The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-06-02
THE REUNION AT RICHMOND.

General Gordon Anxious for Lars
Attendance or fVeterans-The Wor
} to be Done.
Hdqrs United Confederate Veterans,
New Orleans, La, May L, 1885,
General Orders No. 164.
1. The general commanding al
nounces that the sixth annual meetin
and reunion of the United Confederat
Veterans will be held as stated in Gen
eral Orders No. 154, current series
from these headquarters, in the city @
tichmond, Va, on Tuesday, Wednes
day and Thursday, June 80 and July
and 2, 1896. All Confederate organiza
tions and Confederate soldiers and sail
ors OF all arms, grades and depart
ments, are cordially invited to atten,
this sixth general reunion of thei
comrades.
2. With pride and pleasure he alst
announces that eight hundred and tif
teen camps are already enrolled in the
U. q. V. organization, with applica
tions in for over one hundred more
Ex-Confederate soldiers and sailors
everywhere are urged to form them
selves into local associations, where
this has not already been done, and all
associations, bivouacs, encampments
| ohi oohot booioo hoU ihSulU6F6 VI pQe
| U. O. V. Association are earnestly re-
| quested to send in applications 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 philan.
thropic objects of the United Confeder.
J ate Veteran organization.
3. Business of the greatest impor.
tance will demand careful considera.
| tion during the sixth annual convention
-such as the best methods of securing
Impartial history and to enlist each
State In the compilation and preserva-
tion of the history of her citizen SOL
diery; the benevolent care through
State aid or otherwise of disabled,
destitute or aged veterans and the
widows and orphans of our fallen
brothers-in-arms; the care of the
| graves of our known and unknown
dead buried at Gettysburg, Fort War
rem, Camps Morton, Chase, Douglas,
Oakland Cemetery at Chicago, John
| sons Island, Cairo, and at all other
points to see that they are annually
| decorated, the hea1stOnes preserved
and protected, and complete lists OF
the names of our dead heroes, with the
location of their last resting places,
furnished to their friends and relatives
through the medium of our camps,
thus rescuing their names from obliv-
ion and handing them down to history;
to participate in laying the corner
stone of the Jefferson Davis monument
at Richmond, Va: the consideration
of the different movements, plans and
means to complete the monument to
the memory of Jefferson Davis, Presi-
dent Of the Confederate States OF Amer
lea, and to aid in building monuments
to other great leaders, soldiers and
sailors of the South, and as there is no
relief or aid for our veterans and their
families, outside OF ourselves and our
own resources, to perfect plan for a
mutual aid and benevolent association;
to make such changes in the constitu-
tion and bylaws as experience may
suggest, and other matters of general
interest
4. Each camp now admitted into the
United Confederate Veteran organiza-
tion and those admitted before the
reunion are urged to at once elect ac-
credited delegates and alternates to
attend the reunion, as only accredited
ness part of the reunion. The repre-
sentation of delegates at the reunion
will be as fixed in Section /, Article S,
of the constitution, one delegate for
every twenty active members in good
standing, and one additional one for
q fraction of ten mcmbers, pro-
vided every camp in good standing
all be entitled to at least two dele
gates. Each camp can elect the same
number of alternates as delegates,
who will serve in case of any fail
ure on the part Of the delegates to at
tend.
s. Attention of camps is called to
Section s, Article s, of the constitution:
Camps will not be allowed represen-
tation unless their per capita shall
have been paid to the adjutant gen.
eral on or before the 1st day of April
next preceding the annual meeting.
g. A programme to be observed at
the reunion and ell the details will be
furnished to the camps and to all vet
Grams by the committee Of arrange
ments In due time, and any further
information can be obtained by apply
ing to Gen. Peyton Wise, chairman U
@. V. Reunion Committee, Richmond,
Va.
z. The general commanding respect
fully requests the press, both daily and
weekly, of the whole country to aid
the patriotic and benevolent objects
of the United Confederate Veterans
by publication. of these orders with
editorial notices OF the organization.
8. The general commanding respect
fully requests and trusts that railroad
fticials will also aid the old veterans
by giving such reduced rates of trans
portatiOn as will enable them TO at
tend.
8. Officers of the general staff are
directed to assist department, division
commanders and others to organize
their respective States, and generally
to assist in the complete federation OF
all Confederate survivors in one organ
izetion under the constitution OF the
United Confederate Veterans.
BY order OF j. b. Gordon, General
Commanding.
GAo. NORMAN,
Adjutant General and Chief OF STAFF
Headquarters S.C.Division, U.C.Y.,
Charleston, S. O., May 25, 1895.
Respectfully and earnestly referred
to the camps of this Division. The
press of the State is urged to aid the
cause.
by order of G. Irvine Walker, Major
General Commanding.
Official: JAARs G.. HOLMES,
Adjutant General, Chief of STAFF.
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a few days ago, leaving an estat,
which was valued at 100000. Accord
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