Morgan County GaArchives  Reunion of Company G, Cobb's Legion
Atlanta Constitution, 20 August 1880

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Atlanta Constitution   August 20, 1880

The Veteran's Meet

The Re-union of Company G, Cobb's Legion.

Madison, Ga., August 19-(Special)-At Butt's spring, seven miles north
of Madison, in a lovely grove, the Panola Guards held their annual 
reunion last Thursday, attended by about seven hundred people.

At ten o'clock, the new brass band from High Shoals stuck up Dixie, and 
the company, in command of their last beloved captain, Charles W. 
Baldwin, marched to seats prepared for them in front of the speaker's 
stand.  Speeches were then made by Messrs. H. W. Baldwin, S. A. Burney, 
John G. McHenry, Sr. and W. S. McHenry.

A splendid barbecue was served, and the large crowd was amply 
entertained.

After dinner, Mr. Joe Nunnually, of Walton county, was called out, and 
made a practical speech to the farmers.  Then Colonel J. Q. Noland, of 
McDonough, made a red-hot confederate speech.  He was followed 
by his niece, Miss Lucille Noland, of Atlanta, a little maiden in short 
dress, who rendered "The Georgia Volunteer" most gracefully.

An interesting feature of the day was the many visits made to the 
venerable Jacob Butts at his house near by.  Eighty-six years old and 
nearly blind, he was unwilling to go to the grounds, but very 
cheerfully received his old friends at his home.

At the suggestion of Lieutenant S. A. Burney, the first confederate 
reunion ever held was that of the Panola Guards, in Saffold grove, near 
Madison, in 1874.

At Chancellorsville this company carried forty-five guns into the 
fight.  Twenty-nine were wounded, most of them mortally and eight 
killed.  The remaining eight went into another fight the same day.  It 
was a company worthy of their gallant legion and its immortal 
commander-Thomas R. R. Cobb.