The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-11-03
Big Stone Gap u. D. C.

The Big Stone Gap Chapter
OF the Children of the Confed-
drancy met with their d.
rectress, Mrs Geo l.. Taylor.
| Tuesday, October 18th, at 4 y.
IN. There was full atten
dance and the meeting was an
exceptionally interesting one.
| The meeting was opened with
the Lords Pray er, followed by
the song "Old Black Joe.
/ Our program, being histori
i cal research Of North Carolina.
was fully carried out. Ii was
thoroughly enjoyed by everyone
and was very interesting in
deed.
After the program, Mrs. lay.
Tor read DR. Battles address to
the Confederate Veterans at
the Reunion in Richmond last
June. This address is an i'm
spiration TO ali who read it. lie
pays such splendid tribute
10 our "Eaithful War Time
Negro who has never been
given his proper place in our
history
DR. Battle, ia the course of
his address, said:
There is movement ON hand
to erect monument TO the
sublime fortitude, and patriot
ism of the Southern women.
The suggestion viii awake an
enthusiastic response i'm every
worthy BOSTON,. / would have
that monument TO be the most
beautiful in all the land, i'm
honor of the fairest type of
womanhood the world has ever
known. | would have it TO
proclaim to the passing gener.
alton that the Southern soldier
could not have been what he
was had not the Southern
woman been what she was.
But, Sirs, somewhere in the
land where the tobacco leaves
wave under the blue sky, where
the cotton spreads "a mantel of
snow over broad acres, and the
rlpening grain, like golden
aoieon harp, sings soft melody
90 perfume breezes, would
have a fitting monument erect.
ed in grateful recognition of
the devotion and loyalty of the
war time negro.
From this parapraph the Big
stone Cap Chapter of the Chill
dren of the Confederacy got
their inspiration 90 start "a fund
for the erection of monument
20 the memory of the loyal and
devoted old mammies and
uncles' of the South. We who
know them know there has
never been "a more deserving
character in our land. They
are practically all gone. and
with this generation goes The
memory of them There are
only "a few writer's, among
them, Thomas Nelson Page and
Armistead c. Gordon. who
have given them their rightful
place IN our literature.
We fully realize the mapni
tude of the task we are under
taking We may not see our
plans materiahze. We are very
weak, only twenty members.
and more than half of these
under twelve years of age, yet
we have made up our minds
that we viii do ali we can for
this cause. We hope to get aid
from every Chapter of the Chill
dren of the Confederacy. from
the Junior u d. C's, ana from
every Chapter Of the u d. C's
III the State of Virginia. We
hope to get aid from every vete
ran who has known and loved
his "Old black NANNY" and
from every Virginan who has
gone to sleep IN her arms, while
she sang the lullabies be loved
to hear. We hope 10 get aid
from all who knew the old de.
voted darkey, who knew they
lived their lives for their white
folks alone, how they began
an humble devotion in early
childhood and worked and
toiled to hoary old age to
please Marster and Mistiss ask
ing nothing in return but a
little love.
Could the people of Nirpinia