The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-07
MANY VETERANS WILL ATTEND
CONFEDERATE SOCIETIES GOING
TO CHARLESTON.

About 100 Veterans From savannah
Expected TO be Present at the sss-
siOns of the Reunion-SOns OF Vet
Grams and Daughters of the Con-
fcderacy VIII Also send Large Del
egations-CharlestO People Are
Making Elaborate Preparations
for the Social Entertainment of
the VisitOrs-COnventiOn of the
Sons of Confederate Veterans to
BE Held at the Same Time That
of the Veterans Themselves.
AT least 200 people from Savannah will
visit the Confederate reunion at Charles
ton on Wednesday. Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of this week. 1t is expected that
about 100 members of the Confederate Vet
Grams Association and McLaws Camp OF
Confederate Veterans win be in attendance
upon the sessions of the convention and
participate in the ceremonies ana parades
of the week.
From Francis S. Barlow Camp of Sons
of Veterans, between 20 and so Will go over,
and about an equal number from the local
chapter of Daughters of the Confederacy.
Men and women allied to no one of the
Confederate patriotic societies, but who
desire to witness the incidents that this
meeting of the old heroes who wore the
gray will produce and 10 visit the places
where so many of the stirring events of the
war transpired, will bring the number from
Y1,o n
certainly to 200. and possibly more
Charleston has much TO offer that is of
interest even to the mere sightseer. The
city was the cradle of the COnfederacy and
in her harbor the first shot of the war
was fired. In It's vicinity there are sights
and scenes that appeal to the Cover of the
beautiful in nature, and in art and every
street something to awake the interest and
quicken the pulse of those whose hopes
and love and lives were all once enlisted
upon the side of the lost cause.
To the young people the social features
of the week will prove most attractive,
almost every night of the convention be-
ing taken up with some function that Will
enable them 60 meet each other and TO
talk together, with throbbng hearts and
the fairer ones with dewy eyes, of the
times that were but are no more. So
cially, the reunion will be filled with gay
ETY. and the executive committee of citi-
zens of Charleston that has these matters
in charge promises that this feature VIII
be well looked after. The commanders of
the various divisions, brigades and camps
of the United Confederate Veterans and
Sons of Confederate Veterans have been
requested to forward to the chairman OF
the executive committee the names of
their respective sponsors and maids of
honor so that invitations TO all of The
receptions and other entertainments of the
reunion may be secured for them.
The sessions of the convention will be
of asIrong interest to the veterans. The
opening address will be delivered by Maj.
Gen Joseph Wheeler, and other distin-
guished sons of the South will speak dur
ing the four days 1t will last. "The Win
ME Davis Memorial Services" and other
special features will make the sessions at
tractive to those who attend, and the large
concourse of veterans which it is thought
will be larger than at any reunion since
that in Richmond in 1895, will make the
parade itself sight long to be remember
ed.
For the Sons there will be the sessions
of their own convention, which conYenes
and will continue at and for the same time
as that of the Veterans. They have been
invited to take part in the parade on May
10, which ii South Carolina is celebrated
as Memorial day. They will have assign
ed places in all the public ceremonies, and
a chance to assist in the work that is be-
ing done by their confederation, in con-
junction with the United Confederate Vet
Grams and the Daughters of the Confed-
eracy, of rescuing from oblivion the
names of the soldiers of the Confederacy
and of preserving in imperishable form the
story of their matchless deeds.