The San Francisco call., 1898-05-29

n wAJoR BEVERLY MORTIMER was Tennessean N IH and proud o took part in the battle of NIl and with Sherman when he cap " tured Johnston, and in all the intervening there was hardly day in which there @ naa
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 He prospered his profession. but time wore on toward opponents and their survivors He was an eloquent impassioned stumpspeaker, and he had be energetcally waved the boody shirt through many a yalorous campaign Tennessee being border State there were many ex-Confederates in and about Bradford Major Mortimer referred to them as the enemy seventies eighties just as ne had in the sixties assuages grefs and sofens many asperities could do nothing with the major
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 Months rolled years. at each cycle General Baker would flowers it's increas ing graves Stonewa Jackson Camp would perform similar service of the Confederate dead Else where in world the whrgig of time was bringing about its changes Henry w. Grady of Georgia-no of he United States-had made his famous speech the New South" to of New York and ac- began appear in the here and there of the joining of Confederate soldiers Memo the of heroes who had fallen on both sides of fratricidal conflict.
 It was a meeting of Baker Post held to make ar rangernents of these annual ceremonies that bomb was thrown which for time bade fair to destroy Captain Bogard of the progressive the post and gallant soldier well intro requesting Stonewal JacKson Camp to join post in observing the approaching holiday utter silence and all eyes turned nstinctively Major Mortimer That worthy for an instant with astonishment then temporarily resgnng he stepped to the floor and for a quarter O such stream of satire, sarcasm, nvective poured from his lips had never been heard Bradford before. Trembling with he declared that he overcome with sorrow at the thought