The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-05-28
GRAY HEROES
MARCH AGAIN
The Grand Parade of Veterans a Fit
ting Climax to the Reunion.
GEN. j. B. GORDON REELECTED
Next Reunion to Be Held Either in Lou
%isviIIe, Nashville, or st. Louis.-..Im-
portant Business of Closing Session.
---To Unite Veterans and Sons Camps.

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New Orleans.-The actual bust.
ness of the Confederate reunion was
brought to an end Thursday and
the delegates adjourned. The pa
rade closed the occasion. General
Gordon was re elected conarder-ir-
chief and all the department CON-
manders, Generals Lee. Walker and
Cabell, were reelected.
The place Of holding the next re-
union was left to the executive CON-
mittee. 1t will be Eeld in Louis
vile, Nashville or st. Louis. 1t is
the desire of the officials of the or
Ranization to 50 arrange matters
that a single railroad rate will al
low delegates to attend the reunion
and visit the Worlds Fair, either
going or coming.
Gen. S. ID. Lee presided at the
opening session of the Confederate
reunion in the absence of General
Gordon, who remained in his room
at the hotel to gain as much
strength as possible for the ordeal
of the parade.
The committee on credentials re.
ported that there was a total of 1923
camps represented at the reunion,
with 2423 properly accredited dele
gates.
Gen. A. p. Stewart presented a
report on the project of erecting a
monument to the women of the
South. He announced that he had
a fund amounting to 1902, which he
was prepared to turn over to the
committee. The matter went over
until a later time.
General Wheeler, after reaching
the rustrum, made a short address of
thanks Of the welcome that had
been accorded him. At the couclu-
SIGN of General Wheeler's speech,
General Evans read the battle alb
hey report. He announced that the
cash in hand and in immediate
prospect amounted to s204,47l Or
this amount S10,471 is in cash in
bank; $40. 900 is the remaining por-
tion of the Rouss donation; $50, 900
has been donated by the city of
Richmond, and $l0 1000 by indi-
vidual residents of that place.
The committee recommended that
as 5000, QUO, the minimum amount
desired, had been secured, the time
had arrived for the commencement
of the work. The report was adopt
ed. DR.. q. H. Tichenor, for the
Southern Memorial Association, re-
ported that the fund for the erec-
ton OF a monument to Jefferson Da-
Wis Udu UoHu SeCuF6u.
Gen. |. G. Walker reported from
tie committee appointed to estab.
lish closer relations between the
veterans and sons of veterans, re.
ported a plan for the utilization of
the two bodies. which was adopted.
The plan provides that at all re.
unions the Sons of Veterans have
the privilege of the floor without
tie right to vote; that in all pa
rades the Sons be the especial escort
Of the veterans; that camps of the
United Veterans be authorized to
enroll the Sons in associate mem
oership; that the Sons be uniformed
IN Confederate gray, but without
insignia of rank, and that all mill.
tary titles be abolished among them.
The Parade.
To New Orleans Friday was re-
Vealed what NO man has seen for
two score years ana more. For a
lew brief hours she held close to her
heart the incarnate spirit OF the
Confederacy ard for her it lived
and breathed again. All we're hers
TO love, 1t was hers to have and to
hold. Once more she pressed to her
lips the white-starred cross of blue
on the crimson field. and flung it to
the winds that loved it well, the
symbol Of tue cause for which the
heroes fought aud by whose blood
it was purgeu and sanctifed.
Again the martial airs of forty
years ago were borne upon the
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