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1861 SECTION ONE Special Reunion Nunift^ to the V. C. V. PAGES 1 to 8 1914 VOL. 1, NO. 111. Weekly, EwUbllshed I860; PaJlr,Jaa. 18, 191?. ANDERSON. S. C, DAY MOANING, MAY 26, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS $5.00 PER ANNUM f?0? THESPl BLEST BE THE TIE . , . fliest be tbc tie that binds Our hearts In Christian love; The fellowship of Madreo, minds Is like to that above Before our Father's, throne We pour our ardent prayers; Our tears, uar bopytt, our aims are one Our comforts and our earea We a hare our mutual woes Our mutual burdens bear And oft for each other flows Our sorrow and our tears When we asunder part It gives us Inward nain.. But wo shall be joined in heart And hope to me^t again Thia glorious hope ravives Our courage by'the way While each in expectation lives And longs to see the day .From sorrow? toil and pain, And sin we ?hall be free And perfect love and. friendship reign . Through all eternity "Forsooth, it may delight thee hereafter to remember these things." Thus wrote Virgil of the soldiers of Aeneas. The sweetest memories are those of travail, illumined by love. It delights the Confederate soldiers to gather to discuss the days in which they followed the "Starry Cross" until the Setting. And it delights Anderson to entertain the old soldiers of South Carolina this year upon the occasion of their annual reunion for Anderson trwr. *T -C3 * of her noblest sons to the cause of lib erty. For all time, those who have en countered hardships together, those who have trudged together along the weary marches, those who have stood shoulder to shoulder in the grim line of battle, those who ha VJ starved together in the.seige or' in the prison, and those who have feasted together upon the captured booty, have loved to as semble, and, recounting their hardships and pleasures cast a tear for the equally brave ones who fell along the line. There is no comradeship *ikc thai of the men who have stood together in battle where "death saluted them." Whatever differences may hive existed along other lince, this tie could hot be severed. The sj . vivors meet together not only for the pleasure to themselves, but to sing to the praises of those who marched "to death gaily as a festival." < History records civil war in all lands and ages, but none to compare with the War of Seccess'ion, in the gigantic scale upon which it was waged. On one side the total enlistment was over two and one-half millions, against only six hun dred thousand on the other; while the deaths from all causes on the side of RIT OF THE R ?it\i1i\*?-' -? i .i '.; i the victors amounted to nearly four hundred thousai inst' two hun dred thousand op>|he side of the van quished. But the great%difference?<.between . the civil war of the United States and those of all other countries, rests upon the course pursued by both victors and vanquished, after the closp of hostilities The terms of surrender were honorable and even liberal. Of course thjere were men on both sides wha wer.? zealous "ll \" ' il 'l, . . _. v_^^[ ' i IBB ?IP* " MONUMENT AT ANDERSON ! Built by the Efforts of the Women of City alni County and extreme, but the good judgment of the majority on both sides made it pos sible for all who had fought tjie gov?? ernment to exercise the fu?t rights of citizenship under that government within a very few years af ter the final surrender; all, save one, for President\ i'.'-.?V ?' ' 1&?*&mtMs?&&r'?: ' ' ''. '?*! '' J'S.** ' PART ONE VOL. 1. NO. 1. Weekljr, K?t?WUhe4 1860;Doily, Jan. 18, 1914. ANDERSON, S. C. TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 13, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. $5.00 PEF ANNUM.