The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-02
M'LAWS CAMPS MEETING.
THE LAST BEFORE THE CHARLES
TON REUNION.


tend VIII Go in BOdy-Gen.
Joseph Wheeler to Deliver the
Opening Address-Meetings of
ChapIains and Surgeons of the
Confederate Armies to BE Held
During the Reun1On-COnfedera
Veterans Association Meets To-
night.
The last meeting of Lafayette McLaws
Camp of United Confederate Veterans that
will be held prior to the Charleston re-
union was held at Confederate Hall last
night There was a full attendance and
many matters Of interest to The delegates
to the reunion and TO the members of the
camp in general were discussed. Arrange
ments for the trip to Charleston and for
the speedy transaction of the necessary
routine business that will come up there
were perfected.
It is expected that between thirty-fve
and forty members of the camp will go
to Charleston, and 1t was decided to go In
a body on the train leaving Savannah al
1:95 O'Clock, city time, on the afternoon of
..
Charleston in ample time TO prepare them
selves for the work of the sessions OF the
convention and 10 arrange concerted
plan of action.
The Confederate Veterans Association
will be notified of the fact that McLaws
camp will leave on the train at the time
mentioned and will be asked to make the
trip at the same time and as one party.
This is 10 the end that the delegation
from Savannah may make as good show
as is possible.
The menb ers of the camp will meet at
the HEADQUARTERS of the Georgia DIVISION
South Carolina Hall, on Meeting street,
between Broad and Tradd streets. at
o'clock on the morning of the parade the
first day of the reunion. The parade VIII
be through the principal streets OF the city
to the auditorium and only special guard
of honor, representing the whole South
will go out to Magnolia cemetery where
memorial exercises at the graves OF the
Confederate dead will be held.
A matter of prime Importance to the
members of the association is the proposed
change of name from United Confederate
Veterans to Confederate Survivors Asso-
citation. This change has been proposed
al the last two reunions of the association,
but has each time failed to secure the num-
Der of votes necessary to effect its passage.
Its chief claim TO consideration is that it
preserves the initial letters c. s. A, dear,
of course to the heart of every Confeder-
ate soldier, and for this reason those who
favor it have ardently urged its passage.
1t is opposed on the ground that the term
survivor is a trif1e broad in its meaning,
and that it could very well include those
who were skulkng at home, well as
those who fought the battles of the Con-
federacy. To the old soldier the title OF
veteran" conveys an honor and distnc-
ton that the other word cannot reach
and for this reason most of them
are anxious to retain IL and very
decidedly averse to seeing it changed.
This was the concensus of opinion at
the meeting of McLaws Camp, and its
delegates will probably vote against the
proposed amendment to the constitution.
Some confusion has arisen in reference
to which of the sponsors and maids of
honor, representing the various camps and
divisions of the association, the reunion
committee expects to entertain. A para
graph in a recent issue of the Charleston
News and Courier left many persons I'M
der the impression that all of the sponsors
and their attendant trains of beauty were
to be looked after by the committee
whether they represented a division or
congressional district or a single canp.
The matter has been settled by letter
from Gen. c. l. Walker, chairman of the
committee, in which he states that on,y
sponsors and maids of honor from general
and division headquarters are to be enter
tanned by the reception committee. As
the number of these young women repre.
senHng the camps of the association ia
expected 70 reach 1900, it will be seen that
any scheme looking to their entertainment
during the reunion would be impractical
be
Besides the general work of the conven-
ton two offshoots of the association in
the shape of the organizations that have
been perfected by the chaplains and sur-
geons of the Confederate service, viii hold
meetings during the time the reunion is in
progress. The chaplain general and sur
geon general of the association. Rev Dr
J. William Jones and DR.. c. H. Tebault
have issued appeals to all members of their
respective branches of the service TO at
tend the reunion and these gatherings Of
the old preachers and doctors of the Com
federate armies. Through the agency of
these meetings it is expected and honed
that the names and rank of every surgeon
and chaplain wiz be collected and nre-
served in permanent form, so that tho
grand work they accomplished and Tho
arduous duties that they performed SHAH
not be forgotten but preserved in the az
fecionate remembrance of their country
men.
The opening address of the reunion will
be delivered by Maj Gen. Joseph Wheeler
and it is safe to think that the prosT.sct
of seeing and hearing this distinguished
veteran of Two wars will be the controIl
ing motive that will induce the attendance
of many.
The Confederate Veterans Association
Will meet at Confederate Hall tonight
at which time its concluding arrangeD,ents
for the reunion will be perfected Tha os0
ISOLATION expects 70 carry to Charlesto,
about sixty of its members. and unifor,,,-
for all of, them, as well as for the r,a,,,
bers of McLaws Camp. will be nrovidaJ
Cooks Imperial Champagne Extra Drv
for the yacht, camping party, summon ~
TEL fishing party mountain. seashore. or
the picnic.-ad. vi
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