Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-03
URGES LARGER PENSIONS
! FOR OLD C0NFEDERATES
Plea Made for Allowances of $50
to $50 Monthly for
Veterans.
TILLMAN MEASURE UPHELD
j. 4. Craddock, OF Danvillc. Asks
Daughters OF the Confcderacy to
DO All They Can to Bring About
Its Passage.
To the United Daushters Of the South
ern Confederacy.

To the United DauGhters OF the South
ern Confederacy.
4 Perhaps you have seen and read some,
4 if not all. OF my war letters publish
ed in the Confederate column of The
= Richmond Times Dispat CHI. IT is my
wish thai one or more OF those letters
: should be placed OH record with each
:. chapter OF the United Daughters of the
3 southern Confedcracy. my Letters
: embrace all OF the battles in which The
infantry branch or the Army of North
:. ern Virginia was engaged. and in each
and every battle were soldiers from
: each state in the Southern Confeder-
acy.
In my county OF Amelia. Virginia
the president OF the county chapter
!, Mrs. Mary Southall Hardaway. has saw
ed copies OF all my letters and she
writes me that the historian OF the
chapter reads enc of the letters a each
5 chapter meeting. Now. don't YOU be-
!, iieve that these letters OF mine. which
represents the soldiers and THE flower
OF this dear Southland" engaged in
= he bloody struggle from 1861 TO 1865.
/. should be on record with your chap
ters: ! had my first letter. THE Seven
:. DAYS Battles Around Richmond" read
= and put on record by the women OF
The Memorial Association OF Danviic.
Va. at Its memorial meeting last May.
Every chapter asking for my letters
: iould be careful 10 mention the bril-
troops belonged. aud | will send ,hem
a letter which will embrace these
troops, telling what battles they par
,ripated in.
do not doubt that your chapters
a;c furnished with an ample supply
= of var history by your noble and brave
!. men, yet ! am satisfied you will 'never
Z have cause TO regret having taken ono
+ ~ more OF my letter. when tell YOU
/, participated in all OF the battles in
I,
fought. save one. and then our regi-
~ mt was detailed to take charge of
( til, captured prisoners, until they we're
: III, rolled. and property after the sur
Z reader OF Harper's Ferry. know that
it,re was many good soldier in the
! ,ivn War, that their experiences more
.han eouaied mine. but they would not
and viii not. TO amy great extent. give
to history their war experiences.
WILLING no WRITE W
BAI"IiES SEPARATELY
When | began these letters I wrote
10 the editor OF tho Confederate Col
= III, n. The Times Dispatch. and asked
E II nc would publish them. lie replied
That he would do SO with pleasure. Had
;hc papers OF the Southern states
: coried repubished my letters every
chapter OF the United Daughters of
III. Southern Confederacy could have
81, ured one or more OF my letter. At
The cost OF the selling price Of the
rSuer. say from : 10 10 cents per copy.
and each cha pier could have had Them
rypewritten and neatly bound Al cost
much less than could have II done
In my first letter | included tho
? ssyen days battles around Richmond.
Nechanicsville Gainesville. hrst cold
larbor. Fraziers Farm and Malvern
lIill and. OF course. | had 10 be very
ir.f in summing up all these battles
i IN ono letter. not thinking At the time
would write more than the one let
: ter. but friends encouraged me. and
decided 10 write up my whole civil
War experiences. II any one ~antS
in. above-named battles written ny
separately. will do so.
Vow. Virginia. the Mother STATE and
Richmond the second Capital OF tn"
f. ,'onrcderacy. should he the first to lead.
Z aud tho next TO follow should he Ma
ha,la and Montgomery. the hrst Capt.
. TAI: then North Carolina. South caro-
. liia Georgia. Florida. Misaissipp!.
Louisiana. Texas Tennessee, Missouri
. ;.utuckv Arkansas and Maryland.
. panyille. Va, the last Ca pital OF the
Z ,.onfederacy. is expected 10 follow with
montgomery and Richmond Ther. are
"hnpters in the Northern and West
srn states and cities which arc 10y u"
}n.lns excluded.
MAKES STRONG PLEA
-. i.FoR riii.MAN Bli.i.
Now. dear Daughters. IN the con.
,r,ion OF this letter. let me ash what
arc YOU doing towards furtherins the
. h.ll OF Congressman Tiilman' OF Ar
Kansas in your State conversations
(. shouldn't YOU appeai To the Governors
nf your States TO take the matter in
haud and keep il burning before Con
sr.ss The mere pittances Confederate
soldiers get now in The way OF pom
sions range from 81 10 - per month.
s some States are paving fraction more
In the Confederate Soldiers Homes OF
'hs several States the veterans do not
cei that much oh, what a shame and
disgrace to any State are the soldiers
homes.
why .houldn, each state sive its
Confederate soldiers pensions large
enough TO enable them to take
=. " themselves in their homes.
where they could erioy life and free
=. dom with their families and loved onea
Z Their lives would be spared from ten
:: "a fifteen years Longer. Many Confed.
\ crate soldiers nave crossed over the
river who would he living to-day had
our Confederate States made provision
for them in the way OF pensions OF
from so5 10 $40 month
The Tillman bill rs view &C. claims
=. mat there was in the sixties large
+ amount Of money collected in the way
z. cf cotto" taxes by the Federal govern
lucnt. sow in the vaults AT Washington.
1t is Claimed these taxes were imposed
-~on the people OF the Southern states
Illegally Mr Tillman believe. thai
this mouey should be equally divided
among the Southern States for the
Provisioning OF Confederate soldiers We
have Democratic Congress. and IL
Ills hill Is defeated. II will 80 down
: in history as ia wing been defeated bv
our own Representatives in ConSress
80 urge you. Daughters no, 10 leave
- stone unturned that Congress NAV
pass il by an overwhelming majority
nils VOTED DOWN
soon AFTER TUE " an
- have been Informed the matter
j: was taken w At the reunion at Biz.
uiingham. and that 1T was referred 10
=. some committee. but fear that will be
The last of IL until the next reunion
s---I had rather have three good Daugh-
49, ers on committee than 100 men that
really didn't have our cause al heart
Us they shouid. and WOMB saN: Ooh