Sons of Confederate
Veterans
General James R. Chalmers Camp 1312
Memphis, Tennessee
General James R. Chalmers
"To you, Sons of Confederate
Veterans, we submit the vindication of the
Cause for which we fought...
General Stephen D. Lee
We may expect our opponents to to color unfavorably
for us, if not to mistate the facts as to the cause and conduct of
that war; and it is due to ourselves, to our dead comrades and to our posterity,
that we should leave behind us such material for the future historian as
will enable him to do us justice if he will. We should seek no controversy
as to the its cause or its conduct, but should never shrink from its defence
when the occasion demands it. All we ask is an impartial statement
in history of our cause, as we understood it; and it devolves on the
survivors of the struggle to correct whatever we believe to be erroneous
statements in regard to it, whenever and wherever they are
made.
General James R. Chalmers
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