The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-18
GREETINGS SENT
FROM VIRGINIA
TO THE GEORGIA VETERANS
FROM OLD DOMINION VETERANS
MEETING IN LYNCHBURG.

Was in Response to Telegram Sent
Them From ROme-Gen. -. A. $.
McGInshan Has Returned to the
City-ReuniOn Discussed the Be-
gus Confederate Crosses of Hon
Or-DeIegate Tells of Enthusi-
asm for Gen. McGIashan-ROme
Entertained Royalty.
Virginia gratefully accepts Geor-
gia's kind greeting and tenders fra
ternal regards. Signed. Theodore S.
Garner, Commanding u. C. V. of Vir-
ginia."
That was the message received yes
terday by Gen. P. A. s. McGlashan
from Lynchburg, Va, where the Vir-
ginia division of the United Confed-
crate Veterans are holding their an
nual reunion. The message was in
answer to a telegram sent from the
Georgia veterans. assembled in re-
uion at Rome during the early days
Of last week.
Gen. McGlashan. who was again Sc
lected as the head of the Georgia di-
vision, returned to the city yesterday
morning. When asked about the
Rome reunion he spoke only in the
highest terms of the assembly and of
the old friendships that had been so
pleasantly renewed.
Nearly the entire first day." he
said, was taken up in listening to ad-
dresses of welcome and in the re-
sponses. Then there were special fea-
lures and special addresses on each
day we were in session and as a re-
suit there was not much time left for
real business.
Still, things are probably best as
they are. These reunions are chiefly
valuable because they bring together
the old fighters, allow of "reminiscences
and the renewals of old friendships.
They keep alive the devotion to the
South that characterized the men of
the COS and there is always plenty of
time for transacting what business is
really a necessity.
Matter of Crosses.
The question of the bogus Confed-
crate Crosses of Honor was taken up
and discussed al some length 1t was
reported that certain firms in different
parts of the country were manufac-
turing limitations and selling them at a
oman III ACG. L llS CAOGS Odll NC easily
duplicated and there seems to be no
method by which bogus manufacture
ing can be stopped.
1t was suggested that an effort be
made to induce the next Legislature
to make it a penal offense to wear a
cross to which one is not entitled, or to
wear the bogus crosses. Somehow. this
resolution was not acted upon, though
1 believe the plan suggested is the only
way of stopping this abuse.
Reelected as Commander.
Yes, they did make me their COM
mander again." said the general when
asked the direct question, though
didn't want them to do so. When l
rose to resign, and again when l rose
to refuse denomination they yelled
me down and before l knew what had
happened l was reelected
Then they crowded about me on the
platform and l am certain that | shook
hands with about 1000 men. One
rather strenuous old fellow threw both
arms about me and Rugged me until
l thought he was going to smash my
ribs in. l had hoped some one else
would be chosen for the place, but
since they have insisted on me 1 will
do nv best.
Taken as a whole the reunion was
a grand success and 1t will take hard
work to equal it next year. We meet
next time at Macon and the Camp
there has already promised it will
make that gathering the best in the
history of the organization. 1t will
have to work, though, to even equal
the Rome reunion"
Enthusiasm for the General.
One of the delegates who attended
the convention, when asked about the
features said:
THE feature was the enthusiasm
for Gen. McGlashan. You should have
seen that convention when he rose to
refuse renomina ton. They simply
jumped up and down and howled and
yelled and drowned his voice complete
ly. I was sitting only a few feet from
him, but l do not know what in the
world he could have said
Then they voted and l guess every
vote, unless it was his own, went for
him. AS soon as the result was an
nounced they all made a dive for him,
and in an instant he was surrounded
He was shaking hands with both
hands, and then several grabbed him
about the waist and just bounced him
up and down. 1t was unbounded en-
thusiasm and shows clearly the warm
place the general holds in the hearts Of
all the old warriors who wore the
gray"