Kate's notes: For more on the life of legendary fiddler Henry Clay Gilliland, visit the web site of  "The Handbook of Texas Online" at:
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/GG/fgi54.html

The Washington Post
Wednesday, March 28, 1917

NORTH AND SOUTH
FIDDLERS TO MEET
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Unique Contest Planned for the Confederate
Reunion in June
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   Washington probably will hear some real “Fiddling” next June. The champion fiddlers of the country will be here then. They will come from the South, the home of the wizards of “de fiddle and de bow” and from the North, which claims to be the place where the Southern fiddlers came from, and they will be picked bow-wielders from old soldiers who wore the gray and those who wore the blue. The contest will be a star entertainment feature of the Confederate Veterans’ reunion to be held here the first week in June.
   Henry C. Gilliland, president of the “Old Fiddlers of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Arkansas”, and also a Confederate veteran, has challenged the old soldier fiddlers who wore the blue to meet the fiddlers of the gray in a contest on June 4.
   President Gilliland says that the only thing that will prevent the contest from taking place will be the failure of the old soldier fiddlers of the North to call the challenge.

-- transcribed by Kate Maynard, 2009