The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-17
THE CONFEDERATE SOCIETY.
The Condition and Needs CT tie North Caro-
Ina Room in Richmond

Ina Room in Richmond
To the Editor:
In yesterdays paper l noted your edi-
torial in regard to the North Carolina
| Room of the Confederate Museum in Rich
! mond.
Enclosed you will find the names OF the
| committee of the United Daughters OF the
| COnfederacy appointed in connection with
! this room and am sorry that | had not
copy of the report sent out TO the different
| chapters and read at the State convention
held in Raleigh last October. | will quote
| from memory some of the main points
After the Virginia Room, the North
| Carolina Room is possibly tee largest aud
best lighted in the building. To every
! true hearted North Carolinian who visits
/ the Museum it is a continued source Oh
modification nasmuch as we compare so
unfavorably with the other States N the
! way OF contributions. One gear ago last
. October we numbered by actual count
ninety-siX contributions only, ranging
from n wartime candle TO an oil portrait.
| The Virginia Room with like contributions
numbered one thousand and twenty six.
Georgia five hundred and thirtyast two.
South Carolina three hundred and forty
eight, and so on. This is not as it should
be.
Lord God of hosts. be with us ye.,
! Lest we forget, lest We forget:
Old North Carolina that .1rnihSad cre-
fifth of the Confedera.y army, and that
sent TO the front one htmdtcd AID twenty
five thousand soldiers though she num-
bered one hundred and fifteen thousond
voters only, should not be allowed TO SUI
nf
Mrs. j. W. Gordon, who is a North Car
Gilman by birth and who has charge OF
the room said that we North Carolinians
were doing ourselves great injustice IN
not taking more interest in it. that the
number of visitors who left direct
route 10 come b. Richmond to see the
Museum were legion as is shown by the
door receipts which have amounted 10 sew
eral thousand dollars within the last few
years.
In behalf OF our committee | ask the
people OF North Carolina to aid us in col
lecting our relics. A war time newspaper,
a letter. or so simple thing as but
ton, ring or a pen may supply a miss
ing link and tell to generations to come
the story OF that time with its heights,
its depths and its tragedies when men
|
tights and Southern glory.
Let us begin this work at once and we
will soon fill to oyerflowing our North
Carolina Room at Richmond and also a
State Museum of our own.
Mrs e. G. Davis. of Henderson. has
ready for shipment a beautiful oil paint
ing OF the grave of Annie Lee daughter
of Gen. r. E. Lee) who is buried al
Jones Springs, \. c., which she donates
to our North Carolina Room. Mrs. Davis
is Virginian by birth and lost her faith
or in the Southern army and also had
three brothers who fought for the same
cause.
Any contributions to our North Carolina
Room may be addressed care Mrs. J. w
Gordon, OF il sent to any member of oul
; committee we WIN take pleasure in for
! warding the same.
, In regard to General Vance's portrait
several efforts were made to have it givei
by private citizens, but in this we failed
, and we are raising fund of our own To-
!, this purpose. At present we have in the
treasury s12l. 30 tone hundred and twenty
one dollars and half other contribu
/ lions toward this fund have been promis
ed and We hope ere long to raise the re
, quired amount.
The following is the committee TO as
:, certain the needs of North Carolina Room
in Richmond and report to the severa
chapters that it may be made a fitting
+ | memorial:
= Mrs. Lucy Gloss Parker, Henderson.
= Mrs. Armistead Burwell, Charlotte.
I Mrs. L. B. Neave, Salisbury
: Mrs Margaret Arthur Call, Washington
q Mrs Jane Hughes, Newbern
= Miss Bessie Henderson, Salisbury
Miss Fannie Patton, Asheville.
: Miss Mary Oliver, New Bern.
. In giving this picture we feel that "
:, are honoring ourselves in honoring hiI
OF whom it may be truly said:
!, HE was a man take him for all and al
We shall not look upon his like again.
MRS. w. S. PARKER
:, Henderson, n. c., Feb 8, 1901.