Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-16
CONFEDERATE ASSOCIATION.
Kesting Last NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. In Ref.
erence to the Remains Of General
Tyler Of Heroic Msmary, etc.

It's al
The usual semi-monthly meeting Of the
| Confederate Association was held in the
/ Municipal Court room yerterday evening,
Ex-Governor Harris ia the chair.
The report of the Historical COMMITTEES
was made through Major Dnncan, who
said that 1t was found difficult to get any
| thing on which to predicate a report. He
had written To several general officers
who took part in the Virginia campaign,
but nothing has come to hand as yet.
Captain Mathes, on the part of a COM
mittee that had been appointed on the re-
moval Of the remains of General Tyler
| from West Point, Ga, submitted the fol-
| lowing resolutions, which were adopted:
/ WHEREAS, In the formation we had in
view, and il was fixed intention
as far as u means would per-
nit us, to relieve the wants OF
those left among as in afiiction,
TO lend q hand of help to the wounded
and manned Confederate soldier, to col
lect together and preserve intact the his
torical "reminiscences Of the loYed lost
cause, and to guard and protect from in
suit or d~esecration of u gallant dead;
And Whereas, The Association has
learned with pleasure and extreme graf
ifcation, that General r. @. Tyler, who
fell bravely fighting at his post in Fort
Tyler, which was named after him, at
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decently and most h~onorably inferred by
the noble citizens of West Point, Ga,
and that his grave is adorned with sub
stantial decorations and ornamented with
the choicest of flowers, that the chivalrous
and patriotic people of Georgia, the State
in whose bosom rests thousands upon
thousands of our Confederate dead, and
whose name is linked with the recollec-
tons and histories of some of our greatest
I-~Nn,1 la-a-a that Nho EnunaTua 81 tho
gallant soldier shall rest where they laid
them; and
Whereas, We, the friends and some of
ths immediate eomrades-in-arms of Gen.
Tyler, believe that he loved Georgia no
less than Tennessee, hat the State of
Tennessee does not limit his patriotism,
that he was a soldier of the Confederate
States, that the South was his home, and
that he desired it to be his grave; there
fore be it
Resolved, That this Association tender
their thanks, in behalf of the Confederate
soldiers connected herewith, and of those
of our whole State, to the people of West
Point, Ga, for their patriotic and sacred
devotion to the memory of the gallant
General r. c.. Tyler.
Resolved, That we consider our State
honored, and we are assGredly proud on
account Of the interest taken in caring for
1Ia eGCAAAh5 WV A@N Va "a hoAA@AN
soldier by the good people of West Point.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolu-
ions be forwarded to the citizens of West
Point through their Mayor, attested by
the officers of this Association.
J. HARVEY MATHES,
r. DUDLEY FRAYSER,
Committee.
Swartzenberg sent five dollars, the pro-
ceeds of the Continental stove, which was
gratefully accepted.
A resolution passed instructing the
secretary to have a list of the members
made out and printed in the papers, On
tanning also a request, calling upon such
members as are in arrears to "come up"
and pay.
On motion, the Entertainment Commit
tee were instructed to make all necessary
arrangements for the forthcoming lecture
by DR.. Carmichael.
The future meetings of the association
viii convene on every alternate Thurs
day evening.
Adjourned.