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proof should be taken as to who originated the idea of uniting
all the organizations of Southern women into one Federation,
in order that it might be printed in the minutes of the Mont-
gomery Convention; and whereas, the Nashville Chapter No.
1, United Daughters of Confederacy, have taken proof, and
submit the following evidences, substantiating the fact that Mrs.

M.C Goodlett, of Nashville, Term., first originated the idea:

On March 25, 1890. the ladies of Nashville organized and

had chartered the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Confederate Sol-
diers' Home, and Mrs. M. C. Goodlett was elected State Presi-
dent thereof.

On May 10, 1892, at a dinner given by the Ladies' Auxil-
iary, on Summer street, in Nashville, on motion of Mrs. M. C.
Goodlett, the name of the Ladies' Auxiliary was changed to

Daughters of the Confederacy.
In 1894, Mrs. Goodlett having conceived the idea of or-

ganizing all associations of Southern women into one body, to
be known as the Daughters of the Confederacy, in May of that

year, at a meeting of the Nashville Chapter, the object was
brought forward and published in the Nashville American.
Shortly thereafter Mrs. Goodlett received a letter from Mrs.
L. H. Raines, of Savannah, Ga., indorsing the idea, and request-
ing that a copy of the constitution, charter, and by-laws of the
Nashville Chapter should be sent her for examination, and

asking if Savannah women could be organized under the Nash-

ville charter.

Thereafter the Nashville Chapter issued a call, inviting

all Southern women to meet with it on September 9th, 1894,
in the rooms of Frank Cheatham Bivouac, for the organization
of all Daughters of the Confederacy into one federation. The
following ladies attended this meeting: Mesdames M. C. Good-
lett, John Overton, J. B. Lindsley, William Hume, Isabella
Clark, George B. Guild, W. B. Maney, R. H. Dudley. Nathan-
iel Gooch, W. J. McMurray, A. E. Snyder, John P. Hickman,
Miss White May, and others, of Nashville ; Mrs. L. H. Raines, of
Savannah; and Mrs. Myers of Texas. On that night Mrs.
Raines went home with Mrs. Goodlett, carrying with her the
constitution of the United Confederate Veterans. On the next