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their own conduct, as men and as citizens, that supremest lesson which those models teach: That above the glamour of glory and the spell of genius

"The greatest greatness goodness is."

Then shall the future witness in this Old Dominion a moral, social and political structure of such perfect grandeur as eye hath not seen nor the mind of man conceived.

REPORT OF THE HISTORY COMMITTEE

Of the Grand Camp C. V., Department of Virginia, at Petersburg, Va., October 25, 1901.

By Hon. GEO. L. CHRISTIAN, Chairman.

A Contrast Between the Way the War was Conducted by the Federals

and the Way it was Conducted by the Confederates, Drawn

Almost Entirely from Federal Sources.

To the Grand Camp of Confederate Veterans of Virginia:

Before entering upon the discussion of the subject selected for consideration in this report, your committee begs leave to tender its thanks to the camp, and to the public, for the many expressions it has received of their appreciation of its last two reports. These expressions have come from every section of the country, and they are not only most gratifying, showing, as they do, the importance of the work of this camp in establishing the justice of the Confederate cause, but that this work is also causing the truth concerning that cause to be taught to our children, which was not the case until these Confederate camps effected that great result. Our report of 1 899, pre- pared by your late distinguished and lamented chairman, Dr. Hunter McGuire, was directed mainly to a criticism of certain histories then used in our schools, and to demonstrate the fact that the South did not go to war either to maintain or to perpetuate the institution o