This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------566E6F406C5FCD4EB7C94F6C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- Greggory E. Davies 120 Ted Price Lane Winnfield, LA 71483 [email protected] --------------566E6F406C5FCD4EB7C94F6C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="convet32.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="convet32.txt" Military: Confederate Veterans, 1932, Winn Parish, LA Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483 USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. From: March 11, 1932 Winn Parish Enterprise or Winnfield News-American 4 Confederate Vets Guests At Annual Dinner On Saturday W. E. Dark And W. H. Matthews Chosen Delegates To National Re-Union Carrying out its annual custom, William Walker Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy served a luncheon to the veterans of the David Pierson Camp in the community hall last Saturday at noon. Only four were present: A. W. Radescich, J. T. Porter, W. E. Dark, and W. H. Matthews, for the annual business meeting. W. E. Dark of Gaars Mill and W. H. Matthews were elected delegates to the national re-union to be held in Richmond in June this year. R. W. Oglesby by request of the Daughters acted as master of ceremonies at the luncheon and gave a talk on the history of the company of which his father was a member as written sixty years after the surrender by a survivor giving a detailed history of each member of the original company. It was Company H of the 9th Tennessee Infantry known as the "Avalanche" made up at Troy, Tennessee, April 1860, composed of 126 members and was a part of Cheatham's Division. It participated in some of the bloodiest battles of war, such as Shiloh, Perryville, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and Nashville. Only one member of the original company went through the entire war without being killed or wounded. The four veterans present responded in short talks of thanks to the Daughters for their annual banquet. Mrs. W. E. Heard, president of the Chapter speaking for the same assured them that it gave the Chapter great pleasure to do for them some acts of kindness and would continue the custom as long as there was one left. Rev. Alvin Stokes and Rev. A. H. Cullen gave splendid talks on the sacrifices made by the people of the south during the war and reconstruction period; that the principle for which they made these sacrifices would live always and were just as dear to the descendants of these heroes as it was to them, and, in stead of being a "Lost Cause" there was in truth and in fact nothing lost; that out of these sacrifices had grown a vast empire, the most favored spot of the American Union. Acting as hostesses were Mesdames W. E. Heard, W. K. Wright, R. W. Oglesby, W. T. Heflin, S. B. Matthews, and A. W. Radescich. --------------566E6F406C5FCD4EB7C94F6C--