The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-09
GENERAL cABELL's LETTCR.
Addresses the Cid Veterans Of Trans
Mississippi Department

Addresses the Cid Veterans of Trans
Mississippi Department.
The following circular has been issued
from the Dallas headquarters Of the Trans.
mississippi department Of the e y - 10
the surviving Confederate veterans:
Comrades Of the Transmssissippi Depart
ment
A happy Now Year my old comrades; 70
you, and 10 all that are dear TO you. lpe
old year with It's brightness and pleasures
as well as its sorrows and disappointed
hopes has passed away and gone never to
return. May q kind Providence continue
10 spread its sheltering wings over the Old
heroes who followed the flag of the Confed,
eracy until it was furled and forever lald
away As time passes our comrades are
growing older and more feeble. our ranks
are growing thinner and less every year.
many Of our noblest and best nave crossed
the river during the last year, vet we nave
every right to thank God that the death
roll is no greater than we have right 10
expect, and that our comrades, enfeebled
by old age incapacitated by wounds as
ease and sickness who are unable to make
q living, have been properly cared for by
the great States Of Texas, Arkansas, Mis-.
| SQUIRT and the Territories, Furnishing good
| shelter ample food, good clotnlIs' COCO
! medical attention md nursing, where the
| old heroes the unpaid soldiers of Immortal
| prIciple can spend their last days IN com
! fort and ease. ! am satisfied that every
Z state
continue to make liberal appropriations TO
carry on this noble work
Nv old comrades, l would call yonr NJ
teutlon to the growth Of our noble Asso ~
/ ton Of United Confederate Veterans Nd
1utant General Norman, before his death
| reported fifteen hundred camps, and | nm
proud TO say nearly one-half of this number
are IN the Transmssissippi department
| New departments and new camps have hcen
organized In nearly every department cf the
/ Transmlssissippi department. continue
| this good work and let every Confederate
now living enroll Let me appeal to ypu by
| the memory of the brave men who lied On
| the battlefield or iu prison-from woard3 ~
sickness or disease since the war--to tnroil.
| | appeal to you by the memory 1t the fnT'
| tering and hardships borne by the NOME
| women of the South while their fathers,
| husbands brothers and sons We're in Inc
| Geld figbtiug for constitutional liberty. 10
/ enroll appeal to you IN the ul'ne OF
| all that is dear 10 the truth OF our history,
| patriotism and glorious record, To enrol TO
! join some camp and thus keep In toIch VIII
| each other the few years you have to I've,
and where you can be ATTENDED - sickness
and other msfortunes by old com: ldes
| I. therefore, call on the division nrd 'Ti-
| gade commanders Of every State and Tcili-
tory to issue at once the necessary orders
that will increase the number Of ,aulFs cs
well as the membership Of each camp. 80
| that at the reunion to be held in the city
Of New Orleans May 10, 20, y and q, 1913.
that Won will have more camps and MO. e
Confeder8tes than have ever gathered az one
time or place. J would request eyeiy d.
vision and brigade commander Ia urge every
camp throughout the department TO meet At
once and at least once q mouth, II not Of
toner, to arrange for sending del"zi-es 10
the reunion, and the necessary per 'hpita
| To Adjutaut General Mlckle, New orleans
La, by April l
The committee on transportation consist
ing 81 Generals II W Grahcr aud s. j.
| Meudez and Colonies Is. j. Ndthen J.. A
| -, Al iln In
their power to secure rates on al railroads
eadina into New Orleans. Then L.y Old
comrades, of the Transmississtppi depart
! rrenf consisting Of the cF1lr states 4
Texas, Arkansas. Missouri, California, Col
GRADE oregou Kansas. Montana, ldnhG
North and South Dakota. NebTdsHa lndldT
TERRITORY, Oklahoma, New 'Niro and All
zona, VINO were unable to attend past reup
ions he ready and join MS at tnS grapc
The people Of New Orleans win WELDON,
you with open arms, and Wi extend to -,
that hospitality she has ever shown 40,
brave Confederate who has yisllel her 4
| he mast Then. comrades II the Trans
mississippi department, come 20 he l"Lnion
. | B.ipg with YOU your wives Snnr n1hle SON
! aud beautiful daughters. Let Hs have
grand lovo-feast let Us rruoN Old frien
ships: let memory call fhe r)l ~ the ltroi
dead and recount their gallant lccds.
Let US not forget we 1ra i'te the leaves .
the forest falling out Of this great column
the Great Beyond, there are no "ecrllts ~
volunteers 10 I'll our rauks and no NAL
Is numbered among as avho mas not Ic ,eive'
q hts baptism OF blood lnd it"n over thirty
} ave years ago: no numau poAc' "an rcpiac
n single innn In our ranks surely AMI rJp
idv arc the lines Of gray fading away
E aud but a fcw years must interviews hefor
those who now remain lr'iss iuoh tbelr ils
Z mon their comrades faces.
Business ~ importance viii cume Up 10
your consideration "a as tbn proLer car
N the graves OF our cad; the care ~ on
needy comrades: the creation ~ the monu
mont "a our noble fres lieut.. and gathering
facts trat win enable the future historian
10 truthfulv tell the story ~ Ionfcdcrat
bravery and the justice Of he aree 70
| which wc fought Tome, aud let ~ max
ms Ire erandest gatharl * ~ confcac' ate
; that has ever taken pisre ~ our dear St"'th
s New Orleans, the qasou cit. of tic sestr