. Minutes . my old comrades saying, the speaker is about toclose without mentioning the chief factor in Southern history, thewomen of the South. Heaven forbid! If I were called upon toname the greatest force behind the Confederate armies, I should un-hesitatingly answer, the women of the South. While the Confederate soldier must forever stand pre-eminent fordauntless courage in battle and unmurmuring patience and fortitudeon the march and in camp, the true historian will record how bravely of the United Confederate Veterans 51 the daughters of the South bore with sublime faith the desola
. Minutes . my old comrades saying, the speaker is about toclose without mentioning the chief factor in Southern history, thewomen of the South. Heaven forbid! If I were called upon toname the greatest force behind the Confederate armies, I should un-hesitatingly answer, the women of the South. While the Confederate soldier must forever stand pre-eminent fordauntless courage in battle and unmurmuring patience and fortitudeon the march and in camp, the true historian will record how bravely of the United Confederate Veterans 51 the daughters of the South bore with sublime faith the desolation oftheir homes, the burning of their cities and the loss of husbands,brothers and kinsmen, and smothered every sob of despair and anguishlest it weaken the nerves of our tattered legions in the field. Let himwho has never read, and him who has read, read again, the sweetpoem of our gifted Southern poetess, Margaret Preston, Beechen-brook, if he would know how a Southern woman bore herself in thatfiery ■££j5rat&i U, S, Cruiser Columbia, which fired the Signal Gun to theU. C. V. Line to move. Women of gentle birth, who had never known what hardshipwas, bravely endured every privation that was entailed by that their own hands they cut and made uniforms for their hus-bands and fathers and encouraged them to go forth to battle for theirhomes and loved ones. Their letters teemed with love and courage,and it was this incentive that nerved the hearts and arms of our sol-diers to cheerfully undergo all the dangers of that unparalleled strug-gle. But when at last the end came, when our matchless leader, Rob-ert E. Lee, was forced by overwhelming numbers to surrender hislittle army of devoted patriots, and when the men of the South werebrought face to face with the great problem of restoring their stategovernment under the new order of things, the splendid character ofour women was demonstrated. 52 Sixteenth Annual Meeting and Reunion Bereft of property; their ho
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