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THE CAROLINA RIFLES.

James G. Holmes, of Charleston, who served in the Sixth South Carolina Cavalry, gives an interesting history of the Carolina Rifles, many of whom are subscribers to the CONFEDERATE VETERAN.

This company is composed of young men, but the honorary and reserve members are old Confederate veterans. The company was organized in 1869 as the "Carolina Rifle Club." President Grunt would not permit military companies in South Carolina at that time, and as the State was in the hands of the carpet baggers and scalawags, we chose as the motto for the flag presented to us by the ladies, "Patriae infilici fidelia" as being most appropriate. Nominally we organized for target practice, but actually to protect our women and children, and as we were armed with Winchester rifles, and most of us were old soldiers, the community felt a sense of security not felt before or since the war had ended. In 1876 the company, or club, of necessity grew into a battalion of three full companies, but after the beneficent rule of the State's savior, our loved and honored Hampton (derided now by the sans coulottes and ingrates), the battalion dwindled back to one company, "The Carolina Rifles," whose members now send you greeting, and wish you success, by the memory of the "Rebel yell."

COMMUNICATIONS FROM VETERANS AND OTHERS.

Richard W. Miller, Richmond, Ky.: "Will you kindly tell me what States have made provision for the disabled Confederate soldiers, and what States pay pensions to said soldiers."

A similar request.comes from Hon. D. E. Simmons, a member of the Texas Legislature. Will friends send the VETERAN information on this important subject?

Capt. A. T. Gay, Graham, Tex.: "Our Camp is not a large one. This county was a wilderness during the war, and has been settled since 1875, and Confederates here hail from every State in the South and represent almost every battle field fought under the stars and bars, and could you be with us in some of our reunions and listen at the tales of valor told by these boys in gray, it would do you good. Our Camp sent up, through Gen. Cabell, something near $100 more than two years ago to aid in building the grandest monument to be erected in commemoration of the grandest name on the pages of American history the leader of a people who has few equals and no superiors in ancient or modern times. Having served in the Thirty first Tennessee Infantry under Stewart and Strahl, I have a right to speak in behalf of Tennessee Confederate soldiers. Send along the CONFEDERATE VETERAN , we like the name."

K. F. Peddicord, Palmyra, Mo.: "In the CONFEDERATE VETERAN for February I see many incidents and names that bring to memory freshly again fine forms, beaming faces and gallant hearts, and while I muse the silent tear upstarts, and memory brings again ' the hours that were.' Permit me to place in your care some lines on ' Pickles and Meal ' for forty three days, of which your correspondent, Capt. J. L. Lemon, of Acworth, Ga., makes mention in his article of ' Six Hundred Confederate Officers,' who were exposed to Confederate cannon. You see they were copied at Fort Delaware June 5, 1865. On reading Capt. Lemon's communication, I was reminded of this copy. The writer, with others in the officers' quarters, was at the gate when these same veterans arrived. Many of them were carried in on stretchers. These verses, among others, were produced and sung at an entertainment given in 'Mess Hall 'at Fort Delaware for the benefit of these ' badly used up ' ' Hilton Headers,' and strange to relate we had present the commandant, Gen. A. Schoefe, and members of his staff. One of the returned prisoners, brought in on stretchers, was a gallant lieutenant of Morgan's cavalry, from Lexington, Ky. The brave veteran was almost dead, and as we gathered around to greet him, his eyes filled with tears at the sight of his old comrades, and he said, 'Never mind, boys, I will tell Gen. Breckinridge all about our inhuman treatment," and this threat seemed to give him relief."

Here is part of a letter from away off in Michigan: " I believe the elements of success are within your grasp. You have an opportunity, you have experience, there is a place for the VETERAN, and subject matter to make it a voice of the South. Let it be your mission to secure the cherished traditions and facts of the men and women of the lost cause' who enriched the world with history and memories to make the South and the cause that made an army of veterans famous a fame that will live till the records of the world perish. I rejoice that you are a recorder, but let me sound a word of warning into your editorial ear. Bejust, begenerous, betrue, avoid the bitterness and brutality of exceptional horrors. We have seen the wreck of too many partisan magazines, while all will hail and support one from a fixed point of view in defense of a cause and people that commanded the admiration of the world. You know that the gift of imagination is highly developed in such a struggle as WE passed through, and often a little personal suffering seemed too hard to endure, and the repetition of that suffering often magnified ten fold through different relators. We had enough of the waters of bitterness during the flood of sorrow. Now, after a quarter of a century, let the calm, sad voice of history give simply the truth. It has come, not as we expected, but in God's own way, and every deed of valor is a gem in the crown of veterans. Seek the gems, and avoid the alloy, and you will do the South enduring honor. The first thought I had when made aware of your intention was, How can I help the VETERAN? If I can do so, it will contribute to my happiness, and my effort is at your disposal without money or price. I want no favor, only to lend you personally a helping hand in a cause I love."

The following letter is used without signature. It is so manifestly private that the signature will be excused. The lady who wrote it is of a distinguished family, and her father was so strong an abolitionist that he liberated his dozen slaves, and moved North before the dire struggle. While she has ever been loyal to the Union, her personal relation to the family of the South's chieftain has been closely intimate for many years:

Memphis, February, 1893. I am delighted with the CONFEDERATE VETERAN, and herein inclosed you will find an order for several subscriptions. I think it is just the paper needed, and, although my sentiments and principles during the war and as firmly now as then arc opposite to my friends, yet they fought for principle, as they conceived it, as firmly as I did for my convictions. They fought with weapons that kill the body, I with the weapons whose use make us understand how intolerant our own sex is when we dare differ with them. Yet, I honor the brave women whose love of the cause gave them the strength 'to do and dare' everything in its maintenance. I am a southern woman, and my heart's affection went out to my people. Scarce would the shout of joy for a Federal victory die upon my lips, when the agony of heart, as I thought of the fallen heroes of my own sunny southland, overpowered me. And thus sentiment and principle went hand in hand through the conflict, though, thank God, in all action I was able to maintain my principle. Well, why did I allow myself to say all this? 

I will do all I can for the circulation of your paper, not only for the kindliness towards yourself engendered, first, by my knowledge of your perfect self abnegation where the comfort of others was concerned, but as a means of making the monument what it should be. It will be erected to Mr. Davis' memory, and were it made of gold and precious stones it would not be beyond his deserts. I admired him for his perfect adherence to principle, his noble self sacrifice in
he cause he deemed best for his people, his kindness of heart, which added a charm to his courtly bearing, Of course, this monument will stand for the 'principle' as well as the man who made its maintenance possible so long. Mr. Davis was among the greatest of the world's heroes. Thank God, that he lived to show the world how a Christian gentleman could meet its contumely even as he had its plaudits! As I knew Mr. Davis, I loved him so entirely because I trusted him so implicitly.

'' I had a letter from Mr. Hayes this morning. Maggie is visiting her mother in New York, and reports both Mrs. Davis and Winnie well. Mrs. Davis seems much annoyed at the difficulty she finds in getting any money out of her publishers, and not having the power to contract with others. What a hard time women have in business matters. I hope the coming woman will have more necessary information."

THE CONFEDERATE CABINET.

Of the Confederate Cabinet an exchange says: When the Confederate Government was first organized, Feb. 18, 1861, the Cabinet was composed of Robert Toombs, Secretary of State, C. G. Memminger, Secretary of the Treasury, L. Pope Walker, Secretary of War, Stephen Mallory, Secretary of the Navy, Attorney General, Judah P. Benjamin, Postmaster General, John H. Reagan. Mr. Toombs was succeeded shortly by R. M. T. Hunter, and on Walker's resignation in August, 1861, Mr. Benjamin became Secretary of War, while Thomas Watts became Attorney General. In 1862 Benjamin became Secretary of State, and G. W. Randolph succeeded him in the War Department, for a short time only. In November James A. Seddon took the War portfolio, in 1863 George Davis succeeded Mr. Watts as Attorney General, and in 1864 G. A. Trenholm became Secretary of the Treasury. In January, 1865, Secretary Seddon resigned, and Gen. J. C. Breckinridge was appointed in his place. When Richmond fell, President Davis' Cabinet was composed of these men: Acting Secretary of State and Postmaster General, John H. Reagan, Secretary of War, John C. Breckinridge, Secretary of the Treasury, George A. Trenholm, Secretary of the Navy, Stephen R. Mallory, Attorney General, George Davis.

J. W, Simmons, Mexia, Texas, while sending a club, asks for the extra copy to be sent to a veteran with but one arm left, and adds: "I was deeply interested in reading and living over again those eventful days of '61 to '65. The name of your city, Nashville, never fails to bring fresh to my memory the battle scenes that I witnessed around there. When our army was driven from there in great confusion, I had to run through that old muddy field to prevent taking a trip to Camp Chase."

Pender Bros., Bryson City, N. C.: "Mrs. D. K. Collins handed us Vol. I, No. 2, CONFEDERATE VETERAN. After examination, by her request, we have placed an advertisement and called attention, local and editorial. We will be glad to assist you in this cause. Our father, R. H. Pender, was in the Executive Department, C, S., Uncle David Pender, Commissary, Eastern North Carolina, Uncle W. Dorsey Pender, Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. A., resigned, entered C. S. A. as private, wounded as Brig. Gen. W. D. Pender (from which he died) at the second day's fight at Gettysburg. Ours has been a warlike generation 1776, 1812, Mexican and Indian wars and later." * * *

(Lampassas, Tex., Dispatch,)

Through the kindness of Judge Thomas we have had the pleasure of perusing No. 2, Vol. 1. Every Confederate soldier should become a subscriber to this excellent journal.

80 Confederate Veteran March 1893.

The Confederate Veteran.

Fifty Cents a Year. S. A. CUNNINGHAM, .Editor Office at The American, Corner Church and Cherry Sts.

This publication is the personal property of S. A. Cunningham. Money paid for. it, does not augment the Monument Fund directly, but as an auxiliary its benefit certainly makes it eminently worthy the patronage of every friend of the cause.

GIVE THE OLD SLAVE A HOME.

It is consistent with the spirit of the CONFEDERATE VETERAN to introduce and advocate a measure which will surprise, but I trust please, our best people. It is to give homes to the old negroes who were slaves for twenty years. This project has had earnest consideration. It has been submitted to friends who have frowned and smiled alternately, the frown coming first. Its scope widens upon reflection, and the good that would come of it, while being much more beneficial to the South than the North, would hardly bring a tithe of benefits, in a sectional sense, to what has been enjoyed on the other side. The pensions annually are now about $190,000,000, and distributed in large proportion at the North. This act of benevolence toward a people whose bondage existed for twenty years or more, would be a tax upon the Government of say $60,000,000, but it would be once for all. The plan contemplates an appropriation of $200 to be expended for land and $100 with which to build a residence for every male and female who served as a slave for twenty years previous to Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, Feb. 22, 1865, provided he or she has never been pensioned and has never held any position under the pay of the Government.

The suggested conditions of this benefaction are that the $200 be expended for land so cheap that it will buy not less than ten acres. It may be as low as they can find it. The right to sell said land should be denied them for ten years. These sums should be invested through white commissioners not interested in the lands, and should be selected by the county courts, or similar authorities, to serve without compensation, the presumption being that good men would cheerfully and faithfully render these services gratuitously. The beneficiary should, of course, in all cases, have the option as to details of investment. Where these ex slaves own homes, if they reside upon the land they should be allowed to invest the residence appropriation of $100 in additional land.

The foregoing is in brief the plan commended. Meditation will show, in an amazing degree, the benefits of such benevolence on the part of the Government. True, the benefits would inure specifically to the Southern people, white as well as black. On many a country place interests a.re largely identical. The white folks having maintained these old black people, and would do so anyhow. It would enable many whites to provide more liberally for them than they ever have done. It would induce many darkies to remove from dingy suburbs of cities and towns to the open and healthier atmosphere of the country. It would tend to increased respect of the younger negroes for their ancestry, thereby strengthening one of the commandments.
A plea for our old black people is deservedly pathetic. Who among us does not feel genuinely kind to the old darky on whose lips "Massa'" and "Mistis "are still heard with musical euphony?' Who among us, passing that period of their lives when many of them had hard task masters, does not recall with an everlasting gratitude that, during the four years of war, thousands of them were loyal, to the last degree, to the dependent members of the family whose protectors were in the war? Why, if the great Government to which we all bear allegiance should refuse them the benevolence herein suggested, it would befitting for the Southern people, themselves, robbed by the Government of billions of money in holding them as lawful property, to undertake a provision of this kind.

Republicans, on the other side, cannot afford to oppose this measure. Their partisan representatives, years ago, before the Southern people had recovered from the great disaster to their estates, promised "forty acres and a mule" to these identical persons.

