Identifier: minutesucv190910unit (find matches)
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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, but on each side of the stage iuMg a double Americanllag, and from these flags were suspended the streamers ofbunting. The stage was arranged so that the Confederate choirmight occupy an elevation of scats in the rear. Immediatelyin front of the choir came the Memphis Park Band, with Prof.William Saxby directing. Three rows of seats were reserved for the distinguishedguests, distinguished Veterans and the orators of the openingday. First Pays Proceedings 19 Shortly after 10 oclock the 1909 convention of the UnitedConfederate Veterans w;is called to order in the Bijou Theatrein Memphis, Term., hy Maj.-Jen. John I!. McDowell,C *€> in in ii i i 11 < * r of the Tennessee Division, V. C. V. The lug theatre was now,led from pit, to dome. Thehum of myriad human voices, like the sound of many waters,tilled all the space, m< v\iinv now and then into the blare ofImiKM and the palpitant challenge of the drum, or d,ying outto make for resonant oratorv or the sweet songs of Dixie1. It
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U. C. V. MEETING HALL- BIJOU THEATRE. was pierced also, now and then, by the famous rebel yell,as a garment is piereed with the flash of a rapier. The wine of life was poured, rich with mighty emotion, rarewith the imminent sense of its passing for all time. Gray-hairedVeterans, clad in the gray uniform in which they had bornearms on many a hard-fought field, tilled the central portion ofthe house and surged in serried ranks upward along the aislesor over the backs of their opera chairs and shook hands in therenewal of a fellowship which began one bright morning inthe early ?(J0s and, cemented by suffering and the bloodshedof long campaigns, survives until this day. Out, in the wings old cronies irathorod and retold theirtales of other days. They swapped reminiscences and wiped 20 Nineteenth Annual Reunion—Memphis, Venn., June8-10,09. furtive eyes or roared their laughter over funny happenings ofhalf a century ago. In its mingled gayety and gloom, thesituation at the opening of theminutesucv190910unit

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