Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-12


 bers of the J. Ed Murray Camp, U. C. V. have received letter recently from w. l.. Cabell, lieutenant-general of the Mississippi Department of the United Confederate Veterans, in which he tells of the coming re- union at Memphis, Tenn, and sends greetings 10 each of them. General Cabell's letter follows:
 Comrades of the Mississippi:
 A happy New Year to you, my old comrades, and all dear to you. The old year. with its pleasures as well as it's sorrows and disappointed hopes, has passed away, never to return. AS time passes. our comrades are grow ing older and more feeble; our ranks are thinning, and during the last year a great many of our noblest and best have crossed to the Great BeyOAh, and have answered to the last roll call Let us thank God that the death roll Is no greater, and that our com- rades enfeebled by old age, who arc incapacitated by wounds, disease and sickness, and unable to make liv- ing, have been properly cared for by the great states of Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, California, Oklahoma and the territories, by furnishing good shelter, good and ample food, good clothing and good medical attention and nursing where the heroes, the un- paid soldiers of immortal principle, can spend the remainder of their lives in comfort and ease.
 I would again call your attention to Nhe growth of our noble Order of United Confederate Veterans. Our adjutant general, Wm F. Mickle, re- ports over 1900 camps. l 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
 
 from wounds, sickness or disease since the war--to enroll. I appeal to you by the memory of the sufferings and Aardships borne by the noble women Sf the South--your mothers, your wives, your sisters and daughters who, with tears streaming down their cheeks. will tell you with pride Of the heroism of their noble sons. hus- bands 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 attend cd to in case of sickness or other mis- fortunes, by your old comrades.
 therefore call on the division and brigade commanders of our states and territories to give the necessary or Hers to increase the number of camps as we'll as the membership of each camp, so that at the reunion to be held in Memphis. Tenn, June s, and l0.. 1909, you will have more camps and more Confederates than have been gathered at any former re- union. 1 would earnestly request ev' cry division and brigade commando, to urge; every camp to meet at least once each month. or oftener if nee essary, and arrange for. sending dele gates and the necessary per capita tc General Wm. E. Mickle by April consisting of Generals Steel and Men dez, and Colonels E. F. Wathen and Milton Park, will do all in their pow CT in connection with Brigadier Gen eral Graber to secure rates on all railroads leading to Memphis for this department.
 Then my old comrades of the Trans Mississippi Department. consisting 0! the great states of Texas, Arkansas Mississippi, California. Oregon, Wash ington, Montana, Idaho, Kansas, Ne braska, North and South Dakota anu Wyoming, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona, who were unable to attend past reunions, can join us ill Oul grand reunion at Memphis. The peO pie of Memphis, noted for their hos pitality and love of the South, will welcome you With open arms, and vii extend to you that hospitality whicl they have already shown to the brav' Confeierates who have visited then in the past Then, old comrades o the Trans-Mississippi Department Sons of the Confederate Veterans am Daughters of the Confederacy, com and bring with you your noble son and beautiful daughters. Let the thre