Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
BEAUTIFUL INVITATION.
Heart-Stirring Call Upon Confederate Com
rades fer One More Bond and Toast
Together.

The following eloquent invitation has
been sent out by the committee to pre-
pare for the sixth annual reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans:
Richmond, Va, March %. 1896.
To the United Confederate Veterans Every
where:
Your sixth annual reunion will be held
at Richmond. Va, on the 30th of June
and LIST and I'd days of July next.
Widely scattered since the war by the
ties of family and old-tine firesides. by
the demands of business, by your natural
energies and by the necessities of life
you are coming Monochrome to the city
which is yours by the supreme tests of
the rain of fire through which you went
ana or the sea of blood through which
you passed, on the mission of her and
the common defense. You have been no
prodigal sons, for you inherited only the
remnants of rapacious raVaRe that was
rampant everywhere in your land be-
cause you had nothing left but the man.
hood, from which you were insepara BILE
But the fatted calf shall be killed for
you and we shall be merry together, not
because of pity for your sins, but be-
cause pride in your fame demands.
You shall traverse again the streets
which thrilled to the tread of your le-
glons while they We're passing to the
ranks OF the best army the world ever
knew.
You shall be confronted by the Virgins
ians who We're the comrades of your inn
mortal glory and who are your brothers
forever
You shall see again the women who
nursed you back to vigor from the feeble
ness of wounds and want from the
Wretched woe of your losses, and who
pointed the dying gaze of your fellows
to the Heaven which stopped to enfold
them.
Your eyes shall behold for themselves
the city which proudly wrapped herself
in your patriotic flames, from which she
has emerged a thing of beauty and a
joy for always
You shall revisit the battlehelds which
nave been consecrated by your blood,
and where, If you lost your country, you
found a fame that fills the world
Heartily helped by our city and her
citizens, we are building for you a place
of reunion in which 10000 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 reun-
ion 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 dweit as such
in the capital of your Confederacy, but
because he was the unspeakable type
of that ineffable manhood which made
the armies of the south.
During your stay here there will be
many bivouac, where, not in bravado
or disloyalty, but for sweet memorys
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 and to these bivouacs. Before we
pass to the great beyond we ought to
have one more bout and toast together
The toast shall be to our own memories
and to our Confederate comrades wher-
ever they may be, but it shall carry along
with 1t brave blessing for our fellow
citizens everywhere, determined devo-
ton to the safety, honor and welfare of
the entire country
PEYTON WISE Chairman :