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WAR Sri ',\Srew Commander-in-C livers jSTotc.d .A_<1 Heroes Nashville, .June 14.--General Ste-J nv hen I). Ijce, who succeeds tho lament- , cd Gordon as commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans, spoke as fuilows : "It is impossible for me to respond to the kindly and cordial welcome so 5tly spoken to my comrades who wore thc gray, without thinking of thc great soldier and orator upon whom this duty would have fallen, if he had not been taken away from us. It was in historic Nashville, sevcD years ago, ?that bis eloquent voice gave utterance to the gratitude of our heartH to the citizens of this beautiful city for the .hospitality Tor which they arc famous, ?and which to day has laid us under aew obligations. It was here that '?ho placed in your hands his commis sion as your chieftain, and sought to retiro into private station. With an ?sutburst of loyal devotion, resistless ?8 the whirlwind, you again called him to be your leader, and gave him ?he commission of your unmeasured love and confidence. ?"He was true to your service to the last. His coblo voice is hushed for ever. He has answered the great roll <oall. He has joined his great com mander in the white hosts of peace. The armies of the Confederacy have ?marched to fame's eternal camping ?ground, and we who moet to-day are only the belated stragglers of that ? mighty host who have entered into ?their immortality. " 'The living are bravo aud noble Bot the dead were the bravest r>f all.' " "AB I listened to tho eloquent and comforting addresses of welcome, it waB impossible for me not to remem ber an occasion now noarly forty years {past, when somo of us yearned to -eDjoy the hospitality of Nashville. Many of her citizens would at that Hirne, have been glad to seo us, but ?not half as much so, as we "would ?have been to seo them. Between us .-and these hospitable homes there .stretched a wall of fire, and instead of your cordial greeting we heard the thunder of guns. "This timo, however, we have kept -our engagements bettor, and your good will have made us more than .conquerors. Wo have entered into this city of great men and great memo ries. We have beheld your educa tional institutions, sending light and trope into the remotest corners of our beloved land. We have made pilgrim ages to the graves of your mighty dead-we have been refreshed by your hospitality. "The Confederate soldier does not forget that from the bosom of this old commonwealth, came a hundred and fifteen thousand men, to follow the banners of Lee and Johnston, and .thal !DOre than thirty-thntiaand were enlisted in tho Armies of the Union Tennesseeass believe with ther hearts' blood. They did not count the cost, when the great question of State or IV at ion had to bo settled with drawn swords. They spent thc last drop of (blood, the last mite of treasure, for tho defense of Tennessee, their moth er and their sovereign. "We, the witnesses of that great eaorifice, can never cease to honor Tennessee, for tho blood of her sons, for the tears and prayers of her daugh ters, for the indomitable spirit which robuilt the ruined homes, whioh sow ed thc blasted fields, whioh has wrenched prosperity from field and mountain, and has made this wonder ful land, onoo moro a thing of beauty . and pride to every southern heart, .-?.yoe have done well, men and women ofTe&aesBeo. With peaceful hands you have won back more than your i fathers lost. "J wonder sometimes whether, wheo the great balances of the universe are posted, and the great judgments of the ancient of days are rendered, whether even when the last human historyvk written of thc war between V ?he ^Slates, and the slow verdict of "remote posterity is taken, the cause we loved, will seem as lost as it once ?cerned to us. It may bc that in thc providence of God, and the develop ment of humanity, these fearful sacri fices were neoessary for tue highest good of this nation and of the world. Truly in hum.au experience,without the ?bedding of blood there is no redemp tion. Bather let us believe that the world is richer and better, purer and greater for the tragic story of forty years ago, and that the shed blood hes brought blessing, honor, glory and power, incorruptible treasures cf which a brave and noble people oan never be despoiled. "It is a source of joy to every one ..of ns, as we make onr annual pilgrim-1 vago to meei together, when we see how .prosperous our country has grown. At last I think we feel that the pros perity of the land is assured. When the savings of all previous generations DRIES. .'hiel ol' Veterans X)e . dress to luirn JUS of War. were consumed io the common dis aster, it seemed for a while as if the South has to face the bitterness of poverty for generations to come- j statesmanship, literature, art, cul ture, flowers of leisure and oppor tunity, were to remain forever with ered on the soil once so congenial; nothing was to bc left but the hard struggle with adversity till the bitter end. "I think we are convinced now that the South is fully on its feet again. In material prosperity we have now not only reached, but surpassed the achievements of our fathers; yet, when I look about me for the men, who aro to enter into the garden, which you, my brave comrades, have made bloom under suoh hard conditions, I cannot but be sensible to the incomparable loss which tho South sustained. The tongues which would have commanded the applause of Senates, were never heard after theory of battle was over; the genius that might have directed the counsels of nations, breathed its last upon some forgotten skirmish line. The very Sower and pride of our people perished in the battle front, and the blood of our race lost much of its most