The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-02-16
WINSTON-SALEM INVITED
To Lend a Helping Hand in the ErGC-
tiOn Of Two Monuments
In HONOR OF EX-PRESIDENf DAVIS.

A ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to be Held in
Richmond, Va. on April 18th
Private Henry l.. Wyatt, of North
Carolina, the First Confederate
Soldier KilledIat Big Bethel.
The Ladies' Hollywood Memorial
Association, aided by the Junior Hol
lywood, the lakewood and Hebrew
Memorial Associations, and all the
Confederate Veteran Camps, will
hold a bazaar for the benefit of the
! monument now being raised to the
Private Soldier and Sailor of the Con.
federacy, and for the Confederate
Museum, to he established in the
house in which President Jefferson
Davis resided during the war. This
house having been given to the ladies
by the city of Richmond, they ask the
help of every man, woman and child
in order that the entire South may
share in the honor of. erecting
these two monuments.
Each Confederate State will be rep
resented by table bearing its name,
shield and colors, and articles receiv-
ed will be given to the table which
may be designated by the donor.
1t is BETTING that to the dauntless
these two monuments be raised in the
Capital of the Confederacy, the one
spot which can never lose its identity
with the cause for which they strug-
gled and died.
Money and articles, large and
small, for table or restaurant, for use
or beauty, should be addressed to me
mortal Bazaar" Richmond, Va.
All packages forwarded free by
Southern or Adams Express Com
panies.
Name and residence of the consig-
nee should be in the corner, but not
given as part of the address.
Among the articles already sent in
for the North Carolina tent, are a
number of bullets and a shell found
on the battle fields around Freder-
icksburg. These relics were accom-
panied by the following letter:
IN MEMORY OF PRIVATE HENRY L.
WYATT.
He was the only Confederate sol
der killed in the battle of Big Bethel,
below Williamsburg, Va, on June 10,
1861. General J. B. Magruder, com.
handing the Department of the
Peninsula, THIS mentions Private
Wyatt in his report to the Secretary
of War of the Southern Confederacy:
Henry l.. wyatt is the name of the
brave soldier and devoted patriot 81
He was member of the brave and
gallant First North Carolina regi-
ment. This was the first soldier kill
ed in the first battle between the
Confederates who volunteered to ad-
vance beyond our line of battle and
burn a small house in which some
Northern soldiers while firing were
protecting themselves. In this ven
ture Wyatt alone was killed. The
Northern troops were completely
routed"
1t is desired that each donation,
articles and money, should be sent
lin memory" of some one soldier, Off
Ger, commander, battle of victory, ac-
companied by short sketch of the
same. These sketches will be presery-
ed and kept on file in the museum,
thus placing on record for all times
names and memories which otherwise
would perhaps be known to but very
few.
Other towns in the State have
promised to extend a helping hand in
the Bazaar and the friends of the
cause in Winston-Salem are invited
to contribute something and thereby
aid in making the event grand sue
cess.