Daughters of the Confederacy

Confederate Veteran
Number 3, Volume 10, Page 302-303
October 1895

Miss Ruth Martin Phelps [Daughter of Virgil Phelps] writes from Galveston, Tex. :
"The Daughters of the Confederacy" auxiliary of Camp Magruder, No. 105, was organized January '95. Fifteen ladies composed the first membership, and the officers elected are: Mrs. Hallia Jack Ballinger, President, Mrs. Bettie Royston, Vice President, Mrs. Fannie Denison Worrall, Treasurer. Enthusiasm has grown with each succeeding month, the Association numbered seventy five June 1st. Every southern state is represented, while Texas predominates, of course. At our meetings may be seen the grandmother, with feeble steps and whitened locks, the mature matron, the blooming girl, mothers, wives, widows and daughters of the men who did so much from 1861 to 1865. All are drawn together by love of the ''Lost Cause." We intend our Society to meet any demands to assist Camp Magruder in all calls it may make upon us, when our money is needed for benevolent purposes, and for social pleasures. Since organizing, the ladies have given an entertainment, and with the proceeds purchased Camp Magruder two beautiful flag's.