Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-04
WILL INVITE PRESIDENT
TO CONFEDERATE REUNION
Honor Memory Of Confed-
crate Cause.
FIFTEEN GOVERNORS COMING
Great Gathering in June Will Be No.
table Chapter in City's History.
Widows of Distinguished Generals
to BE in Attendance.

President Wilson and the Governors
OF fifteen Southern States will be In
vited TO attend the Confederate Re-
union, to be held here June ]. 2 and 3.
and the most earnest efforts will he
taken BY Governor Stuart and I.ieuten-
Governor J. Taylor Ellyson TO have
the nations chief executive be present.
The reunion Will probably he the
greatest and most successful of any
ever held, and. as only n few more can
be held. it is desired by the committee
on general arrangements to have the
occasion made memorable and historic.
Invitations have also been extended
TO the widows OF famous Confederate
leaders. and among those who are cX-
pected to be present are Mrs. J. F.. Il.
Stuart, Mrs George Pickett, Miss Mary
Custis Lee, Mrs. a. T.. Hill, Mrs. w. IL.
F. Lee and Mrs Fitzhugh Lee.
FUNDS NEEDED f".-
ENTERTAINMENT ROGRA VI
The work OF the various committees
is we'll in hand. though there is not
yet sufficient amount OF money prom
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The city has appropriated $4,000 and
the State has appropriated 10000.
Something more than $4,000 has been
raised h. private subscription. making
the total amount in hand about $4,000
The committee will need. however, at
least $4,000 and every effort will be
made to get this amount. 1t is cX-
pected that at least $4,000 veterans
Will attend the reunion. The greater
number will he cared for at the Vir-
gin!a State Fair Grounds Cots will
be placed in all the buildings, so that
several thousand will he comfortably
housed. ana, If necessary, tents will be
pitched in the broad field fronting the
grand stand Here the veterans will
be in convenient touch with the scene
upon which most OF the important
events will be staged. on Monument
Avenue will be held the grand parade
of veterans and the military pageant
The avenue will be converted into a
gorgcously decorated court OF honor
and its statues of military heroes will
be emblnzoned with flowers and the
colors OF the lost Confederacy Once
again the soldiers who followed Lee
to AppomattoS will gather about the
foot of the statue reared in his name
u iiu uSaiH pay tEiDulc 10 Jefferson
Davis.
CORNERSTONE WILL. BE
LAID FOR JACKSON MONUMENT
Other principal events will be the
opening OF the Battle Abbey. which
commentaries the Lost Cause" and
the laying OF the cornerstone Of the
Stonewall Jackson Monument, an event
long desired by those who admired and
loved him most. The monument will
stand on Monument Avenue. at the in
tersection OF the boulevard. In line
with the Davis Memorial the. Lee
Monument and the statue to Stuart. so
that the greatest OF the Confederate
leaders will be grouped together in
the most beautiful street of tho one
time capital OF the Confederacy.
Military commands from all sections
of the State will participate in the
pageant. The boys from the Virginia
Military Institute will act as the Euard
of honor. and. through the efforts of
Congressman Montague, will be accom-
panied by the band from Fortress
Monroe