The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-09-20
OUR NOBLE DEAD .
Who Gave Up Their Lives at
Chickamauga.
THEY ARE.NoT FORGOTTEN,
An Effort, Being Made to Place a
Suitable Memorial to South
Carolina Soldiers in
Do.j<

An effort will be made to erect a
monument to the South Carolina Con-
federate dead in Chickamauga Park.
The following memorial is being circu-
lated throughout the State for sigma
lures:
To the Honorable the Senate and
House ofIRepresentatives Of the State
of South Carolina: The undersigned
respectfully call to your attention that
by joint resolution passed or Decem-
Der %, 1894, provision was made for
the appointment Of what is known as
the Chickamauga commission; pursuant
to which commission was appointed
by the Governor, consisting of Gen H
L Farley, Capt R F McCaslin, Capt
Perry Moses, Capt A G Appieby, Gen
c Walker, Capt G K Henderson, L
P Harling, Capt E j Goggins, Major J
D McLucas and Capt Culpepper, to in
quire into and report what suitable
monuments should be erected to COM
memorate the decks Of the Confederate
soldiers of South Carolina upon the
Chickamauga battlefield. Said COM
mission was duly organized, visited the
battlefield and made their report, re-
commencing the erection of suitable
monuments for said purpose at proper
places on the field.
Nothing has been done towards sup
plying the commission with means to
carry on this laudable end, and we
earnestly urge that the General Assem-
bly, appropriate at its next session at
least the sum of s10,O for said pur-
pose. 1t is due by the people Of South
Carolina to the heroic dead who perish.
ed at Chickamauga that said monu-
ments should be erected, and we are
satisfied that the taxpayers of the State
will sustain the General Assembly in
such action.
In addition the following order has
5ecn issued to Confederate Veterans:
Charleston, S. c., Sept. 5, 1899.
General Orders No. IS.
At the Chester Convention the fol-
lowing resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, 1st. That this Convention
memorialize the Legislature toappropri-
ate the sum necessary to erect proper
monuments on the battlefield of Chicka
mauga to the aIor of the sons of Caro-
lima who participated in that glorious
victory.
I'd. That the accompanying memorial
be adopted, and that copies be sent to
each camp, which shall secure from
Veterans, Sons of Veterans and citizens
signatures to the same, and that these
memorials be returned to the division
commander before January /, 1900.
Sd. That the division commander
shall appoint committee Of five, who,
with himself, shall constitute COM
mittee to present the memorial to the
Legislature.
Camps will please secure signatures
to the accompanying memorial; not
signatures of Veterans alone, but of
all citizens of South Carolina who would
endorse tho memorial.
Most Of the Northern States, and
many of the Southern States, have
erected such monuments, and it is due
to the matchless bravery Of South Car
olina's sons that the places consecrated
by their heroism shall be marked in
common with those Of other States.
As the memorials on the battlefield now
stand South Carolina had no part in
that glorious victory. Shall this re-
main so? Shall the magnificent valor
of her sons be still unmarked?
The comrades Of this division are
urged to secure so many signatures that
the General Assembly will be bound to
respect theirrequest to 90 honor to the
splendid achievements Of the sons OF
South Carolina.
By order of c. Irvine Walker, Com
mander S. c. Division, U. c. Y.
James 6. Holmes,
Adjutant General, Chief of Staff.