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MONUMENT AT LIBERTY.
The cost was $1,019.00. Built of Barry (Vt.) stone, 20 feet in height, double base 7 feet square at the foundation and five feet at the top. Dark barry; is polished on four sides. Near top is traced Con- federate flag. On the bottom is crossed swords, and between is the in- scription: "Sacred to the Memory of the Confederate Soldiers of Clay County, Mo." On the opposite side: "Sacred to the Memories of the D. O. C." A handsome 7-foot Confederate soldier completes the monu- ment. Erected by Thos. McCarty Camp of the U. C. V., 1904, Capt. Phil. W. Reddish was the prime mover in the erection of this monu- ment.
MONUMENT AT CONFEDERATE HOME, HIGGINSVILLE.
It rests upon the solid granite block from which the upper part of it is carved; protected by a column at each corner and covered with
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a granite roof; and is a reproduction of the Thorwaldsen Colossal Lion carved out in solid rock, and in one strong paw, with protecting power, is the seal of the U. D. C., with its striking motto: "Lord, God of Hosts, be with Us Yet, Lest We Forget, Lest We Forget." Below the seal is the legend: "Memoriam of the Confederate Dead." On the back of the monument are the words: "Erected by the Missouri Division of the U. D. C., Gloria Victis, 1865." The cost was $5,000. Unveiling, June 2nd, 1906.
Other Monuments to be Erected.
AT ST. LOUIS.
Efforts are now being made for the erection, by the St. Louis Confederate Monument Association, of a magnificent monument in one of the beautiful parks or places in the city of St. Louis.
AT KEYTESVILLE.
"Sterling Price Home Chapter," United Daughters of the Confed- eracy, at Keytesville, aided by the General Sterling Price Home Camp, U. C. V., have a plan on foot by which they hope, at an early date, to erect a beautiful and costly monument there to the memory of its il- lustrious citizen, and the State's most distinguished soldier-Maj .- Gen. Sterling Price.
"A Monument Higher and Grander than the Great Pyramid of Egypt."
"It is, then, not the extravagance of hyperbole, but the sober ut- terance of truth, to say that these heroic leaders and the heroic men who followed them-sublime in their devotion to duty; magnificently unregardful of the possibility of waging successful war against such vast odds of numbers and resources-have raised a monument more lasting than brass or marble; higher and grander than the great pyra- mid of Egypt; more splendid than the tomb of Napoleon at the Hotel des Invalides; more sublime than Westminster Abbey itself-a monu- ment that will rivet the gaze of generations yet unborn-a monument at whose feet mankind will bow in reverence as long as freedom sur- vives on earth. It is a shaft not made by hands-a spiritual obelisk- on which all men will read, 'Sacred to the memory of men who laid down their lives, their fortunes, and all, save their sacred honor, in loyal obedience to the call of duty as they understood it.'"-(Rev. Dr. McKim.)
"A Memorial to Southern Women."
Undying in faith and love, last at the cross and first at the tomb, it has always been woman's glory to uphold man's faltering footsteps, bind up his wounds and soothe his aching brow.
At no time in her glorious history has this noble mission of woman been better exemplified than in the women of the South during and after the Civil War.
In death and desolation, and in mental and bodily anguish unspeak- able, the light of her faith in the Southern soldier and in the Southern cause never went out. The Southern soldier went unfalteringly to his certain death nerved and cheered by the support of the loved women at home.
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When all was over, when the soil of the South had drunk in vain the life blood of her best and bravest, when darkness unspeakable brooded over the land, and the lamp of hope had gone out, Southern women again took up the crushing burden, soothed the starving, bleed- ing soldier, and whispered hope for the future into his agonized mind and heart.
The renaissance of the South after the greatest and most pitiless war of history is due mainly to her women. And now, when the clouds have rolled away, and the bright sun of peace and prosperity shines over our once desolated land, it is again the tender, tireless hands of the loving women of the South that decorate, each year, the graves of our dead heroes, and their voices and pens that keep their memories green in the hearts and minds of the rising generations.
