The Bossier banner., 1891-08-27
Reunion of Company B.

With our clever Sheriff, to attend the |
reunion of veterans of Company B,
18th Louisiana Regiment, going as
far as Plain Dealing that night
Thursday morning, in company with
q party of her citizens, we went
across the country about 13 or IA
miles to point ON Bodcau bayou,
known as the ''Free Bridge" Just
across the bridge in Webster parish
we found the encampment of the vet
Grams, where there were gathered
about 1O00people, ladies and children
representing about one-third of that
number, and in this gathering we did
not see exceeding half dozen colored
people, being to US something re-
markable for a Southern assembly
this size. The crowd about equally
divided between Webster and Bos-
sier.
A speakers stand was erected un-
der a beautiful grove upon the banks
of Bodcau, with improvised seats of
plank in front, where we found the
most of the crowd gathered to listen
to the speaking. As we arrived Prof.
j. j. Stubs was delivering the vel
come address. His address was a
terse and brief resume of the troub-
lous times and stirring events during
the Cos; the causes which lead to the
war; the war and its fearful carnage
and attendant hardships and untold
suffering. He drew an interesting
and glowing pen picture of gallant
Confederate soldiers as they took up
arms through patriotic moties and
fought for what they believed to be
true principle; of their heroic valor
and indomitable courage under ad-
verse circumstances, and against
fearful odds; that their deeds OF
bravery, wonderful achievements and
heroic endurance for four long years
will resound through the pages OF
impartial history, in the future, Sec
ond to none; that their chivalrous
acts and deeds of valor will be as
immortal and renowned as the heroic
sacrifice of the noble Leonidas and
his brave little Spartan band of 240C
years ago. The Confederate soldiers
were volunteers. No mercenary mo
tives caused them to take up arms
They went to war believing they were
right and fought to sustain theil
manhond, to redress their country's
wrongs and for what they considered
their cherished Constitutional rights
and were as true to the cause they
espoused as the needle to the pole
The speaker, in felicitous style
closed, with this peroration: 81 be
live the day will come, if not already
here, when every true and brave de
fender of the Union will see and fully
understand that we fought against
no vital principle of the government
The day is close by, if it's dawn is not
already seen, when in the North
South, East and West-all over oul
land-the theory of government and
the construction of the Constitution
for which our fathers contended and
to which we consecrated our all-oul
lives-will again be enthroned in the
hearts of our people. Then we vii
have our full unreserved vindication
Then it viii be seen by the arOrlG
that ours was not Lost Cause"
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The arbitrary sword decided VIZ
were wrong-the fortunes of wal
against us-we of the South brayely
accepted the situation and applied
our energies to regain our lost for.
tunes, and to building up our vast,
places, thereby soon causing oul
Southland again to bloom and bios
som as the rose.
Prof. Stubs was followed by A
]. Murff, Esq, who touched on th,
general issues of the day, and espe
cially the Lottery question. Meta