The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-13
AT THE ENCAMPMENT.
Il Touching Incident FoIIotced the Spec
of He1lJy PATTERSON.

of Henry Patterson.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 12.-Business
and pleasure were combined by the Grand
Army folks to-day. While the delegates
to the National encampment settled down
TO legislate for the good of the order and
to select officers for another year the rank
ard file INDUCED in the reunions that of
late years have become one of the most in
teresting features of encampment week. At
Camp Caldwell and in the tents over at
Jacksonville, as we'll as in the school
house and other post headquarters, the sur
vlvors Of State regiments and other COM
panies now scattered throughout the coun-
try met together to say "God bless you"
once more and to 1ehearse -be-for-
gotten incidents upon the battlefelds.
There were many affecting scenes as COM
rades who had not met since the war recog-
nized each other. Their Joy could not find
expression in words and they fell upon
each others necks, while the tears streamed
down their wrinkled faces.
There were many -Confederates, too.
that hunted up the reunion quarters of
regiments with which they had engaged
in hand to hand encounters, and made
themselves at home with their former
foes. Thus, in scores of places throu gh-
out the city the blue and the gray spent
the day and evening in a determination
that came from the heart and SOUL The
delegates to the National encampment
found it difficult to get down to business
after the emotion created by the welcom-
ing exercises. The scene that followed
the closing words of the fervid Grafton of
NO ffarc0n moe fhrif1ino
The speaker himself was overcome with
emotion and left the front of the stage.
Men rose III their seats and not only
cheered but yelled. They cried and
cheered by turns. Rugged each other and
threw hats, fans and handkerchiefs into
the air. But they were not prepared for
the touching incident which followed
thirty seconds later. Mrs. John A. Lo-
gan was seated a short distance back of
the mmander-in-chIef's stand, and as
Mr.. Watterson walked away from the
footIights, with the tears coursing down
his cheeks, General Lawler took his hand
and pulled him to Mrs. Logan. Neither
could speak for moment. and then the
white haired, motherly looking woman
took his hand in both of hers, and when
she found her voice said, trembllngly:
II am glad 1 have been permitted to live
to hear your speech" That was all she
could say. Then she sat down and wept.
Meanwhile a scene of very different
nature was being enacted at the opening
session of the National Convention of the
Women's Relief Corps. For several years
the branch of the organization at Canton,
Ohio, has sent a delegate, Mrs. Ada A.
Clark, and just as often she has been
excluded on technical grounds, the oppo-
sition to her being led by Mrs. Sherwood
of the same city, an ex-president of the
corps. The feud has becomea celebrated
one in Ohio. This year Mrs. Clark came
to Louisville, determined to enforce her
claims, and early this morning, accom-
panied by counsel, she appeared before
Judge Edwards and secured the issue of
fifteen injunctions, restraining as many
National officers of the corps from refusing
her recognition as delegate. The papers