How can we Southern men honor our matchless women? Already we have reared in our hearts a spiritual monument to them even more exquisite than that described by the Rev. Dr. McKim as reared to the Southern soldier.
But let us not stop at this.
Let us erect at Richmond, or some other Southern city, a physical monument to the Southern women, which shall express in form and feature, beautiful and tender, and worthy of the genius of a Phidias or a Praxitiles, that undying love, honor and reverence which we feel, but can never adequately express in words .- (C. H. Fauntleroy.)
Confederate Soldiers' Home of Missouri, at Higginsville.
PRESENT BOARD OF MANAGERS.
W. S. McClintic, President. Monroe City, Mo.
C. H. Vandiver, Vice-President. Higginsville, Mo.
B. F. Murdock, Treasurer. Platte City, Mo.
W. H. Kennan, Secretary Mexico, Mo.
J. Posey Woodside. Alton, Mo.
OFFICERS.
J. L. Pace Superintendent
R. H. Benton. Assistant Superintendent
W. C. Webb. Surgeon
Mrs. Mary H. Pace. . Matron
Miss Laura Mitchell Stenographer
The Confederate Soldiers' Home of Missouri was incorporated August 17, 1889. In 1891 it was opened for the admission of inmates. The Home was built entirely by contribution and supported by private subscription until the year 1897, when it was turned over to the State, and since that time has been supported by appropriations made by the Legislature of the State of Missouri.
The main building is a two-story brick, built in colonial style of architecture so frequently met with throughout the Southern States. Spacious porches and broad sweeping verandas are striking features of the exterior. It is constructed in the form of a double L., which forms an open court in the rear of the building. The outside trimmings are of stone. It has a broad veranda, two stories high, extending the en- tire length. On entering the spacious hallway and turning to the right, one enters the office. This is a memorial room, in honor of General John S. Marmaduke and Captain Wm. Parkinson McLure, a son of the honored president of the Margaret A. E. Mclure Chapter, D. O. C., of
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St. Louis. Life-sized portraits of these adorn the walls, and also of Mrs. McLure, presented by the ladies of St. Louis, by whom this room is elegantly furnished. The clock, which is the gift of Mrs. McLure, is said to be the handsomest in the State.
MAJ. JAMES BANNERMAN, OF ST. LOUIS.
The parlor is also a memorial room, in memory of ex-Governor Claiborne F. Jackson, and was furnished by the ladies of Hannibal and Marshall, at which places Mrs. C. L. Lamb and Mrs. Annie B. Perkins, daughters of the Governor, resided. Mr. J. B. Legg, a prominent ar- chitect of St. Louis, donated the plan of the building.
The cottages are arranged on either side of the avenue, and the lots have a frontage of 100x200 feet deep. To avoid any invidious distinc- tions, they are built after the same model, and have a back and front porch and three rooms. Each cottage has a nice grass plot in the front yard, while back is a garden spot, so that every one can raise his own vegetables. Besides the cottages erected by the State organiza- tions, a number were built by the local Chapters of the D. O. C., and named in honor of some distinguished soldier. At the south end of the avenue stands a neat chapel, built by the ladies of Lafayette county, at a cost of $1,200, where services are regularly held. Men of families occupy the cottages, and enjoy the quiet retirement of domestic life, just as though they were in their individual homes.
The origin of the Home may be traced back to the association of Confederate Soldiers of St. Louis, who incorporated March Ist, 1882. the "Southern Historical and Benevolent Association of St. Louis," with Maj. John S. Mellon, President; Judge Leroy B. Valliant, Vice-Presi- dent; Maj. C. C. Rainwater, Treasurer, and C. P. Ellerbe, Secretary. Among the active members were Col. Celsus Price, Col. Jas. R. Clai- borne, Maj. James Bannerman. Maj. C. C. Rainwater, Maj. J. H. Mc- Namara, Capt. Frank Gaiennie, Capt. Robert McCulloch, Capt. Jos. Boyce, Capt. Henry Guibor, Judge Thomas J. Portis, John W. Howard, and many others.
