The National tribune., 1895-04-25
SONS OF VETERANS,
News from Various DiVisions-Elec-
tlon of Officers, etc.
NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT.
Knoxville win Welcome 10000 Sons of Vet
erans and Their Eriends.


Knoxville win welcome 10000 Sons of Vet.
Grams and Their Friends.
Knoxville, April o. 1895.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Cratic deI
serratus This is the legend that ia September
next will be sovn broadcast over the city OF
Knoxville, even "a it now is the motto of that
great army Of the brave scions Of noble sires
who are banded together to perpetuate the
memories Of the patriots who wore the blue and
to preserve intact the love of liberty and father
land bequeathed them by the heroes of the
awful days of the early sixties
The Battlefield Encamp mont" Of the Sons
of Veterans for the year 1895 will be memoir
able one in the annals of the organization I;
that much is now assured. For the first time
In history the National Encampment will be
held in the South and for the first time it will be
HELD ON BATTLEFrELD-
battlefield In East Tennessee, a section that
when its history is written, will live in the m nds
of the generations Of the next century, even, as
full of romance, of courage. and devotion of its
men and women as do the ancient stories of the
border, the rulings 'twixt England and Scot
land-East Tennessee, that out Of As, 900 voters
sent over 80, 600 men into the Union army.
II used TO be said, in these valleys aud mount
aims, to denote the hospitality Of the frontiers
men who lived among them, that the latch
string always hung on the outside. For the
Sons of Veterans who may como next Autumn
there will be no latchstring, for already the
descendants of those frontiersmen have taken
the hinges from the doors, tied up the hounds,
and, as the Spanisrd would say, "their houses
are their visitors"
As early as Dec. 81 Of last year. W. p Sanders
Camp, 3, began to take proper steps toward
preparing for the animal National Encamp-
ment, which. for reasons that may be easily
seen, it was determined should be called the
Battlefield Encampment." At that time Capt.
Il. X. Carter, commanding, appointed a commit
tee (which. under the resolutions, had large
powers,) to name an Executive Committee to
nominate the Chairmen of the
VARIOUS sUB-coMMIrrEEs
and to define their duties, powers, etc. That
committee was com posed Of Capt. j. NJ Muir
ply, Past Capt. @. P. Chandler and James F.
Rule.
As result of the deliberations and conclu-
sions of that committee there is now appointed
and at work an Executive Committee that
represents the very flower of the citizenery Of
Knoxville, and in It's personnel Is testimony
stronger than proof of Holy Writ that in this
favored section the war was long since ended,
and the awful chasm has been filed by the
labors Of fraternal hands.
The Chairman of the Executive COMMITTEES
is Capt. w. p. Chambsrlain, an Ohis veteran,
who settled here at the close Of the war; and
who since has prospered and grown rich. He
is member of the Loyal Legion and the G. AR.
Past Col. w. r. Cooper is Vice Chairman. Col.
Cooper is an enthusiastic Son of Veteran, is
County Court Clerk of Knox County, and is the
eldest son of Gen. James A. Cooper, that East
Tennessee thunderbolt of war. J. s. Stewart
long First Sergeant of ". P. Sanders Camp, is
Secretary Of the committee, and is now in
charge of Headquarters. Rooms 1875 and 1873,
Southern Building and Loan Association Build
ing, on Wall street. Mr.. NJ. l.. Ross, Vice
President of tho Mechanics National Bank, and
a large wholesale merchant and capitalist, is
Treasurer of the committee.
OF the Chairmen of the subcommittee. Mr..
Fl. d. Miner formerly of Kentucky, and Presi-
dent of the Holston National Bank, heads the
Finance Committee, and under him are some
of the leading business men and capitalists of
the city, men who wore the blue and mep who
wore the gray. Dir. w. J. Ramags, a GAR.
man, formerly Of Ohio. heads the Reception
Committee and Hon. J. c. Luttrell, ex-Mayor
of Knoxville, and one Of the bravest men who
ever
FOUGHT Under THE STARS AND BARS.
the Confederate veterans heads
tho Arrangements Committee. Alderman It.
L. Carly represents the municipality of Knox
willie, and Mr.. J. G. Groner, Sheriff, represents
committees are Past Capt. A. G. McNulty,
Past Capt. g. p Chandler, Capt J. NJ. Murphy,
Past Capt. E. r. Carter. Past Capt. H. A. Reep
and Brother w. T. Claiborne, all of w. p.
Sanders Camp.
1t is already an assured fact, judging from
reports and orders for reservation of rooms that |
the attendance will be larger than any ever
seen at National Encampment. The annual |
meeting Of the GAR. at Louisville, the open
ing of the Chickamauga Park at Chattanooga, |
the Battlefield Encampment at Knoxville, and |
the Exposition at Atlanta. all about the same |
time, but the dates of which in no wise conhicr |
will form a quartet of attractive events that |
will draw Southwark q host of happy pilgrims. |
The Com Chief of the GAR, Gan. |
Thomas Lawler. was in East Tennessee this
week. and electrified, enthused and delighted
BUR people by saying that from what he had
already heard it would not surprise him to see
from 5000 to 5000 visitors in Knoxville dur
ing the Encampment.
Taking advantage of your most generous
,ffer, THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE will be fur
lished news of definite aud full arrangements
IS they may be decided upon in the future
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