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OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE TENTH ANNUAL REUNION AND CONVENTION OF MISSOURI DIVISION UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS
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CONTENTS.
Pages.
United Confederate Veterans-
Constitution and by-laws 3-13
General organization. 13
State organization 13-17
18-23 Orders and circulars-Series 1905-06 Jasper County Camp No. 522- Roster 24-26
Official proceedings of the Re- union. 27-48
Veterans registered at the Ro- union 48-53
APPENDIX.
United Sons of Confederate Vet- erans-
Constitution 56-59
Organization 59-60
United Daughters of the Confed- eracy- Constitution. 61-63
Organization 63-67
First chartered Chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy of Missouri 67
Confederate memorial work. 67-72
Confederate Soldiers' Home of Missouri 72-77
Confederate Reunions 77-78
Confederate Cemetery at Spring- field. 78-79
Southern Cross of Honor-Rules for bestowal 79-80
President and Cabinet of the Con- federate States.
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Confederate Senators from Mis- souri
Members of Confederate Congress from Missouri.
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Engagements between the Con-
federate and Federal forces in Missouri . . 81-82
Losses in 13 battles. 82
Generals of the Confederate States Army-In order of rank 83-91
General Lee's farewell address to his army 95-96
Political relations between Mis-
souri and the confederate States 96-101 Confederate prisoners paroled and surrendered at close of war 101-102 Mortality in military pri. ons ..... 102-103 Troops furnished by different states to the Federal army ... 103 .. Strength of the Confederate army 103-104 Relative strength of the armies in 7 engagements. 104
Secession of the Southern States -Date. 104
First and last Confederate gun ... 101-105
Last battle of the war 105
General Price's official report of
the battle of Springfield ... 105-114
Missouri organizations in the ser-
vice of the Confederate States .. 114-117 General Order No. 1, issued by
Major-General John B. Stone, Commander-Elect-Miss uri Di-
vision U. (. V. 118
ADDENDA.
Joplin-The Reunion City of 1906. 119-121
Carthage. 121-121
Webb City 124
Carterville 124-125
Jasper county 125
PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
Gen. Sterling Price .. ->
Gen. John S. Marmaduke 12
W. S. Medlintic. 14
D. 11. Shields 11
Goo. P. Gross 16
Henry M. Withers 16
C. (. Catron. 25
J. W. Halliburton. 25
W. E. Hall 25
las. B. Gantt. 27
H. Clyde Compton 28
Z. Il. Lowdermilk 29
Willard L. Butts 31
Miss Blanche Kilgore 32
Miss Anzelett Lowdermilk 32
Miss Helen Che nut
Miss Jewell Weidemeyer 31
Gen. A. P. Stewart 36
H. A. Newman
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Lawrence M. Griffith
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T. W. Cunningham 14 45
S. A. Cunningham
Jno. B. Stone
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T. J. Cousins
J. D. Ingrani 17
J. W. Allen
(lub Theater Bldg .- Joplin
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Confederate Home. 73
Jas. Bannerman
J. L. Pace. 75
Monument at Confederate Home at Higginsville
Geo. M. Jones,
Confederate monument Springfield 79
Gov. O. F. Jackson 97
Miner's Bank Bldg .- Joplin 119
Court House-Carthage 120
Keystone Hotel -- Joplin. 121
Carnegie Library-Carthage 122
High School Bldg .- Carthage 123
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CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS
OF THE
UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
ARTICLE I .- TITLE.
This Federation of Confederate Veterans' Association shall be known as the "United Confederate Veterans."
ARTICLE 11 .- OBJECTS.
The objects and purposes of this organization shall be strictly "Social, Literary, Historical and Benevolent." It will strive:
I. To unite in one general Federation all associations of Confederate Veterans, soldiers and sailors, now in existence or hereafter to be formed. 2. To cultivate the ties of friendship that should exist among those who have shared common dangers, sufferings and privations.
3. To encourage the writing, by participators therein, of accounts, nar- ratives, memoirs, histories of battles, episodes and occurrences of the war between the states.
4. To gather authentic data, statistics, documents, reports, plans, maps and other material for an impartial history of the Confederate side; to col- lect and preserve relics and mementos of the war; to make and perpetuate a record of the services of every member, and as far as possible of those of our comrades who have preceded us into eternity.
