[This article has merits, just had to share with all of you]. PROCEEDINGS OF CHARLESTON REUNION, 1899 "On Wednesday, May 10, the veterans of the sixties marched through the streets of Charleston, triumphant in peace, under the same colors they defended with their lives when Old Fort Sumter boomed and swept the sea with shot and shell. The parade was an important feature of the reunion. As divisions after divisions and company after company passed in review hats were waved with patriotic frenzy, and loud cheers were heard from the thousands who had patiently waited for the line to pass. GENERAL GORDON shared the applause with his standard bearers and the white -haired drummer received a hero's cheer. The parade was much longer than many expected. The weather was perfect, and a more auspicious day could not have been desired. Gen. Gordon, erect upon a splendid horse accompanied by his staff...So it was for brave old HAMPTON, STEPHEN D. LEE, GEN. CABELL, "Old Tiger" and others. The crowd was almost exhausted from cheering when the tattered and torn battle flags appeared, and there was a moment's silence, the calm before the storm; then a mighty shout went up from thousands of throats. The color bearers waved their flags and lifted their hats in reverence to the banners they had followed so faithfully. GEN. WADE HAMPTON was compelled to carry his hat in his hand, as it was impossible to lift it to the thousands of ladies who waved their handkerchiefs and clapped their hands, and so as one and another of the great Generals were recognized cheer after cheer went up.... The Sons Of Veterans were under their Commander in Chief ROBERT A. SMYTH, accompanied by his staff, who were mounted and his special aids, who were L.D.T. QUIMBY, Atlanta, Inspector General; FRANCIS H. WESTON, Columbia, aid; JAMES A. HOYT, JR., Assistant Adj. Gen; DANIEL RAVENEL, Adj. Gen; Aids A.T. SMYTHE, JR., E.L. WELLS, JR., and L.C. SMYTHE, Jr. The South Carolina Division was under Commander BONHAM, and he was accompanied by his staff. The other states were in command of the following officers: Louisiana, W.H. McLELLAN; Mississippi, GEORGE B. MYERS; North Carolina, DR. CHARLES A. BLAND; Georgia, W.T. COLQUITT; Florida, J.R. MATTHEWS, acting; Virginia, W.A. JACOBS; Texas, H.B. KIRK, acting. Following the Sons came the VETERANS bearing the sacred battle flags, with a special escort. The Washington Artillery carried its old gun, under the command of CAPT. R.J. MORRIS, of Charleston. The old company was proud of it's gun, which is said to be the first of it's kind in the country. No feature of the parade was more touching than the " old battle-scarred flags", which were carried by the color bearers. Among those were the flag that was first unfurled over FORT SUMTER, the flag of the privateer JEFFERSON DAVIS, and that of the Forty-Sixth North Carolina Regiment, carried by CAPT. BOST, who saved a single star from the flag of his regiment. This star is the center of another flag carried by Capt. BOST in the parade. At Marion Square GEN. GORDON reviewed the magnificent procession. GEN. HAMPTON , GEN. LEE and GEN CABELL joined GEN GORDON in the review of the veterans." { God Rest their souls} FREE POST- nancie