Georgia's Last Surviving Confederate Soldier and Mom

In June  of 1952, our mother, Zadie Thomas Harrigill , at the age of 23, was photographed with William Joshua Bush and William Daniel Townsend. The two Confederate soldiers were attending the annual meeting of  "The Sons of Confederate Veterans" in Jackson ,Mississippi . They took time out to pose in front of the Daughters of American Revolution Monument in front of the State Capital for the crowd and the Newspapers. 
Mother was watching in the crowd when she was asked to have her photo made with the two gentlemen and then afterwards when the Newspaper asked her for her name, she gave a fake name for fear from a jealous husband that she had posed and kissed a man, even if they were old. But when the Newspaper found out her real name, they mailed two 8 x 10 photos to her home and an article from the paper. Our mother is gone now and all I had was the story of that day and that she thought it was around 1951. She also thought it was for a movie scene, but was never sure. Years after she passed away, my sister Margie and I traveled to Jackson to the Mississippi State Capital to research the original photo taken that day. We were able to find the exact spot with the help of an Historian who worked at the Capital. We spent hours that day digging in the National archives for the newspaper article but never found it. 
That was in May of 2010. I never gave up and continued when I could to keep searching for the article or anything connecting that day with our mother. I finally did find another photograph of the soldiers, the date and why they were in Jackson. 
These are the two other photographs I found while digging in the Ancestry Newspapers.

 1952-6/5-Jackson, Miss: Two of the seven living Confederate Veterans were in Jackson, Miss for a reunion of the faded men in Gray. General Wm "Josh" Bush of Fitzgerald, Ga.(right) and General Wm D. Townsend of Olla, La. were the only ones spry enough to attend reunion festivities. The two "old soldiers" were up and dressed at 6 o'clock this morning (6/5), then they put on a spirited demonstration for cameramen before a Confederate monument at the state capital. Between the two "vets" is Marilyn Padgett, Baytown, Texas. (UNITED PRESS TELE)

OLD SOLDIERS - Two old Confederate veterans, William Townsend (left) of Olla, La., and William Bush of Fitzgerald, Ga., pause on the state capital grounds at Jackson, Miss., while young Tommy Hardy (center) fans away some of the hot summer air. Townsend and Bush were attending the annual meeting of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Of the eight remaining rebel veterans, they were the only ones able to attend. (AP Photo) 

June 5, 1952

This is our beautiful mother ( Watermark added by BH  for online only) 

Zadie Thomas, Harrigill

 Gen. W.J. Bush    Gen. W.D.Townsend 

61st and last United Confederate Veterans National Reunion, Norfolk, VA., May 31, 1951. Left to right, William J. Bush, 106, Fitzgerald, GA.; John Salling, 105, Bristol-Slant, VA.; William D. Townsend, 105, Olla, LA.