The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-26
PETERSBURG A
CITY OF FLAGS
The Stars and Bars En-
tWined With Old
Glory.
OLD CONFEDERATES NJ
CAPTURE THE CITY
Grand Gathering of Veterans and
Sons and Daughters - The
Battle Of the Crater To- @
day Will Draw
An Immense
Crowd.
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PETERSBURG, VA, October 25.-1t 10 \
perhaps too commonplace to say that this Y
has been a gala day in the Cockads City
but gala day is an expressive term.
and do not Just now call to mind two
words that can express conditions more
appropriately. 'Rcd letter day. might
do 1t, but it has three words, and that,
too, has become commonplace. q
However, when one looks out upon thu
/, city, or any street. or at any house in +
town. but more especially Sycamore i
Street, Bollingbrook, Washington. Hail.
fax, Byrne, Liberty and Marshall Streets
he Is constrained to say that 1t is strictly
speaking ''red flag day. or, getting right
down to the spirit OF the occasion. the
occasion that has brought twenty thou-$
sand and more visitors to Petersburg, and
about doubled its population for the time
being, 1t Is proper to sayait is "Confed-S
crate flag day. i,f$S5j
The Cockade City Is decorated from
center to circumference and such Of the Il
decorations as are not made up OF va
rious kinds of Con federate flags are made /
in one way and another to represent this 4
Confederate flag with old Glory. beau
tifully ygintertwined. " 53 sS5
The eighteenth annual meeting Of the
Grand Camp, Confederate Veterans Of
Virginia. has brought &toge ther in reunion
the largest number OF veterans OF the
greatest Of modern wars Of any previous
meeting Of the Grand Camp 1t has also
brought together the largest numbersNof
Sons of Veterans and Daughters OF the
Confederacys that have ever before met
at annual reunions. $sSS alilaS.s3 ilssts st
o-Day is the Day.
And yet the knowing ones say that the
crowds here to-day arc but small con
gregatlons compared to the outpourir1E
of Virginlans that will be here tomorrow.
It has been announced far utid near thats
the famous battle of the Crater will be-
fought In mimic warfare Tomorrow and \
that this. realistic representation OF the
tragedy of forty-one years aEo will be the
browning feature Of the eighteenth annual 4
reunion none can doubt, unless the
weather puts a damper upon 1t. The \
original battle was fought on a bright.
hot, sunny day. and everybody is hoping
that the harmless representation Of it,
tomorrow may be under q cloudlessS sky
and a bright, shining sun; but the indIcn-#
tions ut the present writing are not
favorable to such conditions. s551
II However, rain or shine the battle Will 81
& be ''ft'," and. in any event, the mimicfs
fighting will be witnessed by an im-Ssas
mcnse crowd OF people. The mimic ba t-3f.5
tleals to be fought by detachments off,
Virginias present volunteer military
force, but just how the old gray-coatedl
veterans OF forty-odd years ago are go-s$.
Ing to be kept OF the firing line when
the buglcs sound and the muskets begin
to pop has not vet been determined, GA,
II Is the writer's opinion that all the
policemen Petersburg ever saw would III
not be able to hold them back.
To-day's Parade.
The grand parade. scheduled as a part
OF to- -morrow's proceedings will start
from the Imperial Hotel, on Bolingbrook
Street, and pass thence to Sycamore
Street. up Sycamore to Washington
thence to Halifax, to Byrne, to LIBERTY
again to Sycamore. thence to Marshall,
and along this street to the city limits 4,
There the parade proper will disband, y
and the crowds Will go n quarter Of y
milo on foot to the Crater, battlefield. I'll
where companies of the seventieth and i
Scventy-hrst Regiments. Virginia State
troops, about 600 in all. will reproduce
the Crater fight.
The Grand Camp Meets.
The Grand Camp met at noon in the g8
Academy OF Music In It's eighteenth an "
nual reunion. The old Vets formed un-ff8
der the leadership of a. p. Hill Camp
on Tabb Street. and led by drum
corps with old jeff Shields. OF staunton,
Stonewal Jackson's colored cook, in tho
lead made short parade. winding up
at the Academy of Music which they
entered In a body.
The Academy of Music, n building en-
.tirey too small for such meeting, was
packed In n short while Veterans, the
regular delegates, occupied the front
seats in the paranet, and others wearing 81
the true coors filed In behind, Daugh- "
ters and Mothers OF the contederacy
occupied the boxes and MS much OF the
dress circle as they required, The ball
ance of the house WAS filled to jam
with Veterans and Sons of Veterans,
The Mt Olive Band, OF strasburg, set
the whole house in an uproar with
5"Dixie." and such another cheering and a
such another waving of hags are hard
10 remember II they even occurred, Ell
When the music had died away. and
the hurrahing had subslded, order was
restored, and, Just as the clock struck Il
12 Grand Commander r. II. Harwood, 81
Of Petersburg, called the eighteenth ans
nual reunion Of the Grand Camp. con-
feierate Veterans of Virginia, to order
and asked the chaplain general, Rev, Or,
Hyde. of Winchester. to lead IN prayer,
which he did in most feryent and clio.
auent manner, Avs rs
Florid Eloquence.
The first session, as usual WAS taken
IN with speeches of welcome and res
sponses, followed with a decidedly new
feature. an Grafton by charming and
young woman, daugllter OF S
a Confederate soldier and an enthusias-l'
tic Daughter of the Confederacy. Miss
Elliott Iumpkin OF Columbia,
S. e.. was the fair speaker, whose ora
ton. ,.The Confederate Soldier" set the 81
old soldiers wild, and II is no wonder &
that by rlsns vote and 9 modern re-
production Of the famous rebel yell, sS{$
they adopted her as daughter OF tbs
Grand Camp OF Virginia. Iu,msdtatslx &