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HHAHST J S SUNDAY AMKKIUAN, ATLANTA, <iA.. SUNDAY, MAY 25. 1'tlT
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CHATTANOOGA AWAITS COMING OF VETERANS
'TM1KKE of the Smith's pretty daughters, two of her heroes aud the Alabama monument, which will be unveiled at this reunion. The girls in the picture are Miss
1 Alberta Wilson, Pulaski, Term., maid of honor, Tennessee Division, at top, left; Miss Anne Ilenry, of Brandon. Miss., maid of honor to the sponsor of the
South, at top, right; Miss Mildred P. Owen, Pine Bluff. Ark., maid of honor J. Kd Murray Camp, at bottom, left. To the left of th monument is General Ben
nett H. Young, eommander-in-ehief of the U. C. V., and on the right, General A. I* .Stewart, for whom the evterans 'camp is named.
Every Preparation for the Com
fort and Entertainment of the
Visitors Has Been Made by the
Citizens’ Committee in Charge.
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CHATTANOOGA, May 24.—Chat-
tanooga’s gates are flung open wide,
In anticipation of the coming this
week of the slender gray army of the
Stars and Bare and their gayer allies,
the Sons and Daughters of the Con
federacy. And the sponsors. Par
ticularly the sponsors and their
maids.
The reunion will begin Monday af
ternoon, and until the closing ball
Thursday night will be the biggest,
the busiest, the gladdest, the tender-
est occasion of the city’s history.
Everything is in readiness. Bead
ing business men of Chattanooga,
giving over their own interests to
the hands of their employees, have
get about to prepare for the veterans
and the other visitors. The organiza
tion as a result is complete and per
fect. It was effected by men who
have made a success of big business,
and the Chattanooga Reunion Asso
ciation is in ik11 respects a great
business institution with sufficient
brain and capital to make a suc
cess of the undertaking.
John A. Patten, leading financier
of Chattanooga who has been fore
most in planning for the reunion,
said to-day there no longer doubt ex
isted that the occasion would he
the greatest of its kind.
“All of Dixie land is looking for
ward to the Confederate reunion with
keen anticipation." he said. “and
with confidence that the records for
a,tendance and pleasure will he
broken at Chattanooga.”
Chattanooga, then, is waiting in
readiness, already having opened its
hearts and hands.
No reunion organization ever work
ed harder than has the Chattanooga
committee during the last three
months. Camp Stewart, the unique
quarters provided for the veterans,
was by far the biggest job on the list,
and has been put in first class condi
tion, ready for its thousands of guests.
Tents are up and cots and blankets
are in place. The dining tent and
kitchen equipment are complete in
every detail. More than 200 helpers
are necessary for this service.
Attractive Camp.
In the camp, a wonderfully attrac
tive arrangement has been made for
the entertainment and care of the
old soldiers. As a spectacle alone the
camp and its surroundings is in
spiring. Every provision has been
made for comfort, even luxury.
There is one feature of the parades,
however, that has been definitely set
tled and this is that no woman who-
dons a bifurcated riding habit will
be allowed to appear. Gen. J. P. Hick
man. chief marshal and commander
of the Tennessee Division has issued
a special order forbidding women
to ride astride.
From points in Camp Stewart—
the camp has been named after Gen
eral Alexander P. Stewart, the Con
federate leader—the veteran will have
a fine view of Lookout Mountain to
the west, rising like a giant sentinel
over a plain that has been likened to
the plain of Marathon by more than
one writer. Missionary Ridge lies
to the south and east of the camp. In
fact, the camp is situated about half
way between the mountain on the
west and Missionary Ridge on the
east, adjoining the beautiful national
cemetery 'Where more than 13,000
Union soldiers were buried.
Surrounded by scenes fraught with
historic and vital interest for every
old soldier, no arrangement could be
more attractive to the veterans than
the out-of-doors camp that Chat
tanooga has arranged.
