Descriptive Summary
United Confederate
Veterans
United Confederate
Veterans Collection,
1863-1967 and undated
Papers collected by E.
E. Ellis concerning the United Confederate Veterans.
S 1105.2
Texas Tech University,
Southwest
Collection/Special Collections Library
4 boxes (6.0 linear
feet)
English.
Biographical Sketch
The materials in this collection were once the property of E. E.
Ellis, who collected them for his personal library. The significance of the
Robert E. Lee Camp No. 158, which met in Fort Worth, Texas, was the
accumulation of the stories and other accounts of the veterans who fought for
the Confederate States of America. The United Confederate Veterans gathered for
several years in the late 19th Century and into the early 20th Century to
relive the glory days of the struggle within the United States that tore the
country apart. The soldiers overcame odds and hardships during and after the
war.
Scope and Contents
The collection contains material concerning Confederate Civil War
Veterans and the reunions they had at the Robert E. Lee Camp No. 158 in Fort
Worth, Texas during the late 1890s through the 1920s.
The correspondence materials contain the veterans' written experiences
in the war. The ledgers are rosters of members who attended the reunions. Also
includes publications of the
Century Warbook: Battles and Leaders of the Civil
War and
The Confederate Soldier in the Civil War
series.
Index Terms
The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally
developed.
Subjects (Organizations)
Confederate States of
America. Army
United Confederate
Veterans
United Confederate
Veterans. Robert E. Lee Camp No. 158
Places
United
States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United
States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives
United
States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans
Subjects
Reunions--Texas
Veterans--Texas
Collection accession #(s):
97-0096-A, 1999-0166-B
Gifts, 1997-1999
Access Restrictions
Open for research
Processed by
Abel Ramirez, August 2000
Preferred Citation
United Confederate (Civil War) Veterans Collection, 1863-1967 and
undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech
University, Lubbock, Texas
Additional Sources
Askew, H. G.
Second Texas Brigade, United Confederate
Veterans (The Banner Brigade of the U. C. V. in 1916). Austin, Texas,
1916.
Philpott, William Bledsoe.
The Sponsor Souvenir Album and History of the
United Confederate Veterans' Reunion, 1895.
Patriotic Poems, War Songs, Romantic
Incidents, Biographical and Historical Sketches. Houston: Sponsor
Souvenir Company, 1895.
For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library, see the following collections:
- George Washington Littlefield Papers, 1860-1922
- United Confederate Veterans Collection, 1909-1919
Collection Inventory
Correspondence
1
1
United Confederate Veterans- Descriptive Lists and
Letters of Affirmation (A-M),
1899-1909
1
2
United Confederate Veterans- Descriptive Lists and
Letters of Affirmation (N-Z),
1899-1909
1
3
United Confederate Veterans- Descriptive Lists and
Letters of Affirmation,
1910-1921
1
4
United Confederate Veterans- Memorial Resolutions and
Obituary Notices,
1903-1922
1
5
Miscellaneous- Letters and Thomas A. Mattox Papers,
1863-1956
Financial Material
1
6
Miscellaneous- Bank Statement, Canceled Checks and
Receipts,
1910-1941
1
7
Ledger- UCV Cash Book,
1903-1910
Printed Material
1
8
Robert E. Lee Camp No. 158, UCV- Constitution and
By-laws,
1905
1
9
Minutes of 24th Annual Reunion, General Orders and
Funeral Notices,
1903-1921
1
10
Annual Reports- Texas Confederate Home and Confederate
Woman's Home (Austin, TX),
1895-1924
1
11
Confederate Veteran
Magazine (4 Issues),
1917-1931
1
12
Bulletin of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy (6 Issues),
1938-1939
1
13
Newspaper Clippings and Magazine Articles on Civil War
and United Confederate Veterans Affairs,
1920-1955 and undated
1
14
Newspaper Clippings and Articles on Texas and Western
Frontier History,
1923-1941 and undated
1
15
Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings,
1939-1967 and undated
Scrapbook Material
1
16
UCV Scrapbook with Newspaper Clippings, Train Tickets,
Ads and Cards,
1901-1953 and undated
1
17
Photographs of George W. Coe and Billy the Kid post
card,
1941
OS Box 1
The Century Warbook: Battles and Leaders of
the Civil War ,Vols. 1-18 (18 items),
1894
(Note: Some Volumes are Water Damaged)
OS Box 2
Ledgers - Rosters of Robert E. Lee Camp No. 158 of the UCV
(2 items),
1906-1921
OS Box 3
Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal Company-
The Confederate Soldier in the Civil War
, Series (19 items),
April 29-October 4, 1897
OS Box 3
Black Hills Pioneer, Vol. 1, No. 1
(Reproduction),
June 8, 1876
OS Box 3
Dixieland Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 3,
December 1906
OS Box 3
Copy of Governor Sam Houston's Proclamation
(Reproduction),
February 9, 1861
OS Box 3
Oversized correspondence from UCV Letters of Affirmation
file (2 items)
OS Box 3
Proposal by United Daughters of the Confederacy to make
Jefferson Davis' Birthday a Legal Holiday in the State of Texas,
December 1903
OS Box 3
Home State newsletter (Dallas, TX),
December 6, 1913
OS Box 3
Picture Section of
Chicago Sunday Tribune,
March 24, 1935-
Includes Colored Lithographs of the Civil War Battles of
Chancellorsville and Chickamauga (1863) and a Photograph of the U. S. S.
Arizona (6 years before Pearl Harbor)
Oversized Item
Map of the Vicinity of Richmond, VA, and Part of the
Peninsula (Reproduction),
1864