The rooms representing these States communicate.
The ladies in the
Tennessee room were:
Mrs. Kellar Anderson, Regent of
Tennessee;
Mrs. Norman V. Randolph, Vice-Regent;
Mrs. J. W. White, alternate, of
Lee Camp Auxiliary.
Committee:
Mrs. Wilbur Armistead,
Memphis, Tenn.;
Mrs. L. M. Hart, and others.
It was prettily decorated, and contained interesting relics, including a memorial to
William Taylor Watson, eldest son of
John W. C. Watson,
Confederate States Senator from
Mississippi.
A step across the threshold of the
Florida room transported the visitor to the very land of the palmetto.
There were tall, overtopping palms,
Florida moss, flowers from
Tallahassee and
Jacksonville, and a general suggestion of the far
South.
Relics were in every direction-indeed, the appointments of the room were almost exclusively of relics.
There were battle-flags, one bearing the significant legend, ‘Any Fate but Submission’; a cutlass taken from the first Confederate privateer,
Jefferson Davis;
Captain Fleming's sword, canteen, and uniform; company muster and pay-roll of the Second Florida Infantry; a piece of crockery made for the
Confederacy, and numerous others.
The ladies here were
Mrs. F. P. Fleming, wife of
ex-Governor Fleming, of
Florida, Regent of the
Florida room, who sent growing palms; also cut-palms and flowers, for the decoration of the room; also money and some valuable relics, among them a valuable washstand from the gun-boat
Chickamauga. Vice-Regent,
Mrs. R. A. Patterson; alternate,
Mrs. J. Preston Cocke; Committee,
Mrs. R. S. Chamberlayne, formerly
Miss Byrd, of
Monticello, Fla.;
Mrs. Burton, formerly
Miss DuVal, a resident of
Florida for twenty years.
