The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-30
ORDERS BY EVANS
PLANS FOR THE REUNION AT MEM
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Commander-in-Chief or U. 0. V. Gives Informafion About the Forth coming Meeting To His
 OId Comrades.

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 New Orleans May 2s.--General Gle ment A Evans commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans. ana those who are making plans for the reunion which will be held in Memphis June 6. and 10. are determined that there shall be no grounds for the charge that the old veterans them selves have been siighted during the the gathering have overshadowed the parts played by the men whose careers have made the reunion possible.
 With the cooperation of the oficers of the organization. Memphis will make the treatment of the old veterans and the hospitality shown the men who fought the south,s battles from 1881 to 1865 the principal feature of the reunion of 1909. although nothing VIII be lacking in the way of slanorn1e entertainment for all who attend. The hospitality of the people of Tennessee. on former occasions. has recently been the subject of several orders issued by the General commanding, and to- night General William P. Mickfe, ad- jutant general and chief of staff. by command of General Evans. published several orders touching upon what would be expected of those who will enjoy this hospitality. and laying down certain restrictions. General Order No. 14 says:
 "As there prevails among the mem bers of our federation a great deal or uncertainty ss to what provision Will be made by the Memphis reunion com mittee for the entertainment of the sponsors and maids of honor who may be in attendance at the approaching reunion, the General Commanding feels that he shold lot those interected understand exactly what will be done.
 "The Committee Is very desirous that there should be large attendance or sponsors and maids from departments, divisions. brigades and camps; and are determined to do all possible to reno- CT pleasant the sojourn of au sponsors and Maids who come to Memphis, and shall see that they are supplied with invitations to the various balls ana entertainments that are gtven put cannot attempt to meet the hotel ex- penses of the two thousand who will be present, or provide them with ss- corts or carriages. These must be pro- vided by those who elect the young ladies to these positions. Neither can the committee allow them in the pa- rade, even though they supply them selves with carriages. as the line must be made as short as possible, that the old heroes, for whose pleasure the re- unions are given. who are rapidly growing fewer in numbers and feebier in body, may not be shut out of the entire line of march.
 The only provision that the Reunion Committee will make will be to supply hotel accommodations at the Peabody Hotef~(the general headquarterso for one sponsor and one maid of honor from General and Department Head-
 Aw-A na q Nnd furnish carriages for them and for the sponsors and maids from divisions in the parade"
 General Evans also takes official coh- nizance of the restoration of the name of Jefferson Davis on the Cabin John Bridge. near Washington. D. z. saying:
 "The General Commanding has plea sure in expressing the satisfaction he feels in announcing ofhciallY that the name of Jefferson Davis has been re- stored to the tablet on Cabin John Bridge As Secretary of War of the United States Mr. Davis had been largely instrumental in constructing this aqueduct, and to note this fact his name with others had been placed on the tablet; but during the War between the States ,partisans caused 1t to chiseled of. MT. Davis being at that time the President of the Con federate States. By this restoration an act of justice has been done to one of Americas greatest statesmen. The fact is in itself trivial. but 1t is momentous in significance. It emhasizes the truth that our countrymen will recognize worth; that Mir. Davis. who was thoroughly Southern in his sentiments. can be truly valued by those who were his enemies, and that he was actuated by lofty motives and conceptions of duty as were other statesmen and soldiers of the Confederacy.
 s'It is possible that this desirable result would never have been reached had not our glorious women taken the matter in hand and pushed 1t to completion. The Confederated Southern Memorial Association started the work in 1907, and Mrs. J. Enders Robinson, of Richmond. and Mrs, w. J. Behan, of New Orleans, assisted by the U. D. c. and kindred organizations have the thanks of all Confederates for the ae- compiishment of this work"
 Another order issued by Adjutant General Miclxle at the headquarters of the Confederate Veterans tonight quotes General Evans as follows:
 'The General Commanding announ- ces that the Georgia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. ever ready to defend the honor of all who discharged with fidelity the civil and military duties upon which they were honororably engaged in Confed- crate service. has made the vindica- ton justly due Captain Henry Wirs, Commandant of the Andersohville Pri- son, by erecting at Andersonville, Georgia, a handsome monument to his memory, with suitable inscriptions. and dedicated 1t with impressive public ceremonies on the 18th of May, 1909. The justice due Captain Wirz has been tenderly done by this noble band of Southern Women with full Knowledge of his innocence of the charges made