The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-04

have a great success of our twenty
/ third annual reunion"
Capt J. F. Ship, of this city, quar-
| ternaster general of the United Con-
/ federate Veterans, and chairman of
the reunion committee on horses, is
/ one of the best-known officers of the
veterans. having been prominently
! identified with organizing the associa-
ton years ago and having held for
,ong time the position of quartermas-
ter general. He is high in the coun-
ellis of the association, and in the pres
ent instance the delicate task of map
ping out the parade formation was left
to him. Capt. Shipp is perhaps the
most active of any local veteran in ar
ranging for the reunion. He predicts
a grand time for his conlrad es who
come here and mentions few reasons
for his convictions on the subject.
Capt. Shipp said:
From my long official connection as
quartermaster general of the United
Confederate Veterans association, and
having taken part in every reunion of
the organization, and now a member
of the Chattanooga reunion executive
committee feel justified in saying that
the coming reunion in this city, May
1928, viii be, in my opinion, the most
interesting and enjoyable retnion that
we have ever had. The arrangements
are thoroughly systematic and COM
plete in all Of the details.
THE encamprnent for the veterans
viii! be strictly military, with the de-
partments and divisions as separate
units. Each division will have head
quarters tent, connected by phone with
department headquarters and the city.
-
rnander- in chief. that some brigade
cornrnander and staff be- assigned to
each division headquarters for a GER
tain period, such brigade conman ders
being in effect officer of the day for
the period he is detailed to division
headquarters. I would like to see,
also, arrangements made for a morn
ing gun at the camp, so as to carry
out the effect of conducting the camp
on strictly military lines.
we are making arrangements so
that every veteran can participate in
the veterans parade, which will be
kept free from features that have been
introduced in other years and be for
the veterans alone, that they can
see and be seen. Those comrades
who are so MANNED or feeble that it
is impossible for them to march as
they would like to, will be taken in
auto trucks. IN this way al MANNED
and feeble veterans will ride comfort
ably behind their comrades Of the re-
spective brigades and preserve the
military character and precision of the
parade.
TOO much cannot be said in praise
of the Eleventh United States cavalry,
stationed at FIT Oglethorpe, Chatta-
nooga, in connection with telling of
successful arrangements for our 1913
reunion. It would have been prac-
tically impossible to secure enough
horses for the officers and mounted
commands of the United Confederate
Veterans, except for the work of our
congressman in approaching the war
department about the loan of mounts
from the Eleventh cavalry, and the
willing co.. operation of the officers of
the command. I am pleased to an
nounce to my comrades throughout the
United Confederate Veterans associa-
ton that they will have a chance to
see the splendid modern cavalary regi-
ment mounted and fully equipped. The
Eleventh cavalry will parade in. the
city on the morning of May 81, the
only time that could be set aside for
this fine spectacle without Interfering
with ether events of the reunion.
aside from the historical fields of
the Chattanooga district, which appeal
u Us al, so strongly because of our
memories of what transpired here fifty
years ago, citizens of CHATTANOOGA are
preparing to give us n rousing well
come with a city gaily decorated
throughout and brilliantly Illuminated
at night. Not only viii visiting vet
Grams be, within easy reach of Chick
amaugas Missionary Ridge and Look
out Mountain battIehelds, but those
who go to Camp Stewart win eat and
sleep on a battlefield, as, for the first
time in our history, a tented city for
the visiting comrades is to be estab-
lished on a spot where there was ac-
tuat fighting"
L. V Mullinex. of Fort Worth, Tex.
was sent all the way 10 Chattanooga
by r. Z. Lee Camp. Of that place, Of
which he is a member, 10 see what the
prospect was for the reunion, in order
that members of that camp and their
friends might have something to guide.
their decision sbouts attending. Mr..
Mullinex. after looking over the situa-