Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-09

4 20 the artist. Mrs. Scales sent large
| picture, a splendid likeness, OF General
| afterwards Governor A. NJ. Scales, or
| North Carolina. Miss Rebecca Schenck, or
| Greensboro, ~. c., sends beautiful pic
ture Of Stephen ID. Ran'seur, general Oh
| North Carolina State Troops. Mrs hu-
/ fus Barringer sends a large picture
| OF General Rufus Barringer, brisadier-
| general OF North Carolina Troops. Mrs.
| Fannie WaddeiI sends a picture OF Cap
| tain James Iredell Waddeil, and his yes
| sci. the Shenandoah. Mrs. j. /. Mckee
| sends a handsome engraving Of her Ia
| ther, Dr. Charles Il. Johnson, surgeon
| general Of North Carolina State Troops.
! Or. Peter f. Hines, medical director or
| General State Hospitals OF North Caro-
| lima, sends a fine picture Of himself
| A picture Of Governor John w Ellis
was sent by his wife. Mr.. Ellis was
| Governor of North Carolina from 1919 10
| 1861. He was reelected In 1861, and
served until his death, which occurred
| I'm 1862. With the picture came a beau
| tiful flag. presented to him by the young
| ladies' OF ST. Marys School. Raleigh, in
| 1861. At his funeral the flag was craped
around his coffin.
There is a large picture OF Henry
| wyatt, the first martyr OF the war
| There is a picture OF General Junius
| Daniel. There are also his drum ana
sword, and a cane cut from spot near
where he was killed at spotsylvania
| Courthouse, On the 18th OF May, 1861.
| Mrs I. Walker Of North Carolina.
] sends a picture OF her father, Governor
| John L. Morehead. He was the Peace
| Commissioner sent from North Carolina
| to meet President Lincoln.
Mr.. Thomas Atkinson has given
| fine picture of Bishop Thomas Atkinson
| He might be called our peace commits
I sioner after the war, as he was instru-
| mental in bringing the Episcopal churches
! North and South together.
A. fine oil painting OF General K. ID.
| Johnston has been lent the room from
| Birmingham. Ala.
| There Is large frame OF smaller
| p,ctures. among them one OF Mr.. George
| Davis, Acknowledgement In President
| Davis's Cabinet; one Of General ID. IL
| HILL and pictures OF General Matt Ran
| som. General Lawrence Baker, OF the
\ North Carolina Cavalry: Colonel James
| T. Morehead, Of the Fifty-third North
| Carolina State Troops; Colonel Hamilton
| c. Jones, Of tho Fifty-seventh North
| Carolina state Troops; Colonel Charles
| Courtney, general OF the Second Regi-
ment State Troops. and Mr.. Julian 5.
| Carr. OF North Carolina
| A handsome case has been donated by
| Colonel John w. Gordon 10 hold the ef-
| fects OF the gallant Major-Generl W. ID.
| Pender. In the case are the suit or
gray In which General Fender was killed;
| his feld-glasscg. his hat, his spur, the
brass candlesticks which he used wniie
| in camp: his commission as lieutenant
| IN the United States army which was
given him while Pesident Davis was Sec
retary OF War; his commissions as major
| and brigadier-general, Confederate states
army; also his Bible and Prayer-Book.
In the case Is also a coat OF Colonel
| John L. Bridgcrs, who was lieutenant
| colonel OF the Tenth Artillery at Fort
| Macon. N. c., and afterwards on the
| stan OF General d. II. Hin.
There Is a large frame filled with
important dispatches from President
Davis to Governor Ellis, as well as let
ters Of coincidence TO Mrs. Ellis on the
death Of her husband. This was given
by Mr.. Ed Strudwick.
| A North Carolina State bond, framed,
was given by Mrs. Wingo. or Richmond
A memorial from the soldiers OF Cleve-
/ land county, ". c., 10 the North
Carolina Room Of the Museum has been
| neatly framed. It contains this glorious
war record: Out OF a voting population
! OF !. 500 In 1850. Cleveland county gave tho
! Confederate army 200 men.
! There has been given a large picture
/ of the Confederate ram Albemarle.
A beautiful flag that adorns the wall
was given by the Edgeworth-School girls
to the Guiford Grays, Company y,
Tvrenty-seyenth North Carolina ktate
Troops.
! A lovely panel made by Miss Emma
/ whitfield IS one OF the prettiest things
| in the room, and contains the war record
| OK North Carolina, wreathed In lovely
/ flowers.
There is a large ebonized case which
has been made moth and dust PROOF,
which ensures the safekeeping OF al
relics sent 7. II are small pictures OF
General Junius Daniel General Pender,
and General Pettgrew. with sketches or
each Of these gallant soldiers; roll OF
| the Confederate dead Of North Carolina
In Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond; an
address on the life and character OF
/ MajOr-General Stephen ID. Ramseur' py
Hon. William r. Cox; an Grafton on the
| life and character Of General Lawrence
| OfBrien Branch, by Major John Hughes;
the memorial address OF Major Graham
Dawes. OF New Berne, n. c., on the lie
and services OF General James Johnston
/ Pettigrew; also that OF Captain II. A.
| London on the life and services OF Briga-
dier-General Bryan Grimes, and sketch
OF Major Thomas w. Mayhem, or the
! Thirty-third Regiment, North Carolina
| Troops.
Mrs. c. w. Mclean sends buttons cut
| from the coat of General r. Il. Lee; also,