The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-02-12
THE JEFF DAVIS MONUMENT
An Appeal to the Veterans of
South Carolina for Contribu-
lions.

Gen. G. Irvine Walker, command
ing the South Carolina Division,
United Confederate Veterans, has is.
sued the following General Order, No.
So, in regard to the Jefferson Davis
Monument. The attention of Con
federate camps throughout the State 10
earnestly invited to it, so that a con.
certed effort may be made in South
Carolina to raise the balance of the
money required for the monument.
The order reads as follows:
Headquarters South Carolina Division,
United Confederate Veterans,
Charleston, S. c., January 81, 1902.
General Order No. Sc:
l. The attention of the commands
of this division is earnestly invited to
the eloquent appeal in General Order
No. 1858, issued by IL beloved COM
mander, Gen. John b. Gordon. In
this order he asks the aid of every
Confederate Veteran to assist the no.
BILE ONE of the Confederacy in the
holy work they have undertaken of
erecting u monument to our martyred
| Culclldtu, JcDCISOu bdNlS. NOEuS
are not needed to stir in every Con-
federate heart a full sense of his indl
vidual and our objective duty to pay
this tribute to our leader, though the
cause for which he sacrificed so much
is the Lost Cause" His devoted
widow survives him and she Is looking
to the reunion with her husband, our
%clrief, when she goes to join her noble
husband ON the other shore, and let
her be able TO tell him that his people,
loyal to his memory, appreciative OF
his m%atchless devotion to their cause
have completed this tribute to him and
through him to the cause we all loved
and for which, with noble manhood,
he suffered, even to the i9nominy OF
having his feeble limbs shackled. The
monument to our leader, Jefferson
Davis, is also one to the cause be led.
1t is a tribute not only to one great
man, but to the thousands of heroes
who gave their lives, their all, for the
noblest aus that has yer nerved the
strong arms of putriots-whn upheld il
with such magnificent devotion.
2 Your division commander calls
attention to Gen. Gordon's reques,
for each camp of the United Confed.
crate Veterans to voluntarily contri.
butte 81 for each member of the camp,
1t is unfortunate that some of oul
comrades cannot contribute this 81,
To supply this let there be some or.
ganized effort of the camp: some spe.
cies of entertainment be devised by
which an amount could be raised tc
enable each camp to contribute 81 fol
each comrade of the camp. the
3. All amounts contributed of.
South G rolina should go throughput
lady who has our State for her fiel in
work, that the State may have
credit for the work of her PEG.
pie. Contributions may be sent
to Mrs. Alice A. G. Palmer.
Charleston, S. c., representing the
Confederate Southern memorial as
sociations, composed of the noble
band of women who have since 1865
zealously cared for the graves of our
sacred dead, or to Mrs. Augustine Il.
Smythe, Charleston, S. c., represent
ing the Daughters of the Confederacy,
an organization which Is so grandly
working to perpetuate the glorious
memories of our cause, I o chronicle
the herolsm of Jul fallen comrades.
BY order of G. Irvine Walker, COM
manding South Carolina Division
United Confederate Veterans.
JAMES e, HOLMES,
Adjutant General, Chief OF Staff.