Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-11
A MONUMENT TO THE WOMEN OF
THE CONFEDERACY

With appropriate services the mon
ument at Rome to the women of the
Confederacy has been unveiled 1t is
the first monument of the kind In
spired by this example, though, it is
probable that a number of monuments
will be reared in coming years, in
who struggled and suffered during the
four years of warfare, and gave of
their labors and of their heart blood
as freely as did the men upon the
firing line for the cause that was dear
to them both alike
THE inscriptions upon the Rome
monument were written by DR.. Nun
nally and President Woodrow Wilson.
of Princeton University. They are
worthy of the women whose fame
the marble memorial is intended 10
commemorate. DR.. Nunnally's trib-
uts is as follows:
She was obedient to the God she
adored
And true to every vow she made to
man.
She was true to the country she loved
| so well
And upon its altar laid husband,
sire and son
The home she loved to grace was
served
With sincerity of life and devo-
ton of heart
| She reared her sons to unselfish chiy-
airy
And her daughters to spotless purity
Her children delight to give her honor
And love to speak her praise.
President Wilson's tribute is thus
To the Women of the Confederacy:
Whose fidelity, whose purity, whose
courage, whose gentle genius in love
and in counsel kept the home secure
the family school of virtue, the state
a court of honor; who made of war
a season of heroism and of peace a
time OF healing; the guardians of our
tranquility and of our strength.
The Rome Tribune-Herald in iIs
editorial dealing with the unwilling
ceremonies we'll says:
History has already told how the
man of the South continued the strug-
gle against fearful odds for four lone
bloody years of warfare. 1t has ex-
Lolled his yalor, paid tribute to his
chlValry and crowned his brow with
| lmmortelles 1t remains for the men
IL the South to do justice to those
VINO renamed at home, protected their
children and furnished food and raj
ment for the soldiers at the front
IoJ uo4BI!dsu! L9nJoI on SEM 9L9uT
the soldiers at the front than the
noWledge that they were fighting not
only for their political rights and the
nd they loved SO we'll, but that they
were fighting for the women of the
South, whose courage, forbearance
and undying devotion to the Southern
cause inspired their hearts and thrill.
ed their souls to perform such prod.
.gies of valor.
It is the women of the Confederac1
who have kept alive through more
than forty years the memory of those
who lost their lives in the struggle
ler liberty, and who each year decl
the graves of those who fell with the
| rarest, sweetest flowers.
4Heh IL IS mere IN Rome, in the
heart OF the South, in the center Of
the late Confederacy, where: all dur.
ng the civil war, was heard the can.
ons boom and the musket's flash
where Forrest performed his most
LIBERATED feat of arms, and Sherman
and Johnson FLASHED arms in bloody
"nflict. 1t is here that the frs
monument commemorative of the wo.
men Of the Confederacy has beer
'acted. 1t is a costly monument
erected by a small but devoted band
OF Sons of Confederate Veterans. Beau.
tiful in art and ample in proportions
1t stands staunch but silent witness
Of the matchless courage and death.
less devotion of the women of thf
South.