The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-04-15
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CONFEDERATE REUNION.
More Than 20, 900 Veterans to partic-"
Ipate.
From the NeU York Times.

From the Nep York Times.
It was announced yesterday that,
owing to the failure of the plan to
have a joint parade Of Union and Con-
federate veterans in this city on July
4, the sixth annual reunion Of the
United Confederate Veterans will be
held at Richmond, Va, June 80 and
July l and 2, as originally proposed.
The occasion is to be made of more
than usual interest, as on July 2 the
cornerstone of the Jefferson Davis
Monument will be laid with imposing
ceremonies. It is expected that more
than 20, 1000 Confederate veterans will
attend the reunion, and every effort
will be made by residents Of Richmond
to make it the most memorable event
of the kind that has happened since
the war.
Information concerning the reunion
was received by Col. A. G. Dickinson,
Commander of the Confederate Vete-
ran Camp Of New York, from Peyton
Wise, chairman of the National Com
mittee, which is arranging for the
event in Richmond. The circular is
sued by Chairman Wise is dated Rich
mond, Va, March %, and is as fol-
lows:
To the Uuited Confederate Veterans
everywhere Your sixth, annual re-
union will be held at Richmond, Va,
on the Both of June and LIST and I'd
days Of July next.
Widely scattered since the war by
the ties Of family aud old-time fire.
sides, by the demands Of business, by
your natural energies, and by the ne
cessities Of life, you are coming home
home TO the city which is yours by
the supreme tests of the rain of fire
through which you went and Of the
sea Of blood through which you pass.
ed on the mission of her and the COM
mon defense. You have been no
prodigal sons, for you inherited only
the remnants of a rapacious ravage
that was rampant. everywhere in your
land, because you had nothing left
but the manhood from which you were
inseparable. But the fatted calf shall
be killed for you, and we shall be
merry together, not because of pity
for your sins, but because pride in
your fame demands.
You shall traverse again the streets
which thrilled to the tread Of your
legions while they were passing tc
1.-The ranks Of the best army that the
world ever knew.
You shall be comforted by the Vir
( g~inians who were the comrades of your
immortal glory and who are your
brothers forever.
You shall see again the women who
nursed you back to vigor from the
feebleness Of wounds and want, from
the wretched woe Of your losses, anc
who pointed the dying gaze Of you
| fellows to the heaven which stopped
to enfold them.
Your eyes shall behold fer them
selves the city which proudly wrapped
herself in your patriotic flames, from
which she has emerged q thing Of
beauty and a joy for always.
You shall revisit the battlefield
which have been consecrated by your
blood, and where, if you lost your
country, you found q fame that fills
the.world.
Heartily helped by our city and her
citizens, We are building for you g
place Of reunion in which 10, 900 Of
you may make the welkin ring to the
| music Of "Dixie' and to the chorus
Of the rebel yell.
On some appropriate day Of the re-
union you shall be part and parcel Of
the rearing Of that monument which
| shall be to Jefferson Davis not merely
because he was your President, and
dwelt as such in the capital Of your
Confederacy, but because he was the
~urspeakable type Of that inefable
manhood which made the armies Of
the South.
During your stay here there will be
many g bivouac where, not in bravado
or disloyalty, but for sweet memory
sake, will be sung over again the old
songs, told over again the old tales,
fought over the old fights, yelled again
the old yell, and raised again the old
flag.
Come, then. Come to our hearts
and homes, to these bivouacs. Before
we pass to the great beyond we ought
to have one more bout and toast TO-
gether. The toast shall be to our own
memories and to our Confederate COM
rades wherever they may be, but it
shall carry along with it a brave bless
ing for our fellow citizens everywhere,
a determined devotion to the safety,
honor, and welfare Of the entire coun-
try.
PEYTON WISE. Chairman.