Year: 1869

Organization of II SURVIVOR AssOcfRtiOn-Jus-


tice for "Those Who Died GIOriousiy for


Liberty.o


A convention of delegates from the several dis
trict associations in South Carolina OF survivors of
the Confederate army was held ia Charleston last
week. General j. b. Kershaw presided, and on
taking the chair expressed his regret that his gal
liant comrade General Wade Hampton the repre-
sentative man of South Carolina in this connection"
was not present to act in his stead To explain the
objects Of the meeting ne read the can and some re-
These resolutions declare that


Whereas, The memories OF the late war between the
Confederate and United States OF America are now
fresh in the minds OF its survivors, and many records
do now exist which time and neglect will certainly
Destroy it is highly desirable to have these records
and these recoections put in such substantial form
as to resist the ravages of time; aud whereas, we
have no government which will collect and preserve
the history of those transactions, of which we are
proud, it is therefore the duty OF all South Caro-
lnians t. place the history of the late war in its true


light before the world in order that those who fought
and died for their country may have not only the
ward of their distinguished patriotism, but the JUS
tce which their achievements deserve and 1Uhereds
the Survivors Association of any single district may
do much in collecting and preserving these records
vet because OF the intimate association existing
during the war between all the troops OF the State,
the work will become proportionately less onerous
and much more effective If the survivors of the
whole State were to unite in common effort; there


ResOlred, /. That the Survivors Association OF
Charleston district earnestly invite the survivors of
each district OF the State where associations of re-
cord do not exist, to form District Associations
composed OF the survivors OF the Confederate army
and navy to collect and preserve the records or the
late war.


g. That the various District Associations be invited
to send five delegates to convention to meet at our
hall in Charleston, on Thursday, November Is, 1862
to form State Survivors Association for the pur-
poses set forth in the next resolution.


g. That the primary object OF the proposed State
Survivors Association is the preservation OF all mat.
ters OF history connected with the late war: that
the proposed means OF accomplishing this object
is the establishment OF a State Bureau under the
control of the State Association, where all original
matter shall be regularly aud conveniently tiled
away for the reference Of such persons the AssO-
citation may see ht that the secondary object of
the proposed State Association, the future develop
ment or which is left to the action of the State
Association, is the preparation OF standard South
ern history, and smaller school histories, in which
the part the Confederacy bore in the late war may
be properly related to the world and that the rising
generation may be taught that their parents We're
not the vile traitors that the common school hlstO-
ries now prepared by our enemies assert.
| General Wade Hampton was elected President OF
the ARsnUlNtiOn.