The weekly clarion., 1880-05-26

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FIELD AND SrAFF-W. G. Kearney, Lieuten-
ant Colonel; W. II. Luse, Lieutenant Colonel
Tom Leonard, Captain and Assistant Commits
sary Subsistence; I. +. Cooper Sergeant Major;
b. Lemly, druggist; L. E. BalwIn, Hospital
LINE. W. Pearson, Company A: J. NJ.
Twiner, Company b John c. Butt, Company
b ". Cart. johnson, Capt Company G. q.
). Covert, lst Lieut.. Company C J. j. Crane
Company G; l. L. Finley, Company c. J. c.
johnson Company G. James kiucade, Compa-
ny b. W. II. Lewis Capt Co. L; I. II. ". Bar
rett. Company Z; " j. Baskins Company E.
L. C. Terrell Company +: Harrison Moore
lst Sergeant of +; r. II. Bennett, 2nd Sergeant
of G; r. +. Cunningham, of G; VIM Neville
of q; IbOs. FuOrcett. of q; l.. +. ChIles, of II;
.uo. G. Carraway of II; J. T. Mcdowell, LIST
Sergeant of l. r. A Williams, of l; A. A.
Roberts, 3rd Sergeant Of |; II. c. Sharkey of
I; VIM. Baskin, lst. Lieutenant of h; W. G.
Gerger 3rd. Lieutenant Of X; J. /. McCaskill,
2nd. Sergeant of X; f. f. Daniel, lst. Sar
geant of X; r. II. Ledbetter of X; W E.
Saunders, Corporal Of X; Thos f. Helm, of X;
}. 4, Bennett Of X; James Trip, Of K Robt.
ard AT Winder HospitaD f. Watkins Of X;
Samuel YIrien Co, X Marion Smith Co. K
u. G. Catchings, Co, X E. NJ. Scott, Co, h
Harris BarksdaIe, Co, h. All companies rep
resented
2lsT REGIMENT.
FIELD ANp srArr--B. G. Humphreys, Col.
Geo. X. Birchett, Adiutant; J. W. McNiely,
Sergeant Major II. Yost, Bugler.
LINE-Jas. W. Beatty, Co. A; W. H. Bar
nett, of Jas. II. King, Of a; W. }. Jackson,
of E; J. P. Mills, lst. Lieut.. Of H; J. b.
Cummings of II I. b. Sloan, lst- Lieut.. of l.
Companies {, d, F, G, X and not repre-
sented- This regiment was organized with
eleven companies. Company was transfer
red to the 4oth regiment, Consequently the regi-
ment had no company of that letter.
THE ORATOR OF THE DAY.
The organization having been completed loud
calls were made for Col W. Il. Luse. the cho
sen orator OF the day, who made beautiful .
aud touching address replete with incidents OF I
the past, and the duties the survivors owed To I
the State, society, and the government under /.
which they i've. 1t will he published hereaf I
ter.
General Humphreys said that without con-
sulting him, 1t had been announced that he .
would read a History of the Brigade That |
such thing would be impossible, that though .
he had written much of the Brigade History, il .
was SO linked with that of the Army OF Northern .
Virginia, that it would take too much time to
read it. He then gave a brief summary of the
services and battles of the Brigade from its
organization TO Appomatox.
Dr.. Hill and Major Doherty were calledupon,
but declined TO speak.
Captain Thos. H. Woods was called upon.
" hlle he spoke, there were few dryeYes in the
house. He said That whatever might come
TO him in the future he would ever deem it the
greatest honor of his life to have been 3 mem
Der Of that brigade. To have been of those
Eho obeyed the commands of the gallant hero
who was presiding at the meeting; TO have
been chosen to follow the immortal Lee the
gallant LonEstreet, and the heroic Jackson
t. Z. Cooper was called upon, and made ap-
propriate remarks.
W. H. Barnett being called upon, said:
IF it be a sin 10 covet honor then am l the
most offending soul alive.
We are gathered together comrades to
wish each other God speed down the high
way of life; and to pay tribute to the memo
~ of these who fell out of ranks upon Vir-
ginias bloody fields to march away with
death, : though they expected their stern :
Commander to lead his skeleton hosts TO
grander and more glorious victories in the
shadow land
We are gathered together to strew flowers
upon the graves of our dead Commanders who ]
led US 10 victory in the early days of the war,
and we pause first to drop tear for Griffith
who died the head of his Brigade ere the I
braid that made the insignia of his new rank
had been tarnished, and who saw nothing but =
the rising glory of the Command that was to
add new lustre TO Mississippi's warlike- L
record.
The noble Barksdale as the crimson stream
welled from his patriotic heart (for he had I
snatched our flag from the stiffening fingers of
3rifith) gave vent to the sentiment that ''the =
were invincible and left it as
egacy to to prove that his words were pro-
0hetic and that in the advanced guard of civ
liZation and progress that we were equally as
nvincible when we offered our breasts as
a living wall, human wood to the enemysl
columns at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and =
that he has been vindicated
,ear witness the teeming fields. and flourish N
ng towns that dot our great State. l:
am not here to utter, nor you to listen, to | II
ulsome compliments TO the living, but my re. n