Compliments of
McALESTER, OKLA. Major-General Oklahoma Division United Confederate Veterans mi-1916
HON. WM. D. MATTHEWS OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA Commissioner of Charities and Correct! Chairman Pension Commission
Confederate Veteran Association
OF THE State of Oklahoma
ISSUED BY MAJOR GENERAL DANIEL M. HAILEY Commanding the Oklahoma D; vision
McAlester, Oklahoma 1916
DEDICATION.
To My Old Comrades and Their Families I dedicate this little book, and as stated in my other books, I hope to be able to bring cheer and happiness to those whose past lives have been so intimately connected with that for which we fought many, many years ago. I sincerely hope that if there are any old Comrades or members of the families of any old Comrades in this State who seem to think they have been neglected in the past that this book may be the means of bringing into good fellowship with the remainder of us. We will not be with you much longer. Let us enjoy the rest of this life as we have never enjoyed it before. Let us get together once more in the spirit before we take our long journey to that undiscovered country "from whose bourne no traveler returns." Your Friend and Comrade, D. M. HAILEY, Commanding Oklahoma Division U. C. V.
XZb4 Geo. Paul Harrison of Opelika, Lee County, Ala to the Alabama Constitutional Conventions of 1875 and bama, was born March 19th, 1841, on the "Monteith" also of 1901: and in the latter body was chairman of plantation, Chatham County, Georgia, and is the son of the committee on corporations, and a member of the com General Geo. Paul Harrison, a native of Chatham Coun mittee on suffrage, and elections and on taxation; was a ty, who lived at Savannah, Ga., and wife, Thursa Ade State Senator from 1876 to 1884; and president of the laide, daughter of Dr. Ewin of Beaufort, S. C. He be Senate in the last two years of that service; and in longs to the distinguished Harrison family of Virginia. 19 00 he was re-elected to the Senate. He was elected His father was many years a member of the Georgia a Representative in Congress from the Third District in legislature; commanded a brigade of Georgia state the 53d and 54th Congress. troops during the Confederate War, and immediately af ter the war was a member of the Georgia constitutional He was elected and served as President of the Ala convention. Mr. Harrison attended Montieth and Effing bama State Bar Association in 190 5 and 19 06. He is a ham academies in Georgia; entered the Georgia Military Mason, is now chairman of the committee on Masonic Institute at Marietta in 1857, was graduated in 1861, Jurisprudence of the Grand Lodge of Alabama. He was with first honors, and the degrees of A. B. and C. E. twelve times elected Major-General of the Alabama and was senior captain of cadets at that institution. In Division, United Confederate Veterans. At the reunion 1861 he entered the Confederate service as a second in Macon, Ga., in 1912, was elected Lieutenant-General lieutenant in the First Georgia Regular Infantry; rose to of the Army of Tennessee Department U. C. V. Gen the rank of first lieutenant, captain, major and colonel eral Harrison is a Democrat and has been a delegate to of the line, and closed his career on the field with the county, State, and national conventions. He was a rank of Brigadier-General in command of Harrison's worker for the rescue of the state from militarism, brigade. Walthall's division, Stewart's Corps at Greens 1867-1874. boro N. C. on the 26th day of April, 1865. Soon after He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the war General Harrison entered upon the practice of South. On November 20th, 1901, he was married at the law, and has practiced for years in the counties of La Grange, Georgia, to Sara Katharine, daughter of Lee, Chambers, Tallapoosa, Coosa, Clay, Talladoga, Gustavus Alonzo Nunnally and wife Mary Briscoe, of that Macon, Russell, Montgomery, Lowndes and Dallas. He place. is now and has been for many years the general counsel He has two children living, one, Miss Mary Addie of the Western Railway of Alabama. He was a delegate Harrison, and the other, George Paul Harrison, the third. Proceedings State Reunion United Confederate Veterans At Ada, Sept. 1,2,'3, 1915 The Convention was called to order at 1:30 P. M. bless you with Heaven's richest rewards. I bid you a by Gen. D. M. Hailey, in the Auditorium of the Normal fond and affectionate farewell.' School. "The bravest act of the Southern War was the pen Invocation by Rev. Roddie. ning of Order No. 9. He did it only after General Following the invocation, the Young Ladies' Band, Gordon said, 'My troops are fought to a frazzle. I can't composed of stringed instruments, rendered several go to General Grant with that admission.' beautiful and patriotic airs. The Daughters of the Con "The true history of the war between the states federacy, who were in convention, came in a body into has never been written. When it is, it will be a story of the Auditorium; at their appearance, the band struck up the greatest contest of all time; when a southern soldier "Dixie," and for several minutes there was wild applause. was picked off, there was no other to take his place. General Hailey introduced Mayor Ratliff of Ada. General Grant well knew that he could trade out man who made the welcome address to the Veterans and tor man and win in the end. Thus it was with this view, Daughters. His address in part was as follows: he began his march aga'.nst Richmond. It cost the "Fifty years ago, on the 10th day of April, 1915, country more than a billion dollars, and more men were General Robert E. Lee, that matchless general com killed than Lee had altogether. manding the army of Northern Virginia, issued his "General Sherman lost more men in his march to famous order number 9. 1 do not feel that it is neces the sea than Gen. Joseph E. Johnston had in his whole sary to tell you what Order No. 9 was:—'After four army. years' service the Army of Northern Virginia has been "The Confederate soldier in recreating is a born compelled to surrender, not through any distrust to you, leader. He has served the reunited country in every but valor and bravery could do nothing more. You will honorable position. take home with you the satisfaction of duty well done. "Another matter to be mentioned at this t'.me is May God show you His favors with a lavish hand, and the Confederate mother. I can't mention the soldier GENERAL W. E. MICKLE, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff U. C. V. witnout a tender thought of the mother. It has been adulterated and exaggerated versions that appear in the said of her, 'She worked in the field to support the fam greater number of our northern histories. It is not only ily—she spun at night to make clothes, and in the final the pleasure, but the business of this organization to estimate she laid upon the sacrificial altar of the South see that our children get the truth concerning this tre ern Cause her son, her sire, and her husband. mendous conflict and know why we sacrificed our com "The flag of our nation now floats over an undivided rades and our fortunes for this sacred cause. nation. Southern men are today filling positions of "Comrades, I love this organization. I love its honor throughout the country. The Chief Justice of the members with a love that can't be described. We love United States Supreme Court is a Southern man. The our children, we love our wives, but, Comrades, there President is a Southern man. The Speaker of the House is a love, an affection between men who, shoulder to of Representatives is a Southern man. Cabinet officers, shoulder, went on the battle field and faced those show and others high in the affairs of our great commonwealth ers of shot and shell, that baffles the tongue of man. claim the South as their home. This, Comrades, is the sentiment I hold in my heart to "I had the honor, two years ago, of standing here day. This sentiment that I can not express in words, but and welcoming you to our city. But many who were I know that you feel it. before me then have since passed over the River, and "Patriotism, thou art a jewel, but no history will are resting peacefully under the leafy branches, commun ever tell what southern patriotism was when it answered ing with those immortals who had gone before. One in the call to colors. No braver soldier ever faced a foe particular has passed away who will be greatly missed than the gallant Johnny Reb. at all our meetings. I have reference to Gen. John "When you have slept under the same blanket in Threadgill. He was a soldier and a man, than which no wet, in frosts, and all kinds of weather, there is a greater tribute can be paid. friendship kindled and cemented that admits of no tell "And now, Veterans and Daughters of the Confed ing. We are here to show that that sentiment which eracy, I extend to you a most cordial welcome to our we regard so highly is still alive and it is at these meet city. In the name of the city and our citizenship I ings we demonstrate it and enervate it and perpetuate it. hand to you the keys that open wide the portals of our "Mr. Mayor, I want to say to you, that in your ad love and hospitality." dress you have complimented and done credit to us, Gen. T. D. Turner, of Oklahoma City, responded to and to our organization. We know what it is to come the address of welcome. He said in part: to Ada. We have been here before. We know and "Veterans, Sons, Daughters, ladies and gentlemen: admire her Southern hospitality. We love the people It must not he expected of me that 1 adequately respond of Ada because they love us, they show it in every pos to the splendid welcome of Comrade Ratliff. I am not a sible way. We will endeavor to impress you with our speechmaker, but a business man, and while it is difficult appreciation and the assurance that we will remember ?or me to express our appreciation, the sentiment is your kindness. strong in my heart. When we come together here to dis "The Mayor in his address spoke of the Mothers of cuss the history of those great battles of the Civil War, the Southern Confederacy, and of the wives, God bless we do so for the purpose that the correct history of them, had it not been for them the Confederacy would those events shall descend to posterity, instead of the not have lasted two years. They did work in the fields GOVERNOR R. L. WILLIAMS, Governor State of Oklahoma. by day and by night, they spun clothes for the soldiers at Music bv the band, followed by the famous "Rebel the front, also at night they would sneak through the Yell." Federal lines to deliver the clothes to us, and we certain Adjutant General R. B. Coleman makes annual re ly needed them. My stepmother and sister did that, and port. every father, son, and husband had the same experience. "Ada is a sweet name to me, it was my sweet Headquarters, Oklahoma Division United Confederate heart's name. She spurred me on to courage and pat Veterans. riotism. Such as these were the backbone of the Con federacy. Adjutant General's Office "Again, Mr. Mayor, and citizens of the city of Ada, North McAlester, July 1st, 1916. in behalf of the Veterans I thank you for your splendid reception and your cordial hospitality. 1 thank you." Major General D. M. Hailey, Commanding the Oklahoma Division U. C. V. COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS. General: Following the address of General Turner General I have the honor to herewith transmit to you my Hailey appointed the committees of Credentials and annual report as the Adjutant General of the Division Resolutions. since my last annual report July the first last. Captain F. J. Barrett, chairman; General W. P. Since my last report the Division has been in fine Francis, Captain J. H. Reed, General John W. Jordan, shape, and all of its members have been getting along Colonel J. K. La Rue, General J. W. Blanton, T. L. better than one could expect reckoning the extreme age Kendall. of its members having very few deaths occurred, so far as have been reported to this office by the different COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. camps, the membership of the camps remaining about General T. D. Turner, chairman; Gen. R. B. Cole the same as of my last report. man, Col. R. A. Sneed, Gen. Wm. Taylor, Maj. J. R. There has been one new camp_ chartered since my Acuff. last report, which is Charley Geers Camp No. 1809, at General Hailey introduced Mrs. Arthur Wolcott, Mannsville, Oklahoma, with Captain J. H. Ritchey, Com President of the Oklahoma Division of the Daughters of mander, and C. W. Geers, Adjutant, this camp has its the Confederacy. charter and is preparing to join with the Division at Mrs. Wolcott: "It is the custom to have each Chap the Reunion at Durant August the 9th, 10th and 11th, ter present a flag to the President, and she in turn 1916, with a full quota of delegates and representatives. presents them to the President of the local chapter." The last Annual Reunion in 1915, was held at Ada, This was done, and evoked tremendous applause from the model city for Reunions, a notice of which you will the audience. find in another special report filed with the Office of the The Girls' String Band added to the enthusiasm by Adjutant General, which covers the whole detail of the rendering "Dixie." meeting. General Hailey delivered his annual address as The General Reunion which was held in Birming Commander of the Oklahoma Division of U. C. V. ham, Alabama, on the 16th, 17th and 18th days of May, —11- D. M. HAILEY, Commander Oklahoma Division U. C. V. was largely attended by members of the Division, to with hand you my annual Mortuary Report for the year gether with a grand bevy of Lady Sponsors and Maids 1915 and 1916, to the first day of July, 1916. of Honor, who were not behind any other Division in Jeff-Lee No. 68, of said Division has a total mem Sponsors and Maids of Honor in grace and beauty and bership in good standing thirty-one Veterans and four created most widespread acclamation of applause during Sons of Veterans and five Daughters of the Confederacy the grand parade. and has held its Annual Celebrations of General Robert The train that carried the General Commanding and E. Lee's birthday, the 19th day of January, 1916, also his personal staff, from Oklahoma, carried into Birm the Annual Celebration of President Jefferson Davis's ingham, 256 Confederates, and many beautiful Sponsors birthday on June the 3rd, 1916. At each meeting there and Maids of Honor, together with other visitors. was a beautiful program carried out, and at the June There was registered from Oklahoma, at Birming meeting, there was a splendid basket dinner served at ham, 73 Confederate, and 29 visitors, though there were Jeff-Lee camp grounds at McAlester. many visitors who never registered at headquarters. The members of the camp have as a rule enjoyed The whole Reunion was a success, and especially splendid health during the year, only one member having the election of the Commander-in-Chief for the ensuing died during the year, which was Sargeant Charles H. year, General George B. Harrison of Opelika, Alabama, Reed of Company G 3 2nd Mississippi Infantry, Mark said to be the youngest Brigadier General in the Confed Lowrey's old Regiment, and Lowrey's Brigade. erate Army. Comrade Reed's war record shows that he enlisted The weather was ideal, the attendance large, the March the 19th, 1862, and was surrendered and paroled balls were brillant functions, and Alabama made good at Greensboro, North Carolina, on May the 1st, 1865, her claim for the prettiest girls in the world except the having served more than three years for his country. girls from Oklahoma. The members of Jeff-Lee camp No. 6 8, are all now All of which is respectfully submitted, in good health and spirits and enthusiastic in regard to R. B. COLEMAN, the coming Annual State Reunion to be held at Durant Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Oklahoma Division in August, on the 9th, 10th and 11th, 1916. United Confederate Veterans. The camp has adopted a resolution soliciting and admitting to membership in the camp all members of the Headquarters Jeff-Lee Camp No. 08 United Confederate Sons of Veterans and all members of the Daughters of the Confederacy, as full members so far as can be done Veterans. in accordance with the Constitution and By-Laws of the McAlester, Oklahoma, July the 3rd, 1910. United Confederate Veterans. Major General D. M. Hailey, All of which is respectfully submitted. Commanding Oklahoma Division U. C. V. R. B. COLEMAN, General: Adjutant of Jeff-Lee Camp No. 6 8, United Confederate Under a former General Order issued by you as Veterans. Commander of the above Division, relative to reports of Adjutants of the different camps in said Division I here -13— GENERAL R. 15. COLEMAN, Adjutant General and CMef of Staff, Oklahoma Division. "My Old Kentucky Home,'' by Girls' String Band. "We welcome you, Old Veterans." General Hailey introduced Hon. C. C. Williams, who Music by the Band. delivers address of welcome as representative of the Gen. Merritt A. Glass, Commander of Oklahoma Sons of Veterans. Mr. Williams' address in part: Division of Sons of Veterans, was introduced and re sponded in behalf of Sons of Veterans. "It gives me great pleasure today to give welcome General Glass said: "It was quite a surprise to me to you Veterans. It is a pleasure because I am the son when I got in at noon today and was seated at the dinner of a Veteran and because I love the South. And I love table, just lifting my fruit knife full of beans to my the Southern Cause because my father espoused it and mouth, when Colonel Sheed informed me that I was to under these circumstances I would love it right or make a speech. It almost ruined my whole meal. Not wrong. that it would not be a pleasure to address you, but in "I doubt if the world will ever see greater civiliza the presence of so august an assembly of ladies and tion than the South knew fifty years ago, with her slaves, gentlemen, I should have had time to prepare something her prosperity and the dazzling beauty of her woman that would at least be connected and consecutive. 1 have hood, but during the war she lost all, all except her a world of sentiment in my heart, and lots of things I womanhood, which mainly furnished the inspiration to would like to say, but the shock and surprise prevent the returning heroes to take up their burdens and make the words that would express them. a fresh start. "Tulsa tried last year to entertain the Veterans, and "But her achievements of the past quarter of a cen we did our best, and we really thought we did well, but tury have brought her back to her own. She has re here the people just naturally make you fall in with gained her peace, her property, and her position in the them—you start in as a mere spectator, but their en world of finance and business, as well as in the halls of thusiasm and hospitality are so great that in a little while our government. you find yourself marching in the procession with them, "It is needless for me to say the South is now awake shoulder to shoulder. Their good nature and kindly to her opportunities and possibilities—she sees her fac feeling not only radiates, but is infectious and before you tories astir and her mines developed. Men from the have been in town a half hour you find yourself thor North planting their money in her resources. The open oughly inoculated. ing of the Panama Canal will mean much to the South. "I am indeed glad of the opportunity to be with you. It is the opening wedge that gives the South the largest 1 never like to miss a Reunion. It is an inspiration to gateways of the world. The opening of the Panama a young man to breath the spirit of these old veterans. Canal will bring to the people of the South added oppor It keeps the fires of patriotism burning and reminds us tunities, added riches, and a place in the commerce of of the glorious spirit of the Old South. When we come the world that will be second to none, as the Anglo- here, we see the Old South and tue New South, and we Saxon son looks out on the prosperity of the South he see the men who made both, and what is of vast impor feels the pride of his ancestors in the grand realization tance to us and posterity, we get a good and true history of a great property regeneration from blackened ruins be of that vast conflict. cause of the noble blood that flowed in the veins of these "In regard to my work as Commander of the Sons noble veterans. of Veterans of Oklahoma during the past year, I desire —15— ^Itittl OKLAHOMA STATE LIBRARY GENERAL T. I). TURNER, Commander First Brigad?, Oklahoma Division. to say that I don't feel that I have done my full duty. will be absolutely impossible. Say to the Old Soldiers I have tried to communicate with all the camps, and for me, that nothing but an imperative public duty have endeavored to waken some enthusiasm, but I find could prevent my attendance. that enthusiasm runs rather low except at Reunion "S. P. FREELING." times, or when there is an event of importance in Con "Wagoner, Oklahoma, Sept. 1st, 1915. federate circles. I expect to redouble my efforts during "Gen. D. M. Hailey:—Greetings to the Veterans. the ensuing year, and hope to nave a larger delegation Sorry I cannot be with you. THEO. F. BREWER." of Sons at the next Annual State Reunion. Mrs. Purdy of Tulsa was then introduced by General "There are only a few of us here in Ada at this Hailey, and responded on behalf of the visiting Daugh time, but we are determined to do a little missionary ters to the address of welcome. She said: work from now on. We want to meet with you Vets "Veterans, Sons, and Daughters of the Confederacy. often and find out more of what happened back yonder This honor of addressing you has come at the last mo in the fifties. We are proud of your achievements. My ment, so I feel that an apology is necessary. We cer father was only a private in the ranks, but 1 would tainly appreciate the warm welcome you have extended rather have him that in the Southern Army than Com us. We feel we are not among strangers, but with mander-in-Chief of the Yankees. I don't think any friends. We have been here before, three years ago, and Yankee could have climbed the ramparts at Gettysburg know now that you ask us because you love us. like he did. "I hope sincerely that this will not be the last "Renewing assurances in behalf of the Sons of Vet time we will have the pleasure of meeting with you." erans and appreciation of your hospitality, 1 thank Mrs. Purdy's remarks were loudly applauded. you." Mrs. Ed. Granger, of Ada, rendered a reading that General Hailey introduced Mrs. S. P. Ross of Ada, was greatly enjoyed by the audience. who delivered the address of welcome on behalf of the "Tenting Tonight" by the Girls' String Band was Daughters of the Confederacy. She said in part: rewarded by prolonged applause. "On behalf of Ada and our Chapter, we want to wel Adjutant General Coleman read the following come you to our city. There is nothing in the bounds of notice: "Meals will be served in the basement of this reason we would not do for you. We feel that you are building as follows: Breakfast, seven to eight o'clock. homefolks—been away and returned—that is how we Dinner, twelve to one-thirty o'clock, and supper six to feel toward you. 'Ask, and you shall receive, knock, and seven-thirty. All Confederate Veterans, their wives, and it shall be opened unto you.' Just consider that you are the widows of Confederates, only, will be admitted to the with the 'Old Folks at Home.' " Dinner Room. The Girls' String Band rendered, "The Old Folks Next on the program was a recitation by Miss Ada at Home," and was generously applauded. Matt Miller of Hugo. She said: "I was to read, but I would rather talk—'A Little Nonsense Now and Then is The following telegrams were received: Relished by the Best of Men.' " The recitation was de "Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, August 30th, 1915. cidedly humorous, and handled in her inimitable man "Gen. D. M. Hailey:—Have tried hard to arrange to ner, brought down the house. Miss Miller was com be present at Ada Wednesday, but deeply regret that it pelled to respond to an encore. -17— GENERAL T. D. HOGG. Commander Second Brigade, Oklahoma Division. The Credentials Committee made a partial report. REPORT CHOCTAW BRIGADE, "Your Committee on Credentials begs to submit the following report: Headquarters Choctaw Brigade, North McAlester, Okla. Delegates Holding Credentials. To Major-General D. M. Hailey, Vinita Camp, No. 800, F. J. Barrett, R. T. Younger. I beg leave to submit the following report: Sallisaw Camp, No. 1800, W. A. Irving, J. R. Acuff. Jeff-Lee Camp, McAlester, No. 6 8, W. A. Treadwell, Jeff-Lee Camp, No. 68, North McAlester 40 members M. G. McDonald. N. B. Forrest Camp, No. 1116, Durant (no report) W. L. Byrd Camp, No. 1545, J. C. Gates, G. W. Douglas H. Cooper Camp, No. 1431, Caddo (no report) Classier. Stande Waitie Camp, No. 1447, Wilburton (no report) David Hammond Camp, No. 177 5, Thos. L. Bard, J. M. Harris, P. L. Burns. Jesse Martin Camp, Poteau (no report) N. B. Forrest Camp, John F. Moreland. Crowder Camp, No. 1668, Crowder —(no report) John W. Morgan Camp, No. 107, W. T. Simmons, M. M. Parsons Camp, No. 1698, Altus (no report) W. R. Wood. Stigler Camp, No. 1701, Stigler (no report) Camp Cable, No. 976, D. R. Sparks, P. J. Ross. Stande Waities Camp, No. 1707, Hugo (no report) Fitzhugh Lee Camp, No. 1705, R. W. Trottie, Thos. F. Bard, T. L, Kendall. Ben McCullough Camp, No. 1748, Idabel (no report) Stand Waite Camp, No. 1717, T. F. Bard, W. D. Judge Julius Folsom Camp, No. 1774, Atoka_(no report) Watson. Altus Camp, No. 1417, Thos. F. Bard, J. M. Mat Respectfully submitted, thews. James H. Reed, J. J. McAlester, Report respectfully submitted, Adj.