The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-02-09
ADDRESS TO ex.coNrspeRATes.
Attention Called to Annual Election
and Re-Unon at Dallas.

Headquarters Indian Territory Divis-
ion. United Confederate Veterans,
Adjutant Generals Omce.
McAlester l. T.. Feb T. 1902.
Attention. Confederate Veterans Of
the Indian Territory:
| greet you. my comrades upon an
other year. which has whitened the
hairs of the old heroes Of 1861 to 1865.
With one more frost of time. we can
look into the dim vista and behold in
Imagination long columns NJ our com
rades who have been detailed by the
Great Commander to serve with Lee,
Johnson. Stonewail Jackson and Kirby
Smith. This should appeal to all Con-
federate soldiers and sailors to join
camps and contribute to the accumu-
lation of history with personal re-
miniscence Of the part played by you
during that great contest for state
sovereignty and civil liberty. while
the past year has served the earthly
ties between us and many of our com
rades, II has also witnessed the many
blessings showered upon many of our
living comrades also. The States and
territories where there are Confederate
homes have nobly contributed to the
comforts and conveniences Of our
more unfortunate comrades. also has
witnessed that unselfsh spirit among
our comrade sto relieve the wants Of
many of our needy.
My comrades-it becomes my pleas
ant duty to admonish you. that we are
the only Confederate soldiers that ever
lived or will ever live, the soldiers of
the Revolution came nearest 20 being
our counterpart of any soldier. They
have all passed away and only left he
hind them a faint impress Of war, take
mp the history of that period and you
learn, that such and such commanders
We're generals that such and sucn
battles were fought lost or won. no
personal reminiscence left to posterity
4 people without q history is a people
without pride. desire to ask each
and every Confederate to write his
personal knowledge of what he saw
and did in that greatest Of all human
contests and let It pass into history.
The Confederate Veteran, a monthly
magazine published in Nashville, Tenn
by one of our worthy comrades. is on
ly too anxious to perpetuate your deeds
of valor and self-sacrifice.
BY the way, every Confederate vet
teran should subscribe something in
the way of history to this magazine.
Comrades. while we boast of belong
ing to the most noble and brave army
the world ever produced. and take
especial pride in our patriotic devotion
10 principle, we should not forget or
overlook the fact the armies of Lee.
Johnson, Jackson, Price and Kirby
Smith were the husbands, sons and
sweethearts Of the noblest women that
ever graved the earth-a womanhood
that were the most patriotic. the most
self-sacrificing. devoted to duty and
labors of love of all womankind. In
those dark days of civil conflict they
never shrank from any task assigned
them. In the home. making clothing
ministering to the wounded in hospi-
tails and on battle fields, burying the
dead, and at last when the last hope OF
the soldier had sank forever, this wo-
manhood came to the rescue and en-
couraged soldiers to renewed energy
70 rebuild his lost fortune, this same
womanhood. has built the monuments
to our hero soldiers and statesmen, Or
ganized and sustained the soldiers
homes. in the different states.
Now comrades, not many years will
be left to us in which to acknowledge
that due appreciation that we owe
them by building TO the women of the
beautiful, and out of the most durable
material a monument, lasting tribute
to their worth. We have laggards in
this cause and have procrastinated
too long already. don't delay longer,
each Confederate soldier and sailor in
the Indian Territory should contribute
at once the sum Of $10O toward this
monument before II is too late, Next
year, aye this year, he may cross over
the river and join the ranks of Ashly.
Mosby, Morgan, Forest and Shelby,
before he has a chance to properly
show his appreciation Of that wife.
mother or sweetheart, that had the
fortitude to buckle on his armor and
bid him God speed in the face of
death, then sit and nurse her anxiety
in silence and without murmur. Com