Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-09-23
The LynChburg Reunion.
Virginia Veterans Never Had Better---
Augusta Veterans. Sponsors and Maids
DeIjGhted.

uni0ns ever held in Virginia by tn
Grand Camp.
b Few camps had a better representa-
tion than Stonewall Jackson, only liv'
r were named to march together 81
CAMPS in the parade which was large
and handsome one. These were til.
camps from Richmond. Petersburg
StauntOn, Roanoke, Manchester. The
following veterans represented Stone
wall jackson camp: 1st Lieut.. Com
, mander, Garter Berkeley commanding
5. F. Pilson, j.. N. Mcfarland, Il. G.
Morton, s. d. TimberIake, q w. Fin
ley, VIM Wholey. j. Il. Roden, J. A.
Hupman, H. J. Williams, George W.
Fitch, j. M. Fauver, w. A. Freed, A
. Ii. Hamilton. H. N. Mohler. j. f. Leo
nard, W. 5 Houser, r M. Silling, Geo.
A. Shoppert, G. Fl. Slower, g. A. Piper
and Dam. Bell. Miss Mary Cameron,
Miss Rebecca Gilkeson. Nj ISIS Margaret
Timberlake, sponsors and maid of hon.
or for the 10th District and Stone
wall Jackson camp and Miss Mary O.
Templeton, the "Sons +" Sponsor in
Chief rode in carriages provided by the
Lynchburg committee of arrangements
and enjoyed the applause of the long
and crowded line Of spectators who
crowded the decorated streets, through
which the procession could hardly
make its way for mile. This feature
of the occasion was a great success. The
next day, the election of officers for
the year was held with the following
result:
| Grand commander, DIR. w. E. Har.
wood.
First lieutenant grand commander,
Judge John H. Fulton, of Wytheville.
Second lieutenant grand commander.
Colonel William H Stewart, of Ports
mouth.
Third lieutenant grand commander,
General Thomas Il. Munford. of Lynch
burg.
Inspector general, Captain T. q. Nor
ton, of Staunton.
Quartermaster general, David A.
Brown. Jr., of Richmond.
Chaplain general, Rev. DR.. J. 2.
Fl yde, of Winchester.
Surgeon general, DIR. John Fl. Cali
borne. of Petersburg.
hJirEoo+ rana,oI Ionf Tbo,ooo
Ellitt. The Adjutant general has serv-
ed the grand camp fourteen years and
the Inspector general ten. They are
the oldest in point of service on the
staff. It is significant fact that the
retiring Commander Judge Christian
lost leg in the war and the new COM
mander an arm. Both are known to
have been soldiers of distinguished gal
lantry. DIR. HARDWOOD has served very
successfully as commander of A. P.
Hill camp at Petersburg.
Never has grand camp meeting had
a finer intellectual treat served them
than that, by the speakers, who had
been secured for them by the manage
ment of Garland ROdes, the entertain
ing camp. There were Senator John
w. Daniel, Judge George L. Christian.
Hon. N. G. Manson, ex mayor of
Lynchburg, Gen1 T. 7. Munford, Col.
VIM II. Stewart of Portsmouth, Hon.
A. g. BraxtOn, Gen1 Irvine q. Walker
of South Carolina, DR.. Randolph Nc
Kim, Col. r. E. Withers, Ex.U. 8.
Senator, Col. Tom Smith of Warren
ton, and Hon. John Goode, together
with the splendid speakers of the Sons
of Veterans, who took the meeting
Wednesday night. Uuder the title,
Grand Old Romans" an exchange says.
ga highly appreciated privilege enjoy
ed by the veterans was that of listening
to addresses from those honored old
Virginians, Colonel Robert E. Withers
of WytheYille, and Hon. John Go0de,
of Bedford. Colonel Withers, splen-
did figure with luxuriant snow-white
hair and beard, spoke briefly, while
leaning on his stick; but the old Ro-
man from Bedford, over whose head
nearly fOur-score years have passed,
with erect figure and resonant voice,
told his enraptured hearers of the
events of half a century ago.
The reception and entertainment of
the veterans by Lynchburg was in
word splendid, the management of
| the large crowd by the various COM
mittees could not we'll be improved up
on and the distinguished hospitality
shown the accomplished and hand
some young ladies, who, with 80 much
credit to themselves, stood Sponsor
and represented the Honor of the state
and districts and camps for the vets,
as well as the sons, was delight to
them and their constituency.
The doors of Lynchburg's citizens
were thrown wide open and the vet
Grams were treated to the best that
Lvnchburg had and no people have
better, while the hungry old soldiers
who were strangers in the city, MANY
of them, there for the first time were
hunted up and provided for at the big
lunch room till they wanted no more.
One enthusiastic gentleman in River
mont avenue, with big heart, cor
rallied the hungry old vets who maybe
had not enough cash left to buy real
good dinner and marched them into his
dining room, where they ate and were
filled.
Nothing attracted more comment
from the careful observer than the ad-
mirable way in which the proceedings
of the grand camp and the Sons
were handled by the ''Lynchburg News
!