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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.

WHEN SUBSCRIPTIONS EXPIRE.

The printed mail list of the VETERAN has by the name of each subscriber the month and the year to which the subscription has been paid. If a subscription begins with the year 1895, for instance, the date would be "December '95." So with that number the subscription contract has been completed. When it is continued beyond that date. another dollar will renew for a full additional year.

VETERAN readers will pardon another reference to our subscription list, as this is directed only to those who are in arrears. There has been considerable loss on account of subscribers allowing the time to run over for several months, some of them for a year, and then having the postmasters to send in a notice that copy sent to Mr. was "refused, don't want it any longer." Is this fair? Is it becoming Is this fair? Is it becoming a man who has the honor of having been a faithful Confederate soldier? The arrearage at least should be paid in ordering the paper discontinued or notice. sent when the subscription expired. The month. opposite name on label shows when that is.

THE FRONT PAGE ILLUSTRATION.

The southern people, with grateful hearts, say "Well done" to the ever faithful women of Atlanta for the magnificent monument illustrated on title page of this VETERAN. The appropriateness of the design will elicit special pride and gratitude. Mr. T. M. Brady, of Canton, Ga., has the honor of having suggested it to the Ladies Memorial Association when they determined upon building a monument. A tall shaft in that cemetery, one hundred yards or so distant, was erected to the Confederate dead there

The Atlanta press

only a few years after the war. makes it the occasion for praising the character of Georgia marble. It is said that this is the largest block of marble ever quarried in the United States, and that no sculptor ever before attempted to carve half so large a figure from American marble. The dimensions are: length, nine feet; width, five feet; depth, four feet; and its weight is 30,000 pounds. Its color is very white, and the sight is amazing even from the thoroughfare adjacent to Oakland Cemetery, in which it is erected. The figure rests upon a pedestal of dark Georgia marble eight feet high. On one side of the pedestal is a marble slab on which is carved deep the words "Unknown Confederate Dead." The lion is represented as having fallen by a rock on which there is a flag of the Confederacy. He has received his death wound and in his agony is grasping still and drawing the flag towards him. Beneath the lion are several battle muskets and a cavalry sabre. The figure of the lion is eight feet long. The original has Bourbon lilies in place of the flag. It is fitting here to refer briefly to the model from which it was designed and the history of those to whom it was erected.

In 1792, Louis XVI. was King of France, having succeeded his father to the throne. The grievances of many generations had driven the people to desperation and revolution was inevitable. "It was a political hurricane." One of the most awful things in the record of the carnage is the fight to death of the Swiss Guards on August 10, 1792. "Their work on that fatal day was to die, and they did it nobly."

With heroic firmness they remained unshaken in resolution amid the defection of all around them. They succeeded in defeating their assailants, who fled in confusion; but the heroic defenders were few in number and, having no cavalry, did not venture to follow up their victory. The populace gradually regained their courage and made another attack; and the Swiss were mown down with grape shot. The battle was turned into a massacre, and hardly one of the guards escaped. "In its last extremity, it was neither in its titled nobility nor its native armies that the French throne found fidelity, but in the freeborn mountaineers of Lucerne, unstained by the vices of a corrupted age and firm in the simplicity of rural life."

"The Lion of Lucerne is hewn out of the living rock. The figure rests there by the still waters of the lovely Lake Leman, the granite mountains. around keeping watch, like a serried column of sentinels."

GEN. N. B. FORREST IN 1864.

Dr. John A. Wyeth, an Alabamian, but who has resided in New York City (27 East Thirty-eight street,) for many years, gives this introductory sketch which will be read with interest and pleasure.

In the light of history there stands out in clear relief the figure of Lieutenant-General NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST, the most remarkable man our Civil War developed, and the greatest fighter of which the world has an authentic record. Endowed with a physical frame which resisted fatigue and exposure, a muscular organization developed into athletic proportions by reason of the hard manual labor necessity compelled him to perform from the earliest years of boyhood until he was a man, he possessed that quality of mind which never entertained the fear of personal disaster, nor in the flurry of hand-to-hand combat, nor the excitement or confusion of battle, lost for an instant the calm appreciation of what was transpiring. Quick to perceive in the rapidly shifting scenes of battle the opportunity for a fatal blow, he struck as the lightning flashes, blinding and withering. Before his sudden onslaught, to waver was rout; and in his tireless and unrelenting pursuit, rout became panic.

