The age-herald., 1900-05-29
CONFEDERATES HAVE
 BEGUN THE ADVANCE
Louisville Will CapituIate Wed-
 neSday Morning.
ADVANCE GUARD ARRIVES
As Fast as the Veterans Arrive They will be Taken to Their State Headquart- CTS Where Complete Registers
 Will be Kept

Louisville. Ky, May 2S.-The Confederates have begun to invade Louisville. Although only the advance guard have arrived, every incoming train tonight and tomorrow will bring great crowds and by Wednesday morning it is believed there will be fully lOO, 900 visitors in the city, including 10000 veterans of Grand Army of the Republic.
 Adjutant General Moorman, the first of the chief officers to arrive, reached Louis- vile tonight from his home in New Orleans and proceeded at once to the Louisville ho- tel where he established the headquarters of the United Confederate Veterans. With General Moorman was number Of New Orleans Veterans, including Mir. Tebault, the surgeon general of the Confederate na- tionaI organization.
 General John B. Gordon, the commander in-chief, and Rev. B. M. Palmer, the open ing day orator, will reach here tomorrow afternoon.
 Judge J. H. Reagan of Dallas, Texas, distinguished Confederate veteran, and the only surviving member of the Confederate cabinet will also arrive tomorrow at the head of a big delegation.
 Among the prominent arrivals today was General OlepneH D btS ol NoiuiiipNa' Miss, one of the five surviving lieutenant, generals of the war. The news that Gen eral Lee had arrived caused number of his old comrades to flock to his hotel to greet their old comrade.
 While more than three score in years. General Lee is yet a vigorous man, and looks as though he could stand another campaign. When he tells story his eyes sparkle and 1t is with evident delight that he relates some incident of the battle field All the state headquarters have been open ed for several days, and when the veterans arrive they will be immediately escorted to their respective state headquarters, where a committee of the local veterans will be in waiting to attend to the entertainment of the visitors.
 Registers have been supplied each of these state headquarters, and every vet eran from that state or who served in the troops raised in it during the war, is expected to register, giving his home ad- dress, the company in which he served, and his boarding place in Louisville. In this manner it will be easy for any of the veterans to find each other.
 A telegram received today stated that large delegation from the Jacksonville Florida, board of trade would arrive to- morrow to make a fight for the next re- union.
 Buffalo and New Orleans are also candi- dates TOT the l9Ol reullon. General Evans Arrives
 Major General Clement A. Evans was the first to inscribe his name on the register at the G. A. R. headquarters The only prom inent Georgians who arrived tonight were w. B. Dent, Henry w. Hitting Cleveland and T. H. P. Bloodworth.
 There were about fifteen old Confederate at the Tennessee headquarters. Colonel Charles M. Hayes was the first to register. TIn Erc hAaxr al Uatn cha the Louisville and Nashville depot at 2:3O this (ruesday) morning, when three sec tions arrived carrying nearly 2,0OO people from as far south as New Orleans. Many on board preferred to remain there until daylight, but few got off and departed.
 The trains were handsomely decorated with stars and bars intertwined with the stars and stripes of the union, with here and there pictures of the illustrous leaders of the lost cause
 The gathering of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans promises to be the largest in the history of that organization. Their opening session will be called to or der by General Walter J. Colquitt of At lanta, commander in chief, Wednesday morning. The encampment will continue throughout Friday. On that day an elec- ton will be held for the office of command CT in chief.
 Buffalo has a strong delegation on the ground to secure the Confederate reunion in 1901.
 Tonight the first plea was presented at the meeting of the Confederate association of Kentucky. Their spokesman was a Con- federate soldier, A. R. Hendricks who said it was the first time in g years he had been permitted to address a meeting of Confederate soldiers in the south. He had | lived 32 years in the north, had married | northern girl, and raised family half reb | el and half Yankee He was a member of | Colonel Sol Ross First Texas regiment.