Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13
THE SECOND DAY.
The Reunion in Full Swing Dur
ing Yesterday.
SOME RINGING SPEECHES
Made By Men Who Had Worn the Con-
federate Gray.
The Day Thoroughly Enjoyable One to
the Fifteen Hundred People Assem-
bled-A Poem by Gen. Clarke-A
Monument Association, Etc.

The day dawned bright and beautiful.
though rather warm after the rain, and
when the old soldiers began gathering at
the pavilion the spirit of comradeship and
good feeling necessary to a successful re-
union was manifest. The hoary veterans,
battle SCARED and worn, many of them
bent and crippled with the weight of years
and the privations they had undergone out
of their loyalty to the Stars and Bars, and
the effects OF long biyouacs in all sorts OF
weather, were in excellent spirits, and the
merry jest and quip went round with all
the spontaenity of more than quarter OF
a century ago, when these gray-haired vet
Grams We're younger than they are now and
blessed with all the strength and feryor Of
lusty young manhood.
Side by side they had charged in battle !;
side by side they had slept on many 4
bloody field while all around lay their dead
comrades: side by side they had marched
together to lay down their arms before L
victorious foe, and side by side ttey
marched back to the Lone Star state,
wrecked by the fortunes of war, to begin
anew the struggle for existence.
These old men have not forgotten their
days of warfare nor the unnumbered dead
the flower of Southrou chivalry, who shed
their blood for cause as dear to them as
lfe-a cause lost, it is true, but still fOndly
cherished in memory's archives. We of
animates these heroes of a hundred battles
when they again meet in annual reunion
and comrade clasps hand with comrade.
Nor can the rising generation appreciate
the feeling that prompts the man who
wore the gray to meet the man who Wore
the blue in fraternal intercourse. 10 invite
those who fought for the Stars and Stripes
to Join in the festivities of those who de-
Tended the Stars and Bars.
In all the festivities there yet fingers a
fond remembrance of those who have re-
sponded to taps for the last time, and who
sleep the last, long sleep, mayhap in un-
known graves, yet whose memories are en-
shrined in the hearts of the people.
"On flames eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards with silent round
The bivouac of the dead
It is estimated that 1900 people We're in
attendance yesterday, and among the new
ARRIVALS were the following ex-Confeder-
ates
Ector's Brigade D. Rudd, Company
G.. Fourteenth regiment; p, d. KilgOre,
Adjt.-Gen brigade: w. j. Sparks, Adjt.,
Tenth regiment: John w. Clark, Company
A, Ninth regiment E. L. Afford, Company
H. Fifteenth regiment; J. q. Ingram, Com
pany I, Fourteenth regiment: J. s. Little,
Company /, Fourteenth regiment; A. Har-
ris, Lieut. Col, Fourteenth regiment.
Ross Brigade: Col. T r Hawkins, le
gion: r d Rawlins, Co. F, Sixth regiment;
| p Dams, Co. A, Ninth regiment; a w Atch-
ison. Co. L, legion; j F Rowland, Co. c,
Sixth regiments W G Bryan, Co. 1, Third
regiment; Y Biven, Co. 1, legion; w A
Turner, Co. G, Sixth regiment; Newt
Stephenson, Co. H, Ninth regiments Sim
Florence, Co. X: Third regiment.