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2. A decorated float bearing fifteen young ladies, representing the States of the Confederacy, each bearing a flag (the charming feature of the procession).

3. Officers Ladies' Monumental Association.

4. Members of the family of the late President Jefferson Davis. 3. Distinguished Confederate veterans in carriages.

6. General J. A. Smith in command of the following:

(a) Organized Posts Confederate Veterans.

Unattached Confederate Veterans.

(*) Organized Posts Sons of Confederate Veterans.

The Mississippi National Guard was represented by the following companies, in command of General Billups : Caledonian Rifles, Col- umbus Riflemen, Starkville Guards, Brown Cadets, Cadet Rifles, Lee Guards, West Point Rifles, Clarkesville Light Guards,Volunteer South- rons, Crystal Springs Volunteers, Mississippi Southrons, College Rifles, Mississippi Invincibles, Capital Light Guards, Oktibbeha Rangers, and the Warren Light Artillery. The artillery, with their Catling gun exhibitions, were a

GREAT FEATURE OF THE DAY.

Governor Stone was commander-in-chief, and the line of the march was headed by General Gordon, General Kirby Smith, General Cabell, General W. T. Martin, and other distinguished soldiers, General Joyce Smith being in command of the Confederate Veterans, who showed up in great strength and style.

After the military came, the float bearing fifteen beautiful ladies, who represented

THE DIFFERENT SOUTHERN STATES

at the unveiling, as follows : Miss Annie Stone, representing the Southern Confederacy ; Miss Annie L. Stone, representing Missouri; Miss Courtenay Walthall, Virginia; Miss Corinne Hortense Sykes, North Carolina; Miss Annabel Power, Kentucky; Miss Elise Feather- stone, Georgia; Miss Elise Govan, Florida; Miss Nellie Fewell, Alabama ; Miss Mary Belle Morgan, Louisiana ; Miss Caroline Kerr Martin, Texas; Miss Virginia Hunt, Arkansas; Miss Sallie Eleanor Cowan, Tennessee; Miss Marie Lowry, Mississippi; Miss Annie Hemingway, South Carolina ; Miss Katie Porter, Maryland. Then came carriages containing the officers of the Ladies' Confederate Monument Association, with Miss Sallie B. Morgan as president ;