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Our meeting on June 16th will be held at
the Watts House, the meal will be served at 6:30 and the meeting will
start at 7:00. Our guest speaker this month will be Mrs Mosie
Marlar, the better half of Jack Marlar our SCV field representative,
who will be talking about Belle Boyd and also talking to the ladies about
the Order of the Confederate Rose. |
At the end of the war a popular
Catholic priest and noted unreconstructed Southern poet, Father Abram J.
Ryan, wrote a poem called The Conquered Banner that took hold over the South
during those dark days. The poem was known all across the South, and the
reason that many of us today don't know it was probably best described by
Hannis Taylor, an Alabama lawyer of the time. He said it "was not destined
to immortality because the state of soul to which it was addressed was ephemeral..."
Nevertheless, The Conquered Banner is inscribed into a stained glass window
at Confederate Memorial Hall in New Orleans.
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