The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-04-01

local post of confederate veterans VIII De
invited. The survivors of the two armies
the blue and the gray-will meet in sociai
way and spend a pleasant evening enter
tainment. The meeting will be one Oh uh-
usual significance.
The state encampment of the Grahu
Army of the Republic will bring to Atlanta
a number of federal veterans. Several
posts will be represented here, among them
three autSide of the state, the post 1T
Charleston, the post at Beaufort ana the post
at Columbia. The other posts are located
inside the state. Among the posts that VII.
send representatives are the posts at Savah-
nah, Augusta, Macon, Columbus. Tallapoo-
sa, Tate'S and other places. The business
meeting of the convention will be held
next Thursday and the next day will be de-
voted to entertaining the guests.
General Frank Lawler Wal spend two
days here. He. with number of prominent
officials of the Grand Army of the Republic,
Is making a tour of the south, visiting the
various Grand Army of the Republic posts'
and attending, wherever they can, the STATE
conventions of the posts. The date OF the
Georgia convention was changed SO as "
coincide with General LAWYERS visit. He
will speak to the veterans and will be driven
over the city and entertained at the res
licences of some of the prominent Grahu
Army of the Republic men of Atlanta. lie
will be taken out to the exposition GROUNDS
by General Lewis. The entire party VIII
be shown over the exposition grounds.
Friday night the officers will give re-
ception to General Lawler and his assocl-
ates at the posts headquarters. Governor
Atkinson, Mayor King, Il number OF prfNdte
citizens and the Atlanta post of Conleu-
crate Veterans have been invited 10 De
present. The Confederate Veterans may at
tend in body. 1t will be n striking scene
when the veterans are received in the head
quarters of the local post and meet. on
terms of friendly feelings the COMMANDER
of the Grand Army of the Republic orSanl-
zaton of the United States.
General Lawler will come to Atlanta from
New Orleans He will probably go further
south after leaving Atlanta. He is a fine
looking officer with a splendid military
bearing and heavy black mustache. lie IS
extremely popular with the Grand Army
men throughout the country.
The Chicago Confederate Monument.
Chicago, March 30.-The confederate mon
ument in lakewood cemetery, this city, will
be dedicated on Decoration Gay, General
Wade Hampton of South Carolina, deliv-
ering the dedicatory address. The event
has awakened great enthusiasm in lhe
south and carloads of flowers blossoms ana
hanging MOSES will be sent to Chicago 10
ornament the monument and graves or
burial plot. from each of the southern
cities of Atlanta. Savannah and New Or
leans. where committees of the most in
fuential citizens have been at work Tor
some time
Among the ex-confederate officers who
have expressed their intention 10 General
Underwood of being present are Lieutenant
General John b. Gordon, United States SEN
ator from Georgia and commander of the
United Confederate Veterans: Lieutenant
General James Longstreet. the senior south
ern general living; Lieutenant General A.
Z. Stewart. Chickamauga park commas
sioner; Major General Fitzhugh Lee, eX-
governor of Virginia; Major General u. :.
Walthall, United States senator from MIS-
sissippi; Major General Matthew Buu't'
ex-Cnited States senator; Brigadier Gener-
al Frank c. Armstrong, Forests principal
lieutenant; Brigadicr General Eppa Hunt
ington, ex-United States senator from \'f-
GINA, Brigadier General Joe Shelby. Unit
ed States marshal of Missouri: Colonel VIII
liam Preston Johnson. president of Tulane
university of Louisiana; john w. Daniel
ex. senator from Virginia. and others.
The committee of reception is composed
Of two hundred prominent Chicagoans,
among them being Postmaster Heslng, Johh
] Mitchell, H. n. Higginbotham, Lyman +.
Gage. president of the First National il@nk'
Cyrus II. Mccormick; James W. Scott; w
II. Baker; Potter Palmer. and General Johh
C.. Black
The battery of four steel rifle cannon,
having a record and nearly 1000 projectiies
1hat the government appropriated win
which to ornament the burial plot are IN
the city and awaiting good weather to be
placed in position. There are SIX thousand
confederate soldiers buried in OakWood'
the largest number inferred at any one
point in the north. VINO DIED IN camp
Douglas prison, lSb2-'6J
The monument erected over their remains
was cut in Georgia of pearl-Sray granite,
= a
bronze statue of typical confederate sol
der.