{"id":71,"date":"2012-07-28T13:36:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T18:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/?p=71"},"modified":"2017-06-20T22:03:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T03:03:22","slug":"1900-confederate-reunion-at-bolivar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/1900-confederate-reunion-at-bolivar\/","title":{"rendered":"1900 Confederate Reunion at Bolivar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Transcription\u00a0submitted by:\u00a0 Anita Powell, New Mexico,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:flicker@zianet.com\">E-mail Anita<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Through the courtesy of <strong>Mrs. E.M. Doyle<\/strong>, we have been handed a copy of the <em>Boliver Bulletin<\/em> of May 12, 1933, containing pictures and names of 80 Confederate soldiers of Hardeman County who attended a reunion held at Cheshier Springs, three miles south of Bolivar, on September 14th and 15th, 1900, at which 5,000 people were present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The principal speaker of the occasion was <strong>Hon. M.R. Patterson<\/strong>, of Memphis.\u00a0<strong> Capt. John W. Morton<\/strong>, of Nashville, was also among the speakers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The above picture, taken on the grounds by H.C. Calahan, a former photographer of Boliver, shows the old soldiers who attended that reunion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The late <strong>J.W. Jacobs<\/strong> supplied the names underneath the picture.\u00a0Not a single one of these old soldiers is living today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">There are numerous descendants of these gallant man still living in Hardeman County, who will look upon this picture with pride and reverence and will carefully preserve it.\u00a0 The record of the Confederate soldier is one of the brightest pages of American history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/confederates.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72 alignnone\" style=\"border: 3px solid black\" title=\"confederates\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/confederates.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"1309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/confederates.jpg 780w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/confederates-178x300.jpg 178w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/confederates-610x1024.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0Top Row (left to right:)\u00a0 William <strong>McKinni<\/strong>e, Ed <strong>Durrett<\/strong>, Mike <strong>McKinnie<\/strong>, George <strong>Pirtle<\/strong>, Jim<strong> Hackney<\/strong>, Dr. Jim<strong> Neely<\/strong>, Mr. <strong>Richards<\/strong>, Joe <strong>Ervin<\/strong>, Stanton <strong>Blaylock<\/strong>, Jim <strong>Cheshier<\/strong>, Pete <strong>Mashburn<\/strong>, Sam <strong>Clinton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcription\u00a0submitted by:\u00a0 Anita Powell, New Mexico,\u00a0E-mail Anita Through the courtesy of Mrs. E.M. Doyle, we have been handed a copy of the Boliver Bulletin of May 12, 1933, containing pictures and names of 80 Confederate soldiers of Hardeman County who attended a reunion held at Cheshier Springs, three miles south of Bolivar, on September 14th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[702,703,705,691,696,701,699,694,704,697,695,693,700,692,698,193],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","tag-blaylock-stanton","tag-cheshier-jim","tag-clinton-sam","tag-doyle-e-m","tag-durrett-ed","tag-ervin-joe","tag-hackney-jim","tag-jacobs-j-w","tag-mashburn-pete","tag-mckinnie-mike","tag-mckinnie-william","tag-morton-john-w","tag-neely-jim","tag-patterson-m-r","tag-pirtle-george","tag-richards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}