The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-09-22
MISSISSIPPI C0NFEDERATES
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.

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Jackson, Miss.-Amid smiles and tears
the fifteenth annual reunion of the Mis-.
Sissippi Division, U. G. ", 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
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 Il few well chosen remarks on
the place in history which the Confed-
crate soldier will always fill, and IN
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-tive years ago.
They meet now as comrades, friends and
brethren, and there is JOY i'll the meeting
again.
This was followed by an eloquent adj
dress of welcome by Hon. Calvin Wells,
ST., who traced graphically and interest
ingly the scenes that stirred their hearts
and actuated them to arms forty-tive
years ago.
In response to this greeting, DR.. 7. p.
Lockwood, of Crystal Springs, spoke
feelingly and eloquently on behalf of
himself and his visiting comrades. The
speaker referred rev%erentially to tn:
women of the Confederacy, and the
Daughters of the Contederacy of today.
Ii the Southern people have any monu-
ments to erect, said he, they should, in
justice to themselves and to the mem
DRY of the past, erect a monument to
the women who helped the men of that
day.
At the close of DIR. Lockwood's ad-
dress Commander Lowry took the chair
and called ON Chaplain Ii. +. Sproles to
lead in an invocation, which that veneer
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
by comrades.
On motion a committee on resolu-
tions, composed of Messrs. S. r. Cole
man, of Greenwood; A. G. Norrell, of
Brandon, and Robert E. Houston, of
Aberdeen, was appointed to take charge
of all resolutions.
Just after the appointment of these
an incident that had been
kept off the programme occurred, and
this was the Prosecution of a handsome
old -handled ebony walking cane by a
of members of the division to
zen. Lowry. The presentation address
made by Hon. Clay Sharkey, in
he alluded to the affection and
esteem in which Gen. Lowry is held by {
every member of the Mississippi di- i
%'ision, and especially by his old COM
AIDES of the Sixth Mississippi Regiment t
responding, Gen. Lowry deprecated !
he idea that he had done any more in r
he way of duty than any other man c
Who entered the Confederate service, @
whether officer or private. lie felt it
s one of the highest honors that had C
allen to him, and in a voice filed with d
motion expressed his deep appreciation il
f the gift. /
Quite a number of resolutions were v
ffered by different delegates and re-
erred to committee. Among the reso- g
ltions offered was one declaring in O
avor of taking steps to get back from "
he vaults of the United States treasury h
balance of the cotton tax money" u