The principles of Democracy are not observed in this plea, but the peculiar exigencies of the case should excuse the digression. It is a broad charity to a class whose simple, unfailing faithfulness, though not strict as to chicken roosts, merits the unstinted liberality of the American people. A distinguished Tennessean, and Democratic official, who limps from the effect of a Federal bullet, said, " If not Democratic it is Confederate."

Two articles have been furnished on this subject by request one by Wm. M. Green, whose father, Rev. Dr. A. L. P. Green, though a man of large means, owned but two slaves, and bought them to gratify them, as he had quibbles about slavery, and the other by Mr. Edward E. Young, whose father gave up his life for the cause of the South, and who is now engaged in the material development of Tennessee.

IN the early twilight of a spring morning a few years ago, when the train stopped at Calera, Ala., a feeble old lady who was at the station started to enter the train, and was unable to ascend the steps. Seeing her predicament, I stepped from the platform and assisted her. When the train was under way for Montgomery she was anxious to manifest her appreciation of my kindness, she said her name was Yancy, arid to my question of whether her husband was related to William L. Yancy, she said, " He was that man." Arising, removing my hat and extending my hand, I said that notwithstanding the abuse of Mr. Yancy I wanted the honor of knowing his wife. Her response was as peculiar as the former remark, and with measured tone, in pathetic emphasis, she said, "No man knew my husband '. "

THE OLD NEGROES AND THE GOVERNMENT.

I have been thinking for a long time I may say for years back as to the feasibility or practicability of governmental assistance for the old slaves of the South. Now, I do mean this, not as a fancy or wild philanthropy, but an even, properly balanced, long delayed dispensation of justice not an empty honor or a vapid promise, but some actual bread and sop from the great bowl of the Government for the patient but hungry black freedman. Can the present administration afford such a venture? If it should its history will be glorious. The old planter says, "I am in favor." The Confederate soldier says, "Let it be done." The Federal soldier says, " I cannot consistently object." The bones of Abe Lincoln and Jeff Davis cry aloud, "Be just to the old slave." The Government has poured its millions and billions into pensions, has paid the Indians for imaginary titles more than a hundred millions. The truth is, the red man, as a roving savage, has never been the friend of his white benefactor, has done nothing in converting the wild forest into a garden has actually impeded the march of civilization. He works not, suffers no solicitude, and pays no taxes. I have reference only to those tribes that are the wards of the Government. On the other hand, the negro has been the friend of the white man, has been living with him and working for him in North America more than two centuries. He has stood by his white brother in conquering the wilderness, in building cities, in building railroads. With his black hands he has furnished rice, sugar, corn, tobacco and cotton to the millions in America and Europe. He prefers to remain near the habitation of the white man, and will never leave unless by force or deception. He realizes his dependence, and, under the direction of the white man, is industrious and religious, but, when set off to himself, becomes a barbarian and a. vagabond. His freedom was thrust upon him, and with it came many a sorrow that he knew not of in a state of servitude. Besides, there is a cruel disposition upon the part of some strangers to keep him disquieted and restless, for men, who are merciless and mercenary, tempt him into ill starred expeditions to Eldorados of the North and West, and laugh at his discomfiture as he returns penniless, starved and in rags. Without trenching upon his liberty, cannot the State Legislatures protect him from a vicious Moses and an imaginary Canaan? He is a good laborer, but would have been much better than he is if he had been shielded from his Godless and money loving (?) friends.
The old, polite ante bellum darky still stands with his hat off and says with a grin of expectancy, "At your service, Mass William." Especially in the interest of this class I am writing. I propose, with some exceptions, that every ex slave who had been in a state of servitude for twenty years at the date of President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, be furnished from the United States treasury with a sufficient amount of money to purchase twenty acres of ground in some rural district of the South, in or near his place of habitation. I would shut out from this benefit all negroes, male and female, who are pensioners, or who are in any way employed by the Government, assuming that these classes arc already provided for. I would have a bill, embodying the above propositions and exceptions, prepared and presented by some Congressman who was himself, or his father, a slaveholder. I regard it as eminently fitting and opportune that a
Democratic administration should take the initiative in this racial benefaction , for certainly a proposition to ameliorate the condition of a Helot would have come with more grace from a native Spartan than a Roman.

I arrogate to myself the inherent right of making the above proposition: e. g., my mother, my father and grandfather were slaveholders. By descent I am a Democrat, as my grandmother was a near relative of Thomas Jefferson. However, at this present my party fealty is a little shriveled, as I have a disposition and tendency to wring the alcohol out.

The proposition that I have made is in crude form only the general drift or gist of a bill is given. I have not so stated, but it would be necessary to incorporate in the bill certain guards against land sharks and pot house politicians. Hoping that this philanthropic bird may bejoined by others of stronger and swifter wing, I turn it loose. WM. M. GREEN. Nashville, Tenn.

VIEWS BY EDWARD E. YOUNG.
What a spectacle the consummation of this plan would present! The greatest Republic the world has ever known symbolized by a perfect Anglo Saxon figure would, from the golden wreathed chariot of universal liberty, dispense to 150,000 ex slaves the sacred vestments of a permanent home. These bowed and dusky forms would once again stand erect, if only to shout a welcome to their benefactor, and reach their hard mahogany hands to their wrinkled brows to ascertain whether this "is a sho' 'nuff somefin' or jes a dream."

From Maryland to Texas and from Kentucky to the Gulf these new tax payers would be distributed. Their joy and good fortune would be shared by the entire American African race. Instead of millions of shiftless, discouraged tenants, the South would have thousands of colored families living in their own homes, cultivating their own soil, and feeling that they are at last in reality, what they have so far been largely in theory, citizens of a Republic whose laws make no. distinction "for color or previous condition of servitude."

They would thus naturally take an interest in whatever concerned the welfare of their own community, and from family relations up to the responsibilities of state, would act thoughtfully and for the best interests of the country at large.

In Philadelphia, where there is a larger percentage of home owners than elsewhere in America, they have never yet had a strike. The spectral spirit of discontent, which applied the torch to railroad cars in New York and precipitated bloodshed at Homestead can find no lodgement in a community where everyone owns his own home and is not only content and happy, but constitutionally and unalterably opposed to whatever is against the peace and dignity of society and that would tend (as all agitation does) to increase his own personal taxes, in order to meet the extra expense of the State caused by the violation of the law.

The industrial problem of the South is yet to be solved. Materially speaking, it is full of promise, but who can tell the importance of intelligent caution at this point? In the great mechanical and industrial activity that is sure to come in the near future, does any thinking mind doubt that it would be well for the South to have thus permanently set at ease the minds of many thousand adults who belong to that class which experience has shown are always the most dangerous in times of civil or political excitement?

In one of the greatest speeches of his life, delivered at Dallas, Tex., Oct. 26, 1888, on "The South and Her Problem," Henry W. Grady said:

All this is no unkindness to the negro, but rather that he may be led in equal rights and in peace to his uttermost good. Not in sectionalism for my heart beats true to the Union, to the glory of which your life and heart is pledged. Not in disregard of the world's opinion for to render back this problem in the world's approval is the sum of my ambition and the height of human achievement. Not in reactionary spirit but rather to make clear that new and grander way, up which the South is marching to higher destiny, and on which I would not halt her for all the spoils that have been gathered unto parties, since Cateline conspired and Csesar fought. Not in passion, my countrymen, but in reason, not in narrowness, but in breadth, that we may solve this problem in calmness and in truth, and, lifting its shadows, let perpetual sunshine pour down on two races walking together in peace and contentment. Then shall this problem have proved our blessing, and the race that threatened our ruin work our salvation, as it fills our fields with the best peasantry the world has ever seen, Then the South, putting behind her all the achievements of the past and in war and in peace they beggar eulogy may stand upright among the nations and challenge the judgment of men and the approval of God, in having worked out, in their sympathy and in his guidance, this last and surpassing miracle of human government.
THE benefit of friend sending to friend the CONFEDERATE VETERAN has been remarkable. Results are reported from various such sources. There are many illustrations. John B. Kennedy, of Lewisburg, Tenn., writes to a friend in Nashville, thanking him for his copy, and adds: "It will surely secure several subscriptions from this county, as I am determined to see all the old Vets and have them take it."

Confederate Veteran March 1893.

MEMORIAL DAY TO OUR DEAD SOLDIERS.

It is widely known but merits record in the CONFEDERATE VETERAN, to credit the original source of Confederate Memorial Day. A late exchange says :

Memorial Day is observed by both Confederate and Federal veterans, but its origin was in the South. It was first proposed by Mrs. Mary A. Williams, the widow of a soldier of the Mexican and Civil Wars, Maj. Chas. J. Williams, of Columbus, Georgia.

The first observance of the day was about 1868, and was quite general, due largely to the agitation of the subject by Albert Lamar, now deceased, but at that time editor of the Columbus Sun, and the veteran editor John Martin, then in charge of the Columbus Enquirer and now political editor of the Atlanta Journal.

The day was fixed on the 26th of April, then so fresh in the memories of the people of the South as the date of Johnston's surrender. This date has been generally observed since its inauguration in the more southern States, while Virginia and Kentucky, and the more northern of the southern States, observe May 10th, as their flowers are not abundant earlier. After the Confederate veterans had observed the day for two or three years the custom was adopted by the Union veterans, and May 30th fixed as Memorial Day. Throughout the North, and at all national cemeteries in the South, the day is always observed with great pomp and ceremony. It has been made a holiday, and in the north all business is suspended.

April 1893

NASHVILLE, TENN., APRIL, 1893.

No. 4{. S. A. CUNNINGHAM { Editor and Manager.

The last full General in the Confederate War, on either side, died at his home in Sewanee, Tenn., March 28, 1893.).

General Kirby Smith was a native of Florida, and graduated at West Point in 1845. He was Major in the United States Army when he resigned. to go with his own people in 1861. He was made a Confederate Brigadier in June, 186l, and a Major General in October of that year. In 1862 he was promoted to Lieutenant General, and in 1864 a full General. His achievements in the war are an interesting part of its history. President Davis is said to have told him, in assignment of the Trans Mississippi Department, in 1863, that he gave him more authority than he dare put in writing.

Confederate Veteran April 1893.

REMOVAL OF MR. DAVIS' BODY TO RICHMOND.

Arrangements have been made for the removal of Mr. Davis' remains to Richmond the latter part of next month, so that the burial in Hollywood Cemetery will occur May 30th, the National Memorial Day. It is understood that the body will lie in State in the capitals of Alabama and Georgia en route Our people will do all that seemeth best to show affectionate regard upon the occasion. The daily and weekly papers will, later on, publish the programme of proceedings in detail.

THE Monument to 12,000 Confederate dead in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, is a granite pyramid forty five feet square and ninety feet high, erected by the ladies of the Hollywood Memorial Association at a cost of about $50,000. A beautiful evergreen vine, the Virginia creeper, is growing upon it.

COMMENT is earnest upon the publication of the VETERAN subscription list. It is a new thing in journalism, and is regarded as a "good scheme" by some, while others regard it as "giving away" knowledge that may be utilized by competitors.

The VETERAN has no competitor. True, there is a " war journal " with the sacred word Confederate before it, published manifestly by Frank Leslie, though keeping that very tarnished name, from a sectional standpoint, away from the public. It has the accredited editorship of an ex Confederate who has been favored with a government salary for years not in a discreditable way but whose achievements for the southern people have in no way been conspicuous. The zeal with which this publication has been distributed through the South argues well for the enterprise of its management, but it may expect close discrimination by our people when it sends out a sheet on woody paper, with old cuts, with less than half the print surface, only half the pages, and at double the price. The southern people are so loyal to every thing bearing the name that many who see it, without knowing this publication, may subscribe for it.

In this comment that right spirit has sought to be maintained which is meant for the good of all who honor Confederates. The VETERAN may be too cheap, but it is not as much so as the print referred to is too high, and then it ought to be candid, and not seek to impress patriotic Southern people that it is published, in any sense, in Kentucky.

One word more only: The consequences of results in patronage should never be overlooked. It should be a rule, even in the purchase of fruit, at a stand by the street, to buy where the trifle of profit will be most worthily applied.

I seek not profit from old comrades. In every thing I have estimated the giving full value received. In the little Ku Klux Klan history offered for thirteen cents I left not a cent margin. Years ago I published a reminiscence (300 copies) of my regiment in a sixty page pamphlet, and, feeling able to afford it, I sent it to comrades without the remuneration of a cent. The zeal of our people in working for the VETERAN without accepting commission is in the same spirit. This is no doubt the cheapest publication ever issued, quality considered, and its management is willing to work on and on in the great cause. If the zeal of its friends be continued, ere long, the patronage of the business public will insure it to be all that can be desired.

