Address Delivered by Miss. Mildred Lewis Rutherford

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Excerpt from Address Delivered by Miss. Mildred Lewis Rutherford: Historian-General United Daughters of the Confederacy I fear there will come to you a keen disappointment to-night, because you will not have a carefully prepared historical address, nor will you have those charming papers, charmingly read, by women of local talent, as has been the custom of my predecessor, Mrs. Enders Robinson, of Virginia, to have presented to you. But, Mrs. White, our President-General, as well as myself, your Historian-General, felt that this opportunity must not be lost - an opportunity to give some practical illustrations and needed advice regarding the collection and preservation of the history pertaining to the South, particularly that history relating to the War Between the States. When at Richmond last year you elected me your Historian-General, the highest honor in your power to bestow, I honestly confess my impulse was to refuse, but the temptation was too great. I felt I would like to accept this honor for one year, and that possibly I could get others to do what I could not do myself. On the way home I prepared an Open Letter, That letter was ready for the printer as soon as I reached Athens. There was a little delay, because our President-General had to look into the financial end of the matter, and there was still another delay in order that our Corresponding Secretary-General and our Recording Secretary-General might put me in touch with the historians, because the Minutes of the Little Rock Convention did not contain all of the Chapter historians' names. I would like for the State Presidents to take note of this - all historians' names should be in the Minutes of every Convention. As soon as possible that Open Letter was sent to every state historian, with copies sufficient for every one of the chapter historians in that Division. I also sent copies of it to the State presidents and to many of the former presidents and officers of the U. D. C., whose addresses I had been able to secure. There came beautiful letters of commendation to your Historical-General. She really was flattered, and thought wonderful things were going to come to pass. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.