Why was the crowd forced to wait in the rain before the statue was unveiled?

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Then there was Major James Stubbs of York, heading practically all the Confederate veterans on the Virginia Peninsula who were able to make the trip to Denbigh. Beauregard Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy of

Denbigh was out as a body, the John W. Daniel and Bethel Chapters, and the J. E.

B. Stuart Camp, sons of veterans of this city were represented by their leading

members, and the Confederate Choir from Lancaster"was there" to sing sweetly the

ever dear old Southern songs, having come all the way from their Lancaster home

on board the state police boat as the guests of chairman McDonald Lee of the

Fisheries Commission.