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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 3 (search)
time when the bugles shall blow over heights supernal, Till the quick and the dead are thrilled, And the Figure in Grey shall be crowned with the days eternal, And his dream shall be fulfilled. James Lindsay Gordon. After an anthem by the quartette choir and benediction by Rev. Samuel Wallis, the procession re-formed and marched to the Courthouse square where the orator of the day, Senator John W. Daniel, made an eloquent address, from which the following extracts were published: Mr. Chairman, comrades, Ladies and gentlemen: Not long ago General Early addressed me a letter, and in doing so he used the same kind expression as the chair did in his flattering introduction, that the proudest distinction I have ever known, and the grandest title any of us have ever worn, is that of Confederate soldier; for there is no story of fame, no dream of glory, nor grander evidence of true manhood than doing simple duty, which those brave boys, a few of whom you have met here to-day to h
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Southern Historical Society: its origin and history. (search)
Carolina. Admiral R. Semmes, Alabama. Colonel W. Call, Florida. General Will. T. Martin, Mississippi. General J. B. Hood, Louisiana. Colonel T. M. Jack, Texas. Hon. A. H. Garland, Arkansas. Governor Isham G. Harris, Tennessee. General J. S. Marmaduke, Missouri. General S. B. Buckner, Kentucky. W. W. Corcoran, Esq., Washington, D. C. The President appointed the following gentlemen members of the Executive Committee: General Dabney H. Maury, Richmond, Va., Chairman. General Maury, so long and prominently identified with the Society, resigned his post in the Executive Committee June 18, 1888, whilst he was United States Minister at Bogota, South America. There have been other changes in the Executive Committee by death and other causes, and by appointments to vacancies. Colonel Charles S. Venable, University of Virginia. Colonel William Preston Johnston, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. Colonel Robert E. Withers, Wytheville, Va.