1866-11-10: Monument Funding

05. November 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: 1866, NewsExtract · Tags: ,

There is no longer any room for doubt; a monument to the memory of our lamented dead will be erected in a few months, and those who have not contributed to the sacred fund should lose no time in doing so, as the estimable ladies who have so faithfully endeavored to discharge their self-imposed task are anxious to complete their labors and have erected in our midst a lasting tribute to the valor and manhood of those who have passed through the dark valley and shadow of death. Considerable money has been collected, yet the fund is incomplete, and certainly our citizens will aid the society now that victory is so near at hand. All contributions should be handed over to the Secretary, Mr. A. T. MCNEAL, who will receipt for the same and pass the amount to the Treasurer, R. S. HARDY, Esq. Hand in your mite before it is too late, and thus win yourself a clear conscience to the last. Open your purse will willing hand and vote remembrance to the dead.

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 10 Nov. 1866, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

1866-05-26: Names of Confederate Dead Sought

20. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: 1866, NewsExtract · Tags:

We the undersigned wish to get the names of all Confederate soldiers who were killed or died in the service from this county and full particulars are to when and where they died or were killed and to what company and regiment they belonged. Funds collected for the monument will be sent to me with the name of the subscriber.

A. T. MCNEAL, Secretary of Monumental Association.

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 26 May 1866, page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

1866-05-12: Organization of the Monumental Society

02. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: 1866, NewsExtract · Tags: , , , , , , , ,

A number of citizens of Hardeman met at the residence of Mrs. ROPER, in Bolivar, for the purpose of organizing a “Monumental Society,” the object and aims of which are to devise measures and means for erecting a shaft to the memory of the sons of Hardeman who lost their lives in the late unhappy war. We have been handed the following Preamble, etc., of the organization by A. T. MCNEAL, Esq., with the request to publish the same, which we cheerfully do:

Preamble

Inasmuch as we deem it a sacred duty of the living to pay some respect to the memory of those who fell in the late struggle, giving up their lives in a cause which was ours as well as their own; and as many of the purest and best citizens of our county perished at the post of duty, and now rest in graves unknown and unmarked, we believe it due from us to each and every one of them to hand down to posterity some testimonial of our appreciation of their sacrifice, therefore –

Resolved, That we, the undersigned, agree to form ourselves into an organization for the purpose of bringing this object to the attention of the people of our county, and pledge each other that we will use our best energies to have erected, in Court Square in the town of Bolivar, or some other suitable place, a monument commemorative of the Confederate dead of Hardeman county.

signed: Mrs. R. P. NEELY, Pres, A. T. MCNEAL, Sec’y, R. S. HARDY, Treas., and members Mrs. E. P. MCNEAL, Mrs. R. G. CRAWFORD, Mrs. Pitser MILLER, Mrs. H. HARKINS, Mrs. R. S. HARDY, Mrs. M. P. ROBERTS, Mrs. A. ROPER

The Bolivar Bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 12 May 1866, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

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