DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - NEWSPAPERS - The Washington Post, Monday, February 3, 1896, pg. 7 ----¤¤¤---- This file is part of the DCGenWeb Archives Project: http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm ********************************************* http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************* Contributed to The USGenWeb Archives Project by: Jamie M. Perez (jamiemac@flash.net) --------------------------------------------------- Ex-Confederates at Rockville. The third annual meeting of the Ridgely Brown Camp of Confederate Veterans of Montgomery County was held Saturday at the Rockville court house. Officers for the ensuing year were elected, as follows: Capt. E. J. Chiswell, Commander; Capt. Thomas Griffith, Lieutenant Commander; E. L. Amiss, Adjutant; E. L. Tschiffely, Treasurer; Frank B. Horner, Spencer C. Jones, John P. Sellman, and D. H. Horner, executive committee. The following were elected delegates to the general encampment: Spencer C. Jones and John P. Sellman; alternates, Cooke D. Luckett and E. L. Tschiffely. Delegates to the Baltimore convention, which will convene for the purpose of organizing a State division of Confederate Veterans, were elected as follows: James Anderson, Robert M. Mackall, and David Griffith. An appropriation of $10 was made to the Jefferson Davis monument fund. The Washington Post, Monday, February 3, 1896, pg. 7 [Historical note: Gen. Wright was most likely Confederate Brigadier General Marcus Joseph Wright (1831-1922) who is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. See http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/mjwright.htm ] WORKED HIM FOR A PASS. Col. Dave Day Meets a War-time Enemy at the Riggs House. A pleasant reunion of two old soldiers occurred at the Riggs Saturday night, when by a coincidence Col. Dave Day, of Colorado, met Gen. Wright, of this city. Col. Day was in the Union army during the war, and carries a medal which shows that he received the thanks of Congress for bravery at the siege of Vicksburg. Gen. Wright was in the Confederate army. On one occasion Day was taken prisoner by the enemy. He succeeded in making his escape, and reaching a railroad, boarded a train and started for the Union lines. The conductor inquired for his pass, when Mr. Day informed him that he had lost it. The train official told him that he would have to get another, when the fugitive prisoner got off at some point in Alabama and applied to Gen. Wright, who was in command, to kindly give him a pass. He told Gen. Wright that he was a member of the Second Mississippi Regiment, and that he desired to reach his regiment, which was in service somewhere near the border. Gen. Wright complied with the request, and Day went on his way. The two veterans had never met up to Saturday night, when Mr. Day immediately recognized the friend of former days. Gen. Wright also remembered the Union soldier who had worked him for the pass, and the enemies of thirty years ago are now fast friends and have exchanged photographs.