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Ala. ; Mrs. James Walker, Mrs. Robert Reynolds, Mrs. W. H. Fitz- gerald, Mrs. Moncure Perkins, Mrs. General Little. Mrs. Frank Nalle, Mrs. Robert B. Munford, Mrs. Frank Dean, Miss Belle Perkins, Miss Lou Adkins, Miss Willie Rogers, Miss Virgie Drewry, Miss Mary Mayo, Miss Nellie Mayo, Miss Lina Mayo, Miss Lily Wilson, Miss Daisy Wilson, Miss Kate Montague, Miss Judith Deane, Miss Ella Thomas, Miss Mary Thomas, Mrs. William A. Moncure, Miss Merrill, Miss Graham, Miss Laura Wilkinson, and Mrs. Powell, Huntsville, Ala.

The room was richly decorated, and contained numerous relics of particular value and interest, including an original manuscript ac- count of the battle of Manassas by General Beau regard, presented by Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, the popular Southern authoress; sword, epaulets, field-glass, Bible, spur, bit, saddle, blanket, and coat belonging to General H. D. Clayton, and sent by his daughter, Miss Clayton, of Eufaula, Ala.

MISSISSIPPI ROOM.

The west rooms on the first floor were those representing Missis- sippi and Georgia. The first was decorated with the Confederate colors, and contained numerous relics of special interest. Over the doorway was the State name in letters of gold. Miss Winnie Davis, "Daughter of the Confederacy," Regent. In the room were Vice-Regent Mrs. R. N. Northen, Mrs. J. H. Capers, whose hus- band was a Mississippian; Mrs. H. Clay Drewry, formerly of Vicks- burg, Miss. ; Mrs. Edmund C. Pendleton, Miss Margaret Humphries, Columbus, Miss. ; Mrs. J. E. Stansbury, and Mrs. E. F. Chesley.

Among the relics were a copy of General Lee's farewell address to the army at Appomattox; a sword belonging to Colonel Thomas P. August, epaulets belonging to Captain Pitt, slippers made of carpet taken from one. of the rooms in the Executive Mansion during the war.

ARKANSAS ROOM.

The room representing Arkansas was brilliantly decorated, and here numerous relics were on exhibition also. Miss Francis M. Scott, "Arkansas' Daughter," Van Buren, Ark., Regent. The ladies in this room were Mrs. Decatur Axtell, Vice-Regent; Miss May Can- trell, daughter of Dr. William A. Cantrell, an old and prominent physician of Little Rock; Miss Frances M. Scott, daughter of the late Charles G. Scott, Arkansas; Miss Lelia Dimmock, and others.