Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1900-06-08
VETERANSN PARADE
Old SeIdia sat Last Given Chance
For an "0uting."
THEY IIzGEl Ed AT LOUISVILLE

THEY IlNGEl Ed AT LOUISVILLE
Hxercisvv. Co.sn smorstins Jenerso
Davis ,sRsn<ssv y 'as Closing Evensof
SonSeSssu . Reunion.
The'last eyeryisea connected wit
the tenth annual SsuA ion Of the Unite
Confederate vsssssa g occurred
Louisville Sunday u hen the ninety
second anniversary 81 = be birth Of JET
fsson Davis was esssN we'd at Reunion
holl, with services il n iemory Of Mr.
Davis, Winnie Davis, Ii Q "Daughtel
Of tho Confedsmey, . and the Confed
crate dead.
although thousands Of the Confed
crate reunion visitors had left the ely,
8, 000'persons attended TIA +, exercises.
They were largely Of . reli gious char
acter,. but nevertheless tha re was ap.
plapse at times from the audience.
General Stephen d. Lee, who pre-
sided, suggested that there bN no dem
onstrations. Tho Rev. J. William
Jones Of Virginia. who delivered the
sermon OF the occasion, earnestly made
the same suggestion, and few min
utes later caused not only loud APP
planse, but one cheer, by relating Q
well known incident Of Spottsylvania.
Mrs. Hayes. the daughter Of Jeffer.
son Davis, and her daughter, Miss
wsrina Hayes, we're on the platform.
but 90 the services were concluding,
had to hasten TO . railroad station to
catch train. After they had left Gem
eral Stephen d. Lee held up to the
sight OF the audience battlefag bear
ing the same crepe Il bore when IL
waved over The grave Of Winnie Davis,
who had always heretofore attended
the reunions Of the Confederate vet
Grams. General Gordon had been ex.
pected TO preside and also to address
the audience, but he was called away
from Louisville and his place was
taken by General Stephen d. Lee.
OLD VETS PARApRD.
Although the reunion proper had
adjourned, the veterans who had not
left the city paraded the streets Of
Louisville Saturday. There was no
formal parade, although about 5000
veterans were in line, and fifteen musi
cal organizations made the air ring
with "Dixie." Every band in line
played '.Dixis, I" and the veterans yell
ed themselves hoarse. ''Dixie" vas
The big parade bad been called Oh.
but when the sun broke through~ths
dismal cloudiness Of the week the old
fellows could not resist the temptation
and fell into line, marching through
the principal streets Of the city.
OLD OFFICERS RR.ELRcrEn.
While the exercises OF the reunion
were in progress all the officers of the
United Confederate Veterans were re-
elected by reclamation. The election
was put through In record time, the
whole thing taking less than one
minute. The list of officers is as fol.
lows;
General John B. Gordon, general
commanding.
Lieutenant General Wade Hampton,
Army Of Northern Virginia depart.
ment. t
Lieutenant General 8. d. Lee, com.
handing army Of Tennessee depart.
ment.
Lieutenant General W. L. Cabell,
commanding Trans. Mississippi depart
ment
The reunion was one OF the most
successful from q standpoint Of bust.
ness ever held. The work was done
in manner entirely satisfactory. and
the demonstrations made cause the
officers to believe thst any feeling OF
unkindness that had existed toward
the foe OF the, sixties has been wiped
ont