Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-01
CONFEDERATE VETERANS.


living.
CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
At Louisville yesterday all the Of
ficers of the United Confederate Veter.
ans were elected by reclamation. The
list is az follows:
Gen. John B. Gordon, general COM
manding.
Lieutenant General Wade Hampton
Army of Northern Virginia, depart
ment commander.
Lieutenant General s. d. Lee, COM
handing Army of Tennessee Depart
ment.
Lieutenant General w. l.. Cabell,
commanding Transmississippi Depart
ment.
A resolution was offered by Gen. S,
d. Lee providing that message Of
sympathy be sent to Gen. Wade Hamp-
ton. who is i'll.
Col. Packard, OF Louisiana, intro
duced a resolution providing for the
erection in Richmond of monument To
commemorate the sacrifice and loyalty
of the women OF the Confederacy dur
ing the war.
Hon. J. H. Reagan, OF Texas. asked
that the monument should be placed ir
some central part of the Confederacy
The matter was referred to commit
tee.
The afternoon session opened with
the reading OF statement from the
Daughters of The Confederacy, present
ed by J. Taylor EllysoD, Of Richmond
After the report was read subscriptions
were received for the Davis monument
and it was announced that close To
S., 500 had been raised for the monu
ment fund. 1t was announced that
$26. 900 had already been raised. I'm.
mediately following this announcement
came the election OF officers and the
speech of Gen. Cabell, after which the
convention adjourned until today
when the selection Of the next place o.
meeting will be made.
Mrs. Margaret Jefferson Hayes and
her daughter, Miss Varina Jefferson
Davis Hayes, the daughter and grand
daughter of Jefferson Davis, arrived
yesterday and are the guests of Colone
and Mrs. Bennett II. Young.
On account of rain the big barbecues
sham battles, picnics and tournaments
had to be postponed, but every one o
the Is 900 old soldiers within the city'f
gates. and all of the 40, 900 other visitors
enjoyed themselves Notwithstanding.
Among the resolutions that are to be
offered during the meeting will be one
pettioning the President to name @
cruiser "Helen Could" land another
memorializing Congress to increase the
pensions of Mexican War veterans.
Mrs. George E. Pickett ia present
and is receiving much attention. To
day she will visit the headquarters OF
the Virginia division, where an ovation
awaits her.
By a vote of 101 to 68 the Sons OF
Confederate Veterans refused to lay on
the table motion that only the Con.
federate flags be carried in the Sons of
Veterans division OF the Confederate
reunion parade today.
The report OF the historical commit
tee was read.
Among other interesting effects it
speaks of the advance 10 southern
property value. The wealth of the
eleven Confederate States in 1890 was
S. ITO, 275, 1929. 10 twenty years OF re-
construction the States have gained
So, 81 ,526, 022, q gain of 200 per cent.
The committee states that many pub
locations have been grossly unjust to
the southern soldier; that text books
were false in statement, unfair In treat
ment, and taught lessons of partisan
animosity. "We recommend as the
true remedy" Gays the report, ''not
counter partisan publications, but
works OF broad and patriotic tone, If
ed above partisan rancor or contro-
versial clsmor, which should show the
truth OF history, and we urge that
southern pens should vindicste the
southern history before the world and
In the schoolroom."
10 this connection the committee
takes occasion to pay tribute to Lin
coin. 1t says:
I'm order that neither this committee
nor the association may be construed as
expressing statements antagonistic to
President Lincoln or derogstory to his
memory, we testify in the name Of the
association and place on record the high
sense in which Confederate soldiers en-
terrain OF the magnanimity of President
Lincoln. His untimely death by the
hand OF the assassin was q disaster to
the South, and no one deplored that
death more than the Confederate SOL
dier.D