Disabuse any who may not understand its mission for the Davis or Southern Monument. It has, regardless of expense, done every thing possible to advance that common cause. Some people not concerned for it, but who are cordially a friend to the editor, have shown indifference. Here is a singular circumstance on the other hand: An old friend called on me, saying he wanted to give a dollar to the Davis Monument but didn't want his name known. I pleaded that he give the use of his name, as I did not want any of that fund to pass through my hands without a full record. Then I told him I should like to have him subscribe for the VETERAN, but he declined on account of the "hard times," and gave one dollar for the monument in the name of two of his children. Another old friend and comrade said he would " look over it," while many strangers to the editor are zealous for it.
AN effort is being made to present pictures of Gen. E. Kirby Smith and his family in this VETERAN. Addresses of Rev. Thos. F. Gailor, Vice Chancellor of the University of the South, at Sewanee, Col. Thos. Claiborne, and other notes of the funeral, is given. The following extracts from a letter of Mr. Gaylor, though brief, set forth the pecuniary condition of the family:

Mrs. Kirby Smith is in a distressed condition. There are eleven children, only two of whom are old enough to be self supporting. There are six girls and three boys at home. * * * Mrs. Kirby Smith is in debt to the amount of $1,200. Several Veterans have said that they would assist in paying this off. Can you not make an appeal in the CONFEDERATE VETERAN for this object? Acting for the University, I am going to pay the General's salary for the rest of the year.

One single instance of Kirby Smith's integrity is recited: When he surrendered, having $5,000 in gold with him at Galveston, where he had gone with a member of his staff to send him to intercept Mr. Davis as by appointment the latter was to go to Cuba, return to Texas, and arrange for a final capitulation at Houston and on learning that his troops had surrendered at Shreveport, La., he wrote an order directing the staff officer, Capt. Ernest Cucullu, to take the money to New Orleans and turn it over to Gen. Canby, commanding the United States forces. There was such an earnest plea on the part of some Confederate officers that $1,700 of this money was paid to them on salary account, but the General refused to take any part of it and borrowed $100 from a friend with which to get home. Canby was surprised that the money was taken to him, but was quick to express the regard he felt for his college mate at West Point, and said: "It is just like Kirby the soul of honor."

No worthier family belongs to the South. The mother of his eleven children nursed him through dreadful affliction during the war, when he was thought to be mortally wounded, and that event brought about their marriage,
Col. John P. Hickman, Secretary of the Tennessee Division of Confederate Soldiers, will receive and forward. any sums sent to him. Col. Thos. Claiborne, and others) have secured about $400 of the $1,200 sorely needed at this time. The $1,200, though, might be trebled, and in its giving the donors would receive comfort. This appeal is made wholly without the knowledge of the family. The General was offered positions of great emolument, one of them not long before his death, but refused for conscience's sake.
Confederate Veteran April 1893.

FUNERAL OF GEN. E. KIRBY SMITH.

The newspapers of the country have published sketches of Gen. E. Kirby Smith in connection with his death.

The funeral was an occasion never to be forgotten by those who had the melancholy pleasure to be present. There was a special train from Nashville of six coaches.

The Episcopal Chapel at Sewanee was filled with mourners, veterans having first seats after the family. The usual service was interrupted, at the proper time, by Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, Vice Chancellor of the University of the South. This superb young man has declined the office of Bishop and several calls to churches in our largest cities, like Kirby Smith, choosing rather to serve his Church and fellows at Sewanee. He is greatly esteemed wherever known, and his remarks thrilled the assembly:

There are times when the reverent silence with which the Church lays her dead to rest may be fitly broken, and this is such a time. There are lives which stand forth conspicuous above their fellows, occupying lofty station or gifted with heroic qualities of soul, or illustrious with great achievement, and in the best way of all these ways in essential worth this was such a life. As the last full General of that Confederacy which is becoming more and more a tender and distant memory, our dear friend in his death closed another generation of men. As one by one the leaders have passed over to the silent shore, some of us have felt that the glory and sadness, the hopes, the memories, the regrets of that sublime but fruitless struggle were concentrated in him, lent new interest to his life, and crowned him with a crown of honor. Surely all that was best and truest and most worthy in that cause which we call "Lost" was imaged forth in this pure and manful and unselfish life. And when the recording angel shall unroll the scroll on which are blazoned the names of those whose lives have been lives of sacrifice for conscience' sake, there will be none that will shine with a purer lustre than that of Kirby Smith. For these qualities of a great soldier were pre eminent in him courage, magnanimity, humility, unselfishness, and the fear of God. All the records of chivalry can disclose no truer nor higher attributes of nobleness than these. His strength was gentleness, his gentleness was strong. Valiant in fight, a stranger to fear, a hero in many a conflict, he was yet a little child in the genuineness of his simplicity the reality of that humility which he learned at. the feet of Jesus Christ. The magnanimity of great, majestic souls was his. When he surrendered the war for him was over. No bitter accusations, no vengeful reproach passed his lips. Though it were the very furnace of affliction, the dread anguish of shattered hopes and a career cut short, no darkness of those dark days could dim the cheerfulness of his hope, the constancy of his faith. No temptation of public fame, no attraction of worldly advantage, no opportunity of self praise, ever wrung from him one harsh or angry word in poor and pitiful contention of reviews. Yes, over all and through all and in all the impulses of his nature were that love and fear of God which made his home a Christian home and made his life a Christian life.
No stress of financial embarrassment, no privation of those comforts which men hold dear, tempted him for a moment to forget his honor. To toil, even in his age, to suffer and to submit, these were small things to him compared with the sting of conscience. From the day when he deliberately spurned the wealth which his command of the Trans Mississippi Department placed within his hands to the day only a few weeks ago when he refused a princely income as the price of principle, he was always inflexibly and grandly true to what he believed was his honor as a soldier, his duty as a citizen his faith as a follower of Jesus Christ. Thus was he brave. Thus was he faithful. Thus was he a good soldier, tried and steadfast, amid the smoke and din and tumult of the blood stained field. Thus was he a greater soldier on that harder battlefield of life, where those whom we expect to be the bravest too often flinch and fail.

To day, therefore, those of us who are too young to have known him in the stirring scenes of his military career, but who have learned to love and reverence his character in the peaceful occupation and enjoyment of this place, come with sad hearts and glad devotion to pay tribute to the beauty and the strength of his unique personality. His faith was strong, his hope was buoyant. But above both of these and shining through them was a great and tender human love, of which the apostle speaks when he says: ' Now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity." To us here this was perhaps the most conspicuous quality of his nature. The most devoted of husbands! The most affectionate of fathers! To the trees) the flowers, the rock ribbed mountain and the starlit sky, to the creatures that crawl and creep and fly and run and leap around us in the living world, to man and brute, nature in all her moods and to nature's God, this man's heart went out in sweet, unselfish joy. God is love.

What nobler tribute to his servant can there be than this? What crown of glory so unfailing! He loved much. He was much loved. And "whether there be prophecies, they shall fail, whether there be tongues, they shall cease, whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away, but love never faileth."
He prayeth well who loveth well

Both man and bird and beast ,

He prayeth best who loveth best

All things, both great and small,

For the dear God who loveth us,

He made and loveth all.

The Bishop of Tennessee, Rev. R. Q. T. Quintard, D.D., whose identity with the Confederacy has ever been the pride of the South, at the conclusion of Mr. Gailor's peroration, requested that Col. Thomas Claiborne, of Tennessee, a gray haired veteran of two wars, address the congregation. Col. Claiborne stepped to the dais of the chancel and said:

I thank the reverend clergy conducting the services for the invitation to the old comrades of the deceased hero to give some expression of their feelings on this occasion. We come here to bury our friend, not to the sound of cannon, for the roar of a hundred brazen throated guns cannot speak the praises of the dead hero as we estimate them, but we come to show our love and respect for him.

This is not the place nor the time for us to set forth his eulogy, yet we desire to say what we think of him
as a man and brother, for he was one who felt the brotherhood of mankind, and dealt in charity with all men. I, who have known him from his youth, can give my testimony to the truth of all that the reverend gentleman has said of the life and characteristics of this good man. He was always gay and cheerful, no matter how darkly loomed the cloud of disaster. He was most courteous to every one, and we feel a just pride that he was a son of the South and an adopted son of Tennessee. He is gone. I know that he sits not at the feast of the heroes of Valhalla, for they were bloody. I rather see him now in the communion of those who have been redeemed through the intercession of Jesus Christ.

At the grave there were beautiful songs as the burial was being concluded. The firing of salute by the military, largely sons of veterans, was followed by "taps" from the bugler.

The various flags and designs of veteran organizations are of interest. They generally comprise the battle flag in colors extending at an angle in one direction and the State flag or motto in another. The N. B. Forrest Camp, of Chattanooga, represents a cavalryman on a horse at a dash with a battle flag. Its commander, Gen. J. F. Ship, on .Gen. Gordon's staff, conceived the plan for a united brotherhood, and it was given to the public while he was on a visit to New Orleans.

MONUMENT TO UNKNOWN CONFEDERATE DEAD. The Latham Confederate Monument, at Hopkinsville, Ky., was erected by John C. Latham, the head of the banking house of Latham, Alexander & Co., of Wall street. He left Hopkinsville, his birthplace, to enter the Confederate army as a private at seventeen years of age, continued in the service until the final surrender at Greensboro, N. C., in 1865. In an unattended field slept in eternal rest the dead warriors of the Confederate army who had been his townsmen and schoolmates. The unmarked graves of more than one hundred Confederates lying in the "potters' field" irresistibly appealed to the tender thought and Southern patriotism of Mr. Latham. The first step was taken to remove the remains to an eligible lot, and later, in 1887, was erected and dedicated to their hallowed memory this handsome shaft by their surviving comrade, a noble Kentuckian. The monument is of Hallowell granite. The base of the structure is eight feet square, supporting a pedestal of two polished stones. Above this the die, seven feet in height, with four polished panels. The die is surmounted by a square obelisk with Corinthian capital, crowned with a pyramid of five polished cannon balls. The whole structure is thirty seven feet high, elegantly wrought of the finest granite, marked for its classic taste and simplicity.

BATTLE OF FRANKLIN.

THE CARNAGE AS SEEN FROM CENTER Of THE CONFLICT.

Much of the following article appeared as a tribute to Gen. Strahl in the January number:

The removal of Gen, Johnston, and the appointment of Hood to succeed him in command of the Army of Tennessee, was an astounding event. So devoted to Johnston were his men that the presence and immediate command of Gen. Lee would not have been accepted without complaint. They were so satisfied that even in retreat they did not lose their faith in ultimate success. They were not reconciled to the change until the day before the battle of Franklin. The successful crossing of Duck River that morning at an early hour, and the march to Spring Hill, where the Federal retreat was go nearly cut off (a failure for which it was understood Gen. Hood was not to blame), created an enthusiasm for him equal to that entertained for Stonewall Jackson after his extraordinary achievements. That night the extensive valley east of Spring Hill was lighted up by our thousands of camp fires, in plain view of, and close proximity to, the retreating lines of the enemy. The next morning, as we marched in quick time toward Franklin, we were confirmed in our impressions of Federal alarm. I counted on the way thirty four wagons that had been abandoned on the smooth turnpike. In some instances whole teams of mules had been killed to prevent their capture. A few miles south of Franklin the Federal lines of infantry were deployed, and our progress was checked, but we pressed them without delay until they retired behind the outer works about the town. Soon after they withdrew from the range of hills south, overlooking the place, and we were advanced to its crest. I happened, though in the line of battle (as I was "right guide" to my regiment), to be close to where Gen, Hood halted his staff and rode along to the top of the hill, and with his field glasses surveyed the situation. It was an extraordinary moment. Those of us who were near could see, as private soldiers rarely did, the position of both armies. Although Franklin was some two miles in the distance, the plain presented a scene of great commotion. But I was absorbed in the one man whose mind was deciding the fate of thousands. With an arm and a leg in the grave, and with the consciousness that he had not until within a couple of days won the confidence which his army had in his predecessor, he had now a very trying ordeal to pass through. It was all important to act, if at all, at once. He rode to Stephen D. Lee, the nearest of his subordinate generals, and, shaking hands with him cordially, announced his decision to make an immediate charge,

No event of the war, perhaps, showed a scene equal to this. The range of hills upon which he formed offered the best view of the battlefield, with but little exposure to danger, and there were hundreds collected there as spectators. Our ranks were being extended rapidly to the right and left. In Franklin there was the utmost confusion. The enemy were greatly excited. We could see them running to and fro. Wagon trains were being pressed across the Harpeth river, and on toward Nashville. Gen. Loring, of Cleburne's division, made a speech to his men. Our Brigadier General Strahl was quiet, and there was an expression of sadness on his face. The soldiers were full of ardor, and confident of success. They had unbounded faith in Gen. Hood, whom they believed would achieve a victory that would give us Nashville. Such was the spirit of the army as the signal was given which set it in motion. Our generals were ready, and some of them rode in front of our main line. With a quick step we moved forward to the sound of stirring music. This is the only battle that I was in, and they were many, where bands of music were used. I was right guide to the Forty first Tennessee, marching four paces to the front I had an opportunity of viewing my comrades, and I well remember the look of determination that was on every face. Our bold movement caused the enemy to give up, without much firing, its advance line. As they fell back at double quick, our men rushed forward, even though they had to face the grim line of breastworks just at the edge of the town.