5. To see that the disabled are cared for; that a helping hand is ex- tended to the needy, and that the Confederate widows and orphans are pro- tected and assisted.
6. To urge and aid the erection of enduring monuments to our great leaders and heroic soldiers, sailors and people; and to mark with suitable headstones the graves of the Confederate dead wherever found.
7. To instill mto our descendants a proper veneration for the spirit and glory of the fathers, and to bring them into association with our organiza- tion, that they may aid us in accomplishing our objeets and purposes, and finally succeed us and take up our work where we may leave it.
ARTICLE III .- MEMBERSHIP-REQUISITES-LIMITATIONS.
Section 1. Membership in this Federation shall be camps.
Sec. 2. The various associations joining shall be registered in numerical order, according to the date of their formation or incorporation into the United Confederate Veterans as Camp No. - , in the State or Territory of
Sec. 3. All camps now in the Federation shall retain their numbers originally given them.
Sec. 4. They will be permitted to retain their local and State organiza-
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tions, and beyond the requirements of this Constitution and By-Laws, they shall have full enjoyment of the right to govern themselves, and their con- nection with this Federation shall in nowise be construed as affecting their loyality to their State organizations outside of this Federation.
Sec. 5. Every camp shall be required to exact of each applicant for membership in its ranks satisfactory proof of honorable service in the army or navy of the Confederate States, and honorable discharge or release there- from.
Sec. 6. The present membership in camps already in the organization shall not be disturbed, and no new applications from such members will be required.
ARTICLE IV .- ORGANIZATION.
Section I. The camps shall be organized by departments, divisions and brigades.
Sec. 2. The Federation shall have as its executive head a General. There shall be three departments, to be called: Army of Northern Virginia Department, Army of Tennessee Department, Trans-Mississippi Department.
Sec. 3. The Army of Northern Virginia Department shall include and be formed of the States of Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, Kentucky, and all the camps and divisions not enumerated as belonging to the Army of Tennessee or Trans-Mississippi Departments.
Sec. 4. The Army of Tennessee Department shall include and be formed of the States of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida.
Sec. 5. The Trans-Mississippi Department shall include and be formed of the States and Territories west of the Mississippi, excepting Louisiana.
Sec. 6. Each and every State and Territory having within its bound- aries ten (10) or more camps, regularly organized and accepted, shall con- stitute a division, and no State or Territory shall have more than one di- vision within its boundaries.
Sec. 7. Camps in States or Territories where there are less than ten (10) camps, shall report directly to the department commander, upon whose recommendation such camps in contiguous States or Territories may be formed into a division by the Commander-in-Chief, until such States or Ter- ritories attain the required number of camps to entitle them to become separate divisions.
Sec. 8. Divisions, upon recommendation of department commanders, may be subdivided into brigades by the Commander-in-Chief, provided each brigade shall have at least five (5) camps, and that a majority of the camps of the division shall demand the subdivision.
ARTICLE V .- REPRESENTATION.
Section I. Delegates, Limitations, Proxies .- The representation of the various camps at the annual meetings, general department, division and brig- ade shall be by delegates, as follows: One delegate for every twenty active members in good standing in the camp, and one additional one for a fraction of ten (10) members, provided, every camp in good standing shall be entitled to at least two delegates; provided, State divisions may fix its internal repre- sentation.
Sec. 2. Provided, also, that camps may be formed with fewer than twenty members, but not less than ten ( 10) members, in remote or sparsely settled localities, or in places outside of the former Confederate States ter- ritory, and admitted in the Federation by order of the Commander-in-Chief. upon proper application and recommendation of subordinate officers, and after compliance with all other requisites of membership, and after such other investigation into the circumstances of this reduced membership as
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the General may see fit to institute through the Inspector General; but no more camps will be allowed in the same locality until the one thus admitted has attained the full number of twenty members.
Sec. 3. In enumerating active members of camps for representation, none shall be counted who are already thus enumerated in another camp of this Federation
Sec. 4. The General, Lieutenant Generals, Major Generals, Brigadier Generals and their Adjutant General shall be ex-officio members of the all- nual meetings and conventions.