The first interest in the reunion
necessarily is the interest in the vet
erans. This year the interest is more
poignant and human than ever be
fore. Years have passed since the
war. forty seven in all. Even those
veterans who w r ere boys when they
shouldered jnuskets and followed Bee
or Jackson or Johnson, are now close
to the mark of three score and ten,
and are feeble with it all.
General B. H. Young, 70.
General Bennett H. Young, of
Bouisville. Commander in Chief of
the veterans, will be seventy years
old this week. An honored and
prominent veteran will he General
Simon Bolivar Buckner, the only sur
viving lieutenant general of the Con
federacy, now in his ninetieth year.
Judge Orr. of Columbus, Miss., also
close to ninety, will be present, the
only surviving member of the Con
federate Congress. These figures are
typical. There are thousands of
others of reverend years, in whose
grhy hairs. faltering steps, and
wrinkle.? th re :. a i «\vcrf.:l and grip
ping appeal to the heart. The gray
General Program of the
Confederate Reunion
MONDAY, MAY 26—AFTERNOON.
4:00-—Welcome meeting Confederated
Southern Memorial Association,
Chattanooga Auditorium.
8:00—Open meeting Sons of Confed
erate Veterans, Chattanooga Au
ditorium.
TUESDAY. MAY 27—MORNING.
9:00—Parade Eleventh United States
cavalry, commanded by Col.
James Lockett.
Concert in Chattanooga Audito
rium of Southern airs by bands.
9:30—Meeting of Sons of Confederate
Veterans In Chamber of Com
merce auditorium.
10:00—First meeting of United Con
federate Veterans.
AFTERNOON.
2:00—Business meeting of Confeder
ate Veterans In Chattanooga
Auditorium.
Business meeting of Sons of Con
federate Veterans in Chamber
of Commerce auditorium.
Business meet rc» of Confeder
ated - Southern Memorial Asso
ciation in Chancery Court, City
Hall.
8:00—Assembly of sponsors at First
Presbyterian Church.
4:00—Procession of sponsors through
the principal streets of the city
and Camp Alexander P. Stewart
to Warner Park.
5:00—Garden party for sponsors and
visitors at Warner Park to 7
p. m.
Aviation flight by Johnnie Green.
8 to 11—Reception at Bennett H.
Young pavilion in honor of Con
federate Veterans, given by
United Daughters of the Con
federacy. Chapters Alexander P.
Stewart and Francis M. Walker.
8:00—Business meeting of United
Confederate Veterans, Chatta
nooga Auditorium.
WEDNESDAY. MAY 28—MORNING.
9:30—Business meeting of United
Confederate Veterans, Chatta
nooga Auditorium.
Business meeting of Confeder
ated Southern Memorial Asso
ciation. Chancery Court, City
Hall.
10:30—Dedication of Alabama monu
ment in Chickamauga Park.
11:00—Breakfast for* chief, depart
ment and division sponsors,
Chattanooga Golf and Country
Club.
12:00—Memorial service under Joint
auspices of Confederate Veterans
and Confederated Southern Me
morial Association, Chattanooga
Auditorium.
AFTERNOON.
1:30—Luncheon for Alabama delega
tion. First Presbyterian Church
school room.
2:00—Business meeting of United
Confederate Veterans, Chatta
nooga Auditorium.
Business meeting of Confeder
ated Southern Memorial Asso
ciation. Chancery Court room,
City Hall.
4:00—Parade of Sons of Veterans,
sponsors, maids of honor and
visiting military companies.
5 to 7—Several Chattanooga homes
open for Veterans and visitors.
Visitors welcome at each.
8:00—Ball in honor of Confederate
Veterans at the Bennett H.
Young pavilion. Members of
Southern Cross Drill Corps will
ooen ball with a drill.
Alabama exercises In Centenary
Church.
THURSDAY, MAY 29—MORNING.
10:00—Parade of Confederate Vet
erans.
AFTERNOON.
Pageant, ‘‘Pled Piper of Hame-
lln Town," at Warner Park.
EVENING.
Ball at Bennett H. Young pavil
ion, Sons of Confederate Vet
erans.
army is slenderer thay it w'as last
year; it will march with the realiza
tion that next year its numbers will
be fewer. Its songs will be hymns
to voice a premonition of the, end.
