The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-05-30
THE 18th REUNION
The Convention Called to Order by
General Boiling Great Event Of
the Day Unwilling of Monument
to General Stuart.

of the country the Confederate hosts
| are assembled in Richmond today
| for the last encampment to be held
in the old capitol of the lost cause.
| Thousands of veterans and tens of
| thousands of other visitors have ar
rived in the city and every train adds
| hundreds to the throng. There is ev-
| cry prospect tnat Richmond will be
| called upon to entertain the largest
crowd in its history during the next
| five days, and that the seventeenth
annual reunion will become forever
| memorable in the annals of Dixie as
| he most enthusiastic ever held.
The convention was called to order
| by Major General Smith Boiling, COM
| mander of the Virginia division, at
9:30 this morning. After a prayer by
| he Rev. DR.. ]. William Jones, chap
| lain-general of the United Confederate
Veterans, and the appointment of com
| nittees. the session adjourned. The
great event of the day was the unveil-
ng of a monument to the memory of
General ]. E. B. Stuart, the famous
:avalry leader of the Army of North
ern Virginia. The services included
| prayer by the Rev. Walter ]. Hulli-
len, of Staunton, who was a member
If General Stuarts staff, and an ad
lress by General Theodore S. Garrett
who also fought under Stuart. Ma
Or A. r. Venable, Jr., VINO was with
Stuart when he received his death
wound, also delivered brief eulOgy
of the dead leader. The equestrian
tatue depicts Stuart mounted on a
llunging charger and is remarkably
rue to life. Carlton Mccarthy, mayor
If Richmond, accepted the memorial
N behalf of the city. The unveiling
'xercises were preceded by big pa
'ade composed of members of the
Veteran Cavalry association of the
lrmy of Northern Virginia and num-
'rous other veterans, Confederate Me-
norial association, Sons of Veterans,
he common council of the city of
richmond and several military com
)anies. Late this afternoon memor-
al services will be held at Hollywood
cemetery where are buried General
'tuart. President Jefferson Davis,
General Fitzhugh Lee General Pickett
md some $4,000 other Confederate
warriors. A memorial address will
be delivered by the Rev. Dudley Pow
ars This evening the Sons of Veter-
l1s will hold session in the Auditor
um with Commanderin-Cnief ThOs.
v Owen, of the United Son of Con-
ederate Veterans, as the presiding
officer All officials sponsors and
maids of honor will be formally pre-
sented
The reunion will culminate next Mon
lay with the birthday anniversary of
Jefferson Davis, with the unveiling OF
100000 memorial arch and statue
o the chief executive of the confeder-
acy Mrs.J. A. Hayes, the only surviv
ng daughter of Jefferson Davis, will
Inveil the statue, which is the most
IMPOSING ever erected to perpetuate
he memory of any leader of the Con-
iederate cause. The arch stands sew
enty feet in the clear and forty feet
from side to side. The statue is of
heroic size and surmounts a pedestal
Twelve feet in height. The ceremo-
MES will be preceded by another great
parade of veterans such as will never
BE seen again. Riding in carriages at
he head of the cavalcade will be the
widows and daughters of all the great
Confederate soldiers now living. and
among them Miss Mary Custis Lee.
only living daughter of General Rob
ert E. Lee: Mrs. J. A. Hayes. only
surviving daughter of Jefferson Davis;
Mrs. ]. E. B. Stuart. Mrs. "Stolewall'
Jackson, Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee and Mrs.
George E. Pickett.
General Stephen D. Lee. commander
II chief of the United Confederate
Veterans, will preside at tomorrow's
session, which will be addressed by
Governor SWdHSOu ana OLnSfS- ne
grand ball will be held in the evening
and will be opened by the Southern
Cross drill team of Memphis. The
governor will give reception at the
executive mansion Saturday evening
Special services will be held in all
the churches of the city on Sunday.
One of the most important matters
to be considered during the business
sessions of the encampment is the
recommendation. coming from many
quarters, that the practice of apoint-
ing sponsors and maids of honor by
the United Confederate Veterans be
discontinued. Such action was advo-
Gated at the last convention of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
at Gulfport, Miss 1t is alleged that
the young women sponsors and maids
of honor have of late years become
so numerous at all reunions that the
old soldiers have been forced into sec
Dad place. Commander Lee Is in sym
pathy with the movement and has abb
stained from appointing a chief spcn-
sor and maid of honor for the present
reunion.