The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-03-21

transacted during this twelfth annual
reunion.
Such as the benevolent care, through
State aid or otherwise, of disabled,
destitute and aged veterans and the
widows and orphans of our fallen
brothers in arms, which will be one
of the most important matters for our
consideration. In this connection
the general commanding calls espe
cial attention to the increasing age,
multiplied sorrows and corroding
cares of many of the gallant cid SOL
diers, who risked their lives and for
tunes for what they considered right
during the eventful years lS6l-6o.
Through the mortuary reports re-
ceived at these headquarters he is
daily and almost hourly reminded
that the lengthenlDg shadows of time
are fast settling over the old heroes.
Reaching out already beyond the
allotted span of human life, many of
whom had already passed the age of
manhood when, over forty years ago,
they promptly and nobly responded
to their country's call. It is our
bounden duty and the chief mission
of the =. G. V. Association that these
unfortunate, sick, disabled and indi
gent comrades and brothers and their
widows and orphans should have our
attention, care and such help in their
old age as their more fortunate COM
rades can procure and give and as
their infrmiuies and nisfortunes re-
quire. This to him will be labor
of love, and to the carrying out Of
which he will devote his best efforts,
and in the prosecution of which sa-
cred work be appeals to all the mem
bers of the y. @. V. Association who
are able, for their earnest, praYerful,
patriotic help.
We must take care of our old COM
rades; and in doing this he feels
confident that appeals for employ
ment for the old Confederate Vete-
rams, who are so rapidly passing
away, and substantial aid for these
old sick, wounded, indigeut and un-
fortunate soldiers will not be made
in vain to any State, municipal gov
ernment or citizens of any Southern
State, nor to the rising generation,
, themselves the worthy descendants
, of heroes, who are alike participants
in that heri age of glory SO proudly
emblazoned upon the history of each
State by the unparalleled valor and
endurance of these aged, wounded
and disabled old warriors, as it would
be ingratitude without parallel and
degradation without precedent, that
any Of these should turn their backs
upon the old heroes and their ever
glorious records IN their old age and
dire distress.
j 5. Other business of the greatest
importance will also demand careful
! consideration-sUch as the care of
the graves of our known and un.
known dead buried at Gettysburg,
Fort Warren, Camps Morton, Chase,
Douglas, Oakwood Cemetery at
Chicago, Rock Island, Johnson's
Island, Cairo, and at all other points;
we must care for the graves of ''Our
Dead" and see that they are an
nually decorated, the headstones pre-
served and protected, and complete
lists of the names of our dead heroes
with the location of their last resting
place furnished to their friends and
relatives through the medium of our
camps, thus rescuing their names
from oblivion and handing them
down in history; the best method Of
securing impartial history, and to
enlist each State in the compilation
and preservation of the history, of
her citizen soldiery; the considera-
ton of the different movements,
plans and means to complete the
monument to the memory of Jefer
son Davis, President of the Con-
federate States of America, and
to aid in building monuments
to all of the other great leaders,
soldiers and sailors of the South;