St Landry County Louisiana Archives News.....The Burial Ritual Of United Confederate Veterans November 27, 1909
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St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, November 27, 1909, Image 1 November 27, 1909

THE BURIAL RITUAL OF UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS.

By resolution of the R. E. Lee Camp No. 114, of St. Landry, the Clarion is 
requested to publish the burial ritual of the U. C. V., and it does so with 
pleasure, as follows:

Comrades: We are here today to pay the last tribute of friendship in the 
presence of our honored dead.
RESPONSE - Our honored dead.

We are to commit to the grave the body of a comrade whose life aside from 
its other ties of friendship and sociability, was drawn very close to our 
lives by a bond of love which was formed amidst common perils and hardships 
and welded in the fires of battle.
RESPONSE: The fires of battle.

Not in the pompt and circumstance of war, not with musket shot and roll of 
drum do we bury our comrade. The roar of the cannon and the din of the 
conflict are hushed, and in this time of solemn peace we lay the citizen - 
soldier in his last resting - an honorable grave.
RESPONSE - An honorable grave.

He was a Veteran Confederate Soldier, true and tried. Freely and cheerfully 
he risked his life in defense of his home and his people, bravely and 
grandly he bore himself amidst all the dangers and privations of an unequal 
contest, he answered to the last roll call that summoned him to duty as a 
soldier: and when he yielded to the arbitrament of war, it was not as a 
conquered slave, but as a hero - one of the gallant spirits who have 
immortalized the Southern arms, he fought a good fight and has left a record 
of which we his surviving comrades, are proud, and which is a heritage of 
glory to his family and their descendants for all time to come.
RESPONSE - A glorious heritage.

With equal courage and fortitude and patience our comrade accepted the 
fortune of peace, made arduous by losses and reproaches, and as a citizen of 
a reunited country, true to his innate manhood, he evidenced a loyalty 
which, making no apology for the past, was true in every quality of 
patriotism and which none can question without aspersion.
RESPONSE - He was tried and true.

Rest, soldier, rest. Impartial history will vindicate thy motives and write 
thy deeds illustrious. Comrade and friend, we give thy body to the dust and 
commend thy spirit to God.
RESPONSE - Rest, soldier, rest! 



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