Without education and absolutely without any knowledge of war gleaned from the study of what others had accomplished, he evolved and put into execution the tactics and the strategy of the most famous generais in history. In his terse phraseology, "The way to whip 'em, is to get there first with the most men," and although his greatest victories were won with forces numerically inferior, he so fought his men that where he struck, he was equal to or stronger than his adversary. He realized the value of boldness even when akin to rashness, and, when possible, he attacked notwithstanding the disparity of numbers. When the enemy was about to charge, or was charging, his rule was to go at them at once. He knew that the excitement of a forward movement inspired even the timid with courage; while to stand in the open to receive the thundering onslaught of a cavalry charge, was a severe test of the courage of the bravest, and demoralizing to the timid. The active defensive was in him an intuition. Moreover, he fought his artillery as if they were shot-guns, charging right up to the opposing lines, their double-shotted contents at short range dealing death and disaster. Although his soldiers were called "mounted infantry" and "Forrest's Cavalry," they were neither infantry nor cavalry. There was not a bayonet in his command, and early in the war the sabre was discarded for the repeating pistol. They fought on horse or foot to suit the conditions.

It is probable that not a regiment he commanded. could have made a correct tactical manœuvre on foot in action; and beyond the formation by fours and the evolution into line for the charge, the cavalry manual was practically obsolete. With the men he led, strict dicipline was impossible; and yet they fought with the steadiness of trained veterans, under the wonderful influence of one who inspired

the timid with courage, and the brave with of emulation.

He said, "War means fighting, and means killing," and when the enemy were ing him, he was hunting for them. E thickest of the fray, it is a marvel that 1 see the war end. If ever man had a cha such was his. The missile of the assassi and sabre of the open and honorable f from their mortal purpose. He was or hundred different occasions under fire, an clude the bloody and hotly contested batt Donelson, Shiloh, Chickamauga, Fran Nashville. "Twenty-seven horses were him," states Gen. James R. Chalmers; an writer, himself a soldier, (Lieut. Gen. Ric lor), says: "I doubt if any commander days of lion-hearted Richard has killed his enemies as Forrest." His word of co he led the charge, was, "Forward, me with them!" Though torn with bullets, ed in countless places with the sabre, or his horse in death struggle of the mel was spared to serve to the end the caus man better served than he.

In a personal note Dr. Wyeth writes for some time been getting up material y to writing the life of General Forrest, "Knowing that there are a good number in Tennessee who served under Forres could give me much valuable informatio to his wonderful achievements as a sold as his personal qualities, I have thoug VETERAN might be the best means of those who served under him and are stil I consider General Forrest the most man in the history of our Civil War, a everybody in the South and every Confed should be glad of an opportunity to do toward perpetuating his marvelous achi

Protest comes from comrades agains ment in that well written sketch of in July VETERAN that he commande war closed a cavalry corps of twenty th trained men, etc. The response is spon with such an army he would have "got However, after the battle of Nashville in the Western army was put under hi

BALTIMORE DAUGHTERS OF THE CON It is expected that the Baltimore so gin its work in the autumn with 300 me officers are the following well-known 1

President, Mrs. D. Giraud Wrigh dents, Miss Kate Mason Rowland, 1 Marshall; treasurer, Mrs. Edward Si recording secretary, Miss M. Alice S ponding secretary, Mrs. Frederick M. agers, Mrs. William Reed, Mrs. T Gresham, Mrs. Von Kapff, Mrs. B. Miss Mary Willis Minor, Miss Dora J. Francis Dammann, Mrs. J. C. Wi Hugh H. Lee.

GEN. POWELL CLAYTON, OF ARKANSAS.

Gen. John M. Harrell writes from Hot Springs: "An ancient (sacred) proverb declares that 'A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. When we consider the place, the occasion, and those to whom addressed, the speech of Gen. Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, addressed to the Twenty-eighth Wisconsin (Federal) regiment, at Oconomowac, in June last, commands attention from Confederate veterans. In politics, after the war, Clayton was bitter and cruel to his opponents, but he was a vigorous and brave commander in war. The brigade to which I belonged (Cabell's), and which I commanded later, fought Clayton at Pine Bluff, under Gen. John S. Marmaduke. Clayton fortified against us and repulsed us there.

