The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-27
FOUGHT BATTLES OVER.
Confederate Veterans Associations
Annual Meeting.

The annual meeting of the Confederate
Veterans Association was held at Con-
federate Hail at noon. 1t was largely at
tended and was one OF the most enthusi-
astic and delightful gatherings the asso-
| citation has had for many years.
The formal business of the meeting was
transacted quickly and then business gave
way to talks and informal discussion OF
the thrilling events of the War Between
the States. Maj. Robert Stiles, formerly
of Savannah, and now of Richmond, made
one of the most stirring speeches upon
the valor of the Confederate soldier and
the nobility of the cause for which he
fought that Savannah has heard for many
year; Gen. P. McGlashan told of the
Fiftieth Georgias gallant service at the
Battle of Cold Harbor,. and Maj. j. K.
Sheldon, adding something to what Gen.
McGlashan had said, spoke with such un-
usual freedom and spirit that Judge Fal-
ligant said he had never heard him so
eloquent.
All the officers, nominated at the ante
anniversary meeting held a week ago,
were elected, as follows:
President-Robert Falligant.
First Vice President--L. G.. Young.
Third Vice Presidential. S. Dreese
Recording Secretary-James w. McIn-
tyre.
Assistant Recording secretary-Wil-
lam Harden.
Adjutant-J. p. White.
Treasurer-John S. Haines. ---t
Sergeant -Arms-James Leonard. a.
Judge Falligant appointed the following
standing committees for the coming year;
Lucien Jones, r. G. Gaillard.
Memorial Committee-W. w. Gordon, f.
d. Bloodworth, c. Lucien Jones, G. II.
Remshart, William Harden, Thomas N.
Theus, Jacob Gardner.
Sick Committee-Jacob Gardner, Joseph
G. Cornell, Peter w. Golden, c. f. Cler,
John Derst.
Excuse Committee-John F. Kolloch, D.
B. Morgan, ]. K. P. Carr
Entertainment Committee-M. c. Kol-
loch, w. B. Metzger, A. F. Marmelstein,
James Sullivan, and J. H. H. Osborne.
The members of the association, at the
instance of Gen. W. W. Gordon, made a
substantial contribution towards the cree
| ton of headstones over the graves of
| twenty-eight Confederate soldiers who lie
| buried in the cemetery at Guyton. At
a recent meeting Cen Gordon read some
| correspondence with Mrs. r. ]. Davant,
alton of that place, making an appeal for
assistance in carrying on this patriotic
| work. Yesterday Gen. Gordon read some
| additional correspondence, throwing more
| light on the subject.
He said that he thought the members
of the association ought to help in the
| work. The men who were buried in the
cemetery at Guyton had not only been
| Confederate soldiers, brave and gallant,
/ mt ha5 via hat in
Tense of Savannah against the invader A
! fund was started after the recess was
| taken and a sum of money raised which
will be of substantial assistance to the
! Guyton Memorial Association in marking
| these neglected graves.
An incident worthy of record was
brought to the attention of the meeting
| by Mr.. Jacob Gardner. Mr.. Gardner said
he had been at Laurel Grove during the
morning and that while there he had seen
| Col. John Fl. Deveaux, collector of the
port of Savannah a colored man. looking
after the grave of Lieut.. Thomas Pelot,
| of the Confederate navy, who led the at
tack which resulted in the capture of the
| Water Witch. In that attack Lieut.. Pc
| lot lost his gallant life. The man who
| cared for his grave yesterday was with
him on the expedition and was only pre-,
vented from boarding the vessel by the
peremptory command Of Lieut.. Pelot. 1t
| was striking illustration of the rela-
lions that existed between the races In
the olden time and of the fact that bonds
so tightly forged as these cannot be sew
| cred even by death.
! Judge Falligant introduced Maj. Stiles,
of Richmond, who had been, he said,
gallant officer of artillery in the army of
| Northern Virginia and whom he knew the
| veterans would be pleased to hear.
Ia response to this Introduction Mai.
! Stiles made a fiery speech. "If there ever
was a time" ne said, when I felt
was in the right place and doing the right
! thing, it was the four years 1 served in
the Confederate Army. For my actions
then L have never felt called upon to
| apologize during the almost forty years
that have passed, and l know 1 shah not
have to apologize to God. The proudest
| boast l am able to make is that of the
Apostle Paul: II have fought a good
fight; have kept the faith"
Maj. Stiles said that Judge Fallgant
! in very real and very large sense, was
the hero of the battle of Cold Harbor.
He told of the way the horses of Capt.
Falligants gun had been killed as the
| piece was hurried into action, and how
| the young officer pointing the muzzle
/ towards the ever-approaching enemy and
| throwing up some slight breastworks had
fought his piece on the spot his horses
| had fallen the rest of the day and all
night. This despite the fact that he was
| on tie extreme wing of the line of battle
| without infantry support.
Maj. Stiles remarks brought Maj. j. r.
! Sheldon to his feet He said that in de-
| scribing the Battle of Cold Harbor some
| thing ought to be said of the part played
! in it by Gen. McGlashan. Gen. McGlash-
an was called for enthusiastically and told
| of what had been done in that bloody
! struggle by the men of the Fiftieth Geor-
| gia, which he then commanded.
After the meeting was over, refresh
ments were served and the veterans pass
| ed some pleasant minus i'm conversation
with each other, in recalling old incidents
and in bringing back from the shadowy
past the dangers and the hardships that
they shared together then and that to-day
| bind them together in ndissoluhie bonds.
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