The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-09-21
MISSISSIPPI CONFEDERATES
HOLD THEIR ANNUAL SESSION
AT JACKSON.
Monument to Women of the South
Discussed-Gen. Lowry Presented
With a Handsome Cane-Me-
ridian Gets Next Meeting.

Jackson, Miss.-Amid smiles and tears
the fifteenth annual reunion of the Mis-
sissippi Division, U. L. v, with its at
tendant incidents, passed into history,
and, according to the statements of men
who have participated in all of them,
1t was the most successful, altogether,
OF the series. The principal event of
the first day was the parade.
Besides opening formalities and the
parade, little else was accomplished, and
all the business was crowded into the
second day.
AT the appointed hour Gen. Lowry
gave the word to Forward, march!" to
the theater, and while Prof. Carl Leake's
band played a voluntary in the open
air, the veterans proceeded to file into
the lower seats, which had been special
ly reserved for them, the public taking
the balcony and gallery seats.
Capt. Frank Johnston, as master of
ceremonies, called the convention to or
der with IA few well chosen remarks on
the place in history which the Confed-
crate soldier will always fill, and on
the happy reunions which only serve to
weld more closely at this late day the
hearts that beat i'll union for a common
and sacred cause forty-iye years ago.
They meet now as comrades, friends and
brethren, and there is joy in the meeting
again.
This was followed by an eloquent adj
dress Of welcome by Hon. Calvin Weris,
Sr, who traced graphically and interest
ingly the scenes that stirred their hearts
and actuated them to arms forty-ive
years ago.
In response to this greeting, DR.. T. P.
Lockwood, of Crystal Springs, spoke
teelingly and eloquently On behalf of
himself and his visiting comrades. The
speaker referred reyerentially to the
women of the Confederacy, and the
Daughters OF the Confederacy of today.
If the Southern people have any monu-
ments to erect, said he, they should, in
justice to themselves and to the mem
ory of the past, erect a monument to
the women who helped the men of that
day.
At the close of DR.. Lockwood's ad-
dress Commander Lowry took the chair
and called on Chaplain II. +. Sproles to
lead in an invocation, which that vener-
able and distinguished divine offered up
IN his most earnest and feeling terms.
AT the conclusion of the prayer the di-
vision proceeded to business, and the
first was the appointment OF a commit
tee on credentials. Pending the report
of this committee impromptu talks were
made by comrades.
On motion a committee on resolu-
lions, composed of Messrs. S. R. Cole {
man, of Greenwood; A. G. Norrell, of
Brandon, and Robert Z. Houston, of
Aberdeen, was appointed to take charge {
Of all resolutions. !
Just after the appointment of these t
an incident that had been I
kept OFF the programme occurred, and L
his was the Prosecution of a handsome c
5old-handled ebony walking cam by a il
lumber of members of the division to t
len. Lowry. The presentation address
made by Hon. Clay Sharkey, in \
which he alluded to the affection and i,
steem in which Gen. Lowry is held by e
very member of the Mississippi di- il
ision, and especially by his old com V
AIDES of the Sixth Mississippi Regiment. t.
n responding, Gen. Lowry deprecated II
he idea that he had done any more in re
he way of duty than any other man &C
Tho entered the Confederate service, OF
neither officer or private. lie felt it -
) one of the highest honors that had or
lllen to him, and in a voice filled with Il;
notion expressed his deep appreciation in
the gift. T.,
Quite a number of resolutions were V,
Tered by different delegates aud re. be
fred to committee. Among the reso- "a
.tions offered was one declaring in of
vor of taking steps to get back from wi
e vaults of the United States treasury bo
lie balance of the cotton tax money" I'm