University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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r i i ,'i I i'The Lost Causen There was Il South of sfafuery and sf't'1'ssiorz,' that South is zlrrztl. There is I1 South of union and fI'!'l'llOIlI,,' that South, thunk God, is living, breathing, grofwing every hour. -HILL. ET me picture to you the footsore Confederate soldier as, button- ' 'h'fdd'k h l'h h b ji ing up in. is 'a e Jac et t e paroe xv 'ic was to ear. testi mony to his children of his fidelity and faith, he turned his face southward from Appomattox in April, 1865. Think of him as-ragged, half starved, heavy-hearted, enfeebled by wants and wounds, having fought to exhaustion-he surrenders his guns, wrings the hands of his comrades in silence, and lifting his tear-stained and pallid face for the last time to the graves that dot old Virginia's hills, pulls his gray cap over his brow and begins the slow and painful journey. VVhat does he find when, having followed the battle-stained cross against over- whelming odds, dreading death not half so much as surrender, he reaches the home he left so prosperous and beautiful? He finds his house in ruins, his farms devastated, his slaves free, his stock killed, his barns empty, his trade destroyed, his money worthless, his social system, feudal in its magnificence, swept awayg his people without law or legal status, his comrades slain, and the burdens of others heavy on his shoulders. What does he do-this hero in gray with a heart of gold? Does he sit down in sullenness and despair? Not for a day. Surely God, who had stripped him of his prosperity, inspired him in his adversity. As ruin was never before so overwhelming, never was restoration swifter. The soldier stepped from the trenches into the furrowg horses that had charged Federal guns marched before the plow, and helds that ran red with human blood in April were green with the harvest in June: . . . from the ashes left us in 1864 we have raised a brave and beautiful cityg somehow or other we have caught the sunshine in the bricks and mortar of our homes, and have builded therein not one ignoble prejudice or memory. -From The Ne-zu South, GRADY. , if-VY fihtbdramn Llljligii , lil' Daw. of Mina. UN f 'e ll Mloblbolr If

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To 'human Glharlva 'Kimbrough Commander of llie llfississippi Division of United Sons of Confederate Velerans Who, as Dean on the School of Law, has held ever true to the ideals of a greater Ole Missg whose career as a student, lawyer, and instructor has been marked by vision, genuineness, and sa- gacity: whose high ideals and positive character make of him the highest type of Christian manhood-a true Southern gentleman-we dedicate this, our volume of the OLE. MISS, as a token of our esteem and respect. llic