The Bryan Daily Eagle (Bryan, Tex.), Ed. 1 Sunday, June 24, 1962 Page: 2 of 75
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CARL RYAN
DRILLING CO
A.
DEEP AND SHALLOW WELLS
COMPLETE WATER WELL
AND PUMP SERVICE
— ALSO —
WELL JETTING and
WINDMILL SERVICE
RT. 4 — BOX 494
BRYAN
TA 2-7856
HOOD'S BRIGADE
& BRYAN
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MR. S.
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MR. K.
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MR. B.
M. WARE
MR* J.
W. BRASHER
E. SMITH
MR. E.
JACK RAYFIELD
MR. F. W. MARTIN, Manager
Bl-CITY, INC.
• COMPOSITION
• PRINTING
TA 2-1371
• ANSWERING SERVICE
• RUBBER STAMPS
• TYPING
REPRESENTING
THE NATIONAL LIFE AND ACCIDENT
INSURANCE COMPANY
of Nashville, Tennessee
120 N. Washington
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CENTENNIAL SECTION
and who have labored against
most discouraging obstacles to
bring their county out safe and
strong and progressive from the
terrible aftermath of war’s de-
—MORE— parE osutriai
feat, a bound to be of the met-
tle that makes good men strong
in any environment.
This year, the number who
Will meet with their fellows and
renew old acquaintances is
smaller than last year. Those
who are here are a bit more
feeble and the hand of time is
prssing more heavily on the
shoulders already bowed by the
weight of years.
In the ordinary course, this
may be the last meeting for
some who in the next year will
already have met past and gone
comrades in some great Val-
halla where the heroes of every
age and clime find an eternal
rest-
To those who are with us
today and tomorrow, we ex-
tend a warm and hearty wel-
come. We want them to re-
member this reunion as the
best they yet have ever had
and to know that in another
year'Bryan’s latchstring will be
out and a welcome will await
them.
They are of the type from
whose loins the men and wo-
men who have made this coun-
try great have sprung and we
are proud to have them with
us, and we. wish them many
more years, many more re-
unions and many more visits
to Bryan.
Jack & Norma Rayfield
1001 S. College Ave. TA 2-1921
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Managfehs "Editor.
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Bryan Yesteryear
Miss Timoclea Shields has
been reelected as teacher in the
Hearne public school where her
work has been eminently suc-
cessful and satisfactory.
There have been ten additions
to the Methodist church as a
result of the meeting which has
just closed. Eight persons united
with the church after the ser-
vice Thursday night. Rev. E. L.
Shettles is greatly pleased with
the success of the meeting and
the manner in which the church
has been revived. He is en-
deavoring to have Rev. John E.
Green return here next week
and continue the meeting three
or four days-
(From Eagle Files—1899)
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THE BRYAN DAILY EAGLE, SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 1962, BRYAN - C.S., TEXAS
gles in the history of mankind
and who fought on when hope
was gone borne up only by a
feeling of right and idealism.
Bryan should be especially
proud to have . these veterans
in her midst when it is re-
membered that some years ago
the members of Hood’s and
Green’s Brigades chose this city
as the permanent and last place
of reunion. This action reflect-
ed a feeling toward the city
and her people that would be
difficult to express in words and
that these old heroes have come
to regard Bryan and Bryanites
in this light is an honor that
should be highly cherished.
More than three score years
ago these men of the Confed-
eracy were young and hale and
strong and were buoyed up by
a great enthusiasm for a cause
they thought was bound to win.
Throughout the period of that
four-year struggle they fought
on, surmounting obstacle after
obstacle, finally losing out more
from lack of supplies and muni-
tions of war than from lack of
leadership or valor.
After Appomatox they return-
ed to their homes, if homes re-
mained, and to their families,
and again took up the weary
round of trying to re-establish
themselves in real life. They
lived through the disheartening
days of the reconstruction
period, and have survived to
see their beloved South come
into its own again, with a pros-
pect of r place in the com-
mercial and industrial history
of the country not even dream-
ed of in the highstages of the
South’s history before the war.
They have lived to see the
men of both North and South
join hands and march shoulder
to shoulder beneath the flag of
a united country in two wars
that carried them over seas.
They have lived to see the coun-
try oijce rent by great strife
more united and stronger than
ever and there are no more
loyal citizens of the United
States than these men who
have met together here to keep
alive old ties and to talk over
days of march and charge and
countercharge.
