The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-12-02
UNION SOLDIER ATTENDS
CONFEDERATE REUNION
Colonel james Sample Has Done
Valuable In Work Refnting False
Charges Against Southern Leaders.

SUlUHel JuIutS Sample Has DOH
Valuable In Work Refnting Falls,
Charges Against Southern Leaders
unique feature of the conven
ton of the United Confederate Vet
Grams is that a Union soldier is at
tending it, that he has place OF
the speakers platform, and takes ;
hearty interest in the proceedings
He is Colonel James Sample, of Knox
vile, Tenn. He had gallant career
in the federal army, but he was
broad-minded enough to get the
viewpoint of tht south, and as editor
of the veterans department of The
Knoxville Journal and Tribune he has
accomplished a great deal in the way
of refuting some of the charges that
have come from hostile sources
touching the great men of the Con-
federate army and government.
A specimen of the charges referred
TO by Colonel Sample was one made
on the floor of the United States
senate that General Lee drew his pay
as a colonel in the United States ar
my after entering the Confederate
army. Colonel Sample hearing this
false charge, promptly went to work,
procured the official records and pub
lished in his paper copies of the same
showing the utter falsity of the
charge. And he did the same thing
in connection with other false char
ges made against southern leaders.
Copies of the records refuting the
false charges have been embodied in
an album which will be presented to
the Daughters of the Confederacy, to
be deposited in the historical arch
ives of the Confederacy here in Rich
mond.
Colonel Sample has the unusual
distinction of being historian-general
on the staff of General Bennett H..
Young, of the Confederate Veterans,
and also historian-general ON the
staff OF General Palmer, Grand Army
of the Republic. He is an honorary
member of the Veterans of the Span
|ish-American war, having assisted in
the recruiting of a regiment for that
conflict"
The album mentioned by the Times
Dispatch was duly presented to the
U. D. C. as shown by the following:
Office of the President-General,
U. D. c.:
Brandon, Miss, Aug. 8. 1915.
My Dear Colonel Sample:
Miss Rutherford, our brilliant his
torian-general writes me of the won
derful album and scrap-book you
have given us for the Confederate
museum at Richmond, and / take
this opportunity to express my graf
itude and appreciation.
When Miss Rutherford tells the
convention at San Francisco of this
book / know all the daughters will
join me in this appreciation message.
| feel sure, too, that the museum
will regard it as a priceless treas
ure, and the expression of thanks too
Immediately upon its receipt.
With best wishes for you always, l
am, sincerely,
DAISY McLAURIN-STEVENS,
President General, U. D. c.
Also, the following showing, the
showing the depository of the album
in the Confederate museum at Rich
mond, Va:
Confederate Memorial Literary So
ciety, Richmond Va.-Confederate
Museum, August 16, 1915.
My Dear Colonel Sample:
In the name of this society, | wish
to thank you, for the valuable work
of historical data sent us through
Miss Rutherford. We are gathering
all we can of that great struggle and
are trying to get all we can from the
gallant men who offered their lives
for their country.
This is a wonderful museum, and
visited by several thousand every
year-the northern people are unusu-
ally intensely interested. and the
whole has all been done by the wom-
en- of the south for loves sake.
Again, thanking you for your val
liable gift, which will be placed upon
the shelves in The library of this sa-
cred Office, Cordially yours,
SUSAN B. HARRISON, H. R.
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