 the association of united confederate veterans (ucv), sometimes referred to as the united confederate veterans or confederate veterans, was an association of c.s. war veterans formed in new orleans, louisiana on june 10, 1889, by fifty-two delegates from nine separate veterans organizations.minutes u.c.v., i, constitutional convention proceedings, pp. 3â8.hattaway, 1971, p. 214. ==history==  ===background=== there had been numerous local veterans associations in the south, and many (but not all) of these became part of the ucv. the organization grew rapidly throughout the 1890s culminating with 1,555 camps represented at the 1898 reunion. the next few years marked the zenith of ucv membership, lasting until 1903 or 1904, when veterans began to die off rather rapidly and the organization went into a gradual but continuous decline.hattaway, 1971, p. 214. ===purpose=== the ucv, like any other proper american organization, felt it had to outline its purposes and structure in a written constitution. the veterans based their pattern upon military lines. members holding appropriate ucv "ranks" officered and staffed echelons of command from general headquarters at the top to local camps (companies) at the bottom. their announced purpose was emphatically nonmilitary-to foster "social, literary, historical, and benevolent" ends.hattaway, 1971, p. 215. ===reunions=== thumb|right|confederate veterans reunion thumb|right|commemorative postage stamp[http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&cmd=1&tid=2028907 national postal museum] the national organization assembled annually in a general convention and social reunion, presided over by the commander-in-chief. these annual reunions serv
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