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 Rh Baltimore Chapter Capt. T. C. Chandler, paid J. Harry Mathes Chapter, Memphis Geo. K. Craycraft Chapter, Arkansas I cannot make positive statement until the money promised is all paid in; then I shall give names and amounts. In work for our bill before Congress and replying to letters on business for the society I have not had time to make out as clear a statement as I will do at an early day and print.

J. OGDEN MURRAY, Secretary of 600 Society.

Approved.

Comrade Bell introduced the following constitution and by-laws for the government of the Society of the Immortal 600: (Adopted.)

I. This society shall be known as the Society of the Immortal Six Hundred, Confederate officers who remained true unto the end under the retaliation by the United States Government upon us 1864-65.

II. The object of this society is to get into the organization all of the six hundred Confederate officers who were placed under fire of their own guns on Morris Island, South Carolina, by order of Edwin M. Stanton, United States Secretary of War, 1864. Further, it shall be the duty, aim and object of this society, to keep alive the story of our terrible days on Morris Island as prisoners of war and the inhumanity and brutal treatment inflicted upon us by the United States Government, and give to our children and the world a true history of our tortures on Morris Island, South Carolina, and subsequent brutal treatment at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, and at Hilton Head, South Carolina, by Gen. J. G. Foster, U. S. A., under order of Secretary of War Stanton; feeding us rotten cornmeal food and acid onion pickles. And it shall be our duty, so far as we can, to