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Southern Confederacy

SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY [ATLANTA, GA], June 18, 1862, p. 2, c. 4

West Point Correspondence.

                                                                               
                 West Point, Ga., June 14, 1862.
Editors Southern Confederacy:
                I have recently arrived in the pleasant town of West Point, 
situated on the banks of the Chattahoochee River.  I think an account of what 
the people of this town--especially the ladies--have been doing during the 
war, would be interesting to your numerous readers.
. . .           But the ladies here have been doing their share of the work of 
independence.  The fame of the beautiful daughters of West Po't have been 
heralded far and wide.  The graceful belle of Georgia resides in this place--
all will know of whom I speak.  There is one monument in Atlanta which 
proclaims, by its whiteness and disconsolate appearance, the irresistible 
attractions of her charms.  The ladies of West Point are fired by that love of 
liberty which is characteristic with Georgia women.  Early in the commencement 
of this war, they formed themselves into a Soldiers' Relief Society, and the 
good they have accomplished will be known only in that day when the works of 
all shall be made manifest, and the hearts of all shall be laid open to view.  
The well clad soldiers on the mountains of Virginia, and the eyes of the sick 
who have just risen from their confinement after having been the recipients of 
the tender care of the patriotic ladies of this place, would more forcibly 
convey the evidence of what these ladies have done than anything I could say.  
They still go on in their good work--never weary--and will not cease till the 
last soldier has returned from the field, and peace shall once more reign.
                The association is presided over by Mrs. Mary W. Erwin.  One 
more capable and energetic could not have been found.  Miss Lucy Todd is Vice 
President.  The accomplished Miss Sallie Fannie Ried is Secretary, Miss Anne 
Erwin Assistant Secretary, and Miss Belle Lanier Treasurer.  I have had the 
pleasure of examining the books kept by these ladies.  The minutes of the 
meetings would do credit to the most celebrated of writers, while the accounts 
of the Treasurer would make many a counting house clerk blush for his 
incompetency.
                Would that I could mention all the ladies connected with this 
model society, and speak particularly of the labors they have performed and 
the good they have done.  The Southern soldiers whom they have relieved, and 
to those whose comfort they have contributed so much, will sacredly cherish 
their memory.  At every setting of the sun prayers in their behalf go up from 
the wives and little ones of absent soldiers, after whose welfare they have 
watched with continued vigilance.--Time may roll on, great events be 
forgotten; but the memory of the good deeds of the Ladies of the Soldiers' 
Relief Society of West Point will be green, while the lives of the recipients 
of their care shall 
last.                                                                          
                                                             G. T. J. 


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