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Reminiscences of the Old South 131

Resplendent in virtue supernal

They long shut in my bosom

Will spring into life eternal
Crowning the theme I have chosen.

We look on the New South today,

With pride in its success take part,
But 0, the Old South is hidden away,
-In every Old Southerner's heart.

JEFFERSON DAVIS MONUMENT.

The project to erect an appropriate monument to the great
Chieftain of the Confederacy was undertaken by the veterans
years ago. They raised about $20,000. The Daughters of the

Confederacy, just as they always do, then took hold of the mat-
ter and they increased the fund to $70,000. The Georgia

United Daughters of the Confederacy, who built a Winnie
Davis dormitory at the Georgia Normal School, have been very
active in the work for the Davis monument at Richmond, and
Georgia has the credit of leading all- the States in the amount
contributed. The city of Richmond donated a very eligible
lot at the crossing of Franklin and Cedar streets, near the
splendid R. E. Lee monument. It is fitting that the monuments
to the leading civil and military heroes of the great cause shall
be so near each other. Very near to these will be monuments
each to Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, and to Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee. These
monuments will all stand in the Lee district, the new and com-

ing choice residence section of the glorious city.

This splendid monument to Mr. Davis was unveiled at the

Confederate reunion in 1907. Dirt was formally broken on
the 7th of November. 1905. by Mrs. Thomas McCullough, of

Staunton, president of the Davis Monument Association. Hon.

J. Taylor Edlyson, lieutenant governor elect, a noble veteran,

and others, also took part in the historic ceremonies. The picks
and shovels will be preserved in the Confederate museum.