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What are the Objects of the
Daughters of the Confederacy?
This question is frequently ask
ed, and yet it seems a useless one
to those who have been busily en
gaged in this grand and noble
work ever since its organization in
November of 1894. But there are
some who are not well posted, and
who have not had an opportunity
of attending the monthly meet
ings and the aunual conventions,
or *>f hearing ways and means
discussed for the good of our
country, so for their benefit, I
am requested by the Barnesville
Chapter of the Daughters, to give
a general history of this philan
thropic work, that all may judge
for themselves of w hat it has ac
complished.
Georgia has given to the field
of battle some of the bravest,
brightest and most brilliant men
who illustrated our land in those
eventful times, Shall their rec
ord as heroes go down with their
bodies into the dust? Shall fut
ure generations know nothing of
their struggles except the few
slight allusions we see of their
courage in those voluminous his
tories, entitled * ‘The War of The
Great Rebellion?” Are we will
ing to be known to the wide world
only as traitors to the United
States, “slave drivers and rebels?”
Such terms as these have gone
forth into other lands, shall we
not correct them and prove the
falsity of these unjust accusations
which were brought on us through
our love for the South and its own
state sovereignty?
To prevent our children from
being taught in such histories,
the Daughters of the Confederacy
have requested the legislators of
every Southern state to prohibit,
in our schools and colleges the use
of all histories that do not give
proper credit to the valor of the
Southern section of the United
States, and its glorious achieve
ments in the Revolution, the Civ-,
il and the Spanish American War.
They have firstly resolved to give
honor to whom honor is due, and
place the South where it justly be
longs, in the history of the world,
among the bravest, best and high
est toned of every nation. The
land of Washington, Lee, Cal
houn and hundreds of other great
men shall not be looked upon as
a “Barbarous nation,” theepithit
bestowed upon us by one of the
histories that should be denounc
ed.
The war between the States was
an unequal struggle, and in the
South a desperate fight against
three times their number. Their
valor and resistance may be com
pared in history with the pass of
Thermopolrt! or the brave 800 at
Balaklava.
Some of us remember that for
long years after the Civil war our
hands, lips and brains were in
bondage. We dared not write
our experiences, we dared not
even to speak publicly of our
heartfelt sympathy for the poor
“Confederate rebel,” and our
great and noble men had no voice
in Congress. They were all left
out, and not even allowed to vote.
The poor boys in gray had no
clothes buf their military suits,
and these were in a seedy condi
tion. Then they were not allow
ed to wear brass buttons, so we
young people forthwith* had to
cover the Confederate buttons
with black cloth. All of these
indignities were nobly and peace
ably born£, and all that was hon
orable was done by Southern men
to propitiate the government, but
as our soldiers could not; wear
brass buttons any longer it be
came fashionable for ladies to
wear them, so Generals Wilson,
Meade and Kroxton were sur
prised one day to see the ladies
of Macon appear in Confederate
gray covered with dozens of brass
buttons! It would do no good to
arrest a whole city of women, so
they were unmolested. This same
of bravery and determinat
ion to be true to “The boys in
gray and their brass buttons,” is
still manifest throughout all the
Southern states. If their fathers,
husbands, brothers and lpvers
had worn them honorably in a
just cause, then they ohould be
always reverenced and there was
no use in trying to trample them
out of the world.
A Memorial Association was
then organized in Columbus, Ga.,
by Mrs. Mary Ann Williams, a
daughter of Major John H. How
ard. and widow of General Chas.
Williams, whom I knew personal
ly, having made my first visit as
a debutante, to her youngest sis
ter in their elegant home at Wyn
ton. Col. Isaac Avery in his ad
mirable history of Georgia gives a
picture of Mrs. Williams and a
sketch of her as the organizer of
Memorial Day, but of late years
we notice that credit is given to
Mrs. Lizzie Rutherford. Perhaps
the honor was shared by both of
these noble Christian women, and
will always be a memorial of their
patriotism and devotion to those
who fell on the field of battle.
The Memorial Association it
was found, did not cover all of
the work to be done. There were
living issues to be looked after
also. As the Manorial was con
sidered an auxiliary to the Vete
ran’s Association then forming
in every state, Mrs. M. L. Rivers,
of Savannah, while speaking of
the rapidity with which the vete
rans are passing away, and the
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sad probability that the Memorial
Association could not bean Auxil
iary, suggested that it should no
longer be dependent on any other
association, but become one which
was independent, and upon which
the parent association might lean
and look to for support even as an
aged father might rest assured of
a daughter’s love and care in his
declining years. The idea met
with instant endorsement, and re
sulted in the organization of the
Daughters of the Confederacy.