Before we were in proper distance for small arms the artillery opened on both sides. Our guns, firing over our heads from the hills in the rear, used ammunition without stint, while the enemy's batteries were at constant play upon our lines. When they withdrew to their main line of works it was as one even plain for a mile. About fifty yards in front of their breastworks we came in contact with formidable chevaux de frise, over or through which it was very difficult to pass. Why half of us were not killed yet remains a mystery, for after moving forward so great a distance, all the time under fire, the detention, immediately in their front, gave them a very great advantage. We arrived at the works and some of our men, after a club fight at the trenches, got over. The colors of my regiment were carried inside, and when the arm that held them was shot off they fell to the ground and remained until morning. Cleburne's men dashed at the works, but their gallant leader was shot dead, and they gave way, so that the enemy remained on our flank, and kept up a constant enfilading fire.
Our left also failed to hold the works, and for a short distance we remained and fought until the ditch was almost full of dead men. Night came on soon after the hard fighting began, and we fired at the flash of each other's guns. Holding the enemy's lines, as we continued to do on this part of them, we were terribly massacred by the enfilade firing. The works were so high that those who fired the guns were obliged to get a footing in the embankment, exposing themselves, in addition to their flank, to a fire by men in houses. One especially severe was that from Mr. Carter's, immediately in my front. I was near Gen. Strahl, who stood in the ditch and handed up guns to those posted to fire them. I had passed to him my short Enfield (noted in the regiment) about the sixth time. The man who had been firing cocked it and was taking deliberate aim when he was shot and tumbled down dead into the ditch upon those killed before him. When the men so exposed were shot down their places were supplied by volunteers until these were exhausted, and it was necessary for Gen. Strahl to call upon others. He turned to me, and though I was several feet back from the ditch, I rose up immediately, and walking over to the wounded and dead, took position with one foot upon the pile of bodies of my dead fellows, and the other in the embankment, and fired guns which the General himself handed up to me until he, too, was shot down. One other man had had position on my right, and assisted in the firing. The battle lasted until not an efficient man was left between us and the Columbia pike, about fifty yards to our right, and hardly enough behind us to hand up the guns. We could not hold out much longer, for indeed, but few of us were then left alive. It seemed as if we had no choice but to surrender or try to get away, and when I asked the General for counsel, he simply answered, ''Keep firing." But just as the man to my right was shot, and fell against me with terrible groans, Gen. Strahl was shot. He threw up his hands, falling on his face, and I thought him dead, but in asking the dying man, who still Jay against my shoulder as he sank forever, how he was wounded, the General, who had not been killed, thinking my question was to him, raised up, saying that he was shot in the neck, and called for Col, Stafford to turn over his command. He crawled over the dead, the ditch being three deep, about twenty feet to where Col. Stafford was. His staff officers started to carry him to the rear, but he received another shot, and directly the third, which killed him instantly. Col. Stafford was dead in the pile, as the morning light disclosed, with his feet wedged in at the bottom, with other dead across and under him after he fell, leaving his body half standing as if ready to give command to the dead By that time only a handful of us were left on that part of the line, and as I was sure that our condition was not known, I ran to the rear to report to Gen. John C. Brown, commanding the division. I met Maj. Hampton, of his staff, who told me that Gen. Brown was wounded, and that Gen. Strahl was in command. This assured me that those in command did not know the real situation, so I went on the hunt for Gen. Cheatham. By and by relief was sent to the front. This done, nature gave way. My shoulder was black with bruises from firing, and it seemed that no moisture was left in my system. Utterly exhausted, I sank upon the ground and tried to sleep. The battle was over, and I could do no more, but animated still with concern for the fate of comrades, I returned to the awful spectacle in search of some who year after year had been at my side. Ah, the loyalty of faithful comrades in such a struggle

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

Confederate Veteran April 1893. 

HARPER'S FERRY IN 1861. 

FlRST EVENTS OF THE WAR IN VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. 

F. M. Burrows, Company B. Thirteenth Virginia Infantry, Fort Worth, Texas: From time to time many articles have been published purporting to give a true history of the early occupancy of Harper's Ferry in 1861, which have been incorrect. One account is that 

the first Southern soldiers at Harper's Ferry were about 1,600 Mississippians, who captured the place about the 15th of May." As a high private in the Culpepper Minute Men, I left Culpepper, Va., at 3 A.M., the 18th day of April, 1861, for Harper's Ferry.

These commands of Virginians were sent there: West Augusta Guards, Staunton, Va" sixty men, Louisa Blues, Louisa Court house, Va., seventy five men, Montpelier Guards, Orange Court house, Va., sixty men, Gordonsville Greys, Orange County, Va., fifty men, Monticello Guards, Charlottsville, Va., sixty men, Brandy Rifles, Culpepper County, Va., forty men, Boomarangs, Winchester, Va., forty men, Continental Guards, Charlestown, Va., forty men, Letcher Artillery, Culpepper, Va., thirty five men, University of Virginia Students, Charlottsville, Va., one hundred and twenty men, Culpepper Minute Men, Culpepper, Va., sixty men. Imboden's Artillery, of four guns, and a full complement of men, followed us on the 18th. The Lanier Guards, of Baltimore, came to us on the 23d, making in all about seven hundred and fifty men, rank and file. We reached Manassas Junction about 8 A. M., took trains for Strausburg, arrived there about 1 P. M., got dinner, which had been prepared by the good ladies, then took up our line of march for Winchester, about eighteen miles distant, arrived in time for a late supper, which the good ladies there had literally spread all over town. We boarded a train of box cars at 11 P.M. for Harper's Ferry, via Charleston, arrived at the Ferry just before daybreak on the 19th. Nearly all of us had guns of some kind, except the Letcher Artillery, a company of boys. They were empty handed, ana when the first long roll was sounded it was amusing to see them hurry to their quarters and fortify themselves with sticks and stones. Maj. George A. Wheatley, now a merchant in Austin, Texas, was Captain, and a very young brother of the writer was First Lieutenant.
It will be clearly seen that there were none but Virginians at Harper's Ferry for three weeks or more, gave the Baltimoreans and Col. Duncan's Kentuckians, about three hundred strong. The command was a fine one. The Kentuckians were generally men of wealth and refinement, and they were well prepared to care for themselves financially, having their repeating rifles, cow horn powder flasks, and bullet moulds. The Hon. R. E. Beckham, now District Judge at Fort Worth, was one of the boys from Kentucky who wore the fur cap and long green blouse.

The first soldiers were ordered out by a telegram from Gov. Letcher, direct to the various Captains of the State Militia, dated Richmond, Va., April 17. An extra session of the Legislature passed the ordinance of secession at 2 A.M. on the 17th. When the news reached Capt. Barbour that the troops were marching on Harper's Ferry, he, being in command of the Government's works, abandoned his post and had the buildings fired. The destruction would have been complete but for the timely efforts of the citizens, including workmen in the shops, who, with their small hand engine and a large stationary one belonging to the Government, subdued the flames. It was the little house for this hand engine that John Brown used as a fort in 1859. We reached Harper's Ferry about daylight on the 19th. Our train stopped on a high trestle on the Shenandoah river side. While we were waiting for orders to leave the train some one put twenty or more kegs of powder under the trestle, set a match to the fuse, and ran. One of our men, seeing what had been done, jumped from the train and severed the fuse. Finally we landed in good shape, and made a descent upon the town, not knowing what we would encounter, without one round of ammunition. We took up our quarters in the buildings that remained intact) and in the churches and school houses. For the first week the citizens were very shy of us, but soon became communicative and delivered to us many hundreds of minie rifles and muskets, and innumerable parts of guns. We found many guns hidden away under floors and between and under mattresses. The machinery, unhurt by the fire, was speedily put in motion, and many of the old employes were set at work and furnished all the commands with the latest and most approved guns.
The first officer in command was Col. Nalle. Then came Col. Jos. E. Johnston, who succeeded him, and who appointed Stonewall Jackson a Colonel. Each of them occupied the mansion on the hill belonging to Maj. D. B. Lucas, U. S. A. Next came Capt. A. P. Hill, of the regular army, who had recently resigned and was made Colonel of the Thirteenth Virginia Infantry.

Our company was quartered in the paint shop, and it was the writer's luck to be detailed with the Hon. John W. Bell, a prominent lawyer of Culpepper, to police and ditch our camp. It was rich indeed to see our near sighted lawyer handle a spade and hear his comments, such as, " This is a nice business for a lawyer in good standing, a gentleman, and a member of St. Stephen's Church vestry, to be put to ditching the first Sunday in camp!" He is now Judge Bell, a brother of Gov. P. Hansborough Bell, who was a native of Virginia, who landed at Velasco, Texas, in 1836, * * * * and was made Governor of Texas in 1850. He subsequently served in Congress, then married, and settled in North Carolina. As a recognition of his patriotic services, and as an aid to him in his old age, the Twenty second Texas Legislature, in 1891, voted him a donation of land and a liberal pension.

We remained at Harper's Ferry until about the middle of May, when we were called to arms and made a forced march to Shepherdstown. We were caught in a terrific hail storm in an open field, no possible place for shelter, and it was a question with us whether we would survive the storm or not.

The Lanier Guards, of Baltimore, deserve special mention. George Lanier, of Lanier Bros., wholesale dry goods merchants in Baltimore, equipped and sent off this company to join us at Harper's Ferry. Times were exciting there then. This scheme was adopted to get out of the city in a body: A funeral procession was planned. Loading a coffin with guns, and making preparations for a decent burial, they took carriages and followed the hearse to London Park Cemetery, a few miles west on the Catonsville road. When a safe distance from the city the coffin was opened, and quickly each man was armed and on his way to 
join the young Confederacy. Many of the Lanier Guards were engaged in the attack on Federal soldiers when they made that memorable march up Pratt street in Baltimore.

About June 27 we were ordered from Harper's Ferry to Winchester, thence on a march to Romney, and thence to New Creek Station, on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, where we first smelt gun powder. A small force of Federals held the bridge crossing the north fork of the Potomac river near the station. We surprised them, captured a swivel and a stand of colors, charged the enemy, ran them off, and burned the bridge. A few of us crossed the bridge, followed the retreating enemy a short distance, and upon returning found the bridge on fire, and we on the wrong side of the river. Our only alternative was to wade through a swift, clear, rapid stream fully five feet deep.

After the battles of Bull Run and Manassas it was the writer's privilege to stand picket at the farm house of a good old Mrs. Taylor, a few miles east of Fairfax Station. It was there I learned the true meaning of the word Manassas, and how it originated. A faithful old negro man belonging to Mrs. Taylor met a neighboring brother, and addressed him about as follows: " Uncle Willis, kin yer tell me how dey got dis name Manassas fur dis place down dar whar dey has all dem big guns?" "I dunno, Brer Ephriam, cep'ing tis we is de man, and dem Yankees whar cum down here is de asses, dats how we gets de name Manasses, I speck."

J. McIntire Andrews, Columbia, Tenn.: " Enclosed please find my check for $11, twenty two subscribers to your good book, although I have been in bed half of the time and am hardly ever able to go to town."

Confederate Veteran April 1893.

THE story of Mr. Green, as published in the last VETERAN, about going to the bed room of Gen. Sherman, at Jackson, Miss., after its evacuation by Gen. Johnston, recalls interesting reminiscences. It is a very probable story, even unsupported by the author's reputation for integrity. A retreating army, compelled to abandon valuable territory, scarcely used any strategy in the rear of its columns.

Gen. Sherman could well enough sleep unguarded in Jackson at that time. Desolate place it was! I walked for a mile or more in its principal streets during the seige without seeing a white inhabitant, and but one old negro man. The houses, in many instances, were open, and elegant furniture was scattered through the yard, efforts to remove it being abandoned after the beginning. It was almost as sad a picture of desolation as was a battlefield after both armies had gone. I was in a former evacuation of Jackson when, without an hour's warning hardly, the citizens fled with the retreating Confederates pell mell through hard rain.

