. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. In a skirmish near 18, i864. he was again wounded and disabled from duty for two months, when he resumed his command and remainedwith it until the surrender under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Greensboro. He was brevetted major for bravery and meri-torious conduct at the close of the war he returned to Nashville. Tenn., studied law and was admitted to the practice in 1865. City attor-ney 1866-68; clerk of the Circuit and Law courts of Davidson county, Tenn., 1S70-74; delegate from
. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. In a skirmish near 18, i864. he was again wounded and disabled from duty for two months, when he resumed his command and remainedwith it until the surrender under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Greensboro. He was brevetted major for bravery and meri-torious conduct at the close of the war he returned to Nashville. Tenn., studied law and was admitted to the practice in 1865. City attor-ney 1866-68; clerk of the Circuit and Law courts of Davidson county, Tenn., 1S70-74; delegate from Tennessee to theGeographical and Scientific Congress in Paris. France. 1875; United States attorney in the adjustment of claims againstthe government on account of swamp land indemnities. i88s: resigned in 1S89 to accept a highly responsible position inthe law and medical revision department of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, which he still retains,residing at Washington. D. C. Colonel and inspector-general, U. C. V.; a public speaker and humorist of rarest merit. <€^^. 171 tin- tongue of some of your famous orators I might impress you more pleas-ingly with the heartfelt earnestness of our greeting. Let me say, how-ever, with that brevity which is the soul of wit, that it is most fitting forthe north and south to eat, ilrink and be merr} together; and above all forthe Queen City of the west to pla^the hostess on this felicitous occasion. There is no other city which could better entertain her southernneighbors than this; no other place where northern veterans and southernheroes could meet more cordially at the same board and grasping eachothers hands, say: Brother, ours was a family quarrel; both sides werebrave; the past is forgotten, we will look to the common future withhopes prepared for an ampler vision of prosperity, a closer union and amore enduring patriotism. (Applause). To the e.\-Confederate generals and all the representatives of thesouthern soi
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