The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-07-21
WOMEN AND WAR
PROTEST AGAINST GENTLE SEX
BEING TITLED.
CAPTAINS, MAJORS, COILS.
Survivors OF the Confedcracy Do. Not
Approve the Amazonian Features in
heir Military Paradcs-Ncvar Called
on the Women to Fight in the Field

In the Nashville Banner Of rcccn,
date an old parched corn-fcd voices the
views Of thousands Of his comrades II
opposition to the Amazouian features
lnanugurated III the paradcs Of Vcter.
ans. In an article headed Women and
War Thomas A. Head says:
! see IN the Nashville papers Of July
3 that Frank Cheatl,am Bivouac. at its
recent meeting, passed resolutions by
UNANIMOUS vote, protesting against
women holding positions on the staff OF
the General Commanding the United
Confederate Veterans, and expressing
as the sense Of the bivouac that all WON
Ell holding such positions resign and
thaf no more women be appointed to
such positions. The steps were taken as
an expression OF disapproval on the part
Of the old veterans that any woman
should appear IN any parade5 Of the old
soldiers wearing a uniform and carry
ing a sword, as recently occurred on
some prominent military parade. The
bivouac voiced the sentiment of all the
| surviving Confederate Veterans bv such
/ resolutions. The object Of the bivouacks
and camps and reunions Of the surviv-
| ing Confederate Veterans in the parades
and otherwise is to keep alive the condi-
tons that existed in the ranks of the
Confederate army as well as the field
and staff departments during the four
years of the war During these four
years of the desperate struggle the Con-
fcderatcs were sorely pressed and need
cd recruits badly, but III its sorest trials
and severest straits they never called
on the women to fight any Of their bat
ties III any capacity on the field Woman
Is not and never was intended to figure |
in any such masculine capacity Military
life requires men. None but a man is |
competent to be soldier in the field |
he survivors of the Confederate Army
are not willing for the Confederate SOL
der to be misreprescnted as such by
having any Amazonian features about
any Of their military parades.
Women contributed largely to the
cause Of the Confederacy, but it was in
her feminine capacity strictly. Too much
honor can not be bestowed upon her for
devotion to the cause of the Confeder-
acy and her noble, self-sacrifcing life in
ITS defence. She gave husband and sons
to fill mp her armies, and denied herself
all the luxurles and many OF the neccs-
sites of life that the Confederate sol
der IN the field might be fed and
and that the sick an | wounded
might have the delicate and careful at
tentlon which the situation demanded
! he Southern woman was a tower Of
strength during this unfortunate strug
gle. She contributed i'll every capacity
within her sphere and her power to ell
courage the soldiers i'll the field to cher
sh that high sense of honor SO essential
10 good soldier. and to be ready at all
lines to give. his all if necessary in de-
tense of the cause that he had sworn to
defend, but she never aspired to any po-
'ition on any generals staff. or to any
prominent position, or position of any
sind, upon the field. Her sex and her
sphere made her more useful at home,
where opportunities were constantly be
ore her to help the cause by her Unfit
nee, by her smiles and her tears, by her J
Inspiring life, which caused the husband
he father or the son to be inspired to
leeds of noble daring and to make sol
liers of whom their families and their
'eople could be proud. All honor and I
raise to the noble women of the Con- {
ederacy. The Daughters of the Confed- I
racy are perpetuating the memory of 2
hese noble matrons of the Confederacy
y their noble work, which God is bless
ng and which is working great good to
IS benefciaries.