The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-05-09
AND GRAY
MAY BOTH MEET
At GETTYSBURG
INVITATION EXTENDED VETE.
RAMS TO VISIT THAT
PLACE IN JULY.
Confederate Veterans in Reunion, at
Macon, Considering Acceptance Of
invitation of G. A. r. to Celebrate
Anniversary Of Great Battle.

Macon. Ga, May s. - North and
South joined hands here today at the
annual reunion of the Confederate
veterans when the old soldiers of
Dixie heartily cheered an invitation
from the Grand Army of the Republic
to attend the Gettysburg semi cen
tennial commemoration on the famous
Pennsylvania battle-ground, July 1, 2,
3 and 4, 1913.
The sixteen members of the COM
mittee on resolutions of the United
Confederate Veterans have unani-
mously advised the reunion conven-
tion to decline the invitation of the
Grand Army of the Republic. for the
Veterans of the South to participate
in the semicentennial celebration of
the battle of Gettysburg, in July of
1918. The committee holds that the
acceptance of the invitation will be
in violation of the constitution of the
U. G. ", and that it would be i'm
proper for the Southerners to cele-
brate battle that contributed most
take action on the resolution.
The invitation was extended in
letter from Commander H. M. Trim
BILE of the Grand Army to Comman-
der Walker of the Confederates, and
was read to the veterans by the chap
lain general, DIR. r. Lin Cave. 1t
follows:
Letter from Grand Army.
Memorial Hall, Chicago, March 4,
1912.
Lieutenant General G. Irvine Walker.
Commander in Chief, United Con-
federate Veterans, Charleston, S. C.
Dear General: / have read your
general orders No, with very great
pleasure. From it learn that you are
fully advised of the action taken by
the state of Pennsylvania, and the
plans already we'll under way for the
celebration of the fiftieth anniversary
of the battle of Gettysburg, on July
l, 2, and 4, 1913, and that you also
know that the commission, created by
that state has requested all surviv-
Ing soldiers of the Civil war, North
and South, to participate therein as
officially invited guests, to be provtt.-
ed with seats in body at all official
functions during the celebration, un-
der the joint direction of the COM
maader in chief of the Grand Army of
the Republic and United Confederate
Veterans, subject, of course, to the
approval of the commission.
II this event might mark tho Anal
and complete reconciliation between
those Of the opposing armies of fifty
years ago, and the permanent estab-
lishment of harmonious and fraternal
relations between the North and
South, it would certainly gladden. the
hearts of all our countrymen.
ITO that end, voicing, as he be-
lieves, the common sentiment of HIS
comrades, and speaking for them in
that behalf, the commander in chief
Of the Grand Army of the Republic
extends to you and your comrades of
the United Confederate Veterans most
cordial greetings, and sincerely re-
quests that you and your comrades,
in numbers as great as possible, Join
with the veterans of the Grand Army
of the Republic in the celebration Of
the semi-centennial anniversary of the
battle of Gettysburg.
Let us assemble there, and meet
and greet each other hand to hand
and heart to heart in the spirit Of
true friendship and brotherhood born
out Of love for the flag and devotion
to our common country. Thus will
all the wounds of our former strife
be healed, as they must some time
be, that this people, as a united and
vital force, may effectively and might
lily solve the problems of our ma
tion's destiny in world affairs and in
human progress.
Let US assemble there, and inau-
gurate a great peace monument un-
der which shall be entombed forever
any lingering prejudice and bitterness
that may have survived the ebbing
tides Of passion through half CEN
tury Of peace, to symbolic to all our
people and to the generations yet to
be, that even out of the dead dust
and ashes of war, under the sunlight
Of our Christian civilization the fra
grant flowers of peace and amity may
grow and bloom.
Let us assemble there, where so
Continued on Pace Five,