The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-20

jects to FraternaI Greetings From
the Indiana Grand Army of Inc
Republic.
Louisville, Ky. June 15.-The United
Confederate Veterans today reelected
their old officers as follows:
Commander In Chief-Lieutenant
General Stephen d. Lee, Mississippi.
Commander Trans Mississippi De.
lpartment-General L. w. Cabell,
Texas.
Commander of Tennessee Depart
ment-Lieutenant General Clemant A.
Evans, Georgia.
Commander Army Of North Virginia
observation-disclosures Walker, South
carolina.
New Odleans had little difficulty in
securing the convention for 1906. Nash
vile made a fight which surprised 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 cheer
led, and n delegate ON the platform,
with the remark that there is getting
to be too much of this f~raterniZing,,
took his hat and departed.
Other interesting reports submitted
during the day were those Of the
history committee and the Battle Alb.
hey committee.
The spectacular feature of the re-
union, the parade Of the remnants of
the sOuth's once great army will take
jplace tomorrow and it is expected that
the number of men in line will exceed
THAT of any recent reunion. The line
|of march will cover a distance of near
lily three miles.
The first business of the convention
to-day after the invocation which was
Iby, Rev. James P. Smith, of Richmond,
Va, one of the surviving staff officers
|Of Stonewall Jackson, was the read
ing of the report of credentials. AS
There was no contests this business was
quickly disposed of. There was con-
siderable confusion among the delegat-
les and General Lee took the veterans
SHARPLY to task for delaying the bus
liness of the convention. Business was
|about to be resumed when the arrival
lof a drum corps with flies playing
I"Dixie" set the veterans wild. Quiet
Twas restored, but only m~Omentarily, as
1.-THE drum corps marched out and a
few minutes later re-appeared, escort
ing a group of sponsors to the platform.
mo SECURE ACCURATE HISTORY.
The report of the history committee
WAS then submitted by General Evans,
lOf Georgia, it's chairman. The object
of the committee is to secure accurate
history, which is to be incorporated in
THE text books in southern schools. The
report 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 also to infect the minds Of
the youths of the country with the
lopinion that there was nothing noble,
nothing true, nothing good in the Con-
lfederate cause. The attempted per-
versions of history were resented, but
the south was without facilities for
PREACHING, 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
%tpernicious publications gained en-
trance into the schools and homes of
NEARLY every section, north and south,
land a disastrous Inflammation of the
sectional spirit vas the result. The
protest of Confederate associations
Icaused Investigations which resulted
i'm the discovery that the south was uer-
Uniting its sons and daughters to be
taught that the gross charges against
%iSouthern people, of rebellion, treason
land war atrocities and the like were
historical facts. This discovery was
followed by appeals to boards Of edu-
~IcatiOn and other civil authorities, to
I%southern self-respect, and to honorable
publishers, with a result that the most
defensive of the false histories have
Ibeen driven from southern schools.
"Since cooperation among those who
Idesire impartial history which will in
lspire all citizens of our country with
Isimilar patriotic spirit is a consumma-
Ition most earnestly sought for by this
association, especially is this desirable
i'm all histories of that strife which was
the greatest American war. May not
the story of that struggle be told with
fairness to both sections? On the part
Iof the south, there is nothing to fear
from truthful history. We ask for
Historical generosity and will give as
much without STINT
The report recommends that each
Estate establish a department Of arch