May 2013 Volume 3 Issue 9

Editor: Carla Brown 1560 George Brown Road Franklin, GA 30217-5253

Heard County Chapter 2587 Number of Members: 21 Georgia Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy® Number of Copies Printed: 22

Confederate Memorial Day Program

The Heard County Chapter 2587 held a Confederate Memorial Day program at the Confederate Monument in the Veteran’s Park on the square in Franklin at 3:00 on April 24th. President Brown welcomed visitors and guests and led them in the singing of the National Anthem. Chaplain Hollis Crockett gave the invocation and Mary Lane read the Inside this issue: poem “Who Am I?” from the February 2013 issue of the President’s Message 2 UDC Magazine. Teresa Eady placed the Wreath and Selmah Bowen placed a Daughter’s Flag by the Monument. April Meeting Highlights 2 Members and guests honored our Confederate ancestors a My Personal Confederate 3 musical tribute of songs born during that time of war. The Memorial Day songs included in the tribute were Bonnie Blue Flag, Southrons-Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, Notes from April’s Confederate 3 Goober Peas, Suwannee River, When Johnny Comes Marching home Again, and Lines Dixieland. Information about each song’s origins was presented by President Brown as each played. Following the music, members remembered their ancestors with a Mildred Lewis Rutherford 4 moment of silence and Chaplain Hollis Crockett gave the benediction. Excerpts from The Truths of 5 History Members in attendance were Selmah Bowen, Hollis Crockett, Teresa Eady, Jeannine Jackson, Rebecca Lawley, Carolyn Bell, Carla Brown, Lela Craft, Betty de Vane, Mary Ballad of the Unknown Soldier 6 Lane, Jane Petsch, Carole Riddle, Martha Stapler, and Marifaythe Whitley. Guests Activity Calendar 6 included Lisa Nesbitt, Mary Catherine Martin, and Pam Stevens.

Notes to Daughters:  Remember to read a book

 Remember to support our veterans

 Plan to go to the convention next September

 Keep up with anything you do that reflects positively on our objectives. Pa ge 2 Heard County Chapter 2587 Volume 3 Issue 9

Chapter President’s Message

Dear Daughters, I appreciate all who attended our Confederate Memorial Day Program and thank you so much for your support of our chapter. Our chapter rating sheets and reports are all due in June and I am excited about being able to fill in many of the blanks and especially the Historian’s questions on books read. Thank you for reading and sharing your books with others. Next year I would like to have you write a short 3 or 4 sentence paragraph on your books that we can put in our newsletter for all to read. Think about it! The Convention will be coming next fall and will be in Marietta October 3-5. I would like to encourage you to think about going. Sharing rooms makes it more affordable and the fellowship with other daughters is wonderful. Start saving your money now! I am excited about our prospective members and encourage you to invite anyone you think might be interested to attend our meetings and get to know us. If you have any ideas for the newsletter or chapter programs you would like to see, please let me know. In UDC Love and Friendship, Carla

April Meeting Highlights

The regular meeting of the Heard County Chapter 2587 was held on April 24 at the Heard County Historical Center and Museum following our Confederate Memorial Program. Members Selmah Bowen, Hollis Crockett, Teresa Eady, Jeannine Jackson, Rebecca Lawley, Carolyn Bell, Carla Brown, Lela Craft, Betty de Vane, Mary Lane, Jane Petsch, Carole Riddle, Martha Stapler, and Marifaythe Whitley were in attendance.

