CONFEDERATE REUNION
Crowley Signal May 23, 1903
News Article from Adadia Parish
Submitted by Winston Boudreaux, 2006

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CONFEDERATE REUNION
Crowley Signal May 23, 1903
Among those of Church Point who went to New Orleans for the Confederate 
reunion were Theogene Daigle, Luciuis David, H.D. and William McBride, D. 
Breaux, Homer Barousse and wife and Mrs. Lucius David.
TALE OF A POT
The Confederate reunion at New Orleans this week is attracting large numbers 
of visitors from every part of the country, North, South, East and West.  From 
Crowley alone it is estimated that several hundred people will be in 
attendance.
It is believed that this will be the last great gathering of the soldiers who wore 
the gray. The Grand Army of the Republic held its reunion at Washington last 
fall and, on account of advancing age the Union survivors have decided to 
discontinue the great annual encampments.
Speaking of his experiences at these reunions, Col. Minor, of Newport, Ark., 
who accompanied Col. Watson to Crowley, recently said:
“I have visited every reunion since the Birmingham gathering, and have never 
failed to meet some old soldier who revived some half-forgotten memory of 
nearly half a century ago.
“At one of our reunions I met a Yankee major who told me in humorous vein 
how he lost a peculiarly constructed coffee pot when we drove the Federal 
troops out of Strasburg in ’64. He said that the loss of that pot was the one 
real regret he cherished in remembering his army service.  The description he 
gave me of his beloved pot struck me, and I invited him to visit my home, 
where I showed him a coffee pot that I had taken from a Yankee officer’s 
quarters on that memorable morning in 1864. He at once recognized his 
property and I made him a present of it. When he died in Oklahoma about a 
year ago his widow sent me the old coffee pot, and it is now one of my valued 
relics of the civil war.