Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-10-14

congress OF pensions to Confederate
veterans ALSO was asked in another
resolution adopted. ~ s-$@ a&
Offlcers of the organization were re-
elected as follows:
Gen. X. NJ. Van Zandt of Fort
Worth, Texas. commander in chief.
Gen. c. B. Vance, commander Of the
army OF Tennessee,
Gen. Julian S. Carr Of North Caro-
lima, commander of the army of north
ern Virginia. Z 'S' ;3
Gen. Virgil Y. Cook, commander OF
the trans Mississippi department.
Judge J. T. ,Coolrick, Fredericks-
burg, Va, was elected to represent
ythe United Confederate Veterans at
the unwilling of the Stonewall Jack
son ,monumentin Richmond october IL.
N. B. Forrest of Biloxi. Miss, grand
son of the great Confederate cavalry
leader, was elected commander in chief
of Sons of Confederate Veterans to-
day.
The request that the federal govern
ment pay pensions to former Confed-
crate soldiers was made on the 81 ound
that $6S,Q00,00O worth of cotton was
illegally confscated by the United
States government during, and after
the war and never paid for that the
south for more than go years has paid
out millions of dollars toward PEN
.sions for federal soldiers and that the
federal government owes the south
an unpaid debt of $4,000 for captured
property which was sold.
Requests that congress appropriate
$4,000 to complete memorial arch in
Vicksburg. Miss, national park, and
that the name of the "Ciyil war" be
formally made "Confederate war" also
were made in resolutions adopted.
Replying to the greeting sent by
Z Henry d. Lindsay, national chairman,
ON behalf of he American tegfon the
Confederate veterans concluded their
telegram with the following: "The
veterans Of the Southland stand with
you of the world war ready for service
to our united country"
To Send Delegates.
The Veterans also voted to accept
the invitation of the American Legion
to send delegates, from each division
to the legion's convention in Novem-
Der.
Future Confederate veterans re-
unions will be held in the. fall instead
of summer, it was decided today. The
present reunion is the first to be held
in the fall in many years.
Support of the veterans for establish
ment Of a civil and highway engi-
neering school at Washington and Lee
universities to be named the Robert f.
Lee school of engineering was pledg-
ed by the reunion.
A telegram from Secretary Tumulty
was read before the convention eX-
pressing the appreciation of President
Wilson for the sympathetic resolutions
adopted and forwarded to him at the
opening session.
Pledges to continue their care of the
graves of Confederate veterans instead
of turning the work over to the feder-
al government as has been suggested,
We're made at the sessions of the Con-
federate Southern Memorial associa-
ton. Resolutions also were adopted
looking to increasing the membership
OF the association and adding new
chapters. ...
Misinformation in Books.
Miss Mildred Rutherford Of Athens
Ca, noted southern historian and
educator, presented to the veterans to-
day a-series of questions 10 be applied
to text books before adopting them
in southern schools and colleges. All
the questions dealt with elimination
of matter prejudicial to the Lost
Cause" Much misinformation has
been and still is being spread in books,
she said, and added that before the
war General Lee had virtually freed
his slaves. General Grant, she con-
tinued was slave owner until the very
time the slaves were freed by Lincoln's
proclamation.
III oi SihOAl " PioNS tiiebb tiS NS'u'0N
of war was not the desire of southern
people to continue slavery, Miss Ruth
erford asserted that there were 800, 900
slave holders in the Union army and
100000 in the Confederate army.
Memorial services in honor Of tie
Confederate dead were held at joint
meeting of the veterans and auXiliaries
Sacred and southern music featured
the service and the Rev. j. w. Bach
man of Chattanooga, S2 years of age,
chaplain general of the United Con-
federate veterans, delivered the invo-
cation.
I'VE will forget" he declared, "ail
the bitterness and dissolution, the
privation and suffering of the war
and we will remember only the truth
and righteousness of the southern
cause, the principles for which the
south fought and the cherished ideals
which today are dearer than ever be-
fore"
Sale of actual or spot cotton on
southern and British markets Thurs
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