The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1885-10-29
IFor the Asheville CITIzEE
The NewgOm Fund.

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Editors c Citizen:-Knowing the zeal with
which the press of the country come to
the rescue of all pr&iseworthy enterpris-
es, 1 beg leave to call the attention OF
your readers to the effort in behalf OF
the Newson Fund. Mrs Trader, DIETER
known as Newson) is now resident If
this City and she is widow and in q
destitute condition. In the late war she
spent all her means (then. ample) in
serving the Confederate cause in the
hospitals. Her sacrifices an d noble con-
duct are attested by thousands of the,
survivors of the Lest Cause. Col. T. b.
Roy, of Selma Ala. in letter Of the 18th
says: i)tr 44ft
AS Adt-General of uardee's l'orps,
OF the Army of Tennessee, during the
war, was personally cognizant Of the
sacrifices of Mrs, Ella X. Nrwtonl, on
behalf OF our sick and wounded, and any
return that Southern soldiers, or their
descendants, or kindred, can now make,
in her time of trial and adyersity, would,
to put it on The lowest plane, be but
paying a 1.-THE of the debt they owe her.
Yours very truly,
Many other testimonials ofthe highest
character can be produced.
Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and
Georgia have taken hold of this move
ment and We know hat gallant old
North Carolina, who sent her thousands
OF noble boys to the front, and furnished
history with the name of Stonewall
jackson, will not talter in such praise
worthy effort. Although twenty yeaTs
have passed since the feats of Appoma-
tox filled the South with the recollec-
tions of see les without a parallel in
modern times, we know the chivalrous
defenders of the Lost Cause" cannot.
and will not, forget the noble deeds of
her heroes and heroines. While the
names of a Lee, Jackson, Hill, q
Pender, will awaken the recollection Of
glorious deeds and acts of patriotic de
votion, the name of Mrs Newsom will
the admiration of the world
and kindie fame of devotion in all
true Southern hearts. Your bright eyed
boys who led the charge on so many
dark and bloody battle fields, and then
sent bleeding and dying to the lonely
Confederate Hospital, was met by. this
noble woman, who, standing over their
hard pallets of straw, shed angels smiles
and Administered comfort in the dread
ordeal of pain, sickness and death.
And this unceasing vigilance began
in September, soon after the ghastly
scenes of the FIRST Manassas had filled
the world with astonishment at SoLth-
ern proves and continued until the last
gun had rolled its dismal echoes into the
indescribable distance to be heard no
more. So time aCiH not destroy the patriotic
Grder Of the Southern Soldier As in the
case OF Napoleon, nineteen years after
his death, the French obtained his body
from England, all France was turned in
to a grand funeral procession. preceded
by the booming of cannan, ,tQllina of bells
and strsiss ~ aiafti ~ music. TA3Se ba11Ss
Of Seine were lined with thousands o
people, while the air was filed with
frenZjed shouts and cries and sobs of
Joy and congratulation. This grand pro-
cession was followed by 10000 soldiers
But We do not pay tribute to the great
warrior alone, the deeds Of seLf-sacrif,'e
md diSintereSted devOtiOR should be re-
not in bronzed monuments
in the affection Of the heart, more lasting
han marble or stone. ,- tr-G
Then remember, the object of this tri.
butte IL acOm0n-noble, angel-like UO
nan. She ignored wealth, defed fatte-
v, despised ponip and show. and Ivy day
md by night, stood around the couch of
he dying soldier. Would brave chris.
ian people let such u women suffer?
70.
kind hearts are more than coronets
And simple faith than Norman blood
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