Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-06-05
CONFEDERATE VETERANS T..
GATHER IN WASHINGTON
Stars and Bars and Old Glory
MingIe at Significant
Reunion
by RALPH SMITH

QdK WelCOIncu llOuSdIluS VI SElLEl6u
/ Confederate veterans. The occasion is
the twenty-sevehth annual reunion of the
/ United Confederate veterans. and the
/ wearers OF the gray are here from all
/ sections of the south.
Mrs John B. Gordon. wife of the la
| mented general arrived yesterday, and
| is the guest of her neice, Mrs. Charles
/ W. williams, wife of Major Williams of
marine corps. Accompanying her were
| her daughters, Mrs. Frances Gordon
Smith and Mrs. orion Brown. Mrs. Cor
don and daughters assisted by a dozen
| grandchildren. will be honor guests at
/ a big reception this afternoon at the
marine barracks in compliment 10 the
| veterans who followed General Gordon
/ from 81 to '65.
/ The Georgia society OF Washington
\ will entertain at a reception Tuesday
night i'm honor Of Governor and Mrs.
I Nat r. Harris. The reception will be
/ held at the Homecoming club, near
I the White House, and all the visiting
/ Georgia veterans, sons and daughters
/ of veterans. Miss Mary Hardwick,
\ daughter of the senator, and sponsor for
I the east Georgia veterans, will enter
/ tain Wednesday morning at a break
I fast at Raucher's in compliment to the
sponsors attending the reunion.
Under skies rivaling those of Dixie
] lana. from Wn6UCe lHeN COlIlcs AliOuSdHuS
4 of veterans, their sons and daughters.
/ yesterday afternoon paid tribute to their
/ beloved dead who rest under the sod of
/ beautiful Arlington cemetery, which was
| once the ghome of General Lee. The
/ president and Mrs. Wilson attended the
/ memorial exercises, and the president
/ delivered an address.
General Bennett. II. Young, of Louis
/ WILLIE past commander OF the veterans
, and Congressman Frank Clark. Of Flor
ida. also addressed the assembled vet
Grams.
Mr.. Clark spoke of Jefferson Davis.
whose IO9th birthday was celebrated
/ yesterday. The exercises were held in
/ the shadow of the new Confederate mon
ument. which was designed by the late
i Sir Moses Ezekial an illustrious soldier
of the Confederacy, and which is adj
mittedIy the finest monument in the
/ national cemetery.
I FLOWERS PLACED ON GRAVES.
A feature of the exercises was the
/ strewing Of flowers over the graves OF
\ the Confederate dead, under the direc-
/ ton of Mrs. George s. Covington, as
sisted by Children of the Confederacy.
] Following the formal exercises, the
/ Southern Cross, which was presented by
i the sons of veterans to the local chap
Il ter of veterans was unveiled.
This afternoon at 4:3O o'clock at the
/ willard hotel. the 27th annual reunion
/ will be formally opened at welcome
/ meeting under the auspices of the Con-
T federated Southern Memorial associa-
I tfon.
General George p. Harrison, comman-
! der in chief OF the United Confederate
] Veterans today gave out an interview
/ dealing with the crises that is now up
\ on the nation. i'm which he appealed to
i the patriotism/of all Americans to sup
Y port the government
] The one-time Confederate states
I said he, ARE enthusiastically loyal in
\ the crisis that has come upon US more
/ than fifty years after our civil strife. |
/ glory I'm the fact that there are few
/ slackers and anti-registration propagans
\ dists in Dixie. We are proud OF Presi-
i dent Wilson. and were inspired by his
! address to congress.
4 I'VE have every confidence in his
/ ability and we are with him In his de-
i termina tion 10 prosecute the war to
Il successful issue. We have no apollo
/ gies to make for our place i'm history
/ and none to ask but we are standing be-
\ hind the flag, and ready to fight with
\ those who wore the blue and all Other
! patriots I'm maintaining the honor and
/ rights of our country
As the commander i'm chief of the vet
/ Grams, General Harrison will lead a lit
/ tie army in gray UP Pennsylvania ave-
/ nue. next Thursday. The general be-
/ lieves that possibly three or four thou
sand veterans will be in the parade.
| RANKS GROWING THIN.
You must remember" said General
/ Harrison. that ii has been a long time
/ since we followed Lee and Jackson. The
/ young men of that day are dying of old
| age. our reunions inevitably must grow
smaller and smaller until finally there
| will be no one to answer The roll. II
has been hfty-two years since we sur
! rendered
| General Harrison was born, reared,
and educated in Georgia. He was grad
uated from the Georgia Military insti-
tute at Marietta, Ga. in 1861, with
| first honor and the degree of A. B. and
| c. z. and was senior captain of cadets
at that institution.
In 1851 he entered ,he Confederate
/ service as second lieutenant in :he
1 First Georgia regulars, rose to the rank
/ of first lieutenant, captain. major and
/ colonel of the line. and closed his ca
/ reer on the field with the rank of brig
/ adler general in command of Harrisons
/ brigade, Walthalrs division, Stuart's
/ corps. army of Tennessee. at Green's
boro. \. c., on April 26, 1865.
Soon after the war General Hrrison
| moved to Alabama. chose the law as
/ a profession and has ever since prac-
! ticed in all the county, state and federal
| courts with success. He was also, for
/ years. general counsel for the Western
/ Railway of Alabama, and division coun-
/ sci for the Central Of Georgia.
SOUTH AGAIN READY-HEFLIN.
| Just as the people of the south an
/ swered the tocsin sixty years ago, so
| will they answer II at this time" de-
clared Congressman Heflin of Alabama,
! speaking at the Mount Vernon Place
/ Methodist church, IN honor of the birth
1 day Of Jefferson Davis. at a meeting
under the auspices of the Washington
/ Daughters of the Confederacy last
/ night.
Congressman Heflin paid tribute to
/ southern leaders of other days and
/ spoke OF another southern man, Presi-
/ dent Wilson. as tine first citizen of all
/ the world, the foremost leader among
/ the nations Of the earth, who, God
helping him. will lead US TO victory and
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