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The women of the Confederacy.
From the New Orleans, La, Picayune, December 24th, 1906.
What they saw and suffered during the
Civil War—
Mrs. John Randolph Eggleston recalls memories of the past.
The Unpretending heroism of the mothers of the
South—In three besieged Cities—a soldier's strange Funeral— little Dramas of the war time.
Mrs. John Randolph Eggleston, of
Mississippi, made an address before the General Convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, at
Gulfport, which was so flatteringly referred to by the delegates from New Orleans, that I have begged her permission to have it published.
Her husband,
Captain Eggleston, was an officer in the old Navy, and, like most Southerners, resigned his commission, and entered the
Confederate service.
CaptainEggleston and
Mrs. Eggleston had their home in New Orleans before the commencement of the war. Without intending to do so,
Mrs. Eggleston has paid the highest and best-deserved tribute to our Southern women I have ever read.
I hand you the address herewith.
Daughters of the Confederacy:
In the name of the Mothers of the
Confederacy, of the Mississippi Division, I greet and welcome you, and thank you for your presence in our midst.
It makes me happy to see so many of you here, and the fact that you belong to this organization, proves that you are proud of the noble heritage bequeathed to you by your fathers, and by your mothers as well; for the women of the
Confederacy, though secure from the dangers of the battlefield, bore their part no less heroically than did the men.
The men gave, or offered to give, their lives; the women gave what was dearer to them than life—they gave the men they loved;
