The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-30
TO BUY BATTLEFIELD
OF HORSESHOE BEND
Daughters of 1872 Show In
terest in Project
FOR NATIONAL PARK
Owner of Property Declines to Give
Option, But Daughters VIII Urge
Congress to Take Steps
to Acquire lit

Sims Kelly chapter. National Society
United States Daughters of 1872, state of
Alabama, at it's regular monthly meeting
November 10, 1913. unanimously passed
the following resolutions. Offered by Mrs
Alma Ruttenberg:
whereas, Congress has not given any
recognition to the spot where was fought
March 81, 1914, the battle of Horseshoe
Bend, one of the most decisive battles
fought on American soil. where many
brave patriots, many of them volunteers,
sacrificed their lives in defense OF their
country protecting the homes and aveng-
ing the wrongs committed upon helpless
women and children.
"Resolved, first, that we petition Con-
gressman Thomas Hefiin and the other
members of Congress, and the two SEN
ators from Alabama that they take i'm
mediate action in presenting n bill to
Congress. asking for an appropriation to
buy the ground upon which the battle
of Horseshoe Bend was fought for ma
tional park in commemoration of that
important event in our opuntry's history,
said land of 100 acres, more or less, ly-
ing In a bend ON the Coosa river in Tall
lapoosa county. Alabama. and owned by
Mrs. Nora E. Miller.
"Resolved, second, that lin this petition
Z we ask for the same consideration for
the Horseshoe Bend battle ground that
has been given Gettysburg- Shiloh Vicks-
burk and Chickamauga battle fields of the
war between the states. They have been
secured and preserved oy Congress,
neither of which events had as great
bearing on the making of our nation as
the battle of Horseshoe Bend
Resolved, third, that the state pres
ident, Miss Maud Mcclure Kelly, be made
chairman of this committee, and that she
secure the signature of every member
of the National Society United States
Daughters of 1872. state of Alabama"
The following correspondence shows
the interest taken in the project by the
Daughters of 1872:
Letter to Mrs. Miller
Birmingham, Route 3, October 16, 1913
Dear Mrs Miller:
At the regular monthly meeting of the
Sims Kelly chapter, National Society
United States Daughters of 1872, state
of Alabama, which was held with the
regent, Mrs. r. H. Woodrow, Wednesday,
October 15, 1913 the chapter voted that
the secretary write to you for definite
reply in regard to the Alabama Daugh-
ters of 1872 securing option on the
Q60 acres) ground the battle of Horse
shoe Bend was fought on. AS we have
been informed that you expressed a wish,
or said you would sell it at a certain
price of $25 per acre to the Alabama
daughters. AS a director in the state
organization at our February meeting,
1913, | made the motion, which was car
ried, that our state president, Miss Kelly
secure the option, as We understood you
would give us one ON the 100 acres, more
or less, for a time limit of not more than
10 nor less than five years, but is was
verbally nnd erstood between the daugh-
tiers that we would make a whirlwind
campaign and pay for it by March "a
1914 and throw it open to the public as
q national park on the one hundredth
anniversary of the greatest and most de-
cisive battle fought on American soil.
consecrating the land as a memorial to
Andrew jackson and the brave yolun-
teers that followed him. answering the
nations call to avenge the Mt. Minis
massacre of August 30, 1913 not forgetting
the red man who contested the rights
of his affairs and. his fires with a tenn
erity and a devotion that made him a
worthy foe," and remembering you who
SO generously contributed the five acres
to the public that Congress might place
monument there in commemoration OF
the event.
You. as a Daughter of 1872, a native
of Alabama born and reared on the soil
that was soaked in the blood of a con-
testing people, must feel that it is the
work Of the Alabama Daughters of 1915
to secure this land as national park,
and by doing so "perpetuate the memory
of those uDdaunted. brave, self-sacrific-
ing men who endured the struggle, and
who so gloriously established peace
which settled sectional hostlities and