernard, Gen. Mahone's courier, came sweeping up the lines on his white charger to the headquarters of Brig. Gen. D. A. Weisiger. Then the drums commenced rolling off the signals, which were followed by 'fall in' and hurried roll calls. We were required to drive back the Federals. who had gotten almost within the very gates of the city of Petersburg. It was startling news, but our soldiers faltered not, and moved off at quick step.

Wright's Georgia Brigade and our Virginia Brigade, the latter numbering scarcely eight hundred muskets, constituted the force detailed to dislodge the enemy, who held the broken lines with more than fifteen thousand men, and these were closely supported by as many more. I remember that our regiment, the Sixty first, did not exceed two hundred men, including officers and privates, which I am quite sure was the strongest in the two brigades. I suppose we had marched the half of a mile when ordered to halt and strip off all baggage, except ammunition and muskets. We then filed to the left a short distance to gain the banks of a small stream, in order to be protected from the shells of the Federal batteries by placing a range of hills between. The enemy were making dispositions to attempt their capture, for they were the very keys to the invested city. When nearly opposite the portion of our works held by the Federal troops, we met several soldiers who were in the works at the time of the explosion. Our men began ridiculing them for going to the rear, when one of them remarked: 

Ay, boys, you have hot work ahead they are negroes, and show no quarter." This was the first intimation that we had to fight negro troops, and it seemed to infuse the little band with impetuous daring, as they pressed onward to the fray. Our comrades had been slaughtered in a most inhuman and brutal manner, and slaves were trampling over their mangled and bleeding corpses. Revenge must have fired every heart and strung every arm with nerves of steel for the Herculean task of blood. We filed up a ditch, which had been dug for safe ingress and egress to and from the earthworks.

The 'Crater,' or excavation, caused by the explosion, was about twenty five feet deep, one hundred and fifty feet long, and fifty feet wide. About seventy five feet in rear of the supporting earthworks there was a wide ditch, with the bank thrown up on the side next to the fortifications. This was constructed to protect parties carrying ammunition and rations to the troops. Between this irregular and upgraded embankment and the main line the troops had constructed numerous caves, in which they slept at night to be protected from the mortar shells. The embankment from the bottom of the ditch was about ten feet high, and commanded the outer or main line. The space from the outside of the fortifications to the inner edge of the ditch was more than one hundred feet wide. 

The 'Crater,' and the space on both sides for some distance, were literally crammed with the enemy's troops. They were five lines deep, and must have numbered between fifteen and twenty five thousand men. Their historians admit that their charge was made by the whole of the Ninth Corps, commanded by Gen. A. E. Burnside, and that the Fifth and a part of the Second Corps were massed in supporting distance.

Mahone's old brigade, after being deployed, covered their front from the center of the 'Crater' to the right. Our little band were desperate, and reckoned not the hosts that confronted them. I recollect counting seven standards in front of our regiment alone. Our column was deployed in the valley before mentioned, in full view of these hostile thousands. As the soldiers filed into line, Gen. Mahone walked from right to left, commanding the men to reserve their fire until they reached the brink of the ditch, and after delivering one volley to use the bayonet. Our line was hardly adjusted, and the Georgians had not commenced to deploy, when the division of negroes, the advance line of the enemy, made an attempt to rise from the ditch and charge. Just at that instant Gen. Mahone ordered a counter charge. The men rushed forward, officers in front, with uncovered heads and waving hats, and grandly and beautifully swept onward over the intervening space with muskets at trail. The enemy sent in the ranks a storm of bullets, and here and there a gallant fellow would fall, but the files would close, still pressing onward, unwavering, into the jaws of death! 

The orders of Maj. Gen. Mahone were obeyed to the very letter, the brink of the ditch was gained before a musket was discharged, the cry of ' No quarter! ' greeted us, the one volley responded, and the bayonet plied with such irresistible vigor as insured success in the shortest space of time. Men fell dead in heaps, and human gore ran in steams that made the very earth mire beneath the tread of the victorious soldiers. The rear ditch being ours) the men mounted the rugged embankment and hurled their foes from the front line up to the very mouth of the ' Crater.' In the meantime the Georgia Brigade had charged, but were repulsed, and soon after it was re formed in column of regiments and again charged, but was met by such a withering fire that it again recoiled with a heavy slaughter.

Our bloody work was all done so quickly that I have scarcely an idea of the time it required to accomplish it, some say it was twenty minutes. It was over, I am sure, about noon, and then, for the first time, we realized the oppression of the scorching rays of that July sun, and many almost sank from exhaustion. The brigade captured fifteen battle flags, and our own  regiment owned five of the seven that I had counted in its front. 

The wonderful triumph had been won at the price of the blood of the bravest, and best, and truest. Old Company 'F,' of Norfolk, had carried in twelve men, all of whom were killed or wounded. The Sixth Regiment, to which it was attached, carried in ninety-eight men, and mustered ten for duty at this time. The Sharpshooters carried in eighty men, and sixteen remained for duty. Nearly half of our own regiment had fallen, and the Twelfth, Forty first, and Sixteenth Regiments had suffered in like proportion. Up to this time only an inconsiderable number of prisoners had been captured.

During the charge, Capt. John W. Wallace, of Company 'C,' Sixty first Virginia Regiment, was stricken down with a broken thigh. He lay upon his back, refusing to allow his men to take him from the field till the battle was over, waving his hat and urging his men to 'Go on, go forward.' 

