Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-09
DAUGHTERS TO MEET.
CONVENTION OF DAUGHTERS OF
coSPEDERACY IN PETERSBURG.
IT WILL BE 4 LARGE MEETING.
Ladies from All Over the south VIII
he in Attendance When the Con-
vcntion Opens Neutrality-suspicious.
the Organization.

The convention Of the Grand Division of
the Daughters OF the Confederacy will be
held in Petersburg next Wednesday and
Thursday
The delegates will B. entertained by the
Petersburg Chapter. and special arrange
ments have been made for the accommo-
dation of members of the society who
NAV desire to attend the sessions. The
train will leave Richmond at 9:O6 O'Clock
on Wednesday morning, and will reach
Petersburg In time for the opening Of the
meeting. All persons will present their
badges or certificates of membership on
procuring railroad tickets.
A GREAT ORGANIZATION.
Just at this time, when the people Of
both North and South are filed with
sorrow and sympathy for the mother Of
"the Daughter Of the Confederacy." in
terest Is aroused in the organization bear
ing the name, Daughters Of the CON-
fedeyacy." 1t IS unnecessary 10 touch
upon the disputed question as TO winch
State organized first; Ii matters little; but
at the last annual meeting, held in Bal
timore, there were 1s5 chapters represent
ed. The largest membership was Claimed
by the Baltimore chapter, with Richmond
ranking second. although there are SIX
other Confederate societies Of women In
this city.
The work of this band of women has
been remarkable. There are chapters and
State divisions in all States in the South;
a chapter in New York, one in Philadel-
phia, and one in the Indian Territory.
The objects are varied, but all the work
is for some Confederate purpose-the sup
mort of Confederate homes for disabled
soldiers, monuments 10 their dead, the
care of the widows and orphans of Con-
federate soldiers, the gathering OF relics
to be placed in the Confederate Museum,
and the raising of funds for the Jefferson
Davis monument and the Battle Abbey.
The Georgia Daughters memorialized
the Legislature of their State 70 mark
The graves Of our prison dead in answer
TO an appeal sent out By Lee Camp sons
of Veterans and the Richmond Chapter,
and the work has never been accomplish
ed but the Daughters have responded
nobly. and a stone at least will soon mark
the graves of all the southern soldiers
who died in northern prisons. The mem
bership includes the widow, wife, mother.
scendant OF such men as served honorably
i'm the Confederate service; also, women
and their descendants, wherever living,
who can give proof of personal service
and LOYAL aid 10 the southern cause during
the war. Each State furnishes blank APP
plications for membership Each twenty
five members or fraction thereof, not less
than seven. are entitled to one delegate
TO State and united conventions, which
take place annually.
TWO VIRGINIA DIVISIONS
There are two divisions in Virginia, the
First and the Grand, and II is unfortunate
that it should be go.
When the Grand Division went into the
United Daughters. in Baltimore, in 1897.
IL had thirty-one chapters, three OF
which did not join Many chapters have
been formed since then.
1t is a great mistake 10 think that
these two Virginia divisions are not
friendly towards each other. The chap
tiers I'm Alexandria, belonging to the First
Virginia, about = years ago entertained
most handsomely the Grand Divlslon'
and they hope TO have the same pleasure
in 1899. If the United Daughters accept
the invitation which will be extended to
them at the Hot Springs, in November.
WINNIE DAVIS MONUMENT.
The work of the Richmond Chapter,
at present, is towards erecting monu-
ment to be placed in Hollywood to mark
the spot where lies the Daughter of the
Confederacy." The chapter hopes that
every veteran, every woman, every child
I'm the land, who desires to send an
Offering will do so, no matter how small
the amount 1t is to be an Offering of
love to the Daughter Of the Confede-
racy," and the cause she 80 admirably
represented.