The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1891-06-20
coNfIOtaATg AIsToaIo MATERIAL
An Address on the Subject toconfederate
Veterans and te Others Whom itMay
Concern, by the Mississippi Grand
Camps Special Committee

MERIDIAN. Miss. June IS, 81.
AT the first annual reunion Of
The Grand Camp of Confederate
Veterans OF Mississippi, IN Mrrl-
dian, Oct ibtr IA, lS90, the fol- /
lowing resolution was passed,
when explains itself, and IN COM
p.lance Herewith the underHgn-
ed were appointed committee
to carry into effect the purposes
ot the resolutions:
RESOLVED. That con. miltee
uf three be appointed, whose
duty II shall be to gather togeth
er aud compile ali matters Of IN
terest pertaining to battles camps,
rtc.. etc, Of the Confederate
army, for use OF historians, that
future generations may have the
facts sustained by evidence OF
living witnesses. Cummitte ap-
/ pointed: f.. II. Dial, Chairman
w. 5. Bell, Jas. G.. Jenkins.
In our efforts to discharge that
duty we adopt this means Of le
questing any and all who eau and
us IN the work outlined above 10
do 50 by writing accounts them
selves of the war events that
came within their own experience,
ard 10 present the matter TO
others, enlist their interest, and
induce them also to do the same.
All such material may be for-
wardcd to the Chairman of the
above committee at Meridian,
Miss, or to either of the other
members Of the committee.
You, the veterans, who have
seen the actual service of war
who have marched hungry upon
the frozen ground, fought upon
The field, lan IN the bitches
wuundeJ and cold, suffered IN
prisons-huve each facts and in
cden,s IN your knowledge which
posterl,y Y ought to have and know.
T We, the undersigned committee
appalnied to this task, most re-
speclfully request and urge upon
you to think seriously upon this
matter aud turn your hands to
the duty which you owe To your
selves, to your children, To hIs-
tory, To the honor Of your dead
comrades, to the honor of the
living, 10 your country. Wrfe
down your individual experience,
/ what YOU know Of the va!or Of
. your f"irnds, of the gallant be-
, hav,or of your company, of yoal
f regiment. of your brigade, Of he
army 20 which ynu belonged, OF
Your officers, what you remember
and know of camp fire sc'pes,
i battle Incidents, prlson life, short
5 Iatiuus, scanty clothing the smiles
and tears, the ioys aud the sor-
rows. thu Ia CHING and the weep.
: ing of :hc Confederate soldier
lle. The participants IN the wal
n will soon all have passed away
+ and will them must also pas,
: away these things unless you, u
: whose bosOms they are locked
"A up, choose to leave them as !
i legacy 10 your post riiy. OF
g a,easked To turn these, your treas
e ules, oven To us ln whatever torn
II you may chOose, and il will b
Il oul duty to compile and plac'
v them away where they can b.
: found and utilized by ary wht
may come honestly searching 70
!. just such crude ore or just sucl
, e~els and gems as these WI
rave to b..
The historian for the Soutl
: WllI want them 10 place upon hi
pages; thr poet will want then
i to make his songs out Of; lh
f, .ovrlisI will want them to CIV
{ ruth to his fclion; the painte
. will want them TO dip his hrushe
:. INTO; and he who essay 70 mems
: ure and compare the patriotic de
/ ,o;ipr of The ages, mast need
I rave Southern he,oism as exem
Dlifi.d in the conduct of the Con
federate soldiers and people L
], ace by the side Of the herolsn
+ other peoples, before he cal
: .ay with truth that in height o
! leplh, IN length or breadth, or il
- the people of anothe
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