Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-11-11
CONFEDERATE RELIEF.
Tsieresfing Proceedings.x Brief
Addreas

Adjourned Meeting of the society
Interesting Pr0ceedfngs-A Brief
Address.
An adjourned meeting Of the Confed-
crate Relief and Historical Society was
held last evening in the Second Circuit
Court room, the president, Governor
Isham G. Harris, in the chair. Captain
j. Harvey Mathes ofIiciated as secretary.
Owing TO the fact that Rev. Dr. Carmi-
chael was announced to deliver the
initial lecture before the society, a large
number of ladies graced the meeting with
their presence.
Major X, p. Duncan, from the Histor-
ical Committee, reported that the follow
ing gentlemen had been selected to fur
nish the society any information within
their knowledge, any facts of the war,
and as complete history Of their com
mands as they may deem possible: -
Major Walter Goodman, A A Gen,
Chalmers Cavalry Div; Major Lambert,
Maj Gen Withers staff; DR. X W Mitchell,
18th Tennessee; Capt J j DnBose, kir-,
by Smith command; Major G W Frazer
A A General; Lieut. James A Lowden,
Colton's regiment, from Mississippi;
Major John P Strange. A A General,
FORESTS Staff Col. John W Dawson,
l5sth Tenn INIT; Capt James G Barbour,
McDowefs Battalion; Col James c
Fizer, 18th Mississippi Regiment; Major
Isaac N Davis, Gen Forests Staff Capt
w II Rhea I'd Tennessee Regiment; Col
John G Ballentine, Ballentines Regiment
Mississippi Cavalry; Jacob Thompson,
1t Col 32d Mississippi egimenti Col
Robert Snowdon, 18th Mississippi regi-
ment 1t Col w l. Duff, 8th Mississippi
cavalry; Brig Gen w Y G Humes,
Humes' Brigade; Major General Pat
ton Anderson, Anderson Division;
James Il Beasley, 4th Tennessee
Infantry; Ben 7 Reeves, do; Capt II NJ
Nicely, 3Sth Tennessee Infantry; Capt
James A Wigg, Chief Of Artillery Gen M
J Wrights staff; f A Tyler, Sd Missis-
sippi Cavalry; Col Joseph Barbiere, Sd
Regiment Alabama Reserves; Rev Car
michael, Chaplain 30th Regiment Vir-
ginia Infantry; RevJ I Wheat, Chaplain
Forrest Hospital, North Carolina; 1T
Col II Dudley Frayser, 37th Tennessee
Infantry.
The President trusted that the gentle
men appointed would discharge the duty
to which they had been assigned prompt
ly and at their earliest convenience.
On motion, the sum of $75 was appro-
priated to pay for one of the bands that
performed at the funeral obsequics Of
the late General r. Il. Lee.
Rev. DR.. Carmichael was then intro
duced, and said that he appeared before
the ladies and gentlemen present to
solicit their sympathy for the Confederate
Relief Association, which had beer or
ganized to give succor to the Confed-
crate widow and the Confederate orphan,
and in this respect he would speak Of
woman's influence. In the late Crimean
war, when three OF the mightiest nations
of the earth met in deadly conflict, the
name of one woman became celebrated
the world over That woman was Flor
ence Nightingale; but they could point
to hundred Florence Nightingales who
we're in the hospital tending the wounded,
and speaking words of comfort TO the
dying. A celebrated historian once re-
marked that loving woman could har-
monte a living tyrant; and as womans
influence was so potent, he entreated
the ladies to give their aid in carrying
out the objects of the society; and
although their earnest hopes had been
trailed in the dust, by the influence Of
woman,
''Bertrnm's might and Bertram's right
Woald meet on Ellengowan's hight"
Applause, amid which DR.. Carmichael
resumed his seat.
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