Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-31

of the COnlouefaUe SOiu4eEs Durleu al
Gettysburg. They send us the follow
ing, accompanied by-a private letter
asking all the papers in Tennessee to
republish it:
AN APPEAL FOR THR OF TEE
CONFEDERATE DEAD AT GETTYSBURG.
BY correspondence and other means, it
has been brought to the special attention
of the Hollywood Memorial Association
of Richmond, hat over three thousand
Confederate soldiers are buried on and
near the battlefield of Gettysburg.
David Wills, Esq, Pre- sident of the Ma
tiOnal Cemetery Company, says in a letter
to General Fitzhugh Lee: "There has
never been any action by the Board of
| Managers OF the Soldiers National Ceme-
terry company here in reference to the dis
position of the remains of the Southern
dead lying on this battlefield. Neither is
there any action contemplated. The char
ter of the Association provides only for
the interment of the remains of those
who fell in defence of the Union.
"There should be something done with
the remains of the Southern soldiers.
There are about six hundred marked
| graves, and these are fast becoming OBJ
liberated. Their names might be pre-
served, and the remains gathered together
into a cemetery or burying ground, if any
one would take the MISTER in hand"
Their trusted chief, General r. E. Lee,
whom they followed, and fighting under
whose leadership they fell, approves the
plan of removing their bodies 70 our own
soil.
The Hollywood Memorial Association
have the disposition TO undertake this
work, but do not possess the ability I'M
less generously aided by friends through
out the South. They offer ample grounds
in their cemetery, and also the aid of their
Association to prosecute the work,
should it be found practicable to remove
the bodies to Richmond.
To accomplish this purpose, means must
be raised by the earnest efforts of the sur
vivors of the Confederate army, the
mothers, the sisters, and fathers, and
brothers, and friends Of the slain. Every
Southern State has representatives at
Gettysburg. VIII not active men and
women, in every city, and town, and
county, at once volunteer to collect anG
send contributions?
Mrs. GEO. W. RANDOLPH.
Mrs. r. L. LEE.
Mrs. J. l.. NJ. CURRY.
Communications and remittances may
be sent 10 Mrs. G.. W. Randolph, 404 Grace
street, Richmond, Va.
Southern papers are respectfully re-
quested to copy this appeal at once and
urge its claims upon the generous public.
The following is a list of the Ten
nessee graves at Gettysburg, which
can be identified:
il. c. Rosen, company b, 18th regiment.
James Fises, company G, 18th.
Lieutenant James NJ. Manley, company
G, LIST.
Sergeant ]. W. Williams, company A,
4th.
r,-,orol Thomas C;,,,,ons 1stb
H. S. Bradshaw, company G, 9TH.
w. G. Johnston, 7th.
Tennessee graves which cannot be
identified:
J. NJ. Frazor, company E, 9TH regiment.
J. Mitchell, company ID, LIST.
n. J. Hammer, 18th or l4th.
NJ C., LIST or 1lth.
We trust every paper in Tennessee
will respond to the request which
these ladies so earnestly make to pub
lish the above appeal, with the names
which can and cannot be identified.
And what is still more important,
we hope our citizens in every section of
the State will contribute something
toward aiding the ladies Of Virginia
in the noble, patriotic and humane
work in which they are engaged. The
bones of the Federal soldiers are taken
care Of by the government, but the
bones of the slain Confederate soldier
must be taken care of by ourselves.
We believe this will be done, for one
of the strongest feelings in our nature
is a reverence for the remains of de-
parted friends. And this feeling ex-
hibits itself with great power among
the widest and rudest savages that
roam the wilderness. The Indians
cherish great reverence for the bones
of their fathers. Indeed, it is the
strongest tie that binds them to the
soil, and TO protect them from des-
ecratiOn and insult, they are ever
ready TO hazard their own lives when
the encrOachments Of civilization have
driven them far from the fine hunting
grounds of their ancestry. No thought
so fills the bosom of an Indian savage
with sadness as the reflection that the
graves of their fathers have been left
behind them. Nothing more easily
arouses them to deeds of blood and
vengeance, than to know that the
pillow Of the white man has opened
those sacred deposits and scattered
their ashes to the irreverent winds. J
The earliest annals of our race mani
fest, in a most striking manner, the
vigor and Universally of a similar
feeling among more cultivated ma
lions. The pyramids and tombs of
the dead have outlived the palaces
for the living, and the very names
of their founders, and the embalmed
bodies of the ancients are among the
most venerable antiquities that have
descended to us. Civilization, refine
ment and religion have neither weak
ened nor limited thesinfluence of this
feeling, although they may have rem
dered its expression more rational.
The tender clinging of the soul to the
clay of departed loved ones, when the
spirit that animated the body and
warmed the heart r gone, evinces
its power. The ardent desire of the
soul for pOsthumous fame has fire.
quently been cited as an evidences of
the immortality of the soul. Why
may not the strong impossible desire
that when we die our bodies shall be
with respect and honor,
and be deposited where friends
may visit them and drop over them
the tears of fond regret and affection,
and where no rude, unfeeling hand
may modest them, be cited as an evil
1ence of the resurrection of the body
and its reunion with the immortal
spirit. One Of the most touching in
eidences Of this desire is recorded in
history of the patriarch Jacob.
Feeling that death was near, he sent
for his son Joseph, and made him
swear in the most solemn manner
that he would deal kindly with him,
and not bury him in Egypt; for, says
he, g viii lie with my fathers" Andj
when he gathered his sons around his
dying bed his last and most solemn
was that they should bury him
with his fathers in the field of Michpe-
Ian, 'fOr there they buried Abraham
and Sarah his wife; there they buried