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Mr. Hill quoted a series of resolutions passed by the F^ederal pris- oners at Andersonville in 1864, September 28th, in which all due praise is given the Confederate Government for the attention paid them, and in which it was said that the sufferings which they en- dured were not caused intentionally by the Confederate Government, but by the force of circumstances. Commenting, Mr. Hill said :
- Brave men are always honest, and true soldiers never slander ; I
would believe the statement of those gallant soldiers at Anderson- ville, as contained in those resolutions, in preference to the whole tribe of Republican politicians.'*
SOLDIERS' MONUMENT.
Twenty Thousand Confederate Dead in Blandford Cemetery.
UNVEILING BY MISS HILL.
The Ceremonies on Monday — The Monument — History of ike Ladies^ Association — How they Succeeded,
[Richmond Dispatch, June 8, 1890.]
Petersburg, Vx,yjune 7, i8go.
Nearly twenty thousand Confederate soldiers are buried in Bland - ford Cemetery.
Over twelve thousand of this number were interred by the Ladies* Memorial Association on Memorial Hill after the close of the war ; the other thousands were buried in the main by friends during and subsequent to the war within the old cemetery limits.
The dead come from all the States of the Confederacy, and all have been under the tender care of the Ladies' Memorial Associa- tion, whose patriotic services in this respect cannot be too highly honored and commended.
The association in this work of love and patriotism have brought the dead from the fields of Fredericksburg, Manassas, the Wilder- ness, Spotsylvania, Sharpsburg, and from nearly all the great battle scenes in the State.
THEIR GRAVES KEPT GREEN.
Their graves have been kept green year after year, decorated with the most beautiful of Nature's offerings, and every possible respect
