THE SOUTH CAROLINA DIVISION
by Louise Ayer Vandiver, Anderson, S.C.
The Columbia Chapter have been taken under their special care the Soldier's Home
in that city, and for weeks the members were busy planting seed and setting out
shrubs about the grounds in order to make it a place of beauty and really a home
for them. The U.D.C. of Florence have protested against some of the songs sung by
the children in the public schools, two of which they consider especially
objectionable, the " Battle Hymn of the Republic" and " Marching through Georgia".
Some of the histories used in the schools are also considered unfair to the South.
During the winter the Maxey Gregg Chapter, of Florence, entertained the teachers of
the city schools at a beautiful reception.
In several South Carolina towns the U.D.C. have recommended the use in the schools
of Miss Rutherford's pamphlets as supplementary to the required textbooks on history.
Most of the Chapters of the State use the publications and programs in whole or part.
Many of them make a reading from the 'Confederate Veteran' a regular feature of their
meetings. The Dixie Chapter, of Anderson, takes pride in furnishing Confederate uniforms
to such veterans of the community as wish to have them.
Almost every Chapter in the State celebrated Memorial Day, which in South Carolina
is observed on May 10, the day that JACKSON died.