At the Reunion of Ex-Confederates at Higginsville, in 1899, definite
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plans were agreed upon for the organization of the Confederate Home Association, which, through the liberality of the people of Missouri, was successful in raising $70,000 in less than three years. The patri- otic Southern women of Missouri, who took up the matter and earnestly, lovingly and faithfully, through its organization of the "Daughters of the Confederacy," secured large sums of money, are entitled to the credit of making the Home a pronounced success.
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COL. J. L. PACE,
Superintendent Confederate Home of Missouri, Higginsville.
In 1891 the Confederate Home Association was incorporated with Judge Thos. J. Portis, President; Judge Leroy B. Valliant, Vice-Presi- dent; Maj. O. F. Guthrie, Secretary, and George B. Thompson, Treas- urer. The Directors were: Capt. Frank Gaiennie, Saml. Kennard, Capt. Henry Guibor, Maj. James Bannerman and Col. Jas. R. Clai- borne. And subsequently, in 1893, when the Home was turned over to the Association, its active officers were: James Bannerman of St. Louis, President; Harvey W. Salmon of Clinton, Vice-President; H. A. Ricketts of Mexico, Treasurer; W. P. Barlow of St. Louis, Secretary; T. W. Cassell, Superintendent; J. J. Fulkerson, M. D., Surgeon. Super- vising Committee-H. W. Salmon, Thos. P. Hoy and Blake L. Wood- Local Committee-A. E. Asbury, Chairman; A. Wade and M. L. Belt. Executive Committee-Ist District, K. F. Peddicord, Palmyra; 2nd District, F. L. Pitts, Paris; 3rd District, A. C. Cook, Plattsburg; 4th District, Elijah Gates, St. Joseph; 5th District, Balke L. Woodson, Kan- sas City; 6th District, W. C. Bronaugh, Lewis Station; 7th District, Thos. P. Hoy, Sedalia; 8th District, Robt. A. McCulloch, Pisgah; 9th District, W. H. Kennan, Mexico; 10th District, Henry Guibor, St. Lonis; IIth District, W. C. Green, M. D., St. Louis; 12th District, Frank Gaiennie, St. Louis; 13th District, Edmond Casey, Potosi; 14th District, O. H. P. Catron, West Plains; 15th District, C. T. Davis, Nevada.
On the 9th day of June, 1893, the Rev. P. G. Robert, Rector of the
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Church of the Holy Communion in St. Louis, in an eloquent address on behalf of the "Daughters of the Confederacy," formally presented the Home to the "Confederate Home Association."
On June 2d, 1906, the beautiful monument erected in the cemetery of the Confederate Home, by the "United Daughters of the Confeder- acy," costing $5,000, was unveiled. Two little girls, dressed in red and white, Edwa Robert, daughter of John G. Robert, grand-daughter of Mrs. P. G. Robert, and Natalie Gaiennie, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Frank Gaiennie of St. Louis, drew the cords which unveiled this mag- nificent monument.
Since the Home has been the property of the State the number of inmates has gradually increased, and it now has about three hundred. A number of improvements have also been made, new building erected and an electric light plant installed.
While all of the inmates are old and feeble, and a number of them entirely helpless, yet they bear their infirmities with the bravery of true soldiers, and are patiently and cheerfully awaiting the "final roll call."
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MONUMENT AT CONFEDERATE HOME, HIGGINSVILLE.
Among the many women who worked and gave generously to aid in establishing a home for our old, worn-out veterans, we would men- tion especially the name of Mrs. Margaret A. E. MeLure, lovingly known as "Mother McLure," whose tender love and interest endeared her to the hearts of all true Confederate soldiers. To her the Home is indebted for many of its comforts, and her name will ever be held in love and reverence by the inmates of the Confederate Soldiers' Home of Missouri.
