Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-06-06
ECHOES OF THE UNVEIL
ING.
NOTES AND INCIDENTS RECORD
ED BY THE NEWSPAPERS.

I'cbNtcil hccCOHQ uIlti lilIU SCleet6,
Oh Franklin, one of the visiting mill
tary bands struck up "Tho Bonnie
Blue Flag" a veteran who could
not repress his exuberanco gave way
to his feelings and danced lively
jig Oh the sidewalk TO the amusement
Of the spectators, who hardly knew
whether to fool glad or sorry for the
irrepressiblc "vot."
CHEERS FOR LoNGsrRG
Tho cheering was something pro.
digious, says tho New York World,
when LonStreet, tho veteran lieuten-
ant of Lee, was recognized by the
Richmond populace. From the be.
ginning to tho end of tho march
lIongstrccts progress was an ovation
This fact should end tho clnmor OF
the ignorant partisans who endeavOr
to associatc political Significance with
the doings of tho day. by accepting
Office from Republicans hands Long.
street has suffered much unpleasant
ness, bnL tho br;twny warriors who
had followed him in battle or who
Witnessed his valor on hard.Iought
fields, respect the old soldier, and
everywhere did they shout their re
spccts and affection.
The flag of the famous "Fighting
Thirteenth, Of Moth Carolina, is SO
full of bullet holos that it scarce
holds together. 1t was carried by
the man who bore it the last two
years Of the war. Another famous
North Carolina flag is That of the
Eighth Colonel Shnws) regiment. 1t
was buried at Sugar Loaf, Va, mt The
close of tho war to save it from cap.
ture and afterwards dug mp by the
color sergeant, who has preserved it
ever since.
TIE sr0NEwALI. BRIGADE FLAG.
Over the famous Stonowall brigade
iloated tie flag that went with Stone.
wall Jackson from Manassas to Chan.
cellorsville. Private ID. =. Carver, II
Srizzlcd, scared veteran of the Tenth
Virsinia cavalry, who bore it, mprch
cd with II conscious air, which seem
cd To say, "We uns nre the boys who
did tho fighting
Wiso's brigade carried two nags-
the headquarters flag and the flag of
the Fifty ninth Virginia. The latter
was tho flag that was twice captured
and recapturod ut Williamsburg, and
cost Tho regiment SO many men at
that fight.
AS tho parade was forming on
Main street, says the Richmond Dis
patch, Gonornl Longstreet drove up
the street in n carriage. As he pass
cd Clinton Hatcher Camp, of Loudon
county, number of the veterans
left tho line and proposed to take
the horses from tho carriage and pull
it out to the monument. Owing to
the fact that the procession then
commenced to move the gallant
Georginn was compelled to decline
the intended ovation and drove ON.
A FLAG THAT WENT TO PRISON.
Above tho few Survivors of the
Third Georgia regiment fioated an
old battle flag that has had an un.
usual experience. When the regi-
ment was surrendered in 1865 Colo.
mel Claiborne cut the flag from his
staff and hid it inside his shirt. Dur.
ing his confinement in Northern
prison he still kept it, and when he
was pareled brought it back to Dixie.
Near this flag were two of which
little renamed but few scraps OF
faded silk These were the flags Of
Cobb's Georgia Legion and tho first
Battalion of North Carolina Sharp
shooters. Both of these command:
had fiery baptism, and but few sur
yivors remain to tell the story o.
their prowess.
WORE LEES HAT.
Major Robert Stiles marched will
the Howitzer Veteran Association
having been o member of the FRS
lIowitzer Company at the opening o
the war, arrayed in his own veritabl,
gray jacket and General Robert E
Lees hat with star from that Gen
erals coat sewed on the front of th,
I hat.
The star was given by the Genera
himself to Miss Josie Stiles, the sis