The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-04-27
MANY OLD VETS
NOW GATHERED At
ANNUAL REUNION
MOBILE CROWDED WITH THE
HEROES OF THE SOUTH, WHO
ARE ENJOYING THEMSELVES
Prominent :'~, '' A.. s,'t, s :' tai, Z
Not Few Union Soldiers Are Also
on Hand to Enjoy the Reunion,

M bile, Ala, April 26.-Side by side.
the Stars and Stripes and the Stars
and Bars floated today from hundred
ftaGstaffs while the streets of old
Mobile again echoed to the tramp of
rebel hosts" The defiant rebel
yell'' mellowed by time and quaver-
ing with age, came from the thorats
of hundreds Of the Boys in gray who
are gathered in Mobile at the opening
of the twentieth annual reunion of
the United Confederate Veterans. The
sessions Of the veterans will contin-
ue through tomorrow and Thursday
and during the reunion the Confeder-
ate Southern Memorial Association
will held it's annual convention.
A great g2mp of tents pitched at
Monroe Pa on Mobile Bay was
ready for the veterans when they be-
gan to POUR into the city this morning
Each state division is camped to-
gether, that the soldiers from each
| state may easily find each other. 4
big mess hall, seating over 5000 serves
| as algeneral meeting place, Free meals
will be served to veterans who desire
! them and every preparation has been
made for the comfort and convenience
of the survivors of the rapidly van
ishing hosts Of tAe Confederacy. Not
a few Union soldiers are here for the
reunion and were given a glad wei
ccme Ly their old friends, the enemy.
Chief Maid of Honor.
Miss Henrietta Mitchell of Jackson,
Miss is the chief maid of honor at the
reunion, by appointment of Command
er-in-Chief Evans, and Lucy Davis
Hayes. is msor-in-chief Miss Hayes
is sy aughter of the late Mrs.
Hayes Iter of the only President
of the' ederacy. Jefferson Davis.
r. Bingham, of Louisville, will
deliver the annual address Of the re-
union, taking for his subject, Justice
| to the South" Addresses ,Iill also be
made by representatives OF Great
Britain, France and Spain. Col Will
liam Fl. Armbrecht will speag for the
! United States.
| The selection of Mobile as the place
| for the 1910 reunion is especially pleas
| ing to the veterans. AS pointed out i'll
proclamation of Gen Evans, this
city and State played an important
part in the drama of Civil War. In
| Alabama was horn the storm Grad
/ eled nation that fell" and in the adj
! jacent city of Montgomery is to be
/ found the first capatal of the Confed-
crate States of America and the first
! home of its only president. On the
beautiful bay of Mobile the greatest
naval battle of the war took place;
| for many weary months a handful of
men and boys, under tAe command OF
! Gen. ID. II. Maurey, numbering about
5000 held in check and delayed the ad-
vance of Gen, Canby's $1,000 trained
/ soldiers; at her very doors, although
within the county in the village of
! Chronicle, the last army of the G.. 5.
! A. west of the Mississippi, was sur
! rendered and the curtain fell on the
great drama; in Mobile was construct
| ed, by q Mobile man, the first ard only
submarine beat that performed the
duty required of it; here rest the ash
es of Gen. Bragg, Gen. GLADDEN., Faith
er Ryan and the great naval com
mander. Raphael Semmes.