Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-17
THE OLD VETERANS
j. ED MURRAY CAMP ADOPTS
RESOLUTIONS ON DEATH OF
GEN. GORDON.
They Pay Beautiful Tribute to the
Gallant Old Soldier, Statesman
and Citizen.
MEMORIAL SERVICES TO-DAY

Pursuant to call from Captain B.
E. Benton the J. Ed Murray camp.
United Confederate Veterans. met
last night at the courthouse. CAPTAIN
Benton was compelled to be absent.
and Maj. H. A. Mccoy was elected
commander pro tenn There we're pres.
ent Comrades Bridges, McGaughy, n.
R. Rogers, Stengel, Foley, DeWoody,
Clary, Vance, j. Z. knax Jordan
Green, Newman and Bradbury.
Prof Junius Jordan for the commit
tee appointed to prepare resolutions
on the death Of General John B. Cor
don then read the resolutions as fol-
lows:
The old Confederate Veterans and
their families are at the grave of the
second Robert E. Lee; for what Lee
was to the army of North Virginia.
General John B Gordon was to the
United Confederate Veterans, soldier,
patriot, citizen, Christian. fulfilling to
the standard measure, all the duties
OF life, he has gone, in good old age.
to join his comrades where the great
waves Of eternity break on an un.
known shore.
Inc small army OF sray clad veter-
ans pause ON the rapidly closing march
Of life and sink upcn the earth to rest
and mlngle their tears with the dews
of the night which kind skies seem to
sweep upon them in tender and ap-
proving sympathy
1t is time for memory, grief and
praise. and these are the uniform sen.
tlments and expressions of veteran sol
dlers of the Confederate and Federal
armies, as we'll as the new generation
OF Americans that has come upon the
stage OF action. In memory, his old
comrades hear again, far away through
the deep and darkening forests and
across the fields and hills, the shouts
OF victorious columns advancing to the
music of battle. Nearer it comes and
louder it grows. Grander and grand.
er it rolls along the steel gray lines
from legion to legion it goes and re.
turns, as in the days gone by. From
wing to wing, shout after shout pierc.
es the bending skies as the men of
l-ongstreet and Hill send back the
responsive chord.
A sudden silence reigns for a mo-
ment; the busy wheels cf commerce
pause; a sad sky bends low; mourn
tul message bushes the voices of a
fepubllc-Gordon is dead. The leader
OF StoneWall Jackson's incompatible
corps; the trusted lieutenant of Lee
An the final year of the great drama of
the Confederate war for constitutions
al independence; the beloved leader
or the veteran soldiers of the south.
mas ascended to the ranks of his wait
ln' comrades, away beyond the flash
glories of the stars. A mournful
funeral pageant moves to cemetery
IN Georgia. Twenty Thousand people
move reverently to the martial dirge
played by federal and by southern
pands alike. Confederate veterans
'ead the way; federal soldiery follow
with respectful sympathy. Death has
Drought out the sublimity of another
INDUSTRIOUS southern leader. Tributes
OF praise and honor from northern as
well as from southern hearts vocalize
'he wires and adorn the columns of
'he press. Sprightly young soldiers
ana fair young maidens. of the new
generation unite with their veteran
ancestors of both armies tc, honor the
name and memory and to praise the
ueFltOrlOuS charactar of Nop Johr