The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-01-11
STATE CAPITAL NOTES.
RELICS WANTED FOR cONFED,
ERATE MUSEUM AT
RIcHnoND.
Biographica, Rolls of Mississippi
VoIunteersr Family Trses.-
Mayor Taylor Wiihdraws His
Resignation Back Taxes
Prospective Candidates.
Jackson january 5, 1899.

jackson, January s., 1899.
The visit Of Col. j. r.. Mcintosh,
formerly OF Meridian, now Of
Riehmond) to jackson last week,
reminded your correspondent Of a
letter from his good wife, received
last month, appealing, through
me for contributions to the Mis-
sissippi loom in the Confederate
Museum at Richmond. An ex-
tract from her communication will
fully explain, aud the reading
ought to enlist the sympathy and
co-operation of every Mississip-
plan. Here is what she says:
~ have been complimented by
being elected Vice. Regent of the
Mississippi Room Of the Con-
federats Museum In this historic
city. / was selected to fill the
vacancy in that place because |
am a Mississippian. 1t is true,
this is now my home, but / love
Mississippi, and will ever cherish
with fond recollections the heroic
deeds Of her gallant sons in the
great struggle between the states.
As a Mlssissippian | am ashamed
of the nudity of the room set apart
in the Confederate Museum, for
Mississippi. 1t has nothing in it,
while the rooms representing all
the other Confederate States, not
only have numerous relics and
mementoes of the war, but treir
walls are adorned with the por-
traits Of their brave and distin-
guished citizens. 1t is m pur-
pose to awaken, il possible, an
interest among the surviving vet
Grams Of Mississippi in her room,
and to that end | am now writing
letters all over the state. /
beg you to help me, and send me
such relics and mementoes Of the
war as you can. and awaken an
interest in this matter among the
surviving veterans and daughters
OF the Confederacy, wherever and
whenever you can, and it will be
appreciated. y
Mrs. Mcintosh is specially anx-
ious to get portraits OF Mississippi
Confederates. Why will not the
camps in the Mississippi Division
take up the matter Of placing a
portrait OF "the great Mississip-.
pian," jefferson Davis, in his fa-
vorite room in the old Executive
Mansion, now the Confederate
Museum? In behalf of the vice.
regent, | appeal to the families Of
those distinguished and gallant
leaders of our forces in the field,
to send her a portrait OF each:
Griffith, Humphries, Barksdale,
Walthall, French, Van Dorm,
Martin, Featherston, Tucker, M.
. p. .Lowrey, Robert Lowry, Adams,
Brantley, Davis, Harris, Sears,
Gholson, George, Clarke, Posey
Holder, Stone, Burt and others.
II portraits cannot be furnished,
they can be painted in Richmond
from photographs.
When your correspondent was
in Richmond on the occasion of
laying the foundation stone nf the
Davis monument, he visited the
Confederate Museum, and the
Mississippi room was absolutely
bare, while all the others were
filling up with portraits, relics
and mementoes of the war, and
only a few articles have since
been contributed. Let the sew
eral Chapters Of Daughters Of the
Confederacy take this matter up
atonce, and Mrs. Mcintosh will
be made to feel that her state is
not unpatriotic or unappreciatiye.
It was my pleasure, last week,
TO be able to send a certificate to
Mississippi Confederate soldier,
NOW in Texas, that will enable
4him to draw pension under the
new pension law OF that state.
His name is Alex. t. Farrar, of
Go. E., 18th Mississippi-the Mis-
sissippi College Rifles. He en-
listed in June 1851, at Clinton,
age 18; was in several battles,
severely wounded at Sharpsburg,
and left leg was amputated. / have
a complete roll OF that and many
other companies, compiled while
visiting the camps near Richmond
just before the collapse, and the
regret of my life has been that
such a record was not made of
every Mississippian that enlisted
in the Civil war.
Thanks to the captains Of the|