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HREE years ago Virginia appropriated the sum of $50,000 to erect the first monument ever put up by a
southern state on the battlefield of Gettysburg. The award was made to F. W. Sievers. whose model won
over forty competitors. The monument consists of a group of seven figures representing the three bran L
es of the service—cavalry, infantry and artillery—surmounted by a pedestal on which stands @ portrait
statue of General Lee on Traveler, his famous gray war horse. The group might have been modeled on :ary
goldiers in the Confederate armies. There is no attempt at the individualization of any man or men, nor does
depict any particular event in any particular battle. The sculptor has aimed to catch the spirit of the wh
gouthern army.
1
In Memory of My Brotheri
Young as the youngest who donned thei
Gray, _ ,‘
} True as the truest that wore it, I
Brave as the bravest he marched away. !
~ (Hot tears on the cheeks of his motheri
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Trumphant waved our flag one day; |
He fell in the front before it. |
Firm as the firmast, where duty led i
He hurried without a falter; l
Bold as the boldest, he fought and bled, |
And the day was won, but the fieldg
was red, f
And the blood of his fresh young heart!
was Shed l
On h's country’s hallowed altar.
On the trampled breast of the battle p\ain'
Where the foremost ranks had wrestled, |
On his pale, pure face not a mark of pain!
(Hismother dreams they will meet again), |
The fairest form amid all the s'ain, '
Like a child asleep he nestled. |
In the solemn shades of the wood that
swept
The field where his comrades found |
him— l
| They buried him there, and the big!
tears crept i
Into strong men’s eyes that had seldom |
wept. ‘
(His mother—God pity her—smiled and
slepl, ‘
Dreaming her arms were around him).
b, S |
A grave in the woods with the grassl
o'ergrown, l
A grave in the heart of his mother— |
His clay in the one lies Ifeless and lone; !
There is not a name, there is not a stdne, :
And only the voice of the winds maketh
o |
O'er the (rave where never a flower is'
strewn, i
But—}is memory lives in the other. '
| —Father Ryan. l
N BEAUTIFUL HOLLYWOOD. |
Southern Leaders Take Their Long!_
: Rfift " Richmond Cemetery. ’
i Joral displays arve always mag- |
fl;:"' t LH the larger cities, and espe- |
toric 1 oy true of Richmond. In his- i
E ”_“*-‘.\'\‘;um] lies the gallant |
Belg o« ruart, who fell on the
m’w l'. :‘A'x\" IF'avern, seven miles‘
» e Richmond for the time. |
804 who (jeq g major general at the |
12e of thivtyv.one. & e i
s“.\"‘ ¢ old oaks and elms are
e and mantled with mis- |
Giis dtmerable birds through
b b pay their tribute of song
et L ‘eeps the old cavalier Pick
u Y dare the sepulchers of
ed o, . Scarcely less distlnguish-
B v their admirers from all
of HITY come to lay wreaths
& ‘ ‘hon their graves. There
ih. LV eminence overlookinge
dent “oJames rests the presi
his P onfederate states and by
e Daughter of the Confed
t P lot only the south, but
\ iy, loved and mourned
tha wial day flowers from
} Chiont commingle over
of those from the plains
ke 4 the land of the setting
Bttagraq . | ToUte to her worth and in
Loj " Y% a reunited country.—
‘ Cony v it in Woman's lloie
March 17, 1862, by Judah P. Benjamin |
the briliiant lawyer of Louisiana, whe
retained the premiership until the «~lus<l
of the war. Benjamin had been sec- |
retary of war and attoruey general in
the Davis cabinet. Leroy. P. \\':lll\:m’
of Alabama was Benjamin's predeces
sor as secretary of war, having been
chosen for that position when the pro l
visional governiment began its <~:n'vvl'.l
When Benjamin stepped from the war
office to the state department his place l
was taken by George W. Randolph,
and after Randolph yielded up the port
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folio it was held in turn by Gustavus
W. Smith., James A. Seddon and John
C. Breckinridge.
Of all the places in the (‘«.nfedm'atv'
cabinet, probably the most difficult was
that of secretary of the treasury. Thel
southern government was always in]
need of money, and many writers have
attributed its collapse, in the final
analysis, to shortage of funds \\'hunul
with to arm, feed and clothe the men
it put into the field. On Charles G.
