The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-02
HISTORICAL. nv Mrs. Huryey E. Jones.


 The following report of Mrs. L.. G. Dawson deserves place in historical colunns 1t shows how hard she work ed for the building of monument to Alabama soldiers at Shiloh. The chair man of such a committee encounters so many difficulties, has so many stumbling blocks that I am sure the Alabama Division feel most grateful to Mrs. Dawson. I heard one of the commissioners say he did not see how we got such a monument with so lit- tie money"
 From the beginning it has been felt by our Southern women who had Ia thers or brothers, husbands or sons. sweethearts or friends, to lose their precious lives in the .;ever-to- be-for- gotten war between the States. that their deeds should be commemorated and the resting place of their sacred dust be marked by suitable memorials. Especially have they felt that in those cemeteries where the Federal and Confederate soldiers sleep their last sleep together, or those hailowed places where there the memories of both are equally recalled. the latter should equal honor with the former. For there was an equal purity and sincerity of purpose, and an equal sptr- if of self sacrifice and bravery. No army, 1t can be truthfully said, ever responded to a more unsefish call or displayed in the field a nobler type of soidierly character and discipline than that one which marched in the uni- form of grey and under the inspiration of the stars and bars in that memor- able struggle of 186l-5. That strug- gle gave a new name to human chiv- airy and honor. Never in the history of the world have manhood and loyal a nnhllF interpretation. And our women have not been willing to see less done for the memory of their beloved dead than has been done for others by loving hearts and hands.
 In February 1899. at the Convention at Selma. Ala, an appeal was made by Mrs. l.. c. Dawson, to inaugurate movement to secure sufficient funds to erect q monument on one of the four national battlefelds of the country. which she followed up with the offer ing of these accompanying resolutions:
 "Whereas. the Federal government ot the United States nas purchased and converted into national parks some af the historic battle fields Of the civ il war. and
 "Whereas, some of the Northern states have expended large sums of money in erecting suitable monuments in commemoration Of their soldiers who were slaln on these nelds, ana
 "Whereas. It is the part of love and patriotism that the Southern soldiery who fell on these battlegrounds, Rlv- ing themselves as sacrifice to the cause Of constitutional right as they saw 1t. should have some marble shaft erected on each of these pattlefields in eommemoration of their heroic deeds and their devotion to their cOuntry's calls; therefore. be 1t
 "Resolved That we. the Daughters of the Confcderacy for Alabama, most earnestly appeal to the various camps of United Confederate Veterans and the Sons of Veterans of Alabama, to join with us in raising funds and cree ting such monuments as our contribu- tions will justify upon these fields and within these parks, as an earnest to- ken of the tribute Co their heroism and devotion to the Southern cause.
 Resolved second, That we most re-