"But in political discussion, when he was in his last political death struggle, he was always graceful in his reference to the Confederate soldiers. He indulged in a witty sarcasm in 1872, in his criticism of the "tenth" plank of the Greely platform, which the Democracy had adopted, and which expressed gratitude to the Union soldiers and sailors.' He said that after the gallant struggle we had made for four years, it was 'magnanimous in the Con

federates to thank those who had thrashed them.' "Please put in the VETERAN these things Clayton said to the Twenty-eighth Wisconsin at the reunion at Oconomowac. They are creditable to him and to any Union soldier who has the courage to express them, particularly under such circumstances.

My comrades, although we were actors in that great drama which attracted the attention of the world for four long years, a drama replete with the highest human sentiments, full of the most touching pathos, and marked at frequent intervals by the most bloody and appalling prejudice, although our acts were looked upon by the wondering world, we come not here to-night in any spirit of idle boasting. Nor do we come here in any spirit of condemnation against those who were arrayed against us in that great struggle. Four years of war and thirty years of peace have cooled our heated passion and brought with them the calmer judgments of riper years. We can now, with unprejudiced eyes, look from the Confederate standpoint as well as our own. We can now make due allowance for all the circumstances and conditions that surrounded him; for the deep-seated conviction that he drank in with his mother's milk.

"The heroism of the Federal soldier and of the Confederate alike, are some things that the whole people of this nation may be proud of, for it is the heroism of the American people. When the Confederate soldier laid down his arms, furled his flag, and resolved that henceforth that flag should be his flag; the country over which it waved his country; its cause, his cause; that moment he achieved a greater victory than he ever won upon the battle field.

'I live in a state where I pay taxes annually into the state treasury for pensions to Confederate soldiers; and there is no state tax that I pay more cheerfully. Between the taxes that I pay for the support of our disabled Federal soldiers, and these tax

es that I pay the state treasurer of Arkansas, there is a wide difference. In the first place I pay my taxes for the support of the Federal government as a debt I owe. In the second place I pay my state taxes as a worthy charity-to aid in a worthy charity. There is the difference. Every dollar this nation pays to its pensioners is partly to pay a debt. It can never be paid in full. I am not a pensioner myself; therefore I can speak freely on this subject without prejudice or interest. But when we put our hands in our pockets down in Arkansas. and contribute to the state treasury to help along the old Confederate soldiers we used to meet upon the battle field, we say: "They were unfortunate; they were swept along by the wave of secession; some were conscripted and sent to the front; they were gallant; they are suffering; they are in want of bread; we will contribute to them, and we will do it freely."

There are other things which Gen. Clayton said in this connection, concerning the right and wrong of our internecine conflict, to which we must respectfully demur. But we accord to him the same Again in this gallant sincerity he conceded to us. and eloquent address Gen. Clayton said: 'Now, a word to my old companions of the Twenty-eighth Infantry. I think it right for me to say, think, about eighteen months, it is right for me to who had the honor of commanding them for, I report to you from whose midst they went, something about their stewardship. I am not going to tell all. Don't get shaky now, old fellows." A voice: 'Go slow.'

anything about those black-eyed beauties down 'I am going to go slow. I am not going to say South. I am not going to say anything about those pranks of yours, and I don't want you to say anything about me, either. Let the word be 'mum' between us. I am going to speak about your soldier qualities.'

"His hearers doubtless knew the 'prank' he played. He married one of those "black-eyed beauties down South.' He laid his military laurels at the feet of a young lady of Helena, who has made him what he is now. Did you ever see how benign the influence exerted upon all Yankee commanders by southern wives?"

FOURTH OF JULY WITH CONFEDERATES.

Henry Wilson, Adjutant Camp No. 328 U. C. V., Menardville, Texas:

Our camp had a rousing time on the fourth, our national holiday. The people came in great numbers, and we had an old fashioned love feast. We had speaking, recitations, and songs, and the ladies presented the old veterans with a flag. The presentation and reception of same were the most touching events in the day's proceedings.

Our Camp held a business meeting, and adopted the CONFEDERATE VETERAN as our Official Organ. A feature of interest on this occasion was the address by W. E. Adkins. It was a patriotic Fourth of July oration, quite after the order of those in the olden time, but the speaker did not fail to vindicate the Confederates as fighting for the same principles as did Washington's soldiers.

