Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-02
VETS PRAISE WARMLY
The CHATTANOOGANS
For Preparations Made for
Reunion

resentatives veterans not so high in
rank, are warm in their praises of the
arrangements being made for the 1913
reunion in this city May 1928 and pass
| the word along to their comrades that
a rare treat awaits them when they
gather here, surrounded by such his
'ric places as the battlefelds of Chick
manga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary
Ridge, etc.
Brigadier General John P. Hickman,
commanding the Tennessee Division, U.
C. ", and therefore grand marshal Of
the reunion, here has a strong word
of commentator for all the arrange
ments, especially the plans for PARADE,
and more particularly the veterans pa
| rade which is to keep intact for the
| Confederate soldiers themselves, so
that they will not be overshadowed by
other features that have been admitted
heretofore Gen. Hickman wrote as
follows to General Chairman Brock
las an officer of the association,
can only allow in the veterans parade
what is set out in our bylaws They
| provide for the COMMUNICATIVE chief,
his staff, sponsor and maids of honor;
the three corps commanders, their
staffs, sponsors and maids of honor,
with the Confederate soldiers forming
each division. After the bylaws were
adopted, and by order of Gen. Stephen
u. Lee, the Confederate Memorial as
sociation was given a place in the pa
rade The above will be allowed in the
parade, and nothing more
Our reunions are held to glorify the
Confederate soldiers, and we are, or
should be, the attractions; however,
for years We have been lost sight of in
the shuttle, and our parades have got
ten to be nondescript, and filled up
with tallyhos, automobiles, hacks, car
ry-alls, militia and everything on foot
or riding. In fact, they have gotten /.
such i'll repute that a large per cent
of the Confederate soldiers will no.
participate
Il am in receipt of letters from all
over the South and from the most
prominent soldiers, commencing two
orders l have issued One is that
am to have a parade as provided by
law, the other is that the young ladies,
representing the mothers of the South,
shall not ride astride. On these two
orders we intend to stand pat.
Il desire to congratulate the people
Ct Chattanooga on all arrangements
the committees have made, and espec-
tally on the parades of the Eleventh
United States cavalry, the sponsors an
maids and the Sons of Confederate Vet
Grams. From the work being done by
your COMMITTEES, you can have a great
success of our twenty-third annual re
union"
Capt. J, f. Ship, of this city, quar-
termaster-general of the United States
Confederate Veterans and chairman Of
the reunion committee on horses, is 4
enc of the best kncwn officers of the
Nete ans, having been prominently
identified VITA organizing the associa-
ton years ago, and having held for
long time the position of quar- termas-
ter general He is high in the councils
of the assoc alton, and in the present
instance the delicate task of mapping
out the parade formation was left to
him. Capt Ship is, perhaps, the most
active of any local veteran in arrang-
ing for the reunion. He predicts a
Grand time for his comrades who come
here and mentions a few reasons for
his convictions on the subject Capt.
Ship said:
From my long officials connection
as quartermaster general of the Unit
ed Confederate Veterans association,
and having taken part in every reunion
of the organization, and now a memb er
of the Chattanooga reunion executive
committee, feel justified in saying that