THREE PRINTED BROADSIDE LETTERS ON STATIONERY OF THE UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS, CONCERNING APPOINTMENTS AND A RECOMMENDATION FOR A RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOK ON 'THE ABOLITION CRUSADE'.
New Orleans: 1904, 1912, 1915. Three printed broadside letters, each signed in facsimile by Wm. E. Mickle, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, dated 27 February 1904; 17 June 1912; and 1 Nov. 1915. First letter signed in type by Stephen D. Lee, Lieutenant General Commanding; the others signed in type by Bennett H. Young, General Commanding. Light edge wear, else Very Good.
Fifty-two delegates representing nine Confederate veterans' organizations elected General John B. Gordon of Georgia as their first commander in chief, a position that he held until his death in 1904" ["United Confederate Veterans ." Dictionary of American History. . Encyclopedia website, 15 May. 2026.].
The 1912 Letter, General Orders No. 4, announces "the following resolution, adopted at the Reunion held in Macon, Ga. That we hereby most heartily commend to the favorable consideration of the reading public the book written by Hon. Hillary A. Herbert, titled ‘The Abolition Crusade and Its Consequences.' The book is especially adapted for use in the public and other schools; and the school authorities would do well to make it one of their books of history…”. Item #40978
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