The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-30
A CALL.
Col UMBus, Miss Jan. n

Headquarters Department East of
the Mississippi, United confed
crate Veterans. Generals Or
ders No, 4,
The lieutenant general CON-
handing invites the attention OF
all Confederate veterans to, and
heartily commends the patriotic
suggestions of Colonel Charles
Broadway Rouss, of New York
city-who, in the war between the
states, was a comrade in the cav
airy corps, army of northern Viz
ginia--looking to the establish
ment and maintenance of a M.
tional Memorial association, in and
by which Ito perpetuate the men,
ories of the glorious struggle of
the South for constitutional rights,
to pay deserved tribute to the
heroic deeds of their fallen com
rades, to furnish an inspiring oh
Iiect lesson to their descendants
and to leave to posterity enduring
proofs of the courage, loyalty and
devotion 10 duty of the confeder-
ate soldier"
! For the erection of the necessary
buildings and to provide adequate
fund for the permanent mainten-
ance ofthe contemplated Memorial,
it is estimated that the sum OF
5000 900 will be necessary, to be
raised as now outlined in the form
OF subscriptions to an incorporated
body, with the stated capital and
stipulated valuation of shares, un-
der a board Of administrators,
charged with the organization and
management Of the association, to
, be composed of the surviving Con.
federate officers of the highes,
rank, who, after organizing, will
: alone receive donations and sub
scriptions to the stock to be issued
by them; and that none might be
; excluded from participation in the
patriotic undertaking. it is contem'
plated that the par value Of the
stock be fixed at $40. per share.
r It is the purpose Of this general
order to enlist interest at once in
E the proposed Memorial, and to
] urge upon the nine surviving rank
D ing confederate officers to meet al
: an early date, organize the board
q of administrators, and formulat,
e the details Of organization, so thai
J.. the Veterans and their sympathiz
I ers everywhere will be placed il
5 possession Of the purpose, scop'
{ and extent Of the movement, ant
+. be prepared to consider and per
+. lect the uneompleted details Of thu
4 work, when they meet in Reunion
s at Houston. Texas, next April.
Let il be understood that III,
D cont emplated memorial will in NJ
! wise antagonize, but rather sup
! plement the existing memorial or
! CARNATIONS here and ther,
3 throughout the late confederat,
r States.
As well said by comrade Rouss
1.-THE mementos Of the struggle o
l the South aud the evidence of her
glorious prowers in the field ar,
. scattered broadcast over the coun
. try. Should they not be collected
and provision be made for theil
preservation as a rich inheritanc,
> for our children and a patriotic oh
> ject lesson for generations TO con. e
To this eloquent appeal we believ,
j the responsive answer ofail true ex
confederates will be, YesI Thef
as our ranks are being rapidly
thinned By the scythe Of time, lei
the comparatively few Of US thai
remain, at once take the matter ID
, hand, and labor for the realization
: of the prophetic vision and joyou,
hope Of the patriot orator Senator
Daniel, Of virginia-in the consu
nation Of a complete Battle Abbey
in which the figure of Jefferson
Davis shall be the central object
> and around which shall begroupet
heroic relics Of the battle Of til,
coniederaey, and the pictured faces
and sculptured forms Of the grea,
and true and braye men who fought
them. An undying memorial d
Q of the people who fought their owr