The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-12
Cradle of the confederacy Chapter.

The regular monthly meeting of The Cradle of the Confectionery Chapter was held on Wednesday March 1st. While nothing of general interest transpired I feel it due the State President to re- spond to her request that chapters will make a monthly report so as to keep in touch through our valuable column in The Montgomery Advertiser with other chapters in the State and l am sure they interest a large number of readers of the paper.
 We find our beautiful library a de- lightful place for meetings and the attendance very satisfactory. especial- ly of the new officers who continually attend to make reports. The historic papers of our last meeting were par ticularly interesting and instructive. The subject of the first was 'The Bat tie of Shiloh" Mrs. Judge Carmichael prepared with much care and study a paper of such excellence that q unanimous vote was taken that she should seEd 1t to the historians of both the State and the chapter to be pre- served by them. Following up the same study Mrs. Kate Collins gave d most beautiful and finished account of the patriotic Death of Albert Sidney Johnston" of whom, when President Davis was appealed to to send another general 10 COHlHldnu the army III the West replied: If you haven't q general in Albert Sidney Johnston. I have none to send. He was a great warrior and his death sumlime! Mrs. Collins paper was so ably prepared and read. that the same motion prevailed-that it should be sent to the Historians of our chapter and the State Historian. Mrs. Harvey Jones in Mobile. The Chapter has read several propositions for entertainments of various kinds and a committee has now in charge a plan for very beautiful one after Easter. We were very glad to have been able to assist in buying a brass instrument for a band at the Soldiers Home, and hope they may succeed in ma aking music, there that will cheer the old veterans. We have all often tried to show our loving fellowship in lov- ing resolutions of sympathy to mem bers who are visited with affliction and grief. At this meeting we extended our sympathies to the daughters of the late Captain Ben Screws, that veteran and orator from whose lips have is- sued many is the time, rubies and pearls and rarest gems of beauty In loving praise of the South and her gal lant sons. He was ever a friend of our organization and ever ready to raise his voice and let flow the fullness of his heart in loving eulogies of them and their noble work. The resolution was made in fitting words by Mrs. Wilsie Lanier Durr.
 Mrs. Watt requested the Director Mrs. Annie Thompson to take the chair that she might offer the fol- lowing resolutions:
 Whereas the present Congress has passed an act to return the sacred flags of our Southern Confederacy lost in the battles of that distressing war to the governors of the respective states to be returned to their right full owners or kept in the State ar chives and that We as Daughters of the Confederacy appreciate their action with profound gratitude.
 Therefore be it resolved that we. the Cradle of the Confederacy Chapter in meeting assembled do express our thanks to every member of Congress who voted for this act not only carry ing with it the sense of justice but the sentiment of kindly feeling for those fellow heroes, who lost them in bat tie. As also to the President for signing the same making 1t law to return those relics, so dear to who- ever they rightfully belong.
 End. That q committee of ladies find the time when they will arrive and meet them with fitting ceremonies.
 The motion was unanimously carried.
 Some unfinished business was dis