April Seventh

History tears down statues and monuments to attributes and deeds, unless those attributes have been devoted to some noble end, and those deeds done in a righteous cause.

COL. CHARLES MARSHALL

April Eightb

"GLORY STANDS BESIDE OUR GRIEF"

Because they fought in perfect faith, believing The cause they fought for was the just, the

true;

And had small hope of glittering gain receiving, While following, with standard high in view, Where led their single-hearted, dauntless chief: Therefore doth Glory stand beside our grief! VICTORIA ELIZABETH GITTINGS

Louisiana admitted to the Union, 1812

Telegram from Secretary Seward confirming promise (March 15) as to Sumter, 1861

April Mintb

An angel's heart, an angel's mouth,
Not Homer's, could alone for me
Hymn forth the great Confederate South,
Virginia first, then Lee.

Oh, realm of tears! But let her bear
This blazon to the end of time:

No nation rose so white and fair,

None fell so pure of crime.

P. S. WORSLEY
(England)

[From lines written on the fly-leaf of a translation of the Iliad, presented to General Lee by the Oxford scholar in 1866]

Surrender of Lee at Appomattox, 1865

April Tenth

Furl that Banner, for 'tis weary;
Round its staff 'tis drooping dreary;
Furl it, fold it, it is best;

For there's not a man to wave it,
And there's not a sword to save it,
And there's not one left to lave it
In the blood which heroes gave it;
And its foes now scorn and brave it;
Furl it, hide it, let it rest!

Furl that Banner! True, 'tis gory,
Yet 'tis wreathed around with glory,
And 'twill live in song and story,

Though its folds are in the dust:
For its fame on brightest pages,
Penned by poets and by sages,
Shall go sounding down the ages,-
Furl its folds though now we must.
ABRAHAM J. RYAN

(The Conquered Banner)

Lee issues farewell address to his army, 1865
Leonidas Polk born, 1806

April Eleventh

Man is so constituted-the immutable laws of our being are such-that to stifle the sentiment and extinguish the hallowed memories of a people is to destroy their manhood.

GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON

We had, I was satisfied, sacred principles to maintain and rights to defend for which we were in duty bound to do our best, even if we perished in the endeavor.

GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE

We must forevermore consecrate in our hearts our old battle flag of the Southern Cross -not now as a political symbol, but as the consecrated emblem of an heroic epoch. The people that forgets its heroic dead is already dying at the heart, and we believe we shall be truer and better citizens of the United States if we are true to our past.

RANDOLPH H. McKIM

April Twelfth

From this time a clear-cut issue was formulated and presented to the States and the people. The "firing upon the flag of the nation" was made the immediate pretext for aggressive measures against the Lower South. As so heralded, it served to inflame the hearts of thousands who, it seems, had not noticed or who had forgotten, as it is forgotten to-day, that this was not the first firing upon the Stars and Stripes. The flag had been fired upon from the coast of South Carolina as early as January 9, 1861, for the same reason as that which provoked attack upon it on April 12.

[From introduction to "The Battle of Baltimore," The Sun, April 9, 1911.]

Fort Sumter fired on by Beauregard, 1861

North Carolina instructs her delegates to the Continental Congress to declare for independence, 1776

Henry Clay born, 1777