Here are the highlights of the meeting:

 President Carla Brown called the meeting to order at 3:45 pm with Teresa Eady serving as acting secretary.  President Brown led members through the UDC Ritual and the pledges to the flags and read the objectives of the Society.  President Brown welcomed guests Lisa Nesbitt, Rebecca’s daughter, and prospective member Mary Catherine Martin.  Hollis Crockett gave the Days of Observance.  Hollis Crockett shared the members with birthdays in April and passed the Food Pantry jar.  The minutes of the March meeting were read by March’s acting secretary Martha Stapler and approved as read.  Selmah Bowen gave the treasurer’s report. . The report was filed for audit.  Selmah Bowen reported that the flags for graves had all been distributed.  Lela Craft reported that she is working on two new Cross of Military Service awards.  Mary Lane about insignia orders and will follow up on those that have not yet been received.  Chaplain Hollis Crocket requested that members think about marking deceased daughters graves and will have information on costs and protocol at the May meeting.  The meeting was adjourned at 4:20 with the singing of Blest Be the Tie That Binds Volume 3 Issue 9 Heard County Chapter 2587 Pa ge 3

My Personal Confederate Memorial Day

April 26 is Confederate Memorial Day in Georgia. On this day I will go to a small cemetery on the side of the road in Heard County, Georgia. There I will visit the graves of three men who represent that war.

I am no stranger to this place. Having been born in a log house next door, I often played there when I was a small child. What fun it was to search for Dewberries and Maypops among the graves of my ancestors.

The first grave I will visit is that of my great, great Grandfather James Jefferson Adamson. James was bitterly opposed to leaving the Union. His own grandfather Basil Adamson had fought in the Revolutionary War and he wanted to keep the Union intact.

The second grave is that of my great Grandfather Seaborn Henry Adamson. Seaborn strongly believed that Georgia had the right under the Constitution to leave the Union. He left his wife and children and served in the Confederate Army from 1862 to 1865.

The third grave is that of an unknown Union soldier. He was attached to McCook’s Raiders. After being routed in Coweta County on July 31st in 1864, they headed to Alabama. Their objective was to rob, kill, and destroy. The soldier fell from his horse and was left to die among his enemies.

It was my great, great Uncle Nathaniel Rufus Adamson who, as a ten year old boy, helped to nurse him in vain. At his death, he made a coffin and dug a grave for him in his family’s cemetery. He wrote a poem about the Unknown Soldier and years later would place a cement slab over the grave and inscribe his poem on it. (See story page 6)

I have spent a lifetime wondering about this unknown man. What was his name? Where did he come from,? Did he have family?

I will never know the answers to my questions, but what I do know is that when a man is willing to give his life for his beliefs, then the man should never be forgotten, whether he fought for the Confederacy or the Union.

Marifaythe Adamson Whitley It should be noted that none of these men owned slaves.

Notes from April’s Confederate Lines

The Vice President's Manual is now available at the UDC Business Office for $10 plus shipping/handling. You may order using the March 2013 Supply form or phone the UDC Business Office and ask for Shannon. The 2013 Insignia Order forms have all been revised. These revised forms can also be found on the UDC General Web Site. Beginning September 1, 2013, only the 2013 Insignia Order Forms will be accepted. There are new application forms for original applications, supplemental applications, and CofC to UDC transfers. The application instructions have also been updated. The only form that has not changed is the UDC to UDC transfer form. Please visit the UDC website and download the new forms as soon as possible. President General, Jamie Likins, has set a national goal of $20,000 to help our wounded veterans through the Wounded Warrior Project. This would be less than $2.00 per member. Georgia Division UDC is asking all Georgia Chapters to help in reaching this goal. Each chapter is requested to make their chapter membership aware of this need and to collect donations of $1.00 per member or more, if possible, to cover those inactive members or members who cannot or will not participate. Each chapter would collect these donations from their members and then mail a chapter check payable to Georgia Division Treasurer, UDC to her. The Georgia Division Treasurer will then remit a Georgia Division check to General for all the donations. General Chair Russell is hoping to reach our goal by the November Convention in Tulsa. Pa ge 4 Heard County Chapter 2587 Volume 3 Issue 9

Mildred Lewis Rutherford

Mildred Lewis "Miss Millie" Rutherford (July 16, 1851 – August 15, 1928) was a prominent educator and author from Athens, Georgia. She served the , as its head and in other capacities, for over forty years, and oversaw the addition of the Seney-Stovall Chapel to the school. Heavily involved in many organizations, she became the Historian General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), and her speech given for the UDC was the first by a woman to be recorded in the Congressional Record. She was a prolific non-fiction writer. Also known for her oratory, Rutherford was distinctive in dressing as a southern belle for her speeches. She held strong pro-Confederacy views and opposed women's suffrage.

