Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-06-22
Heroes Unable to Bear
Burden of Years in
Annual March
RICHMOND IS IN TEARS
Sees Thin Gray Line a
Spectacle to Stir the
South'S Soul

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| Richmond, Va, June 22-Weary
and happy as little children when
night GENES after a hard day of play,
the men who fought for the South in
the war between the states, after
passing through the streets of their
old capital in long and colorful pro-
cession, today were ready to turn
their faces homeWard.
The thirty second annual reunion of
the United Confederate Veterans
comes officially to close with the
grand ball tonight, but many of the
veterans, fatigued by a week filed
with happy events, are preparing to
leave the city today.
These soldiers, whose youth throb-
led on the fields of battle, are now
too weighted with years to tramp the
lcng avenues of the city, so they rode
proudly in parade in. motor vehicles.
down the streets that once resounded
with the Gathering accoutrements Of
i younger army marching to war, and
tears to the Of many who remembered
Through the long aisles made by
throngs Of a tribute paying people,
these grey fghters slowly passed as
though they were conquerors instead
Of the men who LAID down their arms
in defeat.
Along the way, buildings, large ard
small mansion and hut, were coated
with the coIors that fired the hearts
Of the Southland in 81 aud '65. It
was as if the hand Of time had rnoved
back and transformed a new and
younger Richmond to the historic city
it was more than a half century ago.
Melodies of Old South.
From the shining horns of fourteen !,
bands flowed the melodies Of the Old
south. Maryland, Ny Maryland" ="
Garry Me Back to Old Virginia"
"Tha Suwannee River" "The Old !
Folks At Home,' and many Others;
ard ther as if to light the spirits Of
the paraders, ard the 5hr0ngs that |
watched thew 20 J white glow, 6and
htre ami there, would flare forth with !
the beloved battle soug-'EDixie.'
Every veteran who came TO Rich
uoud was seated in a motor g'ehicle.
It was as.trtA7ed ,s5I5 800 cars car
riad the old soldiers in the procession.
TIE 4sc0r; If honor for the vet
,rans war4 &,au who fought in 80
and those younger soldiers who cross
aG the seas TO hattie with the Ger
mans. Suriy ard Straight they
,,a -ahed afoot. l-d il. their faces was
he ligt5 they had caught from soug
ara story harded dowr froHI those
heroes saho wore the grey Of the Con-
,ederacg.
First in the procession passed 2icn-
nord's mouuted police. Their, in
Urn, role General William 3. Free
nan, commander Of the Virginia d.
risior, United Confederate Veterans,
IS chief marshal ard his staff. He !
vas followed in turn by units of the
,at:oraI guard Vt Virginia, world war
.eteraus, Spanish-Amertcau war vet
rams, Sons 0: Confederate Veterans,
in Chief Julian S. Carr. ]
f the United Confederate Veterans, /
mi ais staff; sponsors for the south
nd other ladies'; members Of the Con-
eierata Southern Memorial Associa- ;
ION. Admiral Wright, commanding
he Confederate navy, ard his staff;
1st the Confederate veterans.
The veterans themselves were Z
rmoet in the following order:
The army Of the Mississippi
erartneut, including veterans from
KANSAS, Oklahoma, Missouri, the
acifc division, the Texas division =
nd the Forrest cavalry; the Army of