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 Annual Reunion of Pegram Battalion Association. 33

genial spring of perfect Reconciliation and Peace between all the chil- dren of this Great Republic.

And so, burying the dead issues of the past, and emulating the courage, the fortitude and the loyalty of that old Rebel Infantry, let us strive to do our duty in this living Present, and leave the issue to the Future with confidence and hope !

We are glad that the slave has been set free. We rejoice to night in the integrity of the Union cemented as it is in the best blood of the North and the South ; and remembering the vast extent of its terri- tory and the teeming millions with which it is peopled, their bound- less wealth, their restless activity and marvelous progress in science and literature, in arts and arms, and catching dimly, though it be as through a glass darkly, some glimpses of that wonderful destiny which day by day is unfolding to our view, I know I speak a sen- timent common to you all, when I say that we are proud of our birth- right, and feel ourselves not less Confederates or Virginians because we can honestly, earnestly and with heartfelt gratitude at the same time boast that we are American citizens !

• 7. WOMAN— "The South Knows her in her Highest Sphere." Responded to by Colonel T. J. Evans.

8. LEE CAMP SOLDIERS' HOME—" The Wards of the Con- federacy."

Responded to by Colonel J. B. Purcell.

9. THE PRESS— "May its Impressions Always be Correct." No response.

ORGANIZATION OF BATTALION, APRIL, 1865.

Colonel — Wm. J. Pegram. Lieutenant- Colonel. — ^Joseph McGraw.

Adjutant — Wm. Gordon McCabe. Sergeant- Major — E. Keith Dargan. Surgeon — ^James Hines. Assistant-Surgeon — Hall.

Quartermaster — Robert B. Munford. Commissary — Arthur Parker. Chaplain — E. H. Rodman.