But it was of the last evacuation that I have promised to write. After a week's siege, the powerful forces that had captured Vicksburg pressed Johnston at Jackson until his withdrawal became necessary. During the six successive days of this great contest many prisoners were captured by desperate Confederates, and we were successful in securing various flags of regiments, but reinforcements continued until they confronted us to Pearl River above and below, and were about to flank us across that river. My command was under severe fire of sharpshooters, who secured positions in pallatial residences near our lines, and which we were compelled to burn to get rid of them.

As one of fifty volunteers from my regiment, the Forty first Tennessee, to advance our skirmish lines, I pay high tribute to Spencer Eakin, the officer in charge,. for his undaunted courage, which animated afresh our spirits while holding positions all that long August day on the south side of a plank fence in open field. Eakin was young, with face as fair as the maidens we left at home, but he seemed to have no knowledge of fear, and to be void of depression through our severest trials. We did not all survive that awful day.

I was assistant to the officer in charge of the skirmishers the night we stole away. My regiment covered the retreat over a large part of the front. We were deployed along the same line that Eakin's volunteers had established, not over three hundred yards in front of our temporary breastworks, and though the stillness was as death, our army moved away so quietly that our skirmishers, as a rule, knew nothing of it. It was my memorable duty to crawl along this skirmish line and whisper to the men the instructions about how to move on the retreat. Each soldier was to follow the movement of the man to his right.
My opportunity for judging the characteristics of my fellows on this occasion is utilized in the statement that while one man would be sound asleep as ever he was in the babyhood cradle, another would hardly breathe sufficiently in his intense anxiety. This fact is stated not in praise of the one and in condemnation of the other. The man with steadier nerves and less fear had yielded to nature's demands and slept, but he would have been as valiant if aroused as his most watchful companion.

When we got back to the works, each moving by the man to his right, whether by the flank or abreast to the "about face," many were astonished to find the army gone. We missed our way to the Pearl River bridge, and when we finally reached it near sunrise the wooden structure had been set on fire, but we arrived in time. to escape across it.

IN sending this issue to personal acquaintances who have received a copy heretofore the hope is modestly expressed that its merits will be considered, and that old friends will not be indifferent to an enterprise so zealously advocated by those who don't even know the author. Some who have manifested zeal for the monument cause have been strangely silent to this power for organization and mouthpiece for all of our people furnished at individual expense. They must fail to understand the situation, or they would unite their influence and give their half dollar toward the permanent establishment of the most universally popular organ yet issued in behalf of our common interests.

THE magnetic appeal of Gen. John B. Gordon in behalf of the United Confederate Veterans is republished in this issue. That appeal is now earnestly commended to veterans everywhere. It certainly deserves consideration from all organizations not members. The accessible place for meeting this year Birmingham makes it desirable that every friend of the organization make known its high merits to Camps, Bivouacs, Lines, etc., with a view to as complete unification as possible.
In this connection every friend of the CONFEDERATE VETERAN is requested to report organizations not listed in this publication. It seeks to serve all alike.

PROTEST was made against the plea in the last VETERAN for our old slaves, but another letter from the same source said: " Perhaps you are right." The enactment of such a law as was suggested would do much good to worthy old black folks, and it would be very helpful to those who will always care for them anyhow.

ATTENTION, WHITWORTH SHARPSHOOTERS

KNOXVILLE, TENN., April 3, 1893. Friend Cunningham : For years I have sought in many ways to obtain the address of surviving members of the several corps of Whitworth's Sharpshooters of the Army of Tennessee. The first organization was that of Cleburne's division, at Wartrace, in 1863 , afterward a corps comprising all of the Whitworth Rifles in Bragg's army was organized near Chattanooga, and did grand service thereafter till the end of the civil war. The third organization was made at Meridian, in the army of Gen. Johnston, afterward known as the Army of Mississippi, and, after the death of Gen. Polk, as Stewart's Corps of the Army of Tennessee. Can you help me? Yours truly, CHAS. F. VANDERFORD.

Any survivors of this organization will be glad to see the above from Maj. Vanderford, who organized them at all the places named, and who was confidential and intimate with Joseph E. Johnston. Patrons of the VETERAN will prize what he may be good enough to tell them from time to time.

THESE WONDERFUL GUNS.

The Whitworth rifle was made in England, and was imported by the Ordnance Bureau of the Confederate States at a cost of about $1,000, in the equivalent of gold, for each rifle and one thousand rounds of ammunition. A telescope, about ten inches long, fitted with lenses of great power and exquisite finish, could be instantly hinged upon the breech end of the barrel, the eye piece adjusted so as to be at the proper distance from the left eye of the rifleman. The front, or object glass end of the telescope, was furnished with an arc sliding easily, but close, in a guide piece fastened upon the barrel of the gun. The axis of the telescope and that of the rifle barrel were exactly parallel in vertical line whatever the elevation of the muzzle, the aim was always made by sighting through the glass. The cartridge was made with great care, the bullets of compressed lead, one and a half inches long, and of precisely uniform weight,, the charges of powder precisely of the same weight, the grains somewhat coarse, of uniform size, finely glazed, the cartridge wrapped in parchment and coated with paraffine. The men were drilled in camp, on the march, and even on the field of battle, in judging distances. They would be halted, for instance, and required to guess at the distance of a certain point ahead and then measure by steps on their way. When firing, these men were never in haste, the distance of a line of men, of a horse, an artillery ammunition chest, was carefully decided upon, the telescope adjusted along its arc to give the proper elevation, the gun rested against a tree, across a log, or in the fork of the rest stick carried for the purpose. The terrible effect of such weapons, in the hands of men who had been selected, one only from each infantry brigade, because of his special merit as a soldier and skill as a marksman, can be imagined. They sent these bullets fatally 1200 yards, and were unpleasant a mile off.

St. Louis Christian Advocate: " It abounds with interesting facts and incidents concerning men and things in the late war and after the war. Mention is made of prominent actors on both sides, but always in a spirit of fraternity and good will. It may, then, be read with interest and pleasure by people in all sections of the country."

Confederate Veteran April 1893.

REVIVED REMINISCENCES.

W. A. CAMPBELL, COLOMBUS, MISS.

Your article from the Fifteenth Texas soldier, and the Federal, in the March number, reminds me of my own experience with an Ohio soldier, either of the Sixty second or Sixty third Ohio Regiment, July 22, 1864, just at the edge of Decatur, Ga., about six miles from Atlanta. As my command (Muldron's Mississippi Calvary) went into Decatur I saw a wounded Federal in the hot sun, and I halted and asked him if I could do anything for him. He said, "Yes, please give me water and get me out of the sun." I unslung my canteen and gave him half in his own canteen and carried him to the shade. He then pointed to one of our men and said, "That man took my money and knife." I ordered the man to return them to him, which he did, and I said to the Federal that as soon as the battle was over I would have him carried to the field hospital. After the fight was over I went back to see about him, but he had been taken away, and I do not know anything more of him. He was shot through the right lung, and may have died. My recollection is that he belonged to Badge's corps, as we captured this general's headquarters, with books and papers.

Capt. Campbell, who is the Adjutant of the Isham Harrison Camp at Columbus, sends this additional reminiscence:

Mr. T. J. McGahee, now a citizen of this place, relates the following incident as happening to him during the war: He was wounded in the leg and captured and carried to the Federal hospital, and the surgeon in charge decided to amputate it. McGahee said to the doctor: "I do not want my leg cut off, I would rather die." But the surgeon said: "I don't care what you want, I am going to cut it off." So McGahee was put on the table and preparations made to cut. McGahee refused to take chloroform, and as the surgeon came up to the table, McGahee, who uses his left hand, gathered all his strength and hit the surgeon a stinging blow in the nose, bringing the blood and knocking him down. As soon as the surgeon could recover from the blow, with an oath he rushed at the man, cut him so badly with the surgeon's knife that he was afraid to operate, and so McGahee was carried back to the hospital, and he has his leg yet. He does not remember the surgeon's name, but no doubt if yet living he will remember this incident well.
Again he writes: A. J. Story, of the Eleventh Alabama Regiment, Wilcox's Brigade, Mahone's Division, and now living here, captured a Capt. W. W, Wadsworth, of Pumell's Legion, Maryland troops, at the Davis Farm battle, seven miles from Petersburg, Va., on the Weldon Railroad. He took his sword and pistol from him and has this sword now. If he knew that Capt. Wadsworth was living, or any of his immediate family, he would return it gladly. The pistol he gave away in Virginia. The sword was given to Capt. Wadsworth by his friends of the Twelfth Ward in Baltimore, so the inscription on the hand of scabbard shows. Mr. Story says as he was going back with his prisoner he met Maj. Crow, of the Ninth Alabama Regiment, and turned him over to the Major, and Capt. Wadsworth handed the Major his watch and purse to take care of, as they were both Masons.

UNCLE DAN EMMETT, AUTHOR OF "DIXIE."

MOUNT VERNON, VA., April 2. "Uncle " Dan Emmett, the composer of the celebrated and soul stirring song, " Dixie," is living here on the bounty of friends. The Actors' Fund of New York has forwarded sums of money from time to time to supply his wants. Uncle Dan is seventy eight years old, and since he began as a boy of ten to work for a living his life has been one long series of ups and downs, adventures and triumphs. And now, suffering from hardships and poverty, aged and forsaken, he is at work on a life of Daniel Boone in poetry, which is almost completed. He has received word to go to New York, that his friends may demonstrate their kind remembrance of him at a benefit. Asked about the composition of "Dixie," Mr. Emmett said:

In 1859 I was connected with Bryant Brothers' Minstrels, of New York. One Saturday night Jerry Bryant came to me and said: 'Uncle Dan, can't you write me a hurrah walk around, something to make a noise with, and bring it here for rehearsal Monday morning?' I told him I thought I could. He said, ' Do so, and bring it.' 

Going home, Sunday being a rainy day, I composed ' Dixie ' for him, and he was so delighted with it that he made us rehearse it all day Monday for the evening performance. It was a 'go' right from the start. When the war broke out Bryant Brothers' Minstrels were forbidden to sing it. It became so unpopular in the North that when the band played it in the streets of New York they were hooted and jeered at."

While giving a sketch of Dan Emmet, who wrote " Dixie " it seems fitting to say a word about " Yankee Doodle." The story I get is that for one hundred and thirty five years it has been a historic air. Few, perhaps, remember that to an English wit and musical genius we are indebted for the old tune. But true it is. although it was composed in a spirit of rivalry, awakened by the sight of the "Yankee Doodles who came to town" in answer to Gen. Amherst's appeal to the colonies for aid.

It was in the summer of 1775 that the British army was encamped on the east bank of the Hudson, a little below Albany, They were to open a campaign against the French Canadians, and the well disciplined and uniformed troops awaited the arrival of the volunteers. In they came, a motley crowd old men, middle aged men, and young men but all with brave hearts beating and strong arms ready to do battle. Some were mounted on ponies, others on old farm horses, taken from the plow, and many, with zeal which knew no fatigue, hurried on foot. Each carried his own outfit and provisions. No two were dressed alike, there were long coats and short coats, and no coats at all, there were high hats and low hats, covering closely cropped heads or wigs with flowing curls. In they marched, and the regular soldiers made merry at their expense. Even the officers were not better mannered, and the Surgeon, Dr. Shackburg, entertained his friends at mess by playing "Yankee Doodle," which he had composed in derision of the volunteers.

Twenty years later "Yankee Doodle" cheered the heroes of Bunker Hill, and later still, more than ever endeared to American hearts, it was exultantly played as Lord Cornwallis' army marched into Washington's camp at Yorktown.

Confederate Veteran April 1893.

BRIEF BRILLIANT CAREER OF GEN. HINDMAN.

Gen. Thomas C. Hindman was born at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1830. His father, Thomas C. Hindman, moved to Mississippi when T..C. Hindman, Jr,, was quite young. He and his brother Robert were in school at Princeton when the Mexican war broke out, and they left school to join the army. Their father, in the meantime, had become colonel of the Mississippi Regiment in that war. Young T. C. Hindman, at the age of seventeen, was brevetted second lieutenant for gallantry. In 1856, having moved to Helena, Ark., he made the race for Congress against Dorsey Rice, and was elected as a States' Rights Democrat, taking his seat in 1857. During this canvass he and Pat Cleburne, who was his room mate and bosom friend, were attacked by John Rice, Dorsey Rice, and their brother in law, James Marryatt, who shot them from concealment and dangerously wounded both of them. Hindman was wounded very badly in the left side, while Cleburne was shot entirely through. In return James Marryatt was shot dead, and Dorsey Rice and John Rice ran away and left the city. In 1861 Mr. Hindman resigned his seat in Congress to enter the Confederate army. Returning to Arkansas, he raised a legion known as " Hindman's Legion," of which he was elected colonel. He was made brigadier general at Bowling Green, Ky., in which State he took part in some severe engagements. At the battle of Shiloh he led a division and was dangerously wounded in the first day's fight, and his horse was shot while he was making a charge. He was promoted to the rank of major general for his conduct at Shiloh. After recovering from his Shiloh wounds he commanded the Trans Mississippi District, and by his energy and aggressiveness organized and equipped quite an army. He had succeeded in almost clearing the department of Federal forces when he was ordered, at his own request, to the eastern side of the river for more active service. While in Arkansas he commanded the Confederates in the bloody battle of Prairie Grove, where the Federals, though superior in numbers, were defeated and demoralized under Gen. Blount. He commanded a division at the battle of Chickamauga, and was so badly wounded that for several months afterwards he was unable to resume command. When the war closed Gen. Hindman went to the City of Mexico, where he remained for about three years. Returning to Helena he took a very active part in the protection of his people from the carpet bag element and was assassinated by unknown parties September 28, 1868.

