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Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 3

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m-wux Headquarters and Discuss OM Tme STATES ALL SEND GENERAL STUART AND MEMBERS OF HIS STAFF Store Wfll Close To-Day at 1 1-4 flv sVS wf- 'Vi? IDusy Scenes Around Headquarters of Different During Yesterday (COMING ON ALL TRAINS Did Comrades Get Together and Discuss War-Time Experiences Again Welcome! Heroes of 5 and their -we extend a hearty invitation to mafee thia store your headquarters while in Richmond Make yourself at home in OLDEST AND REPRESENTATIVE DRY GOODS STORE Sixty-five fears serving the people without misrepresentation Parasols $100 Embroidered Linen A large assortment ot Parasols in all the leading colors and latest designs White Linen Parasols plain and embroidery trimmed AA at Fancy Fin Striped Cheek 1 and Plain Silk Parasols hero 4 PA at Stylish Brown Taffeta and Pongee Paraspls aome wlth'AA an fancy borders at 9198 and fdiTO all sols at to Best grade Taffeta Faraaole In colors with handsome Persian ribbon border let in here Qq Handsome White Taffeta Para-' hand painted here 1501 A large assortment ot Whit Linen Parasols trimmed and hand embroidered ones from 1JM $148 rifsKsv Reunion Orders and Notices Headquarters Army of Tennessee Department Confederate Veterans -Columbus Mies May 20 1907 8pedal order: Wltb high appreciation of gracious and practical seal on be- U3 'half of the Confederate Cause and He heroic soldiers I have tha honor to appoint Mra John Slade of Kentucky matron" or young ladles who will attend unofficially the reunion at Richmond Va 1007 from tha Htatea Included In thia department By order: CLEMENT A EVANS Lieutenant-General Commanding SYKES Adjutant-General and chief of Staff 7-7r' Richmond May 20 To Confederate Veterans in Con- vention: jag CotnradaO: In selecting the next meeting place for the reunion wa respectfully suggest that any 1 city bidding for the honor pledge them- selves to float display or decorata' only wlth-the trfa Confederate flag ns regards size via: four -feet by four feet and" lesser flags ln du proportion thereof Th present flag Is a miserable fraud and the time le now here to a a 'k JL change for historical perpetuation The city of Richmond again In the poaneeslon of the Confederate They are to be found on every hand They are inarching up and down the treats the same streets that they tramped In the sixties and now ae then they came from every part of the Southland They are here from every Htate from the Kio Grande to the Potomac and from the Atlantle to the Farlflc fur be it known there are camps of Confederate veterans beyond the Rocky Mountains It is true that these far Western-camps ane mid up" of veterans who were from the original Confederate States and have since the ear moved westward to make their fortunes In moving they did not forget the traditions and the formed ramps even In Re enemy's country Numbers of tjiese camps lorated In Oregon Idaho Montana Kansas Oklahoma and Indian Territory are represented her on this glad reunion occasion All the State headquarters were yesterday scenes of handshakings and rejoicing Old soldiers who had not met for years some of them not since he war days got together again and renewed old friendship la all the State headquarters registers were kept just as In a hotel and' comrades had I ut little troubl In locating other comrades who had com in that is If they registered promptly However there was some complaint that too nanv of tha boys failed to go to their own particular headquarters and register 'did Keatacky Har Kentucky headquartera ara In the old cafe room of the Allen Hotel at Tenth and Itroad Street Karly In the at rrnlng Kentucklana commenced to walk in and reglater and when the rfternoon train cam from the west the list grew rapidly until by bedtime lest night it had upon It the lamee of nearly three hundred Among the Kentuckians at headquarters there are many of John Morgan's men Raiders' they were called in war times and If braver men ever galloped over tha -earth the historian have failed to record their deeds The badge these Kentucky men wear has upon It a picture of the famous cavalryman Captain Chisholm of Lexington Ky Is on of tho Morgan raid-ers who was yesterday doing the honors at Kentucky headquarters He was assisted by Lieutenant Cleveland of Ciinchvllle who walks with a maimed leg but takes palna to ex-lain that tb Injury la not due to a ankeo bullet but to a drawing knife lie was vigorously nalqg