. Unveiling and dedication of monument to Hood's Texas brigade on the capitol grounds at Austin, Texas, Thursday, October twenty-seven, nineteen hundred and ten, and minutes of the thirty-ninth annual reunion of Hood's Texas brigade association held in Senate chamber at Austin, Texas, October twenty-six and twenty-seven, nineteen hundred and ten, together with a short monument and brigade association history and Confederate scrap . men, pushed aside by the jugger-naut wheel of commerce, almost forgotten inthe busy din of mart and market place, grownchary of telling the undimmed experien
. Unveiling and dedication of monument to Hood's Texas brigade on the capitol grounds at Austin, Texas, Thursday, October twenty-seven, nineteen hundred and ten, and minutes of the thirty-ninth annual reunion of Hood's Texas brigade association held in Senate chamber at Austin, Texas, October twenty-six and twenty-seven, nineteen hundred and ten, together with a short monument and brigade association history and Confederate scrap . men, pushed aside by the jugger-naut wheel of commerce, almost forgotten inthe busy din of mart and market place, grownchary of telling the undimmed experiences ofthe dead years, they yet find auditors in theirgrandchildren, blue-eyed lads and bonnie littlegirls, who climb upon the gnarled old knees tohear about Stonewall Jackson in the valley, andLee in the Wilderness, and the fighting at Mil-likens Bend, and the siege of Vicksburg. andthe charge of the men that followed Pickett upCemetery Eidge at Gettysburg—and thus thereis kept alive in young hearts the traditions ofthe courage and the valor of the Southland, andthe glorious pride of race and country andachievement and love of the South blazes likea holy flame in the little hearts and kindlesa never-dying altar fire of patriotism. The circle is complete when the chubby armsof babyhood are clasped around the neck ofgrandpa and when the brave blue eyes of boy-hood kindle at his stories. There is now no tramp, tramp, tramp of boys. jMAJOR GEORGE W. LITTLEFIELD TERRYS TEXAS RANGERS. President American National Bank, Austin, Texas. Regent University of Texas. Honorary Comrade of Hoods Texas Brigade. Member Hoods Texas Brigade Monument Committee. ARMY, NORTHERN VIRGINIA 147 marching; there are steps that are heavy andslow, and the tattoo of the cane on the cementsidewalk is not like the rattle of the snartdrums, and the dull copper luster of the bit ofbronze medallion worn in the lapel is not likethe glory of the gold and the gray; but thatscrap of metal means more than the jeweled
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