The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-25
JOINED BY MEN IN BLUE.
Once More They Engage in
Battle, but Blood Is Not
Spilled.
ONE VERY TOUCHING INCIDENT.
Jefferson's Daughter Weeps in the
Arms of Grizzled Governor
Lubbock.

HOUSTON, TEX, May 24.-Although
many of the visiting Confederate veterans
left for home last night and to-day, there
are still several thousand here. A grand
parade was held this afternoon by the vet
Grams and all the militia companies at
Camp Culberson. The weather was rather
unpleasant, being hot and muggy. The
parade was formed by States, the COM
panies being in line in the order in which
their respective States seeded from the
Union.
Miss Winnie Davis and General Gordon
viewed the veterans and militia which
participated, after which there was grand
sham battle, with an exhibition drill of
Light Battery, Third Regiment, q. S. A.
An elaborate display of fireworks con-
cluded the celebration.
Miss Winnie Davis left tonight with
the Washington Artillery of New Orleans,
and after spending day in the Crescent
City will proceed to Richmond, Va. She
held several receptions this morning. She
met several thousand veterans.
A touching incident occurred in the
course of the morning, when Governor
Lubbock in choking voice said to the
daughter of Jefferson Davis:
SIT was l who carried you, child, into
prison to see your father" He got no
further. Miss Davis threw her arms about
him and they both mingled their tears.
Veterans and younger spectators present
were visibly affected by the scene.
AT noon the convention Of the United
Confederate Veterans resumed it's session
and took up the work where it was left off
yesterday.
= The fifth annual convention of the
United Confederate Veterans Association
closed to-day. General John B. Gordon of
Georgia was reelected commander-in-
chief; Wade Hampton of South Carolina.
heutenant-general Department of North
Virginia; Stephen D. Lee of Mississippi,
lieutenant-general, Department of Ten
nessee; W. L. Campbell, ieutenant-gen-
eral, Trans-Mississippi Department The
only one making opposition was General
Cabell, he being inclined to favor General
Waul.
a resolution was adopted that the Sd of
June shall be set apart for the observance
of memorial services throughout the South
in honor of the Confederate dead.
The committee on history was instructed
to memorabilia the several legislatures of
the Southern States, the Boards of Educa-
ton and all public and private teachers in
the South as we'll as parents of the rising
generation, to discard the partisan his
tories mentioned in the committees re-
port to the convention, and to commend
for general private use such histories as
the committee has recommended to the
association.
A letter from General Schofeld to Gen.
GorG4,, ha la+{a
written before General Schoield left for
San Antonio. In conclusion he says:
Il am sure I express the sentiments of a
vast majority of the people of the North,
not only OF the old Union soldiers who
have shown their confidence and sym
patty, but of the new and rising genera
ton in whom the destiny of the country
for the future must be placed. / have long
known that the same sentiment pervaded
the people of the South, and 1 have
stopped in the South to assure them that
their loyalty to the constitution and to the
laws of the Nation is appreciated by the
great mass of the people of the North, who
recognize to the fullest extent the
fidelity which the Southern soldiers
have for so many years displayed
to the pledges they gave, after the
conclusion of the great contest, so that
now and henceforth there can be no pos
sible reason why the people of the North
and South, old soldiers and young soldiers,
shall not unite under the flag OF the Union
to promote the best interests of their coun-
try and defend her honor throughout the
world"
The offer of Charles Broadway Rouss of
New York to donate 500, 600 to fund for
the establishment of a permanent head
quarters in which the historical archives
of the Confederacy shall be kept was re-
ferred to a special committee, which will
report at the next meeting at Richmond,
Va, in 1896. The convention then stood
adjourned.