The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-21
Reunion of Orr's Regiment.

The nineteenth annual reunion of
the survivors of Orr's Regiment took
place last Wednesday Mt Sandy Springs,
in this County, where the Regiment
spent two months in the summer of
1861 preparing for the serious business
OF war. The survivors intended 10
meet and camp on the old camp ground
the night preceding, but the rain pre-
vented this, and the few who met there
spent the night in the Church.
"Wednesday morning the clouds hung
low and showers fell throughout the
day, which kept many of the old SOL
diers and their friends away.
Gen. II. r. Hemphill was reelected
president OF the Association and j. w.
thompson was continued rs secretary.
Comrades r: y. II: Lowery, w. T.
vice presidents. A committee consist
ing. of w. II. McGhee. w. Il. Ellis. w.
A. Barron, II. Y. II. Lowery and j. r.
Burns, was charged with the duty of
selecting the next place of meeting,
which is fixture for Tuesday after the
second Sunday in August
Col. Orr and Hon. Robert Aldrich, of
the gentlemen invited to address the
Association, were present and effective,
but Col. j. n. Brown sent letter Of
regret, which was read
Col: Orr made one of his charac;esis-
tic. OIL hand speeches, in which. after
speaking of the old regiment as one of
the finest bodies of men in the armies
of the Confederacy, he pleaded for q
correct history of the war to be taught
in the schools of the South, and for a
modest, but comfortable. home, with
land attached. III every county, where
the needy of the old soldiers may
round out their days secure from pri-
vatiOn and assured that their country
men are proud of them and their
deeds. He closed with m account of
the great progress the South is making
along all lines of industrial cndeavOr
just now, and predicted marvellous
showing for the future.
Col. Aldrich's address on "I'he Con-
fedcratc Soldier" was masterpiece,
being, among other things, complete
refutatiOn OF the aspersions cast upon
the Southern soldiers by Northern crit
les. That address, completely eXhnus-
tive of the subject and clothed in the
purest diction, should be given place
In tn" archives of the Association
Gen. iicmphill also made brief ad-
dress, the lending features of which
were running account Of his service
with the regiment from the 2Gtii of
June, 1862, to the dropping of the cur
tain at Appomattox, and an attack
upon the inequalities in the operation
OF the State pension law.
Since the death OF Mrs. Orr the man
tic of the mother of tho regiment is
being worn by Mrs. f. +. Ledbetter.
widow of Lieut.. Col. Ledbetter, killed
on the glorious field of Second Manas-
sas, and this good lady was present,
receiving tho respectful ,alntations of
her husbands old comrades in arms.
The oldest survivor present was II.
w. Haddon, of Company G. who is 81,
but the oldest living survivor of the
regiment is w. G.. Dickson, of Com
pany ID, who is living at White Mound,
Grayson County. Texas. Mr.. Dickson
is 50 and is totally blind.
". Il. Ellis, of Due West, was the
only survivor of the regimental band
present, in fact there is but one other
survivor of the musical corps, j. j.
Anscl, of Walhalln.