Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1912-09-03
Confederate Reunion.

| Although the weather was unpropitiou:
unlil twelve o'clock last Saturday. there
was large attendance. probably 6fteer
hundred people. at the Confederate Re
union held here on that day. Rev. DR.
z. H. McKim, pastor of Epiphany Church
! Washington, d. c.. made an eloquent
address on the Gettysburg campaign. Il
was an able effort. aud was received b.
his 6nc audience with the greatest interest
A meeting OF the Jefferson County
Camp was held. Col. K, r. Chew. COM
mander, presiding, and afer the calling
of the roll the report of the treasurer was
presented and approved.
Referring to the death of nine mem
bers of the Camp since the last meeting
the following resolution was offered and
passed.
Resolved, That we record with pain and
sorrow the death during the last year of nine
members Of this camp-Dr. 4, c. Hopkins,
George d. Johnson, Capt. Us. Melvin, VIM.
Melvin. George X. Lewis. A. L Osbourn, H.
L. Osseurn. Joseph Trspnelliand Benjamin
~. i1u6tos Auht VIC IuELuof ucSlIo u Dear
testimony to the high character and merit
of our deceased comrades both as soldiers
| of the South and as citizens of our commu-
nifty. and we Instruct the officers of this
Camp to convey our sympathy with this
resolution TO the family of each of our de-
| ceased members.
The meeting was then adjourned.
The Reunion was enlivened by the
singing of southern songs by the choir
and inspiring mnsic by the City and
Powbatan Bands.
REUNION NOTES.
Major X. w. Hunter, of the old Stone
wall Brigade, who never fails to attend
a Jefferson county Reunion, was there
as usual, and the boys" of the fast
thinning ranks greeted him heartily.
Frank Jones, who followed the plume
of Billy Morgan in the First Virginia
Cavalry, was there. right side up" and
proudly wore the hat bequsathed to him
by his late chivalrous con- mander.
/. c. Haas, of Washington, an ante
bellum Free Press boy and a gallant
member of Chew's Battery of the famous
Stuart Horse Artillery. was heartily
welcomed visitor. and we called to mind
with him the time. when he grown to
manhood in the Free Press office, and
we lad in the Office of the Independent
Democrat secession paper, duel was
n tba r. 4
the Democrat, sent Bill Kenney, an
lrishman in the Free Press Office. COM
&c valentine which the latter took as very
often sive. Ben threw the challenge into
the stove unread. and Bill quetsd down
and no blood was shed. Ben figured in
the subsequent war as gallant follower
| of John Y. Beall IN Confederate naval
operations, and d ed III the harness few
years ago as editor of the East Tenn
ssseean. in Kingston. Tenn. We don't
know what ever became of Dick
And trio OF us mot thers-Dr B. B.
Ransom and James N. Small of Harpers
Ferry, and ourself-ss far rs we know
the only survivors of a company of boys
made up principally from the Letchsr
Cadets who were not called out to go TO
war, but put themsel YES under command
of Capt. John Avis, Mexican War vet
eran, and moved on Harpers Ferry along
with the Secoud Virginia Regiment with
Free Jake. an old 4th of July cannon
which had no forward truck and could
rot have beeu used for war purposes at
any rate. 1t was sent back home, and
m :mberS of Patterson j army that after.
ward came in here, sent it home to Phil
adelphia with much ado as a captured
rebel gun. Wouldn't it be a gracious
thing If the Mayor and City Council of
Philadelphia would send it back to US
to place on one side of our court house
green?
And Hon. Thos. d. God of Clarke,
an old prison roommate at Fort Della.
ware, a gallant Stonewall Br,gader-
how pleased we were to meet him, as
were also many others.