Identifier: sponsorsouvenira00unit (find matches)
Title: Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: United Confederate Veterans
Subjects: United Confederate Veterans -- Anniversaries, etc United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Anniversaries, etc.
Publisher: (Columbus, Ohio : Terry Engraving Co., 1895.)
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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made us crown her queen ofour hearts. God bless her. But I shall count it a higher privilege still if I may carry back home theassurance that the veterans of our Southland will unite, hearts and hands, inhonoring themselves by rearing this monument. It has been already delayed too long. Let us now make a united effort thatshall accomplish it in the near future. Many camps and communities proposecollections for this object on the approaching 3d of June, the anniversary of thebirth of Jefferson Davis. This is appropriate and well, and I urge that this plan be generally carriedout. But there ought to be some expression here and now of our purpose to raisethis fund at once. I knew some years ago an old deacon who got his church out of many afinancial strait by the stereotyped speech: Well, brethren, the way to do athing is to do it. I will give ten dollars. How much will you give, BrotherSmith? Let us now call the roll of our camps, and have responses worthy of thecause and of ourselves.
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Jefferson Davis in 1866. 46 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. Dr. Jones then engineered a subscription that ran up to over tenthousand dollars, and it was confidently believed that, had there been time,this sum would have been more than doubled, and that the enthusiasmengendered will result in a very large increase of the fund. GENERAL WISES SPEECH. When nominations for the place of the next meeting were declaredin order, General Peyton F. Wise, of Virginia, ascended the platform anddelivered the following splendid oration: After a weary journey of 1400 miles, I rejoice to be at last upon the soil ofTexas. I rejoice that although I am here for the first time, and at the end of solong an interval from my mother state, I am yet as much at home here as there.I rejoice most of all that I am a veteran among veterans of the best army thatever trod the earth. My wife, who is a veteran, too, in every fiber of her, excepther years, put my badge on and smoothed the wrinkles out of my Lee campuniform and

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