Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1901-01-17
CONFEDERATE REUNION.
The Memphis Meeting WIN Be the
Largest Ever Held.
The People of the Biun City VIII See to
II That the Old Soldiers Are Royalty
observation-disclosures of some of
Those who VIII he Present


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 Y took
place since the flag OF the Confederacy
was furled forever at Appomatox and
the plains of Texas. Memphis is
peculiarly well situated for the great
event. II is in the heart of the South.
Il IS equi-distant from Texas and Vir-
ginia and all Of the other States asst
and west of the Mississippi river that
their sons to the Lost Cause from
1851 to ISIS. Memphis realizes the fact
that her greatest achievement Is before
her. The ex-Confederates OF this city
and adjoining territory are keenly In
in the success of the reunion,
and every citizen of Memphis feels it
to be his patriotic duty to lend a help
ing hand toward making the coming
~sojOuru OF the survivors of the great
est army that ever faced q foe . 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
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 IL is understood that IL
$780, 600 are needed to entertain the
visitors the amount will be forthcoming.
One of the first Contributors to the fund
was a gallant Federal soldier. Captain
sam : Brown, of Pittsburg. Pa. who
eheerfully writes that everything pos
sible should be lone for the comfort Of
the visitors, and expresses himself a.
keenly approaching their valor. and
quantity closes his letter by saying that
he sends SO to help keep the pot
a-boIlin.' aud that il his friends in
Memphis require more, then more will
be forthcoming.
The finance committee has thoroughly
SA1AEAA - AAAAr "a HFNACAh A14tA
the able direction of A Il. Pickett,
editor and proprietor of the Evening
>cimitar, himself a son of a 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 u 1t is
the intention tha. the railroads shall
be prevailed upon to make extra
ordinary low rates from all points
from Washington City in the East to
z 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
then. expressed their intention of
most heartily cooperating in every way
that will tend to make the reunion a
success IL is intended that the vet
Grams shall be properly looked after
when they arrive Aspeeial committee
for this purpose. composed of some o.
the best men aud women of Memphis,
has already been appointed and Is ze-
lively a. work. \ bureau Of comfort
will be established A corps of physi-
ciansh have been pressed into service and
all of the details that will be conducive
TO the well being Of those visitors upon
whom the burden of years presses
harder and harder will be carefully ar
ranged Il IS the intention that nc
soldier, whether he wore the generals
stars. the sergeant's ehevron. or bore a
musket as a private, shall be neglected.
A committee for the selection OF
quarters. one for puolie halls. one for
hotels, oue for parade, one for music,
n for transportation, u for horses
and saddles and one for the entertain
ment of sponsors and specially invited
guests. have been appointed. A genera
reception committee. headed by Mayor
Williams. has already been formed. 1,
Is composed of representative citizens.
At the reunion the few Of the
surviving generals who led the hosts
of the Confederacy through all the
bloody days hat marked the course OF
the war. from Sumpter until the early
spring OF IS, 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 breastwork.
of the enemy on the bloody field Of
Franklin. will receive the Georgian o.
the same name. Forrest sleeps in Eln
wood cemetery of this city. but tn.
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 tn,
chapperals beyond San Jacinto. lack No
attention and want for no comfort wher
they come to the city that was tn,
home of their peerless leader who IA,
down his sword, accepted the issue o
the war and devoted hisdeclining wear
to the building up of his own ruined
fortunes and rehabilitating the laud h,
loved so well.
Simon Bolivar Buckner, now four
score and ten, who rests at Glen LiIy
in the evening of his life, will be here
And Cabell, of Texas, .aOld Tige,- on,
OF the bravest men that ever faced
bullet of a foe, will come aud gree
Wheeler and Lee, veterans of two wars
Stephen ID. Lee, of Mississippi
soldier, educator and gentleman, vii
meet Red Jackson of Tennessee
And the men who fought under Forres
knew Jackson Wade Hampton. tn,
beau sahreur of the Army of Virginia
p~atrician and wise councillor in tn
halls of the nation, will come from hi
home in the Savannahs of Carolina an,
meet the gallant Norman of Louis
lana, and mingle with the men fror
Missouri who fought with Price an,
Shelby.
Brave men love brave men. A con
mittee has been appointed to visi
Washington and confer with Presiden
Mckinley, himself a gallant soldier
and ask him as the president of tn