Excerpt from Address Delivered by Miss. Mildred Lewis Rutherford: Historian-General United Daughters of the Confederacy V.'hen at Richmond last year you elected me your Historian General, the highest honor in your power to bestow, I honestly confess my impulse was to refuse, but the temptation was too great. I felt I would like to accept this honor for one year, and that possibly I could get others to do what I could not do myself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.