Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-24
REUNION PLANS ARE
NEARING COMPLETION
committees Add Finishing Touches
for Comfort and Convenience
of Visitors.
ORDERS FOR MEMORIAL SERVICE
Roll of Distinguished Confederates
Who Have Crossed Over the Riv-
err During Past Year, Headed by
Widow Of Stonewall jackson.

err During Past Year, Headed by
widow OF Stonewall Jackson.
II is left now only to complete the
minor details in the arrangements for
the Confederate Reunion to be held
mere June l, . and 8, all the larger
rlans for the comfort of the visitors
and for their hospitable entertainment
having been finished by the general
committee and the subsidiary commit
tees. which have been untiring in their
efforts TO arouse Richmond TO the i'm
portance and historical significance Of
| the great gathering. and upon which
the burden will fall during the strenu-
Gus three days to come But there is
stu need for funds. for the expense of
operating Camp Stuart where several
thousand of the veterans will be quar-
tered. of supplying meal tickets to
those who come without scrip or purse
or constructing grand and reviewing
stands, and of affording entertainment
VIII be greater than the public seems
yet TO have realized Many people
have contributed generously: but there
are others who have not yet united
! their purse strings. and to these the
committee makes another appeal
WILL DE LAST GREAT
REUNION IN RICHMOND
! 1t is pointed out that in all ukeu
hood this will be the last great re-
union held. and that, certainly, II will
be the last gathering in the one-time
capital OF the Confederacy Of the rem
naht OF the hosts who once so va
nantlF defended the city against the
invasion of the armies OF the North
since the last reunion, held in Jackson
Vile, Fla. many of the veterans have
passed across the river to rest in the
shaoe or the trees They are dying
by the hundreds every year, and soon
there Will be left OF them only the
memory Of their deeds and thousand
rude stones to mark the places where
theE sleep. Tho committee feels that
TINS should be the greatest reunion OF
an lnat Richmond should display In
r.ore ample form that hospitality for
which she has so long been distin
gu!shed. and that the city pay another
just tribute TO those who withstood her
enemies until the order for evacuation
came
MANY LESSER REUNIONS
AROUND CAMP FIRES
| There will be many lesser reunions
or old commands. and around the boa rd
/ IN the dining hall at Camp Stuart
around the nres which will burn there
AT night and before the candles feeble
and the memory of comrades who died
on the battlefield or who have sine
. gone TO join the vast army OF the deod
VIII be recalled in tender strain. To
.hese men such reunion means more
IMAM those who have not passed
through the valley of death and
climbed again the slopes 10 life can
understand. 1t means to them a pleas
ant milestone in the days march. a
short surccase in the travail they rae
endured since they laid dow 49,
arms at ADpomattox and returned to
their devastated fields and unliebted
hearths In tho joy OF meeting each
ot rf again. they will forget for n
~ "'t ~ nose trying days. thinking only
OF inc sweets of renewed friendship
ana nnding in comrades kindly CLASH
Ia palm TO their whilom sorrow So
again, it is felt that the whole civ
snould join In the reception of these
gallant heroes and show them that :.
grateful city still remembers and bolds
'hcm in memory dear
ORDERS ISSUED FOR
MEMORIAL SERVICE
IL was announced Yesterday through
general orders that General Rcnnett "A
nounE' oommander-in- chief of the
Shi'sa Confederate Veterans, has or
| dered that on Juno 9, at high noon in
| accordance with the custom wbicb uos
established at the Charlestown Re-
union, and which has since been rigid
( ~ observed. memorial services Will he
! heia TOT one hour. under the Joint con-
!oi OF the Z. G. V. and Confederated
! southern Memorial Association Ar
| that moment the convention Will sus
| pend business for the sacred purpo,e
! without further notice and without re-
gard TO what is then taking place and
! me HaRS VII! be draped in mourning
as mark or respect TO the memory OF
All comrades who have answered the
last roll call. The number has been
/ greatly augmented during the past
| year. and among them are the names
or some Of the most distinguished and
, gifted in the South:
/
mortal "Stoncwal"
| Captain r. F. Lee. the last son of our
great leader
Lieutenant General Theodore S. Car
| nett. commander Army of Northern Vir-
| ginia Department. U. c. W
Major-General Thomas ]. Shaffer
! commander Louisiana Division, u. c. "
Brisadier-Gencral Robert McCulloch
| Brigadier-General Thomas G. Jones
Brigadier-General c. II. Tebault, NJ
! D.. surgeon general
! Colonel John w. Irwin
! Colonel Alex Hunter
! Colonel J. V. Harris. NJ D.
Colonel John w Morton.
. Colonel Martin Walt.
Rev. II. NJ. Hamill. D. D.. chaplain
/ general
Rev. ]. N. Lucey, assistant chapIain-
general.
ORDER OF EXERCISES
AT JOINT MEMORIAL.
Following will be the order Of exer-
cises:
Hymn. ASLEEP in Jesus"
Opening prayer by Rev. J. W. Bach
'nnn. d. d. chaplain-gencral United
Confederate Veterans.
Address. Rev. ]. Chalmers Cowan.
ID. D.. assistant chaplain general
Hymn. For All the Saints Who From
Their Labors Rest" Confederate Choir.
Memorial address on the part of the
Confederated Southern Memorial Asso-