The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-02
DAY FOR CONfEDERATES
October 4 VIII Be Designated al the Dallas
State Fair.
ADDRESS FROM LIEUT.. GENERAL CABfll
Also Mention that in October the
Flag of Terry Rangers VIII
he Returned.

The following order from the headquar-
ters of the Transmssissippi Department
Of the United Confederate Veterans will
be OF especial interest to members OF that
organization.
Dallas. Texas. July 4 isss.--General
Order No. i2.--lt is but right and proper,
comrades. that We should NETT In re-
union al least once each year to renew
old acpuaintances, to grasp once more she
hands of old friends and TO renew friend
ships made glorious amid the roar of
cannon and the rattle OF musketry; and to
honor the memory OF our comrades-the
dead heroes who with us followed the
dag of the Lost Cause and who are now
sleeping in strange land and In graves
unmarked and uncared for.
Therefore, comrades OF the transmits
issippi Department, United Confederate
Veterans, we have requested the fair as
ISOLATION to give us one day at the Texas
State Fair and Dallas exposition, to be
called Confederate Day." In order that
those of our comrades living in the great
States of Texas. Arkansas Missouri. Col
ocado, California, Oregon, Washington.
Nevada. Wyoming. North and South Da-
kota, Indian Territory, Oklahoma. New
Mexico and Arizona, who were unable to
attend the last two reunions owing to cir
cAmstnnces over which thoy had no con-
troll might then ioin MS In a grand re-
union October a will be the day that "a
TO be designated as Confederate Day."
The people OF Dallas will welcome you
with open arms and extend that hospi-
tally she has ever shown TO the brave
Confederatos who have visited her in the
mast
October r will he designated as Indians
and Texas nav md 4ho governor of
Indiana and n lumbar Of yisitors from
that state viii he prosent and tho day
win he made memorable nv the return to
Terry,s Texas rangers of their f,ag that
through The fortunes of war has been In
Indinpa's keening since 1868 They come
IA MS bringing This 6ae ms n token of
fr,cn5sbin and lave CoSernor savers viii
receive II for tho stote of Texos in the
n, esence of many brave men who wore
IN, hiuo ana The gray
Comrades come let MS mako these
days octoher 4 and Tho rrentest day.
In tho history of our country Let us not
f. rre, thai we oro falling out of his great
column one by one. like the leaves of the
forest and passinp over the river 10 the
great hovond As stated nv one of our
s.
untcera "a All our ranks and no man Is
numbered among MS hut has RECEIVED his
hantism of blood and Are over thirty 1--WE
vears aso No human mower cnn rsnlacs
n sin,Ia man in our ranks: surely md rap
idlv are The lines of gray fading away
and hut n few abort wears mus, intervene
hoforn ,boso hat NOW renajp muat look
their last unnn their comrades faces.
Then comrades Of the Trnnsmississippi
Department come he with us ON october
4 and 4 OF ua IN these days have Il
grand love feast. let us renew old friend
sbins lot memory call the roll Of the
heroic do5d and vet their spirits mingle
~ in,o an5 nfSac,Jon ,yith tha living
Come let ne assist our comrades of Ter
go ,a,,,,art ~ r,ngors In antortaininv
,beir CHESTS who hiring with them this bis.
toric flag ma mn Offering Of love and friend
shin.
Come. Sons of Confederate Veterans.