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It is so desirable that Confederate Souvenirs be genuine and elegant, the editor of the VETERAN volunteers to commend the above spoon. It is of Sterling Silver and the enam (in flag) is rich blue and red. In this connection the V&TERAN Commends heartily and without stint to its patrons everywhere the absolute reliability of this house in all respects.

ROBERT EDWARD LEE.

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This is a beautiful volume that should be in every Southern home. The best way to teach your children history is to let them read the biography of men. Don't be afraid of your own history. There were more than a million copies of Gen. Grant's book sold at $7.50 to $10.00. This Life of Lee is only $1.50, postpaid.

The Charleston News and Courier says: "This work has been done well. It is not a dull, dry treatise on military affairs, but it sparkles with the most delicate humor, attracts by its breezy, cheerfulness, apologizes for nothing that Lee and his people did their struggles for constitutional liberty, exalts the magnanimity of Grant at Appomattox, and portrays with tenderest grace the public and private life of the greatest soldier the world has ever known-Robert E. Lee." It is intensely romantic and interesting. It will be sent post paid for $1.50 per copy. Order of

Southwestern Publishing House,
Nashville, Tennessee.

208 North College Street.

MAY, 1895

PATRIOTIC AND PROGRESSIVE.

PRICE. 10 CENTS.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTEREST OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS AND KINDRED TOPICS.

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ORLEANS CADETS.-THEY MESSED TOGETHER AND DRANK FROM SAME CANTEENS.

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HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

By JOSIAH H. SHINN,

Ex-Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Arkansas.

12 mo. cioth, illustrated, 454 pages, with six colored double page maps, many smaller maps, and numerous illustrations. Price $1.10 by mail postpaid.

THE HISTORY COMMITTEE OF THE CONFEDERATE VETERAN'S ASSOCIATION COMPOSED OF

GEN. STEPHEN D. LEE A. & M. College, Miss.

GEN. J. N. STUEBS. Gloucester, C. II., Va.
GEN. C. A. EVANS, Atlanta, Ga.

GEN. ALLISON. CAPERS, S. C.

CAPT. W. R. GARRETT, Nashville, Tenn.

COL J. W. NICHOLSON, President Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La.

COL. J. H. BENTLEY, Abiline, Texas.

Made a report in May, 1891, to the Association, at Birmingham, Ala., recommending Shinn's History of the United States for use in the public schools, which report was adopted by a rising, unanimous vote.

Dr. R. A. Venable,

Pres. Mississippi College, Clinton, Miss. After several years experience in teaching United States History, I have adopted Shinn's History of the American People as the best book I know about for class instruction. It combines brevity with completeness, terseness with clearness, and an admirable discrimination in the selection and treatment of the important events in the life of our American People. I recommend it without hesitation or reserve.

Dr. W. H. Payne,

Pres. Peabody Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. Shinn's History of the American People is used in our classes, and gives satisfaction to students and teachers.

COPY OF AWARD GRANTED BY THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, CHICAGO, ILL.

SHINN'S HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Prof. Shinn has succeeded in producing a book that is precisely what its title indicates-a history of the American people, and with this purpose in view and carried out so remarkably well he has reftained from making an appropriate title for a history serve as the vehicle for the vain expressions of national pride or the inculcation and spread of individual opinion. The subject matter, as well as the arrangement and design of the book evince a very high order of literary merit, commendable style of composition and great research. It is a book while being particularly valuable as a text-book for use in schools and academies, is at the same time so replete with accurately and orderly arrayed historical information as to make it a most welcome and highly valuable contribution to the general literature of American History.

Prof. Eugene R. Long,

Pres. Arkansas College, Batesville, Ark. In my judgement, Shinn's History sustains its claim as a History of the American People. The charge of undue sectional treatment certainly cannot be truthfully made,since its imply gives that due prominence to the South it has been denied in the great majority of school histories. On matters of sectional difference a spirit of judicial fairness permeates the book.

Correspondence from teachers and those interested in History is cordially invited. Special terms for supplies made known on application.

NEW YORK.

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY,

CINCINNATI.

CHICAGO,

Published Monthly in the Interest of Confederate Veterans and Kindred Topics.

PRICE, 10 CENTS. Vol. III. YEARLY, $1.

NASHVILLE, TENN., MAY, 1895.