magnificent strain when they went to their graves. "I hold no view of southern degen- j eraey, but I deplore the irreparable loss to my country and tbe coming generation when those splendid men, the bravest and best the world has ever held, went down in death. Some one has said that every generation must have its war. If so, in God's name let it not be a real war. Tho burning bouses, the wasted fields, the ravaged cities-I could see them all go until the wilderness was back again, and contain my grief; but I can never bear to think of the strength and beauty, the manly courage, the stub born nerve, the pure chivalry, the peerless devotion, the unstinted faith and loyalty, which went into the bat tle's deadly front and never returned. It is the loss of men like these that j made the South poor indeed, a IOBS that oan never be restored, not in forty years. No! not in forty cen turies. "But, my comrades, it is a great comfort to know that the South had suoh men to lose. It was a revelation to the world. It was a revelation to ourselves. What a magnificent race of men, what a splendid type of humanity; what courage; what gran deur of spirit; what p-iriotism; what self-saorifioe. It was sublime. It is wonderful beyond compare. Not I all were conquered. Some of these men came back. I see them before me now. God has bountifully pro longed their days, that they may illus trate to the next generation the oivio virtues, that they may tell thc won drous story of those days, chat they i may stir up in the hearts of youth I the emulation of virtue, the passion for noble achievements^ the spirit of sacrifice. "As ?he close of our days draw near, and the work of upbuilding our coun try pisses on into younger and stron ger hands, let us make it our mission, oomrades, to tell the story. Do not let your children or grandchildren for get the cause for whioh we suffered. Tell it not in anger. Tell it not in grief. Tell it not in revenge. Tell it proudly as fits a soldier. There is no shame in all the history. Dwell on the gallant deeds, the pure motives, the unselfish sacrifice. Tell of the hardships endured, the battles fought, tho men who bravely lived, the men who nobly died. Your dear oomrades shall livo again in your words. "The infinite pity and glory of it ali will awake the hearts of those who listen, and they will never forget. Tell them of Albert Sidney Johnston, of Stonewall Jiokson.of Stewart with his waving plume, of Forrest with his scorn of death. Tell them of Wade Hampton and Gordon, the Chevalier Bayards of the South. Tell thom of Zollicoffer, of Pat Cleburne and Frank Cheatham, of Pelham, of Ashby. Tell them of the great soldier with the spotless sword, and the spotless soul, who sleeps at Lexington, in the Valley of Virginia. Tell them of the great president, who bore upon his sad heart, the sorrows of all his peo ple, and upon whom fell all the blows which passed them over. "This, my comrades, is your Issi commission. Do this for the dead, that they may be loved and honored still. Do this for the living, that they may also become worthy of love and honoj. Do this for your country, [ that when the time is ripe, she may again be' rich in heroes and in noble deeds. " 'Shall not the self same soil bring forth the self same men?' "When tho great account is taken whioh page think you, my OOUDITV men, will the South most^illium:. apare? Will it be the edd page toro and ragged, stained with hiood and tear.*, which tell.-, thc story of seces sion and defeat-or trill it be the new page of her lates? census, with its magnificent figures of wealth and ??ros poiity? Whatever she chooses, give us old soldier-) the old pages to read again. This blood and those tears mean more to us than all the world. The cause in which they were shed, will never be lost to us, and the love we gave it, will not die till the last gray jacket is folded and the last gray head is buried beneath the sod. My comrades, neither do I believe our descendants will ever hesitate to make the same choice. The people of the South would not exchange the story of the Confederacy for the wealth of the world. At their moth er's knee, the coming generation shall learn from that tragic history what deeds make men groat and nations glorious. A people who do not cher ish their past will never have a futuro worth recording. The time is even now, that the whole people of the United States are proud of the ucsur passed heroism, Belf-sacrifioes and laithfuloess of the soldiers and people of the Confederacy." Story of First War Flag Raised at Alex andria, Va. That one of the very first Confed erate flags of the war was raised over the Marshall house, in Alexandria, Va., is a fact not generally known by the public. This was done by Charles H. Taylor, of Company H, 17th Virginia regiment, who not only raised the flag but also raised subscriptions for it and had it made. His narra tive follows : In the early part of 1801, war be tween the Northern and Southern States seemed inevitable, as about all of the Southern States had ?eoeded. Very soon thereafter war was declared. I at onee concluded to get up a flag to represent our oause. After consult ing with many of the citizens, I found that they approved of my plan and would gladly subscribe to ward;, defraying the amount the flag would cost. I then made the design of the flag and submitted it to Mr. John W. Padgett, who was in that business, to know what such a flag would cost. Having informed me, I said to him that I would canvass the city and if I succeeded in raising the amount I would give him the order. So I got up a list and canvassed the people of the oity and Boon raised the required amount, and immediately called on Mr. Padgett and gave him tho order to make the flag. The flag was made of