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m CUMMINGS SPOKE AT CHURCH“cettysbi rlt;;, sixteenth decisive BATTLE Of- WORLD'S HISTORY” interesting; subject ofGETTYSBI RC; VETERAN’S ADDRESS HERE SINDAY.TEILS Of ttcmiThe address of Judge C. C. Cummings of Fort Worth, Confederate historian for the l\ C. V.s’ was delivered to anaudience which fairly well crowded the First Christian Church on Hickorystreet Sunda afternoon. The subject of the talk. “C«ettysburg. the Sixteenth decisive Battle of the World,” made itone doubly interesting to the \eterans,i* calling to many of them who had been with Lee in th«* struggle between the “two ridges’’ of th*' little Dutch town,(|[ j|ir fierce hope f victory withwhich the first of lie- three days fifty years ago had begun, and the bitter certain! ' of defeat which followed the second day’s battle. The church waswrit filled when {!;•■ Confederate Wt-* r ms marehed in, after the Jl.iu, t t,reser\elt;l for them, and the young men of the Reagan and Lee societiesl$f the Nor Hi TMpM State Normal followed The |.dies •! the Katie IViffm Chapter. 1 . i. C., occupied seats near !be front on ttie riuht hand. Rev. A.h Rowers. master of ceremonies, opened the program with a short announcement. and Mrs. A. L. Banks, accompanied at the piano by Miss SusanCobb, sang “The Last Reveille. Following the song, which left many eyes wet with tears as the last sweet not** died away, \\\ K. .Tlt;iof the R. L.Lee society at the Norm d, Spoke fora few moments on A oung Men and the Confederacy, and J. A. Johnsonmade a short address on behalf of theReagan societ. The Normal fjuarletiesang, “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching, after which martial song the speaker of the afternoon wasintroduced by Confederate (i. I*. ha\is After announcing his subject, and a short explanation of it, Judge Cummings spied Dr. J. R. Edwards in the audience and asked him to come up on tfie platform, laughingly desiring him to act as witness to the story of the battle of Gettysburg, where he and the-peakor were comrades. It was a rule nade in Lee camp, he said, never to . , thing unless you had provided \ ourself with a witness, after which statement he extracted a promise ofunrestrained endorsement (,f his tale-* merits from Hr. Edward-.Tells of 1913 Re-1 nion.A short delineation of the pleasuresof the recent Gettysburg celebration,| with Pennsylvania hostess to the boys in blue and cray, was a great pleasure to many of the local \eterans who were unable to attend tin “peace re-union. Their irreefing al Get tvs burg, he declared, was as warm as it had been on a memorable day fifty vears ago. though of a different soil.Beginning his stor' of the great liattlein which 72.000 Confederates and *.‘l.onn Fed era Is were engaged, the speak* I introduced a map of the city of Gettys-burg, pointing out the places cone* rued as he told of them, lb* follow* d the movements of Lee’s Army of \ irginia from Chancellorsvills, where Jackson, “the right hand of Lee,’’ was mortaUv wounded and died, to the assembling of the army at Culpepper’s Heights on the eighth of June, with C.en. Hooker just across the ''reek. On June 2: Lee crossed the Potomac, Hooker havingcrossed at Edwards’ Ferry pre\iously.Lee, whose plan was to move up into the enemy’s country, came on to Charn-bersburg, miles from Gettjsburg,and sent Gen. Gordon on ahead to threaten Washington. Lee halted, nn.l learned at Chamber-burg 'hat Hooker was in the neighborhood on the line above. Stewart was not successful in crossing the Potomac to get news of the movements of Hooker’s army. I lo*spe:iklt;T diixr^ss^l n liMh* !lt; rompmthe battle of Gettysburg it!i the tlf-
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Record and Chronicle
Denton, Texas, US
Mon, Oct 13, 1913
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