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. Minutes . me, wewill try to maki; you more and Ixtter pleased than (V<r beforeW(; already have there a most beautiful auditorium for ourconvention; we ai-e the most centrall\^ located |)lace of Ihc(onfcdcracy, and if you come again wc will endeavor to gi\(you such a, i-eceplion and enlerl ainiiienl lliat you will waid lohav ■■- . -: ■i!i;i ■■/ Ls^Hv- I u .ii;:..)* VHT f;;[;;., ■v-i;>;;)^ 1.! ■■•■: ■^^f7:. f,v S>i<. ■;.:;■• !■;! ^,^i^■( i;p; ;■.(•;; tiny, A^■\: ■■, *; -,yW;i ^■/SMi vat ►«,!); ^^>^i ,■ ■ ; .: i •(. ; • ■hu- ,- ■■ • ■■■:■■■ • >KV; ) t f i5 ■-. VJ .). ■■^^■:y 100 Seventeenth Reunion, Rie/u?iond, May 30-June 3, 1907. behalf of the Palmetto State, instructed by my Division, tosecond the nomiination of the Pittsburg city of the South, and Iheartily second that nomination. Comrade Adkins, of Noith Carolina: Ladies and Gentlemen—I notice that all of our disting-uished generals and brigade generals and colonels have done allth(^ tfdking. Now, with all due respect, during the war weold boys did the fighting. (Applause.) I just come now beforemy fellow comrades; 1 do not know this gentleman from Ala-bama; 1 never met one of them on the field; but I have comehere to second tlu nomination cf l>irmingham, Alabama. I fol-lowed Robert E. Lee round this ca])ital for three yeai-s. McClel-lan was so close to this city that the soldiers could hear thesound of the city clocks striking. My comrades, I have on gold lace here but ought notto have it on. I was a private in the Army of Nortlu^rn Vir-ginia. I want to tell you now there was a gi


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