Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-31
THE CONFEDERATE DEAD OF "CBIC
AMAUGA," sMEssIONARY RIDGE
AND ALONG THE LINE"

/ THE CONFEDERATE DEAD OF "CBIC-
[ AMAUGA,y MISSIONARY RIDGE
1 AND ALONG THE LINE"
i The legislature of our state, at its last
! annual session, directed the governor to
/ draw his warrant on the treasury, in
favor of Miss Mary A. Green, Mrs.
Phoebe Pember and Mrs. Gen. Charles
] Williams, as trustees Of the q Memo
] rial association, of Georgia" !" for the sum
| OF four Thousand dollars, to be expended
/ in the completion Of the cemetery at
Resacs, and the removal and interment
Of the Confederate dead on the battle
fields of "Chicamauga," Missionary
Ridge" and along the line Of Sherman's
march, upon either the b8ttlefelds or
places most convenient thereto.
In another column, over the signature
Of two OF the accomplished and patriotic
ladies designated TO perform the sacred
trust, the reader will notice that Marietta
has been selected as the place for the re-
interment of the gallant dead, and that
active measures are now being taken by
them to carry out the purposes of our
state legislature. 1t seems, however,
considering the magnitude Of the work
imposed upon these noble women, that
the appropriation made by the legisla-
ture is totally inadequate to the sacred
work they have been called upon TO
perform, and hence they appeal for
aid to the citizens OF our state. As
the work, itself, will admit of no
longer delay we trust that a generous
and prompt response will be made to the
appeal of these ladies. Some idea Of its
magnitude may be formed when we state
that the list of "Chiehamauga's" dead
alone embraces some twenty-five pages
of foolseap paper, with SCI dead whose
names are entirely unknown These
dead hailed in their lives from every
southern state. While the patriotic and
benevolent in our sister southern states
have provided mausoleums for many of
Georgia's dead. let it not be a reproach to
Georgians aRat the gallant dead of those
sister-states lie scattered along the line
Of sherman's march, with no sign to
indicate who they were, from whence
they came, or for what cause they bled
and died.
We regret that the list handed to US
by Mrs. Williams and Miss Green pre-
cludes its publication in any one, or even
two issues Of this journal. With regard
to It's publication We will make a sugges-
ton in our next personal interview with
those ladies.
In closing this notice it is not out Of
place to remark that it was Miss Green,
and her fathers family, who planned
and completed the beautiful little "Con-
federate Cemetery" near "Resaca bat
field" where lie buried 376 Of our
"noble dead y and of her associate trus-
tee, Mrs. Williams, it may not be i'm
proper TO remark, that she is a widow Of
one of GeOrgia's gifted and gallant sons,
whom the writer knew in his youth, ad-
mired in his manhood, and was honored
with his friendship.
None knew him but to love him,
None named him but to praise +"
To accomplish the trust confded to
them by the Legislature of our state,
these ladies have to make great personal
sacrifices, and their appeals for aid should
receive the most generous response. It
should come like " free will offerings
from every hand. Much is expected
from our ewn Gate City, which these la
dies will visit tomorrow, to commune
with at least some of its citizens, who
have never yet failed to respond with
generous hands when appealed TO to aid
in whatever was benevolent to the living
or just to the dead.
THE CONFEDERATE DEAD NOW ON CHIC
AMAUGA BATTLEFIELD.
The trustees OF the d" Georgia Memorial
association having carefully collected
the names, as far as possible, Of the Con-
federate dead who now lie on the battle
fields of Chieamauga, herewith publish
them for the benefit Of their friends
in the various states, The small
made by the Geor-
gia legislature is very inadequate
to the great work, and only serves as
nh fal, 70 hf-
work Of reinterment in conseerated |
ground. We have selected a beautiful /
site which has been given US immedi- |
ately on the railroad at Marietta, and |
now call upon the citizens of our state |
to give US the means to reinter |
them all in one spot, and make it as |
attractive and beautiful as their hero
ism rendered the name of Chieamauga /
glorious. This work viii bear no Logger |
delay. We cannot wait further legisla- /
tive action. Nearly four years have /
passed, and the headboards, and all /
records, are fast passing away, and in a
little while, II longer neglected, Geor-
yisns will blush when Chicamsuga is
as its unmarked graves
will be an eternal monument of their
The following list is only of Chiea-
dead. The lists Of all places
,outh to Resacs are not yet finished.
Wherever only initials appear we win be
slad if their friends and comrades will
urnish US their true name, aud for any
apply to
MRS. CHARLES J. WILLIAMS,
Columbus Ga.
Besaca, Ga.
REsACA, GA, June % 1867. ..ar.