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Show When Union and Confederate Con-federate Met on the Battlefield New York, Feb. 9, Seventy-five survivors of the union corps which fought at Poanoko Island fifty yearn ago, 'ihla week, met hero last night for the last reunion dinner thoy will ever hold. For forty years these veterans vet-erans have met annually as the Roanoke Roa-noke association, to celebrate tho first important union victory of the Clvjl war, but now, feeling the weight of the passing years for all of tho survivors are well beyond their thrco score and ten they have found It necessary nec-essary to give up the celebration in , the 'future. The aged veterans manifested much of their old-time vim last night when members of the Confederate camp ot New York unexpectedly marched into the banquet room and. gave the rebel yell.' The men in bluo rose to their feet and flrea back a welcoming volley vol-ley of union cheers. The Confederates were warmly .greeted by the association. Their commander led his men from the'' hall amid tho singing of "Dixie" by the LTnion veterans. |