The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-04
.ARDOR of VETERANS
MOI Dampened By the Chilling
WeathSr
FULL Of VIM AND V|GOR.
Hundreds of Johnny Reus" Pres
ent When Body Convened

All Of General Officers Reelected
Birmingham Chosen as. City 70
Next Reunion Recommends
tions Made-Returns Thanks t.
Congress and President for Return
of Battle Ilags-Veterans Hea
Addresses by Gen. Young and Ex
u. 5. Senator Berry.
Richmond, May 1.-The grand camI
United Confederate Veterans. to-day
reelected it's general officers as fol,
lows:
Commander in Chief-General
Stephen D. Lee.
Lieutenant General, Department Ar
my of Northern Virginia-General Ir-
inc Walker.
Lieutenant General Department of
Tennessee-General Clement A. Evans
Lieutenant General Trans Missippi
Northumberland William L. Ca
bell
All of the above already hold the
offices to which they we're elected, and
all were chosen by acclamation and
amidst the widest cheers.
Birmingham was CHOSEN as the city
Of the next eighteenth annual re-un-
ion OF veterans.
Other cities competing were San
Francisco and Nashville.
The vote first stood at 1000 to 500
The report of the committee on res
olutiOns was adopted without debate.
1t recommends that the speeches of
General S. D. Lee, Senator John W.
Daniel and Colonel Il. E. Lee be
printed in pamphlet form for distri-
button, and endorses the objects and
aims of the Arlington Confederate
Monument Association, which propos-
es the erection Of a Confederate mon
ument in Arlington National ceme-
terry.
On the correct representation of the
Confederate battle flag the resolution
committee submit AS substitute,
''that the action of this association at
its convention held in Nashville,
Tenn, in 1904, be endorsed and re-af-
firmed.'
The report favors the preservation
of all papers, manuscripts and histori-
cal sketches of the Confederate states
and recommends the endowment of
Confederate hospital in the home
formerly owned by Stonewall Jackson
at Lexington, Va.
1t suggests the celebration of the
some hundredth anniversary of the
birth of General R. e. Lee by a per-
manent memorial IN the institution,
of which he was president (Washing-
ton and Lee University and favors
erection of monunlen: to Is soldiers
killed at AppomattoX The building
of this last mentioned memorial in
commends to the camp of Appomattox
The report recommends the tabling Of
the request of the Daughters for a
change of the rules governing the be-
stowal of the crosses Of honor, SO that
they may be worn by the descendants
of the recipients.
1t thanks congress and the presi-
dent for the returning of the captu-
ed battle flags and for the appropriate
ing 100000 to make the graves Of
Confederate soldiers buried in north
ern soil.
1t likewise thanks the twenty-tIird
New Jersey infantry for erecting a
tablet at Salem church to the Alapama
soldiers with whom it was engaged.
The report urges that the southern
states give each Confederate soldier
testimonial Of his record and when
the end comes an appropriate burial;
iasad that the division commanders
shall constitute the executive commit
tee Of the association.
1t declares that the title of general
shall be born only by these who had
that title during the war.
1t also recommends the tabling Of
the resolution by the Daughters"
providing that no state sponsore and
maids Of honor be appointed.
Ut likewise recommends the tabling
OF the resolution regarding monu-
ment to the women of the south and
extends tribute to Mrs. Mes. Nc
Kinley.
Ae report was signed by Joseph F.
Uohnaon, of Alabama, chairman; John
p. Hickman, OF Tennessee, secretary;