The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-06-03
The Richmond Reunion.
Gen. Gordon Anxious that
there Shall be a Large
Turnout of the United
=, Confederate Vet.
eranS.

Hooes. UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS
New ORLEAS May |, 1896.
: General Orders, No l64-
/. The general commanding an
nounces that the sixth annual meet
ing and reunion of the United Con
federate Veterans will be held as
stated in General Orders No l54,
current series. from these headquar-
ers, in the city of Richmond. Va,
on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day, June 80 and July and 2 1876;
All Confederate organizations and
Confederate soldiers and sailors OF
all arms. grades and departments are
cordially invited to attend this sixth
general reunion of their comrades.
2. With pride and pleasure he also
announces that eight hundred and
fifteen camps are already enrolled IN
the e. G. V. organization, with ap.
plications in for over one hundred
more. Ex Confederate soldiers and
sailors everywhere and urged to form
themselves into local associations.
where this has not already been DONE
and all associations. bivouacs, en-
campments aud other bodies not
members of the U. G. V. Association
are earnestly requested to send in ap'
plications to these headquarters
without delay, in time to participate
in this great reunion, and thus unite
with their comrades in carrying out
the laudable and philanthropic objects
of the United Confederate Veterr
organization.
5. Business Of the greatest impor
tance will demand careful consldera-
ton during the sixth annual Conven'
tion-such as the best methods o.
securing impartial history and te
eulist each State in the compilation
and preservation of the history Of
her citizen soldiers; the benevolent
care through State aid or otherwise
of disabled. destitute or aged veterans
and the widows and orphans of oul
fallen brothers in arms the care o1
the graves of our known and IN
known dead buried at Gettysburg.
Fort Warren, Camps Morton. Chase
Douglas, Oakland Cemetery at Chi.
cago, Johnson's Island, Cairo, and
at all other points to see that they
are annually decorated, the head
stones preserved and protected, ano
complete lists of the names OF our
dead heroes, with the locationof then
last resting places, furnished to their
friends and relatives through the
medium of our camps, thus rescuing
their names from oblivion and hand
ing them down in, history to par.
ticipate in laying the cornerstone o.
the Jefferson Davis monument al
Richmond, Va ; the consideration O.
the different movements, plans anc
meaas to complete the monument te
the memory of Jefferson Davis, Presi'
dent of the Confederate States o1
America, and to aid in building
monuments to other great leaders
soldiers and sailors of the South, auc
as there is no relief or aid for oul
veterans and their families, outside o1
ourselves and our own resources, te
perfect plan for mutual aid ano
benevolent association to make suct
changes in the constitution and by
laws as experience may suggest, anc
other matters of general interest.
Each camp now admitted into
the United Confederate Veteran Or
ganization and those admitted before
tbe reunion are urged to at once
elect accredited delegates and alter.
mates to attend The reunion, as only
accredited delegates will participate
in the business part Of the reunion
The representation Of delegates al
the reunion will be as fixed in Sec
tion l, Article 5. Of the constitution
one delegate for every twenty active
members in good standing, and one
additional one for fraction OF ter
members, provided every camp il
good standing shall be entitled to Al
least two delegates. Each camp car
elect the same number Or alternate:
as delegates. who will serve IN CASE
of anv failure on the part of the dele
gates to attend.
Attention of camps is called te
Section 5. Article 5, of the constltu