More than anything else they will
sing “God be With You Till We Meet
Again."
There is heart interest a-plenty,
and tears, for the city of Chattanooga
this week.
Then there is a lighter interest, too,
in the gay society of the reunion. The
veterans and distinguished women
who are delegates to the Confederate
Memorial Association, in session at
the same time, as well as the young
women sponsors for each military or
ganization and their retinues, will be
guests at a brilliant round of enter
taining.
Many Balls Planned.
Ball after ball will be given, a
Sponsors’ hall, a Veterans’ ball, a
Sons of Veterans’ ball, a huge lawn
party late one afternoon, with a
pavilion for dancing and three bands
playing.
The dancing pavilion will be the
largest, probably; ever devised* The
entire athletic stadium of the Univer
sity of Chattanooga will be floored
and covered with a canopy, and w'ill
be large enough to accommodate 15,000
to 20,000 couples easily.
The sponsors each with three to
five attending maids, will parade one
afterqoon accompanied by outriders
and bands, with flags flying. Five
hundred automobiles have been en
gaged for this event, and the noted
beauties of the South will ride in
them, making of the event a most
spectacular thing.
Miss Kate Daffan, of Texas, sponsor
for the South, will lead the parade,
and with her will ride General Young,
commander in chief. After them will
he veterans, sponsors and maids, the
Sons of Veterans, chief sponsors, de
partment and division sponsors,
brigade and camp sponsors. The par
ade will end in a huge lawn
party, with the young men of Chat
tanooga and other cities and Sons of
Veterans as guests.
Social Committee.
The committee in charge of social
affairs includes Mrs. Garnet Andrews,
Mrs. John T. Bupton, Mrs. Jesse Bit-
tleton, Mm Thomas R. Preston. Mrs.
James R. Huff, Mrs. J. C. Guild. Mrs.
M. M Allison, Mrs. E. B. Craig. Mrs.
Ross Faxon. Mrs. O. B. Andrews. Mrs.
J. B. Pound, Mrs. G. M Ellis, Mrs.
E. H. Sholar. Mrs. W. R. Davis, Mrs.
Theodore U. Montague. Mrs. Z. C.
Patten, Mr. Z. C. Patten, Jr., Mrs.
John A. Patten, Mrs. C. A. Byerly,
Mrs. James M. Shaw, Mrs. George D.
Bancaster, Mrs. James F. Johnston,
Mrs. W. H. Pryor, Mrs. C. E. James,
Mrs C. C. Nottingham. Mrs. Walter
Bove, Mrs. R. B. Cooke, Mrs. T. H.
Payne, Mrs. W. E. Brock. Miss Min
nie Brock, MB'S Zella Armstrong. Miss
Augusta Gardenhire, Miss Eva D.
Bachman, Miss Ann Martin.
These women will receive at the
lawn party and at the balls, and will
he hostesses Wednesday morning of
the reunion at a breakfast at the Golf
and Country Club, when the guests
will be the official sponsors and their
attendants Ross Faxon Is chairman
of all social arrangements for the
week and has appointed sub-commit
tees and sub-chairmen.
Dancing Space for Thousands.
The Sons of Veterans’ ball and the
Veterans’ ball will be very large, with
dancing space provided for many
thousands. General Young # wlll lead
the Veterans’ ball with Miss Daffan,
sponsor for the South. General J. P.
Norfleet, of Memphis, will lead the
Sons of Veterans’ ball with their chief
sponsor.
Mrs. John B. Gordon will be pres
ent, as will also Mrs. Stonewall Jack-
son, Mrs. Pickett. Mrs. Virginia Clay
Clopton and Mrs. Bongstreet, widows
of famous general?. Several private
entertainments have been announced
for them. The Misses Wheeler, daugh
ters of General Joseph H. Wheeler
will be present and Mr. Jefferson
Hayes Davis, grand son and namesake
of President Davis.
