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Confederate Memorial.
HDQRs. DEP. EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI !
UNITED CoNFED. VETERANS,
COLUMBUS, Miss, Jan. 10, '95.

UNITED CONFED. VETERANS,
COLUMBUS, Miss, Jan. 10, 49, }
GENERAL ORDERS
No. 4.
The Lieutenant General Commanding IN
yites the attention of all Confederate Veter-
ans to and heartily commends the patriotic
suggestions of Col. Chas. Broadway Rouss,
of New York City-who, in the war between
the States, was comrade in the Cavalry
Corps, Army of Northern Notwithstanding
to the establishment and maintenance OF
National Memorial Assn in and by which
"to perpetuate the memorials of the glorious
struggle of the South for Constitutional
rights, to pay deserved tribute to the he
ROC deeds of their fallen comrades, to fur
nish an inspiring object lesson to their de-
scendants and to leave to posterity enduring
proofs of the courage, loyalty and devotion
to duty of the Confederate soldier"
For the erection of all the necessary build
ings and to provide an adequate fund for the
permanent maintenance of the contemplated
Memorial, it is estimate that the sum of
Two Hundred Thousand Dollars will be me-
cessary, to be raised as now outlined In the
form of subscription TO an incorporated
body, with the stated capital and stipulated
valuation of shares, under the Board of Ad-
ministrators, charged with the organization
and management of the Association, to be
composed OF the nine surviving Confederate
officer of the highest rank, who, after organ
izing, will alone receive donations and
subscriptions to the stock to be issued by
them, and that none might be excluded from
participation in the patriotic undertaking,
it is contemplated that the PAR value of the
stock be fixed at Ten Dollars PER share.
1t is the purpose of this general order to
enlist interest at once in the proposed Me-
mortal, and to urge upon the niue surviving
ranking Confederate officers to meet at an
early date, organize the Board of Admins
traitors, and formulate the details of organi-
cation, so that the Veterans and their SYM
pathizers will be placed in possession of the
purpose, scope and extent of the movement,
and be prepared to consider and perfect the
uncompleted details of the work, when they
meet in the reunion at Houston, Texas, next
April.
Let it be understood that the contempla-
ted Memorial will in no wise antagonize,
but rather supplement the existing Memoir
ial organizations here and there throughout
the late Confederate States.
As well said by Comrade Rouss: "The
mementos of the struggle of the South and
the evidences of her glorious proves in the
field are scattered broadcast over the coun-
try. Should they not be collected and pro-
vision be made for their preservation as a
rich inheritance for our children and a pa
triotic object lesson for generations 10 Gomez"
To this eloquent appeal we believe the re-
sponsive answer of all true ex- Confederates
will be, eyes p Then as our ranks are being
rapidly thinned by the Scythe of Time, let
the comparatively few of us that remain, at
once take the matter in hand, labor for the
realization of the prophetic vision and joy
Gus hope of the patriotic orator Senator
Daniel, of Va in the consumation of
complete Battle Abbey, in which the Gig
ure of Jefferson Davis should be the central
object, and around which should be grouped
the heroic relics of the battles of the Con-
federacy, and the pictured faces and SOUP
tured forms of the great and true and brave
men who fought them. An undying mo-
mortal of the people who fought their own
battles in their own way, for their own lib
erty as they conceived it, for their own in
dependence as they desired it, and who need
give to the world no other reason why"
BY command of
LIEUT. gen. S. ID. LEE.
Z. L. SYKES,
Adjutant- General and Chief of staff.