Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-05-17
A Veteran Association Formed.

a Veteran ASSOCIATION Formed.
In response to call, Il company of some
thirty OF forty gentlemen assembled at the
City Council roomOn Friday night to form
an Association of Confederate Veterans for
social purposes. The following is the call :
STAUNToN, VA, May 18th, 1889.
DEAR SHIT is proposed to organize an
Association of Confederate Survivors" COM
posed, OF men whose records are beyond re-
proach. Our object is annually to meet in So
Ga! Reunion, to keep alive friendship and re-
call memories born of Patriotism and cement
ed Ill service where we perilled all in defence
Of principle As you have been named as
charter member OF the proposed Association,
you are requested to attend a meeting to be
held i'll the Council Chamber on Friday even
ing next, May 10th, at o'clock. Officers will
be elected for the ensuing year, and the organi-
cation perfected. The expenses incidental to
the organization will be merely nominal A
full attendance of the charter members is earn
estly requested. Respectfully,
JAS. BUMGARDNER, JR.,
! CARTER BERKELEY,
JOHN T. LONG,
G. JULIAN PRATT,
| w. l.. OLIVIER,
| Committee.
| On motion of Capt. James Bumgardner.,
Jr., Maj. Marshall Hanger, ex-Speaker of
the House of Delegates, was called to the
chair.
Capt. Bumgardner proposed that the OF
ganization to be effected, be called '"The
Augusta Association of Confederate Sur
viyors," and the proposition was adopted.
He explained that the Association was
simply social in it's character. After the
usual preliminaries, the organization was
then formed with the following officers and
charter members:
President-James Bumgardner, il.
| Vice Observation-Disclosures Hanger, 7.
D. Ransom and ]. A. Patterson.
Secretary and Treasurer-W. L. Olivier.
Board of Managers-J. N. Mcfarland,
E. A. Fulcher, j. ID. Lilley, Robt. Hamil-
ton, Geo. A. Hutchinson, Jed Hotchkiss and
G. Julian Pratt. .
Charter Members-N. Argenbright, T.
III. Berkeley, Garter Berkeley, James Bum
gardner, Jr., w. l.. Bumgardner, J. W.
Bryan, Geo. M. Cochran, Jr., Samuel II.
Coleman, L. S. Doyle, J. A. Fauver, E. A.
Fulcher, o. r. Funston, A. II. Fultz, G.
G. Gooch, r. A. Hamilton, Alex. Hart,
Marshall Hanger, Lewis Harman, Chas. A.
Holt, Jed Hotchliss, w. @. Hullihen, G.
A. Hutcheson, Henry Hyer, J. d. Lilley,
j. I. Long, J. G. Marquis. II. M. Nc
Ilhany, j. N. Mcfarland, E. R. Moon, Jos.
A. Newman, w. L. Olivier, Jno. N. Opie,
). A. Patterson, Jr., G. Julian Pratt, T.
d. Ransom, j. c. Shields, j. H. Skinner,
w. NJ. Simpson, J. H. Waters, G. G.
Wheat, A. III. Weir, G. L. Weller, P. E.
Wilson, VIM. Wholey and James Bryan.
Messrs. Jno N. Opie, Jed. Hotchkiss and
James Bumgardner, Jr., were appointed
committee to apply for a charter and pre-
pare bylaws for the Association.
On Capt. Bumgardner being chosen Presi-
dent, Maj. Hanger who was presiding,
called him to the chair. Capt. B. in taking
it said, the need of such an Association as
had just been formed had long been felt.
He had seen figuring at public celebra-
lions of Confederate soldiers. men who were
not such, but were strutting in borrowed
sight, (applause.) The aristocracy of the
Confederate army ale the men who had seen
service in it and been honorably discharged.
This Association was open to all men of
that sort, however humble might have been
their rank in it, Oh however lowly might be
their condition now; but for men of the
other sort, this Association was formed
that they might be excluded.
Capt. Ransom said that as the name eau
gusta" had been adopted, land it might affect
the standing as a charter member of his
friend, Col. ]. G. Shields, who was citizen
of Rockbridge, he moved that Col. S. be
unanimously elected to the position.
Maj. Hotchkiss.-The Colonel is an Au-
gusta man, for he belongs to the whole State
Col. Lilley contended that Colonel S. was
an Augusta man already, for he only went
home to Rockbridge, Saturdays. laugh
ter.)
Capt. Ransom S motion was unanimously
adopted.
Col. Shields made some remarks looking
to including the SONS of Confederate survi-
vors in the organization.
Col. Lilley made some humorous remarks
on this proposition as blow at
the ''old bachelor element present. HeI
thought that perhaps it would be better to
give them little more time to try their
fortune in the matrimonial market, before
passing such a resolution as this.
The Association then adjourned to meet
AGAIN on Saturday limo Loft