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Name: Confederate Reunion, 1908 Date: July 21, 1908 Image Number: B06cdB18 Comments: A Grand Rally and Reunion of Confederate veterans was held at Scottsville on July 21, 1908. This Burgess panorama was taken on Valley Street, looking west at the intersection of West Main and Valley Street, and shows some of the over 2000 people who gathered to greet the veterans. An entry in the Minute Book of Henry Gantt Camp No. 75 describes the reunion's beginning as follows: "The line formed in front of Town Hall and marched to the grounds just outside the village where a large crowd of people of the town and surrounding county had gathered to greet the veterans. Hon. W.D. Patteson delivered the address of welcome, after which Judge R. T. W. Duke (of Charlottesville) in his usual bright and happy style introduced the Hon. Capt. Micajah Woods (of Charlottesville, formerly a lieutenant in Jackson's Battery of Horse Artillery), the principal orator of the day." Senator Thomas S. Martin also spoke to the reunion crowd assembled at the
Henry Gantt campgrounds located near the burial sites for 40 Confederate soldiers who
died in Scottsville hospitals during the Civil War. Per the Charlottesville
Daily Progress, dated July 22, 1908, Martin called attention to the fact that "forty
Confederate soldiers from the far South ...(are buried)... See the image below as a guide to one spectator and several buildings on Main Street: Copyright © 2018 by Scottsville Museum |
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