She was born July 16, 1851, in Athens, Georgia, and was the daughter of Laura Cobb Rutherford and Williams Rutherford, a professor of mathematics at the . She was the granddaughter of John Addison Cobb, whose involvement in agriculture (he owned a plantation with 209 slaves by 1840), the Georgia Railroad, and real estate made him "one of the area's wealthiest men". She was the niece of John's sons , who served six terms as a Democratic Congressman and Speaker of the House for two years, and the lawyer Thomas R.R. Cobb, one of the founders of the University of Georgia School of Law – he "codified Georgia's state laws", "wrote the wartime state constitution of 1861", and was a prominent proslavery propagandist. T.R.R. Cobb founded Lucy Cobb Institute in response to a letter that Laura Rutherford had sent anonymously to the local paper.

Millie entered the Lucy Cobb Institute at the age of eight in the school's first session. She was graduated from there at the age of sixteen in 1868 and began her teaching career. After teaching in Atlanta for eight years, Millie served as the principal of the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens from 1880 to 1895 and continued to serve the school in various capacities for over forty years (including several years again at its head "with the title of 'president' signaling the school's college-level ambitions"). It is said that Millie Rutherford took over a struggling institution and rebuilt it into one of the most prestigious schools for young women in Georgia.

Millie Rutherford's deep concern with propriety and feminine modesty should not obscure the fact that the school prepared women for more than traditional domestic roles. The school recognized that many of its alumnae would seek employment, and by teaching students marketable, and at the same time, respectable, skills, as well as genteel decorum and dress, Lucy Cobb created a new image of elite white single womanhood that combined aspects of the new woman and the southern belle, what could be called the "new belle."

Miss Rutherford was an accomplished public speaker who addressed a great number of local organizations, including the YMCA, the Ladies Memorial Association (for which she served as president), and the Athens chapter of the United Daughter of the Confederacy (UDC), and in November 1912 addressed the national assembly of the UDC as their Historian General.

She became perhaps the best-known amateur historian in the early twentieth century for her extensive writings and speeches, her historical journal, published from 1923 to 1927, and her promotion of historical work among the UDC as that organization's Historian General from 1911 to 1916. She gave the first speech by a woman to be printed in the Congressional Record" in 1916 at a UDC convention. "Miss Millie," always a champion of southern traditions, was a woman of powerful personality, commanding presence, and fearlessly outspoken opinions; she was known widely for the speeches she delivered in hoop skirts.

In 1927 Rutherford became seriously ill. Late on Christmas night, as she convalesced, her house suffered a devastating fire, consuming many of her personal papers and belongings, including "most of her private collection of Confederate artifacts". She died on August 15, 1928, and was interred in , in East Hill, one of the two original sections of the cemetery. Volume 3 Issue 9 Heard County Chapter 2587 Pa ge 5

