Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-10-29
North Favors The G. A. R.
Converting In Atlanta,


The suggestion of holding 1909 G. A. r. en-
campment in Georgia will be of great interest to
the people of this colony. We have in Fitzgerald
more G. A. r. men than any city of it's size in the
6Outh and more than some of the largest southern
titles
Fitzgerald is hardly large enough to handle
such convention but we are growing with re-
markable strides and might be within a few years
uStite capable of taking care of the Grand Army
Encampment. We expect to have a soldiers
home on grand scale well under way by 1909,
md there will be much of common interest in this
oIdiers colony that will attract the visitors who
night come as near as Atlanta to the annual en-
ampment
We want to see the encampment held i'll At
alta. 1t would give Fitzgerald an opportunity
introduce many comrade to the balmy climate
which the old soldiers have established south
En home and in which many of them are happy
Ad prosperous.
The following from Sundays Constitution
ears on the subject.
s'The suggestion by prominent confederate vet
rams that the annual encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic be held in Atlanta iii 1909
lis met with enthusiastic reception throughout
he north. According to many of the papers OF
hat section many have for years been looking for
yard to the time when the good feeling between
the two sections would express itself in such a
banner that such an encampment should be held
ID Atlanta is especially appropriate in as much as
around Atlanta was conferred many of the fercest
truggles of the
The sentiment of the north is strongly express
- q 10, HNoln no;IN
Blade one of the strongest and most representa-
Mve of the the northern papers. BelOwis given
Ia full an article which appeared in that paper
on October %.
s'The National Grand Army encampment at
Atlanta. Ca, the heart of the erstwhile southern
eonfederacy and the spot where General Tecumseh
sherman, in the spring of 1864, began his famous
march to the sea, and which saw the beginning of
the end of the greatest civil strife which the world
has ever known, promises to be the event of 1909.
"According to the Atlanta Constitution the
people of that beautiful southern city are in real
arneSt in their desire to extend to their etime
Northern foes the right hand of fellowship and give
the grizzled veterans of the north an example of
real southern hospitality and the suggestion re
eeived hearty second at the hands of General
Element A. Evans, u high official of the United
onfederate Veterans Association on the Occas
lon of the visit of Governor Davidson, of Wis
onsn, and party of G. A. r. veterans, who
isited Atlanta last week to look over the historic
attlefelds of that section.
Governor Davidson and his staff, all G. r. A.
men, heard the proposition with expressions of
leasure and promised to do all in their powor to
ave the invitation accepted, if it is file when
NE Grand Army encampment is held in Toledo
st year.
''Atlanta is not only one of the most beautiful
.d prosperous cities of the south, but it is
sinded by sites of some of the most terrific bat
that marked the closing scenes of the civil war
6OubtleSs there is not another spot in the
hlaaid where the veterans of the north would
much to interest them and recall the camp
x1aKS of the sixties
4 human interest side to this move
part of the good people of Atlanta,
the present generation have vivid rec
she bitterness and sectional strife
Rr many years succeeding the war,
q the martyred Mckinley