When Maj. W. H. Etheredge, of the Forty first Regiment, jumped in the ditch, a brave Federal in the front line fired through the traverse and killed a soldier at his side. He immediately dropped his empty musket and snatched another from a cowering comrade to kill Maj. Etheredge. At this juncture the Major, with remarkable self possession, caught up two Federals, who were crouching in the ditch, and held their heads together between himself and his determined opponent, swinging them to and fro to cover the sight of the musket, the Federal doing his best to uncover it so as to unharm his friends by his bullet. Peter Gibbs, of the Forty first Virginia Regiment, rushed to the assistance of the Major, and killed his foe. Gibbs was a gallant soldier, and fought with great desperation. It was said at the time that he slew fourteen men that day.
The Alabamians made a grand charge under a terrible fire, reaching the crest of the 'Crater' without faltering, and here a short struggle ensued. They tumbled muskets, clubs, clods of earth, and cannon balls into the excavation on the heads of the enemy with telling effect. This novel warfare lasted only a few minutes, when Bartlett ordered up the white flag, an I about five hundred prisoners marched to our rear. The negroes among them were very much alarmed, and vociferously implored for their lives. One old cornfield chap exclaimed: 'My God, massa, I never pinted a gun at a white man in all my life, dem nasty, stinking Yankees fotch us here, and we didn't want to come fus! ' 

The appearance of this rough, irregular hole beggars description. It was estimated that it contained six hundred bodies. The importance of reconstructing this broken line of earthworks at once prevented the removal of these bodies, therefore, they were buried as they had fallen, in one indiscriminate heap. Spades were brought in, and the earth thrown from the sides of the 'Crater' until they were covered a sufficient depth. By three o'clock in the afternoon all was over, and we were enjoying a welcome truce."

Here follows an account of the odor on that hot afternoon, that is omitted from this account.

There were thousands of captured arms around us, and during the night some of our men would shoot ramrods at the enemy just for the fun of hearing them whiz. One that was sent over drew from a Federal the exclamation: 'Great God! Johnnie, you are throwing turkey spits and stringing us together over here. Stop it! ' 

A correspondent of one of the New York dailies, writing a description of this battle from accounts obtained from wounded officers who had arrived at Washington, uses the following language: 'Often have the Confederates won encomiums for valor, but never before did they fight with such uncontrollable desperation. It appeared as if our troops were at their mercy, standing helpless or running in terror, and shot down like dogs. No such scene has been witnessed in any battle of the war. The charge of the enemy against the negro troops was terrific. With fearful yells they rushed down against them. The negroes at once ran back, breaking through the line of white troops in the rear. Again and again their officers tried to rally them. Words and blows were useless. They were victims of an uncontrollable terror, and human agency could not stop them.'

Next morning was a bright and beautiful Sabbath, and nothing of moment occurred. At least three thousand of the Federal dead were still on the field, putrifying under the scorching rays of the sun. I remember a negro between the lines, who had both legs blown off, crawled to the outside of our works, stuck three muskets in the ground, and threw a small piece of tent cloth over them to shelter his head from the hot sunshine. Some of our men managed to shove a cup of water to him, which he drank, and immediately commenced frothing at the mouth, and died in a very short time afterwards. He had lived in this condition for nearly twenty four hours. 

On Monday morning a truce was granted, and the Federals sent out details to bury their dead between the lines. They dug a long ditch, and placed the bodies crosswise, several layers up, and refilled the ditch, and thus ended the tragic scenes of three days in and around the 'Crater.' "

Feb. 1893

SIX HUNDRED CONFEDERATE OFFICERS.

HOW THEY WERE EXPOSED TO CONFEDERATE CANNON

A RETALIATORY MEASURE.

The following story come from J. L. Lemon, of Acworth, Ga., who says he thinks the story has never been published:

Doubtless you will offer your columns as a medium for recording interesting historical incidents connected with the war. My experience while a prisoner was thrilling and tragic in many respects, and varied as the winds. 

I was in Gen. Longstreet's command in his movement to take Knoxville, in November, 1863, and was severely wounded and taken prisoner. Some time later I was removed to the penitentiary at Nashville, then to Camp Chase, and from there to Fort Delaware, where two thousand five hundred or more Confederate officers were confined. On our way from Camp Chase to Fort Delaware we passed through Columbus, Ohio, where I had a view (?) of the Ohio penitentiary.

In the summer of 1864, six hundred of the officers were taken from the pen at Fort Delaware and put aboard the steamer 'Crescent' and carried to Morris Island, victims of retaliation for some alleged wrong to the Federal prisoners at the hands of the Confederate authorities. On the way we planned an escape, the crew in charge of us being Confederate sympathizers. We were to land at Georgetown, overpower our guards and the guards of the town, and escape. The steamer, on nearing the shore, struck a bar and prevented its possibility. 

When we were awaiting to be taken upon the island we were without water, and suffered tortures from the heat in our crowded condition. We were taken in charge on the island by a negro regiment, who were instructed to take all U. S. blankets, clothing, canteens, and all other trinkets marked U. S., which they did, leaving some of our men nearly bare. We were kept under range of the Confederate batteries on Sullivan and James' Islands and battery wagons for forty-two days. We obtained the water we drank while on the island by digging holes in the sand for the water to accumulate in, this, you perceive, was fine(?) water in August! Our negro guards treated us roughly for awhile. Issuing our scanty rations to us, they poured the hardtack and thin slices of meat into the tent on the sand. By and by, through persuasion, we gained their sympathy and they were kinder to us, stealing for us extra rations and paying us most extravagant prices for our horn, bone, and wood rings, and other trinkets fashioned in our leisure,

We were removed to Fort Pulaski and Hilton Head. Some parties had escaped from Andersonville, and said they were fed on sour sorghum and corn bread, in retaliation we were given pickles and refuse corn meal, the result of which had almost completely broken down our six hundred, none of whom were scarcely able to drag themselves along. 


This awful affair has never been printed before, so far as I know. " I am very respectfully, "JOSEPH L. LEMON."

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