Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-01-23
General Orders No. ISL
The Confederate Memorial Hall.
HEADQUARTERS UNITED
CONFEDERATE VETERANS,
New Orleans, La.

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CONFEDERATE VETERANS,
New Orleans, La.
The progress made by the able and
distinguished committee appointed in
General Orders Nos. las and lac from
these headquarters to examine into and
report upon the plan submitted by the
great philsnthropist and benefactor,
Charles Broadway Rouss, for the estab-
lishment of 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 the action and
that of the subcommittee, have for
mulated a mode of ofprocedure which If
energetically carried out cannot tall
of success.
1t will be remembered that the gen.
erous and large hearted donor, Mr..
Charles Broadway Rouss, who alone
conceived this project for the perpet-
uation of the history and glory of his
countrymen, presented plan for Its
consummation to the veterans at the
Houston reunion, at the same time
subscribing $lOO,0OOas as his individual
subscription to assist in. carrying out
his grand views and ideas conditioned
upon the veterans raising a like
amount.
Toraise this 100000 additional and
enough more to endow and insure the
perpetuation of the institution, is the
problem which now occupies the atten-
ton and efforts of the committee.
II &c believed that-one half of the
amount required will be raised through
the subscription of the more than 3D.
900 members of the U. c. V. Assocla-
ton, and which will entitle them to
certificates showing their contributions
thus giving each contributor an interest
in this glorious enterprise which Is SC
near and so dear to the heart Of every
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
noble women of the South.
The committee suggests that the
most feasible manner Of reaching the
desired object is to set apart a Memo
rial Festival Day" and they ask that
the General Commanding will desig'
nate the date, and issue general or
der.
The General C Commanding, therefore
in compliance with the request Of the
committee, designates Friday, May l
1896, as the most suitable tor a Memo,
rial Festival Day. to be set apart fol-
the use of the women of the South in
raising funds for this great Memorial
Hall
All the details and exercises OF this
Memorial Festival Day are to be
planned, conducted and carried out
entirely under the orders, control, ideas
and management of the women Of the
South in their respective localities.
For, in whose hands could this sa'
cred trust be more properly placed
and with more certainty Of success
than into those of the gentle women O.
the South, who have never yet falterec
or failed in the performance Of any
duty, either in war or in peace, I'M
posed upon them for the SOutherr
cause?
Their spirit and determination ami
mated the men of the South at tn
scene of the first conflict; they wer'
the most constant and unremitting pa
triots and workers during their coun
try's mighty struggle and the last t.
abandon the sacred cause after South
ern hopes vanished behind the cloud
at AppOmattox.
The true history Of their deeds ant
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 fifty cele
brates their praise.
The straits to which they were re
duced for food and clothing, the self
abnegation and hardsbips endured b
them during those dark and gloom
days of the war, find no parallel in bis
tory; their patriotism and courage WI
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