The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-24
GRAND PARADE
IN WYTHEV|LLE
The Growing Event Of the Grand
Camp Meeting.
HISTORY COMMITTEE REPORT
The Retention of Objectionable Book a
Misapprehensiono on the Part OF state
Board Of Education Two Br'.
gades of Sons of Veterans.
HISTORY COMMITTEE REPORT
lspecial pispatch to The rlnes.y

Especial Dispatch to The T1ne5T
WYTHENILLE, VA. October 23--The
culminatine feature Of the reunion of the
Grand Camp. Confederate Veterans. was
the grand parade to-day. Nothing like
the enthusiasm i, engendered has ever
heen witnessed in Wytheville. The larg-
est crowd ever seen here was present and
,oined in the pleasure Of the affair to the
utmost.
The parade formed at 3 Q. clock on
Church Street between Main and Frank
I'm. 1t was fully milo long, ana
marched down Church TO Union, on Jn-
,on to Calhoun, on Calhoun to Fourth
Avenue. on Fourth Avenue 10 Main
Street, up Main Street to Seventh Street,
,hen returning to the corner OF Chureh.
where ranks We're broken.
The parade was marehaled by Colonel
". Q. Moore. assisted by about twenty
other 1narshals The march vas led by
the Virginia Polytechnic institute band
followed by the officers OF me 'l-..ii,a ~ ana
Camp then fT;e officers of the Virginia
Division of Sons OF Veterans. folioWlhs
these came the old veterans. live nun
dred strong, led by r. E. Lee Camp. NO
I, of Richmond. fifty strong.
TATTER11D BANNER.
Other banners seen among the veterans
were those of Peyton-iale Camp. Jona-
,ba. r Evans Camp and the shot-punc-
1nred banner of the First \ irsiilla eaE-
airy.
Jefferson Shields Stonewall Jackson:s $
cook. occupied a prominent place IN the
procession, and was proud of At
Then came the sponsors and maids OF
=, a
OF the Cenfederacy in carriages then the
Wytheville Fire Department. and lastly
gun No l. of Teancy.S battery, OF ihc
Pulaski Sons Of Veterans
AS the parade marched its six blocks up
Main Street in the midst OF the cheering
thousands. there We're many Paahehc
sights. Old soldiers on crutches hobbied
ajone irving TO keep UP with their COM
,ades. and the old men who We're marcf-
Ing TO more serious purpose forty Years
ngo showed too plainly the advancing
attacks of time as well as the scars IN
GREAT ENTHUSIASM.
Chcer after cheer burst from thousands
rf threats as the long line OF sraN ana ana
rob aud w..i,e marched once more TO the
strains of Dixie .,,
The school children came doWll i'oiii
the public school building and each Win
nag marched down Tazewell street 10
Main. down Church to Spring, up SPLITS
to Fourth Avenue, where they joined me
column
THE DAYS SESSION.
Th,, Grand Camp met a L 10 o clock anu
MAS led in prayer by Grand Chaplain j.
Willian Jones. of Richmond. The rebel
,,el was given, led by First Lieutenant
i.on,mander James MacGdll. of Pulaski.
A number OF kilograms of greeting We're
read by -Adlutant-Geaeral ihomas l.iiett
nj Richmond.
The report OF Grand-Comnander Tho
mas NJ Smith was read He urged the
nrompt payment of annGa. aues. and
recommended that the district inspectors
visit the local camps as often as possible.
,Je made a strong plea .ar the or;saniZa-=
Nan of camps .,f Sons Of Veterans. The
tepor, earnestly recommended the ceie-
iration OF Memorial Day. and that II be
not called Decoration Day.
A resolution of sympathy for Comrade
Norman V Randolph. chairman of the
Committee on Legislation. on his illness
was adopted. comrade George Aefhai" =,
,f Petersburg. offered a resolution call
Nag on the senators and congressman 10
,ec,f,e copies OF the muster rolls OF
Virginia regiments on file at the War
Department. Strong speeches IN favor
,f the resolution We're made by COM
fade J. TAYLOR Stratton. of Rlchmond:
Br- T. William Jones, Colonel Robert lc
Y
staunton. and was unanimously adopted
Greetings from the Sons OF Veterans
lvcre read no responded TO.
HISTORY REPORT.
At IL O'Clock the History Committee
presented Its report through Its chair
man, Judge George L. Christian. The
teport is fun and the following is a mere
turiine.
The report first treats of the prov-
yion made ny the Contederates tor the
treatment5or or the Federal prisoners. He
orinGs PROOF that the Confederate Con-
Eress passed act providing that the
treatment OF Federal prisoners should
be On the same footing as the treat
mcnt of@sGohIederate soldiers. and that
:he conduct or nosptte!s tor prisoners
mould be The same as that OF Contede-
.ate hospitals The report declares that
The Conf6aerate Government strove 10
form a cartel Tor exchange of prisoners
itaat the FederaiS would not agree 10
,hls Tor Twelve months. tha, when they
aid agree i1 Was on the same terms as
proposed by the conIedera1es: and that
when the suspension and breach cam.
i, arose from bad faith and cond,ct -,
sne part OF the fedcrais /, states ,h.t
ea,ly in the war the Confelnra 10 $50
.rn,nent offered to let the Federals sara
surgeons and furnish PROVISIONS 10 ~Lseae
raj prisoners, the Confederates 10 have
ifc same privilege. TO this pronnsi+,o,
the tcderaIs MADE no reply la1cr mo
cartel was suspended by the Secrcta ~
pr War and by General Haiiock ana
later still suspended by General U. S.
Grant.
FAULT OF FEDERALS.
Continuing. the report states that in
August, 1854 the Confederate Govern
mont offered to turn over the ten to tif-
teen thousand Northern soldiers confined
In Andersonsillc prison. because OF the
CONTINUED on Fourth Pagc.)