The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-28
.IGEN. WALKERS PLAN FOR
 MONUMENTS TO WOMEN

One of the most popular veterans from
 outside of Alabama who attended the
 state reunion the past week was Gen. C. Irvine AValker of Charleston, S. C.,
 who Is working faithfully to commem- crate the women of the Confectionery by
 having in each of the southern states
 monument erected in their honor In
 his speech delivered before the Alabama
 division of the United Confederate vet
 erans last Tuesday, General Walker said,
 in part:
 During the preliminary maneuvers of
 the battle of chiekamauga in our rear
 was lowiy one-room log cabin, sur
 rounded with patch of ripe sorghum
 sugar cane. The honesty of hungry
 Confederate was hardly proof against
 the temptation and the boys soon made
 inroads upon it, when Colonel Sawyer of the Twenty-fourth Alabama regiment ordered the men to cease their depreda-
 tions Out of the humble cabin rushed
 a poor woman. These growing crops
 were all she had for living. It's loss meant privation certainly. perhaps want.
 With sublime devotion she called to
 Colonel Sawyer: Don't stop them. Colo
 nel-let them have all they want. That
 Is my sorghum, and those are my boys!''
 My boysl" Every southern woman
 treasured the ragged. dirty. brave Con- federate soldiers as her Boys" My
 boys!'-dear to heart, wrapt in the love Of not only that poor woman. but My
 boys to every woman of our land
 
 old vets, worshiped her then; we re- we're and honor her now; and will forever place her on the loftiest pinnacle of
 earth. Ayel even on the blessed heights
 Of immaculate heaven.
 That far-seeing, if illiterate, Tank hit
 it right when he said to some Virginia ladies, You women folk are the very backbone uv this yer rebellion. Darned If l believe you all are fear'd O the
 devil. I am glad der men got der man. agement of dis yer job, or darned if believe the women would ever gib ur til Gabriel blowed his horn" He was just right Their bravery was unsur- passed and their devotion to their cause
 was sublime. There is no heroism on the firing line which Is not surpassed by the patient fortitude of a heroic woman. whose whole thought and action were to supply and sustain that firing line.
 She cared for the sick, the wounded, the dylng in her home, she nursed them in
 the hospital and brought them comfort on the battlefield.
 But, though tender was woman as a
 nurse. and noble in giving up her loved
 ones to the cause; though grand was the heroism of the soldier in the field
 where the men were cheered and sus-
 tafned by the excitement of battle and
 the companionship of the campfire, yet
 none of these, great as they were, equaled
 the patient fortitude of the mother In her
 quiet home, her whole thoughts and life
 intent upon the support of that home and sustenance of her sons at the front
 Soft, white hands grew calloused places delicate frames learned to resist the ex-
 trenities of fatigue; fair complexions
 roughened by exposure; eyes saddened in the daily scenes of war, and hearts ached because-God bless themi- they | thought that after all they were doing
 so little" Doing so little,i They were doing more than the men. The Confed- crate soldiers gal1antly swept up Malvern Hill, marched to death across the bloody field of Franklin, threw themselves i'm petuously into the crater at Petersburg,
 bur the sad mother, in the quiet of the home she was maintaining, away from all eAtllelHeHls WILL luc IeTIlDle, HedTl- rending agony of suspense, fearing. yet anxious to hear from her loved ones at the front, suffered and bore ten thousand times as much.
 Great revolutions are said to produce great women | We are to gauge our revolution by the greatness of it's wom- en, it must have been the greatest the world ever saw.
 nations history Is not complete which | a xl it's heroines with those of it's heroes
 Let us see to t that on the grand roll of | fame which irnmortalzes the valor, brav- cry and patriotic devotion Of its people to the southern Confectionery that high est of all. brightest of all shall stand the names of Gods noblest creation--the
 women of the southern Confectionery
 It is proposed to perpetuate the fame of these women by the erection In each
 state of a splendid monument The bronzes for these monuments will all be
 alike They should be. for thus can be | shown what is proper to be shown. that the south as whole unites in paying this loving tribute to the women of the south as d whole | The pedestals for these bronzes will be erected with such elaborateness as each
 state may feel itself able to do. I Ii Is unnecessary to refer to the past l efforts but simply let me say that the movement is now organized on such a
 substantial business basis that success is assured.
 l It is proposed to have at least one
 manument in each state and as many more IS may be wanted, and I hope to see one In every city of the soutf. It will be composed of the bronze group de- | signed by Miss Belle Kinney, mounted 1 on a granite base. The committee has | so arranged that each of these monu- ments completely erected can be had for S1oo00. More elaborate pedestals can be i built at a larger cost.
 1 The design of Miss Kinney Is most ap-
 propriate to the grand subject. In one
 group 1t pays tribute to all the varied kinds of supreme devotion of these wom-
 en. It is conceived and worked out most
 artistically Ii is triumph of sentiment
 correctly portrayed and immortallzed by
 artistic genius.
 1 Does Birmingham want this memorial l If she does what influential citizen will l