Pike County  Georgia News- Memorial Day Festival 1896
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The Pike County Journal.
Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia, Jan. 10, 1896

Gen. J.B. Gordon, commanding the Union Confederate Veterans Association,
has designated Friday, May 1 as Memorial Festival Day.

The day is set apart for the use of the woman of the south for raising
funds for the battle abbey, towards the construction of which Mr.
Charles Broadway Rouss has contributed $100,000. Mr. Rouse contributed
the amount with the proviso that an additional $100,000 be raised by the
Confederate Veterans Association.

This amount, General Gordon thinks can be raised by the ladies. In the
general order issued by him designating the day to be observed, Gen.
Gordon says: The committee suggests that the most feasible manner of
reaching the desired object is to set apart a "Memorial Festival Day,"
and they ask that the  general commanding will designate the date, and
issue a general order. The general commanding, therefore, in compliance
with the request of the committee, designates Friday May 1, 1896 as the
most suitable for the "Memorial Day Festival," to be set apart for the
use of the women of the south in raising funds for this great Memorial
hall.

All the details and exercises of this "Memorial Festival Day" are to be
planned, conducted and carried entirely under orders, control, ideas and
management of the women of the south in their respective localities. The
general commanding appeals to and urges these heroic women, survivors of
an heroic age, and all the daughters of the south who take pride in the
history of such worthy and glorious ancestors, to immediately, upon the
receipt of this order, organize societies and elect presidents,
secretaries, treasurers, and other officers in every city, town, hamlet
and neighborhood in the south, and to notify Colonel R.C. Wood, general
manager of the Confederate Memorial Association, No. 44 Perdido Street,
New Orleans, La., so that he can at once supply them with subscription
books and full instructions and respectfully request that they will
commence without delay the collection of funds for the erection of this
depository of the records of the valor of southern manhood and the
heroism of southern womanhood, and continue their efforts
systematically, making the "Memorial Festival Day," May 1, 1896 the
culmination of their efforts.

(Transcribed 11/15/02 Lynn Cunningham)