The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-05-13
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Orleans. Longstreet was advanced by other ex-
soldier Presidents. Hayes sent him minister
to Turkey, and Garfield appointed him United
States marshal for the district of Georgia. Nc
Kinley carried on the same tradition when he re-
tanned Wade Hampton as commissioner of Pacific
railroads, to which position Cleveland had APP
pointed him. Longstreet appointed later to
fill this post.
Whenever opportunity was given, Confederate
leaders spent themselves intellectually to pro-
mote the interests of the Union they once had
fought to Destroy To them war and defeat quick
ly became thing of the past. Fitzhugh Lee served
well as consul general in Havana. He organized
an army corps for service in the Spanish Amer
lean war, and in 1898 commanded the American
military forces in the district of Havana. Later
he commanded the department of Cuba. He was
one of the first of the many ex-Confederate
soldiers who appointed themselves emissaries to
win for the South the good feeling of the North.
Ere decade had passed he had ventured a
mission into once hostile territory, and the next
year he pleaded for friendship at the centennial
celebration at Bunker hill
Colonel Henry Watterson, too stood for pacica-
ton and reconciliation. Possibly he was the first
Confederate veteran to meet with gathering of
Union men, Surrounded by his former enemies at
the annual banquet Of the Army of the Tennessee
in Chicago in 1891, he delivered an address on the
text, 'Iet Us Have Peace"
The WORK OF the SURVIVORS OF Cn0 civil war In
the sixty years since it's close can hardly be
ASSOCIATED from that of their veteran organiza-
TONS The conflict was still at its height when
the first veteran society was formed to raise money
for sending officers bodies home.
Peace was only a year old when the Grand
Army of the Republic was organized Because
war veterans took active part in the campaign
of 1868 the idea soon gained currency that the
G. A. II. political organization. Thereby it
MpmhprS OTt.
ruption was threatened in the West But in 1871
a rule adopted prohibiting the use of the
body for partisan purposes.
Meantime, southern soldiers were coming to-
gether. In June, 1885, the United Confederate
Veterans became south-wide organization. Its
purposes are ito endeavor to unite in a general
federation all associations of Confederate veter-
ans soldiers and sailors in existence or here
after to be formed to gather authentic data for
impartial history of the war between the
states; to preserve relics mementos of the
same; to cherish ties of friendship that should
exist among men who have shared common suf-
fering and privations; to care for the disabled
and to extend helping hand to the needy; to pro-
tect widows and orphans"
For many years both organizations have per
formed noteworthy historic. philanthropic and
patriotic service TO their country They are still
carrying on, though the Great Destroyer is busy
making burrows in their ranks. According to the
December, 1925, report of the pension bureau only
126,566 Union soldiers are left the rolls. Rec
ords Of the who fought for their Southland
are scattered and Incomplete They are listed
as pensioners only at county courthouses. Thou
sands. feeble, blind. perhaps, have dropped out
Of sight in the homes of relatives and friends
General Hampden Osborne, adjutant general and
chief of staff OF the United Confederate Veterans
puts 10000 as the maximum of living Confederate
survivors, whether within organizations or not
Very few of these are as young as seventy-seven