The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-05-04

| ulhii idy wv piouu W itiNc us children
II we can secure that ] am not afraid q,
being handed down as ga rebel" or ga
traitor" or whatever other name a chear
and idiotic latter-day patriotism may see
fit TO invent.
We ought also to have fund for the re.
lief OF our comrades who may have en-
countered worldly misfortune.
Give my love and heartiest greetings to
General Walker and to every officer and
man in the battalion.
Thank you again, my dear Elicit, for
your cordial letter and for Brander's mes
sage, and believe me faithfully your com.
rade, w. GORDON MCCABE,
formerly Adjutant Pegram's Battalion,
| Third Corps, a. n. V.
FROM REV. J. WILLIAM JONES.
RICHMOND, Va. April 30, 1883.
General Il. lindsay Walker. President,
". Ellis Jones, Secretary, the Pegram
Battalion ASSocintion:
| Gentlemen,-Please accept my thanks
for your kind invitation to be present at
the first reunion OF your veterans. and con-
vey to them my sincere regrets that an inn
| peratlve engagement TO leave the city that
day will compel me to deny myself the
pleasure Of mingling with old comrades.
for whom / cherish so high a regard, and
for the objects OF whose Association / am
in such full sympathy.
say with peculiar appropriateness " old
cOmrudeS," for it so happens that from the
day | came with Stonewall Jackson from
the Valley, and heard the guns Of the
Purcell Battery" begin at Mechanicsyille
those glorious seven days Of victory which
raised the siege OF our beautiful city, all
through the subsequent splendid career OF
the battalion. | was most frequently near
you-Sometimes among y0u-and can tcs-
tify from personal observation that no COM
maud did nobler service or won brighter
laurels.
1t was my proud privilege to know
intimately Colonel Willie Pegram, and
il the worlds history can produce n
braver, trucr. noblcr soldier or more CHI
valrc Christian gentleman than he. |. at
least, would not know where to find him.
| can pay your veterans no higher tribute
than TO say that they were worthy OF their
noble young chief and OF others OF their
splendid leaders among the living or the
dead.
May I be pardone1 ii | beg OF You that
YOU will make your Association not simply
a means Of reyiying the c0mradeShip Of a
! cloriOus past, bnt also the instrument OF
gathering up aud quitting Oh pernlanent re-
cord the heroic deeds Of the battalion from
the day when Lindsay Walker asked the
privilege oi puttng in his "Iittie derin-
gers " until that last sad day when, in
| obedience TO our grand old chief, YOU
parked your bIackend guns at Appomdt-
toXY Let me add that for this purpose
] , L.. of IN Uf.fnrffTI
Society are entirely at you service, and
shall esteem il a privilege TO AID you III
any way in my power.
| give YOU the following sentiment APP
propriate TO your rctnion:
! Vrginia-Thc unsurpassed morale OF the
flower OF southern chiTalry who composed
1.-THE splendid skill OF the officers
who commanded il, and the superb c0ur-
age Of the men who fought its guns 10
| their very muzzles. and made spongc-staiis
effective weapons when neceSsary-oYcr-
came every obstacle. and made it from Biz
Bethel to AppomattoX more than match
for the spendidly-equipped batteries OF the
,nemy-the pride OF our army and the
glory of our Confederate people. Let it
true history adorn the brighteat pages OF
our glorious annals
Yours, very truly,
j. WILLIAM JONEs. Secretary
Southern Historical society.
Letters from Captain +. Keith Dargan'
of the South Carolina battery: Colonel ID.
/ G.. Mcintosh. OF South Carolina, and Cap
tain William G.. Crenshaw, Of the Cren-
/ shaw Battery, were read.
Feeling and appropriate speeches were
made by Bir. :. q. Witt, Or. Frank Gun
ningham, Colonel c. J. Anderson, Mr..
James \. Gentry, and Mr.. John Goolsby.
The following officers were cl' cted
| President. General X. Lindsay Walker
First Vice-President, Major Thomas \.
Brander: second Vicc-preSident. captain
Thoma. Elicit; Third Yice-Presideni, Cap
tain William &. Crenshaw; Treasurer, John
Murphy; Secretary, William Ellis Jones
/ Corresponding Secretary. Valentine Brown;
/ Chaplain, Rev. j. William Jones.
Late in the afternoon the veterans visited
the grave OF their loved commando. Coz
onel William Pcgram, who was killed III
| Five Forks, the last year Of the war IN TIC
twenty-thrd year OF his age, and who now
sleeps in Hollywood cemetery.