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Though men deserve, they may not win success,

The brave will honor the brave, vanquished none the less.

The "civil war" was too long ago to be called the "late" war and when correspondents use that term the word "great" (war) will be substituted.

HISTORIC EVENTS WITHIN A MONTH.

The past month has been unusually full of interesting incidents deserving place in the VETERAN, but only brief reference can be made now to them.

The Grand Army Encampment at Louisville was an event of importance. To see how thousands of visitors would dress and demean themselves upon coming as guests to their vanquished foes, induced attendance and careful observation.

The occasion in many respects gave pleasure, while it was also attended with many unhappy reminiscences. It would certainly have been in good taste for the Veterans to have worn citizens dress, with simple badges to indicate the state from which they came, and the command in which they served. But the array of blue and tinsel was quite similar to that worn South the third of a century ago. These things excited memories which did not increase our admiration for "Old Glory," as they call the flag of the United States, made sacred by the blood of our fathers. Many evidently did not consider the proprieties on becoming guests, in a large sense, to the South. There were many side remarks that aggravated the Southern people.

But there were many noble men among them, and their surprise at open hearted greeting was general.

The intense heat and the crowd induced many to return North, who planned visits to Chattanooga and to Atlanta. Many of these who came farther South, stopped over in Nashville and at various places where battles were fought in which they participated. The dedication at Chickamauga on the nineteenth of September, was in a suitable place on the battle ground, some two mile nearer Chattanooga than Crawfish Spring, and within the Park.

S. A. CUNNINGHAM,

No. 10. { Editor.

The Vice-President of the United States was in charge of the exercises, and honored the occasion by his every act.

Gen. Jno. M. Palmer of Illinois, spoke for the Union side. His address was not as magnanimous as his friends expected in its relation to the causes of the war, and to his part in the battle. A singular admission was that at a time when Confederates were in plain view, he called the attention of his soldiers, and said: "They are American citizens, give them!" That caused some of his hearers to infer that he was commanding other soldiers than those of his own country. However, in addressing Confederates specially, just before concluding his speech, he said: "I was proud of your gallantry and courage. lantry and courage. I never allowed myself to forget that you were Americans, freely offering your lives in the defense of what you believed to be your right in vindication of your manhood."

Gen. Gordon, who next spoke, made no reference whatever to Gen. Palmer's remarks. Palmer was in this battle, but Gordon was in Virginia.

The Annual State Convention of the Association of Tennessee Confederate Soldiers met in Columbia in the hall of the Athenæum, which was beautifully and artistically decorated for the occasion. The Association, with President P. P. Pickard in the chair, was welcomed by the Mayor, by the County Court Judge, and by Maj. J. T. Williamson, President of Leonidas Polk Bivouac.

Business pertaining to the relief of the indigent and disabled Confederate soldiers of Tennessee was transacted and reports from the Board of Pension Examiners and Trustees of the Soldiers' Home were read, considered and adopted. Maj. W. R. Garrett presented a report from the Historical Committee, which was in line with the report submitted by this Committee to the Covention at Houston. The report embodied a strong plea for securing data from Confederate sources to be incorporated in school and library histories. It paid strong tribute to the CONFEDERATE VETERAN, reasserting its appreciation of its work for the cause. Meetings will hereafter occur on the second Wednesday in October, a month later in the year, and the third Thursday, in May, was fixed for the decoration of Confederate