The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-08
CONFEDERATE
REUNION TO Be
GREAT EVENT
Grey-Clad Host Will Hold
the Last Muster-In June
4 In Washington
STONEWALL'S OWN
BAND WILL LEAD
March-Past Of the Warriors
Will Be Object Lesson
In Patriotism

Washington, D. c.. MAY Civil
Wa& musicians will play the stirring
melJaies of long ago at the annual
reunion of the United Confederate
Veterans, to be held here the week
of June 4. A historic feature Of
the great parade will be the original
Stonewau Jackson brass band Of
StauntOn, Va. The gray-Clad. gray
haired players Of this rapidly dWizd-
ling organization furnished rartiai
music in the sixties for the famous
StoDeWall brigade These venerable
bandsmen viii also give free 0sen-air
concerts at Camp Harper or the
plaza fronting the union railroad sta
ton during the reunion.
Three Divisions.
Col. Robert n Harper, chairman
Of the citizens reunion committee, an
nounces that the par&d2. Thursday.
June Z, will be formed in three grand
divisions. The first will be composed
of Confederate Veterans, and sons
and daughters Of veterans. and will
be headed by the St0newau Brigade
Band. The second division viii com
prise military organizations. regulars
and national guardsmen and cadets.
The third grand division will COM
prise civic associations and marching
bodies, The parade will be reviewed
in the court of honor fronting the
~sEbttg H0use by President Wilso6,
members of congress, diplomats and
government officials.
Great Events.
Chairman Harper has received
from a noted educator a letter stat
ing that the reunion should prove to
be a great event from both educa-
tiOnal and patriotic viewpoints. He
said it would perhaps be the last time
such a spectacle would be witnessed.
Tbs writer gave it as his opinion
that the assembling at Washington
of the thousands Of soldiers in gray
should be invaluable in time of war
as an incentive to patriotic service
to the country, and be q stimulus to
the youth who will then be in train
ing for participation in the greatest
war of all history.
The Old Uniforms.
The visiting Confederates have
been requested by Chairman Harper
to bring their blankets with them
while Gen. Harrison, commanding tbs
Southern Veterans, has directed those
who have their old wartime uniforms
Of gray and butternut to wear them
to the reunion. These features will
give the occasion a touch of reals
and bring to memory the great dill
tary experience of more than half q
century ago, when their we@rers bat.
tied under the leadership Of Lee anC
Jackson and other military leader.
y Dixie, ..-.,.,.. po,..
he hundreds of boy scouts Of thl!
city and vicinity will render invalu2
e Bile service to the veterans and Othe'
visitors. They will act as guides anC
ezcort strangers to the many public
buildings and historic spots in ant
about Washington. In the Nationa
Museum, the scouts will direct the at
tention of the visitors to the grea
collection Of relics Of all the war
this country has been engaged ii
from the Revolution to the punitiv
expedition into Mexico several month
ago. Among the valued and interest
ing exhibits are the Washington col
lection including the Continental uni
form Gen. Washington wore when h
resigned his commission as comman
der-in-chief at Annapolis, Md, /
1888: two life masks of Abraham
Lincoln; war paraphernalia of Ger
Grant and the gifts he received o
his tour around the world; persona
relics of Adams, jefferson, Madison
jackson, and other great Americans
relics of Paul Revere, famous as tn
hero of the ride TO Lexington /
1775; uniforms, hats, pistols and 9th
er military equipment of Gen. Wu
T. Sherman, and mementoes of othe
Civil War officers.
There are also on exhibition tn
complete war time uniform Of a Cor
federate soldier; the bucksin coat an
ether relics of the great Indian fight
er. Mai. Gen. Geo. A. Custer; an
MANY mementoes of the SPANS
American War, including the collet
tons of Gen. Lawton, Capt: Cha
Gridley and Capt. Sigsbee, who con
,manded the Inflated battleshi
lNaine.