The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-01-19
CONFEDERATE REIlNION.|
The Memphis Meeting Will Be the
Largest Ever Held.
Tho People of the Bluff City zviII See to
1t That the Old Soldiers Are Royalty
observation-disclosures of Some of
Those Who VIII Re Present.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Jan. 1.-the re-
union of Confederate veterans which
will take place in this city May goth,
Soth and 3lst, promises to be the great
est in the history of the Confederate
organization, and will mark the gather
ing of more old soldiers than ever took
place since the flag of the Confederacy
was furled forever at Appomatox and
on the plains of Texas. Memphis is
peculiarly we'll situated for the great
event. 1t is in the heart of the South.
1t is equi-distant from Texas and Vir-
ginia and all of the other States east
and west of the Mississippi river that
gave their sons to the Lost Cause from
1861 to 1865. Memphis realizes the fact
that her greatest achievement is before
her. The ex-Confederates of this CITY
and adjoining territory are ke,nly in
terested in the success of the reunion,
and every citizen of Memphis feels it
10 be his patriotic duty to lend a help
ing hand toward making the coming
s%oJourn of the survivors of the great
est army that eve faced a foe a thing
of pleasure and comfort.
The finance committee has thoroughly
brought its affairs into system under
the able direction of A. b.. Pickett,
editor and proprietor of the Evening
Scimitar, himself a son of a gallant
Confederate soldier. This committee,
says Mr.. Pickett, will have every dol
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work of the other committees is also
being thoroughly mapped out. 1t is
the intention tina. the railroads shall
be prevailed upon to make extra
ordinary low rates from all points
from Washington City in the East to
FL Paso, Texas, in the West. 1t must
be said that the general officers of all
the railroads in the South and of the
northern railroads having branches in
the southern territory, have, many of
them, expressed their intention of
most heartily cooperating in every way
that will tend to make the reunion a
success. 1t is intended that the vet
Grams shall be properly looked after
when they arrive. Especial committee
for this purpose, composed of some of
the best men and women of Memphis,
has already been appointed and is &C.
lively at work. A bureau of comfort
will be established. A corps of physi.
clans have been pressed into service and
all of the details hat will be conducive
to the well being of those visitors upon
whom tho hrtr1an of a pracSas
harder and harder will be carefully ar.
ranged. 1t is the intention that nc
soldier, whether he wore the generals
stars, the sergeant's chevron, or bore a
musket as a private, shall be neglected.
A committee for the selection OF
quarters, one for public halls, one for
hotels, one for parade, one for music,
one for transportation, one for horses
and saddles and one for the entertain.
ment of sponsors and specially invited
guests, have been appointed. A general
reception committee, headed by Mayor
Williams, has already been formed. II
is composed of representative citizens.
At the n the few of the
surviving generals who led the hosts
of the ~Confederacy through all the
bloody days that marked the course OF
the war, from Sumpter until the early
spring of '65, will be present. Gordon,
the Chevalier Bayard of Georgia, will be
here. And Gordon, one of the young.
est generals of the war, he of Ten.
nessee, who rode over the breastworks
of the enemy on the bloody field OF
Franklin, will receive the Georgian OF
the same name. Forrest sleeps in Elm
wood cemetery of this city, but the
survivors of his command who are liv-
ing will see to it that those who fol
lowed him and are now scattered from
the rolling waters of the James to the
chapperals beyond San Jacinto, lack nc
attention and want for no comfort when
they come to the city that was the
home of their peerless leader who lay
down his sword, accepted the issue OF
the war and devoted his declining years
to the building up of his own ruined
fortunes and rehabilitating the land he
loved so well.
Simon Bolivar Buckner, now four
score and ten, who rests at Glen Lily,
in the evening of his life, will be here,
And Cabell, of Texas, "Old Tige," one
of the bravest men that ever faced a
bullet of a foe, will come and greet
Wheeler and Lee, veterans of two wars,
Stephen ID. Lee, of Mississippi
soldier, educator and gentleman, will
meet Red" Jackson of Tennessee
And the men who fought under Forrest
knew Jackson. Wade Hampton, the
beau sabreur of the Army of Virginia,
patrician and wise councillor in the
halls of the nation, will come from hi.
home in the Savannahs of Carolina and
meet the gallant Norman of Louis
lana, and mingle with the men from
Missouri who fought with Price and
Shelby.
Brave men love brave men. A com
mittee has been appointed to visit
Washington and confer with President
Mckinley, himself a gallant soldier
and ask him as the president of tn,
mightiest nation on earth, to lend hi,
presence and show of the world that II
the dawn of the twentieth century thi
nation stands united, one for all and al
for one.