The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-08

DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY ARE
AIDING TO COLLECT THEM.

Navy Department of the National
Government Wants to Publish Re-
cords of Both the Union and Com
federate Navies and the Savannah
Chapter Has Been Urged Specially
TO Assist-Position of the City Rem
ders 1t Probable That Records ana
Omcial Letters Are Retained Here.
Delegates TO the General Conven-
ton of Daughters Were Appoints
ed-state division viii Meet Here
in October - School ChiIdren's
Medal Withdrawn.
The Daughters of the Confederacy dis
cussed at their quarterly meeting yes
terday plan for the publication of Off
cial letters and reports and other docu-
ments bearing upon the Confederate
navy. The work, in connection with
similar information relative to the Union
navy. is now being undertaken by the
United States navy department.
Mrs Margaret Branch Sexton, presi-
dent of the chapter. who presided over
the meeting, has received from Prof. E.
K. Rawson, superintendent of naval war
records, an interesting communication, in
which he urges the assistance of the
chapter in securing such papers as are
suitable for publication. This letter was
read at the meeting. In his letter to Mrs.
Sexton, Prof Rawson says:
your attention is especially invited to
the enclosed circular, which is being sent
90 the different chapters of the Daugh-
tiers, of the Confederacy. 1t is particularly
desired that you should, at your next
meeting, call the attention of the mem
bers present to dhe objects of the circu-
lar, and especially inform them that if
they have packages or papers of whose
value they know little, and would like
to have them examined with reference TO
this material, that we will take pleasure
in sending an agent from this office to
examine them" Mr.. Magnus S. Thomp-
son of this office, whose relation to the
Confederate service is well known, has
been placed in special charge of the rec
ords of the Confederate navy"
The circular to which attention is called
in Prof Rawson's letter 10 Mrs. Sexton
lis as follows
The office of naval war records in the
navy department has been engaged for
some years in compiling and publishing
the records of the Union and Confederate
naVies during the war of 1876.
Your assistance in obtaining originals
of all existing Confederate records is
earnestly requested. The archives of the
Confederate navy were in great part de-
stroyed at the close of the war, and its
history can only be made up from such
papers as may still remain in the possess
sion of individual officers or their fam
flies. 1t is in the highest degree desira-
BILE that these papers should, as far as
possible, be transmitted to the depart
ment TO be embodied in the work now in
the course of publication. In many cases
this has been done, and very valuable
additions have thus been made to the rec
ord. Much more, however, remains to
be done, and unless the deficiency can
be supplied. the narrative of many oper-
atoms of importance will remain incom-
plete.
an justice to the actors themselves in
the great struggle, il is important that
this correspondence should be embodied
in the publication, in order that all who
participated in the war may take their
place in its history. 1 therefore ask that
If YOU have In your possession copies of
letters. reports, returns or official docu-
ments of any kind whatever relating to
Confederate naval operations, whether in
the form OF press copies, letter books,
journals, log books, loose files or other
memoranda, you will kindly transmit
them to me at the above address, and
that you will give me any assistance in