Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-29
REUNION AT NASHVILLE.
United Confederate Veterans Meeting
in June-Largest Reunion
Ever Held-Organize
Camps.

NEW ORLEANS, La, April Is, 1897.
-HEADQUARTERs UNITED CoNFEDER-
ATE VETERANs-Gen. ]. b. Gordon,
commanding United Confederate
Veterans, respectfully requests the
press, both daily and weekly, of the
whole country to aid the patriotic
and benevolent objects of the United
Confederate Veterans by publishing
date reunion is to take place at
Nashville, Tenn, on Tuesday, We'd
nesday and Thursday, June 90, 90
and "a, 1897, by publication of this
letter with editorial notice.
1t will be the largest and most i'm
portant U. &. V. reunion ever held.
The personnel of the Nashville
reunion committee under the leader
ship of its chairman, Col. j. B.
O'Bryan, is a guarantee that every
thing will be done for the comfort
and convenience of the old veterans
and all visitors which is in the power
of man; it is a splendid body of very
able and distinguished comrades,
who are fully alive to the magnitude
OF the work entrusted to them in
entertaining and caring for their old
comrades and it will be their pride
to make it the most memorable re-
union upon record, and the citizens
of Nashville are aglow with enthus-
iasm and patriotism at the prospect
of dispensing their far famed hospi-
tally to the surviving heroes of the
lost cause.
Also to urge ex-Confederate sold
iers and sailors everywhere to form
local associations and send applica-
lions to these headquarters for pa
pers to organize camps Immediately,
so as to be i'll time to participate in
the great reunion at Nashville, and
thus unite with their comrades in
carrying out the laudable and phil
anthropic objects of the orgapiza-
ton, as only veterans who belong to
organized U. Z. V. camps can par
ticipate in the business meeting at
Nashville.
Business of the greatest import
ance to the survivors of the south
ern army will demand consideration
during the session of the seventh an
nual convention at Nashville, Tenn.
such as the best methods of secur-
ing impartial history, and to enlist
state in the compilation and
preservation of the history of her
soldiery; the benevolent 1
care, through state aid or otherwise,
Of disabled, destitute or aged veter- {
ans and the widows and orphans of t
our fallen brothers in arms; to con- 6
as to the feasibility of the forma- 7
ton of a U. &. V. benevolent aid as I
ISOLATION; the care of the graves of
our known and unknown dead buried
at Gettysburg, Fort Warren, Camps
Morton, Chase, Douglas, Oakwood
cemetery at Chicago, Johnson's Is
land, Cairo and at all other points, -,
e that they are annually deco =
rated, the headstones preserved and
protected, and complete lists of the
names of our dead heroes with the
location of their last resting places @
to their friends and rela- ;,
through the medium of our !,
thus rescuing their names T
from oblivion and handing them =
Town in history; the consideration :,
the different movements, plans .,
md means to erect a monument to q
he memory of Jefferson Davis, pres :,
dent of the Confederate States of .
America, also to aid in building v
monuments to other great leaders, n
oldiers and sailors of the south; also :,
o assist in the promotion and COM .
'letion of the proposed Battle Alb 9
to vote upon the proposed y
mango of the name of the associa- y
ion from U. G. V. to G. S. A; and a
o change the present badge or but n
which is not patentable for the n
lew one proposed which is; and to n
make such changes in the constitu- h
and bylaws as experience may
uggest, and other matters of gen. a,
raj interest. H.
Total number of camps now ad- n
aitted 900, with applications in for n
bout one hundred and fifty more. liz
'ollowing is number of camps by
In,
Northeast Texas division 81; west W
exas division SIS; southwest Texas m
vision 33; southeast Texas division A
|; northwest Texas division II; W
'tal Texas 217; Alabama 80; South ne
arolinaS 81; Missouri II; Mississippi of
}; Arkansas So; Georgia So; Louisi- ar
IA 81; Kentucky 80; Tennessee "a; ga
irginia "a; Florida 30; North Caro- N.
20; Indian Territory 12; West ca
irginia IL; Oklahoma 6; Maryland dc
New Mexico 3; Illinois 2; Mon or
2; Indiana 1; District of Col pa
mbia /; California l.. st,
Very respectfully, tn
GEO. MooRMAN, hi
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