-Gen. Choctaw Brigade. Brigade Commander. F. J. Barrett, Chairman. Music by Girls' String Band. T. F. Bard, Before adjournment was taken, "A Fine Old Gentle W. A. Treadwell, man from Arkansaw" and his boy were introduced—a J. K. La Rue, fiddle with guitar accompaniment made some real music, J. H. Reed, which stimulated greatly the tired and worn veterans. T. L. Kendall, "The Arkansaw Traveler,'' "Turkey in the Straw," and Committee. "Buffalo Gals" were rendered to the intense interest of an appreciative audience. They were given prolonged Report of committee accepted. applause as they left the stage. Announcement was made by General Hailey that a Adjournment to 9 a. m. reception would be tendered the Veterans, Sons and Daughters, at the Elks' Club at eight o'clock in the evening. —19 GENERAL WM. P. FRANCIS, Commander Third Brigade, Oklahoma Division. The Convention will be called to order by Major- Special Program General D. M. Hailey at 9:30 A. M. Invocation—W. L. Roddie. Reception of Daughters of Confederacy (Veterans Program of Convention of United Confederate Vet all standing.) erans of Oklahoma, Ada, Oklahoma, September 1, 2, 3, Music—Band. 1915. Report of Committee on Credentials. FIRST DAY, Address—Dr. J. C. Loggins of Ennis, Texas." Quartet—L. T. Walters, C. B. James, C. E. Cunning, Wednesday, September 1, 1915. F. E. Bowman. Bugle call. Reading—Miss Lena West, Ada. Convention will be called to order by Major-General Short talks by Veterans. D. M. Hailey, Commander Oklahoma Division, at 1:30 Solo—Miss Ellis of Ada. P. M. Reading—Miss Inez Fisher of Ada. Invocation—W. L. Roddie. Solo—C. E. Cunning of Ada. Music—Band. Welcome Address—Mayor E. S. Ratliff of Ada. HIGH NOON. Response—General T. D. Turner, First Brigade, Ok lahoma City. Memorial Service. Music—Band. 2 O'Clock P. Mt Appointment of committee on credentials. Bugle call. Appointment of committee on resolutions. The Convention will be called to order by General Address—General D. M. Hailey, Division Com D. M. Hailey. mander. Invocation. Report of Adjutant-General R. B. Coleman. Music—Band. Welcome Address on Behalf of Sons—C. C. Williams Report of Historical Committee. of Ada. Address—Honorable Scott Ferris of Lawton. Response—General Merritt J. Glass of Tulsa. Sponsors' ball at 8 o'clock at Elks' Hall. Address of Welcome on Behalf of Daughters—Mrs. S. P. Ross of Ada. THIRD DAY', Response—Mrs. Purdy of Tulsa. Friday, September 3, 1915. Music. Bugle call. Reading—Mrs. Ed. Granger of Ada. The Convention will be called to order by Major- Reception for Veterans, Sons and Daughters at Elks' General D. M. Hailey, at 9 o'clock A. M. Hall at 8 o'clock. Invocation. SECOND DAY, Music—Band. Thursday, September 2, 1915. Election of officers. Bugle call. Selection of place of next meeting. —21— GENERAL THOS. BARD, Commander Cherokee Brigade, Oklahoma Division. Report of Committee on Resolutions. Daughters, I am sure I speak their unanimous sentiment Music—Band. when I say the joint convention was a very happy Address on Pensions—Dr. W. D. Matthews, Com thought. I thank you." missioner of Pensions. Music by the Band. Parade—Veterans, Daughters and Sons. General Hailey announced that Dr. J. C. Loggins, Friday night -the young gentlemen are to give 3 a veteran from Ennis, failed to arrive, and his place on dance to Sponsors and Maids of Honor. the program would be filled by Professor Briles of the Normal School at Ada. Professor Briles was presented, Thursday, September 2nd, 9 A. M. and spoke as follows: "I have had only a few minutes' "Dixie" rendered by the Girls' String Band, to the notice to make a speech. When approached, I said; T accompaniment of much applause, while the veterans don't know what I would be able to say,' and I don't were filing into the hall. know yet. I have just returned from California, its Bugle call at 9:30. climate and resources. 1 returned to Oklahoma with Convention called to order by General Hailey. a much higher opinion of Oklahoma. 1 attended the Invocation by Rev. Roddie. International Educational Society, from England, France, Colonel Sneed and General Turner were named as Italy, and all other civilized countries. As they each a committee to meet and escort the Daughters to the in turn faced the audience, each regretted that Europe Convention Hall where they were to meet in joint con was in the throes of war—devastated Europe—they were vention with the Veterans. sorry. As I tried to find out what the war was about General Ha ley received and read a telegram from it struck me they were killing and slaughtering and Gen. Felix Robertson, Commander of the Texas Division knew not what it was all about. To see all this I was U. C. V.: "The Texas Division of U. C. V. sends cordial never prouder of this Southern Country than I was greetings to Oklahoma comrades and wishes them a joy then. ful meeting." Adjutant-General directed to reply. "The great Southern people fought fifty years ago, The Daughters of the Confederacy, in a body, es but they knew what they were fighting for, principle and corted by Colonel Sneed and General Turner, enter the liberty, that was what these old Confederates were fight hall. ing for. I hope the time will never come when the vet General Hailey introduces Mrs. Wolcott, President erans, sons, and daughters, will cease to meet to discuss of the Daughters. She said: "I presume 1 am ex the history that was made by you vets. What you fought pected to make a speech. However I am totally unpre for were your rights. You Confederates knew what you pared, and besides my Dad seems to be doing enough- were fighting about. May the time never come when talking for the whole family. I will say though, that we your sons and daughters will forget what you vets fought are delighted with the new arrangement that permits us for. to meet jointly with the Veterans. Their presence in "I hope this country may never become embroiled spires us to greater efforts in the interests of our order, in war—especially in this war when they don't know and some of them have been kind enough to say that what they are talking about. When there is a principle our presence was likewise an inspiration to them. The or sovereignty involved, then may the sons of these vet admiration seems to be mutual, and speaking for the erans shoulder their muskets and go to the front. -23— GENERAL J. J. McALESTER, Commander Choctaw Brigade, Oklahoma Division. "David Starr Jordan, one of the greatest of the officers of the Government. Our cause was not lost, Peace Advocates at the Educational Meet in San Fran it was simply temporarily misunderstood." cisco never failed to advocate peace. I hope you men General Thomas Bard: "We know from our view who fought so bravely and valiantly for four long years, point we did our duty. We felt we were right and to will never see another war, but it should be our noblest that end we fought to the end of our resources, for ambition and our most sacred memory to keep alive lack of which we surrendered, and not because of any the fires of that last great conflict. I thank you." admission of any wrong in our principles. Mrs. Wolcott: "Sorry we can't stay with you all Colonel A. P. Watson: "We passed through a day, but we have work of our own and must return to it. strenuous crisis in '60-65' and another, a more humiliat We thank you for your courtesies." ing one, during the reconstruction period, but we came General Hailey: "In behalf of the comrades, I de out with flying colors, and today the southern man is the sire to thank Mr. Briles for his masterly address. Even salt of the earth, socially and financially, and when though it was delivered on the spur of the moment, it they need a real good man for office, they have to come was as good as the studied effort of a less able man." south to get him. I am glad to see so many of you "Dixie" was rendered by the band, while the vet present. I am always glad to see you not only here, but erans delivered the famous "Rebel Yell." anywhere and now and then we see a Yankee that we Miss Lena West of Ada rendered Father Ryan's are glad to see. Last summer I was in Minneapolis, famous poem, "Save That Flag." It was well done, and and met a man that commanded a regiment that tried to elicited generous applause. sink the boat my regiment was on. He was Irish, and his heart was as big as he was. He took me all over the General Hailey announced that veterans present were city and introduced me to his friends. We met one man invited to make short talks. that said, 'Johnnie, I should think you would be asham General Taylor: "1 did not come here to talk, but ed of yourself.' 1 said 'We are proud of ourselves, we to listen, but 1 love to talk and cannot resist the temp put more of you fellows on the pension roll than were tation. I remember when we met, but not like this, it enlisted during the entire war.' The Irishman said, was entirely different. About fifty years ago I was a 'Good for you Johnnie, go after him.' I said 'I'll bet that Confederate soldier by choice. I thought then that we fellow never smelled powder.' Irish said, T think you were right, now I know we were. I was crippled in are right, I'll investigate.' A few days later he told me, that war and have felt the handicap ever since, but if 'That fellow never smelled powder, he was a settler.' war should come again I would be ready to enlist and try it all over once more. "I never miss a Reunion if I can help it. If there "Henry Clay said he would rather be right than is any man I love he is a Confederate soldier. They went president. I am like Henry Clay. You hear the com out and fought valiantly against great odds. Nearly al rades talk of the 'Lost Cause.' It is not so, it is not ways there were from two to ten against us, they nearly the 'Lost Cause.' Every day we see our principles jus always had enough to front and flank us on both sides. tified and every day we see the country adopting the The wonder to me is how we managed to get out at all. things we fought for, we even have the satisfaction of <"I hope to see all of you again next year." seeing them come to us for President and other high The Ada Quartette rendered an entertaining num.- —25— GENERAL T. F. BREWER, Commander Seminole and Creek Brigade, Oklahoma Division. her that was so well received that they were encored would rather have a company of you vets than a com several times. pany of the young ones. I know that you know how Comrade John McGinnis: "So long as the standard to fight. 0f womanhood is maintained as it is in the South, just "When you go back to your homes take with you so long will the flag of a nation fly over a free and renewed energy. Worship God and our reverend cause liberty-loving people. The war in the Old Country is a at the same time. Take good news and good resolutions catastrophe. The women must be the breadwinners. back home and don't backslide. She must plow the field and operate the spindle, and "Sons, I hate to say it, but I don't think you are engage in other avocations that should belong exclusive doing your duty. Don't say you have not the time. ly to man, while the menfolks are being used up for can Your fathers took time and trouble with you and for non fodder. The women thus unsex themselves, and you, and now it would seem only fair that you rec'pro- lose that beauty and charm which we so much admire in cate and show some interest in the work of your fathers. them. So when we maintain the Southern standard of I thank you." womanhood we fortify ourselves against the condition General T. F. Berry: "For some years I have real now existing in Europe"—(pays beautiful tribute to the ized wre have not done our full duty. There are about beauty and chivalry of the Old South.) four thousand old veterans in this state and it is our duty Captain T. F. Beard: "To show my memory is to get them all into camps. As Comrade Turner has just good as it was fifty years ago, I will call the roll of my said, we are not too old and should get to work. Our company as it was called then''—(the full roll of the com example should be an inspiration to fidelity and patriot pany was called without aid of any sort.) ism to our sons." General T. D. Turner: "I want to urge upon you Miss Ellis rendered a solo, "Silver Threads Among the value of perpetuating the history of the veterans. the Gold" in a most entertaining manner. There are not many of us left, and there is work for all Little Miss Inez Fisher was introduced and "dubbed" of us. You Sons and Daughters of veterans must take the Mascot of the Oklahoma Division U. C. V. up the work of handing down this history to posterity. Judge McKeown was introduced by General Hailey, Don't be ashamed of your Daddies, but take up their and addressed the Veterans in part as follows: work and push it along. Our ranks are thinning and it 'I am informed that this is not a meeting of the old is vital that everything that can be done, should be done. men of today, but of the young men of the South. 1 We want these remembrances to last. When comrades was born in South Carolina when it was a crime to vote are behind with dues in their camps, let them be remit against a Confederate soldier. No people on earth could ted, let those who are able pay double or treble and have turned back and rebuilt their homes and their busi thus build up the camps. ness and today stand ready to fight under Old Glory. "This Reunion should inspire us all to new efforts T am sure,' as an old Veteran said, 'if war came to us in getting camps into good standing, and getting new today, these old Confederates would be ready to fight ones. 1 have neglected the work heretofore, but from and also would the Sons of Veterans be ready to meet now on 1 expect to redouble my efforts. 1 want all the the enemy at the water's edge.' " Read poem that was rest of you to do the same thing. They call us old, but very interesting. - Address was well received by the we are nothing of the sort. If we had war today, I Veterans. —27— GENERAL H. H. ALLEN, Commander Chickasaw Brigade, Oklahoma Division. Music by the band. that all camps be allowed to pay their per capita tax and Miss Alden, of Norman, a maid in her early teens, be permitted to vote. was introduced and gave a reading on history of John "Respectfully submitted, Brown. It showed deep study and research and re "F. J. Barrett, Chairman. flected great credit on the young lady. She was gen "J. H. Reed, erously applauded. "J. K. LaRue, Solo—"Star of the Sea," by Mrs. C. E. Cummings, "W. P. Francis, of Ada. This was a splendid number, and was much "J. W. Jordan, enjoyed by the audience. "W. J. Blanton." General Hailey announced that next in order on Nomination for Division Commander. the program would be election of officers for the ensuing General T. D. Turner: "I come before you to nom year. inate a man, who, when others of us have been about our The following Brigade Commanders were elected: commercial interest, has gone about visiting camps and Cherokee Brigade Gen. Thos. F. Bard, Bushyhead performing other service in behalf of the veterans and Choctaw Brigade _Gen. J. J. McAlester, McAlester this organization. He has well earned an honor that 1 Chickasaw Brigade Gen. H. H. Allen, Davis am sure would not be begrudged him by any comrade Creek and Seminole Brigades within hearing of my voice. Comrades, 1 beg to submit Gen. T. F. Brewer, Eufaula the name of our present Commander, General D. M. First Brigade Gen. T. D. Turner, Oklahoma City Hailey." Second Brigade Gen. Thos. B. Hogg, Shawnee Colonel A. P. Watson takes the chair. Third Brigade Gen. Wm. P. Francis, Elk City Captain F. J. Barrett seconds the nomination of Adjournment was taken to 1:30 P. M. General Hailey. Mrs. G. B. Hester, of Muskogee, was introduced by General Coleman: "No man has been closer to General Hailey. She made a very interesting talk. As General Hailey than myself. I believe I know him as widow and daughter of Veterans, she had a store of well as any living man. Under those circumstances, reminiscences about the war and her experiences in look knowing his feelings for the veterans and this organ ing after the comfort of soldiers and entertaining many ization, and having full information of the great amount officers during the war at her home. She held the of effort he has put forth in its behalf, it does not occur closest attention of the audience, and was generously to me to even think of anyone else for the position of applauded. Commander of the Oklahoma Division. I second the Miss Baker of Wewoka gave a reading entitled, nomination of General Hailey." "They Tell Us to Forget; the Old Cause is not Lost But Motion to close nominations and make election Laid Away," a beautiful and original poem. unanimous carried. Final report of Committee on Credentials: "Your Memorial Services. committee begs leave to submit its final report as fol General Watson: "We now come to the most sol lows: emn part of our meeting, our memorial services in mem "We find the Oklahoma Division has twenty-nine ory of all those comrades who have passed over the camps in good standing with sixty votes. We recommend Great Divide since our last meeting. Before we start -29— MISS JULIA ROWLAND Sponsor Oklahoma Division, Birmingham Reunion 1910. Miss Julia Rowland is a resident of Shawnee, Okla homa and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Rowland. Her father was too young for service in the Civil War but both her paternal and maternal grandfathers were many years in the service of the Confederacy. Her maternal grandfather enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, and served as a surgeon during the entire war. Her paternal grandfather enlisted in Troup's Co. Ga. and served in the Army of Northern Virginia. He was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Gettysburg. this service I will ask Comrade Roddie to lead us in during a long and useful career, he served his country prayer." and fellowman in an able and conspicuous manner. Comrade Roddie leads in prayer, after which he ask GENERAL JOHN THREADGILL. ed those present to join in singing "How Firm a Foun dation." General Turner: "It becomes my duty to com General Coleman: "We have had presented to us ment on the life, character, honesty, integrity and ability the names of Mark M. Sanders and Mattie M. Sanders. of General John Threadgill. General Threadgill was well known as a man and a statesman and some of us If there are any others to be added we would be glad knew him as a soldier. I did not know him as a sol to have them now." dier but I had the pleasure of knowing him intimately General Coleman reads order of National Organiza as a man and as a neighbor. When he had returned tion prescribing that at high noon memorial services from the war, he was without money and practically shall be held. without clothes, and even without education. He did Colonel Watson: "If any of you know of the death not allow the handicap to hinder him. He studied, of any comrade in your community that you wish to he burned midnight oil and finally was graduated in name and make a talk about, you are at liberty to do so. medicine. After practicing a short time in North Caro A few remarks on his record and life will be very appro lina, he emigrated to Texas, where he practiced medi priate." cine, and laid the foundation of his financial career. General Coleman made a short talk extolling the Later he came to Oklahoma, where he has been a power goodness and bravery of General L. B. (Hooly) Bell, in the affairs of the State. He has been a power in our of the Cherokee Nation. He was, during the war, one of legislature and in our civic enterprise. He was always the bravest and most capable of General Standwaitie's interested in the Confederate Home at Ardmore, and lieutenants. He died during the past year, after a long used his influence on all occasions for the benefit of his and honorable civil record following the war. comrades, the Confederate Veterans. In his death we Captain Barrett: "On occasions of this kind, we have lost a good man, a brave soldier, a wise statesman, feel the sentiment of honor and bravery in our departed and a beneficent comrade." comrades much stronger than we can express it. I de sire to mention the name of Comrade Ben Funk, of General Taylor: "John Threadgill is dead. To you Company C, 23rd Virginia Cavalry. He was a gentleman he is not dead, to me he is not dead, his memory will of honor and a Confederate soldier of merit. live with us always. When he was Division Commander, "Colonel James M. Bell was Colonel of 2nd Chero 1 was serving under him. He was always interested in kee, a large man and an honest and able man, a good and worked hard for our Confederate Comrades. When officer and a brave soldier. He stood for law and order. 1 was Division Commander he was under me, he worked Before he died he called his friends about him and ad just as hard as when our positions were reversed. I say vised them to uphold law and order. He was one of I don't believe such men ever die. Their memories will nature's noblemen. linger with us always. We are only temporarily sep "General Wm. L. Byrd, Adjutant of the Old Choctaw arated from them, they have simply gone before, we will Brigade. He was a warrior and an able officer. He follow." made his presence felt during the war and afterward, Colonel Sneed reads list of Comrades who have died —31- MISS NANNIE MAUD MATTHEWS Maid of Honor Oklahoma Division Birmingham Reunion 1910. Miss Matthews is the daughter of Hon. Wm. D. Matthews and Mrs. Matthews, of Oklahoma City. Her father was a member of Co. F Second Kentucky Cavalry, Gen. John H. Morgan's command. During his service under this command, which was a terror to all northern officers and soldiers, he did much hard fighting and valliant service for the cause that was so dear to his heart. He is at this time Commissioner of Charities and Corrections for the State of Oklahoma, Chairman of the State Pension Commission and Commander of David Hammond Camp of United Confederate Veterans. The uncles of Miss Matthews, both maternal and paternal fought throughout the war, one being killed at the battle of Antietam. at the Confederate Home at Ardmore during the past War, and later President, said our Constitution was a year: freak. In spite of the opinions at the late Commercial E. R- Smith, John Graham, Uncle John Fitzsimmons, Congress at Muskogee, we were above our sister states Win. D. Ridge, S. M. Sawyer, W. J. Harris, Uncle Billie as an agricultural state, and also ahead in oils and min Bounds, Wm. J. Hargrave. erals. Much of the progress and advancements is due Colonel Sneed: "I want to allude to our late friend to the wisdom and efforts of you veterans. Your work General John Threadgill. I have only known him the has been reflected in many of the bills that have been last ten years. He was a real man and his heart was as passed by our legislatures. big as the Universe. He had always a smile for every "Oklahoma stands for Peace, the Governor of Okla Veteran, Son, or Daughter. Peace to his ashes." homa, 'Our Bob,' stands for Peace, but not at the sacri Colonel Leecraft, private secretary to Governor fice of national honor. However, if ever should we be Williams, was introduced by General Hailey, and ad come embroiled in the European embroglio, or should dressed the Veterans as a representative of the State mix it with our neighbors on the south, many of you Department: old Veterans would be willing to go, all of your sons "I wish to assure you that I appreciate this privi would be glad to go. I thank you." lege of addressing the Veterans and Daughters in their Congressman Scott Ferris was next introduced, and Reunion; while I come as a substitute, I am selfish held the closest attention of the assemblage, his address enough to say that I am glad because I wanted to meet being frequently interrupted by applause. you. "I am proud, as one of the younger generation, to "I regret that the Governor himself was not able meet with you silver-crowned Veterans. During my to be present. I do not at all times find it so pleasant early childhood, I was in a small town in Missouri, and to substitute for him. One day an old Auntie came and during that time, there was never any occasion to apolo waited to see Governor Williams. She had never seen a gize for being a Confederate. Through three administra Governor, and wanted to seel one. She was informed tions in Washington there has never been any occasion that the Governor was very busy at that time and could to apologize for being a Confederate. not see her. About that time I came in and she thought "We of the younger generation are in a poor posi 1 was the Governor. She said, 'I'm sho' glad to see tion to offer any sympathy because we did not know. you, nevah saw a real Governor befo'. When she got You were there, and you did know. We know only the ready to go, she showed up a subscription list, and said, dry pages of history, which are often inaccurate, while 'We are trying to build a little Hopewell Church, and you, who were there, know what the true facts are. want you to head the list.' 'I am not the Governor,' I "I am glad you have lived to see your comrades said, 'he is right in there, and too busy to see you.' in the highest offices in the land. I am glad you have "Our State had no childhood, but came at once into lived long enough to see the speaker of the House, full-fledged manhood, yet she has flourished like a green Champ Clark, glad you have lived long enough to see bay tree. Notwithstanding the late presidential candi Oscar Underwood floor leader, Bob Williams governor, date of the Progressive party said his opinion of our and Woodrow Wilson president, all men of the South. Constitution would not look well in print, and another "I have served under the President, and I want to distinguished citizen, who was at that time Secretary of make an open declaration that I owe my beginning and —33- MISS LALLA BRISTOL, Maid of Honor, Oklahoma Division, Birmingham Reunion. ublic lift to a Confederate Veteran, Colonel Sneed, and the history of the House. He recognizes one Republi mav his tribe increase. can, one Democrat, and alternates in this manner Wherever I have seen the Veterans 1 have found throughout the whole session of Congress. Is this not them doing a full man's work, assuming a full man's fair? responsibility. "To the many appropriations, I would like to add "During your visits to Washington, you have seen the sixty-eight million dollar Cotton Tax. I want it for •aloons in our National Capital. As one of the younger you old Vets because you ought to have it, and 1 want generation, j am giad to say there are no saloons there it because it is right and just. The United States today- I believe you will agree with me that it is not Supreme Court said the collection of it was illegal, and the proper thing any more to have members of Congress there is no reason why you should not have it back. I come on the floor maudlin drunk. Today when he does believe you will yet live to see a rural credit bill that this his constituents begin to look for his successor. will beat down the interest rates and enable the farmers ' "I did not think I could come over here, it is off of to develop. To illustrate—a farmer went to his banker my reservation. But when Colonel Sneed said, 'You and said, 'It would be about a month until cotton opens must come over and meet us, Old Vets, it may be the and I will need $25.00 until that time.' The banker ask last time you will have a chance to meet with some of ed him what kind of security he had. 