The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-08-08
FAREWELL TO THE FORT.
THE OLD VETERANS ADJOURN
"A Number Of Excellent Speeches u eliv.
cred, Salutes Fired and Happy and
Hopeful Good-Byes to Old
Csmrades-Tho Same Oc-
CURED vt Greenville.


grounds to day were rather late max.
ing their appearance, but when the
tide of humanity began to flow 1t Tas
not long before the beautiful grove
was one moving mass of people. Esti-
mates OF the number in attendance
to-day have been different, but one
thing is sure, IL fell but little,i ans, be-
low that OF yesterday.
Az an early hour there was started
on the grounds report that man
mad been killed during the night.
This report was the first thing heard
by the reporter this morning. After
diligent inquiry he was unable trace IL
To any authentic source, and il was
undoubtedly canard.
AT . O'Clock the sharp command,
YAH troops assemble at their head
quarters" wss heard ringing through
tho camp, and there was AN
indiscriminate rush all over the
grounds by tho old soldiers,
who had, In days agone, been accus.
t0meu 10 opey. In comparatively
short time hundreds of veterans were
in line and ths picture was a repro
duction OF many scene during the
trying times of war. Tho only fea-
lures lacking wers the bristling bayo.
nets and the knapsack. This move
was made for the purpose OF having
the different organizations photo
graphed, which was not completed un-
III O'Clock this afternoon, Rhine
was the artist, ana will furnish con.
les TO all the old soldiers.
one of the features of tho day WAS a
desperate looking and very myste-
rious acting character, who sub rosa
claimed to DO the celebrated outlaw,
Sam Hildorbrand Hllderbraud has
been dead several years, but 1t made
no difference with this character. HB
was Sam anyhow, and moved out OF
line when the photograph of his or
ganizdtion was being taken. He said
that he wanted no picture of himself
taken.
AT 1880 the artillery fred a salute
from the snuts bank Of tho river, as n
train loaded with visitors rolled in
from the city. Ii was tho longest train
that has yet been pulled to the
grounds, and soon the hundreds who
were on it were wandering in couples,
threes and groups through the
grounds, or securing seats under the
shade of the pavilion.
A slight breeze about IL o'clock was
created by character, who claimed to
have been soldier during the war,
making y disrespecttul remark about
a general on the opposite side. which
was quickly resented by one who had
served under the officer reflected upon,
When the matter was sifted it was
ascertained that no who made the re-
mark was only about 30 years old
and had mover heard hostile bullet
whistle nor seen the simmer of bayo.
net, save when the militia were on
parade. lie was quickly given to un-
dsrstand that at reunions of soldiers on
both sides, The opinions and slurrinp
remarks Of non.combGtants aud in
, fsntS had but little weight.
MORNING EXERCIsRs.
At 1880 O'clock the reunion WA
, called TO order by Grand Marshal w
Y. Maddox, and Rev. A. A. johnson
president of the Wesleyan Female
college, invoked tho blessing of tht
Supreme Being upon the assembly.
MAJOR JOE II. STEWART,
OF Austin, was introduced after PRAYER
and delivered his capital lecture. He
spoke OF the departure of husbands
: brothers and sons to tho war, and tlior
in pathetic language the return of tn,
ragged soldier 10 tell of tho death o
= his comrades and TO witness the desc
: lation OF n devastating war.
Major Stewart expects to deliver thi
lecture in the leading cities of Texas
and probably in other States, for th,
benefit of the Confederate home a
% Austin,
GENERAL M'KNIGHT.
At the conclusion of Major Stew art
= lecture, General Mcknight, OF Waxa
il hschie, on bohslf Of the ex.Confeder
ato Tennesseans, was introduced, an,
a made n capital speech. He said
y though no had been requested by thu
; Tenuesseans to address them, h
II knew no distinction between Confed
y crate soldiers, whether they cam
q from Georgia or Tennessee. Tho Con
J, federate soldier who did not nlour
. over the death of General Grant an
? sympathize with his famil
!. in distress, he thought unwOrth
Of having been soldier in the ntime
that tried mems souls" He said
Was q good thing TO be a captain c
II general, but the brave private who di
. his DUTY in the ranks was create
y man stlll. Taking up q ragged oil
g Confederate coat which had been wor
"a whom in tatters by soldier, he R8i
y the man who wore that coat and "
" continued battling for his country, W.
10 greater man than goner
"a and nObler than kin
ii The coat told = tale mo-
,e eloquent than language. lie though
/ an honest man lighting for his righ
nj was engaged in tho noblest work cor
10 ceivable. In iow years, he venture
O. tho prediction, that there would be n
ox-Confederate reunions or Fedori
reunions, but there would bo reunion
of soldiers from both armies. Th
II speaker read from The HERALD Oh
~ reported remarks OF one Re,
II II, o. Hoffman, OF Bloomington
d lilinois, and characterized such
"a man as contemplate and thought
/, moro than probable that tho man VIII
,t yot spoke of Jetf Davis as a traitor ant
~ the Southern soldiers az traitors, ha
= never heard the roar of tho canno
M nor the rattle OF musketry, Tn
speaker referred to the magnanimit
n OF Gonoral Grant after the war an
that IL was right and proper that W
should mourn for his death. He sai
that while he had tho groa
est respect for the Northern arm,
from General Grant down TO tho low
ll est private, that there WAS tim
N when he would have swept 1t from th
~ ~ face of the earth II he had possesse
ln0 pOWof' But tnRt now tho war VIZ
10 over ho had nothing but the kindeI
IL feelings toward the North. mi
Is speaker paid graceful tribute TO ii
a- women of the South during the wa
10 IL was then announced that thel
y would be an adjournment until ate
dinner.
AFTER DINNER,
AT about $3.50 the grand marsb
n. called the assembly to order, and
a COLONEL w. d. wYLIF,
OF the Grand Army OF the Ropubli
IN was introduced as the next speake
Or and made patriotic and pleasir
r. talk.
~ Tho great pressure on our column
10 this morning prevents the publlcatic
I'd OF Colonel Wylio's admlrsb
effort IL would lose too mut
by. condemnation aud will
published in full in the proceedings
30 the reunions %
r. After Colonel Wylie's speech Mel,
al Bros. band rendered somo choice 5
VI lections.