The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-06-10
HUNTERS APPEAL.
Secretary Of Confederate Records
Wants Aid.

1,,,on,np we're the remnrks Of Ma1o1 Mag
Robert Hunter sscre1t ,s dc OF 10 conven-
records. before the n q, = |nr Mid IN com
, ,on 9ast The s ceonfederate war records:
fey minutes ties a 9f yt4In Of Till grand
senblage OF vrglnnns mater tov os s en,,
importaiice, but In no way Whatever eo''7
nected with politics. - -. fart that
our mro1 ,eFislature. In March last, ct the ~.
stance mainly Of Major Daniel an ~, Juds ,S
g. christsayn1 creas M,ta ars Reeords
ma nd thnt upon the RECOMMENDATION OF !.
Judge Christian commander OF the 81 Sra, y!
Camp of Virginia Veterans 70, Tho s mn
9a asrss S Rh Ptha Gaty iof
all muster rolls, records and other MAJ, ~
rials for roster Of 81 t n v 9ieIs Who
served in the Confederate arnnySanId! navy y,
Whether regulars. volunteers, militia Or
reserves. E,,s 81 .,,a. Ar.
Ia n tremendous Undertaking. and that y
will be impossible for me 70 a Sc pntiyn
the work satisfactorily without tne. ac.ive
! alive men. I therefore come to-day be,
/ fore this grand gathering Of the sons $50 o.
| Virginia to appeal earnestly for. ]; yo ~
nobla men Of our State who heard aud
needed her call to arms W, me nsr SOD
who fought and fell N; her h sero1ce;
| are names the State would not Willln n
let die, and they will be held IN re a |, EN-
brance. If nov secured; by me hnrita se'
hav no purpose to reltindle the embers
Of our. old strife or to awake melnoTr,Wgs s
It were best should be lett 70 s, size rou " n
part OF an indissoluple lInloh, Due : Gov Cav
| not forbear to say that no people evsi
made a more heroic and stupenu a !, ss' a NE
| n ff,,st ~
S far which a soldier ever fought or died. !,
But let us como down To the pra,ctic ,,.i
Hoy can yen mean th eai ta
/ which has been provided for by the Con-
| Eress Of the United States? There are
in every county some 3 S. the . nsrss and
j q vnIn Gentlemen. as you visit the differ
| ent neighborhoods. or when upon .he
stump In the coming can. sanyaI 81 w # sbu am
enraEed, they can be gotten out from
Z. their hiding places. Many OF the counties ii,
done .his Mo1k and aho N ag
les but there are other counties whose
sons won glory as soldiers that have dc a,
lla1ls o. IS duty We Owe
alike to the living and the dead INA - he
name OF no soldier who responded, 70 ,me
cali OF his State. or bore q pa ara,,,I ho% W.
4 Other States, North and South. are max NJ
i Ing out their rOSleTS, anu We iildt,.
tossit that Virginia's historical perspective
is not so distorted as TO throW INTO , the
sha dow the achievements Of a state winch
deserves to stand in tho orightese sun
light. $50,
Ing the Legislature to act in THIS matter n
var has until recently Jagged in her
ration Of her an hss1 IF YOU r sn.
,tlemen will help me In the. way l have
indicated she will hold her place "prifihs
inter ilustres.
i. judge Keith, in an address a few years
/ ago before the Clan Randolph at Tuck &
aIoe.'' said: sit has been reproach TO
Virginia that having made ;,. 50 m ,Ie ri MS,
Z. as her past has been in epoch-making
men and events, so small part OF IT has
| been preserved
II this judicial dcliverance had been
made with respect to record before
/ our Supreme Court OF Appeals there would
4 have been lively hustling among the at,
torneys. How. much more lively It should ho,da
OF that Infinitely higher cause. now , on
fore the tribunal of history.