Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-28
CONFEDERATE VETERANS:

With 1t lie Rock, AK, chosen ss
the reunion c'tj for 1911 and Ne# Or
leans endorsed for TIE honor in 1915 and
With an election OF otfica,s the United
C,nffdarsts Veterans Associations closed
its tu,iuess session at Mobile last night.
All that remains now is the Big parade
today snd the BALANCE OF the week will
be devoted to anuHmants.
The vote for reunion city stood: Ii lie
Rock, 1,470; Chattanooga, GAO; OILS
hons O:t7, II; Houston, none.
Gensral Gsorge w. Gordon, of Mem
pbis, commander of the department OF
Tennessee, was chosen commsnder-in'
| chief, succeeding General Clement A.
E ,sus, of Atlanta, who declined re-slec-
ton. General Evans was elected pest
commander.iu- chief, and General ". l..
| OabeIl, commander of the Trans Miss.
isslppi division, was also elected pa
| commander. lie -chief.
General Gordon will be succeeded IN
commsDd OF the diatrict of Tennessee by
General Bennett Young, of Louisville,
KY.
It Ia uudert1od that General William
E. Mickle will remain sdjutsut general
aud chief.of Fl to General Gordon, Ad
| iu ar General William E. Mickle's an.
nusl repor. showed thirty new camp:
had baen chartered during the year and
| ten old camps were reinststed.
Clarence j. Owen, commaader-'n chile
of the Sons of Vtt,rans, WIS presented
ard received az ovation. MIR. Oven
spoke spiritedl7 OF State right, and de,
| c!ared il The United S ates is to exist al
a nation it must recognizes aud adopt
the mesps fer which the Sou b fought
General Bennett. Young, of Leu ssns,
read the history report. Fla deprecated
The tendency of writer's to misrepresenl
the S.u b. He declared thst OF all tas
southern soldiers 10 northern prisons,
twelve of every hundred died, while Of
northern solLicrs In soutlfrn prlsons,
only nine of every hundred died. "Aud
the greatest monument to the Stu herO
s9ldiers,' he said, ''is The death list u
the NORTH" The convention adopted The
report and on motion of an old veteran
a copy will be sent 10 Ssost>t Hepburn
of IIaho who recently spoke in the
Senate in opposition to the placing oil
statue OF General Lee In the United
States cspitol. This motion IVES carried
With cheer.
| Promptly at noon, in accordance with
| an old custom, the convention suspend
ed business and devoted to the exercise
OF memorial hour. This is practically a
/ religious exercise in memory OF those
who died during the year. The services
were conducted by Rev. r. Linn Cave,
chaplain general of the veterans, AMI the
famous Jesuit Orator Priest, Rev. Father
De La Morinierc.
One of the special features Of the re
union was the announcement by Lieut.
Gov. Ellysou OF the gift of Richmond o:
the $4,000 property TO be used for the
site OF the Battle Abbey end that work
will begin at once.
| The erection of a monum n to 5. p
Moore, the distinguished surgeon pen
| eIal OF the Confederate States, was also
resolved npon unanimouly. The site Sc
lected for it is the oil capital OF the
! Confederate States.
| Mobile, Ala, April 2S-Fifeea
thousand Oon!ederat, e't rams marched
through the streets of Mobils today in
the annual reunion parade. Time after
lime the music was drowned opt by the
famous "rebel YELL" Amt ulsnces and
carriage, followed he parade which was
10 26 divisions, and picked up these
i mr. Is I ratpd