Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-11-01

at the Court House i'm GAINESVILLE on
Friday, October "A, 1884, at l1o'clock
q. m.
Our comrades Of the 10th, AID, 18th
aud 5Oth Tennessee Regiments re-
member the motherly kindness of
this good woman, who ministered to
them when prisoners of war at Chi
cago, Ill.,, In 1852, and to show their
appreciation of her noble action and
grateful remembrance Of the same,
meeting of Confederate soldiers Is
called at the Circuit court room, at
the Court House i'm Clarksvilie, on
Friday, at IL o'clock a. m, October
"a, 1884. All citizens, ladies espe-
cialIy, are invited to attend.
10th Tennessee.
A' 18th Tsnnesssea.
]. ]. Crusman, ID. +. wright
I'D Tennessee.
w. A. Quarles, L. M. Nolen,
J. F. Bailey. w. r. Young,
r. NJ Atkins Thos. II. Smith,
r. Y Johnson, Polk q. Johnson,
50th Tennessee.
Chas. w. Tyler, John I'D. Moore, Isl
- Woodwards Cavalry.
VIM. r. Bringhurst. &. d. Bell.
10th Tennessee Cavalry.
Dortch's Cavalry.
henry Aerri' draeey,s Battery, ni "'
F. P. Gracey.
On motion of Elk. u. S. Senator
James Z. Bailey, Col. 49th Tennessee
C. S. A, Brig. Gen.: William A.
Quarles was called to the chair.
Upon taking the chair, Gen. Quarles
paid high tribute to the many viz
tues of the noble woman whose
memory we had met to commemo-
rate. m sBtEtt
The chair appointed Lieut.. Polk
G. Johnson, 49th Tennessee, Secre-
tary; w. O. Brandon, Clarksville
TOBACCO LEAF, b. M. De(3raffenrled,
GAINESVILLE Democrat and r. III.
Yancy, GAINESVILLE Chronicle, assis-
tant secretaries.
The meeting being organized was,
opened with prayer by DIR. j. w.
LuptOu, OF the Presbyterian Church.
On motion Of Capt. Thomas III.
Smith, of the 10th Tennessee, the
following committee on resolutions
was appointed
Captain Thomas III. Smith, 49th
Tennessee Infantry, chairman Capt.
Lewis II. Clark, 10th Tennessee In
fantry Private J. M. Rogers. 18th
Tennessee Infantry; Maj. ID. F.
Wright, Surgeon, 14th Tennessee In
fantry; Private T. A. Turner, AID
Tennessee Infantry; Col. James +.
Bailey, 18th Tennessee Infantry :
Lieut.. Chas. w. Tyler, 50th Tennes-
see Infantry; Austin Peay. Wood
wards Cavalry; Maj. John Minor,
10th Tennessee Cavalry; Lieut.. Ell.
G. Merritt, Morgan's Cavalry; Capt.
+. P. Gracey, Cobb's Battery; L. ].
Munford, 154 Tennessee Infantry
Capt. w. ID. Taylor, Prices Army,
of Mo. Lieut.. A. NJ. Trawick, 10th
Arkansas Regiment Private T. ID.
Lucket, MOrgan's Cavalry Capt. j.
w. Scales, LOngstreet's Staff.
The committee retired and upon
their return reported, through their
chairman, the following resolutions:
IN MEMORY OF MARY BLACKBURN
NORRIS.
In all the epochs of civilization in
dividuaIs have arisen equal to the
demands of the occasion. Whether
il be to lead the councils of nations
in the Senate, the soldiers in the field,
OF to lift alOft and protect from cor
rupting influences the banner of
God, Holy Religion. Whatever may
be the demand of the occasion by an
influence acting either from within
the human heart or mind, or without
from the direct interpOsition OF prOvi-
dence, the individual comes along
with it, cO-eval and eO-equal to the
duty of the hour. Etlff3
Not only is this true with reference
to men, but women grow with the
demand. Her frail form becomes en-
ergized, is braced as with iron nerves,
and her gentle spirit puts on the
courage and strength Of the lion.
The demands for such eXaltatiOn of
human character are not sOfrequentas
TO render their number in the history
of our human kind very great, but
here and there along the roadway of
civilization they stand, like the finger
boards of time, at once directing and
Illuminating the way. Ii Ia some
revolution in affairs grand OccasiOns)
that give birth to these grand men
and women. We might call from
history a list OF such names, but
prefer to let our own country and our
own wOmanhOod furnish the illus
tratiOn, and that too iH the person of
her whose memory we have met to
honor, and to do this we will have to
recur to the past and some of its, to
us, familiar history.
On the 22d Feb, 1862, the first OF
the Confederate prisoners OF war ar
rived at camp Douglas, in the
suburbs of the city of Chicago, Ill.
These happened to be mainly of the |
49th, 42h and Goth Tennessee Infan-
try regiments. all of Montgomery
county, with ThOs. III. Smith, SER
geant, as the ranking officer, (fOr all |
the commissioned officers, upon what |
was then Thought to be line Of good |
policy by the Federals, were sepa- |
rated from the nOn-commissiOneda and |
privates and sent to Johnson Island |
or Fort Warren), thus leaving the |
regiments without their commits |
stoned officers, II was thought they |
could the more readily be induced to |
take the oath of allegiance, or desert
their flag aud its cause.
Little did they know the material |
Of which these regiments were COM
posed and but little time was neces-
sary to show that the private was
in all RESPECTS the equal and often the
superior of his company or regiment
al officer.
On this day, cold, hungry, weary,
wet with the falling snow and rain,
without adequate protection in cloth
Dg or shelter, they stood in little
groups of shivering, hungry men,
with nothing to sustain them but
heir indOmitable spirit of manhood
md patriotism.
Ii happened they were placed In
he barracks from which a Federal
egiment had that day been sent to
he front. Fortunately for our poor
elbows they had, out Of their album
lance, left here and there crumbs