The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-01-18
CONFEDERATE REUNION.
The Memphis Meeting Will Be tho
Largest Ever Held.
The People of the Bluff City VIII See to
1t That the Old Soldiers Are Royalty
Observation-Disclosures of Some of
Those Who VIII Be Present.

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will take place in this city May Goth
Both and 31st, 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 well 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 keenly in
terested in the success of the reunion,
and every citizen of Memphis feels it
to be his patriotic duty to lend help
ing hand toward making the coming
sojourn of the survivors of the great
est army that ever faced foe a thing
of pleasure and comfort,
The city is working on the principle
that nothing is too good for the old
soldier. The commercial men of the
city realize the fact that nothing can
be done without money. The finance
committee, composed of many of the
most active men of the city, has already
gone to work. This committee will not
be satisfied. with anything less than
$4,000, and it is understood thot if
100000 are needed to entertain the
visitors the amount will be forthcoming.
One of the first contributors to the fund
was gallant Federal soldier, Captain
Sam S. Brown, of ttsburg, Pa, who
cheerfully writes that everything pos
sible should be done for the comfort of
the visitors, and expresses himself as
keenly approaching their valor, and
quantity closes his letter by saying that
he sends $500 to help keep the pot
a-bollin,'" and that if his friends in
Memphis require more, then more will
be forthcoming.
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 gallant
Confederate soldier. This committee,
says Mr.. Pickett, will have every dol
lar necessary for the occasion. The
work of the other committees is also
being thoroughly mapped out. 1t is
the intention that the railroads shall
be prevailed upon to make extra
ordinary low rates from all points
from Washington City in the East to
Ell 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 ia
the southern territory, have, many Of
them, expressed their intention OF
that will tend to make the reunion a
success. 1t is intended that the vet
Grams shall be properly looked after
when they arrive. A special 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
to the well being of those visitors upon
whom the burden of years presses
harder and harder will be carefully ar
ranged. 1t is the intention that no
soldier, whether he wore the generals
stars, the sergeant's chevron, or bore
nusket as private, shall be neglected.
A committee for the selection of
quarters, one for public halls. one for
hotels, one for parade, one for music,
0ne for transportation, one for horses
and saddles and one for the entertain
nent of sponsors and specially invited
yuests, have been appointed. 4 general
reception committee. headed by Mayor
Williams, has already been formed. 1t
S composed of representative citizens.
At the reunion the few of the
generals who led the hosts
If the Confederacy through all the
bloody days that marked the course of |
he war, from Sumpter until the early |
pring of '65, will be present. Gordon,
he Chevalier Bayard of Georgia, will be |
lere. And Gordon, one of the young
st generals of the war, he of Ten |
lessee, who rode over the breastworks |
If the enemy on the bloody field of |
will receive the Georgian of |
he same name. Forrest sleeps in Elm
wood cemetery of this city, but the |
urvivors of his command who are liv-
ng will see to it that those who fol-
owed him and are now scattered from |
he rolling waters of the James to the |
beyond San Jacinto, lack no
ttention and want for no comfort when
hey come to the city that was the
ome of their peerless leader who lay
own his sword, accepted the issue of
he war and devoted his declining years
o the building up of his own ruined
ortunes and rehabilitating the land he
owed so well.
Simon Bolivar Buckner, now four
core and ten, who rests at Glen Lily,
n the evening of his lie, will be here.
md Cabell, of Texas, ''Old Tige," one
f the bravest men that ever faced a
ullet of a foe, will come and greet
Wheeler and Lee, veterans of two wars.
Stephen d. Lee, of Mississippi,
older, educator and gentleman, will
leet RED" Jackson of Tennessee.
md the men who fought under Forrest
new Jackson. Wade Hampton, the
eau sabreur of the Army of Virginia,
african and wise councillor in the
alls of the nation, will come from his
ONE in the Savannahs of Carolina and
1eet the gallant Norman of Louis
ina, and mingle with the men from
lissouri who fought with Price and
helby.
Brave men love brave men. A COM