Editorial paragraphs.
Our two numbers under one cover will be again pardoned, we are sure, when our readers see that it was necessary to have it so in order to get in. one of our articles. And as our readers get the same amount of matter, it is as convenient to them, and probably even more acceptable during the heated term.
The paper of Colonel Roy on the conduct of General Hardee during the Atlanta campaign will attract wide attention. As Secretary of the Southern Historical Society, we, of course, express no opinion on the merits of the unfortunate controversy which involves two of our most distinguished soldiers. But we may without impropriety call attention to Colonel Roy's paper as a fine specimen of the style which should characterize papers on points of controversy between Confederates. Able, earnest and pointed in vindicating the name and fame of his loved and honored chief and trusted friend, Colonel Roy is at the same time corteous in his expressions and parliamentary in his whole article — setting an example which those who write on controverted points might well imitate.
Major H. B. Mcclellan, so widely known and esteemed as the gallant and able Adjutant-General of the cavalry corps, Army of Northern Virginia; of Lexington, Kentucky, has accepted an invitation to address the Virginia Division, Army of Northern Virginia Association, at its next reunion in November. He has fitly chosen as his theme, The services and character of General J. E. B. Stuart.
This theme, in the hands of the gallant soldier who rode at Stuart's side — the accomplished writer who has since been an earnest student of the events of the war, and an able contributor to its history — will be handled to the delight of the Association, and will be a valuable addition to the true story of our grand old army.
Renewals or New subscribers were never more “in order” than during this “heated term” when our receipts are unusually light, but our expenses go on as usual.
Please ask your neighbor to remit us his subscription, and see if you cannot send us at least one new subscriber now. And those of our friends who intend to become life members, or to order full sets of back numbers, could never do so at a more acceptable time to us than just now.
Dr. W. R. Vaughan, President of the Gordonsville Female Institute (whose advertisement appears this month), is able, by the munificence of a kind friend who modestly conceals his name, to offer next session free tuition to ten young ladies from the South. In making the appointments preference will be given to the following classes and in the order named: 1. The orphan [432] daughters of Confederate soldiers who are unable to pay their fees. 2. Those who are fitting themselves for teachers, and are unable to fully meet the expenses of such a school.
We take pleasure in chronicling this offer (parties desiring further details can correspond with Dr. Vaughan), and of expressing the hope that all of these scholarships in this excellent school may be promptly filled.
A medal of Stonewall Jackson, purporting to have been struck in France during the last year of the war by order of Colonel Charles Lamar, of Georgia, who proposed presenting one to each member of “the Foot Cavalry” who survived the great chieftain, is being sold for the benefit of the Hood orphan fund by Mr. Mac Pittman.
We are under obligations to our friend, Captain Winfield Peters, of Baltimore, for one in a beautiful morocco case with our name and that of the donor upon it. On one side of the silver medal is the head, name, date of birth and date of death, and on the other, entwined in a wreath, is the motto of the Confederacy and the names of the battles in which “Stonewall” Jackson led his brave legions. While regretting that the likeness is not more accurate, the medal makes a pleasing souvenir which an old soldier would prize.
