Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-27
IN MEMORY OF
THE VALOROUS DEAD
Services Held at Church
and in Cemetery.
Americus Once More
Attests Its Love for
Soldiers of South.

A thousand Americus people gath>
cred at the Methodist church yester-
day morning to attend the services
in cOmmemoration of the valor and
pa riotism of the soldiers of the South
in the war between the states Every
seat in the main auditorium and the
gallery was occupied
1t was an impressive scene and the
services were worthy of the occasion.
Music, invocation, oration, all were
appropriate. In the choir were a
hundred voices, trained for the occa-
sion by Miss Margaret Buchanan. Mr.
Stapleton, the soloist of the revival
youthful voices. The grand volume
of song that filled the beautiful edi-
flee was Inspiring in its effect. The
prayer was an appeal to the Father
Of common country and the address
was vibrant with truest patriotism
1t was a memorial service that has
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played upon the chords of the past, It
rendered homage to it's nobility and
its glorious sacrifice, to the immola-
ton OF its bravest and best upon the
altar of the country, but through
it all there ran note of pride in the
present, the evidence of a continued
held the affections and commanded
the services of the men of the old
South. the nation whose foundations
were cemented with the blood of the
men of this section who followed
Washington in that earlier Confeder-
acy that first planted freedom on
American soil.
Services began at 1920 o'clock.
Prior to that the old veterans had
assembled at tie Library. From that
point they were escorted to the church
by the Americus Light Infantry and the
College Cadets, both
commands with almost full ranks. Col. |
Crawford Wheatley acted as marshal
of THE parade. Many of the men OF
81, despite their age, were in line. |
Arriving at the church, the veterans |
followed by the two military |
companies, all taking seats reserved |
for them in the front rows. Prof A.
G. Miller presided. Rev. o. B. Chester
lead in prayer, followed by the singing /
Of America" by the children, the great I
audience joining. An American audi /
ence to the core, almost every man,
woman and child with an ancestry
back to the pioneers who had
" ested .he lard from tie wilderness
and the savages, not a heart but that
could feel the deepest significance of
he line, Land of our fathers pride"
,r join with unfaltenng accents in
he sentiment. Our fathers God, to
Thee, author of Liberty, to Thee We
ing"
AS the last of the echoes of the
song died away. Prot. Miller intro
luced the orator of the day, Prof
Iaddock. of the High School staff.
! thoughtful. Instructive speaker. ris-
ng to e1oquence at times. Schooled
II the story Of the South in all its
periods, cherishing as its most pre-
dous Inheritance the four years of
lnceasing struggle against over
odds, and drawing inspira-
ion for this occasion from the life of
he beau IDEAL of American Christian
manhood, Gen. Robert E. Lee, his ad-
lress was a tribute to the men who
wore the gray, the great armies that
nave passed to another land and the
FAST thinning line of comrades ever
the river to join them, that
appealed to the audience.
The new South is but a re-;ncarna-
lion of the spirit of the old South, he
leld, and its future greatness will be
Quilt upon the enduring foundations of
character, bravery and patriotism laid
BY the men who for four long years
attested those virtues on the field Of
Oat lie.
Following the address came the old
song that never fails to bring mois-
-ure to the eyes of men who have
known the hardships and sufferings
as we'll as the glories and triumphs
Of wanfare, "Tenting on the Old Camp
Ground" filling the minds of the old
soldiers with a flood of "reminiscences
Of the days ON the camping grounds
If the Confederacy.
TNan came the formation of the
procession to the cemetery, the child
rem carrying the wreaths that loving
hands had prepared. At the graves
they were tenderly placed above the
last resting places of the soldiers Of
the South. military salute rolled its
note across the city of the
dead and the memorial exercises of
1910 had come to an end.
A Blow In the Back.-An overcoat
is a necessary nuisance and the ten