The weekly intelligencer., 1897-04-24
UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS
Will Meet at Nashville, Tenn., OF June
22nd, 23rd and 24th, 1897.

New ORLEANS, La, April 10, '97.
To the Editor of the Intelligencer.
DEAR. SIR:-Gen. j. Il. Gordon,
commanding United Confederate Vet
erans, respectfully requests the press,
both daily aud weekly, of the whole
country to aid the patriotic and benev-
olent objects of the United Confederate
Veterans by publishing date reunion is
to take place at Nashville, Tenn, on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
June %, 23 and "a, 1897, by puhhca-
ton of this letter, with editorial notice.
1t will be the largest and most inn
portant L. C. V. reunion ever held.
The personnel of the Nashville reunion
committee under the leadership of its
chairman, Col. j. b. O'Bryan, is a
guarantee that everything 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 enter
tanning and caring for their old COM
rades, and it will be their pride to make
it the most memorable reunion upon
record; and the citizens of Nashville
are aglow with enthusiasm and patriot
ism at the prospect of dispensing their
far famed hospitality to the surviving
heroes of the s'lost cause"
Also to urge ex-COnfederate soldiers
and sailors everywhere TO form local
associations, and send applications to
these headquarters for papers to organ
ize camps immediately, so as to be in
time to participate in the great reunion
at Nashville, and thus unite with their
comrades in carrying out the laudable
and philanthropic objects of the organ
ization; as only veterans who belong
to organized U. c. V. camps can par
ticipate in the business meeting III
Nashville.
Business of the greatest Importance to
the survivors of the Southern army will
demand careful consideration during
the session of the seventh annual con-
vention at Nashville, Tenn.-such as
the best methods of securing impartial
history, and to enlist each state III the
compilation and preservation of the
history of her citizen soldiery; 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; to con
snlt as to the feasibility of the furma-
ton of a u. C.. V. benevolent aid asso-
ciatIon; the care of the graves of our
known and unknown dead buried ut
Gettysburg, Fort Warren, Camps Nor
ton, Chase, Douglas, Oakwood ceme-
terry at Chicago, Johnson's Island,
Cairo and at all other points, to see
that they are annually decorated, the
headstOnes 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 med
ium of our camps, thus rescuing their
names from oblivion and handing them
down in history; 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 monuments to
other great leaders, soldiers and sailors
of the South; also to assist in the pro-
motion and completion of the proposed
"Battle Abbey; to vote upon the pro-
posed change of the name of the assOoi-
alton u. C. V. to G. 5. A. and to
change the present badge or button
which is not patentable for the new one
pro posed which is; and to make such
changes in the constitution and bylaws
as experience may suggest, and other
matters of general interest.
Total number of camps now admitted
900, with applications in for about one
hundred and fifty more. Following Is
number of camps by states:
Texas 217; Alabama 80; South Car
olina 81; Missouri II; Mississippi G3;
Arkansas so; Georgia So; Louisiana
81; Kentucky 80; Tennessee 3fi Nir-
ginia 81; Florida 30; North Carolina
.: Indian Territory II; West Virginia
/; Oklahoma 6; Maryland T.; New
Iex,co B.; Illinois 2; Montana ,; lndi-
ana /; District of Columbia Califor-
MIA |. Very respectfully,
GEORGE MOORMAN,
Adi't'nt Gen'r'l and Chief of Staff.