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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
and Colonel E. B. Gray, the adjutant-general of that great body, came to inquire and report to their comrades if there existed a necessity for additional aid to us in our troubles. Soon after the fall of Charleston and the surrender at Appomattox a party came down from Washington to raise the Stars and Stripes from Fort Sumter—to declare and announce the restoration of the Union. The proclamation of the commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic from Charleston, on the 14th September, 1886, just twenty-one years after, calling on each post in every department at once to appoint a committee to collect such sums as their comrades and fellow citizens in cities, villages and on their farms might desire to contribute to help rebuild our city, the cradle of secession though it was, is, I trust, an announcement that the restoration of the Union is at last and indeed complete. Let us trust, my comrades, that this noble and patriotic action has a deeper significance than even