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WOMAN’S ENTERPRISEPublished in the Interest of the Club Women of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Application for entry as second-class mail matter filed at Baton Rouge, La., ,October 15, 1921.Address AH Communications to Box 15. SUBSCRIPTION: IN ADVANCE..............$1.00 Per AnnumBATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1921.ENRICHED BY THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS.Noticing the interment of several bodies in Roselawn Memor- , lal Park brings to mind the fact that the Battle of Baton Rouge . fought on the 5th of August, 1862 was opened upon the grounds of that lovely City of the Dead and that the first Confederates who fell during that sanguinary affair sanctified the soil with their life’s blood. It was there Major Todd, of the Kentucky Brigade, a brother of the wife of President Abraham Lincoln, fell covered with wounds from which he expired on the field. The soil of , Roselawn Memorial Park was not only saturated by the blood of . Major Todd but by that of a host of other Confederates and it is a satisfaction at least to know that for all time to come their remains will rest in one of the loveliest burial spots in all the Southland notwithstanding their unmarked graves have long since been obliterated and are no longer to be recognized.Those femiliar with events which occurred on that 5th day of August will recall the fact that the Kentucky Brigade advanced on the Greenwell Springs road and formed a line of battle just beyond where Roselawn Memorial Park is located and that when it reached that point received a heavy and destructive fire of artillery and musketry. Returning the fire with a yell the Kentuckians rushed forward driving the Federals before them, through the Magnolia Cemetery and to the river.Aside from its beauty Roselawn Memorial Park is connected historically with the past of Baton Rouge.A few years after the close of the Civil War the remains of Major Todd were removed to Kentucky.
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Womans Enterprise
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US
Fri, Jan 13, 1922
Page 11
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