Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-22
CONFEDERATE VETERANS.

reunion at New Orleans, was brought to
a close yesterday, and the delegates ad
iourned sine die at noon.
The place of holding the next reunion
was left to the executive committee. 1t
will be held in Louisville, Nashville or
st. Louis.
In the absence of any definite agree
ment with the railroads and their in
ability to say what could be done, the
department commanders asked that the
entire matter be left to the executive
council for final decision after consul
tation with the railroad officials. Their
wishes were granted with unanimous
consent.
Gen. S. d. Lee presided, in the alb
sence of Gen. Gordon, who remained in
his room at the hotel to gain as much
strength as possible for the ordeal of the
parade today.
The committee on credentials reported
that there was a total Of 1928 camps
represented at the reunion with 2,423
properly accredited delegates. The re-
port was unanimously adopted.
The report from the Battle Abbey
committee was offered by Gen. Clement
A. Evans. He had read buta few words
when Gen. Joseph Wheeler came into
the hall, and received an ovation. He
made short address of thanks for the
welcome and urged upon his hearers the
necessity of providing for the needy and
aged soldiers of the Confederacy.
General Evans resumed the reading of
the Battle Abbey report. He announced
that the cash in hand and in immediate
prospect amounts to 1904, AL. OF this
amount $104, All is cash in bank, S40,-
600 is the remaining portion of the
Rouse donation, $50, 900 has been
donated by the City of Richmond and
$40, 900 by individual residents of that
place.
The committee therefore recommended
that as 5000, 900, the minimum amount
desired for the erection of the Abbey had
been secured, the time had arrived for
the commencement of the work. The
report was adopted.
DR. G.. H. Tichenor, for the Southern
Memorial Association, reported that the
fund for the erection of a monument to
Jefferson Davis had been finally secured.
The announcement was received with
tremendous applause. He urged in adj
dition that the plan 10 erect monument
to the women of the South be taken up
with energy.
A delegate from Texas asserted that
he wished to see monument erected to
the private soldiers, claiming that none
existed. He was promptly showed under
by the declaration that they existed all
over the South, three of them being in
his own State.
Judge Christian, of the Davis monu
ment committee, announced that the
fund amounted to $75, 900.
The committee on resolutions report
ed favorably on a resolution offered by
Gen. S. d. Lee, expressing the thanks
and appreciation of the Confederate
Veterans to Congress and to Secretary of
War Root for the offer of the national
government to prepare a roster of all the
soldiers on both sides during the civil
war. The resolution was passed.
The last feature of the reunion was the
great parade today. 1t is expected to
surpass anything of the kind ever seen
in the South. 1t is estimated that fully
30, 600 men will be in line.
The Sons of Veterans yesterday elected
the following officers and adjourned: w.
Mel. Fayssoux, of New Orleans, COM
mander-in-chief; w. H. Kerfoot, of West
Virginia, commander of the department
of Northern Virginia; w. E. Daniels, of
YazOo City, Miss, commander of the de-
partment of Tennessee; II. R. Tisdale,
of Fort Worth, Texas, commander of the
Trans Mississippi department.
General John B. Gordon, Commander
in-Chief Of the United Confederate
Veterans, is ill in bed at the St Charles
Hotel, and was unable to take part in
the reunion parade this afternoon.