Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-01
The Country Home
BY MRS. w. Fl. FELTON,
The Confederate Reunion In Chat
CanOOga

The Confederate Reunion In Chat
tanO0ga
According to the printed schedule
Of the approaching reunion, this viii!
mark the thirty-first of these memo
rial celebrations by the old-time Con
federate states.
I have attended a considerable
number of them, but my imp"es-
sions now are that they are a heavy
tax upon the vitality of the aged
men who served in the fateful six.
ties and who are now seventy-siX
years of age, the youngest of them.
remember well a boy between fit
teen and sixteen who volunteered
in July, 1861, for the army in Viz.
ginia, and he would have been sew.
enty-six years old in September last
if he had lived to 1921. ...
The great majority are over sew.
enty-six and all are obliged to be
aged survivors, who will take the
trip to Chattanooga this week.
attended a reunion in Nashville,
Tenn, about 1887, when a great
many of those who have passed
away during these intervening years
were hale and hearty at the time
here mentioned.
l remember Hon. Mr.. Reagin, who
was postmaster general of the JET.
ferson Davis administration and per-
haps the only survivor Of the admin
istration then.
l had become acquainted with him
in Washington City, where I'M. Rea.
gin was a member of congress from
Iexas, after the war. during the sew.
entles. 1t was real pleasure to
me to meet him and his excellent
wife in Nashville. I was in Wash.
lngton in 1918, when the Confeder.
ate reunion was held there, and I
could mark the decrease in the ranks
or the old southern veterans.
was in Atlanta in 1919, when
the reunion was held there.
took the trip to Chattanooga q
rev days ago, and while I did not
attempt to go to any gathering. be.
cause am so advanced in age, did
see great numbers arriving on trains
and walking the streets.
1t was a great treat to the thou.
sands of people of Texas and other
western states of the old south to
De able to come this way to see
their acknowledgements of the rail-
road rate of one cent mile.
A man who lives in Fort Worth.
Texas, was on the same train with
me, and his fathers people lived
IN my part Of the county long ago.
lie mad two children with him the
small boy had no railroad fare and
the little girl only a half ticket. His
railroad ticket will transport the
rather and children for a little less
than twenty-five dollars for all
three Of them the round trip. When
you recollect I would have to nav
nearly a dollar for a Pullman chair
TO bring me to Gainesville from
Chattanooga, less than a hundred
miles, besides my regular train tic.
ket, you can understand the value
OF the "cent-a-mile" opportunity.
Chattanooga was gaily dressed in
Old Confederate f1ags-along with
the regular United States flags
fntertwined.
The friends visited were lovely
to me and we rode miles upon miles
in their fine auto car to view the
city and it's environs. I am eighty.
six years of age, and I was three
years old when the Cherokee In
dams were finally moved to Indian
Territory by the military in 1898.
Chattanooga was known as Ross
landing. John Ross, was a notabl,
chief of the Cherokee tribe. M,
friends drove out to Rossville. partly
IN Georgia and partly in Tennessee
1t will not be long before the city
limits Of Chattanooga will be at tn,
georgia line. I had seen the oil
ROSS nome, many years ago-bu
IL was pleasing to me to see it agar
in fair state Of preservation-th,
other day. 'A''
The Ross faction never gave con