after tha war In honest labor trying to rebuild hla lost fortune Private Dan Perrine ot MaysMia Is soother on of the lino looking old boys at Kentucky headquarters lie too followed Morgan In that wonderful raid In tho heart of tha enemy's country Among tho Kentuckians there ere some splendid singers and when Ctp tain Frank Cunningham called on them lste yesterday afternoon they sung Old Kentucky Home" for him I Arksasas la Good Ferre call It Ar-Kansas' as they prcnounce Kansas please but say w( are from Arkansaw Thus spoko one of tbe fine looking gray-coated veterans at the Arkansas headquarters at No 90S East Broad street live a good ways from Virginia" continued this grlzslad veteran many of th old boys are poor and can't pay their way I am afraid wo will not show up very strong at thia reunion hut you can ply that thoa left at home are with us In tho It was noticeable that many of the vets registered from Arkansas wers In their soldier days from other States They have moved to tbe good Arkansas since the tlma that tried men's souls Lieutenant Georga Edgar who was a member of tha Twenty-Sixth Virginia Cavalry was for a number of loan tho president of the Arkansas University and he belonged to a Confederate ramp In that 8tata He registered with tha Arkansas boys Mlsaoarl At Marpbys Missouri headquarters sre at Hotel Th Missourians hold tho fort In Room 22 and also In tho lobby Major-General John Stone who commands th0 Missouri division Confederate veterans Is at tha head of the delegation He and all the members of his staff were In the lobby yesterday In bright new Confederate uniforms Among the officers on hand were Captain John 8haul of Vernon county Colonel Bronaugh of Henry county a county which was settled by Virginians who knew how to raleo tobacco any they do say they named their county for the county of the same name In this State which of course was named for Patrick Henry Major Goen and Captain Gregg of Kansas City Other officers In the delegation are Adjutant-General Morton Colonel A Atkinson General Ingram commander of the Western Brigade General Thomas Cousins of tho Eastern Brigade Captain James McDonald and Colonel William Toweon There ara not ewer than 100 Missourians on hand A Tarheels Are XaanMn North Carolina headquartera at San- a'nwrsn Z'l A OWEN RICE FOOTE -Mtsiliilppl Confederate The West Virginia DIvtalon of 7 Confederate Veterans will asaemblayyjfefj for parade at Oo 8Q2 East Marshall Street at 1 'A to proceed to place In jine I ROBERT WHITE Major-General Commanding jfi -jfe A a GATEWOOD Adjutant-General III Stonewall Brigade la ordered to take position on left of First Brl-grade Virginia Division A Vlr-fflna All member of Stonewall Bri-gad will meet northwest corner- Broad and Ninth Streets from 9 to 12 A to-day May 20th for full Information 1- A FONERDEN 'jjg For the Commute A meeting of the Immortal MO has been called for 10 clock thia vfeSjp morning at the University College of Medicine: Col Winfield Feter of Baltimore Md will deliver an address Banger Hall on Friday nlfiht subject will clselv Told of the Mortal Wounding yS of Gen Stuart at tha (1) Major Johasoa Chief of CeainUsary Department! (21 Major IT McClellan Assistant Adjutant-General (3) Captain Garnett Alde-de-Campi 41 Major Jsha Eatea Cooke Chief of Ordnance! (5) Captala Charles Grattoa Alde-de-Camp! Major I Hanger Qaarternaaater 17! Colonel Hero Voa Boreke Assistant Adjutant-General (81 Major Chaaalag Price Assistant Adjutaat-Geaeral (0) Captala Dabney ilfenlei'aafi (18)' Major John Foatalae fnrgeoai (II) Captala Mlchard Frayaer Chief of Signal Corps! (U) Major A Venable Isspeetor-GeaeraL This group made up of rare original photographs is published by The Tlmes-Dlspatch through the courtesy of Wrenn's Richmond Book Exchange No 209 North Fifth Street Headquarters Chief Marshal May SO 1107 General Orders No Every veteran organization in the city la urgently requested to unite in the parade to-day Individual veterans without any camp or organisation can march with any camp or organization of their choice or should they organize and report to any marshal on the line they will be assigned a place In the column Parade- orders for both parades can be had at headquarters of parade committee Mutual Building room 704 By order of COL JOHN GORDON Chler Marshal THOMPSON BROWN Chief of Staff Headquartera Army Northern Virginia Dept Room 682 Tha Jefferson Richmond Va May 21 1907 General Order No 18 The department will assemble for parade of May 80th the various commands being ln position by 'JS0 The