Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1897-05-14
U. c. Y. REUNION.
New ORLEANS, La,
April 18th, 1897.

To the Editor ofth Tensas Gazette,
st. Joseph, La.
DEAR SIR:-Gen. J. B. Gordon.
Commanding United Confederate
Veterans, respectfully requests the
press, both daily and weekly, of
the whole country to aid the pa
triotic and benevolent objects of
the United Confederate Veterans
by publishing date Reunion is to
take place at Nashville, Tenn, on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day, June 22nd, 23rd and oath,
1897, by publication of this letter,
with editorial notice.
1t will be the largest and most
important U. G. V. Reunion ever
held. The personnel of the Nash
vile Reunion Committee, under
the leadership of its chairman,
Col. ]. 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 splendid body of very able and
distinguished Comrades, who are
fully alive to the magnitude of
the work entrusted to them in en-
tertaining and caring for their old
Comrades, aud it will be their
pride to make it the most memoir
able Reunion upon record; and the
citizens of Nashville are aglow
with enthusiasm and patriotism,
at the prospect of dispensing their
far famed hospitality to the sur
viving heroes of the Lost Cause.
Also to urge En- Confederate soldiers
and sailors every,chere to form local
associations, and to send applications
to these Headquarters for papers to-
organize Camps Immediately, so as
to be IN time to participate IN the
great Reunion at Nashville, and thus
unite with their comrades in car
rying out the laudable and philan-
thropic objects of the organiza-
ton; as only Veterans scho belong to
organized y. C. v. Camps can par
ticipdtc IN the business meeting at
Nashville.
Business of the greatest import
ance to the Survivors of the South
ern Army will demand careful
consideration during the Session
of the Seventh Annual Convention
at Nashville, Tenn.-such as the
best methods of securing impartial
history, and to enlist each State
in the compilation and preserva-
ton of the history of her Citizen
soldiery; the benevolent care
through State aid or otherwise of
disabled, destitute or aged Vet
Grams and the widows and orphans
of our fallen brothers in arms; to
consult as to the feasibility of the
formation of a U. G. V. Benevo-
lent 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 Gene
terry at Chicago, Johnson's Island,
Cairo and all other points, to see
that they are annually decorated,
the headstone preserved and pro-
tected, 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 medi-
um 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
III the promotion and completion
of the proposed ''8attle Abbey;
to vote upon the proposed change
of the name of the Association
from U. G. ", to G. S. A.; and to
change the present badge or button
which Is not patentable for the
new one which which is; and to
make such changes in the consti-
tuition and bylaws as experience
may suggest, and other matters of
general interest.
Total number of Camps now adj
mitted 900, with applications in
for about one hundred and fifty
more Following is number of
Camps by States:
Northeast Texas Division 81:
West Texas Divisions So; South
west Texas Division SS; Southeast
Texas Division 81; Northwest Tex