The Opelousas courier., 1894-03-10
REUNION.
General Orders Issued for the Gather
ing Mt Birmingham.

The following general order concerning thu
reunion of the Confederate veterans in Apri
has been issued:
HEADQUARTERS OF THE }
UNITED VETERANS, :
New Orleans, March 3, 1894. )
General Orders No. 100.
/. The General commanding announces thai
the fourth annual meeting and reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans will be held, as
stated in General Orders No. lis, current Sc
ries from these headquarters, i'll the city of Biz
mingham, Ala., on Wednesday and Thursday
April % and 26, 1894. All Confederate organiza
lions and Confederate soldiers and sailors are
cordially invited to attend this fourth genera
reunion of their comrades.
ii. He also announces that 40 camps are
already enrolled in the United Confederate Vet
eran organization with applications in for over
one hundred more. Ex-Confederate soldiers
and sailors are urged to form themselves into
local associations, and all associations and othel
bodies are requested to send in applications to
these headquarters in time to participate in
this great reunion.
III. 1t is antici Gated that much business will
occupy the attention of the convention and Il
number of very important questions are to be
considered, VIZ. Care and decoration of the
graves Of the dead of the widows and children
or the veterans; the assistance OF the destitute
living, and the compilation of the historical re
cords of the Confederacy. Also the considera,
ton OF plans and means for the erection of a
monument to the memory of Jefferson Davis,
ana toward securing a pension from the
States composing the late Confederacy for the
| widow Of the dead chieftain.
Nv. Each camp now admitted into the Unit
ed Confederate Veteran organization and those
admitted before the reunion, are urged to at
once elect delegates to attend the reunion, as
only accredited delegates will participate in
the business part of the reunion. The repre-
SentatiGA OF camps at the reunion will be
fixed as one delegate for every twenty mem
berS, and one FOR any fraction over twenty,
provided every camp shall be entitled to- at
least two delegates.
". Attention is called to the resolution chat
no camp shall be allowed representation in any
meeting of the United Confederate Veterans
unless the camp shall have, on or before the 1st
day of April preceding the meeting, paid all
amounts due as initiation fec, 50, and also the
amount due per capita
vi A programme to he observed at the reu-
Mon and all details will be furnished to the
camps and veterans. Any further information
can be obtained by applying to Capt. r. T..
Jones, commander Camp Hardee No. 80, chair
man reunion committee, Birmingham, Ala.
VII. The General commanding respectfully
requests the press of the country to aid the pa
triotic and benevolent objects of the United
Confederate Veterans by publication of these
General Orders, with editorial notices of the
organization.
VIII. The General commanding respectfully
requests that railroad officials will also aid the
old veterans by giving such reduced rates of
transportation as will enable them to attend.
TX. Officers of the general staff are directed
to assist department division commanders and
others III organizing their respective States,
and generally to assist in the complete fedora
ton OF all Confederate survivors i'll one organ
iZation under the Constitution of the United
Confederate Veterans.
BY order of j.. B. GordOsl, General Command
ing.
GEO MOORMAN,
Adjutant General and Chief of staff.