The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-06-20
WEARERS OF. THE GRAY
IN ANNUAL REUNION
ALL OLD OFFICERS WERE RE-
ELECTED.
$4,000 Visitors in Louisville Last
Week-New Orleans Place
of Next Reunion.

For the second time in five years
the United Confederate Veterans and
auxiliary organizations gathered in
Louisville last week for their annual
reunion. It is estimated that the re-
union was attended by $4,000 visitors.
The Veterans reelected their old
officers, as follows:
Commander-in-chief, Lieut.. Gen.
Stephen. D. Lee, Mississippi.
Commander Trars~M M.ssissippi de-
partlncnt, Gen. L. W Cal ell, Texas.
Commander Army of Tennessee de-
partment, Lieut. Gen. Clement A.
Evans, Georgia.
Commander Army .; North Virgin
ia department. c. Irvine Walker,
.,o"ih Carolina
New Orleans h..d - difficulty in
obtal:.:ng the convention for 1906.
Nash e made fight which surpris-
cd the convention, but the sentiment
was strongly in favor of the Crescent
City.
Fraternal greetings were read from
the State Encampment of G. A. R.
of Indiana, in session at Madison. The
greetings were only moderately
cheered, and one delegate on the plat
form, with the remark that there ''is
| getting to be too much of this fra
| ternizing," took his hat aad departed.
Other interesting reports submitted
during the day were those of the his
tory committee and the Battle Abbey
committee 4
The History Committee:
The report of::the: history commit
tee was submitted by Gen. Evans. Of
Georgia, chairman The object Of
the committee is to secure an accurate
history to be incorporated in the text
books in Southern schools. The re-
port says in part: During the first
two decades after the surrender an
effort was evidently made to cast the
general record Of the Southern states
into an opprobrious shadow and to
infect the minds OF the youths Of the
country with the opinion that there
was nothing noble, nothing true, moth
ing good in the Confederate cause.
The attempted perversions of history
were resented. but the South was
without facilities for reaching, by any
kind of literature, the masses OF their
countrymen of the Northern states, to
correct the errors into which they
were led. Therefore. unfair history
and other pernicious publications
gained an entrance into the schools
and homes of nearly every section,
North and South, and the disastrous
Inflammation of the section spirit was
the result. The protest Of the Con-
federate associations caused lnvestl-
cations which resulted in the discov-
cry that the South was permitting its
sons and daughters to be taught that
gross charges against South ern peo-
pie. OF rebellion, treason and war afro
cities and the like were historical
facts.
This discovery was followed by
apoeals to the boards of education
and other civil authorities, to South
ern selfrespect and TO honorable 2uD-
fishers. with the result that the most
offensive of false histories have been
driven from Southern schools. Since
corporation among lose who desire
an impartial history which will inspire
all citizens OF Our Country with SIM
liar patriotic spirit is the consumma-
ton most earnestly sought for by this
association. especially is this desirable
in all the histories of that strife which
was the greatest American war.
Nav not the story Of that struggle be
told with fairness to both sections?
On the part Of the South there is
nothing to fear from truthful his