'Well, I've got a us ' I fished a letter of declination out of the Post Office span of mules, harness and wagon. The security looked and am glad to be with you. good, so he said, 'All right.' He made out the note for "It is well worth traveling across the state once, ten per cent., went around to the teller's window, who twice, even three times, to see the sight of those old counted him out $20.00 in five dollar bills. The farmer Veterans shaking the hand of General Hailey, when he looked at it, studied for a while, and the banker said, was unanimously acclaimed leader for the Oklahoma 'What's the matter, ain't everything all right?' 'Oh, yes, Veterans for another year. I said then, 'It is a shame but I was just thinking what if I had borrowed it for there was not a moving picture of it to perpetuate the five months, I wouldn't have got a cent.' scene.' "I believe you will live to see the Philippines have "I am glad that you have lived long enough to their freedom, and relieve us of one hundred million realize that no longer can a Senator buy his way into dollars a year. Now, let's get rid of them, let's pay the the Senate, when your Congressman cannot pay his way Confederates their Cotton Tax and build good roads with into Congress, when a man is placed in Congress by the money. They don't like us, and we don't like them. money, And out who furnished the money, and you will None of you Vets would want them for sons-in-law. know who owns the Congressman. "You have lived long enough to see in the Statuary "Today every man elected to the Senate or House Hall, the man who is revered by countless thousands, must file his expense account, and you can find out just General Robert E. Lee, along with Washington, Webster, what each member has spent to secure his place. If any and other distinguished citizens of this country. I thank of you want to know what it cost me to get to Congress, God that you have lived long enough to see your hero you can find it out; my account is on file and my affi standing there in Statuary Hall, among his peers, in the davit with it. company in which he deserves to be, and -where he is "Champ Clark is the best and fairest Speaker in an honor to those surrounding him. -35— MRS. LEON W. HUCKINS, Matron of Honors Oklahoma Division, Birmingham Reunion. MRS. LEON W. HUCKINS Mrs. Leon W. Huckins is the daughter of Capt. the engagements of Longstreet's Corps, Savage Station, John G. Vance, who had a splendid record as a soldier Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg, First Fredricksburg, Gettys during the Civil War. burg, Chickamauga, Wilderness, and was severely At the beginning of the war he was a student at wounded at Bentonville, the last battle of the war. He South Carolina College. The students organized a mili was left on the field with what his comrades thought tary company, the "College Cadets" with John Carey, a fatal wound and when they went home they reported captain; Wade Hampton Jr., first lieutenant, and Wadell that he was left bleeding to death. His family and Jones, second lieutenant. friends were surprised however, one day when he hob Capt. Vance went to Charleston where he was sta bled in on crutches, having walked from Bentonville, tioned at Ft. Moultrie on Sullivan's Island during the with the exception of a few miles between burned bridges attack on Ft. Sumpter. After the fall of Ft. Sumpter when he found opportunity to ride on trains. his company was disbanded and he went back to Vir Capt. Vance after the war became prominent in busi ginia and joined Co. F 2nd. S. C. Regiment, Col. Ker ness and political circles of his native state. shaw. He missed the battle of Bull Run but was in all MRS. ARTHUR WOLCOTT, President Daughters of Confederacy Oklahoma Division. "The South has always played her part whether in 'Durant, Okla., Sept. 3d, 1915. ,ar or in peace, each day the Southern soldier has :50 A. M. nlayed his part as a soldier and as a citizen. I am glad General D. M. Hailey, Commander, to say that the head of nearly every important commit Ada, Oklahoma. tee in Congress today is headed by a Southern man. By yesterday's mail we sent a letter of invitation. "I am glad you have lived long enough to see the We extend a most cordial welcome and assurance of Southern Son marry the Northern daughter, and vice cooperation, hospitality, collectively, and individually, for versa. next reunion at Durant. Our people and city are yours. "May the God of the Universe hold in the palm of "CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, His hand your destiny, and may He preserve you to the "R. E. Powers, President. end, and afterward join you in one Grand Reunion over "9:16 A. M." there with the Veterans who have gone before you. I thank you." Hon. Wm. D. Matthews, Commissioner of Charities Following the address of Congressman Ferris, Gen and Correction, and Chairman of the Pension Committee, eral Hailey introduced Misses Andrew Bowers and Joe was then introduced by General Hailey, and made an able Ragland, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, Division Sponsor and and interesting address. Maid of Honor. They were given an ovation by the Dr. Matthews went into a detailed explanation of the Veterans. Pension Bill, showing clearly its inefficiency and its in General Hailey announced that the next order of sufficiency; he showed that the appropriation was en business was selection of the city for holding our next tirely inadequate, but that it was a new question and Annual State Reunion. the legislature had to approach it carefully. He sug The city of Durant was placed in nomination, and gested that a Legislative Committee be appointed from there being no other applicants, the Adjutant-General among the Veterans to look after their interests when was instructed to count unanimous vote for Durant. the legislature convenes again. Mr. Matthews held the Announcement was made that Captain F. J. Barrett, closest interest of his audience throughout his address, of Vinita, would be retained as Adjutant-General for the which was punctuated generously with applause. Cherokee Brigade, and Colonel J. R. Acuff as Assistant General Turner moved that a committee of three be Adjutant, at Sallisaw. appointed to be known as the Legislative Committee to' Colonel J. K. Da Rue was retained as Adjutant- secure amendments to the Pension Bill. General at Oklahoma City, for the First Brigade. General Hailey appointed on that committee, Gen Captain J. H. Reed, of North McAlester, was re eral T. D. Turner, Chairman, Colonel R. A. Sneed and elected Adjutant-General for the Choctaw Brigade. General R. B. Coleman. Miss Ada Matt Miller, who had already distinguished General Taylor made a short talk about the "Con herself, added honors and gathered ecomiums by her federate Veteran" publication, and paid a glowing tribute recitation of "Who Found My Gold Tooth?" to the late editor, S. A. Cunningham. Committee on Resolutions made partial report. Colonel Thomas Bard and Colonel A. P. Watson General Coleman read the following telegram from followed with short addresses, on the same subject. Durant: Adjournment was taken to 9:30 Friday morning. -3 9— MISS HELEN WOLCOTT, Maid of Honor Oklahoma Division, Birmingham Reunion—Sons of Veterans. Friday, September 3d. some food furnished three times daily, which has been much appreciated. At 9:30 A. M. the convention was called to order "We also desire to thank the young ladies and by General Hailey. gentlemen comprising the band, for the delightful music Invocation by Comrade Treadwell. they have dispensed during the reunion for our enter "Dixie" was rendered by the Band to tremendous tainment. applause. "We also desire to express our gratification to the The Committee on Resolutions reported as follows: management of the Pontotoc County Fair for its gener "To General D. M. Hailey, ous and courteous treatment of the Veterans during their "Commander Oklahoma Division: stay in Ada. "Your Committee on Resolutions desires to offer "We want to thank one and all for the pleasures we the following as the result of their labors: 'We desire have enjoyed in listening to the songs, readings, and to thank Professor C. W. Briles of the Ada Normal addresses in this Hall, and especially do we desire to for the many courtesies shown us while in Ada and express our appreciation and thanks to that peerless for furnishing the splendid quarters for our entertain young statesman of Oklahoma, Honorable Scott Ferris, ment. This is the second time we have met in this for the patriotic, instructive and masterful address de beautiful Southern city, and we all go forth with praise livered on the second day of our Convention. for this goodly people. "What shall we say to our Chief Magistrate, the "We want to thank the press of Ada, the Chamber man who has stood on the watch tower and viewed with of Commerce, and local Committees for the admirable an anxious heart the gathering war clouds on our South manner in which they arranged for our pleasures and ern border for three long years? And that terrible comfort while in their midst, and especially do we feel slaughter of the human race taking place in foreign thankful to William L. Byrd Camp U. C. V., and the lands? We have passed through that terrible struggle R. A. Sneed Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy between ourselves and our brothers of the North. We for the cordial reception and hearty treatment we have know what war means; we want to assure the President received at their hands. that Confederate Veterans in Convention assembled, ap "The three days spent in Ada will be long remem preciate his situation, and approve the firm stand he has bered as the most pleasant and enjoyable ever passed taken, to keep peace with the nations of the world. at a reunion. Ada has simply placed every Veteran, "Whereas, there are many of our old decrepit Com Son and Daughter under lasting obligations, the mem rades and widows in the state of Oklahoma, who have ory of which will linger long and pleasantly with all been struggling for many years to make an honest sup of us. port, and "When we, today, bid good-by to these brave com "Whereas, our friend and Comrade, Sam H. Hargis, rades and these beautiful daughters of Ada, each one having been moved by his gracious heart to formulate, of us will carry away to our homes the most tender introduce and secure the passage and approval of the and grateful recollections of this happy gathering. Oklahoma Confederate Pension Bill, for their sole bene "We also desire to thank the Commercial Club and fit, be it therefore its officers for the bountiful supply of good and whole "RESOLVED, ^that this Convention express the -41— MISS LUCILE LESTER, Maid of Honor Oklahoma Division, Birmingham Reunion—Sons of Veterans. thanks of all Confederates and widows of Confederates Veterans, Sons, Daughters, and townspeople. The parade to Comrade Hargis for his earnest endeavor in the mat continued through the principal streets of the city, where ter and assure him that he will ever hold a green spot in large crowds cheered the veterans loudly. our memory for his arduous and successful efforts in our behalf. Respectfully submitted, REUNION NOTES. T. D. Turner, Chairman. R. B. Coleman, Wm. Taylor, General Sam Hargis was a very busy man during J. R. Acuff, the reunion. His job was a stupendous one, and would R. A. Sneed, have tried the powers of anyone but this redoubtable Committee. Veteran. He was the head and fore of the Committee to meet the trains and provide places of abode for the Message to President Woodrow Wilson: Veterans. The influx was so great and his cares so multitudinous that for a while the famous Irishman's "President Woodrow Wilson, flea was a "slow poke" by comparison. However, he per "Washington, D. C. formed like a thoroughbred and there was not a single "We, the United Confederate Veterans of Okla oversight or one Veteran overlooked. homa in Convention assembled at Ada, Oklahoma, this General Hargis was also the recipient of generous third day of September, 1915, knowing what war means, congratulations and much praise for his part in securing wish to express to you that we heartily appreciate your the passage of the Pension Bill by our last legislature. position as our Chief Magistrate in this trying and criti cal hour and that we endorse and will loyally support General William Taylor of Altus furnished one of your wise and conservative policy in maintaining the the delightful surprises of the Reunion. Some two or peace of our Great Nation toward all Nations of the three years since he was stricken with paralysis, being World. "Maj.-Gen. D. M. Hailey, unable to move one part of his body. Physicians held "Commander." out no hope whether he would recover or not. However, President Wilson replied to this telegram expressing much to the joy of the Comrades, he showed up at Ada appreciation and thanking the Veterans warmly for without any evidence of the affliction, and carried his their consideration and their loyalty. walking cane only because it had become a habit. It was General Hailey called on Comrade Treadwell to lead a most remarkable recovery. General Taylor took a very in prayer, after which the Convention was adjourned to active part in the proceedings. He was at one time meet in Durant in 1916. Division Commander of the Oklahoma Confederate Vet Immediately after adjournment the parade was erans. formed: General T. F. Berry as Chief Marshal led the Miss Ada Matt Miller, of Hugo, made an instan parade, followed by General Hailey, and Staff on horse taneous hit with the Veterans. She came to the Reunion back; a long line of automobiles followed, occupied by as Sponsor for Hugo. Her popularity was started up the —43- OKLAHOMA STATE LIBRARY MRS. D. M. HAILEY, Wife of General D. M. Hailey. ladder when she gave a splendid rendition of a humorous citizens of Ada had cared for the Veterans within her reading that brought down the house. Later in the day gates. she reached the top. The "Boss Fiddler" of the west side was giving an exhibition of his skill; when he reach The reception to the Veterans, Sons, and Daughters, ed in his repertory "Turkey in The Straw'' Miss Miller at the Elks' Club was a dazzling function. The ladies could no longer make her feet behave and treated the of Ada left nothing undone to make the affair a most Veterans to some high-class sand-jigging. pronounced success. General T. D. Turner, of Oklahoma City, was pres The second evening of the Reunion occurred the ent in his capacity as Brigade Commander of the First principle social function, the Grand Ball. The halls Brigade. He is also a member of the Board of Control of the Elks' Club were beautifully and bountifully deco of the Home at Ardmore and member of the rated with flags and bunting, flowers and plants. Ada Pension board. General Turner entered into society was out in force to welcome the visitors and the affairs of the reunion like an "old hand" and long see that they had a good time. The Veterans were es before the close of the first day had made himself an pecially delighted with the Grand March and the Old indispensable cog in the organization. His judgment Virginia reel, and many of them indulged the newer and experience was worth much to the meeting. dances as well. The festivities continued until late in the night, all present having a most enjoyable time. There were some splendid addresses made during the Reunion and the Veterans were much pleased at the interest and consideration shown them by the younger PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL STATE REUNION men. OF THE SONS OF VETERANS, ADA, OKLAHOMA, Honorable Scott Ferris was a feature of the Re SEPTEMBER THIRD, 1915. union. Popular wherever he is known on the west side, The convention was called to order by Gen. Merritt he captivated all who heard his masterly address, from A. Glass, Commander-in-Chief of Oklahoma Division S. both sides of the state. of V. General Glass made a short address, in which he Honorable William D. Matthews, Commissioner of reviewed the affairs of the organization during the year Pensions, as well as of Charities and Corrections, held past, and congratulated the Sons on the healthy condi the closest attention of the Veterans during his address. tion of their camps, particularly on the east side. His explanation and elucidation of the pension bill was Senator Reuben M. Roddie, of Ada, Commander of so clear as to enable all present to get a better idea of Western District of Oklahoma Division, represented its provisions. He received a rousing reception from his camps of McLoud, Chickasha, and Altus. Veteran Comrades. W. E. Hailey, of McAlester, represented Stigler and McAlester. The Old Soldiers were a unit in expressing their General Glass represented Tulsa. gratitude and appreciation of the manner in which the The appointment of official committees was dis- -45— MRS. P. S. LESTER, Chaperon Oklahoma Division Sons of Veterans, Birmingham Reunion. pensed with, and all business of the convention was Our legs are not so nimble, we could not get away, transacted in open meeting. But are going now to Washington, to have a Gala Day, The routine business of the organization being com We have kept the faith as loyal, and still expect to stay, pleted, General Glass announced nominations would be As loyal to our Southland, as to our Confederate Gray. received and voted on for officers for the coming year. Senator Roddie placed before the convention the name We fought with Lee and Johnson, with Forrest and with of General Glass to succeed himself as Commander-in- Hood, Chief of the Oklahoma Division of the Sons of Veterans. We slept in muddy trenches, and did the best we There being no further nominations, Senator Roddie could, moved that the Secretary cast the vote of the camps Our guns were of the poorest kind, our ammunition bad, unanimously for General Glass. We always ate our rations, no matter what we had, Other officers of the state organization were then We had our good Rye Coffee, our Sorghum and Tobac, appointed by General Glass as follows: We carried all our wardrobe, in our Haver-sack. Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff, Senator Reuben M. Roddie, Ada. Our shoes were made of rawhide, our sox of nature's Commander Western District of Oklahoma, Richard kind, A. Billings, Cordell. We took the Yankee's uniform, and everything we'd Commander Eastern District of Oklahoma, W. E. find, Hailey, McAlester. Our hats were made of cotton stuff, sometimes thin and Resolutions were adopted accepting for next year's thick, reunion the same city as that selected by the Confederate And when the rain would pour down, were as heavy Veterans, to-wit—Durant. as a brick, A further resolution was passed urging as many of Our blankets of the Yankee brand, we had to capture the Sons as possible to attend the Reunion at Birming them, ham in 1916. The only way to hold to one, was to catch it by the There being no further business to come before the hem. convention, adjournment was taken, to meet in Durant in 1916, the specific date to be set later. And when the war was over, and we could all go home, W. E. Hailey, M. J. Glass, We laid aside our war harness, to rest our weary bones, Secretary. Commander Oklahoma Division But Reconstruction came along, and kept us all a stew, We had to raise the Ku-Klux-Klan, the best that we could do, THE GRIZZLY OLD VETERANS GOING TO The carpet-bagger he was there, the meanest in the land, WASHINGTON CITY. We had to rule the country then, with Ku-Klux mighty hand. We are old Grizzly Veterans, to Washington are bound, We feel just like we did in Sixty, when we heard the We are going now to Washington, to meet the boys bugle sound, again, —47- COLONEL R. A,. SNEED, Judge Advocate General Oklahoma Division. We've met on many battlefields, where minnie balls Memorial to the Southern Confederacy to Be Carved on did rain, a Mass of Granite 1,000 Feet High and Two Miles We've seen them on the weary march, with nothing on Long—Figures of Noted Leaders to Be Shown in their feet, Gigantic Size. All plodding on through mud and snow, with nothing much to eat, Gutzon Borglum, the Noted Sculptor, Will Have Charge We've seen them in the charge at times, driving of the Work, Which Will Require Eight Y'ears and Yankee hosts, the Services of Hundreds of Men—Huge Assembly We've seen them in the hospitals, all looking like a Hall in Living Granite. ghost. We expect to see them looking fine, their hair a little BY' EDWARD MARSHALL. gray, Here is the first detailed announcement of a plan With all the fire in their eyes, with qualities to stay, which now is under way for placing on this continent the We look to see them straight and tall, with soldier's greatest of all monuments, a memorial which will be bearing yet, unique among all the millions of monuments in the With tread so true and steady, they never will forget, world. We expect to hear them give the yell, the Rebel cry It will not be a memorial to any single man whose and hue, life has ended, but of a wonderful people and a wonder That always made a Rebel brave, and scared the ful cause—the people of the South and the cause of the Yankees too. Confederacy. We expect to make a grand display, down Pennsylvania It will be a monument carved from the living stone Ave, of a mountain of solid granite more than a thousand As Yankees made long time ago, the town we'll surely feet high, a monument majestic in its bold conception, have, tremendous in its vividness of pictorial effect, superb in Old Jube he thought he'd take the town, in eighteen its novel and splendid sentiment. Sixty-three, I have had a talk with Gutzon Borglum, foremost But when he saw the hosts of Yanks, he thought he'd among American sculptors, who has been given the com let her be, mission to construct this memorial and who, indeed, con But now the Johnnie he'll be there, with Sponsor and ceived and planned it. with Maid, "The thought which lies behind this work," he told To help the Boys make a show, in this last Grand me, "is that of the South's payment of her debt of high Parade. emotion, of reverence, of real affection for the great figures of that struggle which wrote the most dramatic (Written and composed by Richard B. Coleman, chapters into her tremendous history. It will typify late a Private in Co. D of the 8th Missouri Infantry, the spirit of the South. Confederate States Army, Post Office, North McAlester, "It is to be carved from the solid granite composing Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.) Stone Mountain, which is located sixteen miles east of -49- CAPTAIN J. II. HARRIS. Superintendent Confederate Home at Ardmor; Atlanta, Ga., rising to a splendid height, visible for army—cavalry, artillery and infantry—all on the march many miles, and of a singularly symmetry of form. toward the east. This line of marchers will be 2,000 feet in length. Block of Granite Two Miles Long. "The third group, representing an even larger body "Stone Mountain is one of the this country's most of the cavalry, artillery and infantry of the main army, remarkable natural wonders. It is the largest pebble will be still higher up and will be a winding column in the world, for it is one solid stone two miles long, not giving the appearance of marching right on over the a fissure appearing in the entire length. mountain. Some of the figures will stand out in bold "Upon one side of this mountain quarrying opera relief upon the top, rising high upon the skyline and ever, tions have been conducted, yielding some of the finest ever marching as if on into the great invisible; perhaps, granite in the United States, but on the other side the poetically, into the loving embrace of future generations. mountain rises grim, superb, unchanged by the hand of Thus they will stand forever, busy with the routine busi man. It is out of the living rock of this side of the ness of that great warfare, full of the fire, the poetic mountain that we soon shall begin the work of carving magnificence that was the spirit of one of the most glor this majestic monument. ious episodes in history. "Nothing like it has been seen, nothing very much "Every one of the figures in the central group will like it ever can be seen, for it will not be a monument be the readily recognizable likeness of some leader of made elsewhere and transported to the spot, but, when the Confederacy in proper uniform and in a charactistic it is completed, will be as much a part and parcel of the pose, but upon the features of all will be graven the firm, mountain, as much a part and parcel of the South, itself, resolute purpose, the grim determination that reflected as any of the everlasting hills which heard the boom of their greatness and the heroics of their deeds in life while thunderous artillery during the grim years of war. engaged in the business of the great struggle. "Upon the face of this mountain 1 am going to carve "There will be Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, hundreds of collossal figures representing the Confed Morgan, Jeb Stuart and all the others, with the noble erate Army on the march. There will be three sections figure of President Jefferson Davis standing out conspicu of the army, all converging and all facing east. ously of course. "The central group, lowest down on the face of the mountain, will be composed of five Generals in full uni Each Southern State Represented. form, most of them mounted. The size of these figures "Each one of the thirteen Confederate States will can not be definitely determined until the work has be represented in the group by one or more of the great progressed further than it has at the present time, but men that led its soldiers, and forever they will be there they will be approximately thirty-five to fiftv feet high, leading them majestically onward. including