IMPARTIAL UNITED STATES HISTORY.

A committee appointed by the United Confederate Veterans to consider the matter of procuring an unpartisan school history of the United States, in which justice should be done to the South, with special reference to its part in the war between the States, met in New Orleans. It consisted of the late Gen. E. Kirby Smith, Prof. Nicholson, of the University of Tennessee, Prof. Alonzo Hill and Gen. D. S. Lee, of Mississippi, Gen. Smith expressed it as his opinion that the best way to get the materials for the history outside of the records in the War Department, which, of course, were invaluable, would be to have the camps of the Confederate Veterans throughout the entire South take the trouble to collect all material in the way of documents, personal recollections, etc., within their reach. The camps in this way could collect all that was necessary to supplement the Government records. After some discussion of the question of selecting a southern author of scholarship and reputation to prepare such a history, it was decided inexpedient at this time to take such action, and the following resolution was adopted:

1. ''The committee is gratified to report that several histories of the United States, suitable for use in schools and acadamies, have been written in the past few years which, though partisan, deal fairly with all questions touching the South and the war between the States. This evidence that the best thought of southern as well as northern writers is now directed to this matter, encourages the hope that the long and sorely felt want of a correct history for our children will soon be, if it is not already, supplied.

2. "That the committee assign to its several members certain of these histories, and also such as are deemed unfair, and that each member be required to submit a written report on such histories as may be assigned to him at the next meeting of the committee." The committee then adjourned to meet at Birmingham, Ala., July 17, 1893, when the members will submit their reports.

CONFEDERATE GENERALS.

A. M. Sea, Jr., of Louisville, Ky,, sends the following carefully prepared list. Correction of any errors is requested:

NAME BORN DIED 

Samuel Cooper...........N.Y,,June 12, 1798.. ..Cameron, Va., Dec. 3. 1876.

Albert S. Johnston......Ky., Feb. 2, 1803........Shiloh, Tenn., April 6, 1862.

Robert E. Lee.............Va., Jan 19, 1807 ...... Lexington, Va., Oct. 12, 1870.

Joseph E. Johnston.....Va, Feb. 3, 1807........ Washington, D. C., March 21,1891.

G.T.Beauregard.......... La., May 28. 1818. New Orleans, La., Feb. 20, 1893.

Braxton Bragg............N.C., March 27, 1817. Galveston, Texas, Sept, 27, 1876.

E.Kirby Smith...........Fla., May l6, 1824...... Sewanee, Tenn" March 28, 1893.

GENERAL, TEMPORARY RANK.

John B. Hood..............Ky., June 1, 1831...... New Orleans, La" Aug. 30, 1879.

LIEUTENANT GENERALS.

James Longstreet ....... S. C., Jan. 8, 1821

Leonidas Polk............ N.C" April 10, 1806.. PineMountain,Tenn.,June 14,1864.

Theoph. H. Holmes... N. C., 1804................. Fayetteville, N. C., June 20, 1880.

William J. Hardee...... Ga., 1817.................... Hydesville,Va.,Nov.8,1873.

Thomas J. Jackson......Va., Jan. 21, 1824...... Guinea's Station, Va., May 10,1863.

John C. Pemberton......Pa.,Aug. 10, 1814...... Penllyn, Pa., July 13, 1881.

Richard S. Ewell .........D. C., Feb. 8, 1817...... Springfield, Tenn., Jan. 25, 1872.

Arnbrose P. Hill.......... Va., Nov. 9, 1825........ Petersburg,Va" April 2, 1865

Daniel H. Hill..............S. C., July 12, 1821..... Charlotte, N. C., Sept. 25, 1889.

Richard Taylor............La., Jan. 27, 1827....... New York City, April 12, 1879.

Stephen D. Lee............S. C...........................

Jubal A. Early............ Va., Nov., 2, 1816......

Richard H. Anderson..S.C.. 1816.................. Beaufort, S. C., June 26, 1879.

Alex. P. Stewart..........Tenn., Oct. 2, 1821.....

Nathan B. Forrest....... Tenn., July 13,1821... Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 29, 1877.

Wade Hampton........... S. C., March 28, 1818.

Simon B. Buckner.......Ky., April 1, 1823......

Joseph Wheeler..........Ga., Sept. 10, 1836......

John B. Gordon ...........Ga., Feb. 6, 1836........

Confederate Veteran April 1893.

THE R. E. Lee Camp at Richmond got off its dignity in this year '93 so far as to publish the following:

MEAN YOU FOR A " BIG EAT " IN MEMORY OF OLD TIMES.

FIRST RELIEF. Oyster Soup, Shadow Soup, Invisible Soup, Horsetail Soup, Old Sock Soup, and more Soup, Job's Turkey, stuffed with Sauerkraut, Boast Pigs, stolen by Pegram's Battalion and kindly contributed, Nassau Bacon, sliced, Baked Duck, Wagon Grease Sauce, Baked Mule, Baked Beans, Castor Oil Beans, a la Redford.

SECOND RELIEF. Bull Bun Stew, Devil of a stew, Ferriter's Irish Stew, Stewed Boot Jacks, The Mozart Academy Stew, Greyback Stew, with " Let go " Sauce, Stew All Around, Another Stew when we get home, Pumpkins, Pumpkin heads, Onions, Red Beets, Dead Beats, Corn Cobs (Appomattox style), Green Apples, Green Persimmons, Black Eye Peas, seasoned with old Quids.

THIRD RELIEF. Sorghum Pies, Shortened with Plaster of Paris, Crab Apple Pie, with Pine Tar Sauce, Doughnuts, fried in Castor Oil, Adam's Apple, Pears (male and female), Onions sliced in Vinegar (copied from Westmoreland Club), Acorns, Hard Nuts (Tom Byrne and Geo. Dean), Fish Balls, Minnie Balls, and Base Balls.

COLD DISHES Ice, with no Cream, Home made Ice, Northern Ice, Mill pond Ice, More Ice, Ice Sykels, new (no kin to Julius).

LUXURIES Pepper Sauce, Slops, Polk berry Bounce, Grand Bounce, Bounced Out, Rye Coffee, Muddy Water, Cold Water, Irish Whiskey and More Whiskey, Shampain, Pain in belly, Smoke.

Attached to the bill of fare was this " notice":

The committee has specially ruled that no comrade shall come to the table in his bare feet, or without a shirt on (no matter about Its being boiled), nor shall he put his feet on the table, nor pick his teeth with a bayonet.

The Katerer (a German Prince in disguise) is skilled in his art, was chief cook for Kornwallis, and will, no doubt, give immense satisfaction in thus getting rid of his stale rations relics of the late wah (war). N. P. Banks having retired from the service, the commissary stores are rather limited.

Confederate Veteran April 1893.

BUILD THE DAVIS MONUMENT.

THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE TO UNITE IN THE WORTHY UNDERTAKING.

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. 17, by direction of its chairman, Gen. W. L. Cabell, of Texas, to consider the location, cost of construction, plans, etc., for the Davis Memorial. The Richmond Association participated in the proceedings.

The general purposes were set forth by the chairman in a series of resolutions. 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 and Oklahoma Territories a subcommittee 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."

Gen. Cabell has made the following appointments, selecting from Veteran Associations:

VIRGINIA Gen Thomas A Brander, Chairman, Hon J Taylor Ellyson. Col Peyton Wise, Hon George L Christian, Richmond, Maj W T Sutherlin, Danville.

TENNESSEE S A Cunningham, Chairman, Nashville, Col C W Frazer, Memphis, Gen J F Shipp, Chattanooga, Gen Frank A Moses, Knoxville.

INDIAN TERRITORY Gen N P Guy, Chairman, McAlester, Gen John L Galt, Hon B W Carter, Ardmore, Col R B Coleman, McAlester, Gen D M Haley, Krebs.

ARKANSAS Gen Ben T Duval, Chairman, Fort Smith, Senator Jas Berry, Bentonville, Col Jordan E Cravens, Clarksville, Maj A S Cabell. Fort Smith, Gen Anderson Gordon, Morrillton.

KENTUCKY Gen John Boyd, Chairman, Lexington, Gen Bazil Duke, Louisville, Hon W C P Breckinridge, Lexington, Gen W F Perry, Bowling Green, Ex Gov S B Buckner, Louisville

GEORGIA Gen P M B Young, Chairman, Cartersville, Gen W L Calhonn, Atlanta, Capt A P Roberts, Dalton , Dr J William Jones, Gen Clemant A Evans, Atlanta.

ALABAMA Gen J T Hoitzclaw, Chairman, Montgomery , Gen F S Ferguson, Birmingham, Capt George H Cole, Eutaw, Gen Joseph Wheeler, Wheeler, Joseph F Johnston, Birmingham.

FI.ORIDA Gen J J Dickison, Chairman, Ocala, Col Fred L Robertson, Brooksville, Gov F P Fleming Jacksonville, Gen George Reese, Pensacola, Gen S C French, Orlando.

SOUTH CAROLINA Gen Ellison Capers, Chairman, Gen Wade Hampton, Columbia, Gen John Bratton, Winnsboro, Gen Stanley S Crittenden, Greenville, Capt B H Teague, Aiken.

NORTH CAROLINA Gen ED Hall, Chairman, Wilmington, Gen R F Hoke, Raleigh, Hon Rufus Barringer, Charlotte, Hon Matt W Ransom, Graysburg, M O Sherrlll, Newton.

MISSISSIPPI Gen Stephen D Lee, Chairman, Starkville, Gov J M Stone, Ex Gov Robert Lowery. Jackson, Col C C Flowerree,Vicksburg, Lieut Fred J V LeCand, Natchez.

DIVISION OF THE NORTHWEST Gen J C Underwood, Chairman, Col Samuel Baker, Maj F H Southmayd, Maj Jere S White, Col R Lee France, Chicago.

LOUISIANA Gen John Glynn, Chairman, Gen J A Chalaron, Gen L Jastremski, Brig Gen Charles A Harris, Col W R Lyman, New Orleans.

MISSOURI Gen Charles C Rainwater, Chairman, St Louis, Capt Jos W Mercer, Kansas City , Capt Henry Guiber, Col Darwin Marmaduke, Col W P Barlow, St Louis.

MARYLAND Gen George H Stewart, Chairman, Baltimore. Gen Stewart to appoint four associates.

OKLAHOMA TERRITORY Gen Samuel T Leavy, Chairman, Norman. Gen Leavy to appoint four associates.

There has been lack of active co operation on the part of some of the foregoing committees. Gen. W. H. Jackson, Chairman for Tennessee, being unable to serve, S. A. Cunningham was put in his place. Gen. John Boyd, the Kentucky Chairman, although full of zeal, has been unable to serve. The same is true of Gen. Rainwater, of Missouri, and Gen. Capers, of South Carolina.

Gens. Dickison, of Florida, Hall, of North Carolina, and Lee, of Mississippi, have been zealous from the start, and will doubtless make good showings in their report. Texas is not in the above list, but the "Lone Star" is sure to shine brightly in the exhibit.

LIST OF THOSE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED.
This list of contributors to the Davis Monument does not comprise all the collections, but all money sent through S. A. Cunningham as General Agent, and since, is included, unless by some error. If inaccurate request is made for information.

ALABAMA.

ANNISTON Through Mrsn R. Gardner, $21.

BIRMINGHAM J L Buford, through Mrs R M Gardner, two hundred dollars.

EUTAW Sanders' Camp, six dollars.

GADSDEN J Aiken, W G Brockway and A L Glenn, $5, Wm Chandler, A J Collingsworth, L W Dean, A B Dunny, W A Dungan, W H Denson, $5, H G Earnest, Frank & Haysdon, M L Hicks, L E Humphreys, Meek & Johnson,$5, J H Standifer, Abe Thompson, J E Whaley, R A Mitchell, O R Goldman and L Smith, of Queen City Bank $5, through Mrs R Gardner.

