Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-08
NOTES OF THE REUNION.

Women enrolled in various Confeder-
ate organizations have pledged them.
selves unitedly to work in support OF
the Red Cross. BY order of Mrs. F. G.
odenheimer. president of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, the head
OF every state society has been IN
structed to meet with the wonSns
branches of the council of national De
organization at the disposal of the
country. Mrs. Odenheimer herself will
assist in organizing this work.
seventy organizations composing the
have organized for Red Cross work I'M
der the leadership of Mrs. w. J. Behan
who has been president since the for
nation of the association in Louisville
in 1900.
In spite of the fact that the ucx-
pectedly large attendance a the re-
union exercises brought to Washing
ton more than 100000 visitors in forty
five extra trains and sos extra cars on
regular trains from the south alone,
no accident in handling this big gath
ewing has been reported.
Among the Confederate organizations
represented at the reunion is the Con-
federate Veteran Campo New York.
whose headquarters are in rooms f04
COS, the New Willard, Maj. r. H.. Cor
don, commander; Maj. G. r. Hatton,
adjutant. This camp. composed of
veterans from almost every state, who
have gone to New York, would be glad
to welcome visitors at it's headquar-
tiers.
Two brothers who fought in the Con-
federate army who have been attend
ing the reunion are together $50 years
old These are Col. S. NJ. Hankins of
Tampa, Fla, color bearer for the Flor
ida division. who is a member of Com
pany ID. 18th Florida, and w. d. Hank
ms of Mayo, Fla, a member of Com
pany d. 9Th Florida. The former is
seventy-four yaars old and the latter
s sevcnty-six. They both fought at
Gettysburg. w. ID. Hankins fought in
twenty-five engagements. and ). NJ.
Hankins, in fourteen. including Fred
nricksburg. They have five nephews en-
listed for the war with Germany. S. NJ.
Hawkins celebrated his seventy-fourth
birthday by walking twenty-three
miles in five and half hours.
Among the interesting spectators in
the court of honor yesterday was John
T Talbot, a clerk in. the War Depart
ment, who was in Company c of Ere
mont's bodyguard in 1861, Company b
of the SD o. V. l., 18th Army Corps, in
1923. past aid de camp on the staff
of Comman der- in Chief Gen. r. A. AL
ger, in 1885. While residing in Florida
for his health, he was a charter mem
Der of o. NJ. Mitchell Post, Jacksonville,
and with the past commander-in-chief
Of the Grand Army, Rev. DR.. $. ID.
Paine, was one of the first to decorate
Confederate graves.
Gen. John +. Castleman, veteran
with a record of attending twenty
seven Confederate reunions and for
meriy noted foreman, marched in the
parade yesterday because he can no
longer mount a horse. He refused to
ride in an automobile. saying that
afoot or on horseback was the only
place for a soldier.
The officers elected by the Sons of
Confederate Veterans for the ensuing
year are announced as follows: Ernest
G. Baldwin of Roanoke. Va. COM
mander-i in chief; j. Garnet King of
fredericksburg. Va, commander of the
department of northern Virginia. NJ.
j. Glass. Tulsa, Okla. commander of
the transmississippi department: John