Excerpt from Public Ceremonies in Connection With the War Memorials of the Washington Light Infantry: With the Orations of Gen. Wade Hampton, Hon. C. H. Simonton, Dr. A. Toomer Porter; With the Rolls, Monumental, Inscription, &C., &C
Three decades have nearly past away since the flag of the Southern Confederacy was furled at Appomatox, Va., and at Greensboro, N. C., and it is only now, when the century is drawing to a close, that the story of the Washington Light Infantry war monument can be written in full.
The broad shadows of "the war between the States" were yet resting on historic Charleston, when the survivors of the three war companies of the "W. L. I." came together in 1866 and founded the Washington Light Infantry Charitable Association for the purpose of preserving the memory of their comrades who died during the war, and also for assisting the families of those whom death or wounds, or the results of the war, had rendered destitute.
From meagre resources this was done, and although the sums of money so expended, were not large, the true sentiment of loyalty to the "Lost Cause," and sympathy for those, who were suffering from its disastrious results, were thus warmly expressed.
At a regular monthly meeting of the Association, held at Masonic Hall, on the evening of the 22d September, 1868, a resolution was adopted, unanimously, appointing a committee to inquire and report "on the expediency and propriety of holding a Fair, for the purpose of raising the means to erect a monument to the memory of our comrades who were killed or died of disease during the late war."
In May, 1869, this Fair was held, and despite the then impoverished condition of the community a fund of about three thousand dollars was realized, and plans and estimates invited for the proposed war memorial.
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