the horses. All of the other figures will be "The Governor of each of the States is to appoint a proportionately tall. committee of citizens which is to select the General or Generals to represent the State in this group. These Long Line of Marchers. committees are to report to the central Stone Mountain "The second group, a little higher up on the moun committee in Atlanta. C. Helen Plane of Atlanta, who tain, will represent a portion of the main body of the long has been active in patriotic movements in the South -51— MRS. J. H. HARRIS, Wife of J. II. Harris and Matron of the Confederate Home. and has been one of the leaders in this great project, is The indications are that large sums are to come from the president of this committee. She is honorary presi wealthy sympathetic men in the North. dent of the Daughters of the Confederacy. "But with the carving of the huge figures of the "In order to get accurate detail information not warriors on the side and top of the mountain, only a only concerning the Generals, but about incidents that part of this unique monument will be completed. All will add to the realism of each of the colossal groups, of those figures will be high above the line of the tops of there has been devised a plan for interesting all living the trees of the superb virgin forest that grows at the Confederate veterans in the work. Bronze medals, bear base of the mountain. At the bottom of the mountain, ing in bas-relief the figures of the few famous Generals directly below the figures of Lee, Jackson and the other that will head the central group, will be cast and one will famous men in the central group, I am going to cut into be presented to each veteran of the Southern Army that the face of the granite hill a collossal colonnade of thir is on record or can be found anywhere. In this way it teen columns, one for each of the Confederate States. is hoped that from the reports of reminiscences by these "These columns will be cut standing in the face of old soldiers, stimulated by their interest in the project, the base of the mountain, and each will be fifty feet much valuable information will be obtained. high and eight feet in diameter. They will be eight "Two other kinds of medals representing this cen feet apart and the granite around and back of them will tral group will be made and will be used for the purpose be excavated. of adding to the monument fund to carry out all the Memorial Hall in Mountain. ambitious plans for the proper setting of this great "Back of these thirteen columns we are going to cut mountain memorial. These will be disposed of in a way out of the solid rock a room reaching sixty feet back into that will make the fund a popular one indeed. the mountain and running the entire length of the colon Plan for Raising Funds. nade. This will be a memorial hall with which there is nothing in the world to compare. This hall will be dedi "There will be silver medals that may be bought cated to the United Daughters of the Confederacy and only by the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons will be used by them as a gathering place. Fashioned as of the Confederacy. Then there will be gold medals it will be out of the solid granite, it will be the world's that will be awarded only to men and women who give greatest safety-deposit vault, and in it will be kept the $5,000 or more to the monument. These will be struck archives of the Daughters of the Confederacy, valuable specially with the name of the donor on each medal. relics of the war and records of the Southern States. There are wealthy men in the South who alone would It will be lighted by thirteen great windows cut through willingly defray all the expense of the work, which now the wall, which will rise back of the columns, and each is roughly estimated at $2,000,000, but it was thought window will be set in bronze carrying the coat of arms appropriate and best, in a measure at least, to make it a of one of the Southern States. popular undertaking. The people of the whole South "Naturally I am greatly pleased over the magnifi are afire with enthusiasm over it and want to contribute, cent opportunity which has come to me in the commis and they should be given the opportunity, but that en sion for the erection of this great monument—but not a thusiasm is not by any means confined to the South. little awed by it. The granite I shall have to work in is -53- MISS EVA HARRIS, Daughter of Captain and Mrs. Harris. so sound and absolutely free from flaws of any kind "The suggestion for the lone, gigantic Southern sol that monoliths more than a thousand feet in length have dier did not appeal to me, because he would be hidden been quarried from it. There have been several sug from view excepting when a person stood looking direct gestions made for using Stone mountain as a memorial ly into the cleft of the quartered mountain. The idea which had been considered seriously during the last two of placing a Greek temple upon the mountain also did not years. One of them made by W. H. Terrill, an Atlanta seem appropriate, because that would have been adding lawyer, who really deserves the credit for naming Stone to the great natural wonder, rather than using the moun Mountain as a great Confederate memorial, was to erect tain itself in its majestic simplicity. upon the mountain summit a beautiful Greek temple. "This great natural upheaval of granite lies back Another suggestion was to clear upon the mountain's side and sternly protests against the application of any kind a great area into which to cut a written dedication of of geometrical form, for such must be of necessity too the mountain to the heroes of the South. Still another small to dominate its shape. So I abandoned my first suggestion, advocated by John Temple Graves, was to idea to treat the face of the mountain in large, simple quarter the solid granite mountain and to carve in the architectural masses. The pyramids of Egypt are small cleft, from the living rock, the figures of a gigantic South and insignificant in comparison to this huge, solid hill of ern soldier standing as a guard to preserve the revered granite. If the Egyptians had had this mountain to memories of the past. deal with, they undoubtedlv would have thrown a hun dred thousand workmen upon its sides and reshaped it Many Experts Consulted. into a monster pyramid, cutting a hundred thousand "When I was invited to consult as to the appro steps leading to its top. They would have made it the priateness of the mountain for a memorial and as to the first wonder of the world. But, like their other monu most fitting plan for carrying out the project, I visited ments, it would have been little more than a mere sym the mountain and examined its face and contour from bol, and would have awakened little interest in the all points of view before recommending, or even con modern man beyond the splendid intention of the labor ceiving, the plan that is now to be carried out. 1 took ers. many photographs of the various profiles of the moun tain, acqua'nted myself with technical reports upon the Not to Follow Any Precedent. character of the granite itself, consulted experts upon the "The Greeks doubtless would have terraced the engineering difficulties that would have to be overcome, sides of Stone Mountain and placed upon its cornices row and am thoroughly convinced that the project as now out upon row of little statues of their deities. During her lined is capable of successful completion. All of the peo heroic period, following the Persian war, you will recall ple connected with the promotion of the splendid patrio that Greece rebuilt the Acropolis, a hill of fissured and tic enterprise were instantly impressed with the fitness of ruined stone. She restored its walls, supported them the memorial, its majestic simplicity, and its originality. with masonry, built and cut steps to the top, and there But, as I told them, it was not even principally a sculp created temples to her gods, unsurpassed for beauty and tor's dream, but the inevitable outgrowth of a sympa elegance in the history of art. But the significance of thetic study of the situation, the object and the senti all the labor was the worship of gods and not the com ment of the idea. memoration of the heroic deeds of men. No mere temple —55- C( )NFEDERATE HOM E. or single statue can express the significance of a cause. parts. The central group, containing the main characters, "It seemed to me unthinkable that we, a virile should be finished and ready for unveiling within three modern people, born in the free condition of our western years. The rest of the work would, of course, be under life, should lack the courage to deal frankly, honestly, way. The second group should be completed within five directly, with our own problem and, without precedent, years." recreate our great in such form as they were, in such as would be fitting and suitable to the place selected and in such a manner as would make the work itself endure as ARTIST HOFFBAUER NOW SERVING IN THE RANKS. long as the mountain stands. Therefore, it seems to me Friends of Ch. Hoffbauer, the Frenchman, who left that the only fitting memorial to the South of war time, his work of decorating the Confederate Memorial Build by the equally great South of our day, is to reconstruct ing here to serve his country in time of war, will read the great characters of those early times and in gigantic with great interest the following letter to D'eutenant- proportions carve them in high and full relief in action, Governor J. Taylor Ellyson, written by the talented artist mounted and on foot, moving across the face of the from the ranks of a French regiment: mountain, as has been described. "The impressiveness of this plan, the natural group France, January 18, 1916. ing of men and horses moving forward with expectancy, Lieutenant-Governor J. Taylor Ellyson: represented in all their fitness, would revive all that was Dear Mr. Ellyson: I ought to have written you a best in those heroic days. In fact, I feel that the scheme long good letter for Christmas. I know this too well. speaks for itself. 1 intended to do it. My only excuse may, perhaps, be a good one, for you know by experience what kind of a Park of Eighty Acres at Base. life one has to live at war! Well, I am no longer a "It has been arranged to make all of the land run painter or a staff attache, but a sergeant in a line regi ning back 300 feet from the base of the mountain and ment, the Eighth Infantry, and you know what little time extending the whole length of the mountain, as well as one has to write long letters in a line regiment. the mountain itself, a great memorial reservation. This It came to this: I had grown very tired of late of 300-foot strip of land will comprise eighty acres, and all doing nothing, but fuss around in automobiles with offi of it will be parked and laid out in a manner that will cers. 1 didn't like the feeling of being an "embusque" be appropriate to the entire scheme. (do you know what embusque means? It mean a "quit "I am now making detailed drawings and am ter"), especially when meeting or crossing regiments go definitely preparing for the beginning of the great task, ing to, or coming from battle. Of course, the men were which will be almost as much a problem of engineering too disciplined to say anything, but their eyes were elo as of sculpture. A large studio is now being built at the quent enough! So when the General D Esperey told base of the mountain, directly below the point where the men that strict orders had been recently issued to sup main figures in the central group will be. From this press all "emplois inutiles" I felt relieved and asked him studio 1 will direct the work. to be sent with an active regiment. I went there as a "The time necessary for completing the memorial corporal, now I am a sergeant. You see, there is a will be about eight years, dividing the work into three radical change in my situation, the general told me he —57- MRS. JOHN HOWARD PAYNE, Sponsor for First Brigade to Durant Reunion would make a lieutenant of me, if I proved worthy of No Luxuries Now. the honor. I am working my best to deserve it. How strangely remote and dreamlike that life of My soldiers all belong to the 1916 class. They are, Richmond seems to me now, where everything is so therefore, nineteen years old, they are fine fellows, from peaceful, people so happy (or ought to be) and so clean Flanders, Dunkerk, Hazebrouch, etc. A reg ment of yel too—to sleep in a bed, to have a bath every morning, low heads all fair and rosy cheeked fellows, the battalion to dine at the Jefferson! Well, plenty of people do that is in reserve and is very likely to remain to until spring, every day, and do not realize what that means! Instead but then * * * they worry all day long about getting more money. Such Feels Perfectly Happy. is life! You never appreciate what you have got. Give my love to old Richmond please, and accept for As for now, I feel as perfectly happy as I was mis your family and you, Dear Mr. Ellyson, the truest wishes erable three months ago, when living in comfort, safety and best regards of yours. and laziness, and I feel much younger too. 1 am losing Most sincerely, flesh, I mean the unhealthy fat I had accumulated during CH. HOFFBAUER. my experience as a staff painter. When the day is over I am as unconcerned and light-hearted as a boy. You must have experienced the feeling fifty years ago! HONOR JEFFERSON DAVIS AT PICNIC. Did you ever get a copy of "Leslie's" November 18, which was sent to you from New York? I hope you did. (News-Capital, McAlester, Oklahoma, January, 1916) 1 am glad to hear the good news from Richmond, that The anniversary of the birthday of Jefferson Davis Mrs. Ellyson and your little grandson are well. was celebrated today at the Jeff Lee camp ground by the Give everybody I know in Richmond my best re United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Confed gards please, especially to Mr. Valentine and Judge erate veterans. The setting for the small celebration Christian. May I ask you something, dear Mr. Ellyson? was beautiful, being in the midst of a large grove of I should like very much to have a photograph of my trees. The speakers' platform was placed beneath a work in the Confederate Memorial Hall by me, just now. large tree, while the audience sat in camp chairs arrang It would be a very good thing for the work itself to ed in a semi-circle in the shade. Old Confederate stand have those photos under my eyes just now. I could at ards were draped from the trees, and away from any once see faults and errors I left unnoticed when working touch of the modern it seemed as if it were a step into at them every day of the year. Could you send said the past. Several members of the Grand Army of the photos to me? Republic were present as specially invited guests for I left in the Memorial Hall, among my tools and the day and. with the veterans of the Confederate Army, uniforms two regulation sack or knapsacks of the United spent a short hour in the history of a nation over fifty States army. In service now, they are made of string years ago. canvas with a leather strap, one of them is stamped Coast Attorney Carl Monk delivered the address of the Artillery. 1 want the other one with nothing on it. It day and his talk was with his usual brilliant style. He would be very useful to me just now, and it is a souvenir gave a short sketch of the life of Jefferson Davis the too. prominent part he had led in the history of the nation -59- MRS. CONNOLLEE, Matron of Honor First Brigade to Durant Reunion. before he became president of the Confederacy and his by the sons if they have the spirit of their fathers in unselfish, self-sacrificing life giving his best for his prin them. ciples. He also told of his final release obtained by men of opposite thoughts but who admired him as a great and good man. THE WORKS BILL. The following program was carried out: Invoca "To Provide Homes For Confederate Veterans of the tion, the Rev. Faust; "Dixie," by the assembly; address of welcome, General R. B. Coleman; "We Gather Here Civil War." With Reverence," male quartet composed of Messrs. John B. McKennon, J. E. Allen, J. M. Gannaway, and H. I. Aston; response, Mayor J. I. Wood; address of the day, It may not be generally known that eminent humani Carl Monk; male quartet, "Tenting Tonight on the Old tarian, (Senator Works of California, a Union Veteran) Camp Ground"; violin solo, Mrs. Robeson; ladies' chorus, advocated several years ago a home for destitute Con "The Old Oaken Bucket"; a tribute to Stonewall Jack federate men and women to be supported by our com son Choctaw chapter U. D. C; male quartet, "Comrades mon government and on December 7, 1915, reintroduced Sleep, Softly Sleep"; reading, Miss Ophelia Milwee; in the Senate a bill to turn over to this class of persons "Home, Sweet Home," chorus of ladies. General R. B. one of the National Homes which the United States In Coleman acted as master of ceremonies. spector General for Homes recommended to be abandon After the program an old-fashioned basket picnic ed; death having greatly thinned the ranks of the Union dinner was spread on a long table under the trees, and Veterans. was "raided" in the most approved war time fashion. The Commissioner of Pensions in his report for 1915 estimates that there are less than eight hundred thousand (800,000) Union Veterans and widows of the THE REBEL YELL. War Between the States now living. There are perhaps about two hundred thousand (200,000) Confederates of Small wonder that the Rebel Yell was one of the both sexes left, both constituting but a total of about most effective weapons of the Confederate army. It one per cent of our population. In a very few years they would strike terror to many a manly heart for which will all have passed away. the leaden hail of cannon would have no terrors. The Union Veterans are cared for in the most lib The veterans love still to give their yell. It is eral manner by our Government, as they should be, but one of their most distinctive and expressive features at the Confederate Veterans and especially the Confederate a reunion. Not applause, handclapping, stamping—just women receive deplorably meager aid from the States a yell that stirs your blood if it is for you, and chills of the South. The table herewith copied from a Nash your marrow if it is against you. ville paper, "The Confederate Veteran," gives the fol The yell will live with school boys—rooters, swim lowing figures: ming hole patrons and the like—but it will not be a military yell. Only the Confederate veterans can proper ly give the Rebel Yell. It should be carefully practiced —61- Number of various Southern States to do their duty, and above all Monthly Pensioners provide homes for women admitting into them both the State— Pension Both Sexes Veteran and his wife. Virginia $ 2.50 14,000 Senator Works' bill has excited great interest, in North Carolina 2.66 15.000 the South. It is unanimously endorsed by the United South Carolina 3.00 9,000 Daughters of the Confederacy, the Sons of Veterans, and Georgia 5.00 17,000 by the Commander-in-Chief and all the Commanders of Florida 10.00 5,000 Veterans (22 in all) save one, a very excellent gentle Alabama 5.33 14,000 man who says, "The South should take care of her Mississippi 3.33 15,000 own Veterans,'' which she is unable to do. At the last Louisiana 8.00 5,000 session of Congress the three Senators who were Con Texas 8.00 18,000 federate Soldiers—Bankhead, Thornton, and White, to Arkansas 4.00 10,000 gether with Senators Williams and Swanson, wrote Sena Kentucky 10.00 3,000 tor Works a letter thanking him for introducing the bill. Tennessee 8.33 8,000 The five members of the House who followed the Stars and Bars—Estopinal, Stedman, Talbott, Taylor, TOTAL 133,000 and Harris—heartily favored the measure and General Oklahoma 10.00 not given Estopinal introduced it in the House, making it, so to Missouri 10.00 not given speak, a bill of the Blue and Gray. The Veterans at Maryland Pays no pension but pro their annual conventions have always opposed National vides a home pensions to Confederates and as a body will not accept West Virginia Provides neither a home one if tendered, but they do desire to see the'r old com nor a pension. rades, bowed down by age, and suffering from poverty and disease, properly provided for. For the widows only four States provide a home— The Works' bill is favored by the best class of Union Mississ ppi, Missouri, Texas, and Oklahoma and per Veterans and should pass for the following reasons; It haps Kentucky—hence many poor old Veterans prefer is in no point of view a pension measure, providing only to starve in their homes rather than be separated from for the destitute. It is humanitar'an succoring only their wives. This terrible hardship the bill of Senator those disabled by age, poverty, or disease, likewise pro Works cures, providing for admittance into the home viding a home for Veterans of this District, West Vir of both husband and wife. Some of the States are pro ginia, and those scattered throughout the North who hibited by their constitutions from issuing bonds and receive no aid of any kind save from the philanthropic. cannot levy taxes bevond a prescribed maximum; Vir Again ninety-nine per cent of the tax payers of the South ginia and Georgia for instance. In other States the Leg were children or were not born when our unhappy war islatures take but a languid interest in their Confederate occurred and now, impelled by humanity, have to bear Veterans and widows; West Virginia none. It is to be the consequent burdens of a war for which they are in hoped that the U. D. C. will agitate the question of ade no way responsible. Lastly, the people of the South quate State pensions and force the Legislatures of the since the war have cheerfully paid their pro rata of five -62- billion two hundred million dollars, disbursed by our For many years the Confederate leader was employ Government for pensions and support of National and ed at the department of justice, but he left the service Northern State Homes and are now certainly entitled to several years ago. A few weeks ago he became ill the small aid Senator Works asks, about $800,000 in and was taken to Garfield hospital, where he lingered all, to aid them in taking proper care of the sufferers until he died. it will so greatly relieve, whose average age is 73 or 7 4. Colonel Mosby's death, his physicians say, was due At the Savannah convent'on of the "Daughters" that solely to old age and he was conscious and interested in most able and estimable lady, Mrs. Cornelia Branch what was going on around him until an hour before he Stone of Texas, at one time President General, very apt passed away. He will be buried at Warrenton prob ly styled the bill a measure "not of Charity but of ably Thursday and some survivors of his noted command Equity." will be his pall bearers. His death on Memorial day Gentlemen at the Capitol, notably Speaker Clark, was affecting to many. think the bill will go through with little or no opposi It was said of Mosby that he never took part in tion; if, as we hope, unanimously it will be a most gra veterans' reunions because twenty-two years ago when cious and crowning act of reconciliation. There is now he attended one cf the command at Alexandria, Va., he little, if any, bitterness in the breasts of those who was so overcome with emotion he was unable to speak. fought for and against the Union and we all rejoice that Some sisters, a son and a daughter survive h m. we have now one flag and one great and united country which we hope will endure forever. PERRY M. De LEON, JOHN SINGLETON MOSBY. Ex-Contederate Naval Officer. (Girard, in the Philadelphia Public Ledger.) By all odds the most celebrated guerrilla chieftain NOTED CIVIL WAR RAIDER SUCCUMBS. produced by our country was John Singleton Mosby. He was never more than a colonel in Lee's armv, but he WASHINGTON, May 30.—Col. John S. Mosby, the achieved a notoriety or fame scarcely matched by a most famous Confederate raider of the civil war, died score of officers in the civil war. here Tuesday. He was a native of Virgin a and was 82 To the north he was a terrible guerrilla—to the years old. south a bold and knightly partisan. "Rangers" was the Colonel Mosby was one of the most picturesque fig official title of his irregular band of hard-riding cavalry ures in the capital, where he had lived for many years men. after the war. In spite of his advanced age until a few Northern people were taught to believe that he was weeks ago it was his custom to take many walks through a monster and the fear of him was out of all proportion part of the downtown section of the citv. Age had not to his ability to do a military work. But he wasn't bent his figure nor dimmed the keenness of the eye that a monster. commanded the band that made vivid history in the war Mosby was a University of Virginia graduate and a and it was seldom he passed through a crowded street young lawyer. He was 30 years old when he began his that he was not recognized. independent military career in 1863. James L. William- -63- son, who was one of his rangers and who kept a diary, stout vindication for Gen. "Jeb" Stuart's cavalry and describes him as he first saw him that year. likewise rather a severe criticism of Lee's plan of action. "A rather slender but wiry looking young man of But to the northern lads of 30 years ago this mild medium height, with light hair, keen eyes and pleasant old Confederate cavalryman was classed among such expression." outlaw heroes as Captain Kidd, Morgan the Pirate and He then wore a full beard, but afterward kept his Jesse James. face cleanly shaven. From a northern viewpoint the three unforgivable Mosby refused to surrender when Lee gave up at men of the south were Colonel Mosby, President Jeffer Appomattox. Twelve days later, however, he formally son Davis and Captain Wurz, commandant of the Ander- disbanded his men, but with about 40 of them rode south sonville prison. to join Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army. The union authorities refused at first to parole General Hancock officially reported to General Hal- Mosby, as they had paroled Lee and his army and leck: "Some of Mosby's own men are in pursuit of him Johnston and his army. They regarded Mosby as a for a reward of $2000 offered by me." military outlaw, hence the reward for his capture. Two days before that Secretary of War Stanton had As for Wurz, he was hanged when Sherman's army telegraphed to Hancock, who was at Winchester, Va.: freed the union prisoners at Andersonville. "There is evidence that Mosby knew Booth's plan" The record of the United States in this respect looks —concerning the assassination of Lincoln—"and was very bright in contrast with that made just now by the here in the city with him." English at Dublin. As late as May 4, or almost a month after Lee's sur render, General Grant, who was then in Philadelphia, telegraphed to General Halleck: CONFEDERATE VETERANS BRAVE RAIN AND "I would advise offering a reward of $5000 for SLEET TO HONOR P. M. COCKRELL Mosby." That was done and a price of $5000 was put upon WARRENSBURG, Mo., Dec. 16.