The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-05-17
A Plan To Build At Once Th@
Confederate Monument at Ar
lington.

Confederate Monument at Ar
lington.
All who honor the courage and
devotion of the Confederate
soldier will please read:
Some years ago, under a gen.
erous act of the United States
Congress, at Government eX-
pense, the remains of PCS Con-
federate soldiers, then scattered
throughout Arlington and the
District of Columbia, were gath
cred and inferred together in a
beautiful spot now known as the
Confederate Section in Airing
ton Cemetery, each grave mark
ed with a marble headstone,
identifying the soldier when
possible. Practically every Con-
federate State is named on those
slabs.
Later the U. S. Congress gave
by unanimous vote 5000, 900 to
care for the graves of those who
died in Northern prisons. Each
of these soldiers, where known,
is to have a separate headstone,
and the remains of the unknown,
it has now been decided by the
President, are to be groupe6
under appropriate monuments.
In the center of the COnfed-
crate Section at Arlington is
left a mound. There. in sight
of Washington City, where for
untold generations the American
and the foreigner will be pill
grims, the Confederates them
selves are expected to build a
memorial, which, will typify their
love of and generation for their
dead.
Soon after the refinement at
Arligton, Confederate organiza-
tons in Washington began to
move in this matter. In 1906
the United Daughters of the
Confederacy, in convention at
Gulfport, endorsed the move
ment and subscribed to it. In
1907 at Norfolk the Daughters
took fullsharge, appointing Di-
rectors in the several States and
an Executive Committee at
Washington. All wentspromptly
to work. From all sources the
amount received and deposited
in the American Sc >urity & Trust
Company of Washington, u. c.,
as reported at a meeting of the
committee, on the 9Th of April,
1909, was SO, 999.73, besides 81.
SO on hand, but not yetdeposited,
aggregating over nine thousand
dollars now in hand.
To build a monument worthy
| OF our dead and which will rep
r resent at Arlington, the home O.
Lee, all the Confedrates every
, where, we feel that we nee(
l $50, 900 more. This sum can ant
r will be subscribed by our friends
3 at once, if they are properl,
: solicited. Each local chapter O:
D the Daughters is therefore here
= by earnestly requested to appoin
l a number of earnest and eff
4 Gent young lady canvassers
n each to be decorated, when so
e Letting, with appropriate insig
MIA of authority, and instruc
them to ask of every one, il
U streets, business houses an,
&. homes, to contribute 10 cents
p informing each person that NJ
f more is asked, but that large
or smaller sums will not be re
: fused, and the canvassers mus
u politely insist on pinning upo1
!, each one who responds a piec
|. of white ribbon, upon which
r printed Contributor to Airing
- ton Monument
Amounts thus collected, les
t necessary expenses, will be sen
e by check or express to Mr.. Wallac
:, Streater, Treasurer, 1850 18th St.
Il Washington, D. c., who Wi
II acknowledge as we'll as publis
in the Confederate Veteran" Q
Nashville, Tenn.
This plan energetically carrie,
J. out it is earnestly hoped will a
il once enable the organization t
It ask for designs and bids to b
n submitted to the U. D. C. at tn
- next Convention.
10 1t will be gratifying indeed
'e the building by the Feders
e Government of the mounumen
It 1t is about to erect over our ur
J. known dead around Norther
prisons, shall be promptly fo
! lowed by the contamination G
e our plans for such a memoirs
at Arlington as shall be a sourc
OF pride to us and our posterit1
, BY order of Mrs. Cornell
J. Branch Stone, President-Genert
n u. D. C.
e Hilary A. Herbert,
II Chairman of the Arlington Cor
- federate Monument Asso.
/ Mrs. Arthur E. johnson,
n Corresponding Secretar,
II Invitations Issued to the Ma,
Il rage of Miss Alma R.ncL.