General Orders No. 4.

Columbus, Miss.: Headquaters, 1895. . Handbill, 11 x 5 1/2 inches Two copies only located, one at Virginia Historical and one at the University of South Caroline which came from a scrapbook put together by Col. Benjamin Franklin Eshleman (1830-1909) a West Point graduate, born in Pennsylvania, but moved to Louisiana as a child and fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War. The scrap book was a gift of Jack and Mindy Castles; Mr. Castle's grandfather having married a daughter of Eshleman. This copy has been digitized. The handbill contains a plea to Confederate Veterans to contribute to a fund for a memorial in Richmond: Battle "As well said by Comrade Rouss: "The mementos of the struggle of the South...are scattered broadcast over the country. Should they not be collected and provision be made for their preservation....Then as our ranks are being rapidly thinnned by the Scythe of Time, let the comparatively few of us that remain at once take the matter in hand and labor for the realization of the prophetic vision and joyous hope of the patriot orator Senator Daniel, of Virginia--in the consummation of a completed Battle Abbey...[which would be]ÊÊAn undying memorial of the people who fought their own battles in their own way, for their own liberty as they conceived it for their own independence as they desired it, and who need give to the world no other reason why."Signed in print by two ex-Confederate generals, Stephen D. Lee and Edward Turner Sykes.