The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-22
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NASHVILLE REUNION.
Official Notice of the Gathering Of
Old ConfeLcrntCs.

To the Editor of The Post
New Orleans. La, April l5.-DeSr Sir
General j. j. Gordon, commanding United
Confederate Veterans. respectfully re.
quests the press, both daily and weekly.
of the whole country, TO aid the patriotic
and benevolent objects of the United Con-
federate Veterans by pubiishn-. date re
union Is to take place at Nashville. Tenn
on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
June D. % and a, 1887, by publication OF
this letter.
III Wili he the largest and most import
ant United Confederate Veterans reunion
over held. The personnel of the Nashville
reunion committee under the leadership
of Its chairman, Colonel j. Is. O'Bryan is
a guarantee that everything viii be done
for the comfort and convenience OF tho
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 entertain
ing and caring for their old comrades
and 1t Will be their pride to make ii the
most memorable reunion upon record
and tho citizens of Nashville are aglow
wlfh enthusiasm. and patriotism. at the
prospect Of dispensing Their far famed
hospitality 10 the Surviving heroes OF the
LOST cause.
Also 10 urge eX-Confoderate soldiers
ara sailors everywhere 10 form local as
sociations, and send applications to these
htaIqlIdltds iCr papers 10 organize
camps immediately, so as to be IN unie
TO participate in the great reunion a.
Nashville, and thus unite with her cont
iades IN carrying Out the iau5able end
ph.ianthropic objects of the organization :
as only veterans VINO belong to organized
tnl.ed Confederate Veteran camps can
participate in the business meeting at
Nashville.
Business of the greatest Importance to
the survivors OF the Southern army viii
demand careful consideration during the
session OF the seventh annual convention
at Nashville Tenn.-sIch as the best
methods of securing impartial history
and 10 enlist each state In tho complla.
lion and preservation of the history of
her citizen soldiery; the benevolent care
through State aid or otherwise of dis
abled, destitute or aged veterans ANA the
widows and orphans of our fallen brothers
IN arms; 10 consult as 10 the feasibility
of the formation of a UniUd Confederate
Veterans Benevolent AID association;
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
Island, Cairo and at all other points. TO
see that they are annually decorated. the
headsioneS preserved and pfotected' ana
complete lists OF the names OF our dead
heroes with tho location OF Their last
resting places furnished TO their friends
and relatives through the medium of our
camps. thus rescuing heir names from OBJ
l.vion and handing them down In history:
the consideration of the different move
ments, plans and means to erect a mon
umcnt 10 the memory Of Jefferson DAVIS.
president OF the Confederate States or
America, also TO aid in building monu-
merits TO other great leaders, soldiers and
sailors of the South; also 10 ASSIST in the
promotion and completion OF the proposed
Battle Abbey 10 vote upon the pro-
posed change of the name of the aSsocia-
ton from United Confederate Veterans
10 Confederate Survivors association. and
to change the present badgc or button.
which Ia not patentable. for the new one
proposed, which Isl and TO mako such
changes in the cons:ttution and bylaws
ais experience may, suggest. ana o'her
matters OF general Interest.
900, with applications in for about one
hundred and nifty more. Following IL
tho number of camps by States:
Northeast Texas division 81, West
Texas division, rs. Southwest Texas d.
vision, 80; Southeast Texas division, 81
Northwest Texas division, y; total
Texas, 2I7: Alabama, 50; South Carolina
81: Missouri II Mississippi, 90; Arkansas
30: Georgia. IS: louisiana 81 kentucky. |
~. Tennessee. "a; Virginia, "a; Florida. |
20. North Carolina, %; indian Territory.
IL, West Virginia, II: Oklahoma. g. Marry
land &, New Mexico. q; illinois, 2: Mon |
lana, 2. Indiana, !: District OF COLUMBIA.
j; California. !. Very RESPECTFULLY.
Adjm.ant General and Chief Of Staff.