The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-15
CONFEDERATE RELICS.
5ENERAL ORDER IN REFERENCE TO
THEIR COLLECTION.
4 Memorial Hall to be Built in Which to
Preserve Them--The Money Being; Col
lected to Erect the building.

lected to Erect the building.
HEADQUARTERS
UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS,
New ORLEANS, La. Dec. Z, 1895. }
GENERAL ORDERS No. 155.
The progress made by the able and
distinguished committee appointed in
General Orders Nos. 145 and 149 from
these headquarters to examine into and
report upon the plan submitted by the
great philanthropist and benefactor,
Charles Broadway Rouss, for the es-
tablishment ola grand Memorial Hall,
where Confederate relics and memen-
toes are to be deposited for all time,
and which is to become the Battle
Abbey of the South, must be very
gratifying to the old veterans and to
all those who cherish the memories of
the courage and heroism of her sons,
and the unparalleled devotion of her
noble and self-sacrifcing women.
This splendid committee has now
successfully launched the grand en-
terprise, and through their action and
that of the subcommittee, have for
mulated mode of procedure which,
if energetically carried ont, cannot
fail of success.
It Will be remembered that the gen
erous and large-hearted donor, Mr..
Charles Broadway Rouss, who alone
conceived this projest for the perpetu-
alton of the history and glory OF MS
countrymen, presented plan for its
consummation to the veterans at the
Houston reunion, at the same time
subscribing $1,000 as his individual
subscription to assist in carrying out
his grand views and ideas, conditioned
upon the veterans raising like
amount.
To raise this s1OO,C0 additional and
enough more to endow and insure the
perpetuation of the institution, is the
problem which now occupies the at
tention and efforts of the committee.
It is believed that one-half OF the
amount required will be raised through
the subscription of the more than So
900 members of the U. @. V. Associa-
ton, and which will entitle them to
certificates showing their contributions
thus giving each contributor an inter
est in this glorious enterprise which IS
so near and so dear to the heart of ev-
cry veteran-and it is considered to be
sure and beyond peradventure, that
the other half or balance, whatever
may be required, will be raised by the
noole women of the South.
The committee suggests that the
most feasible manner of reaching the
desired object is to set apart Memo
rial Festival Day." and they ask that
the General commanding will desig-
nate the date, and issue general Or
der.
The General commanding, there
fore, in compliance with the request OF
the committee, designates Friday, May
1, 1896, as the most suitable fora "Me-
mortal Festival Day." to be set apart
for the .ase of the women of the South
in raising funds for this great Memo
rial Hall.
All the details and exercises of this
Memorial Festival Day" are to be
planned, conducted a>d carried out
entirely under the orders, control,
ideas and management of the women
of the South in their respective local.,
ties.
For. in whose hands could this sa-
cred trust more properly be placed,
and with more certainty of success,
than into those of the gentle women
of the South, who have never yet fal.
tered or failed in the performance OF
any duty, either in war or in peace,
imposed upon them for the Southern
cause.
Their spirit and determination ami
mated the men of the South at the
scene of the first conflict; they We're
the most constant and unremitting pa
triots and workers during their coun-
try's mighty struggle, and the last to
abandon the sacred cause after South
ern hopes vanished behind the clouds
at Appomattox.
The true history of their deeds and
triumphs has not yet been told.
No historian has yet written the sto'
ry, nor muse sung the song, nor min
strel strung the Tyre, which fitly cele
brates their praise.
The straits to which they were re-
duced for food and clothing, the self
abnegatiou and hardships endured by
them during those dark and gloomy
days of war, finds no parallel in his.
tory; their patriotism and courage
will be written in golden letters upon
the tablets of time, ineffaceable while
memory lasts, and, as ministering an
gels, their names will live upon the
pages of poetry and in romance as
long as cbivalry exists in the hearts
and minds of mankind.
This Battle Abbey" will not be ded-
icated alone to the history and deeds
of the civic ahd military heroes of the
greatest of civil wars; but the General
Commanding will see, that within its
sacred portals sufficient and consplcu-
Gus space will be reserved for the
names and fame of the "Heroines OF
the South.
Asyet, only wandering trouoadours,
like the bardS of the middle ages, jour
neying from castle to castle, have very
family sung their praise; but the ten
der and sacred memories which clus'
ter with halo OF love and veneration
around their living and dead demands
that their names and the story of their
glory be gathered ere it is too late,
and that some Master, whose pen is
inspired with celestial fire, and whose
touch is mellowed and hallowed by
the richness and grandeur of thetheme
shall mingle and blend them with
their glorious achievements into a
Southern Epic, glowing with tributes
OF their unrivalled history, to be de-
posted in this sanctuary of Southern
valor.
In this Temple of Fame, which is to
be consecrated to all the people of the
coming centuries, ina niche which will
be carved out by the story OF their own