The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-24
THE GEORGIA ROOM.
Additions Made TO the Confederate
Museum at Richmond.

Museum at Richmond.
Miss Katherine C. Stiles. vice regent
of the Georgia Room in the Confed-
crate Museum at Richmond. submit
ted the following report for the year
ending Dec. 81 last
During the year was sent, through
our excellent regent, Mrs. r. E. Park
of Atlanta, $2650, contributed by the
Daughters OF the Confederacy of At
lanta Chapter IS; Augusta, SIG;
Waynesboro, So; Gainesville, $3.50;
Cassville 81: Rome, So. AS suggested
$50 were given for the current eX-
penses of the museum, which aid was
very acceptable, as visitors this year
have not been so numerous, the burn
ing of the Jefferson Hotel having
turned the tide of tourists away from
the city, and there are always certain
expenses that must be met.
To add to the contents of the room
there have been received a valuable
book from Miss Emily Mason of Mary
land. Letters of a Confederate officer
(Mr. Richard Corbin) to his family in
Europe, during the last year of the
War of Secession. A small block cut
from the gunboat Savannah, which the
women of Georgia had built, and. gave
to the Confederacy. Two sets of pho
tographs of the interior of Fort Sum-
ter in 1858, Endorsed by Gen. Beaure-
gard, and given by him to Gen. Gill
mer. Al chart of the Notifications
around Richmond, each numbered, and
named. A photograph of Mrs. De
Renne Of Savannah, who collected the
nucleus, around which has gathered
the invaluable contents of this build
ing, whose collection of books and pa
pers enabled the society to cali Itself
a Memorial Literary Society" and so
apply to the city for this building,
1.-The White House of the Confedepacy,
which in itself is so beautiful and in
teresting a relic. OF the likeness, the
giver said: TT gives no idea of her
beauty, but is an outline of her noble
face. A scrapbook of newspaper clip
pings, etc, made during the war be-
tween the states, and given by Mrs.
Georgia Bryan Conrad
Besides these, a gentleman of Savan-
nah has given engravings and a
sketch of each of the officers of the AL
ALBANIA, the greater number of Whom
were GeorgianS. An engraving also
of the English family who saved upon
their yacht so many of our men at
Cherbourg, lists of the wounded etc.
There were already here photographs
of Admiral Semmes, First officer Kell
and of 1the vessel when called the
900 because the 290th vessel built
by the Laird Brothers, Birkenhead,
England) until in the tropics she took
her armament and the name Alabama,
afterwards so famous. From Mrs.
Bulloch have come the sword, Shout
der straps and hat braid of Mr. Irvine
L. Bulloch sailing master of the Ala
bama land afterwards of the unsur-
rendered steamer Shenandoah) with
these there is a little box made of a
part of am oar of the Alabama.
Only the money to purchase a cabi-
net to arrange these in is wanting to
accomplish a most interesting memorial
of the Alabama and its wonderful
exploits one so condensed that even
the hurried tourist may read and learn
the history of this little vessel and dts
gallant crew that in so few years
wiped the commerce of the United
States from off the seas
Katherine G. Stiles
Vice Regent of the Georgia Room.