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Hill (A. P.) will be by his side, Stonewall will be there, Stuart's plume will float again, and the battle-line of the Confederacy -will move forward to do duty, justice, and right. The memorial of the Confederacy is here, not built by hands made by memory and de- votion! What else could it be?

The following officers of the Confederate Memorial Literary So- ciety and the Regents of the Solid South and of Virginia received in the entrance hall and reception room: Mrs. Joseph Bryan, presi- dent; Mrs. E. C. Minor, first vice-president; Mrs. James H. Grant, second vice-president: Mrs. R. T. Colston, third vice-president; Mrs. E. D. Hotchkiss, honorary vice-president; Mrs. M. S. Smith, treasurer; Mrs. Stephen Putney, recording secretary; Mrs. Lizzie C. Daniel, corresponding secretary; Mrs. James R. Werth, chair- man of Committee on Relics; Mrs. Hunter McGuire.

SOLID SOUTH.

Mrs. V. Jefferson Davis, Regent; Miss May Greer Baughman, Vice-Regent; Mrs. Frank T. Crump, alternate. Committee: Mrs. }as. D. Crump, Miss Minnie Baughman, Miss Mary Quarles.

VIRGINIA ROOM.

Miss Mildred Lee, Regent; Mrs. J. Taylor Ellyson, Vice Regent; Mrs. J. B. Lightfoot, alternate.

In the east room, which is the Virginia room, refreshments were served to all desiring them at small cost. The menu was a particu- larly fine one, the qualities of the coffee particularly appealing to the general taste. In this room hospitalities were extended by Mrs. George West, Mrs. James Gordon, Mrs. Randolph Norris, Miss Ann C. Bentley, Mrs. Bowden, Mrs. Little, Mrs. R. S. Christian, Mrs. Smith Redford, Mrs. Small, Mrs. Fellows, Mrs. Larmant, Mrs. George W. Mayo, Mrs. H. W. Rountree.

The bureau in this room is one which occupied a place in the house when used as the executive mansion. The bust standing upon it (of Mr. Davis) is that which stood at the head of the dead chief's coffin when the body lay in state at the Capitol, before the reinterment in Hollywood. It is the gift of Colonel J. Bell Bigger.