The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-26
NJ D CoNFEDS AT CHARLESTON
.cx EVANS. ORDER TO THE GEOR-
GA VETERANS.

I,..,veen so and 100 From Savannah
rxnected to Attend the Reunion.
,,,,borate Preparations Now Be
0Iode-Gen. McGIashan VIII
amor an Amendment 10 the Con-
-.;tntion-Movement on Foot for
the establishment of Soldiers
Home in Georgia.
co., Clement A. Evans, commanding
/ -. Georgia Division, United Confederate
/ ,...srans. has issued a circular order to
4 no camps in his jurisdiction in regard
/ - the coming reunion at Charleston.
charleston people" Gen. Evans says,
..ro making splendid arrangements for
. entertainment, and 1t is hoped that
A =. our love for our memories and COM
4 dos every Georgia camp and county will
H - large number to this reunion. Com
4 .,,5srs will call their camps together
4 =, carly as possible to send delegates and
4 donates and to make all other ar
4 .,ngements. Each camp, however small
4, ,s number, is entitled TO two delegates
ord two alternates. The ratio is one del
.,,ta and one alternate to every twenty
members and one additional to every
.,,,tiop of ten members. Full delegations
1bou,d be elected. Camps should carry
\ 1sr banners badges and every old Con-
4 s4arota flag and banner that can be Sc
cured, ,,..- 1890,
"Tba efforts of the commanding general
H - tb. Georgia division to have a camp or
4 ganized in every county has nearly sue
h @eeded vet there are some counties where
Il no camn has been formed. The appeal is
oarnestlv repeated to all Confederates
eror,Uhere to unite with some camp; and
1,bere ten will unite they should form
camp, elect officers and apply for char
to-.
. at is expected same action will be taken
at Charleston concerning the graves or
our brave comrades who fell in battle or
died Of wounds in hospitals, and diseases
in prisons, and also of those who have
died since the war. Information is earnest
" called for on this subject, and 1t is,
therefore, here urged that all camps OF
Confederates all camps of Sons of Confed.-
crate soldiers, all Ladies Memorial .Asso-
Il Citations and all chapters of Daughters of
the Confederacy will at once mail to these
headquarters at Atlanta, statements of the
location Of the graves nearest them, the
number of Confederates buried there, and
the condition of the cemetery. 1t is hoped
that his sacred duty win not be neg
lected
Special attention is called to the move
menLvby the two camps in Atlanta and
by other camps and comrades to have a
H reunion of the Georgia division during the
time of the state fair in Georgia. This
movement is most cordially favored by the
Z. NJ l. a al
ing of the delegates, alternates and visit
ing members of the Georgia division will
be held in Charleston May II, at the head
quarters OF the division for the purpose
"A Of making arrangements for this reunion.
A cordial invitation is extended to all Con-
federate organizations in Georgia to attend
the reunion with this division. The Ladies'
Memorial Association, the Daughters of
"a the Confederacy, the Sons of Confederate
Soldiers, the Order of r. Z. Lee, the
FL Wheeler Cavalry of Georgia, and other
ri Confederate bodies are invited.
1.-THE commander of this division intends
n to 60 to Charleston on the week preced-
Fl ing the reunion, in order to see that all
Things are ready for the division. A staff
officer will go to Charleston early in April,
TO arrange for quarters. All staff officers
ana aides are requested to reach Charles
IA
adjutant general, Col John A. Miller.
Every effort will be made to make this
reunion season of enthusiastic meetings
for the men who stood by the South In the
daysAof the Confederacy
comrades" says Gen. Evans in con-
Guiding his order, 1T is a great duty we
owe ourselves, our posterity, our whole
country and all who prize the qualities of
Valor, patriotism and devotion to great
convictions to foster these reunions, to sus-
IAN the hallowing sentiment they inspire
70 watch the histories of Confederate
events; TO preserve the reverence due the
memories Of our deceased comrades, and to
80 cherish the great axioms of human lib
cry mat our country shall be distinguish
eu among nations as a great and just gov
eminent, existing ana growing by the con-
sent OF the governed"
n IL Is expected that between eighty and
nuhdred veterans from the two
amps IN Savannah will attend the re-
union The old soldiers realize that but
90" other opportunities will be allowed
'"eAA 70 meet and fraternize with their
.onlfades of the civil war and they are
anAlous to avail themselves of this OBJ
portunity. ~
At Inc Charleston reunion Gen. P. Nc
u'oslIaI, president of the Confederate Vet
- Assoclation, Will offer, an amend
,'s, 10 the constitution of the order. pro-
,aulns Tor the establishment of division
amps Each division represents A
o'e and the state camps
- 20 De composed of delegates from each
Gi., me individual camps in the state iuris-
tgeoh. BY this method it is boped 10
~ Ing me camps in the several states in
vy,rI User communion and secure their
rSo eN,ls together for the general good.
ecoor paiIucular purpose it is expected 10
Of oiHp 2iS IN Georgia is the establishment
fs5 a soldiers home, where INDECENT Con-
enS ate Veterans can receive proper care
ve au treatment over a hundred of the
tbis aus ans are now in the poor houses of
thu is state and their comrades feel that
Time condition of affairs should not con-
jsI da- McGlashan will deliver the manor
beer auuress at Brunswick, where he has
AssooiAt Invited TO speak by the Memorial
tbe J na,,ln' the Confederate Veterans and
eert Daughters of the Confederacv So nv
djd nv" was the request that Gen. McC,Iasban
Ntation. couIu decline the in