Harris County GaArchives Military Records.....GAUNTT, Levi N. May 13, 1903
Civilwar - Letters Company G, 37th Alabama Volunteers (Chambers Co., Alabama)
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Letter To Editor Of "The Roanoke Leader"
"The Roanoke Leader"
Roanoke, Randolph Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, May 13, 1903

Mr. Editor,
It was my good fortune to be among your old veterans the second of May and 
break bread with them. I was in their meeting and saw it all through.  Now, I 
want to thank all those good people for their courtesies to me while there. I 
saw goodness and kindness everywhere.

Your beautiful young ladies and noble young men were an exception. I saw them 
shaking hands with the old gray headed vets, which made the blood tingle 
through their wrinkled hands and suffering bodies. It gladdens their hearts to 
know that they are not forgotten.  If those young ladies could only know how 
much good their kind words and handshakes did they would feel richly paid for 
all they said and did.

I marched to the college with the veterans to the old familiar tune of Dixie, 
played by one of the old war veterans. We were seated near the rostrum where 
we would hear and see everything.

I want to speak of that little angel without wings that spoke about Grandpa's 
grave. It was so realistic. God bless that little girl. She will shine forever 
in my heart. They tell me her name was Josephine Vickery. And then another 
little angel came out and spoke the Reveille and imitated the reveille 
sound, "rat-tat, tat, tat".  And God bless that little girl whose name I was 
told was Bernice Schuessler.

And all the others rendered their parts well.  That young man who seemed to be 
the master of ceremonies immortalized himself. His speech was purely grand 
from beginning to end. Surely the mantle of our immortal Ben Hill is upon him. 
There is greatness before him. I was told that his name was R.C. Little.

Well, I must say that Miss Davis played well. She and others played Dixie so 
well. It filled my very soul.  Forty years rolled back in a moment of time. I 
am fearful that I behaved badly. I forgot my pains. The old war yell was in me 
and it had to come out.  If I did wrong pardon me. I would say more but space 
forbids.

Levi N. Gauntt
Co. G 37th Ala. Vol.
Hamilton, Harris County, 
Georgia.

(Transcribed by Candace Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 June 22, 2005)

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