The age-herald., 1901-05-31
The Old Warriors Given a Grand Ovation as They
 Marched the Streets
FOUR THOUSAND MEN IN LINE
Many of the South's Heroes, Men Whose Glorious Deeds History Hands Down to Posterity Bowed
 Acknowledgement to ovations.

Memphis, May 30-Marching once more beneath their battle flags. their hearts afiame with the glorious memories of forty years, their advance and halt once more regulated by the bugle's blast, their steps again timed by the tap of drums, 4,OOO of the south's immortals marched through the streets of Memphis today.
 That the recollection of what they dared, of what they suffered and endured, that the appreciation of their constancy, their triumphs and their valor, are still as fresh in the hearts of their people as ever they have been in the past, the old soldiers received ample evidence today. As their columns passed along the crowded streets the cheers that came to them from the throngs that lined the thoroughfares, the frequent applause that hoated down from balconies. windows and housetops, caused the old eyes to. brighten, the old shoulders to spring backward and the marching ranks to close up, as if to show that although they were now less vigor- ous than of old, there was time when they were as manly men as trod the earth, and who feared nothing that could be sent against them by a world in arms. 1 It would be no mortal man who, conscious l of duty done as he best could do it. with | his heart filled with the memories of the manifold hardships of war bravely done, the attenuation of the triumph of victory and the bitterness of defeat, could remain unmoved by the enthusiastic ac- acknowledgement of his fellow citizens of Ina 6AIz% ftAxr others who had done as he had done | On this, as on all similar occasions, there was underlying the joy and cheers, the strong current of sorrow that swept I out toward those men who died in fight, l who, their need assured by the price they paid, had earned above all others l the right to hear the plaudits of those they loved and for whom they gave their | lives and whose hands the old soldiers of today can never clasp until the years are l gone and there is a full muster of the armies of the South beyond the river of | death.
 l It was day ideal for a parade, sun shining at intervals, at times hidden by clouds gentle breeze barely strong enough to lift to their full length the banners carried by the marching men, a temperature warm enough to be com fortable but in no sense oppressive. 1 The Parade.
 The announcement was made yester- day by Commander John B. Gordon that the parade today would start promptly at 10 o'clock but unavoidable delays caused fully thirty minutes to elapse l from that time before the march was started. By 8 o'clock the crowds had l commenced to arrive and seek places of l vantage from which to view the pageant and by 10 o'clock there was no standing l room to be had on any sidewalk along the line of march and the crowd had | everywhere overflowed into the street. The police vainly endeavored to keep all sightseers upon the sidewalk but they were contending with the proposition of | crowding the larger body into the smaller space and necessarily gave up the under taking. In front of the grand stand on Main street there was a solid mass of 1 humanity which for time defed all eff forts to open a passage through which the parade would pass. It was finally done, however, and once the parade was | in full swing 1t moved steadily on there being but few delays and these of no consequence
 A detail of mounted police led the way
 
 | and cleared the streets for clattering | squadron of horsemen acting as escorts | to General Gordon, who, preceded by the mammoth band of the First Ohio Infan- try. rode slowly along. his form as erect, his head as high and his hands on the | brtdle as light and firm as in his younger days. His right hand was in almost cease less motion as he raised his hat to ac- knowledge the cheers that came to him from all sides. He rode a beautiful iron | gray horse. while Adjutant General Moor man, who was at his left hand, bestrode an animal as handsome in form and of a I lighter gray. Both generals are superb | horsemen, and a handsome picture they made.
 The Mothers.
 Behind General Gordon came carriages containing the southern mothers. Mrs. Mary E. Cummings Mrs Emily F. Ball, Mrs Floir Wormsley. Miss Bettie Yan- cey, Mrs J. H. Humphreys, Mrs. P. r. Edmonds and Mrs. Virginia l.. Sneed. In the ranks the veterans of the Army of Northern Virginia were given the right of the line and Virginia had the lead. First among them came the Monticello | Guard acting as escort for the sponsors for the Department of Virginia. who rode. as did the sponsors of all other divisions. in carriages gay with the Confederate colors and bearing on the sides shields of red. white and blue. on which appeared the name of their state.
 Then came Generals Fftzhugh Lee and Joseph Wheeler, the former on the right, the latter on the left. The welcome &C., corded them rivaled that extended Gen. eral Gordon. and all along the line there was continuous roar of cheers for each as an individual and for Lee and Wheeler l together Behind the two generals marched the men from Smith Camp and l Watts Camp, United Confederate Vet erans, each man waving a small banner bearing the words 'R. E. Lee, Our Com l mander."
 | The men of the ''Old North State" were next In line to Virginia. and they car ried the first battle flags seen in the pa- rade. The crowd cheered again and again as the old banners that had fioated in the smoke of the ploodiest battles of the war I went by. The second brigade of North l Carolina troops was composed of the fa- nous Tar Heels" Carbarass Camp and l survivors of tho Thirty-ninth North Caro- 4~<a Co Al- ~A