American Citizen

We are pleased to see that the lot of ground adjoining the Canton Cemetery, in which so many Confederates now sleep their last sleep, is being handsomely enclosed, under the supervision of the committee appointed some months ago to secure funds for that purpose, and to attend to its proper disbursement. It will be remembered that Mr. S. L. Mosby generously donated the land to the county, and the money contributed by the citizens can all be expended on the inclosure. It would be well if new headboards could be provided and properly marked with the name, company and regiment of the deceased. We have no doubt that full information could be obtained on that score from Maj. Hillver, lately stationed at this point in charge of the hospitals.
It is our duty to see that these graves are properly cared for. The government which these soldiers endeavored to establish has been overthrown—its chief men imprisoned or gone into voluntary exile; no munificent and grateful nation is left to establish for them national cemeteries, and to provide watch and sentinel to guard their rest, and so it is left to private and individual enterprise to commemorate their names and memories, and preserve their resting places from shame and oblivion.