While thousands upon thousands of those in this State who wore the "Gray," and a number of those who wore the "Blue," contributed
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to the fund for the erection and maintenance of the Home, it must be said that great credit is due to our comrade, Major James Bannerman of St. Louis, the first active president of the organization, for his un- selfish and untiring efforts in establishing this Home. He had the valuable assistance of Major Henry A. Newman of Huntsville and Capt. W. P. Barlow of St. Louis in the prosecution of this important work.
The Home is located about two miles northwest of Higginsville, Lafayette county, Mo., upon a farm containing 373 acres, purchased of Mr. Grove Young, in March, 1891.
The Home is now under the most excellent management of Col. J. L. Pace as Superintendent.
RULES FOR ADMISSION OF INMATES.
I. Residence-Citizenship in the State of Missouri for two years prior to date of application must be established.
2. Honorable service in the army or navy of the Confederate States, giving company by letter, regiment by number, date and place of enlistment, duration or time of service, date and place of parole or discharge.
This record of service to be established by certificates from the old company muster rolls on file in the war department at Washington, or by certificates of living comrades under oath who served in the com- pany or regiment with the applicant.
The Superintendent will apply for certificates from Washington for any applicant upon receipt of his application giving company and regi- ment.
3. Men who were disabled while serving in the Missouri State Guard under Governor Jackson and General Price in 1861 and 1862, if otherwise eligible under the rules, may be admitted.
Physical inability to support self or family, without means or 4. other resources, pensions or incomes must be established to be eligible to admission.
5. Wives over fifty years of age, if not second or third wives, may be admitted with their husbands; second or third wives admitted only at the discretion of the Board of Managers. Widows over fifty years of age upon proof of husband's soldier record.
6. Children under fourteen years of age whose parents possess proper qualifications for admission may be admitted and retained in the Home until they arrive at the age of fourteen years.
7. Men of proper qualifications as to citizenship and service, no matter from what state enlisted nor to what state the command served in is accredited, may be admitted upon proper proof of eligibility.
Confederate Reunions.
A National Reunion is held by the surviving Confederate Veterans each year; and annual reunions are held in the several Southern States. Local reunions are also annually held by many Camps.
"Let not our fellow countrymen of the North mistake the spirit of these great occasions. If Daniel Webster could say that the Bunker Hill monument was not erected to perpetuate hostility to Great Britain,' much more can we say that the monuments we have erected, and will yet erect, in our Southland to the memory of our dead heroes, are not intended to perpetuate the angry passions of the Civil War, or to foster or keep alive any feeling of hostility to our brethren of other parts of the Union. No; but these monuments are erected, and these
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great assemblages of our surviving veterans are held in simple loyalty to the best and purest dictates of the human heart. The people that forgets its heroic dead is already dying at the heart; and we believe it will make for the strength and the glory of the United States if the sentiments that animate us today shall be perpetuated generation after generation. Yes, we honor, and we bid our children honor, the loyalty to duty-to conscience-to fatherland-that inspired the men of '61; and it is our prayer and our hope, that as the years and generations pass, the rising and the setting sun and the moon and the stars, winter and summer, spring and autumn, will see the people of the South loyal to the memories of those four terrible but glorious years of strife; loyally worshiping at the shrine and the splendid manhood of our heroic citizen- soldiers, and even more splendid womanhood, whose fortitude and whose endurance have challenged the admiration of the world. Then, when the United Republic, in years to come, shall call To Arms,' our children, and our children's children, will rally to the call, and emulating the fidelity and the supreme devotion of the soldiers of the Confederacy, will gird the Stars and Stripes with an impenetrable rampart of steel." - Rev. Dr. McKim.
CAPT. GEORGE M. JONES, Treasurer Springfield Cemetery Association.
Springfield Confederate Cemetery.