We only wish that Georgia could
claim all the honors of originat
ing this beautiful organization,
but Mrs. Raines afterwards heard
of a society of this kind at Nash
ville, Tenn., conducted by Mrs.
Goodlett. Then it was ascertain
ed that both Mississippi and Mis
souri had local organizations of
this same kind.
Correspondence was opened
with them and now the United
Daughters of the Confederacy are
earnestly working from New
York, Ohio and Missouri down to
the Gulf of Mexico, and from the
Atlantic to the P?ifH9cean9.
Their object is, educational,
memorial, social and benevolent.
They collect and preserve the
material for a truthful history of
the war between the states and
give due credit to the brave eon 9
of the South as well as to those
who were humane and considerate
in the Federal Army. They as
sist in the education of daughters
and grand daughters of the Con
federacy, and keep fresh in their
memories a beautiful, glowing
picture of the old time Southern
home with its princely hospitality,
its wide open doors, its whole
souled generosity unstinted by
cold calculation of dollars and
cents, and of the knightly chival
ry that has characterized a high
toned Southern man throughout
the whole world.
They fulfill the duties that are
sacred to the survivors of the
great struggle, and feel determin
ed that they shall receive honor
due, as well as those who fought
on the other side, and yet while
crowning our own beloved heroes
with a halo of unfading luster,
they kindly wave aloft the white
banner of peace, love and forgive
ness for every wrong, and sweetly
whisper “Charity suft'ereth long
and is kind I”
Someone asked a few days ago,
“What are the Daughters of the
Confederacy doing?”
It would take a whole volume
to tell all they have done since
1894, but I will mention a few
noble deeds recently accomplish
ed. They have placed 35000
marble head boards over Confede
rate graves in Ohio, and about
20,000 in other places.
They have furnished fuel and
free meals to disabled veterans in
the large cities, they have built
handsome monuments to the mem
ory of our great men, and they
have aided hundreds of our sister
Chapters in repairing, and beauti
fying their soldiers’ graves.
They have not only built a
handsome monument in matchless
marble to the memory of Winnie
Davis, the first daughter of the
Confederacy, but have just laid
the corner 9tone of one far more
enduring, the Memorial Hall at
the State Normal School of Athens,
for the free education of the
grandchildren of Southern Veter
ans.
They sent contributions to the
sufferers of Jacksonville: to the
wrecked city of Galveston, and
helped to feed the starving poor of
India.
We of the Barnesville Chapter,
I am prond td say, have put in our
mite toward svery benevolent call
that has come to us, and we have
among our records a most beauti
ful tribute of thanks from Dan
Emmett, the aged author of
“Dixie ”
Miss Mildred Rutherford, the
State President, in her annual re
port, says:
“Twelve new Chapters have
been granted this year. Total
600 Chapters, 30,000 members.
The Winnie Davis Memorial Fund
has grown to $1,000; the Soldiers’
Home has received from the
Daughters $500; the Jefferson
monument fund has grown to
$1,000; a large amount has been
paid out for the care of neglected
Confederate graves; 2,615 letters
aud 820 postal cards written; be
sides 73 historic circulars and 2,-
650 application blanks sent out.
During the year, 1,300 crosses of
honor have been presented, mak
ing 22,000 that have been given
the past three years.”
Besides all this they have given
six free scholarships to the chil
dren of soldiers; two for Lucy
Cobb, one at Brenau, three in
Macon and one in Atlanta. These
scholarships are made perpetual.
Mrs. Plane, our former State
President, was greatly exercised
oxer the fact thatjso far* one
boy has come into possession of a
free scholarship. She wants the
boys educated as well as the girls.
It is the determination of the
United Daughters of the- Confed
eracy not to cease work on this
line until they have a free schol
arship in every school and college
in the state.
Now after this resume of what
the Daughters are doing let all of
the noble women of our town take
an interest in the work, and edu
cate their children to look with
honor upon the patriotism of their
fathers in defending our beldved
southland from invasion.
Never shall their record be for
gotten, and even hundreds of years
hence when the originators of this
holy cause have mingled with their
native dust, may the white-winged
seraph of Memory sing of
"How woman's love midst sorrows and midst
tears,
Midst fortune's changes and midst time’s
decay.
Unchanged, unfaltering, hath through aU the
years.
Clung to the boys who wore the stainle**
tSf&T’
Lula Kendall Rooebs.