The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-04
MOBILE |S CHOSEN FUR CONFE EDERA .RE EUNION IN 1924
Vets Choose General Tough ton Major General In
 Great Meeting
TENNESSEE VALLEY BUREAUl
 THE hGE-HERABD Huntsville, Ala, Oct. 8

From all parts of Alabama the "Yellowhammers" are here enjoying their twenty third annual reunion Of the Alabama division. United Confed- crate Veterans. The boys of the old original Fourth Alabama, who fol- lowed Lee in the Virginia campaigns, remnants of Forests and Wheeler's brilliant cavalry, and representatives of nearly 200 other fighting units that were made up in every hill and vale of Alabama during the stirring days of the war between the states, are here, meeting for the first time in many years north of the Tennessee river.
 It is the best attended reunion in the last dozen years, they declare. The streets of the city are bedecked with flags of the Confectionery and bunting, and everywhere can be seen the Confederate gray mingling with the crowds and here and there are visible the sponsors and maids rep resentatives of many of the most prominent Alabama families lending grace and color to the occasion.
 The great majority of the veterans and their sponsors and maids have been taken into the homes of the tained with old ashioned southern Hospitality. Everybody Is having a good time and the holiday spirit pre- vails.
 Mayor Extends Welcome.
 The Veterans are going through with their convention program, but the business sessions are the small est part of the reunion, because comrades of the long ago are finding each other, many of them, for the first time in years, and talking over the old days. The business session proper begins in the Elks theatre during the forenoon, when addresses of welcome were delivered by Mayor F. L. Adams, B. D. Johnston. adju- tant of the Sons of Veterans; c. E.. Baxter, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and others, the response being made by Col. A. T. Goodwin.
 Adtutant .General Paul Sanguinet- ii called the roll of camps for the names of me nbers missing since the last reunion, after which taps was sounded by a bugler. Songs and mu- sical numbers were rendered by Misses Neida and Jean Humphrey. Mrs. Ike billiard, and Mrs. Frank Ware. Maj. Gen Henry c. Davidson. commander of the division, was ab- sent, being i'll and out of the state, and Chief of Staff Mitchell B. Tough ton presided.
 Mobile Is Selected.
 Barbecue dinner was served in the county court yard. The afternoon session was featured by an address by Judge Henry D. Clayton of Eu- faula, son of a distinguished leader of the Confederacy, after which the choice of 6 place for the next meet ing came up. Mobile was selected over Sheffield and Tuscaloosa
 There were few changes in the staff officers, Gen. NJ. B. Houghton of Montgomery succeeded Maj. Gen. Henry c. Davidson as major general commanding. Col. Paul Sanguinetti chief of staff; Gen. Hal T. Walker commander first brigade; Col. George ". Halls. adjutant general; Gen. George w. Kirkpatrick, commander second brigade; Col. John R. Ken nedy, adjutant general; Gen. T. P. Laml1in, commander third brigade; i; Col. E. c. Downs, adjutant general; Gen. Thomas B. Gwin, commander fourth brigade; Col. J. ". May, ad- jutant general
 To Visit Shoals.
 Automobile rides over Huntsville. 6 public reception, a street dance and a grand ball featured tonight's fes- titles for the veterans, while the sponsors, maids and chaperons were guests at a pl bile reception at the home of Mrs. Charles G. billiard.
 Tomorrow the great parade will be held and afterwards the veterans and many other visitors will depart on a special train for Muscle Shoals, where they will be entertained by the officials of the government works there and later at a barbecue by the people of Florence.