Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-08-03
CAMP CANNOT ACCEPT
PICKETT VETERANS WILL NOT At
TEND REUNION.
INVITED BY BRIGADE ASSOCIATION.
The FrnteILaI Courtesy Acknow-
Iedged, But other Engagements
bIe-To Admit the Sons.

Pickett Camp, Confederate Veterans,
held their regular weekly meeting at
their headquarters, in the Powhatan
Club last night. First-Lieutenant-Com
mander Gibbs presiding.
The committee appointed to make ar
rangements for the camp to visit the re-
union OF Louisa Camp August 18th, re-
ported that the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad had made special and consdera-
BILE concessions.
DR.. Thomas f. Stratton. chairman of
the committee appointed to consider the
advisability of forming Sons of Vete-
rams organization to be an auxiliary TO
the camp reported as follows;
"Your committee appointed TO consider
whether it is best to organize a separate
camp for the Sons of Veterans or to ad-
nit them to membership in our own
camp beg leave TO report in favor Of the
latter, and to that end recommend the
following changes in our bylaws:
81. That Article ". be amended by the
addition thereto of the following words:
1ntIt SNAIL dArO Dt All dcNANldul dAJu-
tant and an assistant quartermaster, who
shall hold office in like manner. whose
duties shall be as indicated by their titles,
and who. together with the third lieu
tenant-commander shall be chosen from
the members hereinafter designated as
Sons of Veterans of Pickett Camp
That section / Of Bylaw VII. be
amended by adding thereto after the
word navy the following words, or the
descendants not under ID years of age
of any such persons, to be called Sons
Of Veterans of Pickett Camp. who shall
be entitled to vote upon all questions
before the camp except amendments TO
bylaws and rules Of order
"S. That section 1 Of Bylaw VIII. be
amended by adding thereto after the
word dollars the words except for
Sons of veterans, whose membership fee
shall be 90 cents and section or the
same article by adding at the close
thereof the words except Sons or Nete-
rams. who shall pay 10 cents per month
The report was adopted with some
slight and immaterlal notifications to
the first section dealing with Article w.
Of the Constitution.
INVITED TO PHILADELPHIA.
A communication was received from
the Philadelphia Brigade Association, in
viting the camp to visit them i'm Phila-
delphia on September nth and 18th next
The invitation was sent pursuant 10 a
resolution passed at the reunion Oh
Rlue and Gray, held at Washington, d.
C.. September 16. 1896 as follows:
'yyhereas the reunion Of the Blue and
Gray. held under the auspices of the
old Philadelphia Brigade. in Washing
ton. ID. c.. September l6, 1896, having
been grandly successful. bringing the
noople OF the North and the South
closer together in full fraternity OF
spirit and purpose, and believing that
reunion upon more comprehensive
scale would result In great ana last-
ing public good, by forever obllteraths
the sectional lines and animositleS'
therefore be 1t
Resolved. That the present command
ers Of tho Philadelphia Brigade Assoeia-
ton and General George II. Pickett
Camn of Confederate Veterans, OF Rich
mond and the president of the Confede-
rate Veterans Association, of washing
ton. ID. c.. and such others as Com
mander Frazier. of tho Philadelphia
Brigade Association, may deem proper
to annoint. are hereby authorized 10 take
such action as they may deem necessary
and proper to the holding Of great ma
tional reunion of Union and Confederate
veterans at such time and place as those
so named may agree upon.
The following reply was dictated and
ordered TO be sent TO the Brigade Com
mander:
J. w Frazier, Esq, Commander or Phll-
adelphia Brigade:
near Sir and Comrade-In response to
al
George Il. Pickett Camp. Confederate
Veterans, to a reunion and campfire of
tho Blue and the Gray In Philadelphia,
ON the 18th and 18th OF September next,
I am instructed to say that owing TO
the fact that this camp has accepted an
invitation to attend a Confederate Vete-
rams reunion at Louisa Courthouse Va,
on the 18th Of August, and the further
fact that we have TO receive and enter
tain the Grand Camp OF Virginia with
II. r. Lee Camp during their soJourn In
Richmond next October, IL would be in
convenient 10 meet you on the proposed
occasion, and are. therefore, compelled
to postpone our visit to more suitable
opportunity. / am also instructed TO say
that Pickett Camp heartily reciprocates
tho kindly and fraternal spirit which
prompts the courtesy extended on this,
as well as Oh loi ultE OkNdSipiAaf ~ NAA'
Philadelphia Brigade Association
ENDORSE THE SONS SCHEME.
Attention being called to the fact that
Lee Camp. Sons OF Veterans. proposed TO
build a cottage at the Soldiers Home 10
accommodate sixteen veterans, the Iol-
lowing resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That this camp heartily COM
mends and endorses the proposition OF
the Sons Of Confederate Veterans 10 build
@ cottage at the Soldiers Home, to be
known as the Sons OF Confederate Nete-
rams Cottage.
Mr.. A. Jefferson Vaughan was initiated
and a considerable amount Of routine
business was transacted.
Captain HazlewoOd read an interesting
description Of the battle OF Five Forks
and the camp adjourned.
nun snNS, INTERESTING SESSION,