The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-11
ORDERS ISSUED
ABOUT REUNION

Brigadier General John ". Bush, COM
handing the Fourth Brigade Alabama d.
vision. L. c. V, has isued an order TO
the camps composing his brigade that
they will use the Louisville and Nashville
to the reunion in New Orleans.
To the camps of the United Confederate
Veterans of the Fourth Brigade, Ala
bama Division:
In obedience to the wishes and request
of the major general commanding the
Alabama Division of the United Confed-
crate Veterans of the camps in the
Fourth Brigade, are urgently requested
to adopt the Louisville and Nashville
railroad as the official route TO attend the
reunion at New Orleans, except Camp
Hardee, which has already taken action
in the premises.
BY order of j. w. BUSH.
Commanding Fourth Brigade
j. LAWLER DARBY,
Assistant Adjutant General.
The above order was issued as result
of the following correspondence between
Major General George P. Harrison, COM
mandlng the Alabama Division, and Gen
eral Bush:
Opelika, Ala, March IA, 1906
Brigadier General j. w. Bush, Comman-
der of the Fourth Brigade, Alabama d.
vision, United Confederate Veterans
Birmingham Ala
Ny Dear General: [ am contemplating
having a special train over the Louisville
and Nashville to move the Alabama Di-
vision to the approaching reunion at New
Orleans. and will request p. Sid Jones,
district passenger agent of that company.
to confer with you, and hope you can
arrange to move your brigade on said
train. / think it adds much to the pleas
IRE of a reunion to have as many of the
division as practicable to travel together.
/ shall be pleased to have any sugges-
lions you deem proper With best wishes
your friend and eomrade,
GEORGE p. HARRISON.
The reply is:
Birmingham, Ala, March 10. 1906
General George p. Harrison, Opelika,
My Dear General: I have your letter Of
March Il, in which l fully concur with
you in your views about having as many
of our division to travel together to New
Orleans as may be practicable. 1t will
bring together in a social reunion along
the route and we can again touch elbows
with our old comrades l have been inter-
viewed here by Mr. Freeman, the agent
of the Queen and Crescent. and also by
captain lold jules VI Nilc lsOoiSNlAic did
Nashville. ] have suggested to them to
appear on Saturday next before Camp
Hardee so that the camp may express its
preference to which route 1t will take.
This presents the matter fairly to both
roads. My preference will be the Louis
Vile and Nashville to travel In the day
light, and l have mo- doubt it will pc the
preference of the entire camp, leaving
here at 1888 o'clock In the morning. Cap
tain Jones thought it would be better
for us to go on the night train, but /
do not want to travel at night. / want
to enjoy the daylight from Mobile to
New Orleans, although we get there in
the night and may be somewhat incon-
venienced by reason of that fact, never
theless it will be more pleasure than to
get there in the morning all broken up
by the nights travel.
We have a real live camp and We are
going to build an equestrian monument
to Wheeler. When are you going to send
out the general order? | wish you would
do so as early as practicable 1t will be
read before all of the camps in my bri-
grade. Yours truly, j. w. BUSH.