The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-20
VETERANS CHOOSE OFFICERS.
THOSE WHO WILL SERVE THE AS
ISOLATION NEXT YEAR.

OriaE Day--Gen. McGIashnn RcnOm-
mated for President, Despite His
Protests-Most of the old Officers
TO Serve Again-The Presidents
Annual Report-His Touching
Tribute TO the Associations Dead.
Many of Its Best and AbIest Have
Passed Away.
A largely attended meeting of the Con-
federate Veterans Association was held
at Confederate Hall last night. It was
the ante -anniversary meeting of the asso-
citation, and the officers who will be elected
at the meeting on next Wednesday, to serve
during the ensuing years, were nominated.
They are as follows:
President-Gen. P. McGlashan.
First Vice President-Judge Robert Fall
CANT.
Second Vice President-Mr. Louis G.
Young.
Third Vice Presldent-Capt. John R. Dill
Ion.
Secretary-Mr Harry S. Dreese;
Assistant Seeretary-Mr. J. T. Kollock.
Adjutant-Capt. j. p White.
Treasurer-Mr. John S. Haines.
ergeant-at-Arms-Mr James Leonard.
Every nomination was unanimous, and
most Of them we're of the same officers
who have served the association during the
past year. Gen. McGlashan and Mr..
Dreese endeavored to decline renomina-
ton, but they were nominated before the
words of refusal and regret had left their
lips, and were compelled to accept by the
enthusiastic and rousing vigor with which
their nomina tions were received and made
unanimous by their comrades.
The nominations are, of course, equiva-
lent to an election, and at the anniversary
meeting there will be no opposition. In
deed, there was none at the meeting at
which they were nominated and there were
no opposing candidates for the positions,
In the matter of the selection of officers
the meeting resembled a love feast more
than it did a contest, and the motion to
close the nominations followed the nomi-
nation of every one of the officers and was
unanimously carried
Gen. MeGlashan submitted his annual
report as president of the association, which
was in part, as follows: Comrades: An
other year has passed over our heads since
the last anniversary meeting. and while
we have reason TO congratulate ourselves
on the work accomplished and the services
duly performed during the year just pass
ed, and to rejoice in the zeal manifested
and the harmony which has prevailed
among US. vet our hearts are saddened and
our effectiveness is crippled by the loss OF
many of our best and noblest comrades,
who were with us a year ago, full OF Ire
and hope and zeal for the cause that
unites us, but who have been called by the
Great Commander TO answer the last roll
call and rejoin, we believe and trust, their
loved comrades who have gone on before in
eternal rest
"Death loves a shining mark, and truly
the hath taken from our ranks those
whom he could have spared least. Com
rades William II. Patterson, l.. Y. Gibbes,
L. w. Landershine, II. p. Richmond,
Henry r. Jackson, F. w. Reid, Second
Vice President H. M Branch and Sergt.
Mai. w. C. Workman have left us to
mourn our heavy loss and to cherish in
our hearts the remembrance of their
many virtues.
''Realizing the injury to our regular
meetings in loss of attendance by having
no regular meeting place for the associa-
ton and also realizing the great good to
be done by uniting with us in harmony
and pleasant association the younger
bodies who are. zealously forwarding the
objects of the cause we honor and TO
whom as we pass away we shall leave
the sacred work, namely, the Daughters
of the Confederacy and the Sons of Veter-
ans. also to draw closer together the two
sister camps here, we succeeded in renting
until September. 1899 the hall we now oc-
cupy. In the decoration of this we are
under great Obligation to the Daughters
Of the Confederacy and the Sons of Vet
Grams. Heartily supported in the task by
McLaws Camp, l rejoice TO say that the
objects desired have been obtained, nil
four bodies uniting in the idea and using
the hall for their various meetings and
the male membership cooperating in the
annual expense"
The president called the attention of the
association to the increasing necessity OF
saving the members all needless inconven-
fence at funeral ceremonies. While we
honor the dead" he says, I'VE should be
careful of the living and l, therefore, sug-
gest in future that passing corteges be
saluted by placing the right hand on the
left breast without uncovering except at
the grave, when we might uncover as the
remains are lowered in the grave. All
long marches should be avoided as much
as possible"
Concluding. President McGlashan said:
Let us approach our great Memorial day
in reverence and sweet remembrance of
our glorious, yet sad, past when all was
lost save honor and the sacred memory of
our Confederate dead" The report was
ordered filed with the records, and Will
be published in the next annual of the
association.
The meeting was advised of the offer
of Capt Frank Stringfellow. chaplain of
the Forth Virginia, to deliver before the
Sons Of Veterans his lecture on Scout
Life in the Army of Northern Virginia"
and the fact that the veterans and the
public generally are invited to be pres
ent. The veterans approve the project
and many of them will attend. The badge
selected for the use of the members of
the association, during the reunion at
Charleston, was submitted by Adjutant
]. P. White, and was adopted.
Messrs. D. Y. Dancy and Clayton Woods