The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-16
ORDERS TO VETERANS.
ofacial Promulgation by General Ste
 phen D. Lee.

phen D. Lee.
 Headquarters United Confederate Vet srans. New Orleans, La, March 25, 1904.
 The Lieutenant General commanding hereby announces the following as the Finance Committee of the U. c. ". whose duties are definel in Section s, Ar ticle V, of the Bylaws.
 Colonel W. A. Montgomery. Edwards. Miss, Chairman.
 Colonel Fred L. Robertson. Tallahas- see, Fla. Secretary.
 Major General William E. Mickle, New Orleans, La.
 Major General Bennett H. Young. Louisville. Ky.
 Major General Virgil Y. Cook. Elmo. Ark.
 Brigadier General J. F. shipp, chatta- nooga, Tenn.
 Brlgadier General c. H. Tebault. M. D., New Orleans. La.
 Brigadier General A. J. West, Atlanta. Ga.
 Brigadier General A. c. Trippe. Balti- more, Md. Brigadier General J. c. Holmes. Charleston, s. c.
 Brlgadier General Paul A Fusz, Phil ipsburg, Mont. Colonel J. B. Trulock, Pine Bluff. Ark,
 OOhNiACA Ss AoSAOA AtEHN1Ouu Va.
 Colonel W. J. Woodward. Wilmington N. c. Colonel John P. Hickman. Nashville Tenn.
 Colonel Philip H. Fall, Houston, Tex. : Colonel H. A. Newman, Huntsville, Mo. Colonel Paul Sanguinetti, Montgomery. Ala.
 pr. Samuel E. Lewis, Washington. D. e.
 By command of
 Stephen D. Lee, Lieutenant- General Commanding.
 (Officiai)
 Wm. E. Mickle,
 Adjutant General and Chief of stafr. Headquarters United Confederate ve'-
 erans, New Orleans, La, Arril (, 1904 General Orders No. 9.
 The Lieutenant General comm 7nding di- rects particular attention to the follow ing resolution adopted at the reunion held in New Orleans. La. last May:
 Resolved, That no person shall be eligible, nor admitted by this organiza- ton, to the position of Sponsor or Maid of Honor from any organization unless she be the wife or lineal descendant of a Confederate soldier or sailor who was honorably released from the service; or a member in good standing of some regu- larly organized chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy."
 The Lieutenant General commanding is in thorough sympathy with this resolu- ton; and as the time is near at hand when appointments of sponsors and maids of honor are made, he desires that all officers having the selection of these ladies be guided by this action of the Convention.
 By command of
 Stephen D. Lee,
 Lieutenant General Commanding. (Oflcial)
 Wm E. Mickle.
 Adjutant General and Chief of Staff United Confederate Vet
 erans. New Orleans, La, April Il. 1854 General Orders No. 10.
 l. The Lieutenant General commanding desires to place in the hands of all his everything of moment pertain Ing to the compilation of the rosters of the Confederate and Union armies; and he, therefore. directs particular attention to the following extract from a letter from General F. c. Ainsworth, Chief of the Record and Pension once:
 The Secretary of War has given very careful thought to the second subject on in your communication of the 18th ultimo, viz, whether defciencies in the original records can be supplemented by statements made by survivors of the war from memory or from unoficial rec ords. The Secretary reached the conclu- sion that the act of Congress authorizing the compilation did not authorize him to accept as a basis for 1t anything but z contemporaneous official record. It was upon this basis that Congress required the compilation and publication of the great work known as the 'Official Rec ords of the Union and Confederate Ar mics" and if the proposed roster is to be published as a continuation os that work, as 1t is expected that it will be. 1t seems proper that the same rules should govern with regard to it. It is known that the "Official Records are incomp' etc in some respects. and 1t Is undoubtedly true that considerable matter of histor- teal value could have been added to them if statements and reports made subsc- quently to the war could have been ac- cepted by the compilers. But on the oth- CT hand, to have accepted any such state ments or reports would have opened the door to a general rewriting of the records