Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-27
THE ANNUAL MEETING.
The Meeting of Forbes Bivouac Yester
day at the Court House.

the court house yesterday was fairly
well attended, Notwithstanding the
bad weather.
The executive committee reported
that during the year one com ade
had been sent to the Soldiers Home
at Nashville, and that another had
been sent to friends 10 Arkansas.
The election of officers resulted as
follows:
Il. II. Smith, president; w. F..
Young, vice president; Clay Stacker,
secretary; Butler Boyd, treasurer f;
Rev. Il. d. Sears, Chaplain; DR.. j..
ID. Slayden, surgeon Jas. H. Wells,
color-bearer; T. M. Hughes, sergeant
alarms.
The following committee was APP.
pointed to attend the meeting at
Nashville on April II to recommend
three trustees for the Soldiers Home: :
T. d. Luckett, Judge Lurton, j..
d. Neblett, j. Hatcher Neblett, w.
A. Shelby, DIR. j. ID. Slayden, j. J.
Crusman and Clay Stacker.
The committee was instructed to
recommend G. II. Bailey as one of
the trustees.
A resolution of thanks was voted
Representatives Johnson and Dunbar
or their efforts in behalf Of the con-
federate pension bill.
Resolutions to the memory Of
Joseph e. Johnston were read and
adopted as follows:
Whereas, it has pleased God our
Father to call home one who is
mourned throughout this great south
land, Gen. Joseph e. Johnston, set
while we feel it is unspeakably sad,
henceforth to be compelled to speak
of Gen. Johnston as dead, it is with
the deepest pleasure we express our
appreciation of his many virtues,
and the high qualities which marked
him as one of the great leaders OF
the South. Nine years after Gen
JohnstOn's graduation at West Point,
he may be said to have received his
first baptism of fiEe, in the war in
Florida with the Seminole Indians
At the beginning
of the war with Mexca0,
he was Captain of Engineers,
and won a reputation as a dashing,
gallant soldier, always cool and col
lected, but never reckless. At the
outbreak of the civil war he WIGS
quartermaster-general Of the United
States army, and resigned his posi-
ton to defend his native State, Nir-
ginia. He was commissioned major.
general of the volunteers who were
then gathering at Richmond,
and in the organization and
management of these troops he
gave evidence of the ability which
made him famous. His mastery re
treat afterWard with his small army.
when hard pressed by Sherman with
almost twice his numbers, will al.
ways be regarded as one OF the great
est achievements of the war. A
philosopher has said "Esteem no
man happy while he lives" The
warrior who dies when victorious,
the battle won, surrounded by the
fruits of victory, is safe from al the
vicissitudes of fortune; his fame il
secure and descendS a rich heritage
to future time, but he we mourn to
day, the typical hero and representa-.
tive of the whole south, who daren
and braVed all for "What he deemed
the right died not with sword in
nd Oh Of at it,h
but lived near twenty years-siX after
the war was thing of the past,
quiet, loyal citizen, hOnOrCd by even
his former opponents as a knightly
gentleman "sans peur, sans re
aproche," One by one the leaves flut-
ter down from the tree of the past :;
Lee, Jackson, Davis ard now, Joseph
f. Johnston.
"Ther deeds, rs they deserve,
Receive proud recompeuse. We givei in charge
Their names to the sweet Tyre. The historic
muse,
Proud of her treasure, marches with it down
To latest time and sculpture in herturn,
Gives bond in stone and ever-during brass
To guard them and immortalize her trust
LIST. Resolved, that we deem 1t pc
culiarly appropriate that we, his com.
rades Of the South, should perpetuatc
and honor his memory, realizing that
in his death the South has lost one
of her greatest and nOblc5t sons.
I'd. Resolved, that we tenderly |
commend to our Heavenly Father
the family of the deceased, and ten
der our heartfelt sympathy to them
in this hour of sorrow.
Sd. Resolved, shat a copy Of these |
resolutions be furnished his family |
and that they also be inscribed upon
the minutes of this BivOuac.
The members were ordered to wear
crepe for thirty days in his honor.
Resolutions on the death of Jno.
WiIloughhy were also read and
adopted,
The executive committee for the
ensusing year is as follows: W. +,
Young, chairman G. N. Bycrs,
Jones d. Neblctt,, c. Nj. Barker, and
J. Hatcher Neblett.
The committee on credentials is as
follows:
w. a. Shelby, chairman; Jas.
LockCrt, c. ID. Bell, Ed Heathmah,
&. l.. Williams.
After listening to an address from
DR.. McMurray the meeting ad-
burned.