Military: Confederate Veterans, 1932, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: March 11, 1932 Winn Parish Enterprise or Winnfield News-American

4 Confederate Vets Guests At Annual Dinner On Saturday

W. E. Dark And W. H. Matthews Chosen Delegates To National Re-Union

Carrying out its annual custom, William Walker Chapter of the Daughters of the
Confederacy served a luncheon to the veterans of the David Pierson Camp in the
community hall last Saturday at noon.  Only four were present: A. W.
Radescich, J. T. Porter, W. E. Dark, and W. H. Matthews, for the annual
business meeting.

W. E. Dark of Gaars Mill and W. H. Matthews were elected delegates to the
national re-union to be held in Richmond in June this year.

R. W. Oglesby by request of the Daughters acted as master of ceremonies at the
luncheon and gave a talk on the history of the company of which his father was
a member as written sixty years after the surrender by a survivor giving a
detailed history of each member of the original company.  It was Company H of
the 9th Tennessee Infantry known as the "Avalanche" made up at Troy,
Tennessee, April 1860, composed of 126 members and was a part of Cheatham's
Division.  It participated in some of the bloodiest battles of war, such as
Shiloh, Perryville, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and Nashville.  Only one
member of the original company went through the entire war without being
killed or wounded.

The four veterans present responded in short talks of thanks to the Daughters
for their annual banquet.  Mrs. W. E. Heard, president of the Chapter speaking
for the same assured them that it gave the Chapter great pleasure to do for
them some acts of kindness and would continue the custom as long as there was
one left.

Rev. Alvin Stokes and Rev. A. H. Cullen gave splendid talks on the sacrifices
made by the people of the south during the war and reconstruction period; that
the principle for which they made these sacrifices would live always and were
just as dear to the descendants of these heroes as it was to them, and, in
stead of being a "Lost Cause" there was in truth and in fact nothing lost;
that out of these sacrifices had grown a vast empire, the most favored spot of
the American Union.

Acting as hostesses were Mesdames W. E. Heard, W. K. Wright, R. W. Oglesby, W.
T. Heflin, S. B. Matthews, and A. W. Radescich.