of his men, waked the frozen echoes of the morning with the thunder of his guns and the sound of a great victory, and thus poured the living tide of hope into the bosoms of our forefathers.
While there are monuments to him—one the highest on earth; while a monument has lately gone up to his mother; while monuments to our heroes stand all over the land, yet we want a monument in which should be represented the mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters of R. E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Albert Sidney Johnston, Jubal A. Early, G. T. Beauregard, J. E. B. Stuart, George E. Pickett, Fitz Lee, and all the mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters of the Confederate Soldiers, living and dead; in short, to the Confederate Woman, looking as she did, when, with fair hands and bright eyes, she worked the banners and gave them to the boys to be unfurled in the bloody tempest; looking as she did when the shouts of victory throbbed her true, loving heart and flushed her cheeks; looking as she did when ba
2d Kentucky.
Singleton, John W., Assistant Surgeon, promoted to Surgeon by Charleston Board May 15, ‘63. Served College Hospital, Murfreesboro, Winchester, Dalton.
Smith, Alfred, Assistant Surgeon, com'd April 17, ‘62, to report to General A. S. Johnston.
Promoted Surgeon March 31, ‘64.
Sterger, John C. W., Assistant Surgeon, com'd Nov. 24, ‘62.
Russell's Alabama Cavalry.
Singleton, John W., Surgeon, com'd May 30, ‘63. 41st Alabama Regiment.
Strickland, Benjamin M., contract $8 30, ‘64, 15th Mississippi.
Left with wounded at Decatur, Ala.
Turner, Samuel F., born in Talbot county, Ga., in 1835.
Graduated in the N. O. Medical School, 1859; raised a company in 1861, and served as its captain until 1862, under General A. S. Johnston, and was then commissioned Surgeon 6th Arkansas Infantry, and served until the end of the war; died in Robertson county,
Texas, in the winter of 1867.
Thornton, C. C., Assistant Surgeon. June 30, ‘64, Cowan's Battalion, Octob