department will form on the south elds of Franklin Street right resting on Fifth Street facing north North Carolina Division right resting on Fourth Street South Carolina Division right resting on Second Street New York Veterans right resting on Founhee Street 'west Virginia Department between Foushee and Adama Streets Maryland Division right resting on Adama Street District of Colum-blt Veterans right resting on Street: Virginia Division -left of District of Columbia Veteran For all details the general order 'Issued by the chief marshal will be obeyed and respected II The staff of the department "will 1 report to the commander 'at bis- room No 682 Jefferson Hotel at 12:20 By command of LT-GEN IRVINE WALKER Comfhander A Dept RICHARD DAVIS Adj-Gen Chief of Staff a Headquarter Chief Marshal Mutual Building Special Order All staff officers can obtajn badges on application at parade headquarters room 704 Mutual Building before 12 o'clock to-day Tha department chiefs and their aide wlU report In uniforma at thaea headquartera to receive marshal's buttons ahd for final orders By order of COL JOHN GORDON Chief Marshal THOMPSON BROWN Chief of SUIT division and he la on hand with numerous members of hla staff among them Colonel Richardson of Austin who 1k the president of the board of directors of tha Confederate Soldiers' Home of Texas Captain A Jones of Bay City and Colonel Woody Colonel Woody la also a member of tho staff of General Stephen Lee In war times he was a member of Wright's Artillery and later an officer on jho staff of General John Gordon From the Far West At Belvldere Hall the delegation from tha Indian Territory also has headquartera Most of the men in thia delegation were originally from other States and have moved to tho land of the Indians since tho daya of carnage About fifty of them are here hailing from the territory The headquartera of tha Northwestern division men of tha South who hava made their homes In Oregon Idaho Montana and other Pacific States are at tha Jefferson General Paul A Fuaa la tha commander of this division and la hers with a email contingent numbering perhaps twenty men They ara quartered at tha Jefferson as the guesta of General Funs General Fuss la engaged In the mining bueineea In Montana and It le said ha has "struck it rich" He served In the cavalry aervlca of the Confederacy and as a private made a reputation for bravery that comanded promotion Although very young he waa a first lieutenant when the collapse came Laatabtaa la Good Ferre The Louisiana men have a bg room in the Crenshaw Building at Adama and Main Streets Oeneral A Prude homme la the commander of the State division He Is stopping at the Jefferson as are also members of hls staff among whom are Adjutant-General Casseiman Lieutenant-Colonel Dugae Major Marore and Major A Bnumi Colonel ThowM a nifmber of Oonorftl 16 1 ptftflf Is also with the Ioulalana delegation There are about 894 Louisianians In the city and among them are a dozen survivors of the famous Iiulalania Tigers The Palmetto HJ Just across thn hull from Louisiana headquarters in the Crenshaw Building the South Carolinians hold forth Yellow Tavern" ger Hall was a scene of liveliness all day yesterday The old boys Were In from all parts of tho old Tarheel State General Julian 8 Carr of Durham ths commander of tha North Carolina Division was ths first to register -at headquarters thus proving himself a real leader Next on tho list Is ths name of hls chief of staff Major Thomas I Emry of Weldon Tha third name on tho register Is that of Rev A Betts of Warren county who was a war chaplain and Is now tha chaplain of tha North Carolina Division Confederate Veterans Ths North Carol ind hoys have lots of room In Sanger Hall and they have brought along a large number of tents and other camp equip-page They are so near to homo they re making themselves comfortable without calling on Richmond hospitality Tarheels" said Chaplain Betts how to taka care of ourselves There will be 6000 of us here before the thing Is over" To-morrow night the Nottli Carolina contingent will be tendered reception by the North Carolina Society of Rich mond i i Alabama and Maryland Maryland and Alabama' are at St School on Marshall Street The authorities of the school early In the action tendered to tho commltttee tha use of their splendid loullding and tha Marylanders and Alabamians were quartered there Tha Alabama folk have a large and commodious on headquarters at No 802 East Marshall and up to last night about a hundred of them had registered Most of the men