Among the sponsors and attendants
are Mips Buoy Worth Currie, sponsor:
Miss Caroline Shimp and Miss .Lydia
Holland, of Fayetteville, N C., maid
to the North Carolina division; MB's
Fannie R Bachman. Sweetwater,
Tenn.; Miss Mildred White, Paris,
Tenn.; Miss Anne Henry, of Brandon,
Miss..: Miss Zella Armstrong and
Miss Eva D. Bachman, of Chatta
nooga, maids to the sponsors for the
South. Mrs. Z C. Patten, Jr., and
Mrs. Anne Bachman Hyde, of Chatta
nooga. matrons for Tennessee; Miss
Bueile .Colis Anderson. Huntsville.
Ala., maid to Pacific division; Miss
Helen Wat Kins, of Chattanooga, spon
sor for Tennessee Sons of Veteran j
Mi •s Mary ('ox. of Bristol, Tenn..
sponsor for Tenn* . see Veterans, with
her attendants. Miss Margaret An
derson, of Chattanooga; Miss Aleen
Stacey, of Pulaski; Miss Alberta Wil
son, Miss Marjorie Trevithen and
Mrs. Hud‘on, of Paris. Tenn.
Atlanta Girl Sponsor.
Also Miss Marguerite Holland, of
New Orleans, sponsor for the Army
of Tennessee, with Miss Elizabeth
Atlee. of Atlanta, Miss Dorelle Barnes,
of Opelika, and Mrs. W. N. Dayton,
of Chattanooga, chaperon; Miss Wil
lie Gertrude Storey, of Dallas, spon
sor for th^ Trans-Mississippi Depart
ment; Miss Kathleen Barkman, of
Little Rock, sponsor for Trans-Mis
sissippi Sons of Veterans, with their
attendants. Miss Hattie Trimble, Miss
Georgia Nift, Mrs. George B. Gill and
Mis. J. M. Boftin; Miss Sarah Ham-
mitt, sponsor for the South Carolina
Veterans, with Miss Sarah Ellerbe,
Miss Norma Cato and Mrs. L. F. Bon
ner; Miss Rambo, of Marietta sponsor
for Georgia Veterans; Miss Helen
Rutherford, of Olklahoma, sponsor for
Oklahoma Veterans, attended by Miss
Harrell, Miss Josephine Wooten, spon
sor fo/ Texas division, attended by
Miss Blaine and Mies Bevy; Miss
Winnie Davis Major, sponsor for Ken
tucky’s* Veterans. with MBs Harriett
Pierce Murrell and Mrs. John I
Woodbury, of Ix>uisville.
Misw Daffan is one of the most
prominent young women of the Slat
of Texas. She is a former State 4 pres
ident of the Daughters of the Confed
eracy, and was the first superinten
dent of the Confederate Women’s
Home at Austin. Miss Daffan is also
well known in the field of literature*,
having been the author of several
books that are very popular in the
South.
Daughter of General Henry.
Miss Anne Henry. MB's Daffan’s
chief aid, is a daughter of General
Patrick Henry, commander of th**
Mississippi Division of the U. C. V .
and is a granddaughter of General
Patrick Henl*y, of ante-bellum days,
anfl a grand-nice of Gustavus A.
Henry who represented Tennessee
in the Confederate States Senate.
Chattanooga will be adorned in one
blaze of glory for the gr* at reunion
Brilliant lights have been installed for
the occasion, making the business
thoroughfares aright, r than day. They
were turned on for the first time
May 1C.
The gorgeous lights make a white
way in name and In fact. I’he busi
ness thoroughfares of the city are so
brilliantly lighted that even in th?
center of the -treets one is able to
read ordinary newspaper print at
night. Friends can be recognized as
far away, as is possible in daylight.
Thousands of patriotic Chattanoogan.s
turned out to witness the first ex
hibition of these lights. They were
amazed at the change wrought in the
appearance of the business thorough
fare? at night. Chattanooga will be
the best lighted city that ever en
tertained the Confederate Veterans
during a reunion
The expense of this enterprise is
borne by the merchants of Chatta
nooga, and its installation cost $26,-
000. Handsome ornamental Iron posts
sustain a cluster of .arge white globes
at frequent interval? along the side
walks in the business sections.