Memminger of South Carolina fell the
onerous task of providing for the!
finances of the Confederacy, and }1«-|
held the vexatious position until .]unu.i
1864, when he was succeeded by
George A. Trenholm. t
After Benjamin's short term as at-!
torney general the law departient of |
the southern government was placed |
in charge of Thomas Bragg. On March l
17. 1862, Thomas H. Watts became at- |
torney general, and in 1864 and the |
brief part of 1865 in which the ton !
federacy lasted George Davis of North |
Carolina was attorney general. This |
completes the roll of all the men who |
held cabinet portfolios in the adminis |
tration of Jefferson Davis of M ississiy I
pi. president of the Confederate States !
of Amerjca. and Alexander H. Stephens :
of Georgia, vice president |
There were fifteen men in the Con
federate cabinets, provisional and otl
er. During approximately the same
period, covering ‘ r, only twelve
men sat in the 1 hern cabinet. This
may or may not be significant ot great
er harmony in the L rovernt t
It is certain that thers { I
jealousies on both sides ¢ d that {
stories of the dissension the Cid
leaders of hath rilh and so 1
davs of the war are unpleasant read
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THE MARIETTA JOURNAL AND COURIER °
GiViL LEADESS OF
TEE GO FEDERACY
HILE public opinion throughout |
W the states which composed tln'i
Confederate States of America |
is well informed in the matter!
of the wmilitary and naval leaders of/
the southern torces—Loee and Juckson
and Johl:ston and Semies being fa- |
miliar nawes to all southerners mnvh|
less ils known about the men who|
might be called the *civil leaders of
the Confederacy.” : (
In the north the children are taught |
much about Seward, Stanton, (‘huso.i
Welles and the others who upheld thei
hands of I'rvesident Lincoln. But in
the southern states the members of |
President Davis' cabinet, the men on!
whom fell the hurden of providing the
ways and ieans for carrying on the
war while the military leaders at the!
front and on the seas were fighting the
battles of the Confederacy, are not 80 |
well keown us perbaps they deserve |
to be. Comparctively few books have
been written about the civil side of
Confederate history, i
T part this is duc, of course, to their
faiure. IHad they succeeded in vs-?
tablishing the right of the southern,
states to set up a separate government K
their names would nowv be familiar as |
the civil leaders of the Confederacy in |
happier days than thise which fullow—.
ed the close of the war. It is interest- !
ing to note that only two members of |
President Jefferson Davis' calinet re |
tained throughout the war the port ’
folios which they assmmed at or soon |
after the organization of the p:'()vi-’
sional government on Feb. 8, ]8131.’
They were Stephen R. Mallory of Fll)r-!
ida, secretary of the navy, and John |
H. Reagan of Texas poztmaster gen- |
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PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS.
eral. The lutter was the last survivor
of the Confederate cabinet, He died
in 1905 at the advanced age of eighty-
SOven.
When the war began Robert Toombs
of Georgia, the well known southern
lender, was secretary of stiate and head
of the cabinet He soon yielded his
office to IX. M. T. Hunter of Virginia,
and he, in turn, was succeeded on
Memorial Day
Dear comrades of the Gray,
We come again today
A pledge to keep :
And deck with spring flowers
fair
The sacred places where
Your ashes sleep.
Thus we our pledge renew:
But, oh, the pledge which you
To us once gave,
How grander, holier far,
Redeemed, through blood and
war,
There in the grave!
But take these votive flowers
As sti'l a pledge of ours
That on this day
The scuth, here where you
sleep,
With you Love's tryst will
keep
For aye and aye.
Thus shall the whole world see
That Love and Loyalty
Receive their meed
When weon in pzace and war
And that they Cecathless are —
U.vine indeed.
—Charles W. Hubner in Atlanta Con
stitution.
Which Way? |
The story is told of a @unfederate
major who was in command of trunpsf
Wwho were in pursuit of some outlaws.
In the chase he arrived at a village to |
discover that he was too late to imvr«'
cept them and finally ordered the!
horses unsaddled and fed, ‘
Now, the major's hostler was a son
of Ireland, ignorant of everything m-r‘:
taining to the equestrian art, and, com- :
ing in from the village in a state hor~'
dering on intoxication, he put the ma- ’
jor's saddle on the horse facing to the |
rear. \When the horses were brought
up for a fresh start the major, instant l
ly discovering the mistake, demanded
the reason for it, l
“An’ shure,” safd Pat, a little torrin|
fied—*"an' shure, major, an’ 1 didn't;
know y-hich way you was goin'!” ‘
An explosion followed. The m:ljm"
was satisfied, and PPat escaped punish- |
ment. |
“Stonewall” Jackson’s Home.
Jackson’s mill, on the West Fork
river, near Fairmont, W. Va., where
General Thomas J. (“Stonewall”) Jack
son wa¥ born and grew to manhood,
Las been donated to the West Virginia
Daughters of the Confederacy by
wealthy citizens of [Fairmont. The
mill and old southern house were
erected more than 100 years ago by
Colonel Edward Jackson, a soldier in
the Revolutionary war and grandfa
ther of the Confederate leader.