Sec. 5. Camps will not be allowed representation unless their per capita shall have been paid the Adjutant General on or before the first day of April next preceding the annual meeting.
ARTICLE VI .- OFFICERS.
Section I. Election-Term of Office-Succession .- The officers of the Federation shall be: One General Commander-in-Chief, its executive head ; three Lieutenant Generals, who shall command and be executive heads of the departments in which they reside.
Sec. 2. The Generals and Lieutenant-Generals shall be elected by the delegates at the annual meeting or re-union of the United Confederate Veterans.
Sec. 3. There shall be as many Major Generals as there may be di- visions, but there shall be but one in each State or Territory.
Sec. 4. There shall be as many Brigadier Generals as there are brigades.
Sec. 5. The Major Generals and Brigadier Generals shall be elected by the delegates from the camps within their respective commands at a con- vention held at such time and place under the supervision of such officer as the department commander within which the State or Territory is located may direct; provided, however, that when a division or brigade has once organized, its elections shall be held in such manner, at such time and place as has been determined at its last annual convention by its delegates.
Sec. 6. General, department, division and brigade officers shall be elected by ballot and shall be installed in office at the time of their election, or at the option of the meeting or convention.
Sec. 7. All officers shall be elected or appointed for one year or until their successors are installed.
Sec. 8. Vacancies occurring among officers shall be filled until the next annual meeting by appointment of General Commanding, on recommenda- tion of the department.
Sec. 9. Staff Officers .- Staff officers shall be appointed by the different Generals, to serve during such General's term of office or pleasure. No staff officer shall be at the same time a staff officer and officer of a brigade or division, or hold two staff offices.
Sec. 10. The staff of the Commander-in-Chief shall be as follows: One Adjutant General, chief of staff, with rank of Major General; one Inspec- tor General, with rank of Brigadier General; one Quartermaster General, with rank of Brigadier General; one Commissary General, with rank of Brigadier General; one Judge Advocate General, with rank of Brigadier General; one Surgeon General, with rank of Brigadier General; one Chap- lain General, and such assistants and aids, with the rank of Colonel, as in his judgment may be necessary.
Sec. II. Department Staff .- Department commanders shall be allowed the same regular staff as the General, and such assistants and aids as they may deem necessary, but one grade lower in rank.
Sec. 12. Division Staff .- Division commanders shall be allowed the same regular staff as the department commander, but one grade lower in rank, and such aids, with the rank of Major. as may be found necessary.
Sec. 13. Brigadier Staff .- Brigade commanders shall be allowed the same regular staff as the division commander, with the rank of Major, and
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such aids as may be found necessary to facilitate the organization of camps in his district, with the rank of captain.
Sec. 14. Camp Officers .- Camps may, at their option, adopt the follow- ing nomenclature for their officers, viz .: Commander, First, Second, Third (or more) Lieutenant Commanders; Adjutant, Quartermaster, Surgeon, Chaplain, Officer of the Day, Treasurer, Sergeant Major, Vidette, a Color Sergeant and two Color Guards, and define their duties. The Commander, in official intercourse with headquarters, shall be addressed as captain.
Sec. 15. No one can be elected or appointed an officer of this Federa- tion, or of its subordinate departments, divisions and brigades or their staffs, unless he be a member of one of its camps.
ARTICLE VII .- SEAL AND BADGES-MEMORIAL DAY-HEADQUARTERS.
Section 1. This Federation shall have power and authority to make, have and use a common seal and badge, with such device and inscription as it may adopt, and the same to alter, break and amend at pleasure; but, until otherwise provided for, the seal of this Federation shall be a device similar to that in use by this association, which device is a medal of- inch in diameter, reproducing the great seal of the Confederate States of America, bearing "United Confederate Veterans, 1861, 1865, 1889," inscribed between the wreath and margin.
Sec. 2. The seal of this Federation shall be in the keeping of the Ad- jutant-General Chief of Staff.
Section 1. Badge .- The badge of this Federation shall be a device simi- lar to the one now in use by the camps of this association, which device is the representation in enamel of the Confederate battle flag, on a plain metal surface of - --- of an inch square. and can be mounted as a pin or button, to be worn on the left lapel of the coat.
