Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-26
FLORAL RIBUT
Proposed Organization Of a Confederate
Memorial SOcIety. for the South.

firing the late Commercial Convention
"a Amber of Confederate soldiers were as
| ssmbled, and at an informal meeting, ii
was agreed that q memorial society should
be formed.
The general outlines of the society were
agreed upon, and one of the members was
selected to draw up in proper form, rules
necessary for a temporary organization,
which we give below.
All newspapers in the South, who are
| friendly to the organization, are requested
to publish the same, n all Confederate
soldiers who approve the plan are re-
quested TO hold meetings and organize
themselves into societies as indicated IN
the programme.
As soon as the temporary societies are
/ organized It is proposed to hold a conNen-
ton at some suitable place TO be named,
to which delegates can be sent from every
county and a more perfect and permanent
society formed.
" CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL SOCIETY -
TEMPORARY ORGANIZATION.
This association shall be called 1.-THE
Confederate Memorial Society"
D The object of this society is TO pay
proper respect to the Confederate dead,
and TO provide suitable charities for the
living.
2. There shall be one general society,
! and subdivisions of it shall be made into
| State. District, County and Company So
/ ~cieties.
4. To preserve the memory OF the tom
/ federate organization, the officers and
men of this society shall a rank and
/ precedence in all meetings of the society
or its subdivisions according 10 their
! rank at time of the surrender.
5. The officers of the general society
shall be Gen. r. f. Lee, President; Gen.
s. Cooper. Chief Secretary; the full Gen
| erals, Vice-Presidents in their order OF
rank; the Chief Quartermaster, Treasu-
rer.
6. In the State, district and county or
carnations, the officers shall beas follows:
The senior officer in the State, in the Con-
gressional district and in the county, shall
be President of the respective societies in
the state, district or county; provided
that the same man shall in no case be an
officer of more than one society. h
/ three officers next in rank in the respect
i've societies shall be Vice Presidents.
The Senior AdiutanJ General, Chief Sec
rotary, and the Senior Quartermaster,
Treasurer.
:. The counties shall be further subdi-
vided into companies. 10 be formed by
voluntary associations to suit the wishes
and convenience of the members, and to
be composed of not more than siXty-four
and moi less than twenty-four members.
The senior officers present always 10 pre-
side and command. And these companies
shall make bylaws for their government
not inconsistent withthe general purposes
Of the society.
s.. That on the 10th Of MAY, in each and
every year., all the members who can con-
venientlv do SO, shall meet in organized
bodies at some suitable point, and march
together underline command ofthe senior
officer present, to the graves of the on
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with flowers, with such appropriate Cere-
monies a. may hereafter be provided.
8. That voluntary contributions shall
be collected from time TO time, as occasion
may require, to provide for the disabled
soldiers, and the widows and orphans of
those who fell.
10. That printed rolls and rosters shall
he made out on the ISt of May III every
year, and forwarded 10 the next highest
society, showing the name and rank of
every member, and present position of
any officers of the society; and showing
all the deaths and-ehanges that may have
occurred since the last report, And that
in case of the death of az officer of the
society, the one next in rank shall sue
coed 10 his place.
II. That all members OF the organiza-
ton, who may be near enough at hand,
shall, as a body, attend the funeral of any
member who dies.
~. That no person shall he a member of
the society who was not a member Of the
Confederate army al the surrender, unless
he had previously been honorably dis
charged therefrOm; and that in case of
doubt when an application for member
ship is made, n committee of five shall be
appointed to examine and report upon
the eligibility of the applicant.
Is. That this rule shall be in force until
altered'by q more permanent organization
Of the society.