The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-13
MAY DESE.CRATE
THEIR GRAVES } } |
Making Effort to Buy
Cemetery on john
sons Island.
SOUTHERN PEOPLE
TO RAISE MONEY
Meeting to be Held Here: Here To To:
morrow Night-If Cemetery
Is Bought, Resting Places
Of Confederate Heroes
Will be Marked and
Cared For.

Representatives OF Lee Camp, Of the
Daughters OF the Confederacy and OF the
sons OF the Confederate Veterans will
hold a most interesting and important
meeting at Lee Camp Hall tomorrow
night to- discuss the ma tier OF making an
appropriation for the purpose OF pur-
chasing a portion OF Johnson's g Island.
Ohio. where are buried Confederate SOL
diers who died while prisoners Of war.
and whose graves are now In danger OF
dissertation. $6 $s.s1 11is 53s
The movement was inaugurated In Cin-ij
icinnati, to which5the CO operation OF the
Confederate veterans ana DauEhters. 8. q of
the Confederacy OF this State is being
asked looking to raising suf11oient money
to purchase the cemetery on Johnson's
Island and properly to caro- for the
graves there, some zoe In number
The first step was taken by the Rob
ert5 Patton Chapter OF the Daughters OF
the Confederacy, OF Cincinnati. Ohio, IN
which Mrs. Mary Patton Hudson is q
prominent hgure. This band Of devoted
women has carried on the Confederate
memorial work In Ohio for years, and
has recently inaug gurated q plan for the
purchase and Einprovementsof5sa section
of the island in Lake Erie, on when Ie l iie
buried moro than 200 Confederate pris-s
oners, most Of them omcers, and is ap-
pealing for aid from the Confederate or
zanizations OF other States In raising the
funds necessary. to purchase this land.
Unless the strip OF sacred soil shall be
thus purchased and preserved as such,
1t will be soon desecrated. 33js55l
Distinguished End dorsemean1'tt.. {
The Robert Patton Chapter has taken
the initiative and is ssencourag ged in Its pa
trioticS purpose by such prominent ex-
Confederates as General Stephen d. Lee.
commanding the United Conf derate Xet-
erans; Genern Marcus = ]. light. Sa noted
war statistieian; 6 eral Basil WI Duke,
lof Ken tucky: the Ia te Eena tor W illiam ~
tB Bate ! OF Tennessee; Dr.. s. p. E Lewis
OF fl washington. D. C, commander oi
Charles, Broadway Rouss Camp Of Wash
ineton. % and others Aided by Mr.. Is.d T.
Mack, editor OF the 9Sandusky,f Ohio. Req
lister, these ladies have secured an op-
ton on the cemetery site, !, and propose to
purchase the property. ark the 4 graves
OF tho dead and keep them IN order,
making small park OF the site. The
land proposed to be purchased IS strip
bout 500 by 22O feet. extending to the
Lake shore. It#was also proposed to erect
q monument thereon. II " 3g Ivy Il
General Stephen d. Lee was so much
Impressed by this & movement that III he
issued general ordertto camps through
out the South on the subject, commend
ing the plan and urging camps and IN
dividuals throughout the South to make
such substantial contributions to these
Daughters as to enable them to s. COM
tplete In the near future the work they
have so much at heart
d commltteeSof the Daughters Of the
l}Confederacy OF this city some years age
raised & about 5000 for the marking Of
Confederate graves In Mort thern GENE
teries, but owing to protests from the
| q. "A. r. sustained by the War Depart
ment. tho money was not b expended d'865fA :
| effort Will be made to devote a portion
Of this fund to the Johnson''s Island plan
The soldiers who lie buried on this
prison island came from all parts Of the
! south. and were men who preferred
5deatl, In captivity to freedom and lifesa
/ fra sacriAce{ OF what they regarded Y al
4 their honor and loyalty to their flag, re,
| fiaing 10 take the oath required OF them
II IS proposed to mark their graves witt
simple stones and to caro- for the 500
heneath which their bones reposc. Twen
i ty-nine or thirty of the 206 OF those
! buried there arc Vrginians, most Of then
4 of,1cers. All OF their names are pre-
served and most OF the graves can bt
i identlfed, TITS said that almost ever!
one OF those buried there was q nom
i her OF the Masonic order, the crosses orig
i inally erected there. mere wooden slabs
/ Ihaying the Masonic .emblem thereon
u & Just what other plans are on foot t
Il raise money for this purpose rs not den
lnitely announced yet. but the movemen
4 will be pressed to 8consumma ton.
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