The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-02-13
IS H0NORED
BY VIRGINIA ASSEMBLY
Members of Legislature Are Guests o.
Camp Ice Soldiers ut Notable
Celebration.
SONGS CREATE ENTHUSIASM.
General Brett, Commanding Eightieth
Division, Pledges Unremitting Ser
vice of His Men to Democracy's
Cause.

At Camp Lee yesterday the One
hundred and ninth infantry brigade,
made up of the Pennsylvania. West
Virginia and Virginia contingents of
the national army. paid tribute to the
memory of Abraham Lincoln in Off
cial observance of the one hundred
and ninth anniversary of his birth.
Descendants of the bravest armies
that ever trod battlefield and which
met in combat on the very fields where
stands Camp Lee, the officers and
troops of the brigade heard South
ern man and a Virginian. DR.. Douglas
Freeman, OF Richmond, speak e1o-
quently OF the great emancipator, and
applsuded wildly the sentiment that
this war would be won for democracy
by the leadership and genius of a Lee
and the spirit Of Lincoln in it's undy-
ing devotion to liberty and freedom.
For the first time in history. a lit
tie more than Atty years after the
Great Conflict. a Southern legislature
had adjourped for the day in respect
to the memory OF Lincoln, and the
general assembly of Virginia was
present as the invited guest Of the
and Grant-dtting climax to that
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ion forever indissoluble when on
January 10 similar honor was paid
TO General Robert p. Lee by the same
brigade and by the same Invited
guests.
The exercises were held in the
great Y. NJ. C. A. auditorium on tho
camp grounds Seated OF the plat
form were the officers of the division
and the brigade, Confederate vet
Grams, and senator Early and Speaker
Harry r. Houston.
Brisadier General c. s. Farnsworth
presided and introduced General
! IIovd NJ. Brett, division commander,
/ who delivered a brief. soldier-like
address. The brigade band rendered
! inspiring selections. and the brigade
scaled the high places in chorus after
| chorus Of the brigades own songs
| Enthusiasm ran riot throughout
| the vast audience as the boys in
swinging harmony of chorus sent
word to France that We're coming
over that Wen go right through
hades with YOU" and that Wen put
old Kaiser Bill on the rocks"
The fact that Virginia has from the
ifirst held the most conspicuous place
| in our history that she has always
PLAYED the leading role in our great
national crisis, said General Brett, Is
source of inspiration for the troops
here on this spot made sacred by the
blood OF their fathers. we pledge
you" said the general, that the
Fjehtieth division will show the ruth
less Hun that we have not lost the
Iron from our blood nor our fighting
valor." And then there was such ap-
piause as few gatherings have ever
witnessed.
The following members of the gen.
eral assembly were in attendance:
senators--Rpbinso Farley, JET
fries. Alien. Soodloe, Davis, DreUry
lCorbett, Henning.
DeIegates--Adams, II. A. An Asrson
Baker, Bond. Boschen, ]. Galloway
Brown. j. Sinclair Brown, Garner
Darlington. Chase. Cook, Clement
tCornett, Davis. Deans, Dickerson
iEasley. Elan. Fitzhugh, Forester
IGnliam, Wilbur c. Hall, Hobbs, Hor
ton. Hudgins, Deane Hundley Hun
ter Mann. Meetze. Miller. Murray
Musgrave, holland. Norris, Omps
Owen. Ozlin. Pence, Ragland, Ram
say. Reed, Rolston, Russell Shackel
ford, Shumate, Charles T. Smith
Harry 3. Smith, Snead, Slant, Stephen
son. James n. Stuhbs. r. H. Stubs
ITaylor. Willis, Winston. Wright
Speaker Harry r. Houston.
Many of the assembly members were
, accompanied by their ladies. Senat'
Clerk Hangar and Assistant Hous
Clerk Greene chaperoned the party.