The Washington herald., 1907-06-05
INVADE The CAPITAL
Confederate Veterans March
Through the City.
RECEIVED AT WHITE HOUSE
Old Soldiers Warmly Greeted by the
President, who il Invited 10 Visit
Tennessee-SpeciaI Permission Is
Given the Former Fighters to
Appear with Their Arms,

"On to Washington" the cry that en-
eouraged Lees ragged veterans before
the bitter campaign into Pennsylvania
was repeated yesterday, but with no
thought of conquest, when 100 SCARED
and age-bent soldiers of the Confederacy
came into Washington. They came not
lodging across the Aqueduct Bridge, as
they had contemplated many years ago,
not with leveled gun and deadly shell,
but on a mission OF peace-to call on the
successor of Abraham Lincoln.
Most of the soldiers were from Tennes-
see and consisted mainly Of those VINO
had fought under the standard OF the
gallant cavalryman. Gen. y. B. Forrest
But a group of LOuisianians, who had
seen the fighting along the Potomac un-
der Gen. Beauregard and had witnessed
Grants victories on the Mississippi. were
prominent in the body. Capt. G. F. Ha-
ger was in command of the cavalrymen,
while Capt G. B. Malone and L. E. Tai
bOtt strobe in front of the infantry, With
them walked an old negro. bowed by the
weight of years, but striving with great
courage and dignity to retain his soldierly
bearing. He was Whitlock Field, who
was on every battlefield on which the
First Tennessee regiment fought, and
who was the body-servant Of Col Hume
Field. the commander Of the regiment
March to White House.
With clanking sabers sheathed forever
in the love for reunited country the vet
Grams alighted from their coaches and
marched direct to the White House. Head
ed by a color bearer with the Union flag
they clung fondly To the bulRt-tOrn in
signals of the Confederacy, and almost
every man OF them was decorated with
the colors that they fought for Outside
the White House they left the Southern
crosses and the Confederate emblems, and
entered with only the Stars and Stripes.
President Roosevelt greeted them with
his usual enthusiasm and seemed 10 have
won them 10 him. for they emerged from
the audience smiling and with words Of
gratitude. The sons Of the South shook
the hand Of the Executive and extended
TO him an invitation 10 visit Tennessee.
4 llE INV ltdllt4i was S4EilFl bE NT'Na T ciA-
teTsOn, Of Tennessee. Mai. Morris. Of
Nashville; S. G. Douglas president, and
+. 5. Shannon, secretary, Of the Nash
Vile board of trade. J. H. Kirkland,
chancellor of Vanderbilt University; g..
3. Winton, editor Of the Christian Advo-
cate; W. J. Ewing managing editor Of
the American; f. B. StahIman. president
Of the Nashville Banner: Y. VI. Sutro.
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president of the State Fair Association.
j. W RuSsman. president. and NJ. T.
Bryan, secretary. of the Cumberland
river commission; Thomas Sebastian
Byrne, bishop Of Tennessee, and Isidore
Lowenthal rabbi Of the Vine Street TEN
pie, Of Nashville
First Visit of the Kind.
This was the first time that the Capital
has been entered by armed Confederates,
and they had TO obtain special permission
from Commissioner West 70 do so. Rep
.resentative John Wesley Gaines escorted
and INTRODUCED them After meeting the
President, the veterans visited the public
buildings and left for Tennessee last
night.
The committee arranging for the me-
mortal exercises and the decorations of the
graves Of the Confederate dead inferred
in Arlington Cemetery meets at the
Arlington Hotel tomorrow evening 70
complete the details. The quartet has
already been selected, and an orator in
vited to deliver the address on next sun
day afternoon at o'clock
A reception will be given Mrs. Hender-
son, president Of the United Daughters Of
the Contederacy, on Friday evening. AZ
the Arlington Hotel. Mrs. Henderson and
Mrs. Behan. president Of the Confederate
Memorial Association, will remain IN this
city 10 participate IN the ceremonies on
Sunday afternoon.