Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-06-12
stonowall Brigade Survivors
M ATTEND THE UNIV ELL
ING OF JACKSON S STATUE AT
LEXINGTON.

ING OF JACKSON s STATUE All
LEXINGTON.
On Tuesday afternoon about sixty vete-
rams of the StoneWall Brigade assembled at
the Court House in response to call, TO
make arrangements for attending the I'M
yelling of the Jackson statue at Lexington
July 21st. Among them were John M.
Doyle, the first soldier of the Brigade that
was wounded, having been shot in the fight
of July I'd at Failing Water; Milton Buch-
Ell, the youngest soldier in the Brigade,
having joined it at the age OF fourteen
years, and Capt. James Bumgardner, who
was the recipient of the first commission to
regimental adjutant ever issued by the
Confederate States. There was good
sprinkling of other veterans besides the
Stonewall, present.
Capt. T. D. Ransom called the meeting to
order and explained the object OF the meet
ing He called to the chair Col. j. X. Ed
mondson of Lexington, who, he said, mad
done more than any one man to bring to
consummation the design of memorial to
Jackson and towards the raising OF the
$14, 900 needed for it.
Col. EdmondsOn ON taking the chalr
thanked them and said they were ready fol
business. He said that the last time he had
seen Mrs. Jackson she had expressed her
anxiety for monument at her husband
grave, and said she would have long
ago erected one herself but she had defer
red to the old soldiers and waited. Col.
Edmondson said that Gen. James A. wal
| ker of Wythe, an old commander OF Tie
| Brigade, had been selected as Chief Mar
shal of the ceremonies in July; Gen. Wade
Hampton had been asked topreside but had
not yet been heard from in response, and
it was likely that Maj. John W. Dan
iel would deliver the address. Commit,
tees on Transportation, Entertainment
and so forth, had been appointed.
On motion of Mr.. r. A. Hamilton, il
was resolved that the survivors of the Bri
gade would attend in a body, and they in
vited all other Confederate veterans to joir
in the ceremonies at Lexington.
Capt. James Bumgardner thought the
command OF the veterans who attended a.
Lexington should devolve on the Oldest sur
viving field officer.
Judge Chas. Grattan endorsed that view
He said he could not say that he was ;
member of the Stonewall Brigade, but h
had been present at it's christening and wa
on the staff of Gen. Jackson, where, though
mere clerk, he held three important posi-
tions on that day and wrote the General
report Of the action in which the Brigade
| won it's name, the General being wounded
1t had, he said, been his fortune to trave
over the Western and Northern States
since the war, and wherever he had been HI
was asked if he belonged to the Army O
Northern Virginia and if he knew Stone
wall jackson. And when he told them tina
he knew him and had often sat at the sam
table with him, he was received with opel
arms.
The meeting adopted the suggestion o
Capt. Bumgardner, which Judge Grattal
put in the form Of a resolution.
Capt. Bumgardner said the regiment
composing the Brigade were the I'd, 18th
5th, 22d and SD Virginia regiments of in
fantry, and they all probably have enough
surviving officers and men to form sor
Of skeleton regimental organization TO
each. in which form it was desirable i
should parade at Lexington.
The following list Of the veterans of tn
Brigade and other Confederate organiza
the purpose of communicating with then
on the matter in the future
NAME COMMAND. POST-OFFICE.
Col II. J. Williams, 5th Va Reg ..-...-Greenvill
Berry Manley, Co. D. 9Th .Middlebroo