WHITE HOUSE OF THE CONFEDERACY.

The Confederate Memorial Literary Society is an organization of such importance, that a brief history of it is considered essential to the magazine published in "the interest of Confederate Veterans and kindred topics."

PRESIDENT DAVIS' WAR RESIDENCE AT RICHMOND, VA.

Some years ago it occurred to Mrs. Joseph Bryan, President of the Hollywood Memorial Association, that the White House of the Confederacy in this city, then used as a public school, and fast falling into decay, should be restored to its former condition and preserved. Teeming with memories of our most glorious Confederacy-no more fitting use could be made of our President's home than to

gather within its sacred walls the relics fast disappearing for want of such a store house, and of inestimable value to historians. Mrs. Bryan communicated her idea to the ladies of the Hollywood Memorial Association, and asked their co-operation. An enthusiastic approval of her plan resulted in the taking of immediate steps to secure their object. A committee of ladies presented a petition to the City Council of Richmond, urgently requesting that the building be given them for the purpose of a Confederate Museum. While the City Fathers were quick to recognize the propriety of the plan, the law's delays incident upon all dealings with corporations, and the necessity of securing another building for the school, resulted in interminable procrastination. At last, however, the new school building was complete the deed to the Davis mansion property attested, and on the day of -, 1892, the Confederate Memorial Literary Society took formal possession of the Davis Mansion.

The grand old building no longer wore its former look of well-ordered comfort. Countless little feet had worn the very marble of the steps thin. Black boards defaced the beautiful drawing room walls. Partitions had been knocked down to make two larger rooms, and the porches even were pronounced "unsafe." Nothing daunted by these deplorable conditions, the devoted women who had inaugurated the movement went about completing it.

In the spring of 1893, a great Memorial Bazaar

was held, at which every state that was of the Southern Confederacy was represented. The financial result of this vast undertaking, which was intended to assist the association in charge of the Private Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument as well as the Confederate Museum, was a net sum of $30,000.

With the $15,000 dedicated to the Museum, the Confederate Memorial Literary Society is now busily at work in restoring the mansion minutely to the condition in which President Davis left it, and in making the building fire-proof.

The Society has moved with careful deliberation. In a few months now the building will be ready to receive its precious furnishing. The workmen are busy, and the ladies have perfected an organization which secures to this Museum a national character, and have succeeded in gathering from every southern state relics of priceless worth, and whose duplicates are not in existence. When complete, the Museum will present as nearly as possible the appearance the house did in 1861-'65. Every room is in the special care of a separate state. The Regent in charge of each room is a resident of the state to which the room belongs, and exerts herself to secure relics from the locality. She has a ViceRegent residing in Richmond, who executes her orders, and in her absence represents her. The renovation and fire-proofing are in charge of a committee of which Mrs. Elmore D. Hotchkiss, President of the Memorial Bazaar, is Chairman. The Regent for Virginia is Miss Mildred Lee, and every southern state has a prominent southern woman to represent her in this museum-every detail which might add to the interest or improve the permanent value of this great institution having attention.

The money to start it is actually in hand, and nothing more remains to be done but to secure its permanency by a handsome endowment. This has not been procured; but, assured of its necessity-of the impossibility of securing so great and unique a museum in any other way, the Confederate Memorial Literary Society turns with confidence to the veterans of the Lost Cause, and makes known to them its need-to do more is unnecessary. We know they have the will, and we feel sure they will find the way.

A "JOHNNY REB" ON PENSIONS TO G. A. R.

I can truthfully say, that the C. S. A.,
Those who dwell in the land of the living,
Begrudge not the pay you get every day,
Which this nation so freely is giving—

That is, to the wounded, or whose sickness was founded
On exposure incurred thro' the strife,

And thus were disabled, for to labor unable-
Provide for them well thro' their life.

But the hale, hearty fellow, who for pensions yet bellows.
Let him hustle as we Johnnies do;

For many got bounties from their States and counties.
And for ducats alone wore the blue.

Then think for a minute, you know we ain't in it.
When scattered around is the swag;
So tell Gen. Palmer, to try to keep calmer,
When he sees that tattered old flag.

'Tis just like a story of heroes whose glory
Will shine on history's pages;

But your flag is now ours 'gainst all foreign powers.
And united we stand through all ages.