Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1913-04-11
Headquarters VIRGINIA Division
United Confederate Veterans:
CTRCULAR LETTER.

CIRCULAR LETTER.
Petersburg, Va, March 81, 1913
For the information and prompt
compliance with request therein made,
I enclose herewith copy of letter
received from our State Commissioner
General j. Thompson Brown, of
Richmond, Va, who is earnestly
making every effort for the comfort
and welfare of all Veterans who may
attend the Reunion at Gettysburg on
July IA, 1913. [ therefore most earn
Iestly appeal to the officers of the U.
IC. V. Camps of Virginia to furnish
Division Headquarters, through thar
Brigade Commanders, at the earliest
date practicable, the number Of Vet
Grams within the jurisdiction Of the r
respective commands who will attend
the Gettysburg Reunion.
Our host. the State of Pennsvlvania,
has extended to ali honorably dis
charged Veterans whether members Of
Camps or not, cordial invitation to
be the guests of Pennsylvania on the
1st-4th OF July, 1913.
1 desire juss here to again call your
attention to the Circular Letter of
State Commissioner, General Brown,
of date of January l5 1913, and sent
to all Camps and Confederate organi-
cations in Virginia.
The reading of this Circular Letter
az all Camp meetings, as recon mend
ed by Commissioner Brown, viii keep
all Veterans informed as to the object
OF this Reunion at Gettysburg.
sTITd BOILING,
Commanding Virginia Div. U. G. V
Richmond. Va, 1913.
MAJOR GEN. STITH Boiling,
Commanding Va Div. U. C. v,
Petersburg, Va.
Dear General Boiling: AS Com
missioner for the State of Virginia
Getty burg Celebration, July Ia,
write to request of you the number of
Comrades Of your Division Virginia
Division U. C. V. you wish camping
and commissary arrangements made
for the the coming celebration on the
battlefield OF Gettysburg, July II,
1913. AS soon as your report is re-
|ceived, preparations for quartermas-
ter and commissary accommodations
for the pumter you will report will at
once be ordered. The great import
tance of the earliest practicable re-
cedtion Of the above information is
accentuated by the fact that ample and
abundant preparations will be made
for only the number you report. While
toe prepaT atoms necessitated for tie
sheltering aud feeding this vast army
of Veterans now being made By cur
generous host, the State If Pennsyl-
vania. uiU be ample and abundant for
all Kefsrans officially reported as at.
tencants, nevertheless, these prepara-
tiens are limited. and judging flon,4
official reports of Commissioners CT
other States, the Virginia Division
II. .. V. is requested not to be slow
in forwarding its report as soon as
practica BILE, to be approximately &C,
A similar request has been
made, also, of the Grand Commander
of Virginia, asking for a report of sll
Aeterans in the State of Virginia not
members of the virginia Division
U. C V. 1
Very res aectfully yours
j. THOMPSON BROWN,
Commissioners for State OF Virginia
ATTENTION CoNFEpER ATE VETERANS.
Headquarters Third Brigade, Unit
ed Confedef ate Veterans, Maurertown, |
Va, April 7th, 1918,
All Coniede ale Veterans OF Shenan-
doah county, Va. Who were honor
ably discharged at the close Of the |
war of i861-65, who desire to atterd |
the Gettysburg Reunion of the Blue |
and the Cray, Jaly IA, 1913, if they |
have not done so, must send ia thsiri
names at once TO AGJutsnJ Geo W.
Miley at the County Clerk S Office in
Va, whether they belong
70 any camp or not, so they can be re-
ported to Gen. j. Thompson Brow,
IN Richmond, Va, Commissioner of
who will admit those into
camp only who have sent in their
names, where they will be quartered
n tents and fed free of charge, tic.
Ve.y respectfully,
+. D. Funkhouser.
Brigadier General Commanding. Sd
Brigade U. G. VS.. of Va.
L Hurn, Adjt. Gen. and Chief of
Staff.