The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-07-03


Major General Thomas A. Brander and
Staff.
Richmond Light Infantry Blues Bat
TALON.
Escort to the Virginia Veteran Division.
Grand Camp Confederate Veterans.
Col: w. A. Smoot. Grand Commander
West Virginia Veteran Association.
South Carolina Veteran Campss.
Mississssppl Veteran Camps.
Florida Veteran Camps
Alabama Veteran Camps.
Georgia Veteran Camps.
Louisiana Veteran Camps.
Texas Veteran Camps.
Indian Territory Veteran Camps.
Oklahoma Territory Veteran Camps.
Arkansas Veteran Camps.
Tennessee Veteran Camps.
North CaioNna Veteran Camps
Kentucky Veteran Camps
Missouri Veteran Camps
Maryland Veteran Camps.
District of Columbia Veteran Camps.
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Veteran Cavalry Division
Norfolk, Portsmouth, and vicinity
made grand showing Pickett Buch-
anan Camp had more men In line than
any Camp except Lee OF this city.
Stonewall Camp, of Portsmouth. had
third position in the Veterans Division
ana was under command of Lieutenant
COMMANDER watts.
Niemeyer-Shaw Camp came in for It's
iuli snaie OF honors. Then, too, the
Norfolk and Portsmouth military was
very much in evidence, and was libe-
rally applauded.
Iehefai Wade Hampton was in front
OF the Carolinians and the old cavalry
nero was salu;ed at every move and
turn or the procession.
The Cadets of the High Scboo, fro,,
washington, we'll thn Di,,,,i.,
Veterans, made an attractive feature of
tne parade. and were cOmplimented all
along the route. The lady sponsors and
lheir maids of honor rode i'm separate
tnra'ases ,i,ra IL ana made the brightest fea-
ture OF the procession. Each sponsor
waved the flag of the State she repre-
scented, and all of them were royallv
cheered as they passed through the
orlliiantly decorated streets, and crowd
ed with Southern blooming womanhood
and loveliness.
The Society of the Army and Navy of
the Confederate States in the State of
Maryland, escorted by the Fifth Regi-
inent Veteran Corps, was in the process
SION. The Society is the only organized
body OF veterans in town which is not
aifliated with the United Confederate
veterans. Many members of it, how
ever. are also members of Herbert and
buchanan Camps.
Col. George II. Gather is in command
or the veteran Corps and Captain Geo.
w. Booth of the Society. General Brad
ley L. johnson Is president of the So
ciety.
Mrs. jefferson Davis rode In a car
riase with Hon. j. Taylor Ellyson and
General Peyton Wise, and she was
everywhere recognized and cheered.
Miss Shelby, daughter OF General
Shelby. of Tennessee. rode a fine horse
through the whole route OF the process
sion, and was greatly admired. The
procession reached Monroe Park about
O'Clock. after a very trying march to
some of the older veterans.
Here the Grand Masonic Lodge of Vir-
ginia took charge OF the ceremonies and
escorted by the knights Templar,
reached the site selected for the Davis
and distinguished guests had been
erected When the privileged crowd
had been seated and the Richmond
Blues and other military organizations
placed as supplementary escort to the
Templars. the Masonic ceremonies in
the laying of cornerstone took place,
concluding with the following procla-
nation by the Grand Master:
"OyeZ! Oyez! All within the sound of
the gavel take due notice that the craft
has ceased from their la Dor and that the
cornerstone of the Jefferson Davis mon
ument is now. true. trusty, and we'll laid
by the Grand Lodge OF Virginia in its
one hundred and nineteenth year"
After this announcement Hon. ].
Taylor Ellyson. president of the Davis
Monument Association, came forwa I'd
and called upon Bishop John c. Gran
berry, of the NJ. e. Church, South. to
offer prayer and the eminent divine
delivered a most ferxent and appro-
pirate appeal to the throne OF the AL
mighty.
After this General Stephen D. Lee,
the orator of the day. was introduced,
and spoke as follows:
We are here to-day to honor the
memory of Jefferson Davis; to lay the
cornerstone of monument to one who
needs no monument in our generation
beyond that i'll the hearts OF his coun-
trymen. But we think il due to erect
one that posterity may know the rev.
erence felt for the great leader of a
cause that failed
1t is fitting that he should rest here
in Virginia--that greatest of all States.
the battle-scarred producer of warriors
and statesmen; fitting that he should
rest, among her immortals. But for her
generosity in ceding her vast territory
to the Union, Kentucky would have
still been hers, and he would have been
born her son. Many Presidents, states
men, soldiers, lie In Virginia soil-from