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Welcome by City Opens Confederate Veterans Reunion
Memphis hosts the sixth annual United Confederate Veterans reunion with General Gordon guiding ceremonies. Delegates hear greetings from Governor McMillin and Mayor Williams while General Lee and Bishop Gailor address the crowd. A second report notes low initial attendance and that 35,000 veterans and visitors are in town, with sessions resuming after a midday break.
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Memphis
Convention of the United Confederate Veterans
George W. Gordon
Jefferson Davis
Beauvoir
Miss
J. William Jones
Richmond
Gen. Gordon
McMillin
Tennessee
John B. Gordon
South
Mayor Williams
General Gordon
Citizens of
United States
T. B. Turley
Turley
Veterans of
Gordon
Tim E. Cooper
Mississippi
Daughters of the Confederacy
Confederated Southern Memorial Association
Georgia
The
United Confederate Veterans
van B Gordon
John £. Gordon
Stephen D. Lee
Star of the West
Fort Sumter
Appomattox
Bennett H. Young
Louisville
Colonel Young
Fitz-Hugh Lee
Lee
Young
Thomas F. Gailor
Sons of Vewrans
Joe Wheeler
W. B. Bate
Memphis, Sons of Confed
Unite Erate Veterans
George Patterson
Confederate Hall
Stonewall Jackson
Robert E. Lee
N. B. Forrest
Confederacy
Sons of Veterans
R. Leedy Matthews
James J. Bean
Lynchburg, Tenn