hailing from the State beyond the mountains served in Virginia regiments and they are Virginians-too There were no nobler men and no better fighters In the Confederate- Army than the Virginians who are now known as West Virginians are a sort of orphans hut ws are true to tho old State and her traditions said one of the men at West Virginia headquarters yesterday and he spoke the truth It is likely that three hundred West Virginians are In attendance upon the reunion From the Lssd of blowers The Florida folk are comfortably quartered at the University College of Medicine and the young men who have just quartered their studies at that institution are doing everything in their power to make them happy and contented One of the first men to register from the bright land of flowers was Rev Sturgis of Sanford who waa one of the fighting chaplains of war times He waa the chaplain of the Forty-fourth Alabama Regiment He looked after the spiritual condition of the boys hut always kept hie musket In reach and when the drum taps announced a pending battla he shouldered the piece and did a little bueineea that was not strictly spiritual It is said that Parson Sturgis was ono of the best shots in the Forty-fourth Alabama Forrest and Ashby At the University College the men of General Forrest's command also have headquarters hut very few have far registered One of them explained to The Tlmes-Dlspatch man yesterday that mighty few of them are left to register It la a remarkable fact that two of Forrest's men who are registering with the boys are now citizens of Richmond and nr minister or the Rev Dr 'William Whltsitt of Richmond College and Rev Dr -Smith the pastor of tho Second Baptist Church It la likely that Rev Dr Smith waa the youngest member of that famous cavalry command Another room has been aet-apart at the University College for men General Turner Ashby commanded as brave a set of young men a ever drew sabre In defence of country and homo They went where there woe danger and many of them fell In many that but few ara left Up to last nlglit only nine of men had registered at headquartera a Many From Georgia Georgia headquarters are at the Mechanics Institute end a large number from that State have pfcsslbly as many as three hundred Special trains from Atlanta Savannah and Macon expected to reach here this morning will probably swell the crowd to seven hundred maybe a thousand Among the Georgians registered yesterday waa Captain George Essex of Chicago Of course Chicago la not In Georgia but Captain Essex waa a Georgian when he wore tho gray uniform He la now a prominent member of the Board of Trade of the Windy Cltjr and It le said ho has made a good fortune there He is a Confederate all right and esteems It a special privilege to rare for the graves of tha Confederate deed who died in the Camp Douglas Prison and were burled in that part of the country In the Georgia delegation Is Mr William Baldy of Leesburg He waa a civil engineer In the Confederate service He Is tho guest of hie eon Rev Baldy of Manchester Numerous Tenaeoaraas Tennessee headquarters are In the Johnson building Eleventh and Cary Street and they have made a real camp of the two floors allotted to them Beds and cots cover the two floors and arrangements have been made for the accommodation of eight hundred men They will be here too Not fewer than two hundred have already arrived and it le expected that the Norfolk and Western and Southern Railway trains to reach here this morning will empty four of five hundred more fighters from the mountain State Into the city a a Tbe last Star State At Belvldere Hall where It la said there is dancing one night and preaching the next or vice verna th Texans have headquarters and they are occupying the place in great shape There are many Texans In the city and they are a clanlah sort of people being fond of Hocking together Up to laat night four hundred of them had registered at Halt They have a large ruo) i and -they arc making use of It General Van Skint of Fort i Worth Is the commander ut the Texas the second floor and up to a late hour last night they had registered 240 men trains loaded down will leave Montgomery to-day and to-night" said Captain Crow I reckon before the boys get through arriving we wlU have an many as 600 Alabamians at this Captain Crow Is ths commander of Gordon Memorial Camp at Anniston Ha has attended several reunions and he says he and the boys of Gordon Memorial have heretofore been a little late He was determined to get to Richmond out time and therefore he and ten