On the 23rd day of November, 1870, the Confederate Cemetery As- sociation was formed. Grounds were selected adjacent to the Federal Cemetery and adjoining the Citizens' Cemetery just south of Spring- field. The good people of this beautiful city, aided by the noble women of the State, caused the remains of about five hundred Confederate soldiers, whose lives were lost in its vicinity, to be reburied in this cemetery. The first report of the Treasurer, June 21st, 1871, showed an cost $12,000-the "Daughters of the Confederacy" contributed about $5,- 000 to this fund. Including the cost of erecting the keeper's cottage,
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expenditure of $2,217.36. The wall, subsequently built, cost $6,000, and the beautiful monument erected, which was unveiled August 10th, 1901, and the expense of procuring headstones, the total cost of the cemetery exceeds $25,000.
Under resolution adopted by the United Confederate Veterans As- sociation, an annual per capita of 10 cents is required of the members of all Camps in Missouri for the maintenance and preservation of this,
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT SPRINGFIELD CEMETERY.
"Our Silent City of the Dead," which is under tender, faithful and care- ful supervision of our most worthy Comrade, Capt. George M. Jones.
The Southern Cross of Honor.
The idea of the Southern Cross of Honor, to be given by the Daughters of the Confederacy to the Veterans and descendants of de- ceased Confederate Soldiers and Sailors, originated with Mrs. Mary Ann Cobb Erwin of Athens, Ga. The design offered by Mrs. S. E. Gab- bett of Atlanta, Ga., was adopted at Richmond, Va., in 1899.
RULES FOR BESTOWAL OF CROSS.
Presidents of Chapters must apply to the recording secretary of the U. D. C. for blank certificates of eligibility, which are to be filled by Veterans, or by the oldest living lineal descendant of deceased soldiers to whom Crosses are to be given. Before any descendant can secure
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the Cross in any county three consecutive monthly notices must be in- serted in the city and county papers calling upon veterans to send in applications. Each Chapter is required to keep a book alphabetically arranged, in which is recorded the name and command of each soldier who received the Cross, so that there may be no possibility of bestow- ing a second Cross upon the same person. The Crosses are bestowed on General Memorial Day, President Davis' and General Robert E. Lee's birthdays-June 3rd and January 19th-and one day between July Ist and January 19th, to be selected by each State Division in Convention assembled. In case a veteran has the misfortune to lose his Cross, he cannot receive another. In case the person to whom the Cross is given dies without heirs, he may have the Cross buried with him, or may have it sent to some Confederate Museum. A Veteran may bequeath his Cross to any descendant that he may select. This Cross cannot be worn except by the Veteran upon whom it is bestowed. Where counties have no local organizations of U. D. C. the Veterans will receive their Crosses from the nearest Local Chapter.
President and Cabinet of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis, President. Alexander II. Stephens, Vice-President.
SECRETARY OF STATE.
Hon. Robert Toombs, Georgia, February 21, 1861. Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, Virginia, July 25, 1861. Hon. J. P. Benjamin, Louisiana, March 18, 1862.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
Hon. J. P. Benjamin, Louisiana, February 25, 1861. Hon. Thos. Bragg, North Carolina, November 21, 1861. Hon. Thos. H. Watts, Alabama, March 18, 1862. Ilon. Geo. Davis, North Carolina, January 2, 1864.
SECRETARY OF WAR.
Hon. L. P. Walker, Alabama, February 21, 1861. Hon. J. P. Benjamin, Louisiana, November 21, 1861.
Hon. Geo. W. Randolph, Virginia, March 18, 1862. Gen. G. W. Smith, Kentucky, November 17, 1862. Ilon. Jas. A. Sedden, Virginia, November 21, 1862. Gen. Jno. C. Breckenridge, Kentucky, February 6, 1865.
SECRETARY OF TREASURY.
Hon. Chas. G. Memminger, South Carolina, February 21, 1861. Hon. Geo. A. Trenholm, South Carolina, July 18, 1864.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.
Hon. Stephen D. Mallory, Florida, March 4, 1861.
POSTMASTER-GENERAL.
