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Preface ii.

the general committee. This committee has succeeded in gather-
ing and publishing in newspaper supplements the chronicles

of the work of Southern women in several Southern States,
notably South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. This work

will be pushed to completion in the remaining States of the
South.

Gen. Walker's committee have also accomplished consider-

able work on the question of a monument to Southern women.
It has been decided that the monument be of bronze. Designs
were called for last year and at the meeting of the committee
after the adjournment of the Kichmond reunion of the present
year a selection of a design was made. The committee are
now selecting the artist who is to carry out their wishes and
supervise the casting of the monuments. Within a short time
the artist will be selected and the next step will be to estimate
the cost of each monument for a State and to apportion it. The
veterans and sons of veterans of each State will be asked to share

State by State, in the expense incurred. It is impossible just

now to estimate exactly what each State will have to pay as a
pro rata for a monument. Perhaps five thousand dollars is
approximate. Each monument will be an original under this
plan and the uniformity throughout the South will be a strik-
ing feature. Everywhere will be seen that face and figure of
Southern beauty and power, looking down with inspiring love
and tenderness upon the rising generations of the Southland.

ARKANSAS COMMITTEE.

Our Arkansas committee met in Little Eock last wintei
and organized for work along these lines. It was discovered
that quite a large number of papers written by Southern ladies
of the State and full of interesting reminiscenses were in the
hands of J. Kellogg, Little Eock, as the result of a previous
effort in this direction.. At the above meeting J. M. Lucey was
made chairman and J. Kellogg was made honorary member of
the board and elected secretary. The chairman was empowered
to collect all accessible papers and to solicit new ones from the
ladies of the State; all of which were to be carefully supervised