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T ; monument generations unborn shall hear the voice of a great pes testifuvina to ¢ siiGlime davntiow ol
the women of South Carolina in their country’s need. Their unconquerable spirit strengthened the thin lines
of grav. Their tender care was sclace to the stricken. The tragecdy of the Confederacy may be forgotten, but
th - ‘ruits o, .he nchle service of the ‘'aughiters of the soi'th are our perpetual heritage~William E. Gonzales.
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RN T L YN, TIHETNREIMEIN | et e ist et ieamsimtei)
' By HENRY W. GRADY
t ET me picture to you the footsore Confederate soldier as, buttoning up in
; his faded gray jacket the parole which was to bear testimony to his
| children of his fidelity and farth, he turned his face southward from Ap
{ pomattox in April, 1865. * * * What does he find, let me ask you—what
| does he find when, having followed the battle stained cross against overwhelm
| ing odds, dreading death not half so much as surrender, he reaches the home
| ne left go prosperous and beautiful? He finds his house in ruins, his farm dev
, astated, his slaves free, his stock killed, his barns empty, his trade destroyed,
his money worthless, his social system, feudal in its magnificence, swept away;
| his people without law or legal status, his comrades slain and the burden of
! others heavy on his shoulders. Crushed by defeat, his very traditions are gone;
I without money, credit, employment, material or training, and, besides all this,
f confronted with the gravest problem that ever met human intelligence—the es
| tablishing of a status for the vast body of his liberated slaves.
‘ What does he do, this hero in gray with a heart of gold? Does he sit down
| in sullenness and despair? Not for a day. Surely God, who had stripped him of
' his prosperity, inspired him in his adversity. As ruin was never before so over.
| whelming, never was restoration swifter. The soldier stepped from the trench.
| es into the furrow, horses that had charged Federal guns marched before the
! plow, and fields that ran red with human blood in April were green with the
| harvest in June. * * * The new south is enamored of her new work. Her soul Is
! stirred with the breath of a new life. The light of a grander day is falling fair
i on her face. She is thrilling with the consciousness of growing power and pros
| perity. As she stands erect, full statured and equal among the people of the
i earth, breathing the keen air and looking out upon the expanded horizon, she
| understands that her emancipation came because, through the inscrutable wis
| dom of God, her honest purpose was crossed and her brave armies were beaten.
THE CONFEDERACY"S SEAL. !
Smuagled Out of Richmond by a Wo-‘
man When City Was Evacuated. |
The great seal of the Confederate |
States of America, lost to the ]\lllb]il'l
during many years, was positive !_\"
ldentified in London last year by Al ';‘
Wyon, a wmember of the tirm which'
made it. The seal was purchasoed |
conditionally in 1912 from Rear Ad-!
miral Selfridgze by Eppa Hunton, Jr.
William 11. White and Thowmas D |
Bryan, who stipulated that its authen ’
ticlty st be proved before the pur ’
chase price was paid.
On the evacuation of Richirond Dy |
the Coufederites Willinm J. Bromwell, |
a cierk in the state department, caus- !
ed Lis wife to conceal the great seal
in her bustle and thus smugzgle ill
away. Bromwell sold a collection of
Confederate state papers to the Unit
ed States government in 1872 for 8§75,
000. Colonel John T. Pickett acted
for him in the negotiations, and Ad
miral (then Captainy Selfridge acted |
for the government, and in the course
of this transaction Relfridge m-qnirwl’
possession of the great seal.
The correspondence between .lmlnh'
I’. Benjamin, Confederate secretary of |
state, and James M. Mason, his Lon-!
don agent, relative to the great snnl!
and J. 8. Wyon's receipt for $7OO gold'
for making it are preserved in the|
library of congress at Washinzton, !
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This Horse Wore the Gray. |
A quarter of a century after the war
ended a horse was buried with mili
tary honors by Confederate \'oivrzlnsl
in Atlanta, Ga. Old Colonel was the
animal’s name, and the fact that the
horse had “C. 8. A.” branded upon ill
was prima facie evidence that it had
served in the war, It had lived to jts
extreme old nge on the farm of John
Dempsey at Oak Grove, The animal
was said to have been at all the hot
engagements of Mechaniesville, Seven
Pines, Malvern Hill and Sharpsburg.
It was also said of the animal that it
had been seized by the northerners undl
escaped.
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I sure was there at Gettys
burg,
More'n fifty years ago,
And I was there again las
year
To shake hands with th
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Them Yankees fit us once like
sin—
Thatwasthe wartime way—
But when they got us north
last year
Their faded Blue was Gray!
Charles N. Lurie,
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