Excerpts from The Truths of History by Mildred Rutherford

Chapter X: The Policy of the Northern Army Was to Destroy Property That of the Southern Army to Protect It AUTHORITY: (pages 34-36) SHERIDAN’S OFFICIAL REPORT: “I have burned two thousand barns filled with wheat and corn, all the mills in the whole country, destroyed all the factories of cloth, killed or driven off every animal, even the poultry that could contribute to human sustenance.” “Nothing should be left in the Shenandoah but eyes to lament the war.” SHERMAN’S MEMOIRS: “It will not be necessary to sow salt on the site of Charleston after the Fifteenth Corps has done its work.” “One hundred million dollars of damage has been done to Georgia; $20,000,000 inured to our benefit, the remainder simply waste and destruction.” “On General Howell Cobb s plantation I told my men to spare nothing.” GENERAL GRANT to Hunter in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia: “Nothing shall be left to invite the enemy to return.” “City Point, August 26, 1864. Major-General Sheridan, Halltown, Va.: “Do all the damage to railroads and crops you can. Carry off stock of all descriptions and negroes, so as to pre vent further planting. We want the Shenandoah Valley to remain a barren waste. (Signed) U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General.

“Headquarters of the Army, Washington, D. C. 11 December 18, 1864. Major-General Sherman, Savannah: Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by some accident the place may be destroyed; and if a little salt should be sown upon the site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession. (Signed) W. H. HALLECK, Chief of Staff” CONTRAST: (Pages 37-39)

PRESIDENT DAVIS: “In regard to the enemy s crews and vessels you are to proceed with the justice and humanity which characterize our government and its citizens.” “General Lee, for fear his soldiers should pillage while foraging in Pennsylvania, had the roll call three times daily.” When at York, Pa., General Early was urged to burn that place in retaliation. He said: “We do not make war on women and children.”

GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON to the women in York, Pa.: “If the torch is applied to a single dwelling or an insult offered to a woman by a soldier in my command, point me the man and you shall have his life.”

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS testified: “I doubt if a hostile foe ever advanced in an enemy’s country or fell back from it in retreat leaving behind it less cause for hate and bitterness than did the Army of Northern Virginia.”

PRESIDENT DAVIS said to his soldiers: “The rules taught at West Point were: Private property can be seized only by way of military necessity for the support or benefit of the army of the United States. All wanton violence, pillage or sacking, maiming or killing is prohibited under penalty of death or punishment adequate for the gravity of the offense.”

WILLIAM M. MACY, Secretary of War, July 28, 1856 : “The wanton pillage or uncompensated appropriation of individual property by an army, even in possession of an enemy’s country is against the usage of modern times” Heard County Chapter 2587

Georgia Division Ballad of the Unknown Soldier

Daughters of the Confederacy® "This dying man his friends had fled - left to his foes not a word he said Away from home - away from friends and all that heart holds dear - a federal soldier buried here - no earthly friends was near His lips were closed his body frail - his dying groans and face was pale Away from home - away from friends and all that heart holds dear - a federal soldier buried here - no earthly friends was near

The clothes he wore blue uniform - his body showed not a mark of harm Away from home - away from friends and all that heart holds dear a federal soldier buried here - no earthly friends was near

His death occurred from unknown cause - had a deathly stroke and fell from a horse Away from home - away from friends and all that heart holds dear - a federal soldier buried here - no earthly friends was near

His coffin rough and loosely laid of scraps of plank and they had no nails Away from home - away from friends and all that heart holds dear - a federal soldier buried here no earthly friends was near

The plank was off a nearby barn where federals robbed of its wheat and corn Unknown Union Soldier Buried Adamson Cemetery Away from home - away from friends and all that heart holds dear - a Glenn, Heard Co., Georgia federal soldier buried here - no earthly friends was near” On the Escape Route From The Battle Of Brown's Mill by N.R. Adamson 5-30-1928 C.B.A.

Activity Calendar We’re on the web! Check us out! Heard County Chapter May 15 Meeting www.carlab.net/hcudc Happy Birthday May 25 Rebecca Lawley Battle of New Hope May 25 Church 1864 Heard County Chapter 2587 June 14 Flag Day Carla Brown , President July 4 Independence Day 1560 George Brown Road Franklin, GA 30217-5253 Birthday of Mildred 770-251-0754 July 16 Lewis Rutherford

August 20 Battle of Lovejoy Station Love, Live, Pray, Think, Dare

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– Jefferson Davis

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