—A few gray-haired Mosby's head and $25,000 upon the head of Governor veterans, members of M. M. Parsons camp of Confederate Smith of Virginia. But nobody captured Mosby and he Veterans, stood around the open grave of their dead gave himself up late in June and was paroled, a parole comrade and chieftain, Gen. Francis M. Cockrell, this having previously been refused him. afternoon and performed the rites for a fallen soldier By one of those strange whirligigs of fate Col. John before consigning his body to the tomb. As they bared S. Mosby, once the terror of the north and the hero of their heads, sleet pelted upon them and their clothing the south, had his position somewhat reversed after was soaked by a cold rain, but none flinched in the per the war. formance of his duty. He became republican and a great friend of Presi The funeral train bearing the body of General dent Grant. Grant gave him a snug berth in the federal Cockrell arrived at Warrensburg from Washington at service, but his republicanism was never popular with midnight last night. The casket was borne to the former the bold guerrilla chieftain's southern admirers. home of the dead senator. There it was placed in the Mosby's book about the Gettysburg campaign is a east room, surrounded by banks of floral offerings. At -64- 2 o'clock this afternoon the funeral procession took up ADDRESS OF GENERAL D. M. HAILEY, its way to the First Presbyterian church, where several Commander Oklahoma Division, U. C. V. thousand Warrensburg citizens had gathered. The mem bers of the Johnson county bar, of which General Cock rell had been a member for nearly sixty years, attended We meet again today following our custom of hold in a body. The county officers, city officers, members of ing an annual reunion of the Confederates of th s State M. M. Parsons camp of Confederate Veterans, members and it is a comfort and delight to me as your Command of the F. M. Cockrell. chapter, United Daughters of the er, to see so many of the old Comrades present. It is a Confederacy, and of the normal school faculty also at further pleasure to be able to state that the United Con tended in a body. The services were opened with the federate Veterans have had a uniformly prosperous year. singing of "Nearer, My God, to Thee." The affairs of our Association have been successful The Rev. Elbert Heftner, General Cockrell's pastor, and the camps have shown increased interest during the presided. The funeral oration was delivered by Dr. W.l- year. While many of our Comrades have passed to the liam H. Black, president of the Missouri Valley college Shades Beyond the River, there have been sufficient re of Marshall, Mo., and a life long friend of Senator Cock cruits to maintain our numbers in the camps. rell. At the close of Dr. Black's oration Judge John F. Our Governor and other state officers have been Phillips of Kansas City told of his lifelong friendship generous with us, and have helped us out on many oc for General Cockrell, since their first meeting as law casions. yers at the court house in Warrensburg in 1857. The Confederate Home at Ardmore has had a suc cessful year. Some additions have been made and some changes in plans and operation. With the farm and live AGED PIONEER, CIVIL WAR VET, DEATH VICTIM. stock much is produced on the place to cut down ex pense and add a few luxuries for our old comrades who (News-Capital, McAlester, Oklahoma.) are making their home there. They themselves have worked with a renewed ambition to make the place sight Captain E. L. Dooley died today at his residence ly and soothing to the eye. Many flowers and much south of the city of Bright's disease, after an illness of shrubbery have been set out in tasteful designs and has many weeks. The deceased was 73 years of age and had added much to the beauty of the surroundings. Since been a resident of this part of the country for the past our last reunion there has been a change in the manage ment. Comrade J. H. Harris of Oklahoma City has twenty or twenty-five years. He served in the civil war, succeeded Comrade Ijams. Under his supervision affairs being a member of General Forrest's cavalry. of the Home have prospered and the business of the in When the movement for the betterment of the truck stitution has been handled in a businesslike manner. He gardeners and the better handling of their produce was is kind and considerate of the Old Comrades, and has the happy faculty of keeping them all in a good humor, and instituted here a year ago, Captain Dooley was one of maintaining perfect peace and order. the moving spirits and was honored by being elected The general health of the inmates has been good president of that organization. during the year, but due to advanced age the Grim -65— Reaper has stalked among them many times. General 1 am also delighted to report increased interest debJity and pneumonia have been the chief causes. among the Sons and Daughters. This is especially true Since the last annual report there have been thirteen of the Sons, due largely to the efforts of General Glass, deaths. General Brady and Colonel Bruce. During the fiscal year of 1915-16 there have been An active and vigorous campaign was inaugurated, thirty-six admitted to the Home, twenty-four men and Colonel Bruce visiting practically all of the larger cities twelve women, and two withdrawals. Just t > show that of the state, and either resuscitating the camps already the spirit of chivalry is not dead, and that Dan Cupid there, or organiz ng new ones. There are today several impartially discharges his arrows, there wero wedding camps of Sons of Confederate Veterans, all in a good bells ringing within the Home recently, Comrade Dobbs healthy condition, much credit and praise is due to Gen and Mrs. P lorence were the high contract ng parties. eral Glass and Brady and Colonel Bruce. For Mrs. Florence, this is the fifth invasion cf the con Before I complete my address, I feel that I must jugal state. The Board of Control wished them many say something to you about the Reunion at Birming happy anniversaries of the day. ham. Seme of you were there, but a vastly greater In passing, I desire to make a few remarks regard number did not enjoy the pleasure. ing our pensioners. We are still much in the same vague We were handsomely received by the citizens of atmosphere that surrounded us at this t me one year Birmingham, and were treated most hospitably. The city ago. The amount appropriated for this purpose is total was profuselv decorated with the Stars-and Bars as well ly inadequate, but we are most thankful for the start. as with the Stars and Stripes, and every effort was made It developed that there were many more applications to make the visit of the Veterans one long to be remem than the legislature or the Pension Board expected. bered. There were approximately 60,000 visitors in the This state of affairs made it impossible to all JW a city, most of whom were veterans. A tented city was sum that would be of any material benefit. However, provided for the Veterans who preferred this style to the it has given the opportunity to open the way, and with hotel. Thev were made comfortable, and the mess was our friendly Governor and our generous legislators I fine. It was certainly a treat to sit around the camp in feel that we may be able to get a much larger appro the twilight and hear told and retold the stories of the priation next January. It has already been somewhat Sixties. At this camp there were about six thousand increased, and those now on the list will draw approxi Veterans registered. mately seven dollars and fifty cents per quarter. It General Bennett H. Young was not a candidate to must be considered further, however, that there are at succeed himself, as Commander-in-Chief of the U. C. V. this time six hundred new applications for pensions pend The sentiment seemed to favor General George B. Harri ing. We shall hope for the best, in the matter of fur son, of Opelika, Alabama, and when h s name was pro ther favors along this line. Our Pension Commissioners posed he was elected bv a practically unanimous vote. remain the same as they were last year, and so also are His selection was a good one. He was a gallant soldier the members of the Board of Control. This insures in and rendered faithful service to the Southern Cause. He creased efficiency in the conduct of our affairs. To this is an honorable man and stands high in the circles in I am also glad to add, that we nave had the cordial co which he moves. The United Confederate Veterans may operation of all Brigade and Camp Commanders. well be proud of their new Commander-in-Chief. -66- Washington, D. C, was selected as the place in HEADQUARTERS OKLAHOMA DIVISION U. C. V. which to hold the 1917 Reunion. This selection, how ever, came after a most spirited contest, in which our Adjutant General's Office own Tulsa was beaten by a solitary vote. General Glass North McAlester, Oklahoma. and Brady of Tulsa are to be congratulated upon the Order No. 1 splendid fight they made. They were on the ground early and were busy every moment of the three days. By order of General Bennett H. Young. Commander The movement that was born obscurely to do away in Chief of the United Confederate Veterans, the annuai with the Annual Reunions, met with a very severe rebuff reunion will be held at Birmingham, Alabama, May 16th, at B rmingham. The sentiment against it was so nearly- 17th and 18th, 1916. unanimous that it was impossible to find one person who It is further ordered that the Brigade Commanders would father the movement. This annual festival occa- issue orders to the Camp Commanders, notifying them si. n is too sacred and too deepl/ inbedded in the hearts of this order and urging them, if they have not already of the veterans, to be voluntarily surrendered. It means done so, to immediately remit to Gen. Mickle, Adjutant too much to us, this annual brotnerly greeting, tj be General at New Orleans, La., the annual dues of the easily cast aside, and I believe I voice the sent ments of members. all my comrades, when 1 sav that the time to discontinue It is further ordered that the camps select delegates cur reunions is when all Confederate soldiers are resting and alternates to represent their camps at the reunion together under the shade of the trees on the other side and forward their names at once to Gen. Mickle, that he of the river. may have sufficient time to prepare and send badges and And, now, my Comrades, before I conclude I wish to buttons to those who may desire them. remind you, as I have done each year since serving as The official route to the reunion will be the Rock your Commander, that our Comrades are leaving us, and Island and Frisco by way of Memphis, but comrades will that now more are on the other side than on this, and we be at liberty to take the southern route by way of New should draw closer to each other. Those of us who Orleans if they so prefer. are still here shculd live more as a family and less as a communit'-. It should be our sacred dutv as well as our The following rates will obtain: pleasure to be on the watch for one of our number who Durant $19.0 5 has met with misfortune and lead him by the hand to Tulsa ^2.50 a place of shelter. Be ever ready to speak a word of com Ardmore 20.75 fort and good cheer into the ear of a comrade who is Pauls Valle ' 22.55 discouraged or downcast, this will make the last days McAlester 20.75 if all of us, days of pure gold. I thank you. Muskogee 20.90 Sulphur 21.35 Oklahoma City ; 2 5.45 Vinita 22.50 Lawton 25.90 Altus 26.35 —6 7- Rates from intermediate points may be obtained that this immense throng was cared for with little or no from local agents. confusion and no single case was reported where a Vet All brigade and camp commanders are requested era or visitor had not been amply provided for. At the to have this order published in local papers that all camp, the Tented City, there were nine thousand veterans comrades may have notice. registered, a fact which shows the very large number It is the desire of the Division Commander that as of the "men in gray" who attended this reunion. many of the old comrades as possible attend this re The first day of the reunion was largely consumed union. D. M. HAILEY, in the routine of committee work and the veterans put Attest: Commander Oklahoma Division. in the day getting located and seeing the sights of inter R. B. COLEMAN, Adjutant General. est, and Birmingham has many of them. On the 17th. the prominent feature of the day was the parade. The arrangements were in the hands of BIRMINGHAM REUNION. General McCrossen who had with him a corps of very ef ficient assistants and for one time in the h story of annual The annual reunion of the United Confederate Vet reunions the great parade was "pulled off" without con erans for 1916 was convened in Birmingham, May 16th., fusion or delay. At the appointed hour, responding to a 17th. and 18th. wave of his sword, and to the accompaniment of military Preparations on a grand scale were made for wel airs by the bands, the great procession moved forward coming and entertaining the veterans and vis tors. The with the same precision as a well organized and drilled city was profusely decorated with Stars and Bars inter in litary organization. With General McCr ssen leading, mingled with the Stars and Stripes. When the visitors next came the mounted police of the city of Birmingham. began to arrive they were met at the station by the var Immediately following was Governor Henderson of Ala ious committees and conveyed in automobiles to the dif bama, with his staff and accompanied by the infantry, ferent hotels and many of the veterans to the "tented artiller" and signal corps of the Alabama National Guard. c ty" that was especially prepared for those who pre Next in line were the visit'ng mil tary organizations, ferred to "camp out" while they were at the reunion. among which were the famous Richmond Blues and The sleeping quarters were most comfortable and the Richmond Grays. mess provided was excellent. General Young and his official staff were next in The advance delegations began arriving on the 15th., line, heading the main body of the Confederate Veterans. at which time Gen. Bennett H. Young, Commander in After General Young came the Departmental and Div Chief and his staff, the Division Commanders and their ision Commanders with their staffs, Sponsors, Mads and official families and Gov. J. Taylor Ellvson, of Virginia, chaperons. The spectacle was beautiful and inspiring. Chairman of the Battle Abbey Commission. Headquar The full length of the procession was approximately ters were maintained at the Tutwiler Hotel. eight miles while the greater number of the veterans By the morning of the 16th. the city was thronged rode in automobiles there were many who preferred with veterans and visitors. It was estimated at that time march'ng, as a reminder of the wav they did it fifty that there were fifty thousand visitors in the c ty. Ar rears ago. Bands were interspersed at intervals so rangements of the committee organizations were such that at no time would a spectator be beyond the sound of -68— one. Altogether it was one of the most successful par COL. HILARY A. HERBERT INVITES THE VETERANS ades since the first reunion twenty-six years ago. TO HOLD THEIR 1917 REUNION IN One feature was three automobiles filled with mem WASHINGTON CITY. bers of the Ku Klux Klan, just to recall to memory of the old veterans certain phases of the old reconstruction Col. Hilary A. Herbert, one of Alabama's grand old days. men, formerly a member of President Cleveland's cabi General George P. Harrison elected to succeed Gen. net, but now a resident of Washington, is the official representative of the Capital City to urge the Confeder Bennett H. Young as Commander in Chief of the Con ate veterans to hold their next reunion in the nation's federate Veterans. capital. General Young, after calling the meeting together, "We regard the present as an especially appropriate emphatically declared that he would not permit his time for the veterans to decide on Washington," said name to be placed before the convention to succeed him Colonel Herbert. "What could be more inspiring, what self. could show the world more strikingly that we are a united nation than to have the Confederate veterans When the matter of nominations was reached Gen march down historic Pennsylvania avenue from the Cap eral Sjkes of Mississippi presented the name of General itol to the White House and there be reviewed by the Harrison, for Commander in Chief of the Veterans. President of the United States? As a Confederate veteran myself, 1 believe we could show no higher, no General West of Georgia seconded the nomination. Two more striking example of southern patriotism than we or three other short speeches were made endorsing the could by deciding to accept the inv tation from Washing candidacy of General Harrison. The sentiment seemed ton which is so cordially and hospitably extended by the to be unanimous and he was elected by acclamation. district commissioners and by all the civic bodies of the General Harrison made a short talk in accepting in city. which he thanked the comrades for the honor conferred "Now is the time of all others to have our patriot upon him. That he felt his unworthiness to fill the ism at the highest point. It is a time to show the rest place but that respecting their confidence in him, he of the world that we are all for America first. And it would do his best to justify their good opinion. will demonstrate to the whole nation that the wounds of Gen. John P. Hickman was elected to the command war have entirely healed and that where America is of the Army of the Tennessee, Gen. Van Zandt was re concerned we are all of one mind." elected to the Department of the Trans-Mississ'ppi with Colonel Herbert was a guest at a luncheon given out opposition. Gen. John Thompson Brown was also yesterday by General Hooper of the Alabama veterans elected to the command of the Army of Virginia. to his staff and after briefly extending his invitation and After adjournment of the meeting there was a "love telling his old Alabama comrades how eager Wash ng- feast" during which Gen. Harrison was the recipient of ton was to have them, they unanimously passed a reso congratulations and good wishes from all present. lution indorsing the acceptance of the invitation. Colonel -69- Herbert has with him many official invitations, among the Confederate veterans their cordial and hearty invita which are the following: tion to hold the 1917 reunion in this c tv. "Joint Conventions Committee of the Trade Bodies 01 "As evidence of the interest which the people of the Washington, D. C, May 8, 1916. District of Columbia feel in this respect, the commission "To the Commander-in-Chief and Delegates to the Con ers have recently been called upon by representatives of federate Veterans' reunion. the Washington Beard of Trade, the Washingt n Cham "Gentlemen: The citizens of the National Capital, ber of Commerce, and the Washington Retail Merchants' through the presidents of the trade bodies extend a cor assoc ation, to express the earnest desire of these organ dial and heartv invitation to you and your organization izations that this invitation be extended, and have offered to hold the 1917 reunion in Wash'ngton, D. C. 'heir zealous co-operation to make the visit an occasion "No city is better adapted to entertain fittingly your of pleasurable recollection. Very respectfully, great organization than the Nation's Capital, and no oth "BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE er city can present a boulevard of such historic interest DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, and surroundings as spacious Pennsylvania avenue in "By O. P. NEWMAN, President." its unobstructed course from the cap tol to the White House for a great parade and review. "Should you honor us with an acceptance of this OKLAHOMAN8 ARE DETERMINED TO GET NEXT invitation, we can assure you that every attention will be REUNION. given for the comfort of all who may be in attendance. "As the month of May presents the city at its best, (Birmingham Age Herald, May 17) we express the hope that that month may be selected for The Oklahomans are here with the determination your reunion in 1917. of getting the next reunion and thev are against all the "We have the honor to present this invitation talk of making this the final reunion. Here are the through Col. H'lary A. Herbert, and we trust that favor resolutions thev adopted on the train en route to Birm able consideration will be given it. Very respectfullv, ingham: "E. C. BRANDENBURG. "Whereas, It is of common report that there will "President Board of Trade. be offered at the Birmingham reunion a resolution to "P. T. MORAN, abolish the national or general reunion of United Confed "President Chamber of Commerce. erate Veterans after the conclusion of this reunion. "R. P. ANDREWS, "Therefore, Be it resolved bv the Oklahoma division "President Retail Merchants Association." on train in transit to the reunion, that we are unalter "Executive Office Commissioners of the District of ably opposed to the offering or the passing of such reso Columbia, Washington, May 13, 1916. lution and shall oppose the same if offered. "To the Commander-in-Chief and Delegates to the Con "Resolved, further, that we are in favor of meeting federate Veterans' Reunion: with our comrades in general convention so long as there "Gentlemen: The commissioners of the District of is one left to meet w th. Columbia would be pleased if in their name and that of "Resolved, further, that we believe that our mission the people of the National Capital you would convey to is not yet fulfilled. —70- "Maj. Gen. D. M. Hailey, commander; Brig. Gen. TULSA'S INVITATION TO THE VETERANS TO HOLD Thomas D. Turner, commanding First brigade; Brig. Gen. Thomas B. Hogg, commanding Second brigade; THEIR 1917 REUNION IN THEIR CITY. Brig. Gen. J. J. McAlester, commanding Choctaw brigade; Brig. Gen. H. H. Allen, commanding Chicka (Birmingham Age Herald, May 17.) saw brigade. AN INVITATION. "Done on train, May 15, 1916. "GEN. W. P. FRANCES, To the United Confederate Veterans in Annual Reunion, Birmingham, Alabama. "Commander Third Brigade." Greetings: In the Oklahoma partv, among others, are the fol The citv of Tulsa, Oklahoma, through its mayor and lowing: board of commissioners desire to extend to your organ Maj. Gen. D. M. Hailey, A, Eight Louisiana infantry, ization a verv cordial invitation to hold your annual commanding. reunion for 1917 in Tulsa. Col. R. B. Coleman, D, Eighth Missouri infantry, In doing this we feel that our railroad, hotel and adjutant general and chief of staff. ether facilities are ample to take care of the tens of Brig. Gen. T. D. Turner, E, Fifth Missouri cavalry, thousands who annually attend your reunion. commanding First brigade. Should you decide to honor Oklahoma and Tulsa by Brig. Gen. T. B. Hogg, E, Second Arkansas cavalry, visiting us in 1917 we promise you a genuine Oklahoma commanding Second brigade. welcome. Brig. Gen. J. J. McAlester, captain, B, Twenty- Our convention hall has a seating capacity cf 6200 second Arkansas infantry, commanding Choctaw brigade. and is equipped with a munic pal pipe organ costing Brig. Gen. J. H. Hargis, H, F.rst Arkansas division, $20,000. commanding Chickasaw brigade. J. H. SIMMONS, Mayor. Col. Jack Bates, E, Eighth Virgin a cavalr •; S. R. A. L. FUNK. Commissioner. Darden, A, Fourth, First Alabama infantry; W. F. Miller, A. D. WALKER, Commissioner. P, Twelfth Tennessee infantry; John C. Cates, E, Nine A. W. BRINK, Commissioner. teenth Tennessee cavalry; A. W. Harris, orderly, Twen CHARLES YOUNKMAN, Commissioner. tieth Louisiana cavalry; W. G. Weams, D, Thirt -fourth Arkansas infantrv; T. M. Connor, B, First battalion, Ten STATE OF OKLAHOMA nessee cavalry; W. H. Perdue, F. Seventy-second Georgia EXECUTIVE OFFICE, OKLAHOMA CITY cavalry; B. F. Phillips, I, N nth Alabama infantry; J. Mav 9, 1916. W. Simmons, B, Parker's Sharpshooters; J. M. Gamble, Hon. W. N. Brandon, Commanding Chief S. C. V. and A. Thirty-ninth Georgia infantry; P. T. Shubort. A. Sec Hon. N. B. Forrest, Adjutant Chief of Staff, S. C. V.. ond Texas cavalrv; E. Hill, Ward's Alabama battery; T Memphis, Tennessee. P. Murrah, A, Twelfth Mississippi cavalry; John Perdu* Centlemen: Holcombs, S. C. Legion, W. W. Godner, C, Eighteenth As governor cf the state, 1 have this day extended an Alabama infantry. invitat'on to the United Confederate Veterans to hold -71- the 1917 reunion at Tulsa, Oklahoma. In connection Confederate Veterans and their sons to come to Tulsa in with this I desire to most cordially invite the Sons of 1917. