The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-09

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MRS. j. TAYLOR ELY
whose brave deeds wilI never be for
! gotten. Presented By the Winchester
/ Chapter. United Daughters of the Con.
/ federacy.
"A piece OF Confederate gray with
I crepe attached. The piece was cut
I from the uniform of Gentrtl T j. Jack
son. IN which ne received his death
wound. May .. 1863. The crepe was a
| fragment from mourning worn at his
| funeral At twenty minutes past 3
| o'clock on May 10. 1853. tire soul OF the
great soldier passed into the peace OF
| God. soon after his-trembling lips Ut
tered the immortal words Let us cross
| cross over the river AMI rest under the
shade OF the trees" Presented by r l.
Williamson. boy soldier Of Company
! /. First Virginia cavalry. with his
photograph in military uniform.
Original order" -(framcd, issued by
Colonel J. S. Mosby. dsbanding ms
command at the close OF the war. Pre-
scntcd By Captain Robert :. Walker 10
the United Daughters OF the Confed
eracy at the annual meeting, November
II, 1911. Presented by tho daughters
to the museum through Mrs. y. V. Ran
dolph.
Certificate Of membcrsh!p In HOODS
Texas Brigade Association OF Lieutcn-
ant I. d. Rock, Company /. First
Texas heglment Hood Texas Brigade,
:. :. 4. Presented by Mrs Samuel
Griffin, Bedford Chapter. United DauEh-
ters OF the Coufcdcracy. Placed in
the library.
Blue homcspun dress suit OF Captain
Andrew Jackson Grayson. with epau-
lets, chapeau white c6ckadc md lnsiE-
MIA The material OF which the suit
Was made was woven on the Grayson
farm in Bland county. Virginia, by the
servants.
Captain Grsyson volunteered IN May.
1851. at Bland Courthouse, where he
organized Ihc Bland Sharpshooters,
which subsequently, became Company.
+. Forty-hfth Virginia Regiment. and
of which company he was elected cap
tam, lie was brave soldier and be-
loved by all OF his comrades Present
ed in his memory by his daughter, Mrs.
| Margaret Grayson Williams. ,,.
! Chair used In the office of Miss Maria
Morris, who was an cmploye OF the
| Confederate states government during
the war, and cabinet made in Rich
mond in the sixties. Bequcsthed by
Miss Maria Morris.
! Desk used In tho Confederate Con-
gross in the Capitol at Richmond. pre-
sented by Hon. j.. c. Folkes. member
| OF the Virginia Senate.
Photograph OF Frances Dunbar Rug
sizes taken from a portrait which
hangs In the Washington Artillery
| fiall, New Orleans. THIS brave SOL
dier was born in Dorchester, Mass.
| August II. 1897. and had lived in New
! orleans but two years when the War
! between the States was declared. He
followed the Washington Artillery to
! Inc front in 1861, and lost his life at
the battle OF Mary's Heights. Fred
\ n b,,.
| Is buried III the General Terry lot in
| Hollywood Cemetery In presenting
| the picture his brother says: 1t is
| Preferable that 1t be placed in the
| Virginia room. as he died and his body
! rests IN that state, and where also his
| nance. lady of Richmond. lived who
remained Unmarried and who died Il
Few years ago" Presented by H. Stod-
! GARD Rugglcs. Wakefield Mass
Carved gold ring, presented by Mis-.
Emily Mason at Camp Winder by the
| Bread Rioters. y histion OF the bread
/ ilot was written by her and published
| Ia the Atlantic Sonthly OF 1872 The
! ring was bcGucathcd to the Confecicr-
! ate Museum through her niece, MISC
| Kate Mason Rowland.
Epaulettes of Thomas \. Dobyns or
| Tappahannock. Essex county, Virginia
| first lieutenant of Company y, Fifty
| NTH Virginia Volunteers c. S A. Uc
enlisted in April. 1861 ana served to
| 'hc end Of the war. Deposited through
! Mrs. X. V. Randolph
| Epaulctts and three historic swords
Of General Charles Dimmock. chief of
! ordinance in Virginia service General
| pimmock served in the Seminole War
! % 1885 under General Scott. as tho
! commander or the Virginia state
Guards" and as brigadTer- general in
| the War Between the states Deposit-
! e' by Marion ]. Dimmcck. March 30.
Lac
Epaluettes of CaptWiliam A. Hill,
Of tho Fork Rangers. Fourth Virginia
Cavalry. General Fitz Lees Brigade.
| Presented as n memorial by his sis
ter. Miss Comic B. NJ. Hill.
| silk battle flag of General Fitzhugh
| Ice. presented by Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee.
This interesting flag is now almost in
sl'reds. it having been taken from the
| frame in which it hung in the Vir-
/ sinia room and packed with other re-
lies when IT was withdrawn hy the
family.
10 place these Tags and ALI other
| Confederate relics in the keeping Of
! our society. where they will be free
from handling and from tho danger Of
| hrc and being injured or lost In 'moy
ing them from place to place is a duty
which those who possess them owe TO
the faithful women who have provid
! ed place FOR their perpetual preserva
ton.
Now that the Confederate Veterans
| Mt their annual melting held in Macon.
/ Ga. May 3. 1912. have for the second
time adopted the recommendation of
/ the president of the association which
| Is building the Confederate Memorial
Institute BATTLE Abbey In this city.
THAT it be not made"a depository of
| Confederate relics such as ara gather