Memorial Day at Farmington, Tenn.

Confederate Veteran
Volume 10, Number 9, Pge 398-399
September 1902

Appropriate services were held on the site of the battle at Farmington, Tenn., this month. These annual services were begun in 1891. The religious features were conducted by Revs. J. M. Brown and B. F. Isam. Fitting music was touchingly rendered by a choir of trained voices and Capt. W. G. Loyd, of Lewisburg. delivered the address, after which flowers were placed upon the graves of the Confederates who fell in that severe battle. Capt. Loyd gave a concise account of the battle and read a list of those killed there. Terry's Texas Rangers it seems suffered the greatest loss of any command. The monument was erected on June 15, 1874. Comrade Loyd quoted expression of thanks from H. W. Graber, now of Dallas, Tex., a member of the Rangers, for the consideration shown his comrades who were killed there. Worthy tribute was paid by the speaker to the late President William McKinley, for his patriotic consideration for the Confederate dead, and also to the Grand Army Posts at the North for their kindness in caring for our dead at the North, numbering in the aggregate 23,552.