The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-15

Dear Confederate Veterans and friends of this fallen hero of the cause we lost. we want to tell you of q neglect ed spot in Northern state, where lie two hundred and six of our brave sol- diers. comrades of your honored John were members of the Masonic Frater- ty. There no loving hands tend flow CTS above their lonely graves, no tears are shed above the sacred dust where lie martyrs to country and duty--as lofty patriots as your dead in Alabama. There died, more than forty years ago, those victims of hunger, cold, disease, In that Federad etockade on Johnson's Island. Oslo, aye. gladly died, rather than to subscribe to the enemy's oath, , and be false to themselves and coun- try.
 More than twenty boys from Ala Dana are buried on Johnson's Island. No magnolia blossoms wait to them a sigh from loved ones, no grey moss decks the waving tree boughs in that alien land, no oleanders bloom in that dreary spot made glorious only by the dust of warriors that were "without fear and without reproach." The dead on Johnsons Island is your dead, our dead. the dead of the whole South. The Robert Patton chapter has undertaken to buy and wrest from ruin that hallowed spot. We are small band of Southern women strong only in our pride of birth, devotion to Dixie, and our undy- ing adoration for the men that fol- lowed the flag of the South till 1t was Iuried at Appomatox. We have. by al- most superhuman effort, succeeded in making the first payment upon the property. some $500, and are now struR- gLng to collect money for the second. which will soon be due. We appeal to you, Dear Veterans. we pray to you | n16tharQ dan for succor in our need. We stretch fortn our hands to the proud old State | or Alabama--the State which sent more than sixty thoussnd-the flower or It's manhood-to the front in 1861. | We call upon the honor of the State assured that we shall not call in vain. North Carolina has some twenty-two soldiers in that old graveyard It l says. We claim the privilege to do our | snare to save those graves from ruin, and We will, too. forever bless the Rob ert Patton Chapter for its generous work Virginia has sent a large sum and will send more. Tennessee has not forgotten us. nor has Georgia, but we need more money and we need 1t now! Today, now. friends and co-workers l in this beautiful memorial cause, be- fore you turn your faces from this monument to your immortal dead, we ask you again to remember your sol- SAOi On kNOElneTu bOil, Tn that 0eS- olate spot on Johnson's Island We, too, want a mapument there erected to your soldiers and ours, but we must first free those cherished graves from debt. But we hope in time to make that cemetery an honor to the entire South, and an object lesson to the North-a remipder that the people of Dixie could not. if they would. forget. We want to tell the world that chill dren yet unborn will proudly rise and | call them blessed-those valiant war riors of long ago. Aye, the South will | never forget till the sun grows cold | and the stars are old and the leaves of l the Judgment unfold" Alabamians, in the name of the men who lie in that forsaken place of sepulture. heed our prayer for help. They call to you these soldiers of Alabama: Captain D. E. Webb. 1st Alabama Cavalry.
 Lieutenant s. G. letter, or Jeters, 31st Alabama Infantry. D. Morrison, sth Alabama Infantry. l Captain L. B Hazard, or Haggard 24th Alabama Infantry. | Liuetenant D. H. Mckay. 18th Ala bama Infantry.
 Captain John R. Jackson. 3sth Ala bama Infantry.
 Lieutenant W. T. skidmore, 4th Ala | bama Cavalry.
 | AtSdtSudht T. I. 0A6OAs IoTu AldDdmd | Infantry.
 Lieutenant L. W. Moore, 25th Ala bama Infantry.
 Captain s. P. sullins, 1st Alabama Infantry.
 Lieutenant L. L. Gobo. 18th Alabama Infantry.
 Lieutenant N. A. Stephens. 46th Ala bama Infantry.
 Lieutenant F. L. Alexander. 4th Ala bama Infantry
 Lieutenant L. B. Wood. 10th Ala bama Cavalry.
 Lieutenant s. H. Bankey. 18th Ala bama Cavalry.
 Lieutenant w. E. Phillips, 4th Ala bama Cavalry.
 Captain W. L. Porter, 61st Alabama Infantry
 Captain B. F. Starns. 9th Alabama Cavalry.
 Lieutenant c. B. Morris. 9th Ala bama Cavalry.
 Lieutenant Robert Gamble. sth Ala bama Infantry.