The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-02-02
HISTORICAL

the Richmond Museum, is anxious to
get copy of Hon. T. @. De Icons
South Songs, or Lays of Later Days"
which was the pioneer volume OF Con-
federate poetry. 1t was issued in New
York on New Year, 1866. and a special
edition was donated TO the great Balti-
more Bazaar for Southern Relief. The
book has been out Of print for decades.
Mr.. DeLeon suggests notice In y. d.
C. column might ind Daughter of the
Confederacy who would donate her
COPY to the museum.
Mrs. Harvey 2. Jones.
M0bi1Ian Honored By the ApalaehicOla
Chapter, u. d. @.
On New Year Eve of this year, Mr..
T. C. De Leon was the guest OF honor
Of the ;Apalachicola Chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy. He
gave an informal talk, without notes,
to the full strength Of the Chapter. and
invited veterans, all being the guests
Of the energetic and accomplished
President, Miss Mary Raney.
The blind author of Bellies, Beaux
and Brains of the eos" spoke nrst OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Davis in their home life
at Washington and Richmond. Then
he touched very briefly upon the hero
ism and constancy of the South in
those four unparalleled years, illus
Va
some Alabama women. First he told
of Mrs. Arthur Hopkins, wife OF Chief
Justice Hopkins Of Alabama, who de-
voted her health, wealth and her very
life to the care of the suffering boys
she loved so well. She was Mss Ju-
liet Ann Opie of Virginia; descended
direct on the maternal side from Sir
Heroine Lindsay of the Mount Lord
Lion King-at-Arms of Scotland. She
married Capt. Alex g. Gordon, United
States navy, was widowed. and later
became Mrs. Arthur F. Hopkins.
Being a woman of wealth, she sold
property in New York and Virginia
and offered 5000 900 and her personal
services to the hospital work. She
was authorized by the State to go to
the front and work at her dis
erection, as Alabama's representative to
the court of mercy. She first organized
the Alabama Hospital. later so famous
and so benofic.ent at Richmond: then
Travelled wherever the States boys
needed aid and sent her trained assist
ants to the head Of many another hos
pital. She was practical, untiring and
determined. On the field at Seven
Pines she was twice wounded, one ball
breaking the bone of her leg and leav-
ing her the legacy of a slight limp
to her grave. Generals Lee, Johnston
and Wheeler have all spoken OF her in
unstinted praise; and at her death, in
1880, the latter wrote of her as THE
Florence Nigh tingale of the South" In
mentioning this in a recent chapter of
his book, Mr.. De Leon reminds his
readers that Miss Annie Wheeler, the
Generals daughter. had earned by her
selfless work in the Spanish war, the
title OF The Army Angel" from the
lighting men Mrs. Hopkins died at
Washington in $780, and now lies at
the National Cemetery at Arlington, in
the section of her son in-law, Major
General Romeyn B. Ayres, u. s. A. Her
only daughter (by the first marriage),
was the wife of that Federal veteran
Mrs. Mrs. Hopkins revisited Mobile.
in 1886. She received q great ovation
and was presented with a splendid
testimonial by the famous Mobile Rifle
Company. Judge Price williams, IT.
then being it's youngest veteran CON-
mandeF
Mr. De Leon paid an equally glowing
AIabama's ttreless workers. He told
the FLORIDA daughters OF MIRA Anne
TOulmin Hunter. a noble woman, IN
whose veins flowed the best blood Of
Virginia and Of the Gulf section; a
woman who Aabored early and hate for
aA siGk and suffering and hungry in
their Hives and aid mt Let her mern0ry
az them halt at the EhEeShhoaa OF the
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