The age-herald., 1901-11-12
BIRMINGHAM VETS
 GOING ID REUNION Colonel MeikIe Here in Interest
 of the Meeting TO DROP MILITARY TITLES Order Issued by the Commander of the Tennessee Divison-Commander
 for Alabama Division to Be Elected.

Much interest Is being manifested by local Confederate veterans fin the state
 reunion to be held in Montgomery Mo-
 vember 13 and IA. Col William F. Meikle
 of Mobile was in the city yesterday in
 the interest of the meeting.
 Colonel Meike has visited a number of cities throughout the State. and especial
 ly along the line of the Louisville and
 Nashville. He has succeeded in arous- ing considerable interest in the reunion and has received a sufficient number of assurances to make him certain that it
 be the most largely attended ever held in the State.
 Camp Hardee and Birmingham will be represented by strong delegations.
 At this meeting the election of a com mander of the Division of Alabama will
 be held. The question of the division of
 the State into brigades and the election
 of brigade commanders will also come up for discussion.
 The following letter and order has
 commander of the Army of Tennessee, CHlleu 0onIeuerate veterans:
 Memphis. Tenn, Nov. 9, 1901. TO the Alabama Division, U. c. ": Tt is earnestly hoped that a thorough and compact State organization will be
 erected at the reunion to be held in Montgomery November 13 and 14 and that
 constitution will be adopted. Your attention is directed particularly to the conditions of membership in the
 confederation, which should be strictly complied with
 The department commander orders that the use of military titles and rank be | discontinued by the officers in the Army Of the Tennessee department, the same being without authority under our gen. | eral constitution. In this connection 1 beg to call your attention to Article 6 I Sections 21-2S, and to Article g, Sectior | 53 of the constitution; and I strongly rec l ommend that the following clause (ol something to that effect) be incorporated in your state constitution, as expressing the sentiment of the majority of our comrades who have the welfare of the confederation at heart, to wit: "The officers of the Alabama division shall be known and addressed by the titles that designate the offices which they hold as Commander Smith, Adju- tant Brown etc., but the use of purely military titles, as lieutenant general, colonel, major and the like, in official correspondence or otherwise, is express ly prohibited"
 To increase interest fin our work the following plan is suggested as an experi- ment: That the camps secure permanent quarters and establish themselves into Confederate literary and historical so- cieties, or merely establish a reading room and library, in conjunction with the U. c. V. and U. D. c. organizations, if agreeable; same to be maintained by voluntary contributions on the part of
 the members, or in such maner as may be decided upon. Such movement would find support in any Southern community. provided some energetic comrade takes the initiative.
 The Alabama Sons of Veterans are con- graduated upon the magnificent histori- cal work which has been accomplished in that division.
 Special Order No. l.
 Under Article 5. Sections 15-17. of the
 constitution, 1t is hereby ordered that a commander of the division of Alabama be elected at the state convention, to be held in Montgomery November IS and IA, 1901
 It Is ordered that said election be held under the supervision of Comrades w. H.
 Payne of Scottsboro and Thomas M.
 owen of Montgomery.
 The matter of the division of the state
 into brigades and the election of brigade
 commanders Is ldDt to the discretion of
 the delegates assembled.