New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-18
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SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST IS. 1866.
Correspondence.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, Warren county, \

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, Warren county, n. c.
General Robert E. Lee:
H0nored ,Si,-In behalf of the citizens of War
rem county, North Carolina, we invite you most
+ respectfully and atfectlOnately, with your family
and friends, to Warren White Sulphur Springs, on
/ the Sth Of August next, to witness the erection
of monument over the remains of your beloved
daughter, Annie, who died at these springs Oct.
Goth, 1862.
When this great grief, with its crushing weight
of sorrow, was borne to you, you were battling
for our country rights, with q stern foe, whose
strong arm you brayely stayed so long. Duty to
your country and to the gallant men with you, for
babe your presence at the invalid's couch, and
you were not permitted to take a long last lin
gering look or hear her last blessing, But few
loved ones fingered round her couch. mothers
and sisters gentle hand soothed her dying pillow,
while stranger hands bore her slowly and sadly to
the silent tomb echong in mourntul cadences a
dirge on the young and beautiful gone from the
earth forever
She has slept sweetly amid the quiet shades of
the family grave yard of Mr.. William D. Jones,
former Proprietor of these springs, whose family
watched over and ministered to her in her last
illness, and whose hearts and hands have ever
since added fresh memorials of love and affection
in honoring her grave, and graCing it with the
flowers she loved so well.
And now, dear general, it is meet and proper
that we should all unite with one accord, and pay
her this homage. We do it with singleness of
heart with pure motives, with love unfeigned,
and supremacy blessed shall we be to cherish thus
link Of natures nobest race, as each hallowed
stone shall wake bright memories Of thee, in ages
yet unborn. Yes let her rest.
There is no prouder grace
For thou art freedoms now, and Fame 8.
One of the few the immortal names,
That not born to die"
This is but in unison with the conduct OF our falr
Countrywnmen over all our sunny land, VINO nave
first manifested their appreciation 81 the hffoe3
whose graves are legion, and from shady dell ana
u..r,, i,ffft and 0viT M q
have been layi8hly brought and scattered in
silence and teara, where they softly lie and
sweely sleep, low in the ground"
And though the moands that marked each name,
Beneath I the o wing tS 9i tHe ,s fame
Immortal and sabine"
May not the same sad tribute be offered You?
Through the kind mercy of our Heavenly Father,
vour gallant sons fought the good fight even to
the end, and you were spared amid the shock OF
battle and its horrid carnage for four long years
spared to us a grateful people, who feel linked to
you in the closest ties of friendship, the most de-
lightful bonds Of sympathy, and the most touching
"reminiscences of sorrow, We cannot honor you
with too deep a reverence nor love you with an
efection too pure and fervent; and though extled
from your own sweet home, its native walks and
shades despoiled and its former beauty passing
away vet the whole bOundess country is yours
you have home in every heart, welcome
in every household, and the whisper of your name
echoes a thousand blessings upon you and
. yours come, IHeu, anu JOlu US III tlls mann
festation of our love. May we all feel with the
4 dear departed one, whose tomb we surround, thai
1.-The pillows breaking DER us,
+ The storms that round US swell
Are aiding US,
II To all we loved so we'll"
We desire no ostentatious display, nothing tina
may not harmonize with the peculiar occasion
1t is plain and simple shaft, sculptured from ou
native granite, by an invalid Confederate soldier
whom Gen. Bragg, in his clemency, detailed fol
this purpose and its erection will be attended BY
the solemn service of the church of her choice.
With unfeigned esteem, we remain your friends
Mas JOSEPH S. JONES,
Mrs THOS CARROLL
Miss BR0WNLOW, Committee,
Miss NJ. ALST0N,
MRS. j. NJ. BECK,
MRS LUCINDA JONES