11,000 Globes in All.
There are 11,000 of these globes
and 220,000 watts are necessary to
light them. In addition to these
large globes, streamers of electric
lights have been run along the prin
cipal streets- in front of the business
houses. It is doubtful If there is a
better lighted city in the country
than Chattanooga will be during the
reunion.
The expense of these lights was
prorated on the front foot basis.
While the reunion will be the first
large gathering to see these lights,
they are to be permanently sustained,
and Chattanooga will have reason to
be known a? the “Electric City."
And the city will be a brilliant scene
as well by day, with Confederate flag?,
bunting, pictures on canvas of the
famous Confederate generals. and
other appropriate materials flaunting
in every breeze.
Because of an adjustment of rail
road rates from we>*t of the Mis
sissippi River, a larger crowd will be
present at the Chattanooga reunion,
probably, than at any previous as
sembly. All Veterans and friends in
the southeastern territory may be
sure of seeing thousands of the Tex
ans and others from the Trans-MIs-
sfssippi Department during the re
union. The Western lines having suc
cumbed to the storm of protest, I he
rate Is just the same for the Western
Veterans and other reunion visitors
as for those who are coming from
the Southeastern States—one cent a
mile each way.
Ticket? May Ba Extended.
Reunion rickety may be extended
for thirty days by depositing them
with a special ae**nt here. This will
allow only a lengthy visit n Chatta
nooga, that is ne( *ss ?ry to thoroughly
enjoy ail the sigi.i« but will permit
nice side trips to points in adjacent
Slates at exceedingly low rates. ThB*
should prove a great inducement es
pecially to persons whose former
homes are In the Southeast, or who
have relatives In this section, or who
wish to visit a particular city before
returning to the Wdfcf. The same is
true to a large degree of people who
come from comparatively near and
wish to take more of n trip than to
Chattanooga.
Events* connected with the great re
union, Chattanooga's scenic and his
toric points, the big street carnival
that will he in progress all week,
Southern League baseball. airship
flights daily from the Veterans'
camp, four fine parades, steamboat
excursions on the beautiful Tennes
see River—all these and more com
bined with the lowest railroad fore
ever granted for any kind of an oc
casion, make an unparalleled oppor
tunity to visit Chattanooga.
Chattanooga is uniquely the city
fitted for such a reunion. It is a mac-
ter of history that the first steps
toward organizing the Soutnern sur
vivors of the Civil War-were taken
In Chattanooga. The New Orleans
meeting, at which the organization
was effected, by the election of Gen.
John B. Gordon commander-in-chief,
resulted, in large measure, from agi
tation started her * by Capt. J. F
Shipp, and others, for an association
of Confederates.
First Reunion Here. •
The New Orleans meeting elected
General John B. Gordon to head, the
organization and he called the first
reunion of the association for Chat
tanooga July 3. 4 and 5. 1890. Under
all of the circumstances the people
of Chattanooga feel that it is their
duty to exert every effort to make
the coming reunion a brilliant suc-
(ess. It B certainly their pleasure to
do so.
The Chattanooga of to-day was
built vince 1890. It is now a city of
100,000 with the be9t of hotel accom
modations and first-class transporta
tion facilities. It has 26 hotels, one;
of them a modern. 12-story building
costing a million dollars. The board
ing house aceommo*dations are all
that are to be found in a modern city
of 100.000 population. The hotels,
boarding houses and private families
will furni 'h entertainment for 150,000
visitors. The restaurant service is
first class and adequate to any de
mand.
History will be made during the
(’huttanooga Reunion in more ways
than one. Literal history will be rec
orded as the result of the service of
stenographers that the city will sup
ply to Veterans, to take down in
shorthand any statement they may
desire to make concerning the bat
tlefields of the community.
Mr. E. M. Buchanan, a court re
porter at the Chattanooga bar. was
first to tender his services for this
purpose. He. and other stenograph
ers, will take down any statement or
interview that a Veteran may desire
to give to the public, reduce it to
typewritten pages, and make no
charge for their time and work.
