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Editor True Democrat~ I am greatly that there is a person in Flor who can oppose the erection of the tee monument in Lake City, and t e read with curious interest the ar ta of those who propose for the ument to be erected on the battle battle was notefought for the ation of the blackjack ridge an d the contest was waged, but for, ily, the protection of Lake City was Lake City which was threat by the horde of niggers which in cur territory under command of Federal officers. Had we been eated on the battlefields of Olustee ankee niggers and their white ré would not have sat down on desolate ridge to have enjoyed the ts of their victory and triumph, but it would have been their rest place, and in the humiliation of the wople of Lake City and the tears of eere conquest would have cere , place of battle was selected sole i or enorant of the protection afforded t flank by Ocean pond, and had been defeated there our next stand. A similar reason, would have been atertown now stands. our glorious victory, our sent to Lake City, where were, by the ladies of that town, back to health, or, neatly in the habilaments of the tomb, were given a resting place in Lake # cemetery to await the roll call resurrection morn. Every dead hero of Oluatee, except a nurs home by relatives, lies in Lake City, which town they Ve their lives to save. For going on forty-four years these resting places of the dead have been the objects of ten @erest care by the ladies of Lake City. The slabs have been erected at each Mave, the graves themselves kept up, and often decorated with flowers bedewed with tears. A Federal Government long since owed the bodies of all their dead lite penere and troops from the bat held interred them in national ce meteries, and today the only bones hid re on the battlefield of Olus are those of a few hireling Yankee re, ad shall the monument be placed Breve’ eaven forbid! A large number—a very large nam e—of the fallen heroes of Olustee do sleep in Lake City’s hospitable soil ¢ citizens of Lake City and Colum n county. Who has so much right to say where the monument shall be placed the mothers, brothers and sisters of patriotic dead? And their uni t verdict is that the monument be ld in Lake City. .. The ladies of Lake City, through their Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, have secur from their town Council a beautiful square in the center of the city, fronting the court pase, for the erection of the mona nt, and have named it Olustee Park, have also secured a thousand dol lare cash to aid in the monument's reaction. Through all the years of the past, put fee or reward, or the hope of, but solely in grateful remem. brance of those who willingly sacrificed it lives in their behalf, the ladies of a pity have been the guardian an gle of Olusteo’s sleeping dead, let them no more be grieved by itions to erect the monument the bones of a few nigger invad ino, M. CALDWELL.
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Tallahassee Weekly True Democrat
Tallahassee, Florida, US
Fri, Jul 19, 1907
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