The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-05-05
The Coming Reunion.

Gen. j. B. Gordon, commanding the
United Confederate Veterans, through
Adjutant General George Norman, has
issued an important circular In regard to
the coming annual reunion to be held at
Nashville, Tenn, June %. 20 and q next.
He says therein: SIT will be the largest
and most important United Confederate
Veteran reunion ever held. The person.
mel of the Nashville reunion committee
under the leadership of its chairman, Col.
j. B. O'Bryan, is a guarantee that every
thing will be DONG for the comfort and.
convenience of the old veterans and all
visitors which Is in the power Of man
it is q splendid body Of very able and
distinguished comrades who are fully
alive to the magnitude Of the work en-
trusted to Them in entertaining and car
ing for their old comrades, and it will be
their pride 10 make 1t the most memoir
able reunion upon record; and the citi-
zens of Nashville are aglow with enthu-
sia" y, and patriotism, at the prospect Of
dispensing their far-famed hospitality to
the surviving heroes of the Lost Cause"
He also urles ex Confederate soldiers
and sailors everywhere to form local as
sociations, and send applications to head
quarters for papers to organize camps
Immediately, so as to DO IN time to partl-
cipate in the great reunion at Nashville,
and thus unite with their comrades in
carrying out the laudibIe and philan-
thropic objects of tho organization as
only veterans who belong to organized
United Confederate Veteran camps can
participate in the business meeting at
Nashville.
He says further. Business of the
greatest importance to the survivors of
the southern army will demand careful
consideration during the session of the
seventh annual convention at Nashville,
Tenn.,-such as the best methods of Sc
curing impartial history, and to enlist
each State in the con- ~yllation and pre-
servation of the history of her citizen
soldiery: the benevolent care through
State aid or otherwise of disabled, desti-
tute or aged veterans and the widows
and orphans of our fallen brothers in
arms; to consult as to the feasibility of
| the formation of a United Confederate
Veteran Benevolent Aid Association the
care of the graves of our known and I'M
known dead buried at Gettysburg, Fort
Warren, Camps Morton, Chase, Douglas,
lakewood cemetery at Chicago, Johnson's
island, Cairo and all other points,. to see
that they are annually decorated, the
headstones preserved and protected, and
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| 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
| oblivion and handing them down in his
| tory; the consideration of the different
| movements, plans and means to erect a
monument to the memory of Jefferson
| Davis, president of the Confederate States
of America, also to aid in building mon
uments to other great leaders, soldiers
! and sailors Of the South also to assist in
the promotion and completion of the pro-
posed Battle Abbey to vote upon the
proposed change of the name of the asso-
citation from u. G. ", to @. s. A.; and to
change the present badge or button which
| is not patentable for the new one proposed
which Is and to make such changes in
| the constitution and bylaws as expert
| ence may suggest, and other matters of
general interest,""
The total number of camps now admit
| ted is 900, with applications in for about
| $50 more. Tho following is the number
of camps by States:
Northeast Texas division, 81; West
Texas division, 55; Southwest Texas di-
vision, 33; Southeast Texas division, 81;
Northwest Texas division, II; total for
Texas, 217; Alabama, 80; South Carolina,
81; Missouri, II; Mississippi, GO; Arkansas,
50; Georgia, IS; Louisiana, 81; Kentucky,
80; Tennessee, "a; Virginia, "a; Florida,
30; North Carolina, 20; Indian Territory,
II, West Virginia, II; Oklahoma, 6; Mary
land, 6; New Mexico, 3; Illinois, 2; Mon
tana, 2; Indiana, l; District of Columbia,
I. California