The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-04-27
TRIBUTE PAID
THE VETERANS
of CIVIL WAR
Memorial Day Exercises are
Conducted Under Aus
piceS Ladies.
WILLIAM FISHER rs
ORATOR OF THE DAY
Veterans Did Not March
But Rode in Autos Decked
In Confederacy Colors.
WILLIAM FISHER rs
ORATOR OF THE DAY

They did not march with measured
tread, nor did they come with quick
step and the rebel yell, but they came
like conquerors, riding with an es-
cort of honor, as those for whom the
world cannot show enough of rever-
ence. The automobiles were decked
in the colors of the Confederacy, and
here and there was the grey of the
Confederate uniform. But they did
not need the colors of the south nor
the grey of the Lost Cause TO speak
of their heroic past. Over them
waved the tattered Confederate flag,
and on their breasts they wore the
cross of honor. Some there were in
the grey uniforms Of the Confederate
soldier, and here was one who lost
his arm at Gettysburg, and there the
soldier who has been lame since the
battle Of Seven Pines.
MEMORIAL DAY PARADE.
Taking part in the Memorial Day
parade, which occurred at $3.50 o'clock
were Wyer's Band, Veterans in autos,
Veteran Firemen, Sons of Veterans,
Spanish War Veterans, Boy Scouts,
Mayor and city officials in carriages,
mounted police and fire department.
As one stood at the back of the
church and saw the veterans file in
20 take the place Of horror, their ranks
seemed to fade, and instead Of these
who walked with the brave step &c
the man who has conquered and has
earned his reward, there came q Wis
/ ion Of these men who are with US to-
/ day, and whose sons will be our coun-
try's defense tomorrow. One saw
them on the long march; one saw
+ them again, in the still watches Of
the night, on picket duty; one saw
them in the strife of battle, when the
grey and the blue met in conflict.
MR.. FISHERS ADDRESS.
! In his address yesterday afternoon
at the First Baptist church William
Fisher, the orator of the day, said IN
part:
'aThis custom of observing Memo
rial Day is SO universally and faith
fully observed throughout this whole
country that it must I'll some useful
and worthy purpose, must teach some
great and needed lesson TO the Amer
lean people, or it could not have SC
| long survived. 1t was only a few
years after the close Of the civil war
that the women Of the south who
earned, during the four years con
Ifiict, a name and reputation we'll
worthy of being placed side by side
with that Of their fathers and sons,
brothers and husbands, these south
ern women, most of them reared in
luxury before the war, but reduced
to combat with the most extreme ne
cesslties in the period following the
war; these women, mourning for their
dead who Americans win still owe,
to them for their courageous and glo-
rious conduct as Confederate soldiers
and as federal soldiers, or rather as
American soldiers, who left to US
something that the world envies US,
i something that Lamar called the
common heritage Of American valor.'
| It seems especially at this time that
all good Americans should bark back
and draw deep Of that common herr
| tage Of American valor, should for
| tify their spirits with the martial
! Continued on Page Thrse.)