Minutes of the Ninth Annual Meeting and Reunion of the Untied Confederate Veterans (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1900 Excerpt: ... 4? Of Hfi tlUlTKb CONFEDERATE tion to the Hampton Roads conference in an interesting and instructive form, be published in the proceedings of the association. Your committee has been informed that Hon. J. L. M. Curry is engaged in preparing a history of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, Such a work is needed to correct many misapprehensions and misrep eeent: itions on the subject. Dr. Curry is one of the two surviving members of the Provisional Congress, and no one is better qualified for the task. Your committee congratulates the association that Dr Curry has undertaken this important work, and we express the hope that it may be. speedily completed. Your'committee has heretofore submitted six reports at the annual reunions, held respectively at Birmingham, Ala., in 1894; at Houston, Tex., in 1895; at Richmond, Va., in 1896, at Nashville, Tenn, in 1897; at Atlanta, Ga., in 1898, and at Charleston, S. C., in 1899, all of which have been adopted by this association and accepted by the public as expressing the sentiments of the great body of Confederate soldiers. ( aided by what we believed to be the wish of this association, we have refrained from the discus-ion of special events or special topics, and have directed all our previous reports to the consideration of the general trend of historical literature in the Unite d States so far as it relates to the South or to the Confederate soldier, and we have given especially attention to the books used for teaching history in the schools of the country. In our first report we found it necessary to point out the fact that many publications had, from time to time, nppeared in newspapers and magazines, which were grossly unjust to the Confederate soldier and the South; that even the page of history...