The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05
United Daughters
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 Unitea Daughters of the confederacy.
 Editor. Mrs Harvey E. Jones, slate Historian, Spring Hill, Mobile county, Alabama.
 srhe manner of their death was the crownfng glory of their lives."--Jener- son Davis "Rut there are deeds which 5hould not pass away,
 And names that must not wither." state Oaaeers, Alabama Division, U. ID. C. Honorary President. Miss sailie . ! Jones, Camden.
 | President, Mrs. J. N. Thompson, 1us- cumhia.
 Brown, Birmingham.
 second Vice President. Mrs. Lewis Cobbs. Montgomery. Recording Secretary, Mrs Chappell Cory, Birmingham.
 Corrasronding Secretary. Miss Mat tie McDAvid Florence.
 | Treasurer, Mrs, w. I. Palmer, Cht- versity Postoffice, Ala.
 | Registrar, Mrs. J. c. Lawrence un-
 Historian. Mrs. Harvey E. Jones, l Spring Hill.
 i historical Committee Alabama Division | U. ID. Es
 Mrs. Harvey E. Jones, Spring Hill. | Mrs. E. R. Ross. Auburn. Mrs. Electra Semmes Colston, Mo- tjle.
 Mrs M. W. Camper, Florence. 1 Miss Eliza Bullock, Montgomery. l Mrs A. l.. Dowdell, Orelika. Mrs. Ralph Saunders. Athens 1 Mrs. c. A. Lanier. Montgomery. I MenilI E. Pratt Chapter. in fulhllmenL i of pledge at meeting Of ExecutiSe | Board in January. One article will De | in next Sundays issue. l "Reminiscences Os The Sixties. | When the Northern army invaded our Southland, taking possession or every city and town; they entered one | in which there was large female coI- Haze filled to oyerfiowing with pupils, from all parts of the South. The pres ident of this college was of very ex- citable temperament. as also brave anu truly Southern. The Yankee soldier
 marched up to the college doors-when
 the president saw them. he caileo to
 his little son. and bade him kneel ana
 swear eternal vengeance, on the m | vading soldiers. As he uttered this | VOW. there were leveled at the presi- dent twenty guns. Quickly the college l girls surrounded their loved lnstruc- tor. and dared the Yankees to shoot them. To their credit be 1t said. the soldiers lowered their guns, and left the college and its inmates untouched. such was the spirit of bravery that filled each southern girls heart. "Ao can measure it, or what country can show its eaualf
 cne of the many sad and heart rending scenes that occurred during the Confederate war was the fatality that happened on the 16th day oi
 1anuarv. as colonel of Lees army | was returning to his command at the expiration of a furlough, his wife ana two daughters accompanied him as Tar as Pearl River. The bridge having been destroyed. they crossed the pYer lin a huge fiat boat. After bidBine his loved ones good bye, the colonel stood on the rivers brink to watcn them as they recrossed to return home 6n inc flat were OK teams heavily
 loaded with rail road irons As they drew near the middle Of the glver' the oxen became manageable turn ed the boat over. with wife and chilo- ren. nenning them beneath the waters while husband and father trantlcaily' but vainIy, tried to rescue his dariings l At the close of the term in one of tba large female colleges during the | sIxttes there stood twenty-seven girl graduates all clad in home-spun dress es to receive their diplomas. Need say that never were graduates prouder
 of their dresses it had been the re, 9uest of the college president that the costume of each pupil should be home spun. So on this glad day the large ] cIase of the summer of '64, stepped i forth from her Alma Mater arrayed
 fin horhe-spun, woven and made in uniform style by the mothers of the
 sIxties What would the young girls
 of the present think of this2 | Rut the bright sun never shown on
 fairer faces, than these, though they
 be bedecked in the costliest laces and
 inported costumes that have now
 taken the place of homemade aress oi | war times.
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