The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-01-08
BIRTHDAY OF Lee
VETERANS WILL OBSERVE 1T IN
HONORING FALLIGANT's MEMORY.
RESOLUTIONS TO BE READ.
ASSOCIATIONS GRIEF OVER ITS
PRESIDENTS DEATH.

Memorial Services in Honor of
Judge Robert FaIIigant to BE Held
at Confederate Hall on the Even
ing of Jan. 2O-COmmittee APP
pointed 10 Prepare Resolutions
aud Entertainment Committee In
structed to Arrange n Program I'M e
That Will BE in Harmony With
the Occasion-UsuaI Features of
These Annual Celebrations to Be
Omitted.
Instead of celebrating on the birth
day of Gen. Robert E. Lee the virtues
and the contributions to the South of
that chieftain of the Confederacy, the
Confederate Veterans Association this
year will make it the occasion of me-
mortal services in honor of the asso-
cations lamented president, the late
Judge Robert Falligant.
1t is customary for the association
to observe the anniversary of the birth
of Gen. Lee with songs and stories of
the Old South and of the WARMTH
an entertainment, to which the MEM
bers of the allied Confederate organiza-
lions have been invited and at which
refreshments have been served. These
have been occasions of rejoicing and
mirth, when old comrades rekindled the
fires of old memories ana told each
other of the days they followed Lee"
The spirit of the occasion will be
reversed probably on Jan. 20, on which
hi,.th al ia
year on Sunday, the observance will
take place. 1t is felt by the members
of the association that the day could
not be better spent, that Gen. Lees
memory could not be more fittingly
honored than by lamenting the death
and recalling the services to the Con-
federacy of one of his bravest follow
ers, the gallant gentleman who has so
recently Crossed DER the river and
rests under the shade of the trees"
A meeting of the Association was
held last night, at which, upon the
motion of Capt John r. Dillon, a COM
mittee was appointed to prepare reso-
buttons upon the death Of Judge Fall
ligant. The committee was appointed
by First Vice President Louis G..
Young, who presided at the meeting,
row, Capt. John r. Dillon, Gen. p Nc
Glashan. Mr.. c. Lucien Jones and Hon.
j. r. Saussy
This committee was instructed to
make it's report on the evening of Jan.
20, to which time the adjournment was
taken. The entertainment committee
was instructed to prepare a suitable
programme for this occasion, acting in
conjunction with the special commit
-I.,Af
the life and death of Judge Falligant.
AS has been stated, the general in
clination of the members of the asso-
citation seemed to be to make the meet
ing on Jan. 20, the occasion for la
nienting its recent loss. To this end
| there will be no features such as have
distinguished these annual celebra-
tons in the past, so far as these have
been designed principally or solely for
the entertainment of those who at
tend.
The resolutions as prepared by the
committee will be submitted and
there will be addresses by some of it's
members and, possibly two or three
of the old songs of the South ill be
sung. No loss the association
has recently sustained has aft
fected is so deeply as the death
of its gallant president and it's mem
bers are very anxious that all proper
honor and respect be paid to his mem
ory.
Save to make these preliminary ar
rangements for the observance of the
birthday of Gen. Lee in the manner in
Dictated nothing was done at the meet
ig of the association. Even the reading
of the minutes was dispensed with and,
as though by tacit consent, the asso-
citation adjourned when arrangements
for the observance of the day had been
made. as a further mark of respect to
Indpa EallfOo1tfz