Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-27
TO WHEELER
BIG PARADE PUT OFF ON &C
COUNT OF RAIN.

heavy rain prevailing here the big parade,
which was to have been a feature of the
Cen Joseph Wheeler memorial meeting
was called off. The big meeting was held
at the opera house. which was crowded 10
lts capacity. The meeting was called TO
order by Col. Thompson II. Jones a vet
eran officer of the famous Wheeler Cavalry
master of ceremonies who introduced the
governor of Georgia, Joseph NJ Terrell The
governor delivered the address of welcome
Then followed music and an address by
John w. Maddo. representing Wheeler's
confederate cavalry: song, "Wheelers Cav
airy" (camp song); address by Gen Glenn
ent A. Evans, representing United Confed-
crate Veterans; music; address by Corporal
James A. Tanner. comma nder-in-chef
Grand Army of the Republic
Commander Tanners Speech.
Corporal James Tanner, commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army of the Republic
being introduced said in part that the late
Gen. Joseph Wheeler had as one of his
characteristics intensity. In those most
strenuous years of the republics life '61 to
10, he was about the most strenuous in
tense human being the south contained. II
marching We're in order his desire was to
get there just as quickly as was possible
%lth due regard to the strain the mounts
OF his cavalry could stand. II fighting was
IN order then nothing satisfied his soul but
TO be in the hottest of it, and il his allotted
position was not so at the start he soon
brought the temperature up, S many of NV
personal friends can testify
Gen. w heeler started a first lleuten-
ant OF artillery and at twenty-seyen was
lieutenant general His bravery a sentence
tells He rode in two hundred battles and
skirmishes out OF the two thousand those
four years witnessed, wounded three times
sixteen horses shot under him. eight of his
immediate staff killed and twenty three of
them wounded. Mortal mind can coin no
eulogy of bravery that can excel that simple
statement of fact.
AT the end OF the strife when wheeIer's
cavalry for the last time stood at 'atten-
ton and your relations with your great
leader were about to be severed he said
Boys, the war is over. You have done
your duty as soldiers. / expect now that
you will go to your homes and he as good
citizens as YOU have been good soldiers
Goodbye That was all My fellow-speak-
ers on this occasion will pardon me for
saying that it has been ever thus-men OF
great deeds have seldom been men of many
words
Speaking of Gen wheelers participation
In the war with Spain, Corporal Tanner
said:
Again nothing satisfies his soul but the
fore front and again he gets there. The
sulphurous smell of battle is in his nostris
now and In the exaltat ton of his warlike
soul time Is annhilated the third OF a
century Is wiped out and as he sees the
enemy flee he cries out, See the id Yam
KEGS run! Give them HI boys,' We took
no offense my old Johnny Reb friends--he
was your Joe Wheeler in the old DAYS He
was ours and the nations at La Qua siInas,
San Juan Hill. in the Philippines and he is
ours in the halls of memory for all time
I'VE have lived to hear once again the
old-time rebel yell and the Yankee hur-
rah,' but thank God we have heard il all
down one line, all under one flag, Vermont
answering to Georgia the Carolinas TO
Massa chusetts, New York to Mississippi
The first victim of the later war. that
splendid young southern representative,
Bagley, was laid in his grave shrouded in
the nations uniform. beside his father,
who went shrouded in confederate gray.
The old flag has been rebaptiZed since APP
pomattox III the blood of south and north
alike and that flag recognized the world
over as the flag of one Of the first powers
of all the earth"
In conclusion he said the fighting men
have accepted the result of the civil war.
1.-THE inyisibles in war are the -invincibles
in peace"
The next speaker was Maj Charles r.
Miller of Cleveland. Chic. commandments
chief OF the United Spanish War Veterans.
He said the soldiers OF the war with Spain
comprising the sons of those who woro the
southern gray and the northern blue, re-
yered the memory eff Gen. Joseph Wheeler,
who besides being distinguished veteran
of the civil war, was also an honored COM
rade of the war with Spain. and one of the
charter members or the Spanish War Vet
erans' Association.
Following Maj. Miler's address, veteran
bugler of the Wheeler Cavalry sounded the
mournful cadence Of taps" lights out,
good night
tinue until Thursday night. when they will
conclude with banquet. Gen. Julian Carr,
the millionaire tobacconst of North Caro-
lima, is president OF this organization.