Louisiana capitolian., 1881-08-11
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Our Confederate Veterans.

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er basis. Heretofore the members have
been admitted without any initiation
fee; neither have they been required 10
pay dues or attend meetings.
In consequence, tue Association has
been unable to accomplish any other
result than to assemble, by the free will
Of its members, at two or three meetings
or reunions, and OH the occasion Of the
visit Of the Army of Tennessee to this
city.
No organization can be found that
will he nearer to the hearts of or peo-
pie, than one composed Of onr veterans.
some of whom fought on almost every
battlefield, from Gettysburg to Mans
field.
While it may be held that the only
condition required Of member should
be that he served the South faithfully.
yet, organizations cannot exist solely
OH such foundation Hard though
il may geem, members must contribute
for the maintenance of the Associations
to which they belong, If they would
have the public to hold them IN esteem,
aud accomplish meritorious acts
The Louisiana Division Of the Army
of Northern Virginia with its perfect
organization, has won the wafm aztec
tlons Of the people to such an extent
that they have been enabled, in Il few
years of work, to construct q vault ca.
pabIe of receiving twenty-five hundred
OF its dead, over which stands q monu.
ment sulmounted by the statue of the
illustrions Stonewall Jackson.
Thus has it bequeathed to New Or
leans and to rosterity monument
whose value cannot be computed in dol.
lars and cents.
The Army of Tennessee is successfully
Engaged in similar undertaking.
Ii does seem to us that the large mum.
Der of ex- Confederate soldiers in this
city and section ought to remember
that across the Mississippi, nearly OPP
posite.the Capitol resided q planter who,
when the drums beat the assembly. in
1861, enlisted as a private soldier in the
Fourth Louisiana Infantry of which he
soon rose to be the heroic and beloved
Colonel and who, in that capacity, fell
desperately wounded at their head on
the field of Baton Rouge, on the 5th of
August 1852.
They ought to remember him Us the
disabled veteran whom the ldye aud
confidence of the people elevated to the
highest trust, that Of Governor of the
State oi Louisiana, anu who, after set.
ting ah example of the purcst devotion
to duty and country, retired, when the .
cause was lost, to die from his wounds I
in foreign land
They ought to remember that Baton
Rouge, the Capital of Louisiana, his
home, almost. where he received his
death wound. is pte.entiuently the spot
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