Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-05-18
FIRST REUNION BY NASHVILLE WOMAN Wife of General Ray Gath cred Veterans Together
 Years Ago.
STORY OF ASSEMBLY,
Sketch of Appreciation of the Work She Did for the Soldiers Dur
 ing the War.

The movement for monuments in each of the states which composed the Confederacy to the women of the confederaey is rapidly spreading, and it is believed that before many years each of the states will have erected such a monument together with the one great monument to De erected by all of the southern states together.
 The movement for these memorials will likly receive an additional impe- tus at the coming reunion of the vet erans which is held this week in Little Rock, Ark. In this connection the following lette" recently sent to the secretary of the movement ill the state of Tennessee will be of particu- uar interest to people here.
 Dear Sir-'Women of the South to Be Honored,' from your pen in the April Veteran, was read just as I came from the bedside of Mrs Alice Caldwell Ray, one whose life and works are most worthy of individual and special honor Would it not cheat the days she is now passing through, if given while she lives? She would be the last to ask it yet most appreciative. From childhood her mission has been to give Her noble father the late Colonel Cald- well, of Paris, Tenn, was very proud of the sterling qualities she early manifested and gave them the broad freedom they merited How sweet was their comradeship? She was the child after his own heart, his joy his pride, his sunshine. Abundant means were ever at her disposal ard wisely used in good works. Many days she followed her brother in his rounds as physician maid and coach ' man, proudly aiding in a ministry often more needed than medical skill Little did they realize how soon the lessons learned would be needed that were given in the con fidsnce, Love and Freedom in that dear home in Tennessee.
 Money for Soldiers. !
 'It was in the early sixties that General Ray brought her, his bride, - to our hills and left her here while 4e went out to battle for the cause so dear to them. Stranger than fiction, Were it written would be he story of her life during the years of war. The danger she passed through, the victories she won where armed men would have failed them, at one time safely carrying $40,000 through dan gers under the cushions of her stage carriage, that the soldiers might be paid. Lawless men of both North and South riding from justice in the ml9untains, hungry and reckless as wolves and more to be feared than armed troops were robbing the un- protected. With the solicitude of a mother, at the risk of even life, she carried butt plans which protected many homes from these, but best and most needed of all was the hope she gave, dispensing darkness with light, sorrow with trust, and fear with courage. Brave soldiers of every rank, hungry, footsore, wounded and discouraged, journeyed back and forth, and thousands of these were fed from her home and from her own stores
 Mrs. Rays Dream.
 When General Ray was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga and trying to reach home she had very strange dream which caused her to go out to meet him. She had pinned star and eagle on his hat when he left her, telling him she would know him by it. In her dream she saw wounded soldier with a star and eagle on his hat, his sleeves wet with blood. Walking, she hastened to Asheville, and the stage was just leaving for Greenville; they told her all the seats were taken and that it
 would not be safe for her to go. See ing her anxiety physician offered to give up his seat, and hastily ex- changing her hat with hotel maid for her cap and apron, they allowed her to go in this disguise. When they had journeyed sixty miles or more, and had just exchanged their tired horses for eight fresh ones, and were speeding on toward Greenville they met an orderly driving double carriage and in it lying prostrate, literally as she had seen in her dream, with star and eagle on his, cap, was 8 wounded soldier. Hastily