Company I Photos
Ninth TX Officers.
The Confederate soldiers were our kinfolk and our heroes.
We testify to the country our enduring fidelity to their memory.
We commemorate their valor and devotion. There were some
things that were not surrendered at Appomatox.We did not
surrender our rights in history, nor was it one of the conditions
of surrender that unfriendly lips should be suffered to tell the
story of that war or that unfriendly hands should write the epitaphs
of the Confederate dead. We have a right to teach our children the
true history of that war, the causes that led up to it, and the principles
involved.
Senator Edward W. Carmack, 1903
