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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for March 31st or search for March 31st in all documents.
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 3 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memorial services in Memphis Tenn. , March 31 , 1891 . (search)
Memorial services in Memphis Tenn., March 31, 1891. Memorial of his life and addresses by Major T. B. Edgington, General George W. Gordon, Colonel Casey young and others.
The services in honor of the memory of General Johnston, held in Memphis, Tennessee, in the Grand Opera House, on the night of March 31, were of the most impressive character.
Throughout they were marked by simplicity and earnestness.
The speeches were not marked by oratorical flights, but they were eloquent, for they told the life story of a man among ten thousand.
The music, sadly beautiful, seemed typical of the transportation of a commotion into a land calm and quiet.
On the stage to the right there stood the picture of Johnston draped and embowered with flags and flowers.
To the left a broken column built of immortels, roses, lilies and smilax reared its head.
Between the two stood the speakers of the evening.
With his hand resting upon a sable-colored table, Colonel Luke Finley read the memorial a