The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-27
SOMEWHAT MISLEADING
THE GENERALLEROY STAFFORD
CAMP NO. 3, U. c. V.
The Facts Concerning the Cemetery Lot
as Recorded During the Session
of the City Council

At the session of the council held
Tuesday night, the representatives o1
the General Leroy Stafford Camp No. 8
y. c. v, through Hon. E. II. Randol phi
submitted request which is embodied
and explained in the resolution as adopt
ed by the council.
The reports of the proceedings, how
ever, as already published, are mad
vertently misleading, and as the fact is
all-important to the Camp, a statement
sustained by the record, is submitted:
Through Councilman Trsten the reso-
luton was presented to the council, when
Mr.. Randolph in words of beautiful SEN
timent AMI pathos urged on the council
the favorable consideration of the reso-
luton, in which the Camp desired great
er authority than in the grant conveying
the donation of the plat in the new GEM
etery in 1899. Having concluded his re-
marks. which had enlisted the closest at
tention and the commentator of his
hearers. Mr.. Randolph rested the ques-
ton with the council, when Mr.. Currie
arose and moved that the petition be
granted and that the permission be
broadened so as to allow the burial in
the plot of the bodies of Union veterans
and their families, if circumstances
should 50 arise
The proposition was surprise, to
which representative of the Camp was
about to except when Mr.. Conger solved
happily the complication by suggesting
that the matter be left to the General
Leroy Stafford Camp and the resolu-
tion as presented by Mr.. Tusten was
carried, reading as follows:
"Whereas, the city council of the city
of Shreveport, by ordinance dated Sep
tember rs, 1899, transferred and donated
to V. Grosjean, commander of the Gen
eral Leroy Stafford Camp No. 3, u. c.
v, and Committeeman G. w. Kendall,
R. T. Vinson and H. P. Wells, said par
ties representing the said Camp, for the
burial of Confederate veterans, which
said ordinance was duly carried out as
authorized by deed from the mayor of
the city of Shreveport to said Camp and
individuals in their representative capac-
ity for the use and benefit of said Camp
and for the burial of x-Confederate sol
diers.
Now, be it resolved by the city coun-
Gil of the city of Shreveport, that in ad-
dition to the right therein conveyed for
the burial of ex-Confederate soldiers, the
said Camp or representatives thereof are
hereby authorized to utilize the said
grounds, if they should see fit so to do.
for the purpose of buying alongside the
ex-Confederate soldiers who are now Or
may hereafter be inferred therein the
wives and children of said ex-Confeder-
ate soldiers, in order that their irnme-
diate families may not be separated in
death; and the said Camp, or its repre-
sentatives, are hereby authorized to per-
nit such burials and to make the neces-
sary allotment or location within the
grounds originally granted for the bur-
ial of ex-Confederate soldiers and their
wives and children, as the said Camp Or
its representatives may see fit.
This ordinance shall take effect from
and after its signature by the mayor,
md written acceptance thereof by the
of the General Leroy Stat
ford Camp"
Had Mr.. Conger not modified the in
:ent of Mr.. Currie, as expressed by him,
The Camp could not have accepted the
privilege desired as made clear in the
resolution adopted. To have placed the
Camp in the undesirable attitude sug
gested by Mr. Currie would have de-
stroyed the aims and purposes of the
Camp in the projected establishment of
The plot, which is to be designated as
he Confederate Veterans Rest.
1t may be said, incidentally that in
he plot there is buried a Federal SOL
der, whose grave is alongside of the
mound of Confederate soldier who was
with Lee, and, possibly, other Federals
nay be inferred in this plot at the option
II pleasure of the Camp, but the man
,gement of this plot must be left to the
Camp as wisely provided by the council
10 whom the General Leroy Stafford