Sec. 2. Recognized associations of Sons or Daughters of Veterans af- filating with this Federation shall be allowed to wear the same badge as the United Confederate Veterans, with the letters S. C. V. or D. C. V., as the case may be, inserted in the upper triangles of the cross, from left to right, and with the number of their organization in the lower triangle.
Memorial Day .- This Federation shall religiously observe the celebra- tion of Memorial Day. Each camp, brigade and division shall have full au- thority to designate its own.
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS.
Section I. The general headquarters of this Federation is permanently fixed in New Orleans.
Sec. 2. Memorial Hall of the Louisiana Historical Association, in that city, shall be the depository of all records, papers and relics of this Federa- tion.
ARTICLE VIII .- SPECIAL POWERS.
Section 1. This Federation shall have power to make and adopt such articles of organization, rules, regulations and by-laws as its members may deem proper, and to alter, amend and repeal the same, as they may see fit ; provided, that such articles, rules, regulations, or by-laws shall not be repug- nant to this Constitution, or to the laws of the United States.
Sec. 2. It shall have power to issue commissions to all its officers, gen- eral department, division, brigade, camp and staff; certificates of member- ship to camps joining this organization and to the individual members thereof ; to fix and charge fees for such commissions and certificates and for other documents; to levy an annual per capita tax upon its members, to regulate the collection of such income for the general treasury, its custody and disbursement.
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Sec. 3. It shall have the power to give recognition and affiliation, and regulate and revoke same, to organizations of sons, of mothers, wives, and daughters of the Confederate Veterans, to constitute them auxilaries, and to select from them its successors and heirs, they to have representation in all conventions and meetings of the association, the ratio of their representa- tion to be fixed by the conventions of the Federation. It shall further pos- sess all powers and privileges granted by law to associations of this char- acter.
ARTICLE IX .- PROHIBITIONS.
Section I. No discussion of political or religious subjects, nor any political action, or endorsing of aspirants for political office, shall be per- mitted within the Federation of United Confederate Veterans.
Sec. 2. No debts shall be contracted by this Federation.
Sec. 3. No assessment shall be levied upon its members other than the fees and per capita, which shall never exceed an adequate amount, to meet the indispensable expenses of its management.
Sec. 4. The use of the seal, badges or name of this Federation, for business or advertising purposes, and the giving of its badges to persons un- authorized to wear it, are emphatically prohibited.
ARTICLE X .- PENALTIES-SUSPENSION.
Section I. No camp shall be permitted representation in any meeting of this Federation until said camp shall have paid the annual per capita tax and all other amounts due the Federation by said camp.
Sec. 2. Suspension of a camp shall not affect the membership in the United Confederate Veterans of comrades of such camps, nor impair their tenure of office or eligibility as officers therein during such suspension. Pro- longed suspension of a camp may be declared at an annual meeting an act detrimental to the objects and purposes of the Federation, and shall lead to forfeiture of membership.
Sec. 3. Reinstatement from suspension will take effect immediately upon receipt by the Adjutant General of evidence of the removal by the suspended camp of its cause of suspension.
FORFEITURE OF MEMBERSHIP.
Section 1. Forfeiture of membership shall be declared against any camp allowing political or religious discussions or taking any such action.
Sec. 2. Forfeiture of membership may also be declared against any camp committing any act repugnant to this Constitution or detrimental to the objects and purposes of this Federation.
Sec. 3. Forfeiture of membership shall be declared by a two-thirds vote at an annual meeting, after proper investigation of the charges, and only when they have been substantiated.
ARTICLE XI .- AMENDMENTS.
Section I. By a two-thirds vote of the delegates present at an annual meeting of this Federation, alterations and amendments can be made to this Constitution; provided, that notice and a copy of proposed change shall have been sent to each camp at least three months in advance of the an- nual meeting.
ARTICLE XII .- DISSOLUTION.
Section 1. This Federation is intended to exist until the individual members of its camps are too few and feeble to longer keep it up, and it
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shall not be dissolved unless upon a vote, or agreement in writing, of four- fifths of the camps in good standing. In case of its dissolution, any prop- erty it may then possess shall be left to our successors, the "Sons of Con- federate Veterans," and its records shall be deposited in perpetuum with the Louisiana Historical Association in Memorial Hall, New Orleans, Louisiana.
