Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-28
BOYS IN GRAY GATHER
Last "March Past" for Many
Confederate Veterans.
ION TO RICHMOND" AGAIN
One-Tim Confederate Capital Plans
Busy Week.
CAPT. SALLY OF THE CAVALRY
Two Monuments to Be Unveiled.
Colored Company Cooks of Civil
War Camps.
CAPT SALLY OF THE CAVALRY

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RICHMOND, Va, May 2s.-The capital
of the confederacy is alive with confed-
crate veterans, sons of confederate veterans,
daughters of the confederacy, memorial as
sociations and people from all quarters of
the globe. This is the seventeenth annual
reunion of the veterans, the twelfth of the
sons. People began to arrive here today,
and all trains coming this way are crowd
ed with visitors-veterans, their sons and
daughters and sightseers. The men are
much more feeble than when they were
here eleven years ago. The number has been
thinned by death and age has dimmed their
eyes, bent their forms and given a snowy
appearance to the boards and hair.
The city is extending a hearty welcome to
the veterans, around which they fought for
so many years. Everywhere are flags and
bunting. The confederate colors predom-
mate but the national colors are every
where intertwined with the emblems of the
storm-cradled nation that fell: On all
sides there decorations. Few people
have refused to heed the request of the
committee in charge to add a bit of color
in honor of the occasion Pictures of con-
federate generals are to be seen in great
confusion. There are pictures of Lee, Jack
son. Stuart, Longstreet, Beauregard, Hill,
Joseph E. Johnston, Albert Sidney john
ston, Bradley T. johnson, Wheeler and
others
The state capitol building, the scene of
the sessions of the confederate congress.
has been tastfully decorated. There has
been no effort to overdo the matter. The col
used with good effect, and are In
sufficient number to make good showing.
The work of decorating is still going on
all over the city, with hundreds of men
working day and night to have everything
completed before the first session Of the
veterans shall be called to order.
To Unveil Monuments.
Two handsome monuments are to be I'M
yelled during the sessions Of the convention.
The first is that of Gen. ]. E. B. Stuart, the
dashing Confederate cavalry leader, which
is to be exposed to public view Thursday,
May 30 1t is an equestrian statue of COM
position bronze mounted on blue Virginia
granite. The ceremonies incident to the
unveiling of the monument will be in charge
OF men who served with him on the field Of
battle. The Rev. Walter Q. Hullihen of
Staunton, a member Of the staff of Stuart
will offer the prayer. Gen. A. r. Venable
jr., a staff officer, will preside, and will in
troduce Judge Theodore S. Garnet of Nor
folk, who served with Stuart, and who is to
deliver the address The veil is to be drawn
by little Miss Virginia Stuart Waller,
companed by Master ]. E. B. Stuart, jr.,
grandchildren of Gen. Stuart. These cere-
monies are to take place at O'Clock
Immediately following this incident, the
parade will reorganiZe and will proceed to
Hollywood cemetery, where the graves of
the 5000 Confederate dead will be deco
'SpttClitS lliduc, SdIutcS iCu, anu
songs sung.
The Jefferson Davis monument half
mile from the Stuart monument, and on the
same great drive and promenade, is to be
unveiled June 3. The ceremonies incident
to the event will be elaborate, and will
mark the last day of the reunion. The vet
eran organizations, the Sons OF veterans,
the Daughters of the Confederacy, and all
the patriotic organizations will form in line
at the capitol and will march to the monu-
ment a mile and a half away.
School Children to Sing.
One of the features of the reunion will be
the singing by the school children. About
900 have been rehearsing old songs and
practicing for the entertainment of the WIS.,
itors They will be conspicuous in the pa
rades and will form living battle flag on
the march, singing all the way. Some of
the girls are to be dressed in blue, others in
req and others in white, and they will be
SO placed as to represent confederate pat
tie flag.
There will be about thirty-ive bands in
attendance many of them from distant
points. One of the main features of the re-
union will be night devoted TO singing OF
campfire melodies, when Poi. Miller,
banjo player of the old school, will have
charge and will have the assistance of sew
eral hundred musicians of the various COM
mandS.
There is to be no lack of speaking during
the reunion The addresses of welcome and
the responses are expected to occupy at
least the bulk of the opening day. Gov
Swanson will be the first man to greet the
veterans and to bid them welcome to the
state. Then Mayor Mccarthy, veteran of
the war, will commit the keeping of the
city to the visitors and Senator John w.
Daniel will extend greeting on behalf of
the veterans of the state. Then Gen. Ste
phen D. Lee, the grand commander of the
United Confederate Veterans, Will respond,
and Capt Robert E. Lee, jr., of Fairfax
will reply for the veterans. This proceed
ing is to be intersperSsd with music by
chorus of more than 100 voices, made up OF
pupils from the high school of the city.
With the coming of the veterans to this
city there has been a demand for quarters
for the men. Every boarding house is taxed
to capacity, and still the demand is for
more room. The city has erected nearly
one thousand tents in the western portion
of the city, each tent capable Of accommo-
dating six persons. Xhe men will sleep
there and the committee has arranged to
feed the old men at camp kitchen
block distant
Those Faithful Old Uncles.
In the ranks of the veterans that are to
come from the south will be several negro
men who were company cooks during the
war The men are now members of the
confederate camps, attend all reunions, and
they are to be seen in the parades, carrying
rations with them, such as chickens, geese,
pigs and the like They have camping
place for themselves, but they are given the