of his comrades came on ahead of the regular- Alabama contingent reaching here yesterday morning Liuetenant Winfred Peters of Baltimore and Captain Alfred' Selrage formerly of Maryland now of New York head the Maryland delegation at St Mary's School They -say this morning's trains will enlarge the Maryland contingent untl Ut will number something like 600 From tke Case Breaks Mississippi headquarters ara at No 802 East Marshall Street and a' goodly numbJr of tha old fighters from the State 'of cane breaks- have already registered General Robert Lowry of Jackson- who has served term as Governor of hla State and most likely will wind up his public life United States Senator Is tbe commander of the Mississippi dlvslon He will reach the city this morning Several members of hls staff sre already here among them General William Montgomery commands rof the First Brigade General Carter of the Second Brigade who Is now the Lieutenant-Governor of the State and General George Helm commander of the Third Brigade General Helm Is a Virginian by birth havtnff first seen the light of day In Franklin county hut ha left it before he could sea good Other noted Mlsslsslppians registered at headquarters yesterday are Major Blanchard of Greenwood Captain Wadaworth Colonel Gruber of Jackson and commander of Robert Smith Camp of that city and Major Chariep Humphries want to see ths house In which the greatest man of modern time pent four years of hls eventful lite WlU you pilot me to it?" Thus spoke General Helm and a dozen Mlsslsslppians joined In the request The Tlmes-Dlspatch man knew without being tolil that they wanted to eee the White House of the Confederacy where Jefferson Davis lived in war-times and he took pleasure in the loyal Mlsslsslppians to the Confederate -Museum where the good women In charge gave them a hearty welcome General Helm says there will be about six hundred Mlssis-sippians In the parade when the Davis Monument la unveiled- Virginians Front the Went Tho West suntingent hai -wj Up to last night-hut few had regie- -tered but It "was explained that th" army from that State would take the cars yesterday and last night and reach here this morning It la Mtl- mated that at least 800 ot "tha Pal-motto boy" will be In th line march a Oklahoma i well reproeented jUkfey the Indian territory all the men halU lng from tho newest State 01 served in the war 74'" of the Potomac Probably fifty oC these are in attendance upon tho reunion Virginia headquarters at No 697 East Main Street were well crowded all day yesterday The most conservative estimate yet made plsces her out of town irglnlana who will take part the featlvltie of the week at 8 000 Possibly that many will not-be here but at present It look ae lf: tix li very coneervftilvft Hannrrackker' be crowded YOUNG STCAHT CMW CO JOB III Wltb A ayead Iritis and Family Ka mains at Hla Bedside Special to Th Tlmes-Dlspatch NEWPORT NEWS VA May Stuart Jr th ten-year-old non of Collector of Customs Stuart who was to hava unveiled the monument of hls grandfather tha great Confederate cavalry leader In Richmond to-morrow la 111 at tha Elisabeth Bax- ton Hospital with appendicitis Ae operation has been performed ud although tho child's condition thin morn- lng was alarming to-night ha la said to bo rallying steadily None of the members of tho Stuart family will attend the reunion or tho unveiling aa tha little hoy will hardlybe entirely out of danger to-morrow AFTER pneumonia the convalescent needs nourishing food to build up the disease-racked body But great care must be exercised ao as not to over-' tax the feeble digestion Scoff Emulsion has cod liver oil to make blood and healthy flesh and hypophosphites to strengthen nerves' It is pre-digested The '(best -food in the world for a convalescent VacU BEAUTIFIES THC COMPLEXION A CREAK guaranteed to remora freckles pimples liver spots tan sallowaess die-eolorStiona and eruptions the wont ease in 10 to 10 days Lears tha I kin clear healthy and restores the beauty of youth Endorsed by thousands of grateful ladies tOs $1-00 by your dmgg iit or ipafi AIIOKAL TOILCT COMPANY Paris TMt Ernest Thompson Be ton has started northeasterly from Edmonton for a 1009-mile canoo trip in Canada with ill barren lands bevnnd Great Eton IiVV "Hillfi tGllllw II ll 69I vnannwi the barren land beyond Great Eton Lake ae hf destination jte has a companion aud the trip will take sis nuintliA iPA- i vT? rVJ -a' A 1 v'i I i 1 r- s'- -1 XT' I4 1 V)- 1 vc'i 0 rl r- r5 1 fm' -7 -y.

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