Entered at the postoffice, Nashville, Tenn., as second-class matter. Advertisements: Two dollars per inch one time, or $20 a year, except last page. One page, one time, special, $40. Discount: Half year, one issue; one year, two issues. This is an increase on the former rate.

Contributors will please be diligent to abbreviate. The space is too important for anything that has not special merit.

The date to a subscription is always given to the month before it ends. For instance, if the VETERAN be ordered to begin with January, the date on mail list will be December, and the subscriber is entitled to that number.

Though men deserve, they may not win success,

The brave will honor the brave, vanquished none the less.

The "civil war" was too long ago to be called the "late" war and when correspondents use that term the word "great" (war) will be substituted.

THIRTY THOUSAND COPIES FOR JUNE.

The VETERAN for next month is to be twice as large an edition as has ever been printed, and it is expected that sixty pages will be necessary. It will contain additional statistics about the hero martyr, Samuel Davis, with a picture of the handsome monument at his grave erected by his father. The tablet is given herein. A fine engraving of the boot cut from his foot, in which were secreted the papers which cost him his life, also a print of his military buttons, "Cadet N. M. A.," (Nashville Miltary Acadamy), will be given. He wore Confederate gray, with twenty large, and six small brass buttons on his coat. It will be shown by men of both armies that his memory as a hero and patriot deserves grateful remembrance by mankind. There will be also the history of James Keelan, who saved the railroad bridge at Strawberry Plains, Tenn. The sketch is from the author of the "Confederate Spelling Book," and "Confederate Reader," and it gives Keelan's own account. The little pamphlet history is treasured, and though the owner "would not take five hundred dollars for it," the substance will be in the June VETERAN, with a picture of Keelan. The killing and wounding of seven men out of thirty, single handed, as described by the old hero, is doubtless the most desperate encounter ever recorded. At the Alamo there was a kind of sympathetic fellowship until the last man was killed. The death of Keelan, near Bristol, occurred two or three months ago, and an account should have been given ere this, but for the effort, so nearly successful already, through the kindness of Comrade A. S. McNeil to give a complete history of the man intensified as from "the boy stood on the burning deck."

Editor.

No. 5. 8. A. CUNNINGHAM, Another very important sketch is promised. It is that of Capt. Gracey, who died recently at Clarksville. Capt. Gracey was brother-in-law to Capt. R. L. Cobb, and succeeded him to the command of Cobb's Battery, after the death of Maj. Graves at Chickamauga. Capt. Gracey was President of the Clarksville Monumental Association, and the largest contributor to its construction.

Dilligent effort will be made to give as accurate account of the Houston Reunion proceedings as possible, also an account of the Memphis Drill, which is also an event of semi-ational interest.

It will be necessary to epitomize the best articles in order to give attention to the multitude of good things sent the VETERAN. Preference will be given, as a rule, to those who never wrote for publication before, but comrades should rewrite their articles, and make everything as clear, and, at the same time, as brief as possible. Write only the

truth for the VETERAN.

J

Enough humor of the kind given in this VETERAN by Capt. Ridley might be written to make a large book. The writer went to school in a country village, and at the opposite side of the campus from the boys' department there was an Institute for girls, and he was so in love with them that he was always on his dignity when in that vicinity. Not so with big John England, who would roll his trousers above his knees, and in the foot race go as near the groups of pretty girls as the lax rules allowed. England was not considered among patriots, but he enlisted and endured the hardships and perils of the Confederate soldier in the Forty-first Tennessee. He rarely swore outright, but he would affirm "By Gads" and with other similar expressions peculiar to himself. His nickname was "Rocky," and he was certainly the author of "We'uns and Yu'uns." "Rocky," or "Rocksy," was prudent against shot and shell, and the saying, "Lie down. Rocksy!" would be echoed from regiment to regiment throughout the entire brigade.

The Confederate Veteran Association of Ken

tucky is perhaps the most officially organized of any in the country. An itemized account of receipts. for the five years preceeding January 1,.1895, aggregated is $1070.42, and to "balance in cash" is $183.44.

MEMORIAL DAY AT SAVANNAH, GA.

The Memorial Service in Savannah, Ga., on Friday, April 26th, was a credit to the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Veteran Association of Confederates. In Laurel Grove the graves were all decorated, as were those in private lots, and the monument to those who fell at Gettysburg. The Oglethorpe Light Infantry and First Regiment, in uniform, paraded under the leadership of the First Regiment band.

