The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-02-07
Home Con Confederate so .dicrs

A movement has been made in the
Virginia Legislative that will attract
attention throughout the South, and
which viii, we trust, obtain active
sympathy and substantial aid in this
part of the country, if not elsewhere.
1t is bill which has for its object the
establishment vi home for disabled
Confederate soldiers, Similar to t e
homes for Federal soldiers at Hump
ton Roads AMI at various points in
the North. The bill introduced in
the Virginia Legislature proposes TO-
provide such a home by the aid of
the State. =,
We are glad 20 note this evidence
OF reviping interest in the disabled
Survivors Of ''the lost cause" There
was a period, soon af5er'the war,
when a movement of this Kind would
have enlisted the active support of
all our people; bat the dpadening
influences OF time AID the hard strug-
gle which poverty has imposeI upon
our people, have eagrossed their at
tention to the neglect, somewhat, 0;
other duties. The State OF Georgia
has made provision for supplying
artificial limbs to her maimed SOL
diers, who are also, we believe, al
lowed to peddle without taking out
the usual license. Other States may
have done as mnch, or more, for
their veterans; but Virginia is the
first to inaugurate a movemest to
provide a permanent home for disa-
bled COME lerate soldiers who have
not the means to support themselves.
We trust the movement will be en-
tirelY successful, and that Georgia
and other Southern States will fol-
low her example, either by establish
ing a home for their own soliys or
by joining Virginia in building one
tor the whole South
twill not be out of place to men
ton a very interesting fact in this
connection The Federal govern
ment, as the people will remember,
went to work after the war and gath
ell up all the Union dead who hal
fallen upon the battle-felds of the
South, aud had them inferred in
large and well-arran.el cemeteries.
There are two OF these cemeteries in
Feorgia-one at Andersonyille, and
one in Marietta. The latter cemetery
occupies an elevated and picturesque
piece of ground, some forty acres in
extent, in which there are some
twelve thousand men and officers in
tered. The cemetery is enclosed
by substantial stone wall, and is
entered through a massive gate that
cost several thousand dollars The
ground is thoroughly sodded and
trees abound in every direction,
while the whole is kept in as fine o.
erby the officer in charge, as a gen
,ilemans private lawn.
GA neighboring bill, in full view
" ofk a1Sesaw mountain where Polk
fell is the Confederate cemetery, sur
rounded BY rickety wooden fence,
and covered with briars, bushes and
.broomsedge.
Some Boston gentleman and a re-
tired Major-General of the Federal
army, visiting the cemeteries the past
winter, suggested that the national
government ought to take charge of
them both, and give them tn SANE
care and attention; or, what would
be better, they thought the Confed-
crate dead should be removed to the
Federal cemetery and re-intemed
and q common monument erected to
tbs memory of both the blue and
the gray.
Nothing has come of this sagges-
tion thus far, and nothing is likely
10 come of it until the politicians of
the present generation shall have
followed the dead of both armies TO
the grave. Theresolutions introduce
ed in the Senate two days ago, by
Mr. Sherman, show hat the Repub-
lican party, still dominant in the
country, does not desire peace or
''good will among men.'-Telegraph
& Messenger.
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