The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-08-09
OLD SOLDIERS WILL MEET
In Dawson Under Can of General Evans
Captain Kaigler Appointed Colonel
of the United Confederate


Capt. VIM. Kaigler has been appointed
Colonel of the United Confederate Vet
Grams, and Aide to General c. A. Evans,
commander of the Georgia division.
It's intended to organize camp of
the United Confederate Veterans in
Terrell county, and Colonel Kaigler is
sues the following address to the old
soldiers:
Having been appointed Aide on the
staff of Major-General c. A. Evans, COM
manding the Georgia Division of United
Confederate Veterans, l am requested by
him to ask the old soldiers of this coun-
tv who were in the war to meet in Daw-
son on the first Tuesday in September
to aid me in forming a camp ins DaN
county.
The object of the call is explained in
the following circular sent to me by
General Evans:
Headquarters GA. DIVISION,
UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS,
ATLANTA, GA, July 2G, 1893.
GENERAL ORDER, No. l.
/. In accordance with General Order,
No. 1902, from Headquarters United Con-
federate Veterans, j. B. Gordon, Cen
eral, commanding the Command of the
Georgia Division, is hereby assumed.
,. Camps already formed in this state
and enrolled in the general organization
wtl hereafter make theirreports through
these headquarters.
3. The Major General commanding
urgently requests all Confederate Asso-
Citations in Georgia to JOIN the gener Al
brotherhood of United Confederate Vet
Grams without delay. This general or
ganiz ,tion covers the United States, and
has now enrolled about $50 camps. It's
object is to promot e the comradeship OF
those men wh) nobly participated in the
natriotic services Of the southern Armies
and NAVY of all departments, to preserve
Tue history of the south during thaV
eventual period, and to perform such acts
of benevolence as the needs OF suffering
Confederates may require. LII IS entirely
non-p0litical and nOn-sectonal. All us
pure and patriotic objects are worthy OF
the attention of those good and true men
whose courage and endurance IN the
trials of the war have ')een equalled only
by their subsequent efforts to restore
prosperity to the south. :,
4 Confederate Soldiers, Sailors and all
others connected with the southern al.
mics. are respectfully urged to meet at
the county sites of their respective coun-
ties on the first Tuesday in September,
or as early thereafter as possible, ana
oroanize themselves into camps, ana
forward their application for admission
into the United Confederate Veterans 70
these headquarters by mail. 4
All camps and Assoclatlos Wlll at
once eIecr two or more delegates to at
tend the general review at birmingham,
in September. and forward the names OF
delegates to these headquarters. by Or
der Of ELEMENT a. E ,H AN9i
A. J. WEST, MAJ. 0eh Noin w.
Adjt Gen'l.
Comrades. let not the heroisn OF
those who gave their lives for their
country and whose bones TODAY lie
upon the soil of Virginia and
ofher southern states, vanish from our
memories: let not the principles for
which we fought die in our hearts; let
ms he true to ourselves, true 70 the con-
victions of our sunny southland; let us
lraan forever green in memory the mai
lowed past and the lost cause. Leu Tue
r;sing generation see th,.t although the
fag 9t fine confederacy went down, the
nrincipIes fol- which we fought were
rigbt Come out on the day named above.
"a ne WN. KAIGLEB.