The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-04-10
BILL APPS PHILOSOPHY.
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At last the graves of the Georgia SOL
diers who fell at Fredericksburg are
marked with marble head-stones, with
name and company and regiment, chisel.
ed deep into the rock. Mrs. Barney is
happy, and so are her noble companions
the ladies of the Memorial Society.
With them it has been a labor of love-
love that never grows weary. Only a
few months ago they made their appeal
to Georgia, and right well has Georgia
responded. Two hundred and three of
her patriot boys are sleeping there-far
away from home and kindred-kindred
whose loving hands would have brought
sweet flowers in their season and kept the
turf green upon their graves, and watered
them with tears. But loving hearts were
there, and those graves have not been
neglected. Woman can ever be trusted
to perform the sweetest, tenderest, holiest
duties that belong to our nature. The
poet says,
Mans inhumanity to man,
Makes countless thousands mourn.
But y noman's humanity makes as many
thousands rejoice. Mrs. Barney is no.
BILE Virginia woman-one who went
through the war like soldier, and Was
always on duty-duty to the sick and the
wounded and the dying duty in the hos.
pital and out of it-duty in the sacrifice
she made of personal comfort and per-
sonal security--duty TO Georgiaus and
Texans, and all, as we'll as to Virginians,
and ever since the war she has continued
on duty-duty to the dead who sleep near
her home. Not soldier under the sod
at Fredericksburg, but would say, if his
spirit could speak to us, she is my moth
er and my sister, That bloodstained
soil has always been ve:y dear to me, for
our Tom Cobb fell there. Tom Cobb, the
best loyed son of Georgia; the pride Of
all our people; the Christian hero; the
friend of humanity; the learned and
brilliant and noble gentleman. He was
in his prime of manhood and was my
ideal of noble man.
Mrs. Barney writes "If could only
see all these dear graves marked with
marble headstones, I would die happy.
We must hurry and get through this
work before the veterans are all dead, for
I fear that the next generation may be
too busy to think of them. There are
1900 graves here, graves Of southern
patriots none are permanently
marked, except those from Georgia. I
feel sure that the other States would re-
spond if there was some one to move
them. Virginia has done very we'll.
She has sent us $3.50; Texas has sent
sl42; Maryland, $40; Florida, So; North
Carolina, S6; South Carolina, So, Arkan.
sas, So and Tennessee So. know that
there is just as much patriotism in the
hearts of those people as there is in
Georgia, and all that is wanted is for
some good man or woman to awaken it.
The marble headstones that you sent US
are beautiful, the work we'll done and the
lettering perfect. They we're escorted
from the depot to the cemetery by a guard
of honor the Maury Camp of Confeder.
ate Veterans, under command Of Captain
Lee, brother of Fitz Hugh Lee and a
nephew of Robert E. Lee. With their
own soldier hands they took them from
the wagons and placed them in the
graves. 1t was a silent, impressive cere.
mony, for
Not drum was heard. nor funeral
note
The band very kindly offered their servi.
ces, but we thought best to dispense with
it. Georgia's patriotism shall be known
and published, and perhaps the other
States will soon awake and emulate her
example,"
Yes, they will know they will if the
women will take hold of the work.
There is not town or village in any
of those States that would not willingly
send ten dollars if some good woman
would see two other good women and
say: "Now let us 60 round this morning
and ask for a half dollar or quarter from
every man ne meet. Let us be in hur.
ry, and be in earnest We are very late
about this thing, but not too late. We
can raise ten dollars in an hour" If the
ladies will do this, they can raise a
thousand dollars in week. It will not
take that much from each State. Perhaps
FIVE hundred will do, but those good la
dies have long since laid the foundation
of monument to the unknown and
unrecorded dead, and they would rejoice
to get money to complete it. But let us
see to the graves Of the known and the
recorded dead, and if any money is left,
it will not be lost or misspent. The city
of Macon raised one hundred and fifty
dollars for the graves at Johnson's island,
and just so the cities of Nashville and
Chattanooga and Memphis and Birming-
ham and Admission and Montgomery and
Meridian and Jackson and others, still
| farther west, would gladly do likewise to
preserve the graves Of their own soldiers.
Patriotism demands it, and 30 does graft.
tude and State pride and southern pride.
Let every town and village send five or
ten dollars, and the good work is done.
Get the editor to help. Publish notice
that you are going to call next day on
everybody for half dollar, and say you
are obliged to have it and will stay until
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