The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-19
THE sURY1VoRs OF THE WAR.
Convention Of Delegates from the Seve-
raj Districts-Organizatio OF a state
Survivors, Association.

the State met in convention at noon yesterday
in South Carolina Hall.
The convention was called to order by Colo
mel E. McCrady, Jr., who moved that Genl ). b..
Kershaw be called to the chair and Messrs. T.
Pinckney Lowndes and Pierre Bacot be re-
quested to act as secretaries.
The motion being adopted, General Kershaw
took the chair. He said that to hold the hum
blest position in an association like this would
be regarded as privilege to be priced, and
that to be called to preside over its deliDera-
tions was an honor indeed. He had hoped
that his gallant comrade, General Wade Hamp-
ton the representative man of South Carolina
in this connection, would have been present;
but as he General Kershaw) had been called
to preside over the deliberations of the meet
ing. he could only promise that he would do all
that he could to conduct the proceedings with
proper regularity and harmony. As explain
ing the business before the convention, and
the purposes for which it was called, he read
circular from the Survivors Association OF
Charleston District, and the following pream-
BILE and resolutions adopted by that associa-
tion on July 49, last:
Whereas, The late war between the Con-
federate and United States OF America are
now fresh in the minds of its survivors, anu
MANY records do now exist which time and
neglect will certainly destroy, it is highly de-
sir2ble to have these records ana these recol-
Iections nut in such substantial form as 10 re-
sist the rayages of time; and whereas, we nave
no Government which will collect and pre-
serve the history of those transactions OF
which we are proud, 1t is therefore tne duty
of all South CarOlinians to place the history Oh
the late war in its true light before the Woriu,
in order that those who fought and died for
their country may have, not only the reward
of their distinguished patriotism, but the
j,lstice which their achievements deserve; anu
whereas the survivors association OF any
single district may do much in collecting anu
preserving these records, yet because OF tne
intimate association existing during the war
between all the troops of the State, the work
win become proportionally less onerous ana
much more effective if the survivors of the
whole State were to unite in common e,iort;
therefore, be it
/. Resoiued. That the Survivors Association
of Charleston District earnestly invite tne sur
vivors of each district in the State, where as
sociations of record do not now exist, 10 form
district associations composed of the survivors
of the Confederate Army and Navy, to coi!cct
and preserve the records of DC late war.
Q THAT the various district associations be
invited to send five delegates to convention
to meet at our hall in Charleston, on Thursday,
November Is, 1869, to form State Survivors
Association, for the purposes set forth IN the
next resolution.
3. That the primary object of the proposed
State Survivors Association is the preserva-
ton of all matters Of history connected with
the late war; that the proposed means OF ac-
complishing this object is the establishment OF
q State Bureau, under the control OF the state
Association, where all original matter snail be
regularly and conveniently filed away for the
reference Of such persons as the assoclatlon
NAV see fit: that competent person shall be
employed to take charge Of this burean1I -tnat
the EXPENSES shall be betrayed by an assess
ment OF the district associations; that the sec
ondary object of the proposed state Assoclar
ton, the future development of which Is lett
to the action of the State Association, is the
preparation of a standard Southern history
and smaller school histories, In which the
part the Confederacy bore in the late war may
be properly related 70 the world, and that the
rising generation may be taught that their
parents were not the vile traitors that the
common school histories now prepared by our
enemies assert.
4. That a committee composed Of the presi-
dent. secretary and FIVE members of the asso-
citation be appointed to correspond on the sub
iect of these resolutions, to make all necessary
ARRANGEMENTS for the assembling OF the con-
yenti0n. and to take such measures as they
may deem essential to the faL accomplishment
of the intentions OF the preamble and resolu-
tiOns.
Under the foregoing resolution, the follow
ing committee was appointed: Colonel Ed
ward McCrsdy, Jr., president; Colonel G. IT.
vine Walker, Colonel B. H. Rutledge, Major T.
G. Barker, Colonel ]. NJ Kinloch, Captain F.
X. Huger; Captain James Armstrong, Jr., sec
retary.
On motion of Major Barker, delegates were
requested to register their names, and survl-
vors in good standing, from districts net regu-
larly represented, were invited to act as dele
gates.
On motion Of Major Barker, the presidents Of
sister associations, present by invitation In the
convention, were requested to enroll them
selves as members Of the convention.
The following delegates registered their
names:
Abbeville-J. T. Robertson, G. NJ. Jordan.
Anderson-Colonel James A. Hoyt, A. j. Sit
ton, DR.. E. NJ Brown.
Barnwell-Robert Aldrich.
Beaufort Captain William Elliott, DR.. John
A. johnson.
CharIeston-Colouel E. McCrady, Jr., Major
T. G. Barker, General James Conner, Colonel
B. H. Rutledge, Captain G. ii. Mo1ett. Alter
nates-Colonel c. l. Walker, Colonel p. G. Gail
lard, DR.. j. F. Prloleau, Isaac Hayne, Lieuten-
ant T. P. Lowndes.
Chester-John A. Bradley.
Chesterfield F. Malloy.
Darlington-J: Jonathan Lucas, +. W.
Lloyd.
o. N. Butler, Captain F. L. Smith.
Fairfield-General John Bratton, captain
Pierre Bacot, j. Macfie, A. S. Gaillard.
Greenville-W. L. Mauldin, John Ferguson.
Kershaw-General ]. B. Kershaw, Captain
w. L. DePass, VIM. Cyburn.
Lancaster-B. ]. Witherspoon.
Laurens-H. Lcgare Farley.
Narion-S. A. Dunham, D. +. Gilchrist.
Narlboro'-Dr. w. j. David.
Northumberland F. w. McMaster, General
VIM. Wallace, Warren Adams.
Spartanburg-C. E. Fleming.
Williamsburg Furman Dargan.
The following officers registered their names
as presidents of sister associations:
Colonel q. Davis, South Carolina Rangers
Charitable Association.
Colonel A. Rhett, Moultrle Association, lst
S. c. Regulars.
A. James Minis, Charleston Riflemen So
ciety.
Association.
Major Barker read the follow ing letter from
General John A. Preston, which was ordered
to be preserved with the minutes:
COLUMBIA, November l8, 1869.