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Source:             Hinds County Gazette 1908
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Raymond, Miss., May 29, 1908
AN OLD VICKSBURG VETERAN AT THE UNVEILING

He Writes interestingly Of The Unveiling
At This Place On April 29th.
Beauty of Monument.

Vicksburg, Miss., May 16, ‘08
Editor Gazette:
Absence from home has prevented the grateful acknowledgement I desire to make 
as a old resident of Raymond and a soldier from the good old town, of a most 
enjoyable day on the occasion of the dedication of the beautiful monument.
After an absence of more than forty years, except for an occasional visit, it 
was gratifying indeed to see that great open blaze of prosperous looking 
people.  The monument itself is chaste in design, of elegant proportion, the 
inscriptions simple, eloquent and dedicating the monument to the honor of the 
soldiers of hinds County, both those who died in defense of our most righteous 
cause and those who ‘offered their lives.  More
touching and appropriate still is the rememberance of out noble women – most 
deserving of all who bravely met the stern duties, the trials, the sufferings 
of those eventful years.  No monument though, can be lofty enough, grand 
enough, to fitly tell the story of the courage and fidelity of the women of 
that stormy time, the fairest, the bravest, the best that ever graced this 
earth.  I was proud that day to see from all over the good county of Hinds, 
such fine manly young fellows, so many lovely girls, worthy descendents of 
such mothers.
The arrangements of the impressive ceremonies were well considered and 
admirably executed.  Inspiring music by a skillful band, the old songs 
of “Dixie Land” that so stirred our youthful hearts in the long ago, were 
sweet indeed in the fresh young voices of the dear children.
The invocation to our Heavenly Father was tender, earnest and reverent.  the 
speeches were full of patriotic, eloquence.  
The main oration of the day by Hon. Chas. Scott, himself a native of Hinds, 
and one of her gallant soldiers, was so clear, so strong a defense of the 
South, if indeed a cause so manifestly just needs defense, that I wish it 
might be read in every school, studied carefully by every boy and girl in 
Mississippi.
One of the most interesting features of the happy occasion was the touching, 
eloquent response by Dr. Lowrey to the graceful address of welcome by Capt. 
Ratliff.  Too young to be a soldier himself, the doctor most worthily 
represented his noble father, one of the ablest, one of the bravest generals 
that our beloved State sent to battle for the right.  A number of his old 
followers were there and the tone of voice, the gestures of the son, recalled 
to us vividly our beloved old commander, who fought the enemies of his country 
as he prayed to the Master whom he faithfully served, and as he often in camp 
and on the march preached to his brigade with his whole soul, mind and 
strength.
An old soldier naturally has his eye on the commissary arrangements.  It 
seemed to me, looking at that bountiful supply, that there was enough to have 
given Bragg’s entire hungry army full rations for once, only the poor fellows 
would hardly have known what to do with such delicious cake and genuine, sure 
enough coffee.
There was , however, under all this deep sense of gratification at the honor 
done us, and an undercurrent of infinite sadness, as memory reverted to the 
seenes on the old Court House Square, forty-seven years ago, when company 
after company mustered there, many of the gallant fellows never, alas, to look 
again upon the familiar old town.  Their ashes rest under the sod of the 
bloody fields from the Potomac to the Rio Grande; in behalf of these our 
fallen brothers, whose voices are stilled forever, it is meet that we who 
survive should render grateful thanks to our people for this memorial, for it 
shows that our beloved South does indeed remember—does revere.

“S”
(Charlton Rebels)
Co. K., 45th Reg.
Miss. Vol. Infantry.



Additional Comments:

 The unveiling ceremony of the Hinds County Confederate monument to be held in 
Raymond, Mississippi, April 29, 1908.  



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