The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-29
Again Chosen to Head
United Confederate
Veterans.
NEXT REUNION AT
JACKS KSONVILLE
Gray-Clad Hosts Will March To-
Day in Annual Review-At
Ball in Their Honor, Many
Dance Virginia Reel and
Turkey Trot Till
Morning.

Chattanooga, Tenn, May 2s.-Jack-
| sonville, Fla, late to-day was awarded
the honor of entertaining the twenty
fourth annual reunion OF Confederate
veterans. and Commander in Chief Cen
eral Bennett II. Young. Of Louisville,
KY, with his three departmental COM
manders, were reelected at the last
important business session OF veterans
during the present reunion here.
The next reunion went to Jackson
Vile after more than an hours de-
fame of that city. Nashville, Tenn,
Houston, Tex, and Tulsa. Okla, had
been proclaimed by eloquent orators
When n vote was taken, Jacksonville
received 1,52S votes; Nashville. the
nearest opponent. receiving 405. The
selection of the Floiida city then was
made unanimous.
Departmental officers who again will
serve under the command of General
Young are Lieutenant-Gcneral Theo-
dore S. Garnett, OF Norfolk. commander
of the Army OF Northern Virginia; Lieu
tenantGcneral George +. Harrison, OF
Opelika, Ala, commander of the Army
OF Tennessee, and Lieutenant General
X NJ. Van Zandt, of Fort Worth, Tex.
Department
Monuments Dedicated.
Other features OF the second day re-
union program were the impressive
ceremonies attendant upon the dedica-
ton of handsome monuments at Chick
amauga Park by delegations from Flor
Ida and Alabama and the parade
OF the Sons OF Confederate Veterans.
joint memorial service in
honor of the Confederate dead
also was held in the auditorium to-day,
at which representatives. from the vet
Grams and all other organizations at
tending the reunion took part.
The election OF officers by the vete-
rams this afternoon was preceded by n
lively discussion. which followed the
report of the committee on credentials.
This committee recommended that ere
Gentials be withheld from General w.
j. Behan, of New Orleans, because, IL
was alleged, he belonged 10 two Con-
federate veteran organization. Gen
cral Behan mounted the platform and
denounced the recommendation of the
committee AS malicious. After relat-
ing the battles in which he had par
ticipated during the War Between the
States. lie called upon the veterans to
defeat the committee recommendations.
For time the meeting was in tur-
moil Explanations were called for.
and it finally was stated that General
Benan naU come as chairman OF q dele
CATION from one camp, while he still
retained membership in the fifteen
Louisiana camps which seeded from
the veterans organization four years
ago.
A motion was made to amend the
credentials committee report so as to
exclude the portion of 1T referring to
General Behan. When vote was
called on the motion. the presiding Of
icer could not determine whether the
ayes or the nays were the more hume
rous. An official vote by State divisions
then was called for, and the motion
was adopted.
The report Of the resolutions com
mttee. submitted this afternoon, was
adopted. Among the resolutions was
one designating the general commander
OF the veterans. together with State
division commanders, as representatives
OF the veterans association at the CEN
tennial celebration OF the signing of
the treaty OF Ghent The resolution
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