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GENERAL CABELL
WRITES TO "CONFEDS"
Lieutenant General Of the Trans
Mississippi Department Of the
United Confederate Veterans
Issues His Annual Address.
Dallas, Tex, Feb. 1, 1908.

Dallas, Tex, Feb. 1, 1908.
Comrades of the Trans Mississippi De-
partments:
"a Happy New Year to you, my old
comrades, and all dear to you. The
old year, with its pleasures, its joys,
as well as it's SORROWS and dis
appointed hopes, has passed away,
never to return. AS time passes, our
comrades are growing older and more
feeble; our ranks are growing thin
ner, and during the last year many
OF our noblest and best have crossed
to the Great Beyond. and have an
swered to the last roll-call Let us
thank God that the death-roll is no
greater and that our comrades Ell =
feebled by old age, who are incapaci-
tated by wounds, disease and sickness
and unable to make living, have
been properly cared for by the great
State Of Texas, Arkansas, Missouri
and Oklahoma, by furnishing good
shelter, good and ample food, good
clothing and good medical attention
and nursing where the heroes, the up
paid soldiers of immortal principle.
can spend the remainder of their lives
in comfort and ease.
would again call your attention to
the growth of our noble Order of
United Confederate Veterans. Our
adjutant general, VIM. K. Mickle, re-
ports over 1000 Camps. I am proud
to say that more than one-third of
this number are in the Trans-Missis
sippi Department. Continue this good
work. Let me appeal to you by the
memory of the brave men who died
on the battlefield and in prison-from
wounds, sickness or disease since the
war-to enroll. I appeal to you by
the memory of the suffering and hard
ships borne by the noble women of
the South-your mothers, your wifes,
your sisters and aughters-who, with
tears streaming down their cheeks,
will tell you with pride of the hero
ism OF their noble sons, husbands or
brothers, to enroll, to join some Camp
and keep in touch with each other the
few years you have to live, and where
you can be attended to in case of
sickness or other misfortunes, by your
old comrades
/ therefore call on the Division and
Brigade Commanders Of our States
and Territories to give the necessary
orders to increase the number of
Camps as well as the membership Of
each Camp so that at the Reunion
to be held in Birmingham Ala, June
8, 10 and II, 1908, you will have more
Camps and more Confederates than
have been gathered at any former Re-
union. I would earnestly request ev-
cry Division and Brigade Commando,
to urge every Camp to meet at least
once each month or oftener if neces-
sary and arrange for sending delegates
and the necessary per capita to Cen
eral VIM. E. Mickle by April LIST. The
committe on transportation, consisting
of General Oliver Steel and Mendez,
and Co'onels B. F. Wathen and T. B.
Trotman, will do all in their power to
secure rates on all railroads leading
to birmingham for this Department.
Their old comrades Of the
Trans-Mississippi Department, con-
sisting of the great States of Texas.
Arkansas, Missouri, California, Ore
gon. Wash gtor, "crtara. Idaho,
Kansas, Nebraska. North and South
Dakota and Wyoming and Indian