The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-06-05
HONOR TO The
CONPBDERATES.
Crosses Of Honor Presented to
Large Number of Veterans
by Maury Chapter, Daugh-
tiers of the COnfederacy.-
Eloquent Speech by DR.. L.
A. Wharton.

n. w HdI tUHs
The presentation 90 the Crosses o.
Honor 70 the Confederate Veterans oc'
Cured Wednesday morning in the Beth
ell House parlors, and despite the threat
enlng weather large number was in at
tendance.
The parlors had been appropriately
decorated in the Southern colors, the
pictures Of Lee and Davis occupy ing
cons picuous positions in the room and
draped in Confederate colOrs. Two
notable flags were used in the decora'
tons One was flag made from the
/ silk dresses of the women of Columbia
during the war. The flag was not used,
| however, in battle; il was only used on
dress parade. The other tiIg Tas that
of the Twentieth Alabama Regiment,
CONN anded By Col. James NJ. Dedman
father of Mr.. j NJ. Dedman. proprietor
of the Be hell House. This flag fought
all through the Virginia campaigns, and
bears the unique distinction of never
being captured nor surrendered. When
Lee army stacked arms at Appomattox
one of the prvates in the Twentieth
Alabama took the flag and wrapped II
around his body under his clothes and
CARED it to his home. He afterwards
turned it over to Mrs. Dedman, VINO is
here visiting her son. She prizes II
more highly, she says. than anything
she has in the word. The flag was the
center of much interest after the cere-
monies were over. 1t is shot all to
pieces. and shows that the Twentieth
Alabama was always to the front.
! TIE feature of the occasion was the
splendid address of DR.. T. A. Wharton.
He was warmly applauded throughout
his talk and many expressed their
thanks to him at the conclusion OF his
speech for his eloquent talk.
The meeting was opened by the Lord 8
Prayer, followed by the singing OF the
"Bonnie Blue Flag
DR.. Wharton then delivered his ad-
dress.
DR.. Wharton's Address.
Dr. Wharton 8 speech was most happy
and eloquent and was Enthusiastically
applauded throughout. He spoke IN
full as follows:
1.-The United Daughters of the Con-
federacy, Maury Chapter. have as
signed to me the task. which | most
heartily appreciate, of comforting upon
Won this emblem OF the measureless
honor and admiration In which these
ladies ever hold the name of Con-
federate soldier For those who fell
fighting at your side, and who lie
under the sod in 30 many halloWea
spots through out the land for which
they died, the noble women of all the
South, indeed our whole people, bring
each Spring time an offering OF
flowers as tribute to their precious
memory and as a mark of unchang1ng
love. 1t would therefore, i'll become
these daughters of our heroes these
organized guardians of holy past and
of the noblpst page IN American MS
tory, to wait until you too were sleep
ing with your comrades; 'blvouaced
IN the silent camp, before they gave
you some witness of that great love
with which their hearts are full.
This simple badge which they ask
Won to accept, | need not remind you,
IS more than a token of esteem; it
speaks their lofty pride in you and
your achievements. Still do they
glory, ever will they glory, in the
cause for which you gave your all and
in the unparalleled heroism with which
you strove to make it good So long
as time shall last, so long shall the
glory of your battlefields enhance the
wonder Of men. Never will the world
be able to forget your tory; for your
9 xalted courage, your long series OF
successes even when almost resource
less, your thin lines faced the countless
odds of a whole continent your
patience under defeat, and yo-r life
long example have enriched the history
OF MANKIND.
Nor are these poor words OF mine
the empty words of cheap and windy
rhetoric. SPEAK the words OF sober
ness and of truth. Today the greatest
living masters and teachers of the art
of war in England, France ana Ger
MANY are looking to your campaigns
alone for their greatest instruction. |
for the Hottest inspiration and for the
most lllustrlous models In the science
Of war. The English Henderson $ !
Life and Campaigns Of Stonewall
Jackson" is today the re-emlnent
text cook of the Anglo Saxon soliier,
and | am told that there IS scarce an
officer in the United States army and
navy without we'll thumbed copy OF
his book, which tells the story OF
oOu| U6Tu SuIoLiOllty '' 'A'S 1900
battle Yes, they read the memories
If GIANT, of Sherman and of Sneri1an
or the sake OF history, but to learn
low to ii .ht, tAey study the records of
lee ana jackson and of that o0her
,oldier who is .o'uing larger IN MS
ory with evoIy passing year-Nathan
-,edford crest.
Gentlemen, you are to be congrat-
llateu that You have lived long enough
o SEQ the DoginuIng Of the reshaplnS
# even Northern pubic opinion. NJ
,lamour Of "Cnci3 Tom Cabin,
which 80 long acted like blind Dr die
lpon New Eng hnu vision, ie last
.anishiag. though John Brown
,ody lies mou !lerlng in the grave,
very nu1h revised story OF the IN
amous old cut throat goes marching
N. !" The aye in which we live is
,slnlng in second sight, and wis ION
hall yet be justified in all her chll'
|ren. Time shsll do more for tine
south than the mere healing OF the
Wounds of war.
You have lived to see the greatest
wing critic OF History Prof. Fisher
4 Yale, and the acknowledged expert
n the constitutional history OF the
epublic Henry Cabot Lodge, both