BY-LAWS.
ARTICLE I .- MEMBERSHIP.
Section 1. Application for membership shall be made through the head- quarters of the State or Territory where the camp is organized, by blanks furnished by the general headquarters.
Sec. 2. When the Constitution and By-Laws and roll of members of the applying organization has been examined and recommended by division and department headquarters, and when the application is accompanied by the prescribed fees, the camp shall be admitted, if no defect is found in the record, and a certificate of membership will be issued to it by the Adjutant General Chief of Staff.
Sec. 3. A correct roll of active members in good standing in each camp shall be forwarded annually, before the first day of April next preceding the general annual meeting, direct to general headquarters, upon which cer- tified roll will be based the camp's per capita, which shall accompany it, and computed the camp's representation at the annual and other meetings.
Sec. 4. Membership in more than one camp is not forbidden, but no comrade shall be borne on the rolls of more than one camp for the purpose of enumeration and representation.
ARTICLE II .- MEETINGS.
Section I. There shall be held annually a general meeting or reunion of the Federation. Each division shall likewise have an annual meeting or reunion.
Sec. 2. The delegates at these annual meetings shall select the time and place for the next annual meeting.
Sec. 3. The Commander-in-Chief, at a request of the majority of the camps, shall convene the Federation in special meeting. Special meetings of divisions may likewise be called by the Major Generals, at the request of a majority of the camps of their division, or in any emergency which they may deem sufficient.
Sec. 4. At all meetings delegates shall address each other as comrades.
Sec. 5. The annual general meeting shall be called to order by the Major General commanding the State or Territory or subdivision in which the meeting is held. He shall first introduce to the assembly the Chaplain General, or, in his absence, the ranking chaplain, who will deliver a prayer. Any representative of the local or State government, or other person depu- tized to welcome the delegates, shall then be introduced by the Major Gen- cral, after which he shall turn over the meeting to the General Commander- in-Chief, who will reply to the addresses, deliver his annual address and announce the meeting ready for business. The Adjutant General shall call the roll of general officers of the Federation, and of the delegates from its camps by States and Territories, giving the number of delegates each is en- titled to by his records. And such accredited delegates, answering in per- son to the roll call of their respective camps, shall be duly recognized dele-
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gates to the body, and the meeting will proceed to business on the basis fixed by the Adjutant General's roll of accredited delegates.
Sec. 6. Every comrade in good standing will be privileged to attend the meetings of any organization belonging to the United Confederate Vet- erans and receive that fraternal consideration they design to foster.
VOTING.
Sec. 7. In all questions submitted to the meeting, the chair will first put the question for the ayes and nays viva voce; if the roll of camps shall be called for, then the camps shall be called in order, the number of votes each is entitled to stated, and the vote for and against the motion announced by the chairman of each delegation, and if possible the vote shall be cast by States or divisions.
Sec. 8. Balloting shall be by camps, the chairmen of the delegations de- positing the written ballots for the camp. In balloting for officers a ma- jority of all votes cast shall be necessary to a choice. If there is no elec- tion on the first ballot, the name of the comrade receiving the lowest num- ber of votes shall be dropped, and so on in successive ballots until an elec- tion is made.
Sec. 9. When there is but one candidate for an office, upon motion, and by unanimous consent, a formal ballot can be dispensed with, and the candidate elected by acclamation.
Sec. 10. The ayes and nays may be required and entered upon record. at the call of any three delegates from different departments.
ARTICLE III .- DUTIES OF OFFICERS.
Section 1. The General shall be head of this Federation, and shall en- force its Constitution, By-Laws, rules and regulations, and the will of its conventions and meetings, and to this effect he may issue all necessary orders. He shall preside over the general conventions, meetings and reunions of the United Confederate Veterans, and shall decide all questions of law, order or usage, and shall be empowered to act for the good of the Federation as circumstances, in his judgment, may require, in cases not provided for by this Constitution and By-Laws, subject in all such decisions and acts to appeal to the general convention or meeting. Immediately after entering upon this office, he shall appoint his staff and all other general officers and committees not otherwise provided for, and may remove these officers and committees at his pleasure.
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