Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-01
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house at William sburg. Across from the
framed commission hangs the commits
sion Of his son. Lieutenant William
Harris Booth Of the United States
Navy. at present navigator OF the Unit
ed states cruiser Cincinnati serving
with the Asiatic squadron.
Trop 4. FORESTS Cavalry, from Nash
VILE. Tenn. is the oldest ex!Confeder.
ate Cavalry organization in the South
II was organized in 1895 and attended
the former reunions in Richmond in
1896 and in 1907.
lts membership is restricted TO only
such cX-Confederate soldiers as were
paro!ed or in prison at the close of the
war. or were discharged for actual dis
abilities.
Its uniform is OF Confederate gray
jeans, similar TO those used from 1861
10 1865. Its commissioned officers are
Captain Frank Anderson and Lieu
tenants Ed Rccce. Bud Herbert and y
II. Gross. II has more than seventy
members present in Richmond, who
will march in the parade Thursday.
Most of its members served under
I.ieutenant-General Nathan Bedford
Forrest, but some served in Virginia
and under other famous commanders.
Its bylaws require absolute sobriety
and provide that any member who gets
intoxicated thereby forfeits his mem
bership.
1t Is the escort OF Major-General Bax-
ter Smith, comma nding Forests Cav
airy.
Campbell Woodbridge Southeastern
Passenger Agent of the Texas and Pa
cifc Railway Company. is here with n
big party of Texas veterans. And I
want you to meet these veterans" said
Mr. Wooldridge for there will be no
~ hal IA
arrived in special train of eleven
cars over the Norfolk and Western yes
terday morning ut 500 o'clock. Two
coachloads, also started on their jour-
ney by the Texas and Pacific Railway,
arrived yesterday at 1915 a. NJ. over the
Chesapeake and Ohio These repre-
sentatives OF the Lone Star State were
mostly from MeXia, Texas.
The Governor of Virginia will en-
tertain official heads of the veterans
and visitors at luncheon at the Execu
tive Mansion Immediately after the
parade OH Thursday afternoon His
guests will be departmental and di-
vision commanders of the United Con-
federate Veterans and their sponsors,
surviving general officers of the war
between the States. visiting Governors
and their parties, the Mayor of Balti-
more and his party. Admission will be
by card.
The Little Boy Blues Battalion has
been honored by being ordered TO the
Richmond Home for Confederate
Women on Wednesday afternoon at 3
o'clock to be reviewed by visiting Con-
federate officers and to meet Miss Mary
Custis Lee, the only surviving daughter
of General Robert T.. Lee, and Mrs.
Daisy McLaurin Stevens, the president
of the United Daughters OF the Con-
federacy. The battalion will also be
in the line of march in the parade of
Thursday. 1t is composed of four COM
panes of children ranging in age from
four to twelve years. That it will
come in for it's full share of attention
Is certain. Members of the battalion
are using every spare moment drilling
for the review by Miss Lee and Mrs
Stevens and also for the parade on
Thursday.
Nashville. Tenn. is we'll represented
at the reunion. In the party of veter-
ans who came yesterday over the Sea-
board there arc 1l2 men. Their ages
average seventy. but although the
shoulders OF many Of them were
atoored with the weight Of age. their
steps we're buoyant and their dispbsi-
lions moro buoyant still. They trav.
eled to music rendered by quartet
Of Company B, The special left Nash.