Woman's enterprise., 1922-01-13

Fiercer grew the wild contention,
Fell their sacriligious hand
With a murderer's foul intention
On our little Maryland.
Our country was lily prepared for
war.
We had no ship, we had no nayies,
But a mighty faith in the great
Jeff Davis.
We must fight and we did fight and
to such fight as our dead heroes
and their living comrades made there
is no parallel in history and never can
re until some other people equal to
ours in courage and endurance with
the same stimulus and spirit of de-
votion, shall shut their eyes to untold
odds against them and close their ears
to every warning of calculation and
policy and wage a great war upon a
cherished sentiment and sincere con-
viction. AS General Walthall of Mis-
slssippi said in his address at the
dedication of a monument in Jackson,
Mississippi, June 9Th, 1891:
1--WE did not go to the war for
slavery, the slavery was interviewer
with the causes and intensified the
bitterness Of the war and the fate
of slavery was forever settled by the
result"
1t was to maintain a theory of Gov
ernment that we believed to be right
that caused 10000 southern soldiers
to take up arms. 1t was not for
power, nor riches, nor ambitions sake,
but for great principle of right that
was rooted and grounded in their
faith and sanctioned by their judg-
ment. Without faltering or waverine
our men stood by this principle with
their lives.
All! we'll do / call to mind the day
when "The Fencibles" made up of the
chivalry of our town and surrounding
country numbering, if / am not mis-
taken, 125 were mustered in
Oh! how proud they stood before
In their suits of gray.
An, there was hurrying to and fro
and gathering tears and tremblings
Of distress, cheeks all pale but with
hearts brave and true, their mothers,
sisters, sweathearts and wives
Cheered with heart and hand,
The boys who fought for "Dixie
Land"
And bore the parting as became
the women Of the dear Southland.
The war was fought on women's hearts
but they went on beating just the
same.
/ have in my possession copies of
addresses by two young ladies of Mis-
sissippi on presentation of flags to
companies made up in Jasper and
Winston Counties. Had time to
give you even extracts from them,
you would be persuaded in your own
minds, there would be no longer a
necessity to quote the heroism or Ro.
man and Greecian matrons, Southern
women bore off the palm.
1t was n !, until May 18th, 1863
that our littf town Of Raymond, Mis-.
sissippi felt the horrors Of war. UE
to that date we had only heard of it
then we we're made to taste the bit
terness of an invasion.
On the morning of that day on un.
usual silence brooded over the town
Greggs division, consisting of the I'll
Texas, 3rd Tennessee and 10th Tenne.
SIS (these I remember) was encampec
just out of the town. There was &
call to arms and a cry "the Yankees
are advancing on the town." Gregg
Marshalled his clan
There swords were thousand
There bosoms were one
They were true to the last
Of their blood and their breath
Like reapers descending
To the harvest of death.
! Then came the sound Of musketr,
followed in quick succession by th'
roar of cannon. Not long till th'
opposing armies stood in battle array
Our men fought valiantly for abou
six hours then the tide of battle swep,
past and Raymond was left to th'
1 morcv of Tho Eodoro1 forcns, Crout,.