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.