Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-02-15
TIE conFeOEaeRArE REUNION.
Order Of Commanding General Stepas" ..
D. Lee, Giving Time and Place Of ReunloR.

General Orders No. 23:
/. The commanding general an
nounces that, according to the GUS
tom heretofore in force, which leaves
to the commanding general and the
department commanders the fixing
of the date of the reunion, the Fif-
teenth Annual Reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans will be held in
the city of Louisville, KY, on June
Ia, Is and 16, 1905, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, respectively,
those days having been named by our
host as satisfactory.
III. The commanding general can
not attempt to enumerate the many
attractions the glorious Common
wealth of Kentucky has to offer to
the United Confederate Veterans,
but he may say that no State in the
Union can point with greater pride
to the daring achievements of her
men and women in the days of the
early settlement of the country,
headed by The great rifleman, Daniel
Boone, and dauntless woman, Mrs.
Woods; that none can present a
grander array of noble Confederate
sons than Albert Sidney Johnston,
Dick Taylor, John HI. Morgan, John
b. Hood, John G. Breckenridge,
Simon b. Buckner, Humphrey Mar
shall, George B. Crittenden, and
scores of others that could be named,
and he mentions with peculiar pride
that to her belongs the honor of
giving to the human race that great
patriot, chivalrous leader and un-
stained Southern gentleman, Jeffer-
son Davis, our first and only Presi-
dent.
III. The commanding general
most heartily approves Of the action
which made the great city of Louis
vile the meeting point for the Vet
erans in 1905. The inclemenoy of
the weather at the reunion of 1900
practically set at naught the almost
perfect arrangements that had been
made for the pleasure of the wearers
of the grey, and it was due to the
generous and patriotic men and
women (noted all over the world for
their peerless beauty and matchless
charms) that another opportunity
should be given them to entertain
the survivors of the Confederate
armies.
These men and women are already
devising ways and means to make
the meeting of this year for splendor,
extent and variety unequaled in our
annals, and those who were present
on the former occasion know full we'll
what can be expected, for the hospi-
tality and welcome of the Sons and
Daughters of Kentucky are only
equaled in warmth and exuberance
by broadness and prodigality, and
are limitless and unending.
Located geographically 80 As to be
easily accessible to vast majority of
the camps of the u. G. w., with
lavish attractions spread out for their
pleasure, with men and women ap-
pealing to them to come to their
homes and firesides, the commanding
general feels that "the Boys of the
COS" will be given welcome that
will have to be marked with white
stone. He, therefore, most earnestly
urges the officers and members of
camps TO commence now without
delay to make preparations to attend
this grand gathering. Let them at
once set about selecting delegates
and alternates, and use every effort
70 have large attendance, SO that
this reunion may, indeed, be the
largest and most representative ever
held. He begs all Confederate SOL
diers, whether of the army or navy,
whether members of camps or not, to
meet in Louisville and live over for a
little while in loving comradeship
with each other the glorious deeds of
the grandest armies the world has
ever known
~. The commanding general with
much pleasure announces, at the re-
guest OF its most energetic president,
Mrs. w. j. Behan, that the Confed.