W. W. Littlejohn,
Samuel Blackwell,
Committee.
The foregoing resolutions were adopted by a rising vote of the Camp, January 14, 1904.
W. H. Long,
Commander.
W. R. Francis,
Adjutant.
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(New York Highlanders.)
“We had reason to respect him as a foe.”
Head-quarters Seventy-ninth Regiment,
New York Volunteer Highlanders,
Veteran Association.
Whereas, It has come to our knowledge that our esteemed Honorary Member, Lieutenant-General James Longstreet, late of the Confederate army, has passed to that bourne from which no traveller has ever returned; and
Whereas, We had reason to respect him as a foe with whom we were often in conflict, and to whom we sometimes had to yield the palm of victory, and especially do we remember the gallant fight he and his tried veterans made at Fort Saunders, Knoxville, East Tennessee, on November 29, 1863, when we were victorious only after he had thrice been repulsed; and