Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1900-10-17
MEETING OF rHE
GRAND CAMP OF CON-
FEDERATE VETERANS.

OF all the lovely cite, and towns Of
the Valley of Virginia, no other place
could have surpassed it' "Qucen City,
Staunton, in the cordial welcome given
and the graci Jus hospitality dispensed
to the brttle-scarre3 vete ans Of Vir.
einia who met within her gates last
week. The Grand Camp of Virginia
representative body OF The "fadioe
az line" was there; the Survivors OF
It,. .Jtonewall Brigade wer, there; The
First Vir Iinia Cavalry, which hoped
to make Fitztugh Lee and "Jeb.
Stuart famous, was there; and Me-
Causl .nd's "Rough Riders" 10 he
person of the Fourteenth Cava ny, were
| also there. These old men again built
| their camp fires and recounted tie
stories of the thrilling times and
scenes through which they had pas Led
General Stith Boiling, of Petersburg,
grand commander, presided, and all
the other officers of the grand camp
were present There was full dele.
gatian from the 95 camps in The State,
Much OF the business done was for the
"good of the ORDER" routine in its
nature, AMI unintei esting to the gen
eral reader. But one matter is oil
sig ifcance, aud that was the rep 1T Of
the Inspector. general, in speaking Of
the great work done by Lee-Jackson
Camp of Lexington in formulating q
roster Of all the Confederate soldiers
of Rockbridge who served ia the Con-
federate armies. He quotel from
Assistant Inspector General J. Scott
Moore's report which said:
"Oi Lee-Jackson Camp of Lexingto on,
of which 1 am a member, it has accom-.
plished great work in the past two
years. In season and out OF seas IN a
committee of three veterans, one for
cavalry, one for artillery and one for
infantry, worked nearly two years it
getting together the nanes of all the
men from the county of Rockbridge
who served at any time in the armies
of the Confederacy. These rolls are
now ready to be recorded in the county
court clerks Office Rockbridge had
from frat to last 16 companies and
furnished about $500 soldiers. The
work OF collect ting all the data neces-
saly to make complete roster was a
laborious one, but one OF love and
duty, rescuing, as they did, from obllv-
ion, the names of over 800 brave men
WAC sleep in death on battlefelds ard
in prison and hospitll graveyard.
Future generations can now, with a
certain identity, point with pride to
the fact that their grandfather or great
grandfather was one-of that band Of
immortal heroes: The example Of
Lee jackson Camp is one worthy of
emulation by every camp within tbs
grand Jurisdiction"
The reading of this section Of the
report was heartily applauded. Mum
bers of camps have resolved to Try and
do the same thing. Under the law re-
Gently enacted by the Virginia Legis-
lature commissioners of the revenue
are required to list the names of all
Confederate soldiers, but the dead are
left out together with the history OF
the living. r, E. Lee Camp OF Rich
mond is moving on the same line OF
the Lexington camp, and other camps
are gong 10 DO the same way,
The report of the history committee
was made Though it's chairman, Judge
George L. Christian, of Richmond. :.
tit successor of DR.. Hunter MCGUIRE,
its former chairman. This was pro-
found paper in which he argued and
showed that the North was the aggres-
sor and inaugurated the civil war.
On Thursday Major John W. Daniel |
addressed the veterans in Columbian |
Hall, He was at his best, and his ad-
dress one of rare eloquence. He was
introduced by lieutenant George W.
Finley (now pastor of Thinking Spring
,h1rch). Major Daniel, in reply to his
Hor is of commendation, said "From
no human lips would 1 rather hear
phrases of commentator than from
'ne who wore the gray, and indes
hall sleep well if L spend my life in
manner satisfactory to them" He ex-