ONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: A TRUTHFUL SENTIMENT. -  Smith County, TX 

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 

MISS ADELIA A. DUNOVANT - A TRUTHFUL SENTIMENT

Miss Adelia A. Dunovant, of Houston, in addressing the Daughters of
the Confederacy, used this beautiful and truthful sentiment:  "The 
fame of the Northern soldier is of physical force; the glory of the 
Southern soldier is of moral courage.  The reputation of the Northern 
soldier rests upon numerical strength; the renown of the Southern 
soldier is based upon unexcelled skill and fortitude.  One sought 
conquest; the other, justice.  One drew the sword in vengeful hate; 
the other, without hatred or malice.  One climbed to the height of 
worldly success; the other attained the summit of lofty virtue. One 
triumphed; the other lost; but with his face to the foe and his eye 
toward heaven.  His was the defeat of the vanquished patriot; no 
broken faith, but a broken heart; his soul spotless, but his body 
scarred; his worldly inheritance seized, destroyed, but the priceless 
wealth of a clear conscience was still his own.  Ashes marked the spot 
of his once peaceful home, but on the dismal scene he an altar to his 
country raised.  And around that altar we, the daughter of the 
Southland, in reverent devotion gather, feeding its dimly burning 
light with ardent love, and filling the memory haunted scene with the 
triumphant refrain: The body may to the sword fall victim, but truth 
can never know of death, and it yet will rise and weave into the 
tapestry of the world's most honored the words, "Men of the 
Confederacy."