Gen. McLaws was in command. He and his Chief of staff were mounted. They were reviewed by the veterans, who stood at salute while they passed. The orator was Hon. Pope Barrow. His message to the gathered throng was of the true ring. He said:

"In the celebration of this day of fond memories, it has been the custom to deal almost entirely with the sacred sentiments which enshrine it. But there are some no less sacred principles which belong appropriately to this occasion, and to which allusion should be made. The power of mere force to change the convictions of men against the teachings of reason, to subvert history and substitute fiction, cannot be over estimated. Success in arms not infrequently is accepted as a final decision that justice and right are on the side of the victor. Like the old wager of battle, in which he who fell was adjudged to be the guilty party, the result of war is frequently accepted as conclusive evidence that the cause of the victorious army was just. This rule, of a rude and barbarous age, was long ago abandoned in private controversies, because of its shocking injustice. For the same reason, the enlightened opinion of this age is driving it from its place in national controversies. To say that because a large number of men were shot to death in battle, and the

others were overpowered, therefore, the principles

for which they contended are false, and the cause in which they died was not a just cause, is so revolting a conclusion that the enlightened conscience of mankind refuses to accept it.

"Among the questions upon which the people of the United States have been divided in opinion from the beginning, that of the rights reserved by the States to themselves, as such, has always been prominent. The same evidence exists to-day on each side, and has the same weight, as existed before the Confederate war. * * *

"And yet, here in the South have been found some who have espoused the doctrine that this is a consolidated nation, and that the reserved rights of the States are an exploded myth. New men, men with new names, mentioned for the first time in history, names that are not to be found on any muster roll of any army, go about prating of a "N- South," and sneering at the Old South. Boasting of a new civilization, of which they are the apostles, and mammon is the titular divinity, they embrace every opportunity to proclaim the fact that they belong to the 'N- South,' and not the old. They are correct. The Old South knew

them not, and if they had any fathers, no account was taken of them. For a time they were more numerous and more noisy than they are now, but there are yet to be found some who believe that they know better, and could have done better, than the men of the old regime, and who would teach our children that their fathers who were Confederate soldiers have nothing to be proud of, and that the least said about the war the better.

I care not how many millions one such may amass, I care not how much influence and power his wealth may purchase; as for me and my house, its doors will open with a quicker welcome, and its hearthstone will more cheerily warm for the poorest Confederate veteran, in his tatters and rags, than for this 'N- South' Dives in all his purple.

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"But this is a day of reminiscence. Places of business have closed, we turn away from the toil and struggle of life for a day, and dwell in the tents of memory."

The speaker paid personal tribute to heroes whose memory was sacred to his audience. He recalled Tom Comak, "whose bright sword flashed for the last time in the rays of the setting sun at Crampton's Gap, as he fell within twenty steps of the enemy's line," and Tom Mosely, "whose smooth, girlish face I see before me now, as we sat side by side in the class room at the university, and whose warm grasp of the hand and moistened eye I remember as we parted on the old university campus, two school boys, one to the Western army, the other to Virginia. At Perryville, Ky., leading his company in a second, and then a third charge against a battery of the enemy, his beardles face ablaze with the animation of battle, and his youthful figure transformed into a hero's stature, he fell as he mounted the works of the enemy. Even in that fierce charge, his gentle nature showed itself, for his only command in the third charge was, 'Come on, boys, just once more.' The blue grass of Kentucky was never reddened with nobler blood, and a braver boy or man never died. How true it is:

'The bravest are the tenderest,

The loving are the daring.'

He mentioned Lord King, "whose knightly figure was seen for the last time at Fredricksburg, and whose brave spirit passed away in sight of both armies. Carrying an order from Gen. McLaws in the midst of the battle he disdained to go around behind the curving earthworks, but walked straight through the murderous fire until he fell."

His most pathetic tribute was to Col. Charles Lamar, who was serving as an aid on the staff of Maj. Gen. Howell Cobb, at Columbus, Ga., when it was carried by storm by the Federal forces under Gen. Wilson, and who fell in the last few moments of the battle. He adds: "I had been ordered by Gen. Cobb to take a company of men and a piece of artillery and hold the Georgia end of the upper bridge across the river until he could withdraw his forces from the city. We knew that we were put there to stay, and it was not expected that any of us would Suddenly, silently, Col. Lamar rode up by my side. I said, 'Colonel, what are you doing here?' and explained that we were there to be sacri

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