Company K, Mecklenburg Beauregards

9^th Pennsylvania Reserves

Company H, New Brighton Rifles

Colonel Francis Marion Parker Civilian Alliance

9^th PA Monument-Gettysburg

We are historians dedicated to the preservation and teaching of history.

Larry Walker, fellow reenactor, is behind this initiative and has asked we each consider lending our support to this cause.

The Robert E. Lee Confederate Heritage Association of Matthews in partnership with the Battle of Nashville Preservation Society are working together to erect a Confederate monument on the Nashville, Tenn. Battlefield. The Nashville Preservation Society is donating the land for the site. The goal is to raise the funds in time to erect the monument by the fall of 2008. The United Daughters of the Confederacy are also expected to help, as well as our hope that some of the reenacting community will help as well.

The Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, organized in the early 1990's, is working hard to raise money to buy parcels of land here and there that witnessed significant action during the great Battle of Nashville, Dec. 15-16, 1864, in which the Army of Tennessee was virtually destroyed, despite gallant and heroic fighting on the part of the Confederate soldiers against overwhelming odds. At Nashville, approximately 20,000 Confederates fought approx. 60,000 Federals. There were four N.C. infantry regiments in the Army of Tennessee, the 29th, 39th, 58th and 60th, as well as one or two cavalry regiments. After Nashville, the Confederate States of America had lost its entire western flank of defense, and it became a matter of how long Lee's Army could survive on its own. For that reason, Nashville was one of the most decisive battles of the entire war. So far, there are no Confederate monuments on the battlefield, and this one will be the first. As the Battle of Nashville Preservation Society has already spent several hundred thousand dollars just to purchase land, they are grateful to have help with a momentous project such as this.

Any contributions should be made to the "Robert E. Lee Confederate Heritage Assn." and marked for the "monument fund". They can be mailed to my address: R.E. Lee Confederate Heritage Assn., Larry Walker, 7043 Edenderry Dr., Charlotte, 28270, and I will give to our treasurer. Many thanks for your consideration.

Cordially,

Larry Walker