People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — CONFEDERATE REUNION. [ARTICLE]

CONFEDERATE REUNION.

Encampment of Southern Veterans Opened at Houston, Texas. Houston, Tex., May 22.—Reunions of veterans of the confederacy, many of whom have not seen each other for years, are the order of the day, and many affecting incidents have transpired at the headquarters of the different camps. The business sessions of the Brotherhood of United Confederate Veterans opened this afternoon in the Auditorium, with Gen. John B. Gordon presiding. The report of Adjt.-Gen. George M. Ooman showed that the organization had made great progress during the last year, and that nearly seven hundred camps are now enrolled. Speeches were made urging further organization, until every survivor of the southern army was united for the common purpose of aiding the living, succoring the sick,disabled and needy and caring for the graves and memory of the dead.