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Vol. XIV.
1886.
Richmond, Va. January-December.



Annual Reunion of Pegram Battalion Association in the Hall of House of Delegates, Richmond, Va. May, 21st, 1886.

The Annual Reunion of the PEGRAM BATTALION ASSOCIATION was held in the Capitol of the State Thursday evening, May 21, 1886. At 8½ o'clock the Association marched in a body into the Hall of the House of Delegates with music. The Hall was well filled with an audience of ladies and gentlemen, composed of the mothers, wives, daughters, sisters and friends of the living and of the dead members of the Battalion.

"The Assembly" call was then sounded on the bugle, after which a beautiful and touching prayer by Rev. J. Wm. Jones, D. D., Chaplain of the Association.

Captain W. Gordon McCabe, formerly Adjutant of the Battalion, then presented the

OLD BATTLE FLAG

to the keeping of the Association in the following eloquent and historical

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