Mountain Remnant Brigade
Confederate Veterans Reunion
Reunion Minutes, A Notable Meeting (1901)


Source: From The Highlander, Thursday, July 26, 1962
transcribed by Edna Cheatham, Dec 2009


      At 9 a.m. the bugle sounded the call for the Mountain Remnant Brigade Confederate Veterans assemble at the grandstand…

      At 10 a.m. T. D. Vaughan, acting general, called the veterans to order. Chaplain General Harralson not having arrived, J. E. Bell offered a heartfelt prayer.

      General A. R. Johnson delivered the welcoming address and made the old soldiers feel at home. If they did not have a good time during their stay, it was their own fault.

      The little daughter of W. A. Andres, Miss Lottie, then advanced to the front of the stage with the Confederate battle flag in her hand and rendered a welcome poem that went to the hearts of the old boys. When the splendid Florence band struck up Dixie, they went almost wild as though old days of the 1860s were brought up in review again.

      Captain B. Badger and the Rev. Walker, of Llano, were called for, and each responded with a talk full of eloquence and patriotism that was fully appreciated by the veterans.

      The band then rendered some fine selections of appropriate music till noon, and then adjourned for dinner…2:45 p.m. bugle call called to order by the general at 3 p.m.

      Thirteen young ladies, representing the 13 Confederate States, sang the Bonny Blue Flag led by Dr. J. R. Yett, with his fine tenor voice, and again the old boys were carried off their feet with enthusiasm.

      Our gifted State Senator, W. D. Yett, then made a speech of an hour that captivated the audience from start to finish.

      Friday was Marble Falls day.

      Saturday: General T. D. Vaughan declared the reunion adjourned to meet in Llano the last Thursday in July, 1902… Tents were struck, flags pulled down and hauled away and in less than an hour the reunion for 1901, Mountain Remnant Brigade, United Confederate Veterans, was a thing of the past.


 

 

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