The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15
UNITED DAUGHTERS
 OF THE CONFEDERACY
OmciaI organ Alabama Divisiea. unuIHn uunnnnnMm I'M

oacsai orsan 1 aMuHuH0hug luE0Em nm ulBu uG|u uM ullu V Editor-in- -chief-Mrs, Charles G. z Brown. Birmingham.
 Assistant Eoitor--Mrs. Belle Allen Ross. Montgomery. , , Jones. Montgomery.
 0eneral Onicers,. U. D. 2.
 President. Mrs. Lizzie George Hen- derson. Greenwood: Miss.ur. IT voorhies. San Francisco. Cal.
 second Vice. President, Mrs. D. A. . vaught. New Orleans. Ia: Dowdeil. opelika. Ala.
 corresponding, Secretary. Mrs. A w. Rapley, St. Louis. Mo.
 Treasurer. Mrs. Eustice Williams Custodian Cross of Honor. Mrs. L. H. Raines, Savannah. Ga.
 AlaOhma State Directory. E
 Miss Sailie Jones Honorary President Mrs. Charles G. Brown. President Mrs. 5. E. Ross. First vice!Presi- Z Mrs. Lewis Cobb. Second vice-Pres- tdent. Montgomery. Ala.
 Mrs. L. T.. Pride Recording Sec rsiMsry Pside stasiSn pS,1,a. nia corre.ponans Secretary, Birming gham, Ala.
 Mrs. T. W. Palmer. Treasurer. Mon tevallo. Ala. Mrs. Harvey, F. Jones. Historian Mrs: F: H. .Elmore. Registrar. Moun- Mrs. J. A. Rountree. Recorder of Cross of Honor. lsvo. Eleventh Ave- nue. south Birmingham. Ala. Mrs. Mary c. PlcNens.. Director and Registrar of the Children of the Con. federacy. Greensboro Ala.
 Auditing committee--Mrs.. Ellen Ps- ter-Bryce, Tuscaloosa.
 Chapter Extension Mrs. R. A. Lee. oreenvilie. Chairman. State Souvenir Plate--Mrs. W. L. Durr. Montgomery. Chairman.
 Monument Fund.- Mrs. R. B. Ross. Auburn. Chairman
 Hospital Relief. Soldiers Home..Mrs Prank Elmore. Mountain Creek. Chair- man.
 scnolarship--Mrs. J. A. Thompson Tuscumbia Chairman.
 Contributed by the Sophie Bibb Chap
 ter, U. D. co
 "Confederate Rest.
 This is the tenderly suggestive name given to a small plot in Forest Hill cemetery, at Madison, Wisconsin. that ought to be very dear to the hearts of Alabamians, for here repose the bodies of 13s Confederate soldiers nearly all of whom belonged to the 1st Alabama Regiment. How they came to be laid in this isolated spot, so far from the scene of the great strife which cost them their lives. is best told in the following extracts from. letters ad- dressed to the writer by MT. John G. Salsman. Assistant Adjutant General of the State of Wisconsin
 Madison. Wis, Nov, IS. 1907. Miss E. FAndrews.
 Sophy Bibb Chapter.
 Montgomery, Ala.
 Madaffl--You letter In relation to The graves of the Confederate prisoners at Madison has been referred to this de- pertinent for answer. There are buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery of this city. which Is the leading and most beautiful cemetery. 1sS prisoners who died here, men from the fst Alabama and 1st Georgia Regiments. These men were captured at Fort Donelson in February. 1862. and some time dur ing the summer were removed from here to the larger camps at Chicago. Each grave is plainly marked with the name of the soldier his combany and regiment. and the entire plot is we'll taken care of by the authorities of the cemetery. The headstones as far as known were put on the graves by local people here. An officer of the War Department has lately been in Madison and made a roster to be used in remsrking the graves with head stones of beautiful Georgia marble.
 Very respectfully.
 John G. Salsman.
 Assistant Adjutant General. A second letter contains fuller and l-HN xtr1,f fNl Ar Salsman kindly put himself to the trouble of collecting. It says:
 since answering your letter of the 18th inst. in relation to the Con- federate graves at he Forest Hill Cemetery in this city. further $uforma. and I have received the loan of a pamphlet in relation to these graves published at Washington, D. C.. by the Head Quarters of the Confederate Veterans Association of Washington D. C., Camp 171. U c. V. There was but one copy of this pamphlet avail able, being report published by a committee of that camp which investi gated the condition of the graves, etc There has been copied from the pamphlet a roster of the names of the Confederate soldiers buried in the cemetery here The soldiers were mostly from the 1st Alabama Regiment and surrendered during the operations at Island No. 10.
 As stated before, Ithe plot is very nicely kept. and arrangements have been perfected that each grave will be marked with a marble headstone to replace the wooden head-marks now there. During the annual ceremonies incident to Decoration Day the graves of these soldiers are decorated in the same manner as the graves of the sol diers of the Federal Army. the cere- monies taking place between the two plots"
 Accompanying this letter was ros- ter of the. soldiers that Mir. Salsman kindly had' copied for me. and clip ping from The Madison Democrat of November 24. telling of the noble work done in caring for these graves by Mrs. Alice Whiting Waterman. a Southern resident of Madison. in con junction with Colonel Hugh Lewis, a Union veteran, and his comrades of Fairchild Post. c. A. R. Some extracts from this paper are given below which will doubtless be read with loving gratitude by every son and daughter of Alabama: a
 The work of this devoted woman, Mrs. Waterman. and the brave men who gave her their aid and sympathy in caring for a spot made sacred by the dust of so many sons of Alabama. must appeal with peculiar force to our people. and deserves public recognition