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Title: Minutes U.C.V
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: United Confederate Veterans. cn Mickle, William English, b. 1846. 2n Harris, Nathaniel Edwin, 1846-1929. The Civil War (OCoLC)4539048 3n United Confederate Veterans. Convention (1889 : New Orleans, La.). Proceedings of the convention for organization, and adoption of the constitution of the United Confederate Veterans (OCoLC)11772606 3n United Confederate Veterans. The flags of the Confederate States of America (DLC) 07028612 (OCoLC)1845883 1n
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Publisher: New Orleans, La., United Confederate Veterans
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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orderto the Veterans of his State, when he told of the large numberof sons of the AA^est Avho are descended from a A^irginia ances-try, to whom the Richmond reunion would be in the nature of ahome-coming. The soil of the State has been enriched with theblood of uncounted thousands of the flower of American man-hood, and to the American patr-iot, be he Northerner or South-erner in his sentiment or his politics, there is ever somethingsacred in the return to Virginia and to its (•ai)ital city. Brol)ably no city in the laud ean give such a reception asRichmond is preparing for the grjiy-coated Veterans fr-om allover the South. The Icunion marks the completion of two greatundeitakings which have absorbed the attention of the patri-otic men and the even more intensely patriotic women, whohave given of tlui work c^f their hands, of tlieir time and )ftheir energy to the eoinpletion of tlic iiioiniiiiciiJ/; to llie meuioryof Il-esid^ut Jellt isoii i)a\is nnd lo (!.iici;il J. Iv I). Shuiil.
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m n 10 RicJimontL la., May 30 and 31, June /, 2 ayid 3, 1907. Both of these monuments liave been completed and fullypaid for, and with the fund raised for the entertainment of thereunion, over $150,000 has been raised for the perjictiiation ofthe memoiy of tlie Confederacy, and the cause for which theSouth i^ave so freely of its means and of the best bhxal of its manhood. * * * * # Ivichmcnd is once moic the capital of the Oonfcd.racy,the JMecca of the faithful sons of the South, and the Stars andBars ^^ave as bravely in the bicHv.e as tlu\v waved here forty-two years a«^o. The same ^alhnit soldiers throng the streets, a tiiHe ,qra\(nand older than they were two-score years ago, but liHed withthe same fire of chivalry and as loyal and devoted to the causefor- which they strnujiled as they were in the days of 65 While this is true, the bitterness is past, and only them.emory and ^lory of great achievc/ment remains. The Knite 1Confederate Veterans are gathering to heai ai^^ain the lah^minutesucv190708unit

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