The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-02-05
MEMORIAL FOR
WOMEN OF THE
CONFEDERACY
CALL ISSUED FOR FUNDS BY
FLORIDA DIVISION ASKING FOR
FUNDS TO BUILD MONUMENT
TO CONFEDERATE WOMEN.

B. w. Partridge sends the following
appeal for funds to erect . monument
to the women Of the Confederacy in
Florida:
At q meeting OF the Florida division
Oak. October 22nd, report was read
by General Jewell. chairman Of the
committee, whose duty it il to raise
funds to erect monument In the
state Of Florida in memory Of the noble
women Of our state. Those women
who served and sacrificed, while the
Confederate soldiers fought and SUI
fered and died for noble cause. This
righteous labor Of loving memory to
our war women has Jagged and
dragged it's way through our reunions
for years. It comes up once year at
our convention-has it's hour Of en-
thusiastic life-and then IL laid to rest
as we sing God be With You Till We
Meet Again"
In the Live Oak Reunion I pledged
myself to do some work when I
reached home. To REDEEM by pledge,
! am now appealing to the Confeder-
ate veterans OF Jefferson county, 20
the sons Of veterans, and to friends of
the cause they represent, to con-
tribute to this fund.
In appealing to you am not ask
ing aims; nor do I want a contribu
ton that does not come as free will
Offering Of loving memory from men
who cherish the deeds Of the noblest
women that ever lived In this or any
other land.
Poets have sung the story OF their
loyalty. Historians have written of
their courageous spirit Of service and
sacrifice. The artist has given them a
place upon the heroics Of canvas-but
then men Of the south are yet to give
expression to their loving gratitude.
Men Of the eos, comrades Of Camp
Patton Observation-Disclosures In or out
side Of our camp: no words Of mine
are needed to tell you of those angels
of mercy, who ministered to US all
through the dark hours of our bloody
service. They were ever present from
the hour that mother. sister, or wafe
kissed US goodbye. as we marched 70
the front, until the scattered. SCARED
starved, Remnant turned their faces
homeward at the close Of the war. nor
did their labors Of love cease with our
defeat. They established Memorial
Day, and all over this southland they
brought to the last resting places Of
their heroic dead sarlands Of hora.
treasures Of our south to spread ar
expression Of their love and memory
They denied themselves to contribute
money to. erect monuments to oul
memory, and today thousand south.
ern hills bear tribute of their love. ii
marble and bronze, to the men who
wore the gray. Like the numbers whs
marched away to war. the ranks o.
these noble women are thinned to q
bare remnant Of survivors. But theil
lives are reproduced in our daughters
l need not remind you that we have &
place in their love. They are always
ready at our places OF reunion to gree
US with their presence, and entertaif
us from their store.
/ shall be, disappointed II there Ia .
veteran who neglects this opportunit,
to make a free will offering to thi'
call. If every Confederate veteran wht
draws pension would pledge and pa,
fifty cents out Of each quarterly checl
he would have $24.50 left him, and II
one years time we would have raiset