Hon. Henry T. Ellet, Mississippi, February 25, 1861. Hon. John H. Reagan, Texas, March 6, 1861.
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Confederate Senators From Missouri.
John B. Clark, Missouri, first Congress. R. L. Y. Peyton, Missouri, first Congress. Waldo P. Johnson, Missouri, second Congress. I .. M. Lewis, Missouri, second Congress. Geo. G. Vest, Missouri, second Congress.
Members of the First and Second Congresses of the Confederate States From Missouri.
Hon. Jasper W. Bell, Missouri, member of the first Congress.
Hon. Jno. B. Clark, Missouri, member of the second Congress.
Ilon. A. H. Conrow, Missouri, member of the first and second Congress.
IIon. Wm. M. Cooke, Missouri, member of the first Congress. Hon. Thomas W. Freeman, Missouri, member of the first Congress. Hon. Thomas A. Harris, Missouri, member of the first Congress. Hon. R. A. Hatcher, Missouri, member of the second Congress. Hon. N. L. Norton, Missouri, member of the second Congress. Hon. Thomas I. Snead, Missouri, member of the second Congress.
Hon. Geo. G. Vest, Missouri, member of the first and second Congress. Hon. Peter D. Wilkes, Missouri, member of the second Congress.
Partial List of Engagements Between the Confederate and Federal Forces in Missouri.
1861.
May 10, Camp Jackson.
June 17, Boonville.
July 5, Carthage.
July 17-19, Parkersville.
July 25-27, Harrisonville. August 2, Dug Springs.
August 10, Wilson's Creek.
August 19, Charleston.
August 21, Jonesboro. September 12, Black River.
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September 13-20, Lexington. September 19, Boonville. October 12-25, Fredericktown. October 18, Warrensburg. October 25, Springfield. November 7, Belmont. November 24, Johnstown.
November 26, Independence. December 3, Salem.
1862.
January 9, Columbus. February 12, Springfield.
August 9, Salem. August 11-14, Independence.
February 28, New Madrid.
August 23, Columbus.
March 14, New Madrid.
September 2-5, Neosho.
March 20, Carthage.
September 11-13, Bloomfield.
March 30, Clinton.
September 21, Cassville.
April 9-16, Montevallo.
October 6, Liberty.
April 28, Warsaw.
October 17, Lexington.
May 30, Neosho.
October 20, Marshfield. October 27-29. Island Mound.
June 23, Raytown. July 6, Salem. July 18, Memphis.
November 9, Huntsville.
July 20, Greenville.
November 27, Carthage.
July 28, Cross Timbers.
December 15, Neosho.
August 1, Grand River.
December 28, New Madrid.
August 2, Ozark. UTO V-6
November 3, Harrisonville.
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1863.
January 1-10, Springfield.
January 13, Carthage.
February 8, Independence.
August 7, New Madrid.
March 23, Independence.
August 9-18, Cape Girardeau.
April 1-5, White River.
August 25-28, Sedalia.
April 5, Jackson.
September 4-7, Pleasant Hill.
April 9, Sedalia.
October 7-17, Marshall.
April 22-24, Independence.
October 16, Cross Timbers.
April 26, Cape Girardeau.
November 16-18, Springfield.
April 27, Jackson.
November 16-23, Keytesville.
May 16, Carthage.
December 24-29, Cassville.
May 21-30, Cassville.
December 26-28, Salem.
May 22, Benton.
1864.
February 19, Independence.
October 1, Franklin.
February 22, Lexington.
October 7, Jefferson City.
May 6-1I, Patterson.
October II, Boonville.
May 16-25, Pilot Knob.
October 15, Sedalia.
May 18-23, Carthage.
October 22, Independence.
July 9-13, Wellington.
October 28-30, Newtonia.
July 10, Platte City.
November I, Rolla.
July 12, Columbus.
November 8, Quincy.
August 1, Rolla.
November 16-23, Brunswick.
August 7, Enterprise.
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