Many Reminiscences.
There are a great many Veteran®,
beyond question, who have in their
minds many memories of the battlek
around Chattanooga that would make
good reading and add much to his
tory. if they were brought out and
reduced to writing. Reminiscences
of a great battlefield are always in
terest besides they are valua
ble in throwing light on some disput
ed point that may have never been
cleared up heretofore.
Capt. I F. Shipp, Quartermaster of
the United Confederate Veterans' As
sociation Is the father of this Idea.
He says that at all reunions, many
Veterans with stories to tell never
tell them because the opportunities
for writing are missing, and from the
additional reason that many of the
Veterans are too feeble to w'rlte a
long story. They could give It $o a
stenographer, however, If one was
available free of cost. By the use
of stenographers, ('apt. Shipp believes
that a valuable fund of information
will he secured during the Chattanoo
ga reunion. Acting upon Uapt.
Shipp's suggestion stenographers will
be a part of the reunion service.
The religious side of the Confed
erate reunion, May 27-29, will not be
neglected by Chattanooga. It was
announced a day or two ago that all
the pastors will throw open their
churches every day to the Veterans
and visitors. Prayer will be held in
practically every church In Chatta
nooga dally, brief addresses on relig
ious topics will be delivered, and reg
ular choir music provided. Some re
ligious program will be announced for
each day and night.
Veterans From Brazil.
Another unique feature of the
Chattanooga Reunion probably will
be the presence of former Confeder
ates who have made their home In
Brazil, accepting voluntary exile af
ter the war between the States rather
than return to Dominion of the Amer
ican Government. When the local
Daughters of the Confederacy issued
an invitation to the ex-Confederates
of Brazil to attend a reception here
during the reunion, it was the first
time that an invitation had been ad
dressed to those exiles in South
America to attend a social function at
a Confederate Reunion.
At the close of the war quite a
number of Southerners refused to
take the oath of allegiance and begin
life anew under conditions that they
did not like. Brazil appealed to
them, and they went from nearly
every Southern State and planted a
colony in that country. They have
a neat, prosperous village, known as
Villa Americana, situated something
more than 100 miles west of the city
of Sao Paulo. Some members of the
colony grew tired of the Brazilian
life and returned home, but there are
some 600 members of the colony now,
or within a radius of a few miles.
A special feature, too. will be the
unveiling of the Alabama Monument
Tuesday, the secqpd day of the Re
union. Sixteen women of the South
all of them the wives or daughters
of Confederate heroes, will unveil the
monument. The sixteen women rep
resent the, aristocracy of the South,
and are to be nresent at the dedica
tion of the shaft as guests of the
Alabama Monument Commission.
f They are:
Women to Take Part.
Mrs. John B. Gordon, wife of the
First Commander-In-Chief of the Un
ited Confederate Veterans, John B.
Gordon, who enlisted as a Colonel of
Alabama troops. Mrs. Gordon her
self, is a Veteran, having marched
and suffered with the army in North
ern Virginia.
Mrs. M. B. Winfield, wife of an
aid of Gen. Price, C. S. A., daugh
ter of one of the twenty St. Louis
sufferers from Gen. Lyons’ (IT. S. A.)
infamous order No. 11. A grand
niece of Gen. Winfield Scott, U. S.
A.
Mrs. Gordon and Mrs. Winfield rep
resent the States of Georgia and Ten
nessee, whose historic soil at Chick
amauga was drenched with the life
blood of Alabama’s flower of chivalry.
Mrs. VV. J. Behan, wife of Lieut.
Behan, of the famous Bouisiana-
Washington artillery. Mrs. Behan Is
President of the Confederated South
ern Memorial Association. The South
ern Memorial Associations antedate
the United (Confederate Veterans and
Daughters of the (Tonfederacy.
