The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
VETERANS REUNION.
Greensboro Making Ready
for the Old Soldiers.
Tents and Provisions to Be Furnished. Begins
on Wednesday, August ooh. Fifty
From Wake County.

This is the week for the reunion of the
old soldiers from all parts of the State
at Greensboro, and everything is being
got ready for their reception and enter
tainment. Judging from the reports that
come from Greensboro, the "vets" are
scheduled for a good time all around.
They will be lodged and fed, and it shall
never be said that one of them went
home hungry.
The State Reunion of Confederate Vet
Grams will begin on Wednesday, August
goth. The encampment will be in the
Eckel Grove, which is being cleared up
for the purpose. The grass is being cut,
the shrubbery is being trimmed, and
everything is being done for the COM
fort of the old comrades. Incandescent
electric lamps are being put in, too, as
in Lindley Park, so that the night will
not be SO dark
Three hundred tents have been loaned
by the State, and these will shelter
something like thousand of the vet
Grams. Tomorrow the work of pitching
these tents will commence, under the
direction of Major c. c. Bunch, Assistant
Quartermaster General of the State
Guard. 1t is expected that about one
thousand or more will be supplied with
rations. DIR. w. A. Lash is in charge
of the commissary department and will
receive contributions of provisions and
have charge of distributing them.
1t has been arranged to supply the
camp with city water.
In a tent at the north entrance of the
park will be kept a registration book,
in which all the visiting veterans will
be expected to inscribe their names. In
the same tent Will be bureau of in
formation, where all questions will be
answered, and where any old soldier or
any one else can find out all he wants
to know about the reunion.
The badges will be of white satin
ribbon, with the words IN. G. Veterans,
1S61-'65' upon each. Two thousand of
them have been ordered to be printed
A uniform rate of one ceG mile has
been made by the railroads. The round
trip from Raleigh will cost only $3.50.
1t is thought that about fifty veterans
will attend from Wake county.
The following compose the committee
of decorations for the line of march of
the Confederate Veterans: ]. d. Helms,
chairman; John L. Thacker, j. NJ. Hen
Dirk, Charles H. Dorsett. Charles H.
Ireland, and ]. C. Bishop.
This committee asks that every house
on South Elm street be decorated in red,
white and blue Gen. Jas. ID. Glenn has
invited Capt. r. S. Williams, of Com !
pany l, Thirteenth regiment, and several
other old veterans of the same company,
TO he his guests at his house during the
rennfon. General Glenns father was cap
tain of this company, and was killed at
South Mountain. Maryland James Y.
Whitfield yesterday morning received from
the American Cigar Company donation
of one thousand Cubanola cigars, express
charges all prepaid, for the use of the
old vets.
Mr. Caesar Cone, at Blowing Rock,
hearing of the preparations for the re-
union voluntarily sent a liberal check
yesterday.
Following is the official order of pa
rade for next Wednesday:
Procession will form at 4:30 o'clock in
the afternoon, with the head on Davie
street, near Depot street. facing South;
march up Depot street to South Elm, up
South and North Elm to Church street,
thence to Davie, down Davie to the start
ing point; chief marshal. band, veteran
officers on horseback, First Brigade,
sponsors in carriages, veteran on foot,
Second Brigade. sponsors in carriages.
veterans on foot; Third Brigade, sponsors
in carriages, veterans on foot. Disabled
old veterans, in carriages. Daughters of
Confederacy, in carriages; the Gate City
Guards.