The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-07-29
INSTRUMENTATION
SOUTH CAROLINA METROPOLIS Is
SELECTED BY VETERANS.
OLD HEROES PARADE IN RAIN.
Great Demonstration aa They Marched
Through Atlants's Streets Closing
Scenes Of Reunion.

United Confederate Veterans will be
held in Charleston, s. @.
By vote Of / 1854 70 $40 at Fridays
session Of the convention Of the o. @.
v in Atlanta, the contest between the
South Carolina city and Louisville YES
decided in the formers favor.
The advantages of the two cities and
the warmth of the welcomes they held
in store for the heroes who wore the
gray we're pictured in glowing terms
by the eloquent representatives which I
they had sent to capture the veterans.
So deeply impressed we're the yeter-
ans by the orators from Louisville that I
the sentiment was expressed that. in /
1900 they would gather there.
Daughter Of the Confederacy.
Shortly before the convention began
to act upon the matter Of selecting the |
next place Of convention Miss Winnie /
Davis was escorted into the hall by
members Of the Atlanta chapter of the
Daughters Of the Confederacy. No
sooner did the old soldiers catch sight
of her familiar face than they instantly
sent up their hats into the air in rap
turous demonstration of enthusiasm.
General Gordon was specially felici-
tious in presenting Miss Davis to the
veterans Said he:
Let me present to you the daugh-
ter of President Jefferson Davis, the
daughter of the confederaey and the
daughter of this organization. Com
rades, behold our daughteri"
Immediately after the selection Of
Charleston as the next meeting place,
General Cabell, of the Trans-Missis-
sippi department, stated that as there
was no business to be brought before
the convention Saturday he did not
think there was any necessity for an
other session.
This announcement was received
with approval, and in preparation for
winding up the reunion a number OF
resolutions were passed.
Atlanta was thanked upon the mo-
ton of the Washington City delega-
ton for the magnificent reception she
had accorded the veterans.
General Gordon was thanked for the
able, fair and impartial manner in
which he presided over the sessions of
the body. General s. d. Lee, and
the other officers were also accorded
thanks. The closing scene was q
magnificent one.
Marched In the Rain.
The parade of the United Confed-
ate Veterans association, which was
one of the grandest sights ever wit
messed in Atlanta and which promised
to be one of the largest ever seen in
the south, was interfered with by a
heavy downpour of rain Friday after
noon, which caused more than half OF
the participants to dispense and seek
shelter.
Though the rain fell in torrents and
the streets we're small rivers, the ma,
iority of the grizzled old veterans
marched through it as they did in the
sixties and seemed to enjoy it. Thous
ands of Atlanta's citizens and tens
of thousands of visitors watched
and cheered the mud-bespattere6
heroes as they marched to the tune Of
"Dixie" and slowly wiped the water
from their faces and wrung it out o.
their coats.
The sight was a remarkable one ant
one that will never be forgotten By
those who were fortunate enough Il
witness it, Here were hundreds o
old veterans, who have almost reached
the limit allotted to each man as life
marching light-hearted through tn,
streets Of Atlanta behind generals anC
COMMUNICATIVE led them in war, no
paying the slightest attention to tn
sheets of rain which beat against then
and remaining utterly regardless o
the consequences of the exposure.
The first portion of the parade was
grand success and here the veteran
were seen in oil their glory. True,
light rain fell from the time the parad
began to move, but it was not suficien
to interfere with the movements of tn
old soldiers. So it was that at th
given signal and at the sound c
"Dixie" from the Fifth regiment ban
the parade moved off and started on ii
, triumphal, through peaceful, marc
through Atlanta, which, on that sam
day, thirtysfour years ago, was bein
defended by the men in gray.
In honor Of these old men, who ar
an honor to their southland, Atlanta
\ entire population in addition to thou
4 sands Of visitors, stood on the street
Z through which the parade was to max
its way, and nothing daunted by th
rain, cheered Justify the old heroes q
they marched along
% The most remarkable thing of I'll