Mrs. Emmet Seibels, wife of a
splendid Confederate soldier. who
served as Conole of a South Caro
lina regiment. Sister of Richard
Goldthwaite, of Semples' Battery, who
led that battery in its splendid work
September 19, 20. 1863. at Chicka
mauga. making for Alabama the rec
ord of leading the most famous bat
tery charge in all history. Mrs. Seibels
is the honored Pnsldent of the Lad
ies' Memorial Association, of Mont
gomery, Ala., under whose auspices
i he first monument to the Confeder
ate soldiers and sailors was dedicat
ed, President Davis laying its corner
stone, 1886. As President of the
Ladies' 'Memorial Association, she ap
pointed (’hickamauga Monument
Committee.
Wife of Alabama Chief.
Mrs. Harvey E. Jones. wife of .the
Commander of the Alabama Division.
United Confederate Veterans, who, as
acting Adjutant General, Grade’s Bri
gade, was promoted for bravery upon
Chickamauga battlefield. Mrs. Jon- s
is the daughter of Alabama’s sainted
warrior-minister, Bisnop Wilmer.
Mrs. W. W. Screws, wife of a
chickamauga hero, who was aiso a
prisoner on Johnson’s Island Maj.
Screws was the Confederate orator
at the Macon Reunion. Mrs. Screws
had seven brothers in the Confeder
ate army, two were wounded at
Chickamauga and one killed.
Mrs. E. M. Trimble, one of the
most faithful U. D. C.’s of Alabama,
who gives freely of her time, talent
and money. She is the wife of one
of the famous "University Cadets"
who was a cousin of William King,
of Alabama, Vice President of the
United States under Pierce. Histo
rian of first White House Associa
tion. Her two brothers, Robert and
Kenon Grigg, were Chickamauga he
roes at the ages of 17 and 18 Mrs.
Trimble belongs to the Burwell fam
ily of Virginia.
Mrs. Mary Phelan Watt, the daugh
ter of Judge Phelan, of the Supreme
Court of Alabama, and President of
the Alabama ratification meeting
Mrs. Watt’s mother was one of the
founders of the Ladies’ Memorial As
sociation. of Montgomery, the first
organized band of women in C. S A.
memorial service. Mrs. Watt's five
brothers were gallant Confederate
soldiers, three of whom were killed
in the Virginia campaigns.
Wife of Georgia Soldier.
Mrs A. M. Allen, wife of a gallant
Georgia soldier. Col. Allen; eldest
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Carnot Bel
linger, who established the first hos
pital in Alabama, which became the
first “Soldiers’ home” in the world,
the name being given It by a Missis
sippi lad in 1862. who wrote to his
mother. "I am not in a hospital, moth
er. but a soldiers’ home."
Miss Betitia Tyler, granddaughter
of President Tyler. Miss Tyler raised
at the request of President Davis,
the first flag of the Confederacy (the
Nicolas Marshall design) over the
capitol of the Confederacy, March 4,
1861.
Miss Theus Raoul, who fired the
first gun announcing the passing of
Alabama’s ordinance of secession,
January 11, 1861, and the granddaugh
ter of the great tragedian, Thomas
Cooper.
Mrs. George Marks, daughter of
Mrs. Napoleon Lockett, at whose sug
gestion Nicolas Marshall, of Marion.
Ala., designed the first flag of the
Confederacy, “The Stars and Bars,’’
and the Confederate uniform.
Mrs. Kate Watts Collins the daugh
ter of Thomas H. Watts, Alabama’s
war Governor, who served as a mem
ber of President Davis’ cabinet.
Mrs. J. C. Lee. wife of a faithful
Confederate physician, and niece of
Col. Tennant Lomax. She Is hon
orary life President of the Ladies’
Memorial Association at Montgom
ery, Ala., and a Vice President of the
Confederated Southern Memorial As
sociation. In her honor, a Junior
Memorial Association at Montgom
ery, has been named.
Mrs. John M. Wyly. wife of Maj.
Wyly, who was a gallant officer in
the Western army during the war>
Her two brothers. Brig. William For
ney and Major General John H. For
ney, were splendid Alabama war lead
ers. Major General Forney at the
time of Alabama’s withdrawal, was
instructor of mathematics at West
Point.
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