Manuscript, 1905, A History of the Memorial Association Formed in Tallahassee After the Late Civil War, Ellen Call Long
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Composition Book
No. 6397
General Robert E. Lee is at home, Lincoln is assassinated, and where Mr.
Davis, the President of the Southern Confederacy is to be found, no body
knows, but we all know that there must be thousands and thousands of
Confederate soldiery moldering in the ground, and to these we now turn
our thoughts, bearing fresh in the heart all the direful sacrifices made of
life to accomplish and establish the southern principle involved in what
was called �Southern Rights.�
For the support of such claims, our men left homes and families, our
youth struggled forth, our aged, oftentimes in tottering step, came to the
front in martial array. Shall these brave, unselfish and patriotic men be
forgotten while their bodies lie in obscure and unmarked graves? No, say
southern women. We could not struggle with the gun and sword, but these
four years of anxious suffering were not spent by us in idleness and
amusement or always in comfort or ease but every day and many nights
were devoted to the hospitals for the sick soldiers, to the preparation of
delicate food for the same, and to the sewing and knitting of suitable
clothing. No, no, our soldiers shall not be forgotten, for their memories
shall live with us always.