It is enevitable that they
should be good citizens in what-
ever community they may re-
side. Men who fought as val-
iently and as faithfully for an
ideal as they did, who have
year after kept old ties story
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followed by Richmond, Seven
Pines and Gaines’ Mill.
Next in battles were Savage
Station, Frayser’s Farm, Mal-
vern Hill, Kelly’s Ford, Free-
man’s Ford, Thoroughfare Gap,
and the bloody battle of Second
Manassas. Then immediately
came Sharpsburg (or Antietam),
Fredericksburg and Suffolk.
The Brigade fought valiantly
at Gettysburg, on to Chica-
mauga, and in the battles of
Charles City Road, Darbytown
Road, Chaffin’s Farm, and Wil-
liamsburg Road. Their fight-
ing ceased with the surrender
at Appomattox.
Hood's Brigade Association
Following the history of
Hood’s Brigade in the Civil
War, Col. Simpson branched off
into the story of the Hood’s
Brigade Association after the
war, from its founding in 1872
in Houston, to its end in 1934.
During the 62 years of its ex-
istence, it had 63 meetings, and
its membership was made up
of veterans of the War serving
in Hood’s Brigade.
The annual meeting date of
the Association was on or near
the 27th of June in various
towns in east and central Texas;
only those towns with railroads
were selected as meeting places,
due to the fact that that was
the most accessible mode of
long transportation in those
days.
The following list is a typical
of the agenda during an annual
meeting:
1. Invocation.
2. Music, followed by a wel-
come and response.
3. Letters and telegrams from
people who couldn’t make it,
read to the group.
4- Lunch.
5. More music, followed by
an address from some promin-
ent Texan.
6. Reminiscent talks by com-
rades—according to Simpson, as
they grew older, their tales
grew wilder.
7. Annual memorial address
by friends .of those veterans
who had died in the past year.
8. Selection of next meeting
site, and election of officers for
coming year.
9. Conclusion—all members
joined hands and sang, “God Be
With You ’Till We Meet Again.”
Col. Simpson commented on
the evolution of the calibre of
these annual meetings; when
the veterans were young, the
events were champaigne and
beer parties; as they grew older,
the meetings became more for-
mal, tea parties and ice cream
supper-type affairs.
In Bryan
The Hood’s Brigade Associa-
tion had their first meeting in
Bryan in 1902, and returned in
1919 to elect the city of Bryan
as the permanent meeting place
for the organization.
Their meetings were held in
the Rountree Room of the Car-
negie Library, with entertain-
ment furnished on the lawn of
the library. At this time, the
Hood’s Brigade veterans had
joined with the veterans of
Green’s Brigade.
The City of Bryan really
“rolled out the red carpet” for
these veterans, and in the 15
years that they met consecu-
tively in Bryan, and many
stayed in homes of local citi-
zens, the same homes year after
year- The last reunion of the
veterans, with two present, was
in 1933; in 1934, the last sur-
vivor of Hood’s Brigade passed
away.
The following editorial ap-
pearing in the June 27, 1929
edition of the Bryan Daily
Eagle; in this editorial, the deep
sense of admiration for the
veterans felt by local towns-
people was most adequately ex-
pressed:
Bryan today and tomorrow
has as her guests a few sur-
vivors of Hood’s Brigade and
Green’s Brigade, and other sol-
diers of the Lost Cause who
have joined with them in their
annual reunion. It is an honor
to entertain these time-worn
but still spiritually valient sol-
diers who were active in one
of the most remarkable strug-
Brigade. The men fought in
28 major battles overall, and
averaged 60 per cent casualties
in each of the battles. Compared
to the rule in World War II
and Korea, that any unit suf-
fering over 5 per cent casual-
ties would be sent back for re-
covery, this 60 per cent aver-
age can be considered high in
any sense.
In the war, approximately
6,000 men fought in the Bri-
gade, and of these only 10 per
cent survived the war. Some
of their major battles included
Fredericksburg, Yorktown, and
Eltham’s Landing- These were
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gade included John Greg, Col.
Winkler, and Col. F. S. Bass-
The commander' at the sur-
render of the Confederate forces
was Col. R. M. Powell.
Of these men, General Hood
was undoubtably the most re-
markable, and for this reason
the name “Hood’s Brigade” be-
came well known in the Civil
War.
No other group of Confed-
erate forces had such an
ominous but colorful record as
did the fighters of the Hood’s
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