Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-10-20
AN APPEAL.

Office Committee on Monuments to
the Women Of the Confectionery,
Louisiana Division, 612 Canal
Bank Building.
New Orleans, La, Sept, is, 1911.
To the Officers and Members of
the Various U. CIV. Camps through
out the Louisiana Division, United
Sons OF Confederate Veterans, United
Daughters of the Confederacy, All
Other Confederate Organizations,
and to the people of the State Of
Louisiana: Your attention is called
to the resolution adopted by the
United Confederate Veterans, at
their general reunion in the city of
Mobile, as set forth in General Or
ders No. 13, dated June 3, 1910, as
follows:
Whereas, at the Memphis re-
union in 1909, there was held un-
der the authority Of the commanders
in-chief Of the United Confederate
Veterans and the United Sons of
! Confederate Veterans, a joint meet
ing with reference to the monument
to the women Of the Confederacy,
and under its authority committee
of veterans and sons was duly APP
pointed and properly organized.
Resolved, That this convention
recognize said committee as in charge
of the grand work, and will now
and hereafter give it all the support
in its power to carry to aspeedy and
successful end the work it has un-
dertaken. -
!, By authority OF this resolution,
the United Confederate Veterans
have undertaken to see that a mon
ument is erected in each State in
memory Of those heroic women of
the sixties, who so devotedly gave
up all for the cause for which we
fought; whose beauty, glory, self
sacrificing nobility, and whose zeal,
unparalleled in the history of the
world, gave aid, encouragement and
inspiration to our cause, encouraged
the weak, strengthened the strong,
throughout the struggle, suffering
privation. want and danger with a
fortitude and heroism that only the
pure and patriotic can possess; and
this to such a degree that it excited
the admiration and wonder of the
world. That their example was APP
preciated by the Confederate author
tiles. see what our great and only
president said of them:
These, the noblest creation OF
Almighty God, whose self sacrificing
devotion, patient watching, untiring
labor and watehful care; whose
pious administrations to our wound
ed soldiers soothed the last hours OF
those who died far away from the
objects of their tenderest love; whose
domestic labors contributed much
to supply the wants of our defenders
in the, field; whose Jealous faith in
our cause shone like guiding star,
-undimmed by the darkest clouds of
war; whose fortitude sustained them
in oil privatiops towhich they were
subject; whosdlannual tribute ex-
presses their enduring grief, love
and reverence for our sacred dead;
whose patriotism win teach their
children to emulate the deeds Of our
revolutionary sires, We shall ever be
grateful. 4"
Therefore we, the Confederate
Veterans. with the assistance of the
people Of our State, desire to erect
q monument to their memory, as is
being done ell over our Southland,
that generations to follow may not
forget the nobility Of character and
devotion to principle possessed by
their ancestral mothers.
A committee, under the above
resolution, consisting Of a member
from each State, was duly organized
sand incorporated, who selected for
tssschairInan> General C. Irvine
Walker, now the commander-ih-
CHIEF Of the United c Confederate Vet
Grams. succeeding our beloved and
lamented commander, General Geo.
w. Gordon, lately deceased
The undersigned was selected by
this committee to represent the Lou
isiana Division. At the Opelousas
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