The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-07-03

ing Of the Hollywood Memorial Associa-
ton held at the Centenary Church last
evening. Bishop Doggett was called to
the chair, and opened the proceedings with
an address full Of his chaste and eloquent
expressions. Mr.. George Peterkin, who,
By request, acted as secretary, read the
following report from the President, which
was adopted:
REPORT.
The Hollywood Memorial Association
was organized at meeting held in the
lecture-room Of St. Paul's Church, in this
city, in April last, and the first public
meeting thereafter was held in DR.. Dun
cans Church on May 14th, when SUBJ
scription was taken up in aid of the funds
Of the Association. The amount Of the
collection made in the church was one
hundred and fifty-fve dollars and fitty-hve
cents.
Soon after this event, publicity was
given to the plans and purposes of the AS
sociation; collectors were appointed to
canvass the different sections of the city,
and money was collected as rapidly as
could have been expected when the dis
tresscd and impoverished condition of
the people of Virginia is considered.
Since that time subscriptions have
been received from Maryland, Kentucky,
Missouri, New York, and Nova Scotia !:
but it must be remembered that nearly
the whole Of the sum shown by the trea-
surer's report to be to the credit of the
Association has been collected and contri-
buted in Richmond. An appeal to the
women of the South has been widely Cir
culated, and there is every reason to be-
lieve that the noble southern women, who
endured and suffered SO much during the
war, will materially aid us in our work but
no subscriptions of consequence have as
yet been received from the southern
States.
Towards the end of May, 1866, meet
ing Of the young men Of Richmond was
held at the Centenary Church to consider
and adopt measures for taking care Of and
preserving the graves Of the Confederate
dead at Hollywood and Oakwood Gene
teries. The result of this meeting is gen.
orally known More than nine thousand
graves were carefully remounded by the
young men of Richmond, and up to this
time without any outlay upon the part of
the Association. Seven hundred graves
still require remounding, but it is hoped
that these will all be completed in the
course of the next two weeks. To the
Executive Committee, and to every person
who has taken part in the work of dressing
the graves at Hollywood, this Association,
in the name of every sorrOwing mother,
wife and sister in the south, now tender
their sincere and heartfelt thanks, with
the full assurance also that the zeal dis
played by the young men in their first labor
will be exercised at lakewood whenever
the managers Of the Memorial Association
of that cemetery require any aid or assist
ance.
In consequence Of the large number of
graves which require new head-boards or
hcad-stoncs, the Association have deter
mined to defer the commencement of this
portion of the work until the fall. A con-
tractor has already offered to furnish slabs
of marble, of a suitable length and breadth,
and inscribed with the name of the fallen
soldier and his register number, at one dol
lar and forty cents each. 4 new register
OF all the graves at Hollywood is now
being made by the Cemetery company
and until that register is completed 1t
would be difficult, if not impossible, to
mark with certainty each individual grave.
The Association regret to say that nine
hundred Confederate soldiers are inferred
ut Hollywood whose names are entirely
unknown, but they hope by the COM
mencement of the coming year to have the
grave of each soldier whose name is known
permanently marked and recorded, while
the memory of those Of whose names there
is no trace will be also appropriately COM
nI 10 nrnnnSn1 a.
the mounds on the graves, but to level
them all, and then place tablet upon
each grave, so that the whole area may be
turfed or sown with grass.
The Association acknowledge with thanks
a donation from Mr.. o. p. Baldwin, the pro-
ceeds of his lecture at the Virginia Hall,
and return their hearty thanks also to the
managers of the tablsaux represented at
the Virginia Hall on the eth ultimo for
the very liberal donation Of the proceeds
to the funds of the Association. They
also thank the proprietors of the news
papers in this city for their liberality ii in
serting advertisements and notices free of
charge.
The Association announce with pleasure
that Messrs. Read and Brady, the dis
tinguished and learned counsel for Mr..
Davis, have offered to lecture in this city
in behalf Of the Association, and that the
lectures will be delivered early in the fall.
In November next bazaar will be held
in this city for the benefit OF the Associa-
ton, and the members are invited to COM
mence at once the preparation of fancy
articles for sale, and to endeavor to secure
the exhibition Of such curiosties or relics
la Nd ynIa
In conclusion, the Association urge upon
all the members the Importance OF work.
ing diligently during the summer months
in making collections, so that when, in the
fail, the Association commence to put down
the slabs, there may be no delay caused by
want of funds. Every member can raise a
small subscription among her friends, and
these in the aggregate will be Of great in
portance. At least fifteen thousand dollars
are required to carry out the plans of the
Association, and the managers now exhort
and entreat their fellow-laborers in the
good cause never to moderate their en-
deavors until all the money required has
been positively raised.
The people of this State will, We are we'll
assured, do all that lies in their power and
surely our southern sisters, over whom the
iron hand of war has passed with less terri
BILE violence, will, in this the hour of our
poverty and distress, aid us with generous
contributions in preserving the graves of
their husbands, their brothers, their sons,
who fell in Virginia in defence of the
South, and now lie beneath tho sod in
Hollywood Cemetery.
MRS. W. II. MACFARLAND,
President Hollywood Memorial Associa-
tion.