The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-04
A SPECIAL FOR VETERANS.
WILL CARRY THEM AND THE
CADETS TO wAYCROsS REUNION.

Train to Leave Plant System Depot
at 6:30 O'CIOck-AnnOunceme nts
of Arrangements for the Trip Made
Mt Confederate Veterans Asssocia-
tinO Observation-Disclosures Sixty and
Seventy-fve Members of the Two
Camps Expected to Go-Cadets VIII
March From Armory to Train.
Veterans Contributed to MOnu-
ment to Confederate Dead In phil
adeIphin.
A special train. carrying the delega-
tons from the Savannah camps of veter-
ans and from those of the surrounding
counties, the members of the Savannah
Cadets and others who will attend the
reunion of the South Georgia brigade of
veterans at Waycross, will leave the
Plant System depot at $50 o'clock this
morning.
The train will be run on city time and
will leave the depot ten minutes later
than the regular early morning train to
Waycross. The time of its departure
from Waycross will be announced during
the festivities in honor of the boys in
gray and will be dependent largely upon
their convenience. The expectation is,
however tbat it will leave about o.
clock. TAfexcursion tickets that will be
sold will be good not only on the special,
but also on the regular train leaving
Savannah at sos o'clock and may be pur-
chased and used by citizens generally, as
we'll as by those having some official con-
nection with the reunion and it's attend
ant events.
These arrangements were announced at
the meeting of the Confederate Veterans
Association at Confederate Hall last night.
1t is stated that between sixty and sew
enty-1ve veterans from the two camps In
Savannah will attend the reunion, the
ISOLATION sending between thirty-five and
forty and McLaws' Camp between thirty
and thrty-five. Most of these will be ac
companied by some members of their fam
HES and the presence of number of
young women, who are likely to be of the
party, will render the trip TO the reunion
city more pleasant and agreeable than
would otherwise be the case.
The special train is a convenience that
will add much to the pleasure of the trip
and, in consequence, to the number of
those who will make il. Its direction will
be controlled largely by the excursionists
from Savannah thus enabling them to
leave Waycross at the time most conven-
lent to them, and to reach Savannah a 4
reasonable hour.
The veterans will not march to the de-
pot in a body, but will assemble at the
train II is probable that the Savannah
veterans will all parade together in Way
cross.
The Savannah Cadets, who will act as
military escort to the veterans on the trip
and during the parade, will assemble a.
the armory of the First Regiment at 5:45
o'clock and march thence to the depot.
The Cadets will wear blue uniforms blue
shirts, campaign hats and leggins. The
company will be under the command e
Capt. J. T. West. Both company subal-
terms, Lieut.. j. c. Tyson and Lieut.. George
Fl. Richter will accompany the Cadets.
The Confederate Veterans Associate
elected last night one new member E. NJ.
Anderson, and the applications of two eth
ers were read. These latter applications
passed their first reading and were re-
ferred to committee for investigation of
the applicants war records and report to
the next meeting of the association.
The secretary read communication
from Miss Gertrude Agnes Byers, men,
Der of the Monument Committee of the
Gen. Dabney II. Maury Chapter of Daugh-
tiers of the Ccnfederacy of Philadelphia.
The letter was one of a number sent out
to camps of Confederate veterans, request
ing from each member a donation of five
cents, for the purpose of aiding in building
a monument to the memory of the Confed-
crate dead, who sleep in the National Gem
etery at Philadelphia.
The letter reoftes that during the war
between the states 224 Confederate pris-
oners of the war died in or near the city
in which the chapter is located. Some six
or seven years ago the bodies of these
gallant soldiers were collected and rein
TERED in the National Cemetery by the
Grand Army of the Republic Since that
time the chapter of the Daughters have
been decorating these graves on each Me
mortal Day with wreaths of laurel tiec
with the Confederate colors
The letter continues: 1T is now our
desire to erect monument tc these brave
men and have for that purpose several
hundred dollars, one hundred of which has
been voluntary and unsolicited donations
from the Grand Army and other North
erners."
The camp decided una nimously to accede
to the request and the members present
at the meeting turned over the small do
nation that was asked to the treasurer
others who were not present may remit
cents each to him, designating the pur-
pose for which it is intended. While the
individual subscriptions are thus unim-
portant, they will make in the aggregate
a very large sum, quite sufficinet to
raise such monument as Is desired to
the memory of this body of Confederate
dead, sleeping in Northern soil Treas
urer John S. Haines will be glad, there
fore, to receive the subscriptions