Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-06-16
VETERANS MARCH
IN GREAT PARADE
Old Soldiers Having The Time
Of Their Lives.
REUNION OF BLUE AND GRAY
Men Who Faced Each Other In Bloody
War Meet as Brothers-New Orleans
VIII, no Doubt, Secure the Next Con-
federate Reunion.

federate Reunion.
louisville, KY, June 15,-With de-
termination TO finish the business of
the United Confederate Veterans to-
day SO that the old soldiers will have
nothing to do but to prepare for to-
morrow's parade and continue having
a good time, the old soldies were
present in goodly numbers at the horse
show building when the convention
was called to order by the commander
in-chief, General Lee.
There was considerable discussion
among the delegates in the hall as to
the meeting place for next years re-
union, but sentiment seemed 40 favor
NV Orleans. Nashville is out for
the honor of entertaining the vcter-
ans, but the New Orleans delegation
claims to have split the Tennessee
camps and to have secured with their
aid, enough votes to secure the meet
ing.
Should the reunion go to New Or
promise that the reunion of 1907 shall
be held in Richmond, Va. Richmond
has not entertained reunion for many
years, and a number of delegates from
Virginia have extended an invitation
to the veterans and it is confidently
believed that Richmond will be host
in 1907 Atlanta is already pleading
for the meeting Of 1903.
A remarkable reunion of the blue
and gray took place when a general
of the Confederacy and a general of
the United States army met after more
than 30 years and embraced each
other in the joy of fellowship. 1t was
one of the most touching incidents of
the reunion.
"The sentiment of the thing it, l
think" said one of them, that the
hearts of those who wore the blue are
bound to the hearts of those who wore
the gray with ties that nothing but
death can break"
On the afternoon of Sept. 1, 1864
Michigan regiment under the com
mand of Henry II. Misner, now
brigadier general, u. S. A., retired
stormed the confederate Notifications
at JOnesboro, Ga, and after rapid
charge captured the battery and Gen
eral D. G. Govan, who was in charge.
The next morning the two commanders
met and talked over the events of the
day before. At the residence of John
c. Davidson, in this city, these two
veterans met again for the first time
in Al years. The meeting had been
arranged and 1t could not have been
more cordial or affecting had the men
been brothers.
The first business of the conven-
| ton today after the Invocation which
| was by Rev. James p. Smith, of Rich
/ mond, Va, one of the two surviving
staff officers of Stonewall Jackson, was
| the reading of the report of the com
mittee on credentials. AS there were
no contests, this matter was quickly
disposed of There was considerable
| confusion among the delegates and
| General Lee took the veterans sharply
| to task for delaying the business of
| the convention. Business was about
| to be resumed when the arrival of a
!, drum corps with flies playing Dixie
set the veterans wild. Quiet was re-
| stored, but only momentarily, as the
drum corps marched out and a few
minutes later re-appeared, escorting a
group of sponsors to the platform.
The report of the history committee
was then submitted by General Evans.
Eof Georgia, its chairman. The OBJ
ject of the committee is to secure ac-
curate history which is to be incorpor-
ated in tn etext books in Southern
schools. The report says, in part: ).
During the first two decades ea@er
the surrender an effort was evidently
made to cast the general record of the
Southern states into an opprobrious
shadow and also to infect the minds
of the youth of the entire country
with the opinion that there was moth
ing noble, nothing true, nothing good
in the confederate cause. These at
tempted peryersions of history were
resented, but the South was hout
facilities for reaching by any kind cs
literature the masses of their country
men of the northern states to correct