. Minutes . onal Guards. The veterans followed thi^ state militia. CJeneral ClementA. hAans, the Commandei-in-chiel, i-ode at the head of tiie Con-federate aiiiiy. The General, with his long, fiowing gray hair,attired in his war uniform of gray and his black leggings, i)re-sented a i)icture:s(p]L(? api)earance. Lie was mounted on a laigeblack horse. The Commander-in-Chief was escoited b\ the statfof (Jeneral Lee, the late Conniiander-in-chief. The conspicuous part talu n in IIk; long procession by theyounger men forme;! a ieatuie Ihaf was SKvy «,(Miei*all\ re-marked. Almost every s;cli()
. Minutes . onal Guards. The veterans followed thi^ state militia. CJeneral ClementA. hAans, the Commandei-in-chiel, i-ode at the head of tiie Con-federate aiiiiy. The General, with his long, fiowing gray hair,attired in his war uniform of gray and his black leggings, i)re-sented a i)icture:s(p]L(? api)earance. Lie was mounted on a laigeblack horse. The Commander-in-Chief was escoited b\ the statfof (Jeneral Lee, the late Conniiander-in-chief. The conspicuous part talu n in IIk; long procession by theyounger men forme;! a ieatuie Ihaf was SKvy «,(Miei*all\ re-marked. Almost every s;cli()n anil division h;ul its (juotaof Sons of Vetei-ans and others who were paying tiibute tothe bravery of galhint sirens and friends who fought for theConfedeiacy. Iviglit at the head of llie column, just behind the governorsglittcj-ing staff, came the h)eal inililary companies. The Wood-law ti liilhs, commanded by (apl. d. 1>. Scully, came (iisl. Justhehind came Hie delTv-rson Noiunleers, (;ipt. V\. L. Gregory;. 42 Eighteeyith Reiinio)i, Birmingham, Ala., Ju7ie 9-11, 1908. \ the Birmingham Rifles, ^Maj. L. C. Brown; Troop D, Cavalry, | Capt. ^I. M Stewart, and Battery I). Captain Dorrance. Major i Carl Seals and Lieutenant Colonel Hughes B. Kennedy played , a eonspieuous part in their management of the guardsmen. Themen were all in glittering new equipment, just received by thestate, and even the mules drawing the guns and caissons werein new harness. The Chattanooga company also made^ an ex-cellent showing in the procession. General John AY. Apperson, Commander-in-chief of theSons of Confederate Veterans, Adjutant X. B. Forrest, Jr., thesponsors and maids for the Sons, and others of the youngercontingent were conspicuously in evidence. General Evans staff iiichuh^d Adjutant General AV. , Brigadier General J. V. Shipp, Brigadier General B. , Brigadier General Fred L. Robertson. Brigadier GiU-eral II. W. Graber, Colonel J. R. Crowe, Colonel John C
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