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, Confederate Veterans to hold their reunion at Tulsa at E. O. Tilburne, Secy. the same time. In doing this, I assure you that the state of Oklahoma will esteem it a great honor and THE INDIANS INVITE YOU privilege to have your assoc ation meet here at that time. The Cherokee, Choctaws and Chickasaws settled the Very respectfully, Indian Territory in 1838 and by 1840 had builded the R. L. WILLIAMS, Governor. largest religious and educational force west of the Mis sissippi. In 1861 General Albert Pike, explorer, soldier STATE OF OKLAHOMA and statesman, made a treaty with these tribes by which they joined the Confederacy and according to their EXECUTIVE OFFICE, OKLAHOMA CITY population sent more men into the army than any state May 9, 1916. in the south. Hon. Bennett H. Young, General Commander U. C. V. TULSA DELEGATION. and Dr. D. M. Hailey, Commander Oklahoma Divi sion U. C. V., McAlester, Oklahoma. (Birmingham Age Herald, May 17.) Gentlemen: The Tulsa delegation, headed by the largest band in the city, appeared early and began their work, and On behalf of the good citizens of the state of Okla they have with them three of as beautiful g'Tls as one homa, 1 beg to extend to you a cordial invitation to would care to look upon, as sponsors. All of the girls hold the 1917 reunion at Tulsa, Oklahoma. In doing are Indians, each of them being representatives of differ this, I want to assure you that this giant young com ent tribes. monwealth will appreciate the nonor of having the old Miss Bessie L. Brady of Tulsa, state sponsor, is a veterans as our guests at that time. Cherokee Indian maid; Miss Helen Wolcott of Ardmore Very respectfully, is of the Chickasaw nation, and Miss Lucile Lester of R. L. WILLIAMS, Governor. McAlester is a member of the Choctaw tribe. These Indian maids not only are extremely desirous THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND FEDERATION that the next reunion be held at Tulsa, but they are ac tively working to the end that it be brought there next OF ALLIED INTERESTS OF TULSA, OKLAHOMA year. They state that Tulsa has made three unsuccess May 12, 1916. ful fights for the reunion, and point out that, although On the 6th of this month it was our sincere pleasure one-third of the Confederate veterans live on the western to send an invitation to Adjutant Mickle and through side of the Mississippi, the reunion has crossed the river him to the United Confederate Veterans inviting the but three times out cf 26. National Confederate Reunion to meet in Tulsa in 1917. The Ind an sponsors will ask the veterans to pass a Therefore, we extend a most hearty and s ncere in resolution at their sess on Thursday memoralizing Con vitation through you for all Tutsans, more especially gress to pass a bill to reimburse the three nations they those interested in the Chamber of Commerce to the represent for lands confiscated at the close of the war -7 2- of the '60s. The Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw na George Harrison, of Opelika, with his sponsor, followed, tions supplied many men to the Confederate arms, and and thousands of the veterans fell in line, each one at the close of the war their land was taken from them moving with alert step and buoyant spirit with either a and divided among some 8000 of their former negro fair sponsor or handsome matron by his side. slaves, freed by the federal government. The Indian Like a well disciplined army they moved in twos maidens believe that the veterans of the south want Con and then columns of fours and eights, closing with a gress to return to their people that which was taken wheel of sixteen abreast, calling forth peals of appro from them. bation from the galleries. They point out that the three Indian tribes were the After breaking line a Virginia reel was formed and only ones of the southern states in which the land was these stately generals with their partners went through confiscated and turned over to former slaves, and for the figures with much grace. this reason, believe that there was injustice in the pro Among those noted in the great throng were Gen. ceeding. C. W. Hooper, of Selma; Gen. Calvin Vance, of Missis The sponsors will ask the vets to come to Tulsa next sippi; Gen. L. N. Buchanan, of Florida; Gen. W. J. year Thursday morning. Stone, of Franklin, La.; Gen. John L. Hickman, of Nash ville; Gen. J. T. Brown, of Richmond; Gen. Howry, of Washington, with Miss Fannie Dunn, Capt. Dean, of BRILLIANT BALL FOR VETERANS AT THE Eufaula, with Mrs. John T. Yeatman, Mrs. Frank Oden- heimer, of Washington, D. C; Gen. McAlester, of Okla HIPPODROME. homa; Gen. Charles S. Peyton. Among the local women noted were Mrs. J. Rivers (Birmingham Age Herald, May 17.) Carter, Misses Margaret Moore, Augusta Clark, Margaret The Confederate Veterans' ball at the Hippodrome Gage, Beverly Leake, Rose Owen McDavid, Mrs. Carl was a thrilling s ght and one which moved the spectators Seals, Mrs. Manly Foster, Miss Foster, of Montgomery, with conflicting emotions. Mrs. Ned R. McDavid, Mrs. C. J. Sharp, Mrs. Molton Five thousand patriotic men and women under one Smith. roof, every heart beating with the same joyful rhythm —Confederate and American flags unfurled, the band playing "Dixie," "Old Kentucky Home," "Maryland, My MEMORIAL SERVICE HELD BY VETERANS. Maryland,'' and other soul stirring melodies, combined to make a never to be forgotten occasion. (Birmingham Age Herald, May 17.) The master of ceremonies was Mr. John T. Yeatman, Birmingham, Ala., May 17.—All other meetings who proved himself to be an untitled general so well did connected with the reunion of the United Confederate he and General Kyle, of Tennesse, marshal the forces. veterans gave way at noon today for the annual mem Gen. Bennett Young, of Louisville, the beloved orial exerc ses, held under the joint auspices of the vet- commander in chief of the Confederate veterans, led the terans and the Confederate Southern Memorial associa grand march with Miss Glad's Kernan, of New Orleans, tion, known as the "memorial women." the beautiful sponsor in chief for the veterans. Gen. It was announced at headquarters today that the -73— parade of the official women, sponsors and maids of the As General B. H. Young completed the introduc various departments, set for this afternoon, had been tion of Mr. Cobb as "a Kentuckian," the son of a Confed postponed until tomorrow, when it will be held in con erate soldier and one of the greatest living newspaper nection with the grand parade of the veterans. correspondents," Memoli's band began to play softly the The morning session of the veterans was devoted to first bars of "My Old Kentucky Home." As the instru miscellaneous business. The Sons of Veterans, as a body, ments progressed with the tune 200 men on the stage made an official call upon the old soldiers, after which arose and began to sing the familiar ballad. Before they they returned to their own hall for the election of offi had half completed the first verse, the entire audience cers. Commodore A. O. Wrigi.t, of Jacksonville, Fla., arose, and the voices blended in a m'ghty volume of commanding officers of the remnants of the naval forces sound—a tribute to thewritings of one of the great of the confederacy, together with Captain Dabney immortalizers of the Confederacy. Scales, of Memphis, another veteran of the navy, also Mr. Cobb assured his hearers in the beginning that were introduced. An ovation was given to General T. he was not an orator. He appeared greatly surprised T.. Munford, of Virginia, who was referred to by General at everything he said, and many of the veterans also ap Bennett Young as one of the most noted leaders of the peared to be surprised. Confederate cavalry forces. An address on "The Memorial Women," by the North Carolinians Help Him Along. Rev. Albert Sidney Johnson and the reading of the A delegation of North CaroPnians occupied a place roll cf the dead by General William E. Mickle for the on the stage, and they exchanged opinions about his veterans and Miss D. M. L. Hodgson, for the memorial style of delivery that were appreciative, to say the least. association, featured the memorial service. Mrs. W. J. "Looks like he is going to do right well for a beginner," Behan, president general of the association, made a said one old veteran to his neighbor, who heartily agreed short talk on the work of the organization. with him. In the election of officers for the Sons of Veterans, Mr. Cobb kept his auditors in a state of continual Virginia presented two candidates for the office of com laughter for half an hour or more. For the remainder mander, Ernest P. Baldwin, of Roanoke, and Garland of the evening their time was divided between tears and P. Reed, of Norfolk. After a spirited fight, Mr. Bald smiles, for his reminiscences of the old south were near win was elected on a roll call of the camps. to those who were assembled to hear him. The most striking feature of his entire address came at the close, when he declared himself unequivocally in IRVIN COBB, AUTHOR AND WAR COR DESPONDENT, favor of preparedness for war. As he made the declara ADDRESSES VETERANS. tion, one of the party of North Carolinians exclaimed: "He's talking right now, boys," and they all agreed. (Birmingham Age Herald, May 17.) "I don't want mv country to go to war except in de As a feature event on the programme of the United fense of our national honor and integrity,'' said Mr. Confederate Veterans yesterday, Irvin S. Cobb was greet Cobb, "but 1 believe that the best life insurance for ed by one of the largest audiences ever assembled in a peace is preparedness for the other thing. I want to theatre in Birmingham at the Bijou last night. see my country equipped with the smartest standing -7 4- army, the biggest navy and the best coast defenses that wag and the carpetbagger; to pick up the broken shreds money can buy and manhood operate." of life; to teach your boys and your girls to be true His statements on preparedness were greeted with Americans, and at the same time to keep fresh in mem wild applause, and as he resumed his seat, General Young ory your intrepid leaders, were you serv.ng a lost cause arose and led his command in the old-fashioned "rebel then, or a cause that would ever die? yell" that well-nigh lifted the rafter of the old Bijou. "When in the distant years the last man who follow Refers to Belgium in Graphic Manner, ed the stars and bars to a noble defeat has passed from In his remarks leading up to his preparedness state this land and the army of the Confederacy is united in ments, Mr. Cobb referred to his trip through Belgium the whole and goes through the alabaster gates to pass with the German army. He told of the devastation of in grand review before the Commander-in-Chief of the that little European country; of the brave fight its peo destinies of all mankind, do you think that in the dooms ple made for their national entity; of their final downfall, day book of human ty your cause will be written as one and of the brave spirit with which they met the inevit that was lost? No! It will be written down as a cause able. that was won!" "When 1 saw a little handful of Belgians making Veterans Cheer Speaker to Echo. ready to oppose the relentless gray line that was sweep The band plaved "Dixie" in a frenzy. Old veterans ing down upon them from the north, fighting like a of the Confederacy, their voices cracked with the ravages sparrow against the eagle," he said, "I thought of that of time, piped their approval of what the great writer little army of 50 years ago in this country which gave said, and added emphasis to their yells by pounding their them the example of valor. fellows on the shoulders, on the head, smashing hats "When I saw Belgium in ruins I thought of Sher and crying like children. It was the greatest ovation man's march to the sea. When I saw war waged by ever paid to a speaker in Birmingham. wireless, by telegraph and telephone, when men were fighting a foe they never saw, I though of the hand-to- hand encounters you men before me had with your NO CLASSIC EPISODE OF CIVIL WAR GOES UNTOLD. enemy, and of how little fear was in your hearts at the thought of cold steel pressing against your breast with deadly purpose." We Have with L's Private John Allen and Lamar Fon Mr. Cobb referred to the south's fight as having taine, Both of Mississippi, Who Are Yarn been a "Lost Cause." Spinners of Renown. J 1 "But I can't find it in my heart to call it a 'lost cause,' " he continued. "When you men. in the valor of your young manhood, marched forth in the defense (Birmingham Age Herald, May 17.) • f our people and bared your breasts to the bullets of It is now assured that no classic episbde'of the civil the foe, were you serving a lost cause then or a cause war will go untold. This became the case when the an that wculd ever die? When you had accepted the final nouncement was made that not only would Private John arbitrament of the sword: when you had gone back to Allen, of Tupelo, Miss., be among those present when the your ravished homes to drive from your lands the scala roll was called, but that the other celebrated racontour. -7 5- Lamar Fontaine, also of Mississippi, would be on hand. Abraham Lincoln as saying to the Confederate states Incidentally Private John Allen's conspicuity as the peace commissioners, on board a steamer in Hampton only enlisted man among the Confederate hosts, has been Roads, "Just let me write 'Union' at the top of this challenged by Private B. C. Friend, of Danville, sheet and you may fill in what you please." Private Friend, scoffs at Private Allen's claims and say The old fiction recently was quoted by Henry Wat- ing that even if Private John had been a private in the terson in the Louisville Courier-Journal and provoked an war, he must have been promoted by now if he hasn't interesting controversy in southern newspapers, result been shirking his social duties. ing in the production of convincing proof that Lincoln's However that be, the two champion yarn spinners of attitude was not so conciliatory as represented, but pre the Confederacy are expected to be on hand in full force. sented the same terms that he required Grant to offer Both Fonta'ne and Allen are described as being an ad Lee at Appomattox—unconditional surrender. mixture of Demosthenes, Balzac and Henry Clay with a This is made plain in the "Memoirs of John H. Rea slight dash of John Temple Graves thrown in for lubri gan," who was postmaster-general of the Confederate cation. states and whose brother, it may be incidentally re But though Lamar Fontaine and Private John Allen marked, was a resident of Oklahoma City. have unwound many a quaint and picturesque tale about It is verified, moreover, by a letter from Jefferson the events that happened and didn't happen between the Davis to the confederate congress, dated at Richmond, years 1861 and 1865, they have never conflicted save February 6, 1865, and by another letter to President on one story which goes something like this: Davis, of the same date, written by the three confederate "1 was standing with mv right foot on the trench," commissioners—Alexander H. Stephens, R. M. T. Hunter he says, "and all but me had fled or had been cut down and John A. Campbell. by the terrific fire of the Federal hosts. Then it was that the Yanks began to charge. Standing firmly I The Macon Telegraph, in discussing the matter awaited their coming. One, two, three—fifty strong the says: came. Swinging my saber to the right and the left I It is largely a myth that Mr. Lincoln was decapitated them as they came until hearing a gentle so conciliatory. He was not so when congress voice behind me I looked up and beheld General Robert assembled in December, 1860. He requested E. Lee, mounted upon a white charger. that the republicans defeat all compromises, as "And never shall I forget the words he spoke. 'My he had none to make. In this "conference" his boy,' said the general. 'Restrain your youthful impetu terms were unconditional surrender, making osity or you'll make a slaughter pen of this battlefield.' " no promises. Rumors have filled the land with Mr. Lincoln's conciliatory intentions. His statement to the commissioners is plan—abso ERASING HISTORICAL FICTION. lute submission and the future to take care of (Daily Oklahoman) itself. ********* Many historical fictions have been erased in recent But when the armies had surrendered and years, the latest to disappear being that which credits the negroes freed, Mr. Lincoln then became -76— conciliatory. He was aware of the Thad Stev MRS. CORY GREETS OLD HEROES FOR DAUGHTERS. ens movement to declare us out of the union and to put us through a diabolical "reconstruc tion." (Birmingham Age Herald, May 17.) So, when Richmond fell Mr. Lincoln went Mrs. Chappell Cory voiced the sentiments of the there largely to see Judge John A. Campbell, Daughters of the Confederacy in her welcoming words for whom he had great admiration, and confer to the veterans at their opening meeting yesterday. about the methods of RESTORATION. Lincoln Mrs. Cory said: never used the word Reconstruction. It was "For the third time in her brief and buoyant his not compatible with his theory of "rebellion." tory, Birmingham has opened wide her doors to let the Lincoln told Judge Campbell that he desired blessed sunshine of your presence in. May I not better the southern states to each meet and rescind say the door has stood wide open all these 20 years the ordinance of secession, and that he pre and more s'nce first you came to light our homes and ferred, as far as possible, that the very men warm our hearts? who passed the ordinance of secession to be "Full many a noble heart has ceased to beat since the ones to rescind, as they were able men, and then; full many an old familiar face, in its gray and leaders of that view, and their action would wrinkled setting, grown young again with youth's im result in speedy acceptance by the people, and mortal bloom, is looking down upon us now from the restoration be facilitated. battlements of heaven. I would not have them see a This drew the south to Lincoln as our welcome short of giving all we have and are, love rising coming friend, for the antipathy of the Stevens on the wings of duty to heavenly perfection. Face to wing was known to our people. Hence the face, hand in hand and heart to heart, we mean to give southern people regarded the assassination of you such a happy time in Birmingham that your old Lincoln as a great calamity. And having pass comrades, who are listening and watching us from the ed through that "reconstruction," more awful far spirit land, will know for very deed and truth, 'we than the war itself, the people recognized the still love them down in Dixie.' difference between Lincoln, the restorationist, "Like many another radiant sun before and since, and Thad Stevens, the reconstructionist. And the sun of our beloved Confederacy sank to rise again. thus, it is the south honors Lincoln. No darker night than Appomattox has been followed by so bright a day. Clouds that seemed to have no rim Following the death of Lincoln, which was, indeed, of promise anywhere, held on and on their ceaseless, calamitous in its effect upon the south, Thaddeus Stev hopeless, cruel way across the southern sky. But truth ens and those who were disposed to place the southern never yet has died, nor a righteous cause been buried. states under the iron heel of tyranny, had full sway, Scant 50 years have gone, and the muse of history is the resultant iniquities being written in the history of chanting the praises of the Confederate soldier in all reconstruct on, an era of carpetbaggism and negro domi tongues and in every land. nation that ever will remain a blot upon the pages of "A m'llion throated cry for blood is doing its evil American history. best to wreck our good old world this sunny, springing —77— day. The only balm in all these Gileads of war, is that OKLAHOMA AT BIRMINGHAM. sacred principle for which our heroes dead and heroes living, went out to dare and die. When the right of From the day bef:re the convent'on commenced un men with common interests and common sympathies to til the day it was all over Oklahomans were decidedl; form their own governments and round themselves into on the job. Bands and individuals reverberated the nations shall be recognized and practiced, as it will be, praises of the Sooner state. Never has this Division had the war drum shall cease to throb and eternal peace be better or more active representation. gin her reign on earth. The Confederate soldiers' cause is a living, breathing cause, and the sore distress that The delegation was headed by Gen. D. M. Hailey, follows every violation of its immortal right to bless and Commander of the Oklahoma Division. His off cial fam ily consisted cf Gen. R. B. Coleman, Adjutant General: save, is vindication of the Confederate soldier's fame. Miss Julia Rowland, of Shawnee, Sponsor; Miss Nannie "My old and well beloved friends, there was al Maud Matthews, Oklahoma City, Maid of Honor; Miss ways one place where your star never did set, where your Lalla Bristol, Altus, Maid of Honor; Mrs. Leon Huck- sun never did cease to shine—in the hearts of the wom ins, Oklahoma Citv, Matron of Honor, and Mrs. Tate en of the south! The time will never come when the Brady, of Tulsa, Chaperon. mothers of the south shall fail to answer your spirit's call from the radiant haven on the other shore. We The Sons of Veterans, headed bv Gen. Merritt J. who proudly call ourselves Daughters of the Confed Glass and Gen. Tate Brady, of Tulsa, had with them as eracy, a mighty and growing host on whose behalf I Sponsor and Maids, Misses Bessie L. Brady, Sponsor; Helen Walcott and Lucile Lester, Maids of Honor, and speak today, in the endless future, even as now, will call Mrs. P. S. Lester, Chaperon. our little boys about our knees and teach them the noble Oklahoma was represented in the convention by ness of courage, the beauty of patriotism, and the holi Gen. T. D. Turner as a member of the Credentials Com ness of fidelity. And we shall find the teaching easy, mittee and R. B. Coleman of the Resolutions Commit and the lesson lasting. We shall tell them the story of tee. the Confederate soldier. Our mother hearts are glad With this delegation the Oklahoma Division was and glowing in the faith that generation after genera always in evidence. While the convention was in ses tion of our sons in their endless marching toward etern sion the ladies were being entertained by the soc ety of ity, have only to follow where your footsteps trod the Birmingham and on all occasions were in the forefront path of duty and of honor, to reach at last that heaven of functions of this sort. When the convention was where the army of the good made perfect shall await not in session the Oklahoma delegation with countless their coming. bands were on the streets informing the c'tizens and "And now, best loved veterans in all the world, glor visitors in an orderly obstreperous manner what a grand ious remnant of our knightly race, now that we have state Oklahoma was. Generals Glass and Brady were the ringleaders in this movement ana as a mark of the senti you with us once again, we would wish to close our ment they created it need be only said that they came swinging doors and bar them tight against your go within one vote of selecting Tulsa for the next annual ing." reunion. Apparently everyone favored this city but a -78- great many were fearful that so young a city would not of the nurserymen from New Jersey to Texas in their have adequate facil.ties for caring for the large number donations was something marvelous, all that were asked of visitors who would attend. to donate gave cheerfully and more than was asked of However such an impression was made that there them. With these trees, shrubs and flowers, in a short is hardly a question but that this thriving little "Queen while we will have a home that will be a pride to the of the Prairies" will be the successful candidate at the the cold prints of the daily newspapers. She describes next reunion. Much credit is due Generals Glass and viv dly the constant line of French soldiers going to the Brady for the splendid campa gn they made and much front patriotically singing their national airs and the good to the state of Oklahoma is bound to result in other constant line returning from the trenches tired, the publicity given the resources of this commonwealth. sick sore and crippled but not discouraged or disheart General Glass was honored by being advanced to ened. She says their patriotism and bravery are com Departmental Commander of the Sons of Veterans for parable only to those battle scarred veterans who, in the Trans-Mississippi Division. 