fine bunting and was eighteen feet long by thirteen feet four ioohes wide; was red and white with blue field containing thirteen stars to represent the thirteen Southern States, and it cost $30. Mr. Jackson said to me that he would be glad to have tho flag float over the Marshall house, of whioh he was proprietor, and would give me all the assistance that I need ed in plaoicg the pole on the hotel to receive the flag. I told him 1 could see no objection to the flag floating ! over the Marshall house, as I con sidered it the best place in the city, ana oesi?c? ii TY ou id bc u?uc? ui? ?)rv- j teotion. The next move was to get a pole for I the flag. After investigation I found j that the Democratic pole was not used and I made application to those io authority and they gave me permis sion to take it for the use of the flag. I turned this pole over to Mr. Jackson and he had it placed on his hotel. The pole was placed through the trap door of the north gable end of the hotel and on the south side of the chimney, the foot of the pole resting on the floor of the attic room for sup port. The citizens of the oity were notified as to the time the flag would be raised, and a very large orowd was present. On the afternoon of the day that the flag was to be raised, I went to Mr. Padgett's house and was there when the last stitch? WSB taken in the fl ig hy Mrs. John W. Padgett and her sister, Miss Sarah M. Gra ham; they turned the flag over to me and we folded it up aod I took it to the Marshall house and to the room where the pole was placed to receive it, and fastened the ropes to the flag, making it ready for hoisting. In tho meantime Mr. Jackson, the proprietor of the Marshall house, came io and I told him that every thing was ready and the time about up, and I wanted him to defend the flag. He said that if the flag ever came down, it would come down over his dead body. I said, "I will now go down and give the signal to raise the flag." I It was floated to the breeze, accom panied by cheers and shouts from the assemble! crowd and the booming of cannon. The day was beautiful and a brisk northwest wind was blowing and when the 'flag was raised I never saw one float more beautifully than the one raised over the Marshall house in Alexandria, Va., on the 17tb day of ! April, 1861, at 4 o'dock, to represent 1 the thirteen southern states. , I On the 12th day of May, 1861, the man-of-war Pawnee steamed np the P .ioiuao river with port-holes open. aod anchored in front of Alexandria, On tho - lilt ?lay of thc natue mooth a i dcuiaud was made f',r thc surrender of thc city, which wai refused. It waa I very early in thc moro i og and those j of the Seventeenth Virginia r?gi- i meat that were there had but lit tle time to vacate. About twenty miles up the railroad Col. M. D. Corae held the train for those who failed to get out with the regiment. My escape kept me from being cap tured, as I afterwards learned that the enemy were looking for the man that had that flag raised over the Marshall house. Thc enemy had nearly every point guarded, as early as it vras. and I marie my escape by crossing Hunting creek, at which point no guard had been picketed. The enemy came in by land and water and captured the city without opposition, but whon they undertook to capture the flag that was floating over the Marshall house, they met with one brave man to oppose them, the proprietor of the Marshall house. James W. Jackson. The enemy captured the flag, but in so doing lost their commanding offi cer, who was killed by the brave Jack son, and he in turn lost his lifo by the enemy, having been shot down de fending the flag. In September, 1902, I paid a visit to my old home in Alexandria and while there oalled on Miss Sarah M. Graham, at the old homestead where the flag was made hy her and her sis ter, Mrs. John W. Padgett, now de ceased. It was my first visit in thir ty-three years. Miss Graham told me that the enemy wanted to tear her home down and hang her, and it took the best influence in the city to con vince them that Miss Graham WSB in that business for the money that was in it, and would make a flsg for them if they would pay her for it. After they were convinced that the state ments made were true they let her alone. The flsg floated over the Marshall < house from the 17th day of April, 1861, to the 24th day of May, "061, at whioh time the city was invaded by the enemy.-Charles H. Taylor in Atlanta Journal. Reunited After Years. Harrisburg 111., June 25.-James Denny of Cairo, III., hau just succeed ed in finding a brother whom he has mourned as dead for the last forty years. He and his brother, A. ?I. Denny, lived at Centralia, 111., at the breaking out of the Civil War, and they both en listed in the Union Army, in the same company and regiment. At the close of a hard battle in the year of 1864, A. H. Denny failed to show np, and James Denny believed he was among the dead, although he was unable to find his body. At the close of the war, James Denny returned to his old home in Centralia ; when his brother did not show up he left After a few days. A few years after A. H Denny vis ited the place of his birth, but not finding his brother there oonoluded he he was dead, and also left. Esoh sup posed the other dead. One day reeently a traveling sales man was in conversation with A. H. ifftnnv ? mAMnMtt AF T.on ?a o?IIA ??"?? .""""I , ---- -I.U?| -rf . 7 and aalrad naan*11ir* *' Aro nnn roi a tori -MM" -------rf . - . - rf -- ----? to James Denny of Cairo?" "No, I guess not,*' he replied. "I had a brother named Jim, but we part ed while serving in the army during the Civil War, and I suppose some time the Sergeant oalled the roll, and Jim Denny didn't answer." 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