Schley County GaArchives News.....Schley CSA Vetran's Reunion & UCV organization August 1, 1895 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Harris Hill http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002514 July 9, 2005, 10:51 am The Schley County News Thursday, August 1st 1895 No. 30 August 1, 1895 MEETING OF THE VETERANS Ellaville, Ga. July 27, 1895. Pursuant to a call meeting, the Confederate veterans of Schley met at the court house for the purpose of organizing a camp and appointing a day in the near future for a reunion. The following answered to roll call: Schley Guards (Co. G, 5th Ga. Inf.) Capt. R. Burton, A. Allen, Wm Allen, T.P. Barnes-color bearer, Chas. Womack, J.F. Woods, T.H. Devane, M.W. Wimbish, R.T. Bivins, T.J. Meyers. Schley Volunteers (Co. B, 17th Ga. Inf) Newton Glover, F.M. Devane and J.N. Cheney. Schley Rifles (Co. B, 46th Ga. Inf.) P.F. Dixon, J.T. Stewart, M.B. Dunn, W.H. Heath and T.J. Murphy. Comrades from this county from other companies: E.H. Cordell, 31st Ga.; J.J. Wall, Cutt's Art'y; T.J. Dozier, 1st Ga.; Bradbury Pool (shud be Teal), 12th Ga.; T.G. Cheney, Ga. Cadets; W.D. Murray, commissary service; P.C. Livingston, Furlow Bat.; G.M. Green, 29th Ga.; A.M. Caskey, 29th Ga.; E.S. Baldwin, 29th Ga.; John Morrison, 3rd Ark.; W.H. Crocker, 2nd Ga.; C.L. Battle, Indian War; A.J. McElmurray, 22nd Ga.; C.H. Lester & Peter Stewart, 27th Ga.; Robert Flurry, 27th Ga., S.J. McCrory, 29th Ga. Batt.; A.T. Mulder, 3rd Ga. (Transcriber's Note: The several references to the 29th Ga. here are actually the 29th Bttn. Ga. Cavalry which was formed in the winter of 1863-4. Many Schley Co. men were in Co. D. It was known as Hood's Cavalry or Schley Cavalry.) Honorary Members: Z.T. Mott, J.M. Collum, H.G.Tison, W.W. Lumpkin, D.J. Howard, S.T. Harper, J.H. Kleckley, W.L. Reed, J.H. Stevens, J.E. Pilcher, T.V. Bridges, G.D. Hays, J.F. Hudson, V.H. Tondee, J.V. Pilcher. The meeting was organized by electing Capt. Robt. Burton, chairman, and Maj. E.S. Baldwin, secretary. It was moved and carried that a committee of five be appointed to draw up By- Laws and resolutions to be submitted on Saturday August 3rd at 3 o'clock p.m. J.N. Cheney, R.T. Bivins, J.T. Stewart, Newton Glover and A.M. Caskey. A cordial invitation was passed inviting every white citizen of the county to meet with us on Saturday August 3rd at 3 o'clock p.m. Moved that the proceedings be published in the Schley Co. News. The meeting was adjourned. Robert Burton, Chairman. E.S. Baldwin, Secretary. Additional Comments: In addition to the planning of the August 1895 Confederate Veterans reunion in Ellaville. This meeting was also the beginning of the Wm. T. Black Camp of the United Confederate Veterans Association. The UCV was etsblished in 1889. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/schley/newspapers/schleycs2255nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb