Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-10-15
ALL SOUTH SINGS
PRAISE OF TULSA
Col. !. &. RifC Says Tulsa Put over
Big Thing on Reunion -- May
Bring Family Here tO Live.

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Tho world was 80 Kind 10 me dur
ing my stay uf ten weeks in Tulsa
with the publicity work Of the con
fcd"rato reunion committee. and 80
generous in IT'S issue OF September
-. that / desire to publicly voice 4
part Of the apprcC atiun feel for all
Of It and to let the people Of Tulsa
know how the old Confcdcrates are
talking since they reached home
from attending the reunion So far
rs I am personally concerned | shall
never feel that | have done enough
to repay the World and the people
Of Tulsa for the many kindncssos
shown me. rank stranger. while
was there. II matters hut little. how
ever, about my personal comfort and
pleasure, but when / tell you that
all over the southern states men and
women Of influence are singing your
praises, II may be some recompense
FOR the expense and labor OF taking
care NJ the reunion.
Chattanooga is the central city Of
the central south. For three long
years two great armies fought
around this city for the control Of
the community as n gateway to the
south, the Confederates battling to
hold it and the Unionists fighting to
wrest It from their grasp. 1t was
n series of battles as fierce as any
that have been fought on the west
crn front in France ana Belgium.
More than 100000 men were killed
in the various engagements around
Chattanooga. The late Gen. John n.
Gordon spent twenty years OF his
life studying the battles of the civil
war, and comparing them with the
greatest battles Of history He con-
Cluded. and So expressed himself in
his memoirs, that the hardest fight
ing OF the civil war was dor 1t
Chickamauga He did not - :
Gettysburg. and nc himself pal r.
pated in that carnage. The battle of
Missionary ridge broke the back bone
Of the Confcderacy and gave the vic
tory to the union.
Rest Reunion Ever Held.
old soldiers like to stop here and
when they came through from Tulsa
en- route to their homes farther
south, they stopped day or SO IN
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to not less than a hundred Of them,
ANA All Of them expressed the upin-
ion that the Tulsa reunion was the
best they ever attended They were
especially grateful for the generosity
of the people Of Tulsa 4 number or
gracious things were done at tho
Tulsa reunion that were never done
before, SO far as | know. ono Of
these was giving the old soldiers the
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