The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-04-27
23rd and Oath, 1897, by publication
Of this letter, with editorial notice.

/ IL VIII 10 Viz luj SeSt anu lllOSC ilu-
portant U. @. Y. Reunion ever hold
The personnel of the Nashville Re-
union Committee under the leader
ship Of its chairman Col. j. B.
OBryan, is guarantee that every
thing will be done for the comfort
and convenience of the old veterans
and all visitors which is in tho power
of man; 'tis splendid body of very
able aud distinguished Comrades,
who are fully alive to the magnitude
of the work entrusted to them in en-
tertaining 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 enthu-
siasm, and patriotism, at the prospect
of dispensing. their far famed. hospi-
tality to the surviving heroes of the
Lost Cause. =.
Also to urge Ex- Confederate sol
diers and sailors everywhere to form
local associations, and send applica-
tons to these Headquarters for
papers to organize Camps, immed-
lately, SO rs to be in time to partici-
pate in the great Reunion at Nash
vile, and thus unite with their COM
rades in carrying out the laudable
and philanthropic objects of the Or
ganization; as only Veterans who
belong to organized U. G. V. Camps
can participate in the business meet.
ing at Nashville
Business Of the greatest impor-
tance to the Survivors of the South
ern Army will domand careful con-
sideration during tho session of tho
Seventh Annual Convention at Nash
vile, Tenn. such as the bost method
OF securing impartial history, and to
enlist each State in the compilation
and preservation of the history Of
her Citizen soldiery; the benevolent
care through State aid or otherwise
Of disabled, destitute or aged Vete-
rams and widows and orphans of our
fallen brothers in arms; to consult
as to the feasibility of the formation
of U. G.. Y. Benevolent Aid AS
sociation; 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,
to see that they are annually deco
rated, the headstones preserved and
protected, and complete lists of tho
names of our doad heroes with the
location of their last resting places
furnished to their friends and rela
tives through tho medium of or
camps, thus rescuing their names
from oblivion and handing thom
down in history; the consideration
Of the different movements, plans
and means to erect 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 promotion and
completion of the proposed Battle
Abbey"; to vote upon tho proposed
change of the name of the Associa-
tion from U. G. v, to G. S. A.; and
to change the present badge or but
ton which is not patentable for the
new ono which is; and to mako such
changes in tho constitution and by
laws as experience may suggest, and
other matters of general interest.
Total number of Camps now ad-
mitted 800, with applications for
about one hundred and fifty moro.
Following is number Of camps by
States:
Northeast Texas Division 81; West
Texas Division 55; Southwest Texas
Division 33; Southeast Texas Divis-
ion 81; Northwest Texas Division II;
total Texas 217; Alabama 80; South
Carolina 81; Missouri II; Mississippi
G3; Arkansas 50; Georgia SO; Louis,
lana 81; Kontucky 80: Tennessee 81 ;
Virginia 81; Florida 80 North Caro-
lima 30; Indian Territory II; West
Virginia II; Oklahoma 6; Maryland
6; New Mexico 3; Illinois 2; Montana