Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13
THE DAYS DOINGS.
The Proceedings at the Reunion During
the Day.

With characteristic military promptness.
the veterans assembled i'll the chamber of
commerce and were called to order shortly
after O'Clock. In the absence of Col. o.
p. Forrest, the chairman, Judge Booty, was
called to the chair and presided over
the body. The question of select
ing a place for the holding of the
next reunion was at once taken up. Wills
Point, Weatherford and Greenville were
put in nomination. Each had enthusiastic
advocates, who presented the claim of each,
ard promised entertainment fit for kings, if
for holding the next meeting. Col. Kilgore
spoke for Wills Point, and pre-
seuted her claims well, making the
mouths of the veterans water as he told
of the hospitality of this section which, ac-
cording to the colonel, all but flows with
milk and honey. Weatherford also had en-
thusiastic advocates who drew nearly as
tempting picture as Col kllgore. After
half hours discussion the question was
put and resulted in the following vote:
Wills Point %, Weatherford 81, Greenville
10. Weatherford lacked one of receiving
the necessary majority, but was finally
chosen by reclamation.
The time of holding the meeting was
then brought up and discussed at length.
The third Tuesday and Wednesday of
August, 1892, was finally chosen as the
time When this question had been dis
posed of, Judge C. C. Cummings, Confed
crate who lost his right arm for the cause
of the COnfederacy, was introduced. Judge
Cummings offered a few words of
explanation as to why he failed
to be with his comrades on Tuesday The
Judge then eUlogiZed the confederation of
states as the mightiest nation that ever ex-
listed for the same length of time-a nation
that did more fighting and more business to
the square minute than any nation IN the
worlds history. He affirmed and stood
ready to show that there was something be-
sides a spirit of rebellion which prompted
the Confederate to fight so desperately. and
he prayed that a true history would some
day be written-a history that would repre-
sent properly the people with whom he
fought and the cause for which they fought.
Judge Cummings said that he was thor
oughly reconstructed in every way, save for
a sensation that was ever present, and this
was the sensation of grasping the sword
which his right hand held when
it was severed from his arm.
That he could feel it still,
and that it never left him. That he was
soon to try the efficacy of electricity in rid
ding him OF this sensation which he had
felt at the end OF his arm for quarter of a
century, and if the treatment was success
full, and he should be relieved of the sensa-
ton, he would then be wholly recon-
Structed. he lnen reviewed an article Oy
Green B. Raum, which appeared in the
North American Review, and commented
at length upon il. His remarks was
closed by a tribute to Ross Texas
brigade and description of its gallantry
at Mechanicsville, where half.Of its number
was lost in a charge that rivaled Balaklava.
At the conclusion of Col. Cummings re-
marks motion was made that committee
be appointed, two from each of the three
brigades, to look into the ACCESSIBILITY of or
ganizing permanent camp at
some point in the state where
the association of ex-Confederates of Texas
could meet each year. The matter was
postponed, after some consideration, till
the association could convene at Riverside.
At 1880 adjournment was taken to River
side, where large crowd had already gath
cred.
Judge Booty then introduced to the au-
dience Col Buck Kilgore of
the Third congressional district of
Texas. In introducing Col. Kilgore
Judge Booty referred to the incident of
the colonel's kicking down one of the doors
of the house of representatives when
Speaker Reeds arbitrary rulings were