1861 answered the call to arms for the protect on of The Birmingham reunion was a pronounced success Dixie land. She says further that the great gulf separat from every point of view. All who were so fortunate as ing the Old from the New World is no barrier to her love to go on the trip had a delightful time socially and the for the gocd old U. S. A. and the distance onl r lends citizens of Birmingham had the situation so well in fervor to her love for the good old Confederate Veterans hand that there were few if any, of the usual discomforts and the Daughters. She keeps constantly in mind our attending a convention of that size. They are entitled reunion and camp meetings and is looking with joyful to the congratulations of the veterans and v sitors for anticipation to the time next summer when she will take their attention and hospitality. her vacation and come back to be w'th us in the flesh as she is now in the spirit, at our reunions and other celebrations. She asks to be remembered tj all the MRS. X. 1). DAVIS, Veterans and to all the Daughters and Sons. Ex-President of the Daughters of the Confederacy, Okla homa Division writes to her friends from her home across the sea. The many friends of Mrs. T. D. Davis will be glad SIPT. JOHN W. HARRIS REPORTS OX CONDITIONS to know that she is enjoying her stay abroad. Frequent AT CONFEDERATE HOME AT ARDMORE. letters from her to her friends, among whom are many "General D. M. Hailey: Veterans and Daughters, have contained most interest "With pleasure I can report the Home in a very ing news concerning the gigantic struggle going on at prosperous condition. The general health of the inmates this time in Europe. From her letters we get the un- is good, with a few exceptions of chronic cases. All censored news and consequently much more reliable and seem happy and contented, and enjoy the State's liber adorned with some local coloring that is not disclosed in ality in maintaining so pleasant a home for them. the Agricultural Board), the Trustees secured us free Through the assistance of Honorable Frank Gault, (of donation of several hundred shade and fru't trees, also inmates, Trustees and the State, a home some others a large quantity of shrubs and flowers. The liberality may equal but not surpass in its beauty and loveliness. -79- The inmates enjoy looking after the shrubs and flowers, Wheeler, Wm., Lambert, Mrs. Francis A. it is a recreation they need, and a duty and pleasure to Dobbs, Calvin, Florence, Mrs. Lucy them. Very respectfully, "It is good to he here where we sit under our own J. W. HARRIS, Superintendent. vine and pecan trees, and discuss the war situation, and a larger majority would be glad to take up arms to de fend Old Glory against which they fought so valiantly DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. fifty-two years ago. "Grandma Whittles' 104th birthday was celebrated The Daughters of the Confederacy have made prog June 20th, with appropriate ceremonies. The Daughters ress during the past year but not so great as was de furnished ice cream and cake. Colonel Sidney Suggs sired. In some instances the Chapters have been lax supplied some excellent accordion music that he learned in rephing to communications, and, I regret to say, at in his youth, which must have been early in the nine times failed entirely to regard these communications. teenth century. However, the organization is stronger than it was a year "Number of inmates on the rolls, 102. Of this ago and the outlook gratifying. number 30 are females, 72 males. The Oklahoma Division was represented at the Na "Admitted to the Home the past twelve months, 23. tional convention held in San Francisco, in October last, "Deaths the past twelve months, 13. by Mrs. John L, Gait of Ardmore and Mrs. Lutie Hailey Florence, W. L., age 69, Ardmore, Oklahoma. Walcott also of Ardmore. There was a large number of Carlisle, James B., age 67, Oklahoma City, Okla delegates in attendance and a splendid meeting filled homa. with interest and instruction, was had. Wilks, Mrs. S. E., age 67, Tess, Oklahoma. The General Convention has three great objects in Appleby, A. M., Lawton, Oklahoma. view for completion dur'ng the present year. A debt of Williams, Wm. A., age 80, Brooken, Oklahoma. Honor on the Arlington Monument is to be paid, the Goodson, Wm. G., Ardmore, Oklahoma. Shiloh Monument is to be finished and ready for un Crayton, Sam S., age 76, Pawhuska. Oklahoma. veiling this fall and a Memorial Window to the Women Lester, W. E., age 70, Mill Creek, Oklahoma. of the Sixties is to be completed in the Red Cross Buld- Whitmore, R. M., age 103, Overbrook, Oklahoma. ing in Washington, D. C. Nelms, Joe J., age 7 6, Ardmore, Oklahoma. There seems to be no good reason why all of these Moreland, Mary J., age 71, Locust Grove, Oklahoma. should not be accomplished as the work in each instance Wheeler, William, age 78, McAlester, Oklahoma. is progressing smoothly at this time. It is sincerely Roberts, C. R., age 73, Regan, Oklahoma. hoped that when the National Convention is called to Withdrawals, 3. gether th!s fall the announcement can be made that the Roberts, Mrs. Lucinda, Regan, Oklahoma. efforts of the Daughters of the Confederacy have been Fowler, A. N., Chattanooga, Oklahoma. crowned with success. Brodie, J. L., Valliant, Oklahoma. When the matter of the selection of the city in On furlough, 22. which to hold the convention in 1916 was taken up, the Marriages, 2. Texas and Oklahoma Divisions pooled their interests -80- and made a strong fight for Dallas. Their efforts were June. She is still hale and expects to be with us for rewarded and the next National Convention will be held some years yet. .•••'•".'.',..• in the City of Dallas. This will give a splendid oppor The inmates of the Home are comfortable and con tunity for a large delegation of Oklahoma Daughters to tented and dwell together in peace and harmony as one attend the convention and it is greatly desired that as great family. many as possible be in attendance at that time. Referring again to the progress of our organization, At San Francisco the Oklahoma Division reported it is a pleasure to state that the women of the South, 36 chapters paid up and in good standing. While this the Daughters of the Confederacy have organized chap is a good record, it is only one more than the preceding ters from Boston to Brownsville and from the Atlantic year and there should be an earnest endeavor to in to the Pacific. With proper co-operation it will continue crease this during the present year. to flourish and spread the benign influence of its blessed doctrines. LUTIE HAILEY WALCOTT, The Daughters of this Division are still at work raising funds with which to erect a statue to that dis President Oklahoma Division, tinguished Indian General, Stand Waitie. Mrs. Mabel Daughters of the Confederacy. Anderson, of Pryor, has prepared a biography of him that is filled with interest, that is being sold for the benefit of the fund. Augmenting this there should be THE CONFEDERATE REUNION AT WASHINGTON, a ready and generous contribution from all so that the D. C. NEXT YEAR. monument we erect at Tahlequah to his memory shall be one of which we may be proud and which will do Headquarters United Confederate Veterans. proper honor to so brave and conspicuous a soldier. It Opelika, Ala., Aug. 17th, 1916. should not only be a pleasure but a duty to perpetuate To the Opelika Daily News, and all friendly newspapers the name of this great man. and periodicals: The Daughters continue to show a substantial in Regarding the approaching reunion of the Confed terest in the Confederate Home at Ardmore. There erate Veterans at Washington, D. C, as an occasion of have been many occasions during the past year when great importance, not only to the South, but to our the inmates have been entertained by the Daughters of common country; and desir'ng that this, the first meet Ardmore. ing of our organization outside of any of the late Con The last year has been a hard one and the ravages federate states, may be properly understood and appre of time has made its mark on many of the old veterans. ciated. I would thank you to publish the following Some have passed on and others are viewing a long letter from Col. Hilary A. Herbert, which gives the facts. shadow. One of the pioneers of the Home, in residence I heartily endorse the sentiments therein expressed and as well as years, went to his reward on June 4th. last, appeal to my comrades "to continue to march in the Grandpa Whittemore, who had reached the ripe old age 1 nes marked out for us by the immortal Lee." of 103 years. Respectfully yours, Grandma Whittle continues to be the dean of the GEO. P. HARRISON, institution having celebrated her 104th birthday in General and Commander in Chief, U. C. V. —81— Minett, Ontario, Canada, August 11, 1916. Colonel Cowan was a gallant commander of artillery My Dear General Harrison: in Hancock's corps of the Union army and particularly I am just in receipt of the commission on your staff distinguished himself at the battle of Gettysburg. Since which, without any solicitation, you did me the honor to the war he has become commander of the Loyal Legion tender, and I am now writing you further about our of the Union army and has been made an honorary 19^ reunian at Washington, the importance of which member of the "Orphan Brigade" of Kentucky, Confed cannot be overestimated. erate Veterans at Louisville, Kentucky, where he lives. Ever since Appomattox, it has been apparent that During the grand parade of the G. A. R., in Washington, in an irrevocable union the welfare of the South and the last October, Colonel Cowan moved at a camp-fire of the happiness of our whole country could only be obtained Hancock Corps Association, that the Confederate Vet by the restoration of good feeling between the sections. erans be invited by Washington to hold their 1917 re To this end I have tried to do my part, both in and out union in that city, the invitation to be carried by me. of office, and I was delighted beyond measure when 1 The resolution, put by Col. Myron H. Parker, of Wash saw the enthusiasm with which, after having accepted ington City, president of the association, was unanimous the invitation to Washington, our convention selected ly carried and the invitation was subsequently extended, you as its president. Under your control, 1 feel assured as you know, by the civic authorities of Washington, and that the visit of the Confederates in 1917 to their na was accepted at Birmingham. tional capital will be, as its authors and well-wishers Colonel Robert N. Harper, of Washington now act have intended, the climax of that good feeling between ing for the city authorities, recently wrote me an en the North and South that has been brought about large thusiastic letter on the subject, which I ventured to send ly by such Confederates as General Gordon and Stephen for inspection to Colonel Cowan, and in reply I have D. Lee, and the various reunions between the Blue and from Colonel Cowan a letter from which, without any Grav that culminated in the great meeting at Gettysburg consultation with him, I take the liberty of sending you in 1913. the following: At Birmingham one of our leaders, who has himself "Of course there are perfectly sincere persons, both done his full shar ein this great work, and who made a at the South and the North, who are not and never will great speech in that Gettysburg reunion, expressed to be reconciled. Yet we know that their number grows me the fear that the outcome of the proposed visit smaller steadily, while soldiers like ourselves are using might turn out to be an attempted reunion of all the all the means in our power to perfect a reconciliation Blue and all the Gray, in which case he feared some un between the Blue and the Gray. By the way," he goes happy friction might result, as there are still irreconcil- on to say, "it is curious horn persistently the story is be- ables both North and South. But, as you and I have 'ng told at the South that the Washington reunion of the always known, this movement has never had in view U. C. V. is a 'Blue and Gray' affair. I have done my any such purpose. best to correct that error, by the Courier-Journal, and in Col. Andrew Cowan, the originator of the move numerous letters, without much success. It ought to ment, and all the Union soldiers who voted for his reso be publisehd in ever ySouthern newspaper that the U. lution, understand it just as do you and I and the civic C. V. have bee ninvited to hold their 1917 reunion at authorities of Washington, who are to be our hosts. Washington by the Board of Trade, the Chamber of -82- Commerce, the commissioners of the District of Colum ton. These authorities had not assumed the obligations bia, and the Retail Merchants' Association, as fully and of host when the U. D. C. held their 1912 convention at cordially as any such invitation was extended to the G. the national capital. Yet all Washington, official and A. R.; also, that the meeting will not be a Blue and non-official, opened its heart and its doors to our South Gray combination, but the U. C. V. oming to the capital ern women and gave them a reception that won them of the country to meet a warm and generous entertain completely. With the ity authorities now our respon ment. Colonel Parker wrote me after the invitations had sible hosts, taking counsel with, and aided by leading been accepted that the U. C. V. would receive a warmer residents, Confederates, as well as broad-minded Union welcome than had ever been given the G. A. R., not be soldiers, with whom the invitation originated, -the* recep cause they were any better beloved, but rather because tion to the Confederate soldiers will undoubtedly ecl'pse of the pride of all our people in the valor and sacrifices that given to the Daughters. I hope you will see proper shown by the Confederate soldiers in striving to main to publish very soon some such order as I am suggesting. tain the ideals of the Confederacy. You have doubtless Faithfully yours, secured the services of an influential and able man to head the entertainment committee. His letter rings HILARY A. HERBERT. true." Colonel Cowan's suggestion here about correcting such misapprehensions as may exist as to the purposes Headquarters United Confederate Veterans, we have in view, is certainly timely, and it could, I think, New Orleans, La., June 20, 1916. be most effectively carried out by a general order on the subject to be published in the "Veteran," and in all GENERAL ORDERS NO. 4. friendly papers. When it comes to be thoroughly un The General Commanding desires to direct atten derstood that in our 1917 reunion the U. C. V. are simply tion to the following action taken by the convention to be the guests of our National capital, which is now held in the city of Birmingham, Ala., May 16-18, 1916— preparing, as hosts, to give us a warm welcome, all will to-wit: go smoothly. "Your committee has considered the uniting of the On the one side, every loyal Confederate, no matter United Confederate Veterans' organization with the Sons what he may have thought about accepting the invitation, of Confederate Veterans and most cordially indorses will acquiesce in the decision of the majority; and all the idea that the organizations be consolidated and that of our comrades will, of course, strictly observe the car the Sons of Confederate Veterans' Association be made a dinal rule of the hospitality for which the South is part and parcel of the United Confederate Veterans' As famous, that on a visit neither guest nor host is to do sociation; and to that end the committee recommends or say anything offensive to the other. Thus Confed that the Commander appoint a member of the Confeder erates will be marching in the lines marked out for them ate Veterans' Association of each Division to have in by General Lee in his farewell address to his army, and charge and report at the next meeting of this conven by his whole subsequent life. tion a full plan of such consolidation; and the comi littee On the other hand, nobody understands the rules of also hopes that the Sons of Confederate Veterans will hospitality better than the city authorities at Washing approve of the same." —83- This action of the convention is one of the most General Headquarters, Sons of Confederate Veterans, far-reaching in its consequence of any ever adopted by Memphis, Tenn., June 1st, 1916. this Association. The feebleness of the members of the United Confederate Veterans, their inab lity to dis GENERAL ORDERS NO. 2. charge properly the duties required of officers, call for some remedy, and the infusion of new blood from those Sons of Confederate Veterans, the history of the who are soon to take the places of the men who took struggle of 1861-1865 will bear the closest scrutiny into part in the great conflict of the sixties cannot but result its deepest depths without disclosing a single blot upon in immense good, and the intimate relations which will its pages. Each only adds luster to a fame that has no result from the absorption of the Sons will be to their equal. We, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, have a permanent advantage. sacred duty to perform. In having only a true history The subject demands the closest investigation and of our heroes taught in the schools of our country; be the most careful study, and the General commanding sides, it should be worth a privilege and a pleasure to hopes that the subjoined committee, to which the whole perpetuate these acts in memorial of stone and to see as matter is referred, will be able to evolve a feasible plan far as possible that not a single one of our grand old which will inure to the benefit of all. warriors shall ever want for the necessities of life. Therefore, realizing the great responsibility which has COMMITTEE: been placed upon me as your Commander in Chief, and Adjt. L. L. Carswell, Sr., Chairman, Savannah, Ga.; knowing that without your sincere co-operation my ad Adjt. D. R. Flenniken, Columb a, S. C; Lieut. Gen. J. S. ministration as your executive head will prove a failure, Carr, Durham, N. C; Lieut. Col. J. N. Stubbs, Woods I do hereby appoint the following comrades as members Cross Roads, Va.; Maj. Gen. A. C. Trippe, Baltimore, of my staff, having confidence in their patriotism and Md.; Col. James Z. McChesney, Charleston, W. Va.; loyalty to duty and fidelity to the trust that has been Lieut. Col. Alden McLellan, New Orleans, La.; Adjt. F. placed in their hands. L. Dickinson, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Brig. Gen. F. E. Day, Milton, Fla.; Adjt. A. W. Moseley, Huntsville, Ala.; The following appointments are made to rank from Adjt. A. J. Conklin, Vicksburg, Miss.; Lieut. Col. C. H. June 1st, 1916: Lee, Jr., Falmouth, Ky.; Brig. Gen. H. G. Askew, Austin, Inspector in chief, Gen. W. C. Gorgas, Washington, Tex.; Brig. Gen. Thomas D. Bard, Chelsea, Okla.; Maj. D. C. Gen. T. C. Love, Springfield, Mo.; Maj. Gen. V. Y. Cook, Quartermaster in chief, Samuel W. Harrison, Roan Batesville, Ark.; Brig. Gen. Hugh G. Gwyn, San Diego, oke, Va. Cal. Commissary in chief. Creed Caldwell, Pine Bluffs, By command of Ark. Judge Advocate in chief, B. P. Harr son, Gulfport. GEORGE P. HARRISON, Miss. General Commanding. Surgeon in chief, Dr. A. M. Brailsford, Mullins, S. C. WILLIAM E. MICKLE, Chaplain in chief, Rev. J. G. Glass, Ocala, Fla. Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff. Historian in c'-'-ff, Dr. T. M. Owen, Montgomery, Ala. U— Assistants in chief were made for each state, the Relief Committee—H. G. Turner, Checotah. following for Oklahoma: Historical Committee—W. V. Pryor, Sapulpa. Assistant Adjutant in chief, W. C-Farmer, Tulsa. Rgsolutibns Committee—Wash Grayson, Eufaula. Assistant Inspector in chief, T. H. Powers, Tulsa. Assistant Quartermaster in chief, Dennis B. Keys, The duty of perpetuating the record of the Confed Pryor. erate Soldier and Sa.lor has devolved upon our or Assistant Commissaries in chief, Edward Gait, Ard ganization, and every local son should be willing to do more. his share in this patriotic work. Your Commander-in- Assistant Judge Advocate in chief, Emmett N. Ellis, Chief is profoundly grateful for the honor conferred upon Sallisaw. him, and he assures you that if you will co-operate with Assistant Surgeon in chief, Dr. A. W. Herron, Vinita. him, you will never have cause to regret your action. Assistant Chaplain in chief, Rev. J. P. Parks, Tahle- By order of quah. ERNEST G. BALDWIN, The following committee assignments were made; Commander in Chief. Monument Committee—-W. C. Lewis, Poteau. Official: Finance Committee—J. E. Johnson, McAlester. N. B. FORREST, Adjutant in Chief and Chief of Staff. -85- Additional Names of Confederate Veterans Residents of Oklahoma ALABAMA. Name Company and Regiment Post Office. Arnold, J. M. Co. B 50th Alabama Infantry Fort Towson Askew, John Co. A 27th Alabama Infantry Hugo Askew, N. J. Co. A 26th and 35th Alabama Infantry Willis Berryhill, J. T. Co. D 10th Alabama Cavalry Okmulgee, R. 1 Billingsley, Clayton W. Co. I 43rd Alabama Infantry ' Stuart Brady, Wm. J. Co. B 1st Alabama Artillery Bennington Brock, Wm. J. Co. E 26th Alabama Infantry McComb Brown, John Co. C 8th Alabama Infantry Alderson Calley, J. M. Co. I 2nd Alabama Cavalry Milo Carpenter, A. H. Co. C 7th Alabama Cavalry Messer Clements, J. J. Co. H 10th Alabama Cavalry Altus R. 6 Collins, J. M. Co. Meaders' Alabama Cavalrv : Sulphur Coniway, H. T. Co. E 5th Alabama Cavalry Idabel Cosper, J. B. M. Co. G Davenports' Battalion Alabama Cavalry Ft. Cobb, R. 3 Davis, T. B. Co. F 45th Alabama Cavalry Blanchard Estes, Robert Co. I 3rd Alabama Cavalry Allen Finlay, J. H. Co. 1 36th Alabama Infantry Brock Fulton, D. E. Nelson's Alabama Artillery Duncan, R. 5 Gann, W. A. Co. B 10th Alabama Cavalry Cornish Gray, Dav'd A. Co. G 41st Alabama Infantry , :Ardmore Grist, John M. Co. A 2d Alabama Cavalry Tupelo Hall, Thos. G. Co. H 2d Alabama Cavalry Okmulgee Hardin, Joe Roam Co. C 1st Alabama Cavalry Kiowa Holder, Isaac J. Co. B 33d Alabama Infantry Cheek Hopkins, W. A. Co. D Moreland's Alabama Cavalry Lebanon —86— ALABAMA— (Continued) Name Company and Regiment Post Office. Ingle, Jacob 0. Co. K 5th Alabama Cavalry Cordell Jenkins, John M. Co. E 4th Alabama Cavalry Altus Jernigan, R. C. Co. I 6th Alabama Cavalry :_: Temple Kennedy, J. D. Co. B 10th Alabama Infantry ; Wynnewood, Star Route Knight, Lewis W. Co. C 49th Alabama Infantry Sentinel Lambert, James Irvin Co. B 8th Alabama Battalion Cavalry Wister Maddox, Raymond 38th Alabama Infantry Marlow, R. 4 Melton, A. J. Co. G 57th Alabama Infantry Henryetta McAmear, Wm. P. Co. L 5th Alabama Infantry Blair, R. 2 McDougal, John B. Co. H 31st Alabama Infantry Delhi Miers, R. D. Co. C Macon Co. Alabama Home Guards Stonewall Newby, Jesse S. Co. E 59th Alabama Infantry Maxwell Owens, W. J. Co. B 62d Alabama Infantry Healdton Pace, Hiram B. Co. C 5th Alabama Infantry Guthrie Palmer, Wm. C. Co. C 27th Alabama Infantry McAlester, R. 1 Parnell, Jesse M. Co. K Davenport's Alabama Cavalry Anadarko Pennington, B. C. Co. F 42d Alabama Infantry Fleetwood Reagan, G.-W. Co. Malone's 7th Alabama Cavalry Chattanooga Salter, John W. Co. E 23d Alabama Infantry Byars Sanders, Wm. H. H. Co. H 11th Alabama Infantry Bokchito Self, W. A. Co. I 43d Alabama Infantry Stringtown Singleton, J. C. Co. A 2d Alabama Cavalry Velma Smith, J. N. Co. G 13th Alabama Infantry Wapanucka, R. 1 Turner, J. R. Co. G 34th Alabama Infantry Hochatown Waddle, Moses D. Co. I 25th Alabama Infantry Broken Bow Webb, Van Buren Co. R 6th Alabama Infantry Morr's Womack, Kintchen R. Co. F 18th Alabama Infantrv Warren Young, Giles R. Co. E 17th Alabama Infantry Little Hallman, John P. Co. G 13th Alabama Infantry Ralston ARKANSAS. Bacon, Amon H. Co. Phillips* Co. Brooks' Cavalry Wauhillau Biddies, R. M. Co. I Arkansas Infantry Wirt —87— ARKANSAS— (Continued) Name Company and Regiment • Post Office. Billingsley, T. C. - Co. C 46th Arkansas Cavalry ;___ Sallisaw Brandenburgh, J. W. Co. F Gordon's Arkansas Mtd. Infantry". Lone Grove Brown, Wm. J. Co. H 14th Arkansas infantry i __Bache Casebolt, Robt. Co. G Green's Arkansas Cavalry i , Holdenville Cloud, Wm. A. Mayes and Edmondson's Arkansas Cavalry i Catoosa Coffee, J. M. Co. C 16th Arkansas Infantry Ardmore Conn, Wm. H. Co. H 12th Arkansas Infantry Asher Costen, Samuel H. Co. F 1st Arkansas Battalion Cavalry McAlester Crews, Will am Co. H 20th Arkansas Infantry Caddo Davidson, A. K. Co. B 4th Arkansas Infantry _Ft. Cobb Dodson, T. B. Co. A 33d Arkansas Infantry — Tishomingo Dodson, Wm. J. Co. E Snables' Arkansas Cavalry : Marlow Eaves, F. M. Co. F Mercer's Arkansas Infantry Durant Edwards, Thos. Co. C 15th Arkansas Infantry Addington Everett, J. B. Co.. C 15th Arkansas Infantry Isom Springs Featherston, F. C. Co.' D 2d Arkansas Cavalry Thackerville Franklin, L. O. Co. B 15th Arkansas Infantry Wynnewood, R. 3 Goodman, Luke C. Co. G 11th Arkansas Cavalry Moore Gayler, Thos. L. Co. I 10th Arkansas Cavalry Mounds Grayson, T. J. Co. C 12th Arkansas Infantry . Henryetta Haley, J. M. Co. C Hill's Arkansas Cavalry Blanchard Hicks, W. D. Co. G 2d Arkansas Cavalry Frank Holt, Thos. Co. D 1st Battalion Arkansas Infantry Adamson Honea, Jos. W. Co. E 2d Arkansas Cavalry Hanson Howard, Steven Co. D Gunter's Arkansas Infantry Grove Hurt, A. J. Co. I 3d Arkansas Cavalry Doxey Johnson, G. W. Co. B Harrell's Battalion Arkansas Cavalry Indianola Jones, T. B. Co. D Harrand's Arkansas Cavalry Hobart Jones, Robt. W. Co. A 3d Arkansas Infantry _Haworth Kirby, W. P. Co. A Shaver's Arkansas Infantry Westville Lancaster, Jesse Co. B Sm'th's Arkansas Infantry Bennington Lechliter, Jno. A. Co. G Gordon's Arkansas Cavalry Proctor Lewis, Geo. H. Co. C Monroe's Arkansas Cavalry Connerville Luther, G. W. Co. I 14th Arkansas Cavalry : Sasakwa ARKANSAS— (Continued) Name Company and Regiment Post Office. Majors, Thos. Co. G Freeman's Arkansas Cavalry Bear Martindale, Jno. W. Co. B 17th Arkansas Infantry Enterprise McCracken, E. M. Co. A Gordon's Arkansas Cavalry Tribbey McHenry, Joe W. Co. I 1st Arkansas Cavalry Duncan, R. 5 McMahan, Allen D. Co. A 7th Arkansas Infantry Keifer McWilliams, Andrew J. Co. Arkansas Infantry (Polk's) Frederick, R. 5 Mock, T. M. Co. C Reeve's Arkansas Cavalry „ ;__ Roff Moman, J. T. Co. G McNeil's Arkansas Cavalry Caddo Mooney, G. C. Co. C Schnabel's Arkansas Cavalry Maysville Moran, J. P. Co. A 13th Arkansas Cavalry .