The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02
flowers from the W.

But all this had not come with,
some opposition. h scars left
four years Of war were deep. part{e.
larly at Richmond and New orl.at
and Tho efforts made by poiltlc,.,.
Just after the war, TO innam. ~.
their late adversaries. had net -.
without effect. In March. 1907 "a.
prominent Southern women, one fr,o
Richmond and one from New orI.ar.
each representing what she in>t~-.}
was the sentiment Of the Unt,f
Daughters OF the Confederacy. ~
protested TO the Secretary Of W
that the South did not wish its her.
inferred at Arlington. but intended
to remove thei Rename TO it's own
soil: and TO support their protest the>.
ladies cited resolutions 10y a Pos. a,
the G. A. r. in Philadelphia. insistir.
thai no monument or Inscription J..
permitted in the National Cent?
that were not in honor Of the n
tional flag
Secretary Root halted the re-,nt.r-
ment.
But soon her came from the cor
federate Veterans in Annua Rsuni.n
at Memphis an unqualified and urarI-
| NOUS endorsement OF the Act Of Con
| gress. and from U. II. C.'s throuyh.,t
h country abundant evidence that
they. too, desired the Department 10
carry on the good work.
Mems Thoughts Widen.
| That the thoughts Of men are
widened, with the process Of the suns
is beautifully illustrated by what f.l-
lowed.
When the week in which the cor
ner-stone Of the Confederate NOM
ment was laid at Arlington in Novem.
Der, 1912, with it's many patriotic cer,-
monials, was over, the two protesting
ladies Of 1901 expressed themselves ~
delighted; and in the wonderful Get
tysburg Reunion last year all tn.
Philadelphia G.. A.. r. Posts joined en-
Enthusiastically with their comrades
throughout the great State Of Pen
nSylvania, in welcoming and heaping
honors on ex-Confederates as Their
guests. There was no objection 10 IN
scriptions or to Confederate flags or
uniforms.
Very soon after the Wa Depart
ment turned over its blueprint Of the
Confederate section in the National
cemetery, Washington women began
raising money for a monument. the
"R. E. Lee Chapter of the l.. L. C+s.
which had been formed for that pHr-
pose, raising 81 1000, and the stone
wall Jackson Chapter a similar one
November 6, 1906, Mrs. Maenus
Thompson, as president Of the L.. ID.
-. ; III the DiStIlCt OIL AcIuIibld. HIaN"
a call on all Confederate organic
tons in Washington, and delegate
from Camp III, L. G.. ", a Camp II
Sons Of Veterans, and five chapter
OF. U. D.. c.. and formed thu
Arlington Confederate Monument A.
soCiation, with an Executive ON
r,ittee. the personnel Of which now
is as follows:
Executive Committee A. c. NJ. As~}-
citation.
Col. Hilary A. Herbert. chairman;
Mrs. Marion Butler, vice chairman;
Mr.. Wallace S%treater, treasurer; MIS-
! Drury Conway Ludlow, recording sec
rotary; Mrs. William Oscar Roome
: corresponding secretary; Hon. Seth
l Shepard. Capt. John NJ. Hickey. M
tAbner H. Ferguson. Mrs. Magl,us :
! Thompson, Mrs. Rust Smith, Mr.
. James E. Mulcare. Mrs. Archibai,
: Young, Mrs. B. Claughton West, Mis-,
Mary r. Wilcox, Mrs. Jennie l.. Nun
roe, Mrs. Leonard G. Hoffman Mr.
Mascus J. Wright, Mrs. Lindley l.. J."
max, Mrs. William Anthony Wayne
= Miss Fannie w. Weeks.
= Advisory Board. A. G.. M. Association
Rev. DR.. Randolph H. Mckim, Hon
Charles j.. Faulkner. Martinsburs, "
Va; Hon. Seth Shepard. DIR. Thoma
Nelson Page, American EMBASSY
g Rome. Italy; Hon. j. J. D%arlingtor
Gen. Marcus J. Wright, Mr.. j. T. Cal
lahan, DR.. Thomas M. Owen, Mont
gomery, Ala; Gen. Francis NJ. Cock
). rell.
Hon. William II. Taft. March 5
J. 1906, as Secretary of War, in chaTp
% officially Of the National cemeter,
e gave to the T.. ID. C.'s, in a letter t
Hon. John Sharp Williams. who 10
written at the OF Mrs. Ma
= nus Thompson. permission TO ere
!, l the monument noortioo e,liCnt I
l. approval by the Secretary Of War
. and the inscriptions actually on III
h monument AS erected have beer az
rs proved by the o Lindley Nj. Ga
n rison, present Secretary of War.
In 1907 the committee had raise
quite a sum, but the magnitude g..
re the work they had undertaken. an
lie it's Significance, grew upon them. TT
bodies represented nearly, if not quit
Is every State Of the late C~onfederac,