The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-11-24

1fETTO STATE FOR HOSPITALITY SHALL
BE mAINTAINED-CORDIA L E TT E RS
FROM MILITARY BODIES AND HIGH Of
FICLALs-AN EXPLANATION OF THE
TREATMENT AT COLUMBIA = yal -n.a
The following letter reached this city yes
terday:
BATTALION,
CHARLESTON. S. G., November 81, 1877. }
CAPTAIN Binford, Commanding Walker
Liqht Guard, Company B, First Virginia
Regiment, Richmond, Pa.: 8
Dear Captain,-It gives me great pleasure
to advise you that at the regular meeting OF
this corps held last evening it was unani-
mously resolved to extend an invitation to
your company to visit our city and partici-
pate with the battalion in the brigade pa
rade and review of February ~, 1878. |
therefore beg to offer you a. most cordial
invitation, and guarantee you warm re-
ception.
It will be peculiarly appropriate, and add
greatly to the interest of the day, if a repre-
sentative corps from Virginia would unite
with us Carolinians in doing honor to the
father Of our common country-the great
yirginian Washington.
| enclose invitations from General Sieg-
ling, our brigade commander, who will
command the parade, and from Captain
Smsth, OF the Washington Artillery, one OF
the companies whose anniversary is cele-
brated on the 22d of February.
/ feel, l can assure you, that though you
will be the special guests of our corps. yet
all the citizen soldiery of this city will unite
with us in giving you hearty welcome, j
warm reception, and pleasant time while
with lis.
With the highest respect for your COM
mand and yourself personally, have the
honor to be,
Yours, very respectfully,
G.. IRVINE WALKER,
Major commanding G. r. B.
INVITATION FROM WASHINGTON ARTILLERY.
All the members OF Wise's brigade who
were in the South Carolina campaign will
remember the Washington Artillery, OF
Charleston-a splendid body OF men-who.
were stationed with them on the Edisto
river, near Jacksboro', in 1864. The fol-
lowing is from them:
HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON ARTILLERY,
CHARLESTON, 5. C.,
November 81, 1877. )
Captain Binford, Commanding Walker
Llght GuQrQ, IltchWOHu, "a. :
Captain,-Thc Washington Artillery, OF
Charleston, s. c., desire to unite with their
friends, the Carolina Rifle battalion, in eX-
tending an invitation to the Walker Light
Guard of Richmond to visit our city on the
22d of February next, which is the ann-
vcrsary Of our battery.
We celebrate that day by an Grafton to be
delivered by General Samuel MCGOWAN, OF
this State, to which we cordially invite
your entire command. Composed in great
measure OF the veterans OF Harts and
Walkers batteries, both OF which sprang
from this company, We feel that with Vir-
ginians we are ever with old friends and
allies and comrades, and trust it will be
convenient for Jour command to be with us
on that occasion and join with us in the
festivities of the day.
With great respect, yours very truly.
ELLISON \. SMYTH,
Captain Washington Artillery.
The following is from General Rudolph
Siegling, who was first lieutenant Of Com
Dany B, artillery battalion of Hoods divi-
sion, during the war, and who was dread
fully VI ounded Mt the second battle of Ma
nassas. He is favorably known to many OF
our ex-Confederates as gallant soldier and
hlgh-toned and honorable gentleman:
HEADQUARTERS FOURTH BRIGADE
SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEER TROOPS, :
CHARLEsT s. c., November 81, 1877. )
Captain Binford, Commanding Walker
Light Guard, Company b, First Virginia
Regiment:
Dear Captain,-It gives me great pleasure
to extend to you cordial invitation to take
part in the parade and review Of this bri-
gade on the 22d OF February, 1878.
With the highest esteem for you and your
command, have the honor to be yours very
truly, RUDOLPH SIEGLING,
Brigadier-G General s. c. V. It.
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
The Charleston Ners and Courier (edited
bv f. w. Dawson and r. r. Riordan, both
formerly OF the Richmond press says, To-
callv:
I" AS the Carolina Rifle Battalion corps is
desirous OF cutivating the warmest friend
ship with the citizen-soldiery Of our sister
States, and anxious for an opportunity to
remove from the minds OF our Virginia
friends any impressions they may entertain
that Carolnians are lacking in hospitality,
the following resolutions were passed unan-
imously and enthusiastically:
"1st. That the Walker Light Guard, OF
Richmond, Va, be invited and particularly
requested to participate in the parade IN
Charleston on February %, 1878, and accept
the hospitaities OF the battalion and be our
guests.
.:2d. That 4 committee OF three he ap-
pointcd BY the Major to be sent on to meet
them ut Richmond and escort them to this
place.
eve trust that our Richmond friends
will accept the cordial invitation given, and
that our citizens will assist the Carolinlans
in riying heartfelt welcome to this repre-
sentative corps from Old Virginia-a State
which every southern soldier holds in the
dearest remembrance, and the State whose
people par excellence deserve the Warmest
and friendliest treatment from all the men
who fought under the Stars and Bars.
"Let us all unite in grand old Carolina
welcome to the men who come from the
home of Lee and jackson, and in honoring
them honor the grand heroes who were the
sons OF Virginia."
The Charleston Journal of Commerce
Colonel R. B. Rhett editor), commenting
on the invitation of the Carolina Rifle bat
talon, in its city department, says:
EVERY citizen OF Charleston, and, in
deed, of the State, is concerned in the ac-
| ceptance OF this invitation, because it is
very evident from the indications Of the
Virginia press that our Virginia visitors
were not impressed with the hospitality OF
their entertainment during their recent
visit to this State; and whether this i'm
preston is correct or not, it is the interest
OF every South Carolinian to remove it from
their minds. Let4us hope, therefore, that
this invitation will meet with response
which will again place Virginia and South
Carolina into the close and friendly relation
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