__ Berwyn Nelson, Wiley Co. F 19th Arkansas Infantry Li -'---. Haywood Noble, Wyley Co. K 6th Arkansas Infantry Sallisaw North, G. W. Co. A 34th Arkansas Infantry Seminole Northcutt, Isaac B. Co. K 21st Arkansas Infantry Roff Padgett, E. C. Co. B 5th Arkansas Infantry Dustin Parker, M. D. Co. A 3d Arkansas Infantry Wetumka, R. 2 Payne, John Co. C Arkansas Infantry Caddo Reeves, H. W. Co. J Buster's Arkansas Cavalry Webber's Falls Robison, Geo. F. Co. A 14th Arkansas Infantry Dustin Russell, J. M. Co. B 29th Arkansas Cavalry Tishomingo Smith, Wm. M. Co. C 24th Arkansas Infantry Okema Skaggs, Franklin M. Co. I Buster's Arkansas Cavalry Blanco Sloan, A. T. A. Co. K 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles Norman Sorrells, E. D. Co. C Schnabel's Arkansas Cavalry Sparks Sweeden, Henry Co. E 31st Arkansas Infantry Bray Thompson, G. W. Co. E 3d Arkansas Cavalry Duncan, R. 4 Thompson, Zach Co. D 31st Arkansas Infantry Allen Thorn, W. H. Co. K 6th Arkansas Infantry Willis Todd, Alfred D. Co. K 19th Arkansas Infantry Bailey Wait, Geo. Co. 1st Arkansas Infantry Haworth Watts, S. M. Co. L 14th Arkansas Cavalry Muldrow Watson, T. R. Co. G 19th Arkansas Infantry Francis Weast, Columbus C. Co. A Elliott's Mo. and Ark. Cavalry North McAlester White, Jasper Co. B McNeal's Arkansas Infantry Durant —89— ARKANSAS—(Continued) Name Company and Regiment Post Office. Willeford, J. C. Co. F 14th Arkansas Cavalry Duncan, R. 3 Winford. Beni. T. Co. B 19th Arkansas Infantry Hanson Witt, Jeremiah Co. A 10th Arkansas Infantry Grandfield GEORGIA. Abercrombie, Andrew J. Co. C Cobb's Legion Georgia Cavalry Fay Allen, Levi West's 24th Georgia Infantry Gideon Barefield, C. Co. C 59th Georgia Infantry Chickasha Bacon, John F. Co. B 66th Georgia Infantry , Okfuskee Brown, Wm. J. Co. E 40th Georg a Infantry , Marble City Burton, B. F. Co. I 4th Georgia Cavalry Tyler Cline, Amon Co. A 43d Georgia Infantry Fleetwood Cheek, Green Co. G 12th Georg.a Infantry Willow Crawford, J. M. Co. B 4th Georgia Sharpshooters Blake Collins, J. R. Co. F. and B. Haney's Georgia Infantry Willis Copeland, Dr. G. Co. H 13th Georgia Cavalry Hominy Cowan, B. A. Co. C 40th Georgia Infantry Bokoshe Daniel, John W. Co. E 9th Georgia Infantry Caddo Drennen, J. O. Co. E 39th Georgia Infantry Powell Embry, J. W. Co. K 6th Georgia Cavalry Broken Bow Evans, T. B. Co. G 3d Georgia Cavalry Shoals Gamel, Henry H. Co. C 30th Georgia Infantry Muskogee Gammell, L. N. Co. F 5th Georgia Infantry Wynnewood Garner, D. G. Co. A 8th Georgia Infantry Wanette Gentry, W. B. Co. A 30th Georgia Infantry Eldorado Gossett, T. J. Co. G 22d Georgia Infantry Kosoma Grimes, E, J. Co. E 1st Georgia Cavalry Elk City Hayes, Albert P. Co. K 24th Georgia Infantry Blue Heard, P. M. Groff's Georgia Light Artilley Overbrook Hensley, F. M. Co. C Phillips' Georgia Legion Cavalry Boynton Holt, J. P. 31st Georgia Cavalry, Graham's Battalion Chatanooga, R. 5 Lawson, Jasper W. Co. F 18th Georgia Infantry Clayton —90— GEORGIA—(Continued) Name Company and Regiment Post Office. Moreland, John Co. F 3d Georgia Cavalry Piney McAbee, Warren F. Co. D 60th Georgia Infantry Putnam McBryde, C. C. Co. B 2d Georgia Cavalry Holdenville Oliphant, A. J. Co. I 49th Georgia Infantry Marietta Pitt, T. M. Co. G 8th Georgia Cavalry Haworth Pollard, J. M. Co. B 23d Georgia Infantry Avant Roberts, T. J. Co. D 9th Georgia Infantry Davis Robinson, Jolly H. Co. D 16th Georgia Cavalry Church Ryan, J. W. Co. B 1st Georgia Infantry Stratford Sarratt, L. D. Co. H 18th Georgia Infantry Haskell Satterfield, E. M. Co. G 40th Georgia Infantry Sallisaw Shuler, A. J. Co. K 30th Georgia Infantry Gray Stroup, D. Co. A Georgia Cavalry Chelsea Stamey, D. M. Co. C 10th Georgia Infantry Anadarko Ward, T. A. Co. E 6th Georgia Cavalry Ardmore Watkins, Andy Co. G 9th Georgia Infantry Atoka Woods, J. H. Co. D Phillips' Georgia Legion Infantry Henryetta Woffard, J. M. Co. H 18th Georgia Infantry Muskogee INDIAN TERRITORY. Asbill, J. H. Adair's 2d Cherokee Infantry Long Barnett. James _Co. D 1st Creek Indian Territory Cavalry Eufaula Beck, Dave Co. G 1st Cherokee Cavalry Chelsea Bird. Charley Co. A 2d Cherokee Infantry Jay Copland, Jos. H. Co. B Chickasaw Mounted Volunteer Cavalry Lexington Davis, Frank M. Co. D 2d Cherokee Indian Territory Cavalry Park Hill Fields, G. W. Co. 2d Cherokee Indian Territory Cavalry Henryetta Fobb, Jos. Co. A Folsom's Indian Territory Infantry Bennington Glenn, Charlev Co. B 2d Creek Indian Territory Infantry Quinton Hendren, W. H. Co. C 1st Indian Territory Cavalry Row Henrv, Amos Co. F Indian Territory Cavalry Henry McWilliams, Thos. Co. C 1st Creek Indian Territory Cavalry Eufaula —91— INDIAN TERRITORY— (Continued) Name Company and Regiment Post Office. Miller, John Co. C 1st Cherokee Indian Territory Cavalry Bernice Seymour, Jas. A. Co. B 2d Cherokee Indian Territory Cavalry Rattan Sorrells, Henry J. Co. C 1st Choctaw Indian Territory Cavalry Rubottom Waichubbee, Levi Co. B Sim Folsom's Indian Territory Cavalry Boswell Watt, Johnson Co. C 1st Cherokee Indian Territory Cavalry Piney White, J. G. Co. B Bryan's Indian Territory Cavalry Cyril Wilkinson, Isaac G. Co. B 2d Indian Territory Cavalry Ketchum KENTUCKY. Bradley, John T. Co. F 1st Kentucky Cavalry Ripley Cassity, James A. Co. H 5th Kentucky Infantry Washunga Green, Wm. Co. B 10th Kentucky Cavalry Prentiss Gregson, G. W. Co. K 12th Kentucky Cavalry Truesdale Humphrey, Benj. H. Co. E 2d Kentucky Cavalry Hamburg Johnson, Chas. M. Co. E 6th Kentucky Infantry Nashoba Johnson, Cristopher C. Co. I 7th Kentucky Cavalry Shawnee, R. 3 Jones, J. R. Co. I 12th Kentucky Infantry Blanco Klutts, John Co. A 13th Kentucky Cavalry Chattanooga Lykens, David J. Co. A 5th Kentucky Infantry Ardmore Miller, Isaac Co. H 8th Kentucky Infantry Jenks Myers, T. J. Co. B 3d Kentucky Infantry Guthrie Ogwin, J. H. Co. B 1st Kentucky Mounted Infantry Earlsboro, R. 4 Simpson, J. R. Co. B 3d Kentucky Cavalry Boynton, R. 1 Stout, G. W. Co. E 4th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Chelsea Tevebough, J. F. Co. C 1st Kentucky Mounted Rifles Wynona Turner, B. B. Co. C 1st Kentucky Cavalry Canute, R. 3 Wood, John W. Co. A 1st Kentucky Cavalry Cherokee LOUISIANA. Rabon,, Jesse Oo. H 9th Louisiana Infantry Shawnee Richmond, H. E. Co. B 12th Louisiana Infantry Burneyville —92— LOUISIANA—(Continued) Name Company and Regiment Post Office. White, Josephus Co. H 20th Louisiana Infantry Bethany Whitmore, J. W. Benjamin's Louisiana Cavalry Fairfax MISSISSIPPI. Aycock, Jasper N. Co. E 9th Mississippi Cavalry § Atwood Berry, C. M. Co. E 29th Mississippi Infantry ' Comanche Bennett, James H. Co. K 19th Mississippi Infantry ; Norman Campbell, Pleasant Co. I 32d Mississippi Infantry Adamson Carter, C. B. Co. C Jeff Davis Legion, Mississippi Cavalry Stonewall Childers, W. M. Co. D 45th Mississippi Infantry Cravens Clark, Isham, J. H. Co. D Wood's Mississippi Cavalry Naples Cook, S. Co. C Ashcraft's Mississippi Cavalry McLoud Coyle, E. G. Co. F 9th Mississippi Infantry Bennington Crisp, Wm. M. Co. D 21st Mississippi Infantry Limestone Gap Daniel, Wm. H. Co. E 1st Mississippi Infantry Crowder Davis, Matthew J. Co. K 19th Mississippi Infantry Comanche Dav.s, John W. O. Co. F 6th Mississippi Cavalry McComb Dashner, G. H. Co. B 5th Mississippi Cavalrv Chickasha Dillbeck, James D. Co. C 1st Mississippi Cavalry Porter Dyer, Wm. J. Co. E 2d Mississippi Cavalry Lindsey Ellis, Geo. D. Co. A 22d Mississippi Infantry Truesdale Forbes, J. N. Co. D and F 7th Mississippi Infantry Marsden Fowler, Geo. T. Co. I 14th Mississippi Infantry Ringling Harris, James Co. B Denney's Mississippi Cavalry Comanche Hasty, Wm. R. Co. D 12th Mississippi Cavalry Loveland James, John C. 1 Co. A 7th Mississippi Cavalry Silo Johnson, W. C. Co. E 2d Mississippi Infantry Brock Jones, Oscar F. Co. F 26th Mississippi Infantry Lehigh King, J. E. Co. D 12th Mississippi Infantry Tupelo- Kirby, Samuel M. Co. A 18th Mississippi Cavalry Albion Landers, G. L. Co. I 2d Mississippi Cavalry Blair, R. 2 Lovett, H. Co. F 35th Mississippi Infantry Willis —93— MISSISSIPPI— (Continued) Name Company and Regiment Post Office. Lowe, Geo. W. Co. E 13th Mississippi Infantry Rubottom Mann, Tranquillus A. C. Co. I 11th Mississippi Infantry Staunton McGraw, John C. Co. I 34th Mississippi Infantry Afton Moore, W. J. Co. D Mississ'ppi Cavalry Rubottom Munger, J. E. Co. D 2d Mississippi Battalion Infantry McAlester Myers, H. A. Co. A Cooper's Mississippi Cavalry Stratford Powell, A. N. Mississippi Infantry Keller Reagan, J. M. Co. B 8th Mississippi Cavalry Craig Reeves, Littleton B. Co. B 1st Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee Infantry and Cavalry Hugo Reynolds, John P. Co. F 16th Mississippi Volunteer Infantry Oklahoma City Seale, Thos. L. Co. A 14th Mississippi Cavalry Cheyenne Seago, Jos. E. Co. C 26th Mississippi Cavalry Frederick Seargeant, Wilburn B. Co. B 2d Mississippi Infantry Vinson, R. 2 Shaw, Silas P. Baxter's Company Mississippi Cavalry Marlo.w, R. 4 Sheppard, J. H. Co. B 34th Mississippi Infantry Muldrow Speck, J. W. Co. K 31st Mississippi Infantry Doxey, R. 2 Stovall, J. C. Co. B 14th M'ssissippi Infantry Carter Tipler, Thos. D. Co. B 1st Mississippi Cavalry Rubottom Trippe, A. J. Co. E 27th Mississippi Infantry Milburn, R. 1 Vance, Geo. M. Co. H 3d Mississippi Cavalry Reed, R. 1 Vaughn, Taylor Co. K 35th Mississippi Infantry Stringtown Watts, Robt. Co. A 31st Mississippi Infantry Box Weatherford, J. L. Co. I 27th Mississippi Infantry Royal Wilberly, W. L. Co. A 42d Mississippi Infantry Bryant Wynn, Jasper Co. 1 12th Mississippi Cavalry Blanchard MISSOURI. Adams, James Co. I Gordon's Missouri Cavalry Tecumseh Adams, Jacob Co. G and K 11th and 10th Missouri Infantry Duke, R. 2 Alexander, J. A. Co. D 1st Missouri Cavalry Steedman Arnold, J. N. Co. F 4th Missouri Cavalry Elk City Baker, James A. Co. D 8th Missouri Cavalry Blanchard —94— J.VUBBUU ivi— ^ «_.«nujiu_u) Name Company and Regiment Post Office. Bell, James H. Co. C 3d Green's Missouri Cavalry Meeker, R. 1 Bennett, Jas. S. Co. C 3d Missouri Cavalry Warner Bolin, Josephus Co. A 10th Missouri Cavalry Pink Bowen, Moses M. Co. B Reaves Missouri Cavalry Afton, R. 1 Boyd, Wm. A. Co. A 9th Missouri Infantry Enid Brewer, J. W. 6th Missouri Infantry Bokchito Browning, Jeremiah Co. B Cavanaugh's Missouri Infantry Grove Calmes, Henry Ward's Company Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Arapaho Cannon, James Co. C 2d Missouri Volunteer Cavalry Maramec Clem, A. J. Co. K Gordon's Missouri Cavalry Bigheart Cook, Frank Price's Missouri Infantry Berwyn Coonrod, F. M. Co. E 10th Missouri Infantry Morris Cornelius, John Co. H Parson's Missouri Infantry Coweta Crisswell, J. S. Co. I 4th Missouri Cavalry Elk City Crosslin, Wm. H. Co. E Gordon's Missouri Cavalry Enid Currey, Samuel Co. G 2d Missouri Cavalry Southwest City, Mo. Dav's, Francis M. Co. H Porter's Missouri Cavalry Eucha De Shazo, G. L. Co. E 14th Missouri Cavalry Lorena Douglas, Henry H. Co. F 2d Missouri Cavalry Hartshorne Doyle, L. M. Co. A 1st Missouri Scouts Cavalry Seminole Dudley, B. W. Co. G Burbage's Missouri Cavalry Vurden Dunway, Frank Co. A Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Mountain View Elder, Thomas Co. C 3d Missouri Infantry Canute Farris, T. B. Co. K Hunter's Missouri Cavalry Aylesworth Fitzgerald, Abner T. Co. H Wood's Missouri Cavalry Brinkman Folks, Elijah C. Co. G 31st Missouri State Guards Infantry Gritts Freeman, Chas. H. Co. E 5th Missouri Infantry Darlington Fullerton, Robt. Co. A Woodruff's Missouri Battalion Infantry ____Fillmore Gladwell, D. R. Co. A 9th Missouri Battalion Infantry El Reno Henderson, A. B. Co. D 8th Missouri Cavalry McComb, R. 2 Henderson. Robt. F. Co. C 11th Missouri Infantry _ Mead Hickman, T. J. Co. C 11th Missouri Cavalry Hughes Hockinsmith, Henry H. 8th Missouri 1st Artillery Kenefick Huff, John Co. A McBride Missouri Infantry Elk City —95— MISSOURI— (Continued) Name Company and Regiment Post Office. Huston, A. J. Marmaduke's Escort, Missouri Bigheart Jones, G. W. Co. E Pendle's Missouri Infantry Oktaha Jones, Richard Polk Co. H 13th Missouri Cavalry Bristow Kezer, Osman Co. A 16th Missouri Infantry Coyle Kimbrough, Robt. H. Co. Parson's Missouri Cavalry Caney Kimbrough, P. J. Co. F 3d Missouri Cavalry Marietta Lockett, J. F. Co. B 7th Missouri Infantrv Ochelata Long, Richard William's Missouri Cavalry Longdale Mitchel, J. D. Co. E 16th Missouri Infantry Truesdale, R. 3 Moore, Thos. P. Co. G 11th Missouri Infantry Hollister Moore, Wm. W. Co. E 2d Missouri Infantry Rankin Morgan, A. C. Co. A Nichol's Missouri Cavalry Chickasha Morris, Hugh Co. A 9th Missouri Infantry Beaver Murray, W. E. Co. B 11th Missouri Infantry Bernice Pirkey, J. H. Co. K Berryman's Missouri Cavalry Henryetta Poage, John A. Co. A 10th Missouri Infantry Morris Poindexter, W. A. Co. A 3d Missouri Mtd. Infantry Sayre Read, W. H. Co. B Walker's Missouri Cavalry Ardmore Redford, Aaron Co. K 10th Missouri Cavalry Canton Renfrow, Mark S. Diver's Missouri Cavalry Newby Row, Jacob Co. A 8th Missouri Cavalry Stuart Shockley, L. B. Co. A Elliott's Missouri Cavalry Mannsville Spencer, John E. Steen's Missouri Flying Artillery Tulsa, R. 2 Stafford, W. J. Co. H 8th Missouri Infantry Calvin Stevenson, W. D. Hobb's Missouri Infantry Guymon Stephens, J. K. Co. C 8th Missouri Cavalry Afton Stipp, John H. Co. G Poindexter's Missouri Cavalry El Reno Thomas, Samuel Co. D 8th Missouri Cavalry Henryetta Tuttle, John Co. D 8th Missouri Infantry Leonard Tuttle, Wm. Co. E Frishoe's Missouri Infantry Sapulpa Tye, J. H. Co. H 11th Missouri Infantry ; Oklahoma City Wainscott, J. E. Co. A Ellis's Missouri Cavalry Bray Weast, Columbus C. Co. A Elliott's Missouri and Arkansas Cavalry North McAlester Welch, Thos. G. _„_._ Co. C 7th Missouri Cavalry Chickasha —96— MISSOURI— (Continued) Name Company and Regiment Post Office. Weston, Harvey S. Co. B 11th Missouri Cavalry Fairland White, H. C. Co. I 9th Missouri Cavalry Milburn Woffard, Jas. G. Co. E 8th Missouri Infantry Laverne Wright, E. M. 2d Battalion Missouri State Guards Mangum, R. 2 NORTH CAROLINA. Clifford, Franklin A. Co. F 42d North Carolina Infantry Nardin Cooper, George M. Co. H 69th North Carolina Infantry Geary, R. 3 Crowder, W. M. Co. I 38th North Carolina Infantry Westville Fitzgerald, C. W. Co. F 4th North Carolina Infantry Weleetka Felton, Howell Battalion F North Carolina Artillery Carter Fond, G. F. Co. G 11th North Carolina Infantry Muldrow Gains, John Co. C 35th North Carolina Infantry Grove Herron, Geo. Theo. Co. G 1st North Carolina Infantry Valliant Hill, Jas. R. Co. E 14th North Carolina Infantry Glendale Hughes, J. H. Co. A North Carolina Infantry Stillwell Jones, W. J. . Co. F 4th North Carolina Infantry Willis Loflin, H. A. Co. 1 16th North Carolina Volunteer Infantry Moseley Martin, Walter S. Co. 37th North Carolina Navy Yukon, R. 2 McGuire, J. T. Co. E 39th North Carolina Infantry Ft. Gibson McQueen, Wm. M. Co. I 24th North Carolina Infantry Hugo Phillips, Chas. H. Co. H 66th North Carolina Infantry Scraper Powell, J. H. Co. D 6th North Carolina Infantry Blanchard Pollard, Samuel Co. A 18th North Carolina Infantry Arthur Rogers, D. R. Co. F 6th North Carolina Cavalry Marlow Thomasson, C. E. , Co. B 26th North Carolina Infantry Eldorado Walden, G. W. _Co. F 2d;North Carolina Infantry Hugo Ward, J. A. Co. C 1st North Carolina Infantry Hinton, R. 3 Watts, J. L. Co. H 8th North Carolina Infantry Ti Welch, John E. ,__ , Co. F 39th North Carolina Infantry Bushyheftd Woodring, Jcs. __ ; __. • ' North Carolina Salt Petre Works L-. : :_Noble -97— SOUTH CAROLINA. Name Company and Regiment Post Office. Ellis, Thomas Co. A South Carolina Infantry Sasakwa Godfrey, Ansel Y. Co. A 6th South Carolina Cavalry Hammon, R. 1 Hill, Chas. D. Co. G 1st South Carolina Heavy Artillery Davenport Lawrance, J. J. Co. C 13th South Carolina Infantry Dixie Mason. L. F. Co, C 13th South Carolina Infantry Pontotoc TENNESSEE. Anderson, D. P. Co, C 8th Tennesse Cavalry __Afton Bailey, A. J. Co. G 31st Tennessee Infantry Maud Baker, John L. Co. B 1st Tennessee Cavalry Frederick, R. 6 Barrett, A. J. Co. C 5th Tennessee Cavalry Akins Birdwell, John H. Co. D 61st Tennessee Infantry Meers Bruce, I. W. Co. K 55th Tennessee Infantry Tuskahoma Cannon, G. W. Co. A 3d Tennessee Cavalry '. Sillwell Capps, Hillery _. Co. E 29th Tennessee Infantry . Oklahoma City Carter, Thomas Jefferson Co. H 3d Tennessee Cavalry Comanche, R. 3 Clark, Geo. W. Co. A 19th Tennessee Infantry Edmond Coffee, Calton _1 Co. E 26th Tennessee Infantry Comanche Coleman, J. H. Co. B 42d Tennessee Infantry Doxey Conley, Wm. . Co. K 25th Tennessee Cavalry Ft. Towson Copeland, B. F. Co. E 5th Tennessee Cavalry Duncan Cornwell, Geo. E. Co. E 16th Tennessee Cavalry Tussey Cowen, Bailev Peyton Co. B 24th Tennessee Infantry Bunch Cummings, Wm. C. Co. C 15th Tennessee Infantry Seminole Curl, W. J. Co. C 4th Tennessee Infantry Church Dav's, B. T. Co. D 3d Tennessee Cavalry Prague, R. 2 Dickenson, M. J. Co. A 38th Tennessee Infantry Newalla, R. 2 Edens, Wm. Co. C 2d Tennessee Cavalry Wann Farmer, James Young Co. K 25th Tennessee Infantry Chattannooga Fox, Wm. B. Co. C 4th Tennessee Cavalry Kemp Fraser, J. Crockett Co. I 1st Tennessee Cavalry Altus Cower, F. E. __' ---- Mockrad's Tennessee Artillery -__-'_-_Anadarko, R. 1 —98— TENNESSEE—^ (Continued) Name Company and Regiment Post Office. Grantham, Joe P. Co. G 5th Tennessee Cavalry Indianola Green, J. T. Co. A 5th Tennessee Infantry Ryan Grimsley, W. L. Co. K 16th Tennessee Infantry McLain Hale, David D, Co. I 5th Tennessee Infantry , Bentley Hill, Joe W. Co. A 9th Tennessee Infantry Naples Helms, Z. Co. A and H 2d Tennessee Cavalry Eldorado Hughes, Thos. M. Co. A 3d Tennessee Infantry Caney Hyde, Hartwell B. Co. A 45th Tennessee Infantry Eldorado Ingle, Wm. A. Co. K 8th Tennessee Infantry Oklahoma City Jackson, S. D. Co. K 30th Tennessee Infantry Madill Johnson, Wm. M. Co. B 9th Tennessee Cavalry Minco Loving, T. J. Co. 1 12th Tennessee Infantr; Bernice Lucy, Henry W. Co. C 53d Tennessee Infantry Chickasha, R. 4 Lynn, S. D. Co. A 28th Tennessee Cavalry Oakland Lyon, D. M. Co. A 17th Tennessee Infantry Lamar Maddox, J. H. Co. I 25th Tennessee Infantry -Port Mainus, B. W. Co. E 13th Tennessee Cavalry Grandfield Masterson, John B. Co. D 21st Tennessee Cavalry Brock May, G. H. Co. D 9th Tennessee Cavalry R^an Merrell, Robt. Co. K 1st Tennessee Cavalry Konawa Miller, J. T. Co. E 9th Tennessee Cavalry Gabriel Moss, D. G. Co. A 51st Tennessee Infantry Elmer McBee, Carroll B. Co. H 4th Tennessee Infantry __Chelsea Odil, Thos. J. .- Co. C 9th Tennessee Cavalry Caddo Parker, D. E. Co. C 25th Tennessee Infantry Wapanucka Ramey, B. F. Co. A 32d Tennessee Infantry Davis Reynolds, Granville A. Co A 6th Tennessee Infantry Westville Richardson, H. F. Co. A 5th Tennessee Cavalry Wapanucka Sadler, J. L. Co. H 7th Tennessee Cavalry Altus Savage, H. H. Co. E 8th Tennessee Infantry : Durant Sawyer, A. A. Co. C 51st Tennessee Infantry Arthur Stagg, T. P. Co. A 8th Tennessee Infantry '. Prentiss Stanfield, Spivey W. Co. G 10th Tennessee Cavalry Roff, R. 2 Vandiver, R. E. Co. I 42d Tennessee Infantry Beggs ---9 9— TENNESSEE— (Continued) Name Company and Regiment ( Post Office. Waddle, J. H. Co. B 5th Tennessee Cavalry —Greenleaf Webb, J. H. Co. A 45th Tennessee Infantry Eldorado Webber, F. M. Co. G 4th Tennessee Cavalry Haskell Williams, W. J. Co. A 5th Tennessee Infantry Doxey, R. 3 Wright, Wm. A. Co. E 5th Tennessee Cavalry ' Rose TEXAS. Adkins, J. W. Co. E 39th Texas Cavalry : Calvin Baldwin, Samuel T. ..Co. E Young's 8th Texas Infantry and Cavalry Sobol Barnard, G. Co. B 5th Texas Cavalry Lebanon Barnes, Albert S. Co. F 8th Texas Infantry : IPontotoc Barton, L. C. Co. C Norriss's Texas Cavalry Pauls Valley Baxter, Elias Hughes' Texas Light Artillery Tishomingo Bible, Lewis Co. K 2d Texas Infantry Ochelata Bible, George P. Co. K 1st Texas Heavy Artillery Talala Blevins, S. E. Co. D 30th Texas Cavalry Milo Bone, Doctor Mathew Co. K Baylor's Texas Cavalry . Kemp Brown, Samuel Co. F 5th Texas Cavalry Durant, R. 1 Brown, Thos. P. Co. K 30th Texas Cavalry Middleburg Bryant, James M. Co. E 15th Texas Infantry Gould Burch, W. H. Co. C Chamber's Texas Infantry : Calvin Byars, H. C. Co. B Bourland's Texas Cavalry Ardmore Coker, Calvin Polnox's Texas Artillery Messer Carpenter, Thos. H. 9th Texas Artillery Fox Clemons, John Harvey Co. A 1st Texas Cavalry Rubottom Cook, Thos. J. Co. I 5th Texas Infantry Dill Crabtree, Reese Co. D 2d Texas Cavalry Steedman Davis, Jesse' Co. K Alexander's Texas Cavalry Hastings Davis, Rufus S. Co. I 9th Texas Infantry , Bertrand Davis, W. E. Co. K Alexander's Texas Cavalry Marlow Deskin, Samuel R. Co. D 31st Texas Cavalry : Oklahoma City Dill, E. O. Co. H 14th Texas Cavalry '. Marlow —100— TEXAS—(Continued) Name Company and Regiment Post Office. Doughty, Van S. Co. B 10th Texas Infantry Graham Dunning, James E. Co. E 15th Texas Infantry '. Wapanucka Ellington, George R. Co. C 7th Texas Cavalry '. Grainola Fisher, N. B. Co. C 5th Texas Cavalry Comanche Freeman, Jos. P. Co. C 32d Texas Cavalry Konawa Forsythe, W. J. Co. C 19th Texas Infantry Waurika Garner, A. Co. A 11th Texas Cavalry Meeker Gasaway, Henry C. Co. B 5th Texas Cavalry Oswalt Gooding, L. F. Co. B 44th Texas Cavalry Colbert Goodwin, T. H. Co. E 3d Texas Infantry Marietta Hale, H. M. Co. E 10th Texas Infantry '. Olustee Hambrick, Frank Co. F 13th Texas Infantry Marietta Hardin, J. J. Co. B Texas Home Guards Cavalry Oakman Hartgraves, Wm. L. Co. A 19th Texas Infantry Geary, R. 2 Heath, Wm. C. Co. I 18th Texas Infantry Yeager, R. 1 Herbert, Lafayette Co. H 8th Texas Cavalry Rankin Hill, J. M." Co. E 21st Texas Infantry Sulphur Hines, H. E. Co. K 23d Texas Cavalry Hugo Hines, M Iburn Co. ' >' Texas Infantry Seward Holder, B. B. Co. B 32d Texas Cavalry Ardmore Horton, Alexander Co. E 19th Texas Infantry Chickasha Howell, James D. Co. A 22d Texas Infantry L ttle Hudson, E. Co. B 15th Texas Cavalry Woodville Hudspeth, Ayers G. .Co. C 19th Texas Infantry Lexington Jenkins, J. D. Co. C 21st Battalion Texas Infantry Sylvian Johns, Jesse J. Co. C 17th Texas Cavalry . Tecumseh Johnson, Cave Co. I 26th Texas Cavalry Temple Kiffer, Henry Co. A Baxter's Texas Infantry Pittsburg Knox, W. A. Co. K 19th Texas Cavalry R an Damkin, E. E. Co. C 8th Texas Cavalry Poclville Langston, I. N. Co. K and G 22d Texas Infantry and Nichol's .Eldorado Latham, J. M. Co. D 16th Texas Cavalry Willis Lawrimore, Menda Co. A Kirby's Battalion Texas Infantry Erin Springs Lisendy, Lewis S. Co. I 16th Texas Cavalry I . Temple —101— TEXAS-^ (Continued) Name Company and Regiment Post Office. Lowe, J. D. __Co. A 29th Texas Cavalry Mayfield Mathews, Andrew J. Co. B 11th Texas Cavalry Davidson Mayes, C. C. Co. C 6th Texas Cavalry Mavsville Meek, Henry C. Co. F 6th Texas Cavalry Hanna Mills, M. V. Co. F 13th Texas Infantry Wapanucka Moore, J. J. Co. I Martin's Texas Cavalry Hatfield, Ark. Morris, Robt. G. Quail's Texas Battalion Cavalry ___Coweta McDaniel, E. V. Hick's Company Wall's Texas ,__Comanche McCain, Rufus A. Co. F and I Morgan's Texas Cavalry Aledo McCann, Andrew Co. A 1st Texas Cavalry Hennepin McKenzie, Aaron Co. F 3d Texas Cavalry Elmore McMillan, Wm. F. Co. F 3d Texas Cavalry __Leedy McQuirter, J. H. Co. E 19th Texas Infantry u Texhoma Nicholson, J. W. Co. C 21st Texas Cavalry Katie Oden, Peter Co. D. 20th Texas Infantry Canute Owen, T. F. Co. F 18th Texas Cavalry : Weleetka, R. 2 Palmer, W. H. Co. A 2d Texas Ranger's Cavalry Ardmore Pa'-ne, Moses P. Co. I 25th Texas Cavalry Rush Springs Pa-ne, Ed. : : : :_ Texas Home Guards Cavalry : Wapanucka Pearcy, Wm. H. Co. C Good's Texas Infantry : Grant Pierc", John W. Co. E 19th Texas Cavalry Lula Pinchback, Jas. H. Co. K 8th Texas Cavalry Marlow Porter, W. P. Co. I and G Howard's Texas Artillery Oscar Prigmore, D. H. Roberts Company, Chamber's Texas Reg. Blanchard Read, J. J. Walker's Texas Cavalry Cheek Reagan, Wm. R. Co. F 30th Texas Cavalry Oklahoma City Renfrce, J. M. Co. A 1st Texas Heavy Artillery Comanche Richardson, John J. Co. F 1st Texas Infantry Meeker, R. 2 Roberts, Jas. W. :. Co. H 5th Texas Cavalry B. ars Robeson, John M. Co. F 11th Texas Cavalry Lebanon Rodgers, Adam Stratford's Texas Artillery Leedy Russell, Samuel T. Co. E Willis's Texas Cavalry•_ Morewood Seals. F. L. ^'a'-ver's Texas Cavalrv Swink Shepard, Robt :_____ Gray's Company Breedlove's Texas Infantry ; Guthrie —102— TEXAS—(Continued) Name Co npany and Regiment . ' * Post Office. Sherfield, T. S. Co. A Cook's Texas Heavy Artillery-_'__ , Cruce Sm th, J. F. Co. A 4th Texas Cavalry Thackerville Snyder, Frank M. Co. E 12th Texas Cavalry Milburn Streetman, Emmett Co. D Fulchroid's Texas Infantry Eldorado Threadgill, J. B. Co. E Border's Texas Cavalry Mill Creek Townley, Wm. D. Co. E 13th Texas Cavalry Coleman Thompson, James Co. K 2d Texas Cavalry Qu'nton Townsend, John W. Co. 1 Martin's, Texas Cavalry Eufaula Turvin, Elijah D. Co. I 26th Texas Cavalry , Nuyaka Vails, Wm. B. Co. H 29th Texas Cavalry Luther Vaughn, P. H. Co. H 19th Texas Cavalry Blair, R. 1 Vines, John A. Co. I 19th Texas Cavalry Finley Walker, Nathaniel G. Co. K 30th Texas Cavalry Lebanon Walker, S. B. Co. B 34th Texas Cavalry '. Peggs Whisenhunt, A. D. Co. A 1st Texas. Sharpshooters Albany Whisenhunt, G. A. Co. A 1st Texas infantry Canadian Wilkinson, W. W. Co. C 11th Texas Cavalry Kingston Wilson, Henry W. Co. B 4th Texas Cavalry Mangum Winneger, W. P. Co. B 11th Texas Cavalry „ Duncan Wynn, M. V. Co. H 12th Texas Cavalry Dustin VIRGINIA. Blanton, Wm. H. Co. M Bradley's Brigade Virginia Infantry Milo Bonnell, W. A. Co. B 8th Virginia Infantry '. Guthrie, R. 9 Baughn, Henry Hunter Co. A 5th Virginia Infantry , Mulhall Burnett, Samuel J. Co. D 54th Virginia Infantry Ripley Dailey, W. W. Co. I) 23d Virginia Infantry Ponca City Dawson, S. D. Co. H 29th Virginia Infantry Lookeba Draggoo, E. M. Co. B 20th Virginia Cavalry Tecumseh Feilder, Robt. D. Co. E 37th Virginia Infantry Adair Holcombe, Jesse T. Co. A 18th Virginia Battalion Artillery :_ Elk C'tv Kinzer, C. S. -_____Co. L 4th Virginia Infantry _. Ketchum —103— VIRGINIA— (Continued) Name Company and Regiment Post Office. Lewis, Martin Co. C 16th Virginia Cavalry Skiatook Matthews, Robt. L. Co. K 7th Virginia Cavalry Weathers Nickell, J. A. , Co. E 22d Virginia Cavalry Thomas Petit, S. V. Co. G 42d Virginia Infantry Lebanon Powell, Thomas A. Co. D 22d Virginia Infantry Tuttle Roop, J. A. Co. K 64th Virginia Mtd. Infantry Tulsa Sawyers, Alfred C. Co. G 22d Virginia Infantry McCurtain Scott, Sparrell Co. D 21st Virginia Cavalry Lebanon Stevens, Geo. M. Co. E 30th Virginia Infantry Durant White, W. P. ___Co. K 10th Virginia Cavalry Muskogee Wilkerson, Ambrose H. Cox's Company N. Virginia Light Artillery Ralston MISCELLANEOUS. Cochel, Absalom Co. A Checa's Cavalry Pauls Valley French, F. M. Co. G Martin's Cavalry Tishomingo Gentry, Isaac S. Co. C 20th W. Virginia Infantry Avard Jackson, David Co. A 2d Arizona Cavalry Wynnewood Little, John Co. B Scott's Mtd. Infantry Hewitt Pearson, Wm. H. Co. H 50th Carolina Cavalry Indianola Price, J. F. Co. B Trans-Mississ'ppi Cavalry Maud Vanderpool, E. S. Co. A 4th Arizona Cavalry : Addington ADDITIONAL NAMES OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED AT THE CONFEDERATE HOME SINCE LAST REPORT. J. F. Baugh, age 75, Co. E 23d Texas Cavalry Wetumka Charles Staley, age 82 Co. Simond's Alabama Battalion , Oklahoma City R. F. Jones, age 79 Co. B Phillips Georgia Legion McAlester Mrs. Loggins . Co. A North Carolina _Ohickasha —104— ADDITIONAL NAME OF EX-CONFEDERATE VETERANS. Name Company and Regiment Post Office. Garrison, William D. Co. K 56th Georgia Infantry Dow Walker Anderson L. Co. H 45th Virginia Infantry Bishop, R. 1 Logan, Robert D. Co. H 26th Alabama Infantry Wister Shepherd, Samuel M. Co. L 11th Texas Infantry Lexington Street, Geo. M. D. Co. G 35th Mississippi Infantry Wapanucka Carroll, Alfred Miles Co. A 5th Tennessee Infantry Powell Scruggs, Geo. S. Co. E 17th Mississippi Infantry Hartshorne Marlar, Reuben Co. A 9th Alabama Cavalry Hominy Smith, James K. P. Co. C 6th Georgia Cavalry Caddo Crunk, Dock Co. C 17th Texas Infantry Marlow Mullens, Clement G. Co. H King's Regiment Arkansas Infantry Maud, R. 3 Ricks, Samuel W. Co. G 39th North Carolina Infantry Shawnee Underhill, Daniel F. Co. I 24th Tennessee Infantry Madill White, William H. Co. L Perryman's South Carolina Cavalry Adair Robinsom James R. Co. C 3rd Missouri Infantry Claremore The total enrollment of Confederate Veterans, resi dents of Oklahoma, contained in this book and the five similar publications prior to this, amounts to 3,936. —AUTHOR. —106- McAlester Fig. 1 STARS AND BARS BATTLE FLAG 1 foot 1 foot Fig. 3 Fig. 4 NATIONAL FLAG, MAY 1. 1863 NATIONAL FLAG, MAR. 4, 1865 1 foot 1 foot Fig. 5. Fig. 7 NAVAL PENNANT 1 foot FLAGS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES &3»£fc«ra*&