GREENVILLE Laura E Abrams, E R Adams, J T Beeland, J G Daniel & Co, D G Dunklin, W J Dunklin, Dunn & Ezekiel, C B Herbert, L M Lane, Robt A Lee, J A McGehee, Chas Newman, Chas Newman, T W Peagler, Wm Pierce, Mrs .W Pierce, Mrs R Y Porter, J R Porterfield, J B Powell, J C Richardson, F C Smith, J C Steiner, J M Steiner, S J Steiner, A Steinhart, A G Stewart, T J Thomas, Rev.G R Upton, J H Wilson, Mrs E S V Wilson, through Mrs R J Porter.

HUNTSVILLE Miss Jeanie Sheffey.

MOBILE J R Burgett, W W Dugger, Van Dorn station, W G Duggar, Gallion station, Miss M B Kirkbride, T T Roche, Louise B Sprague, J R Tompkins, J L Tucker, Price Williams, Jr, through Miss Louise B Sprague.

MONTGOMERY Mrs M D Bibb, Miss Jennie R Crommelin, through Mrs M D Bibb, $143.85.

PRATT MINES D M B Hasslet, J T Massingen, T E Mitchell, J G Moore, W N Polk, J W Randall, L. M Reese, J A Rhodes, P J Rogers, $2, W L Rogers, C A Simmons, E A Smith, Walton & Peteel, E E Wiggins.

TUSCUMBIA Through Col. A. H. Kellar, $13.15.

UNION SPRINGS D S Bethune, Virginia A Blackmon, N M Blidsoe, H G Bryan, Annie E Buford, J R Buford, H P Coleman, Mrs S J Foster, C C Frazer, Mrs N H Frazer, W H Fuller, E H Goodwin, R H Hajas, Annie L Hobdy, Jennie McKay Hobdy, J B Hobdy. Marie Hobdy, Mary Hobdy, R L Hobdy, R L Hobdy, Jr., Chas L Jinks, A Miles, Mrs F M Moseley, Mrs A B Phillips, Mrs J E Pickett, W W Rainer, T P Randle, E T Randle, J L Roberts, through Mr J L and Miss Annie E Buford.

ARKANSAS.

ARKADELPHIA J H Abraham, R T Cook, D T Dale, T M Ewing, J A Ross, C C Scott, John Smoker, $2.50 each, Geo Fuller, $5, C K Boswell, F J Carpenter, J W Conger, Adam dark, J H Crawford, E L Jones, C V Murray, E H McDonald, E C McDonald, Ed Thomas, A W Wilson, J W Wilson.

122 Confederate Veteran April 1893.

AUGUSTA James Eblin.

BATESVILLE Nathan Adler, Simon Adler, James A Luster, John F Allen, W E Bevens, J W Case, Jas A Carter, J P Coffin, R. M Desha, W J Erwin, D C Ewing, John W Ferrill, J C Fitzhugh, E L Givens, S A Hail, H M Hodge, T J Home, W B Lawrence, T M Mack, Robt Neill, T J Owens, I N Reed, James Rutherford, M A Wycough, M A R Wycough, by James Rutherford.

ELDORADO W R Appleton.

HOPE Mrs C A Forney

HOT SPRINGS Dr Thomas E Holland, five dollars.

LITTLE ROCK Through Hon John G Fletcher, $11.25.

MOOREFIELD Jesse A Moore, J E Ross.

MORRILLTON West Humphreys.

FLORIDA.

JACKSONVILLE Gen Wm Baya and W D Matthews, $500.

SANDFORD C H Adkins, R S Dickens, Capt O S Traver, Col A M Thrasher.

SANIBEL ISLAND Mrs Letitia A Nutt, Miss Nannie Nutt, five dollars.
GEORGIA.

AMERICUS C B Hudson, $2, W E Murphy.

ATLANTA EL Anthony, Geo T Beeland, Charles Beermann & Co, $15, J L Bishop, F C Bitgood, B M Blackburn, W H Black, $2, L R Bleckly, $5: N S Blum. $2, S D Brad will, $2, J D Brady, $2, Robert Brazelton, G S Brewster, $2, E C Brown, S E Brown, T J Burney, David J Bush, $2, Milton A Candler, S N Chapman, J H Clifton, Philip Cook, $5, H H Cobb, A E Cox, C J Daniel, H R Daman, M K Dennis, J A Foote, L B Folsom. W E Fonti, Harry Frank, $2, Arnold Gedman, M B Gilmox, W C Glenn, $5, Peter G Grant, H H Green, $2, D R Grover. R G Guinn, J L Harrison, Rev W M Hayes, $2, W M Hawkes, R H Hightower, Jas K Hines, $5, Jerry Holmos, Joseph Jacobs, $2 , H Jennings, Mark W Johnson, J C Joiner, Geo H Jones, $2, J Wm Jones, $50, Jas L Key, $2, Dr J J Knott, $2, Lamar & Rankin, $5, S H Landrum, Thos J Leftwick, $5, Walter T McArthur, $2, D E McCarty, Hy McCaw, B L Mclntosh,$2, C K Maddox, 85, I H Martin, $2, H A Matthews, V A Menard, C W Morgain, F H Moses, A J Moss, J W Nelms, $2, R T Nesbitt, $5, WM Newbern,$2, Newton, Baker & Co, H L Nippert, $2, Robert A Nisbett, $2 , John O Perry, $2, Wm H H Phelps, $2, J B Pickett. P Roman, $5, Lavender Ray, $2, K Reed, H N Ried, $2, Sidney Root, $10, W E Seabrook, Geo W Scott, $25, W L Seddon. $5, John W Shackelford. A G Smart, $2, burgess Smith, John Clay Smith, $2, Hoke Smith, $50, W J Speairs, J C Steerman, $2, R E Stockton,$2, J D Stokes, Jos Thompson, $5, B Vignoux,$2, C Z Weinmaster, $2, W A Wright, $2, A R Wright, $2, Wm A Wright, $5, through Mrs R Gardner.

AUGUSTA Patrick Walsh and others, $400.91, Wm H Fleming.

ARLINGTON H C Heffield, $2.50.

BLACKSHEAR A P Brantley, Nettie Brantley, Henry J Smith, Jennie Smith, by Miss Smith.

BLITCH James Young.

CARROLLTON J M Hewitt, two dollars.

CEDARTOWN J H Sanders, two dollars.

CHICKAMAUGA S.F Parrott.

CRAWFORD I G Gibson, two dollars.

DANVILLE T L Hill, S W Sapp.

DUBLIN T L Griner, John M Stubbs.

GEORGETOWN John C Guilford.

GLENNVILLE J P Collins, five dollars.

HANDY W L Crowder.

MACON J O Bell, Mrs A S Cope, J W Hinton, $2 each, Jas M Sapp, Chas Herbst, Bibb County Association, $163.09.

MILLEDGEVILLE J C Woodward.

MOHER B F Hoodspette.

MONTEZUMA E Chambers.

PALATKA Capt S H Gray.

SMITHBORO James Thomas Smith.

SONORAVILLE P T Reese. SPARTA Through Mrs. Middlebrooks, $41.75.

SYLVANIA E W Frey.

TEMPLE Robert H Faber.

VAN'S VALLEY Alex White.

WALKERSVILLE J W Johnson.

ILLINOIS.

CHICAGO Col G Forrester, Gen W A C Ryan, Mrs Ryan, Col J G Ryan, Mrs E A Shannon, James Fentress.

LILLY E W Bacon, Miss Lilly Bacon.

MACKINAW Mrs L E Brock.

INDIANA.

EVANSVILLE Dr A J Thomas, $5.

INDIANAPOLIS G F Miller, $5 .

INDIAN TERRITORY.

CHOTEAU J H Baugh, M G Butler, W A Cantrell, V Gray, $2, C Hayden, A G McDaniel.

PRYOR CREEK Tom A Hancock.

SHERMAN M L Elzy.

KENTUCKY.

CHILESBURG Richard A Spurr.

FAIRVIEW Bethel Sunday School, $8.50, R W Dow, ner, $3, P E Downer, $2.50, S B Jesup, B D Lackey,H E Morton,, J L Mosely, R L Mosely, $1,50 each, W R Vaughn.

FRANKFORT W T Havens.

GEORGETOWN A H Sinclair, five dollars.

HENDERSON R H Cunningharn, W M Hanna, M M Kimmel, J W Lockett, Sights & Johnston, Montgomery Merritt, D J B Reeve, J J Reeve, P K Snead, O F Walker.

HOPKINSVILLE W B Dicken.

LEXINGTON Mrs S B Anderson, R T Anderson, C S Bell, Sr., W S Bell, Mrs Robert Berry, John Boyd, Hart Brown, J C Bryant, R S Bullock, Mrs John H Carter. John H Carter, C C Calhoun, W H Cassell, Mrs W H Cassell, A B Chinn, James B Clay, Horace Coleman, Cicero Coleman, A A DeLong, C A DeLong, M J Durham, Jerry Delph, Edward Frazer, Graves & Cox, J M Graves, Ed Grass, Mrs A M Harrison, Mrs Laura V Hawkins, Miss Lillian Headley, James A Headley, John T Hughes, Joseph D Hunt, D H James, Moses

123 Confederate Veteran April 1893.

Kaufman, Theo Lewis, J L Logan, Joel C Lyle, J R Morton, T W Moore, Thomas W McCann, H B McClellan, Byron McClelland, Howard McCorkle, J H Nelms, Bush Nelson, Watts Parker, J T Patterson, Wellington Payne, John S Phelps, Wickliffe Preston, H C Price, Edward Price, Mrs L C Price, L C Price, J W Pryor, William Rodes, J C Rogers, J Woodson Royster. S P Salter, S G Sharp, J H Shropshire, Mrs J H Shropshire, J Soule Smith, Richard Squires, Michael Sullivan. J T Thorne, R A Thornton, Upington & Bro., J T Vance, Willa Viley, Mat Walton, John H Wiehl, Jesse Woodruff, a Friend, J R Jewell, gave two dollars each, Miss Nannie Smith and Solomon Van Meter, five dollars each.

Of the foregoing, seventy five dollars was collected by Mrs. R. A. Spurr, and remitted to the Treasurer at Richmond, and fourteen dollars, collected by Mrs, O. L. Bradley, remitted to the General Agent at Nashville.

LOUISVILLE Miss Martha A, Sneed, $10, Miss Josephine Walker.

PEMBROKE R T Chilton, Mrs. R T Chilton.

RUSSELLVILLE T J Bailey, $6.05, J B Briggs, John W Caldwell, $5 each, Dr R N Beauchamp, George R Beall, Wilson Beard, R B Chastain, Joseph Cumbett, Dr B F Kidd, W B McCarty, James M McCutchen, John G. Orndorff, William Smith, C. W. Swanson, M B Stovall.

LOUISIANA.

MANSFIELD J W Adams, C W Blair, $5, T J Booker, F M Brownfield, C T Baunnman, Henry Burns, John S Bailey, James Brown, Dr B D Cooper, Dr W N Cunningham, Cash, Jas Dilzell, DeSoto Democrat, $5, J B Dillon, J Douglas, W J Elam, C W Elam, W F Eraser, S B Foster, E N Foster, Dr J W Fair, Wm Goss, $5, H D Gibbons, John Glossill, S A Guy, R T Gibbs, L H Hanson, W P Hall, W T Haden, J E Hewett, John Huson, W B Hewitt, A M Hewitt, B F Jenkins, $5, W T Jackson, J B Lee, J T McClanahan, W H Mason, W E May, R R Murphy, W L Minter, E A Nabors, J M Nabors. E R Nabors, W T Pegins, E B Pickels, J W Parsons, A V Roach, C W Page, B B Powell, G Rives, Sallie Rascoe, E B Rogers, J H Rascoe. Q Roberts, P H Ricks, Dr A V Roberts, $2.50, J Reiley, Albert Rives, M Ricks, Jas A Rives, J C Rives, Capt W P Sample, $5, Dr S J Smart, C J Smoote, W E Singleton, Dr Stoakes, Dr W Sutherland, O HP Sample, E W Sutherland, G H Sutherland, Miss Belle Taylor, Sam Williams, W N Williams, B Willer, B N Wimple, T J Williams, J B Williams, Chas P Williams, J B Williams. Jr" Dr J F Walker, O V Wemple, J O Wemple, L B Wilcox, J L Williams, G B Williams, Miss Belle Taylor.

Report from Col A W Hyatt, Treasurer for Louisiana, to Col W R Lyman, A A G, New Orleans:

1891.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sons of Soldiers of Avery's Salt Mines 11 25

July 10, Gen. Geo. O. Watts,

Jefferson Davis Camp.......................... 25 00

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

Soldiers of Blue and Gray...................... 64 00

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

proceeds of Pilcher concert, July 10.... 66 00

July 17, Chas. D. Delerey, Army of Tenn. La.

