The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-27
MEMORIAL DAY AT WAYCR0SS
4 Splendid Celebration and Fin
Speech by Capt. kinRsberrY.

Speech by Capt. kingsberrS.
Waycross, Ga, April 26.-Memorial Da5
was appropriately celebrated in Waycros
to-day by the South Georgia Camp Of Cos
federate Veterans. The day was an ideal
one for the purpose, and a large crowd .
people witnessed the parade and took
part in the exercises at the cemetery. Tho
| procession formed on Pendleton street,
near the Phoenix Hotter, and consisted
of the Waycross Rifles, long line OF car
riagos, the Old veterans and Daughter
of the Confederacy. At Mary street IN
children OF the public schools joined. Tn
parade was headed by Rev. J. b. x.
Smith the marshal of the day, and fou
beautiful young ladies on horseback. The
young ladies' were Misses Della Carswell,
Gussie Sharpe, Carrie Perham, and Kate
Johnson.
The Confederate Veterans formed an
important link in the long procession.
They were in charge of Judge A. p.
Perham, Mayor r. =. Bird and Capt.
W. M Hardin En- route to the ceme-
terry the Southern Polytechnic School
joined in headed by Prof 5. p. Settle.
This school bore a very well executed
Confederate battle flag. The procession
was nearly a mile in length. Arriving
at the cemetery, Rev. r. A. Brown offer
ed an earnest prayer ana Hon. l.. A.
Wilson, in a few appropriate remarks,
introduced Capt. S. F. KingsOerry of
Valdosta, the orator of the day.
Capt Kingsberry delivered an eloquent
address 90 the vast audience. He paid
high tribute to the noble women of the
South, who staid a home and wrought
with their hands so that their husbands
and fathers and sons might go and fight
for the cause so near their heart.
He spoke in the indirect manner of the
old-time darkies who remained on the
planta tons during the dark days of the
struggle and protected the women and
children. In all those years, the speaker
said, he never heard of an outrage or an
attempted outrage.
Then he spoke of the Southern soldier
as a warrior. introducing various ex-
tracts from prominent writers on both
sides of the line, to show that no soldiers
under the sun were Drawer and more dar-
ing than the men who wore the gray
At the conclusion of the address Col. J.
b. X Smith made a few remarks com
plimentng the women of the South
He was followed by Prof
f. A. Pound, superintendent of the public
schools, who delivered one of his usually
eloquent addresses. MIR. Pound had been
selected as the spokesman for the Daugh-
ters of the COnfederacy, who were pres
ent to pin crosses of honor on the old
heroes of the war.
Mrs J. II. Redding, Mrs. e. A. Pound
Mrs. j. f. WadIey, Mrs c. A. Sheldon,
Mrs w. f. Parker, Miss Kate johnson,
Miss Virginia Syon and others went upon
the platform and pinned crosses of honor
upon the eX-Confederate soldiers who had
been so fortunate to get in their appli-
cation for the badges of honor.
The crosses had these words on one
side Southern Cross of Honor, Dec Vim
dice. 1S6l-1S65," On the reverse side
Daughters of the Confederacy to the
United Confederate Veterans"
AS Adjutant r. p Bird called their
names, twenty-eight of the veterans re-
sponded, and the Crosses of Honor were
pinned on the lapel of their coats by the
hands of the fair women.
~ The assembly, led by Rev. j. M Glenn,
sang America" after which Mr. Glenn
pronounced the benediction
Then the brightest flowers of the sea-
son were placed upon the mounds mark
ing the resting places OF our noble dead
Seventeen brave ex-Confederate soldiers
sleep beneath the sod in the Waycross
Cemetery
The closing feature of the days exer-
eises was the firing of salute by the
Waycross Rifles and the sounding of taps
by the bugler of that company.
Nearly every business house in town
closed up a 2:30 in honor of the occa-
sion. The day was observed by the banks
ana the postoffice as a holiday.