Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-06
CONFEDERATE VETERANS.

The second and last days session OF
the Grand Camp of Confederate Vet
Grams closed at Charlottesville yester-
day. Colonel w. A. Smoot presided.
The committee on school history re-
commended the Grand Camp to call on
every city and county school board in
Virginia to use its influence to select a
school history from the three Southern
histories on the State list-Holmes,
Chambers and Shinns-a)so suggesting
that private schools take the same care
in selecting histories by southern
authors. In the report was embodied
the recommendation of the United
Grand Camp at the recent meeting in
Houston. The report was adopted.
A resolution was offered calling for
the establishment of an official organ Of
the camp. The finance committee re-
commended that each camp in the
Grand Camp pay per capita ten cents,
instead of FIVE, in order to pay the in
creased expenses on account of the
meeting of the Grand Camp of Vir
ginia. The committee on resolutions
recommended that the adjutant general
be instructed to notify the Maryland
division that this camp could not pledge
itself to aid in securing the meeting Of
the United Camp in Baltimore in 1897.
The same committee, amid applause,
reported the following: Resolved, That
it is the sense and opinion of the Grand
Camp that the action taken by
the advisory council Of the camp
recommending the establishment of a
national park at Appomattox Court.
house by the national government was
inexpedient and unadvisable, and that
said action, so far as being binding on
this Grand Camp, be revoked and re.
signed, and that each subordinate camp
be left free to express its own opinion
on the subject" Adopted.
The committee also recommended
that as soon as the Sons of Confederate
Veterans secured fifty camps thew he
allowed to separate from the Grand
Camp.
The following officers we're unani-
mously elected: VIM. A. Smoot, Alex
audria, grand commander; John A.
Cozzens, Glenallen, first lieutenant
commander; J. N. Stubs, Gloucester,
second lieutenant commander; J. NJ.
Garnett. Charlottesville, third lieuten-
ant commander; T. G. Morton, Staun-
ton, inspector general; Washington
TAYLOR, Norfolk, quartermaster gen.
eral; Rev. Beverly D. Tucker, Norfolk,
chaplain general; DR.. John S. Powell,
Occouuan, surgeon general; Thomas
Elicit, Richmond, adjutant general.
Capt. Williams, of Winchester, offer
ed the following:
Whereas, Charles Broadway Rouss,
q member of General Turner Ashby
Camp, one of the camps of this organ
ization, made to the recent meeting of
the Grand Camp of Confederate Vet
Grams at Houston the munifcent offer
of s1OO, 900 for the erection of memo.
rial hall and cognate purposes, which
was referred to special committee to
report at the next meeting,
Resolved, That while we deem it i'm.
proper to express an opinion upon the
matter thus referred to by the Grand
Camp q. CIV. to one of its committees,
we at the same time deem it priyi-
Iege as we'll as duty to place upon
record, as we hereby do, our hearty APP
probation of the liberality and patriot
ism displayed by Comrade Rouss in his
muni6cent offer.
Resolved, That copy Of these reso-
lutions be communicated by the Adju-
liant General to Comrade Rouss.
Winchester was selected as the next
place of meeting. The inspector gem
eral was authorized to settle the differ
ences in the camp at Berkeley.