The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-28
Confederate We terans
Decide to Meet There
in 1911.
GENERAL GORDON
SUCCEEDS EVANS
Famous Memphis Soldier Is
M a d e Commander in Chief.
New Leader One of Four
Living Confederates Who
Were Major Generals
Before War Ended.

Mobile, Ala. April 27.-With Little
Rock, Ark, chosen as the reunion city
for 1911 and New Orleans indorsed for
the honor in 1915, and with an eiec-
ton or officers, the United Confederate
Veterans Association closed Its bus1-
ness sessions tonight All that re-
mains now is the big parade to-mor-
icw and .he balance of the week will
be devoted to amusemerits. The vote
tor reunion city stood:
Little Rock, 1,i7O; Chattanooga. Gao;
Oklahoma City, II. Houston y.
When Texas was reached, the vet
Grams saw how things were going ana
threw their strength to Arkansas.
The Endorsement OF New Orleans as
the meeting place for 1915, was con-
tanned In resolution favorably re-
ported and adopted. 1t recites that
New Orleans proposes to hold Pana-
ma Canal Exposition in 1915. and that
the Crescent City had asked the vet
erans TO indorse the exposition and
attend it in April, 1915.
General Gordon Elected.
General George w. Gordon, -of Mem
phis. commander of the Department
OF Tennessee, was chosen commander
in.chief. succeeding General Clement
a. Evans, of Atlanta, who declined re-
election.
General Evans was elected pas,
commander chief and General w.
[. Cabell. commander of the Trans
mississippi Division, was also elected
past commander-in-ch
The new commander. General Cor
don. has the distinction of being one
of the four living confederates who
were actually major generals before
5uH q record
of being captured by the F,eneral forces
three times
Genera! Gordon viii be succeeded
in command of the District OF Ten
nessee by General Bennett Young, OF
| Louisville, ky.
4. is ,,nderstood that General Mil-
jlian, r. MiciSle Will remain adjutani-
| general and chief of staff of General
Gordon Acknowledgement William Z.
Mickle's annual report showed thirty
/ new camps had been chartered during
the year and ten old camps were re-
! instated
/ FOR States Rights.
] Clarence ]. owen, commander-tn-
chief of the Sons of Veterans, was
presented and received an ovation.
/ Mr.. owen spoke spiritedly of States
rights, and declared IL the Unied States
| is to exist as nation it must recog-
nize and adopt the views for which
| the South fought.
General Bennett Young. of Louis
| VILE. read the history report. he
| deprecated the tendency of writer's &c
| misrepresent the South. He declared
| that of all the Southern soldiers II
! Northern prisons, twelve of every hun
dred died, while of Northern soldiers
In southern prisons only nine of every
| hundred died. And the greatest
! monument to the Southern soldiers
| he said. "is the death list of the
| North
The convention adopted the report
] and on motion of an old veteran,
/ copy will be sent to Senator Heypurn
| Of Idaho who recently spoke IN the
! Senate In opposition to the placing o.
a statue of General Lee in the unitec
| States Capitol This motion was car
/ ried with a cheer.
! Promptly at noon, in accordance
| with an old custom, the convention
/ susnended business and devoted tsel
/ TO the exercises of memorial hour. This
F, Is practically a religious exercise u
| memory OF those who died during tht
year. The services were conducted b,
Rev. r. Linn Cave, chappiain-g genera
of the veterans. and the famous Iesui
! orator-priest, Rev. Father de IL
| Morinire
Colonel Shipp Speaxs.
The balloting for the meeting piac'
was the feature OF the afternoon ses
| sion. Colonel Joseph r. Shipp of Chat
tanooga. who was only recently re
leased from the Washington, d. G.
prison. after serving term for con
tempt of the United States Suprenl
Court in permitting a negro to D
! lynched while he was sheriff, mad
the first appeal for Chattanooga. Whe
4, he described how he had Just bee
released from Federal prison. a1te
being made a vicarous sacrifice, tn
| convention went wild. When Mayo
Thompson. of Chattanooga. who fol
. lowed him. referred to the "crle
prosecution" there was another demon
stration.
Miss Harris of Portsmouth, va
sang q. song of Chattanooga. Miss Rap
pelman, the ''poetess of Arkansas" re
cited an original poem on Arkansa
Mayor L. j. Giddings. of Oklahom
City, an orator and humorist. re
cited how he had asked for this year
reunion at Memphis last year, and sal
/. he proposed to come back every yea
) until he got 1t. .,
I 'Why," he said, "in two years l4ittl
/ Rock will be a suburb of Oklahom
5 City. We have better ball team ina
. Pittsburg, better beer than MllWauke
better booze than Louisville, and pre-
4 tier woman than Memphis"
; RlcHM0Nn IN 1912