Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-01-16

marked Schedules A and Il. Schedule
giving lists OF regiments and other com
mands. showing what rolls nave peen
| completed, such as are in course or COM
| pletion and those from which no reports
have been obtained. and Schedule be-
ing financial statement.
To present the matter OF this report
clearly and lntolligently, a BRIEF prelimi-
nary statement is necessary:
/. Tho work OF the Confederate Records
as to this State began with the following
resolution in convention, September H.
1862:
Resolved. unanimously, That this con-
vention begs most sincerely TO mingle its
! sympathies with the relatives and friends
OF those who have fallen in the service OF
| their country. whether In battle, amid the
! cangOr Of arms: from wounds received
| In battle from disease, or from accident,
| and that the Executive authority OF the
state be requested to collect the names OF
all such. and have them Transcribed in
suitable record book, designating the
corps 10 which they belong, their rank
IN the service, and the cause Of death, to
4 be preserved amongst the archives OF the
! state, rs token of respect to their MEM
/ cries and a legacy of inestimable value
| TO their friends"
II was under this resolution that Pro
I lessor NIllldUl JdlIitH JNlNtlht VI TIE oOuAH
Carolina College collected the names OF
South Cardinals dead" 10 the number Of
1000 and more which have been trans
scribed in a record book entitled 1.-The
Roll Of Honor, 1861" after IL had been
turned over 10 the State Survivors Asso-
citation and carefully supervised by that
body with the assistance Of Professor
Rivers
@ The next step taken by the State
Nv he Ae
sembly In the year 1854 of Professor
Rivers to gather statistical information
IN regard 10 the troops the State fur
nished to the Confedsracy, and historical
sketches of the regiments battalions. and
other corps.
Under the appointment, Professor
Rivers contributed to- our Confederate
records his valuable account OF the raising
Of troops, and formation of regiments
and other bodies-subseQuently turned
over by him to the State Survivors Asso-
citation.
He says: ut has been seen that up to |
August, 1852, foTty-fve thousand men |
were computed to have entered the Con- !
federate service from this State Sufi- |
cient data are not at hand to compute the |
whole number that bore arms. including |
home guards and reserves, TO the close OF |
the war; nor TO exhibit las II would be |
appropriate 10 do at this point. the total |
loss Of men in service. and the proportion
Of such loss 70 the proper arms-bearing |
population"
3. The third movement in the matter OF |
our Confederate records was al the in
stance Of that patriotic organization, the
state Survivors Association, on the oc-
casion Of the successive meetings in 1869
1870, and Eta monument initiated
August u. 1869, by the Survivors Asso-
citation, Charleston District, in the spirit
Of the following extract from the circu-
lar Of the committee, Edward McCrady, |
Jr, presidents "a reliable and trust
worthy depository OF narratives reports
and all other available documents, illus
trative Of the career OF the late war. and
the Confederacy, which it sought to save,
IS the surest mode of securing for the
future historian the materials out Of
which the authentic story of the Lost
Cause IS 10 be woven"
I'VE owe II 10 ourselves, to the gallant
dead, to the truth Of history TO posterity,
to the women Of the land and, above all,
to the humanity OF which we are q part,
and which is always ennobled by the con-
of freedom and Of earnest and
heroic effort. that the truthful incidents
Of that mighty struggle for honor and
constitutional right shall live forever"
The work done by the State Survivors |
Association has not, we apprehend been
fully appreciated. nor that Of its ally
Professor Rivers-whose generous and
patriotic labors received thu merited en-
comiums OF that body WIKI its grateful
The scope Of the work
undertaken by the association and its
achievements appear IN the report made
IN 1870 Of the Executive Board at the "se-
cond annual meeting of the Survivors
Association OF the State OF South Caro-
Ina" Two extracts are given:
!. I'VE believe that we can show that
'ut Of a voting population OF less than
5000 we gave 1900 volunteers during
the first eighteen months Of the war-at
least one soldier for every vote cast for
We believe we can show that
our State gave more than 1900 lives for
the Southern Cause. And we believe we
IAN show that OF the remnant Of the
glorious Army of Northern Virginia,
which stood by it's chieftain to the last. I
one fifth Of the whole were South Caro-
inians, and that though she was one OF {
he smallest Of the nine States whose I
troops composed his army
2. cit appears from the Adjutant- Gene
RAILS report in appendix 10 Journal, of the ]
fourth session Of the convention, which is | I
luoted by Professor Rivers, that upon the 4
9th Of August, 1862, the State Of South | I
Carolina had in the field 41.S93 volunteers 4
md l.i00 conscripts. and that IL was es- Z
MATED that the number OF men con- 7
ributed by the State up 10 that time TO
he Confederate service, exceeded 5000, q