Div. fund created................................... 102 50

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

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

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

July 22, A. N. Block, La. Div. A. N. Va........ 9 05

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

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

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

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

Tenn.................................................. 72 00

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

Tenn. at Opelousas................. 40 00

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

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

and Ladies of Evergreen..................... 75 45

1892.

Jan. 8, Judge F. A.Monroe, members Bar,

Bench and Officers C. D. Courts........... 310 00

Jan. 15, R. McMillan, C. Wash. Art.............. 47 50

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

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

April 13, J. Lyons, citizens of New Orleans... 33 00

Oct 11, Nicholson & Co., sundry collections

of N..O. Picayune................................... 78 50

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

N. O. Picayune..................................... 100 00

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

Daily City Item.................... ........ ........ 50 50

Less disbursements to date as per vouchers

on file................................................... 17 75

$2,068 70

Oct. 10, remitted to J. S. Ellett,

treasurer, Richmond, Va.....$2,018 20

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

treasurer, Richmond, Va....... 50 50 2,068 70

NEW ORLEANS Mrs. May Poitevant, $5.

MISSISSIPPI.

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

HOLLY SPRINGS Jas T Fant.

OCEAN SPRINGS Mrs A A Staples.

ROCKNEY Geo Hickler.

VICKSBURG The Vicksburg C. V. Camp, through Col. D. A. Campbell, $409.55.

MISSOURI.

HARRISONVILLE Jeff Burford, seventy five dollars. H R Estes, $2.50.

NEW JERSEY.

HOBOKEN James Coltart, $5, Miss Virginia M Coltart, Harriet Monk, John Stansfield.

NEW MEXICO.

SILVER CITY C A Thompson.

NORTH CAROLINA.

ASHEVILLE Mrs E J Aston, Mrs H A Gudger, Mrs J A Hucler, $2 each, Mrs D Johnston, Mrs Theo D Johnston,

124 Confederate Veteran April 1893.

Mrs B M Lee, C H Miller, Mrs M Penland, Miss Mary Penland, Mrs E L Rankin, R R Rawls, Henry Redwood, Miss Maggie Smith, Miss Anna Smith, Miss Louise Smith, Bessie Smith, Mann Smith.

CHARLOTTE Through the Observer, $29.50.

JACKSON Emma W Burgwyn, J A Burgwyn, Geo P Burgwyn, J B McRae, R B Peebles.

SALISBURY Sent to Judge W L Calhoun, $15.25.

STATESVILLE Through J. P. Caldwell, four dollars.

WAYNESVILLE William Boggs, R H Dykers, G S Ferguson, J E Hall, Frank Hall, A J Reeves, Dr J H Way.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

CAMDEN H G Carrison, I C Clyburn, J G Hay, A D Kennedy, P T Nuepigue, W M Shannon, Springs, Heath & Co, J B Steedman, $5 each, Chronicle, I M Lemp, $3 each, B B Clarke, A A Moore, $2 each, G S Higgins, Cash.

The above were collections by Dr. John W. Corbett, and sent to the Charleston News and Courier. He reports about $110 raised at a concert given by the ladies and sent to the News and Courier.

TENNESSEE.

ADAMS STATION M L Johnston.

ALAMO W H Biggs, J B Fleming, C A Groodbar, J B Humphreys, $2, P B Nance, W H Poindexter, T N Skelton, J D Wortham.

BELLS STATION Wm B Bate, Capt. Dawson, B S McLemore, J C W Nunn, J H Thomas, D H Thomas.

BOLIVAR P W Austin, W T Anderson, C H Anderson, Ophelia P Bills, L M Carrington, W C Dorion, D E Durrett, R E Durrett,. W W Farley,J L Foote, C S Ganden, H P Joyner, Kahn Bros.. Austin Miller, T E Moore, A T.McNeal, J J Neely, Jr., M N Perry, J C Savage, H W Tate, Julia M Upshaw, Hugh Williams, R H Wood. By oversight the amounts were not put to the Bolivar list that exceeded $1. The collection there is $123 not yet forwarded.

BROWNSVILLE Judge John Bond.

BROWNSVILLE (HAYWOOD COUNTY'S CONTRIBUTION) The contributors are as follows: Dr A R Haywood, Glasgow Haywood, Miss Carrie Tipping, Miss Anebel Moore, Miss Cora Sevier, J. E. Gause, Mrs R H Anderson, W A Roberts, Henry J Livingston, Jr., Miss Genevieve Livingston, Mrs Laura A Livingston, Miss Lucy C Livingston, Miss Nettie Jordon. Livingston, Rev W L Dabney, J E Carter, Prof T W Crowder, E E Walker, Isaac H Read, B M Bradford, T A Tripp, Read Haywood, J B Phillips, Sr., J B Phillips, Jr., Miss Lillian Phillips, Miss Edna Phillips, Cheps Bedford, L H Borum, W H Haywood, Dr J G Haywood, Jr., Robt Haywood, Miss Sallie C Gray, W R Holbrook, Miss Mary S Livingston, Rosa Gibson Livingston, Miss Helen Somervell Livingston, Howell T Livingston, Henry Lee Livingston, Miss Rosa V Gibson, Miss Mattie Dabney, Capt R S Russell, Maj L A Thomas, Dr J S Patton, John P McLeod, Mann Wills, W E Capell, Emil Tamm, G H Moorer, Dr J G Haywood, Sr., John R Green, Ursula Green, Mattie C Green, Susan K Green, J D Green, all gave $1 each, Maj W K Bennett, deceased, T J Moges, deceased, $1.50 each, Prof E S Tichenor. John W Herring, J W E Moore, W W Rutledge, A F Yancey, $2 each, T W King, Major J A Wilder, P B Anderson, Rev John Williams, Capt A D Bright, $2 50 each , W L Anthony, $3, P R Winston, Lawrence W Livingston, deceased, Maj W J Somervell, deceased, John C Duckworth. J A Brewer, Dr John R Allen, Frank P Bond, Mrs Ella McLeskey, R H Anderson, Col Thomas Smith, Chancellor H J Livingston,. Mrs H J Livingston, Capt Alexander Duckworth, C A Moorer, W T Bullefin, Col Benj J Lea, Samuel Killebrew, $5 each , Haywood County Bank, $11.70. Total,. $186.10. The excess over list as printed comes through smaller subscriptions than $1. The committee are: W A Dabney, Chairman, R H Anderson, Secretary, J W E Moore, Alex Duckworth.

CAIRO W J Lambert.

CASTALIAN SPRINGS Geo Harsh.

CHATTANOOGA G Andrews, Jr., N G Atkins, Creed. F Bates, W M Bearden, P F Craig, W R Crabtree, D W Clem, B L Goulding, $.5 , J B Pound, W T Plumb, G H Snead, J F Shipp, T E VanValkenburg, L G Walker,

CLARKSVILLE Arthur H Munford, little Miss Buckner, five dollars.

COVINGTON R R Green fund, $54.35.

CROCKETT J T Stamps.

FAYETTEVILLE J P Buchanan, J L Buchanan, W H Calhoun, A J Carloss, N P Carter, James Cashion, W R Cashion, Andrew Cashion, W H Cashion, A Cashion, H B Douglass, H C Dwiggins,$5, J C Demer, A H Edmondson, S W Fleming, Hugh Francis, J C Goodrich, Theo Harris, Jr, E J Higgins, H K Holman, T C Little, R K Looker, C A McDaniel, W C Morgan, J D Parks, W C Parks, J H Pitts, G F Pitts, G F Renegar, B T Boach, Robertson & Goodrich, J W Scott, J W Smith, H D Smith, A E Smith, J M Stewart, O C Tallant, E S Terry, Thomas Thomison, W P Tolley, R D Warren. H C Dwiggins' address is Petersburg.

FRIENDSHIP J M Cochran, B H Harman, D B Woodson.

GALLATIN Jas W. Blackmore,David F Barry, C S Douglass, W C Dismukes, J B Harrison,Jas J Turner. Geo E Seay, J A Trousdale, S F Wilson

GRAND JUNCTION W C Mauldrin.

HARTSVILLE John D Stalker.

HILLSDALE Hon Pryor W Carter.

JACKSON E L Bullock, $5.

JOHNSON'S GROVE J R Worrell.

LEWISBURG. Dibrell Bivouac, through Capt. W. G. Loyd, $110.

MAURY CITY Sid Avery, W H Carter, Dr B Moore, C Peal, Bryant Stallings.

McKENZIE Through Stonewall Jackson Bivouac, $103.20.

McMINNVILLE J W Irwin. MONROE Dr J M Shelton.

NASHVILLE Jos W Allen, Mrs J W Allen, B B Allen, Kate M Allen, Lieut Samuel M Allen, Mrs B B Allen, Walter Aiken, S T C Doak, A J Grigeby, W C Kelvington, 10, John J Vertrees, Rev W R L Smith,

RED LICK J Kling. Allison and Rebecca Lipscomb.

SWEETWATER T T Hagar.

UNIONVILLE J A Moon.

VICKSBURG. Through Col. D. A. Campbell, $409.

WAVERLY H C Carter.

TEXAS.

The following list of donations from Texas, amounting to $1,560.25, have been sent by its Treasurer,

125 Confederate Veteran April 1893.

Gen. W. H. Gaston, to Mr. John S. Ellett Richmond. The remittances are by:

Aaron Coffee, Collin, McKinney County...... $ 83 30

S C Upshaw, Hill, Hill County.................... 121.25

G W Arrington, Mobeete, Wheeler County ... 11 75

G W Arrington, Mobeete, Wheeler County ... 16 00

H M Cook, Belton, Bell County.................. 200 50

J D Griffin, Alvarado, Johnson County......... 26 90

H N Burton, Corsicana, Navarro County ...... 70 00

G W Arrington, Mobeete, Wheeler County ... 8 00

D T McAnally, Rice, Navarro County........... 20 00

S M Vernon, Farmersville, Collin County..... 72 50

G W Brennan, Plano, Collin County............ 51 25

H W Barton, Corsicana, Navarro County...... 20 00 

John Traylor, Dallas, Dallas County............ 1 00

Mrs L Person, Throckmorton, Throckmorton

County........... .............. ................ 16 00

W T Hightower, Sweetwater, Nolan County... 16 00

Mrs Mary Key, Marshall............................. 3 00

Aaron Coffee, Collin, McKinney County....... 3 00

Joe Cooper, Waxahatchie, Ellis County........ 45 85

W R Sebastian (citizens) Stephens County,

Breckenridge......... ............................. 70 00

Individual Subscriptions from Dallas:

Col Job Hunter...................................... 200 00

Col John N Simpson.............................. 100 00

Col W E Hughes.................................... 50 00

F M Cockerell........................................ 50 00

Maj R V Tompkins................................. 25 00

W F Waltman....................................... 25 00

W M C Hill........................................... 25 00

Royal A Ferris....................................... 50 00

W L Cabell........................................... 25 00

W H Gaston.......................................... 100 00

R T Bibb............................................... 10 00

J R Currie:..........................................:. 10 00
From other citizens of Texas, names not recorded...... 34 95

Total............................. ..................... $1,560 25

In sending the list Gen. Cabell writes that contributions to the Davis Land Fund is not included.

Boz B F Forrester.

BROWNWOOD G H Adams, J L Harris, F W Henderson, C C Jones, J B Smith, E R Stanley, Ed T Smith.

BUFFALO GAP Col L F Moody.

COLEMAN J B Coleman, L E Collins, C L Coleman, Pilham Coleman, W C Dibrell, $5.

CORPUS CHRISTI M C Spann, collection, $177.75.

FORT WORTH Through Mrs. B. B. Paddock, $101.70.

WAXAHACHIE A J Baxter, John P Cooper, E Chaska, Joe P Cooper, G H Cunningham, Miss Meta Cooper, $11, J A Darrow, Dr W E Farmer, B F Forrester, J A Gray, B H Lattimer, M W McMight, L H Peters, Wm Stiles, T F. Thompson, M B Templeton.

BROWNWOOD By Mrs S R Coggin, $7.

VIRGINIA.

ABINGDON Virgie M Gildersleeve (now Mrs. Taylor).

BIRMINGHAM D Walker.

BRENNER BLUFF W H Holman BYBEE R S White.

CHARLOTTESVILLE M Duke, George Perkins.

CULPEPPER D A Grundy.

PALMYRA M P Pettit, Pembroke Pettit, William Schlater, J O Shepard, G M Winn.

SCOTTSVILLE D W Anderson.

UNION MILLS Dr. Dudley R Boston.

WILMINGTON John W Adams.

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

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

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

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