Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-26
CONFEDERATE HOME.
BEADoRs DEPT EAST MISSISSIPPI.
UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS
CoLUMBUs, Miss Janu ary 10, 1S9'

| BEADQRS DEPT. EAST MISSISSIPPI
| UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS
CoLUMBUs. Miss January 10, 1870. )
| General Orders No. 4.
The Lieutenant General Command
| ing invites the attention of all Conied-
crate Veterans to, and heartily COM
mends the patriotic suggestions of Col.
Charles Broadway Rouss, of New York
city-who, in the war between the
States, was comrade in the cavalry
corps, Army of Northern Virginia
looking to the establishment and main,
tenance Of national memorial asso-
citation, in and by which "to perpetaate
the memories of the glorious struggle
of the South for constitutional rights,
to pay deserved tribute to the heroic
deeds of their fallen comrades, TO fur
nish an inspiring object lesson to their
descendants and leave to posterity en-
during proofs of the courage, loyalty
and devotion to duty of the Confeder-
ate SOLDIER
For the erection of the necessary
buildingsIaud to provide adequate fund
for the permanent maintenance of the
contemplated memorial, it is estimated
that the sum of two hundred thousand
dollars will be necessary, to be raised
as now outlined in the form ofsubscrip-
tions to an incorporated body, with the
stated capital and stipulated valuation
of shares, under board Of administra-
tors, charged with the organization aud
management OF the association. to be
composed of the nine surviving Confed-
crate officers of the highest rank, who,
after organizing, will alone receive do
nations and subscriptions to the stock
to be issued by them; and that none
might be excluded from participation
in the patriotic undertaking, it is con-
templated 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 propos-
ed memorial, and to urge upon the
nine surviving ranking Confederate
officers to meet at an early date, organ
ize the Board Of Administrators, and
formulate the details of organization,
so that the veterans and their sympa
thizers everywhere will be placed in
possession of the purpose, scope and
extent of the movement, and be pre-
pared to consider and perfect the un-
completed details of the work, when
they meet in reunion at Houston, Tex
as, next April.
Let it be understood that the con-
templated memoria! will in no wise
antagonize, but rather supplement the
existing memorial organizations here
and there throughout the late Confed
erat, States.
AS we'll said by Comrade Rouss: "The
mementoes of the struggle OF the South
and the evidence of her glorious
proves in the field are scattered
broadcast over the country. Should
they not be collected and provision be
made for their preservation as a rich
inheritance for our children and
patriotic lesson for generations to
Gomez" To this eloquent appeal we
believe the responsive answer of all
true ex .Confederates will be, Yes! Then
as our ranks are being rapidly thinned
by the scythe of time, let the compara-
t;vely few of us that remain at once
take the matter in hand and labor for
'Se realization of the prophetic vision
on, Joyous uope vi lHo pau ioeiS oiotoi
Sano, Con- >Qr Daniel, of Virginia-in the
oonSnm oon~ ~istior of a completed Battle
Abbey Abbey. in which the figure Of Jeffer-
son % Davis sb Ill be the central object,
and and al around ~ ,>bich shall be grouped
baro;c hau ralics of IN a battles of the Con-
federacy, and the pictured. faces face and and
sculptured forms of tie great tse ana tfue a
and brave men who fought them. An AN
undying memorial OF the men men VINO VINO
fought their own battles in tneir own
way, for their own liberty as tney con on
ceived it. for their own independcnce
as they desired it, and who neeo giVe' "
the world no other reason why"
BY command of ,aD
Lieutenant-General S. D.LEE.
S. T. SYKES,
Adiutant. General and Chief of Staff.