Ellis County Texas Archives News.....Italy Band Boys Return from Jacksonville 1914
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Italy Newspaper 1914
BAND BOYS RETURN FROM JACKSONVILLE
Gaddis Taylor, Forrest Still, Buford Gamble and Howard Douglass returned Tuesday
night from the reunion of the old soldiers at Jacksonville.  Gaddis tells us
that they had a great time and was the second band in all the parades, following
the Jacksonville band all the time, and were treated nicely at every turn.  They
played for a ball at a big colonel's home in Jacksonville and took a side trip
on the St. John's river in a boat, visiting the beautiful country and seeing the
orange groves and so forth. They stopped in beautiful Mobile and were given a
six course dinner at a swell hotel by a crowd of Oklahoma boosters.  They also
spent a night and day in Crescent City where they took in the town of crooked
streets and where the Mississippi river is higher than the town.  Gaddis says
that Florida is a beautiful country, but he thinks it is no place for anyone
except the rich and that it is cold at night and hot during the day. No doubt
these boys had a fine trip and got a good experience.
All the boys started home with an alligator each, but Gaddis was the only one to
get home with a live one.
The reunion will be held at Richmond, VA in 1915.


Additional Comments:
The meeting of the Confederate Veterans in Jacksonville, Florida on May 6-8 1914
represented the twenty-fourth annual Reunion of Confederate survivors.

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