The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-19
YOUNG EXPRESSES THANKS ID ALABAMA FOR GREAT REUNION Praises Biringham for Man ner in Which City Enter
 tained the Veterans HARRISON RETAINS
 MICKLE IN PLACE General Young Sends Telegram to the
 President Commenting Efforts to Maintain an Honor able Peace

Gen Bennett H. Young yesterday issued his final general order on the Birming- ham reunion and Gen. George P. liar rison, the new commander of the Con. federate veterans, issued his first, for mally assuming command and reappoint ing Gen. William E. Mickle adjutant gen. eral and chief of staff.
 General Young's order which contains much praise for Birmingham, reads:
 Headquarters,
 United Confederate Veterans,
 Birmingham, Ala, May IS, 1916. General Orders No. 30
 "The twenty sixth annual reunion ot the Confederate Veterans association ha! reality and now becomes part of the his tory of this great association.
 Pleasing and delightful memories will gather around this meeting and the thou sands of visitors to this city will go from it's gates with exalted opinions of the hospitality and the greatness of Birming. ham.
 There are always some happenings al reunions where such vast throngs as S6IuDl6 llldL uldlly WOulQ WISH Iidu uO occurred. In the very nature of the cast no city can entertain 100, 600 people anc not meet with things that they woulc change, but Birmingham has reduced these recollections to minimum and tht departing visitor will bear universal tes. timony to both the zeal and desire tc make all those who came on this occa. sion to this marvellous city comfortable and happy.
 Ut was feared at one time that pre-. paredness' had not reached the highes limit, but these fears soon vanished ant fled away and the universal feeling k tEat Birmingham hath done all thing. we'll
 For and on behalf of this association voice the appreciation of the men ane women from the southland who have come hither to do honor to the survivors oi the men who wore the gray of the splen- did efforts of all the people of Birming- ham to not only honor but most lavishly care for the wants of every soldier who has attended the twenty-sixth reunion.
 The people, the railways, the mess, the military the Boy Scouts. the state-havt all combined to make this a really great reunion. These Confederate reunions art now universally recognized the great est social function in the southland ane the place and occasion where gather tn, most beautiful, the most cultured, ths most refined, the brainiest and most pa triotic of all those who constitute so- ciety in the United States.
 The parade of today has no superior and' few equals in the history of reunions The thousands of school children, headed by their teachers, wearing Confedera tt and national flags. and singing as they marched, Dixie, Bonnie Blue Flag, Maryland, My Maryland Old Kentucky Home and other southern airs, was one of the most inspiring scenes ever wit messed. and gives assurance a thousand times over, that the spirit of the south is unquenchable and that loyalty to the tra- ditions, memories and history of the Con- federate states will live for hundreds oi years in the hearts and minds of the men and women of the southland.
 "The rythm of the songs. the sway ing bodies, the flags waving in uni- son to the music deeply stirred the hearts of all beholding and made an impress that coming years can never eradicate.
 Alabama, great in war and great in peace; and wonderful and marvellous iE resources. has given the men and women of the south and the Confed : crate soldiers new reasons to appre- ciate and admire her glowing past.
 "The throngs will sooD scatter; the crowds will hasten to their firesides and homes, but the memories of this reunion will be fresh and bright when many years shall have passed
 The commander in chief congratu- lates Birmingham and Alabama upon the success of the meeting.
 Those who heard Irwin s. Cobb, the son of a Confederate, a Kentuckian, and one of the foremost correspond- ents and authors of this country, will long remember his magnificent oration and for the association thank him not only for his superb oration but the beautiful Confederate characters he has made immortal in his writings.
 "The association also thanks Hon. John T. Goodrich for his address on the Confederate soldier and it will be kept in the archives of the association as a splendid contribution to Confed- crate history.
 "The visit of Col George T. Denison of Toronto, the friend of Jefferson Da- wis, Robert E. Lee and the glad help CT of all who found refuge in his coun- try, as he came to look as he said, upon tho survivors of the greatest volun- teer army that ever aligned under any flag, was a delightful occurrence and those who constituted the reunion were