The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-05
SONS IF VETERANS HOLD BIG MEET |NG Thomas M. Owen is Again
 Elected Commander THE MONUMENT MOVEMENT Effort to Commemorate the Heroic Dead at chickamausa Meets With
 Hearty ApprovaI-some
 Fine Addresses.
THE MONUMENT MOVEMENT

The Alabama division, United Sons of Confederate Veterans, is being represent- ed by nearly five hundred men at the reunion.
 The convention was called to order by Division Commander Thomas M. owen at 1 o'clock Adjutant T. Sidney frazer' of Union Springs. read the orders con corning the reunion.
 The committee on credentials comprised of T. s. Frazer, ". B. Bankhead and H. H. Fits, made their report and the con vention was declared organized.
 Eli F. Smith. speaking for MT. Rhodes said that 1t afforded him great pleasure to welcome the sons of the veterans to the city of Birmingham,
 This city" he said, is always busy, but never too busy to open wide it's gates to the veterans, their sons and their daughters
 Some would say he continued. that the sons only live to bask in the sunshine of their fathers glory but while this might be enough, they live for a practical purpose, and that purpose is to observe and insist on a truthful history of the lost cause being used in the. public schos."
 MT. Smith then complimented Alabama on it's efficient historical committee with Commander Owen as it's chairman.
 T. Sydney Frazier, in his response re- ferred to those present as a combination of beauty, grace and chivalry who were gathered together to celebrate cause which was lost.
 At Chckamauga.
 Mrs. J. c. Lee of Montgomery stated that there was no monument at Chicka- mauga in honor of the men from Ala bama, and W. B. Bankhead of Camp N. B. Forrest, No. 210 Huntsville, offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted:
 Resolution of Bankhead.
 Resolved. Tbat the Alabama division, convened in it's third annual reunion, in- dorses and heartily approves the efforts of Mrs. J. c. Lee of Montgomery, vice. president of the Confederate Southern Memorial association to raise funds for the erection of a monument in the Chick amauga National park to the soldiers of Alabama, living and dead, who fought in the engagements at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge.
 The Rev. J. M Battle, assistant chap lain of the Alabama division, U. S. c. w., addressed the convention and among other things commended the monument project of Mrs. Lee and hoped her appeal would receive a hearty response.
 Miss Marion Kelly of Anniston, spon- sor for the State Divislon U. S. C. w., Camp Caldwell, Anniston, and Camp Kel- ly of Oxford, Miss Vernon Alexander. sponsor for Camp Woodruff. and Miss M. Lane of Camp N. B. Forrest, Huntsville, were introduced by Dr. C. J. Owens of Anniston and received great ovation.
 J. w. Wallace of Union Springs, in a string speech in which he eloquently eulogized the Commander, presented a resolution that Thomas M. Owen be re- elected commander. He was seconded by B. D. Waddell of Scale and MT. Owen was reelected by exclamation. The com- mander in few modest words thanked the convention for its action and assured 1t that his efforts to promote the interest of the sons would continue to be as un- swerving as 1t had been in the past.
 Commander Owen is a native of Jeffer- son county and his aged father Is one of the participants of the great reunion.
 A committee of seven was appointed to extend greetings on behalf of the sons to the veterans immediately after the ad- journment of the meeting