urn:taro:ttu.sw.00122 United Confederate (Civil War) Veterans: An Inventory of the Collection, 1909-1919 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Texas Tech University MS 41041 Lubbock, Texas 79409 Phone: (806) 742-3749 Fax: (806) 742-0496 Webpage: http://swco.ttu.edu Contact Person: Reference Archivist
August 2000 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, October 2000. Finding aid written in English. Tue Jul 22 15:22:41 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.sw.00122 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the United Confederate (Civil War) Veterans Collection, 1909-1919 and undated Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, August 2000 Descriptive Summary United Confederate Veterans United Confederate Veterans (Civil War) Collection, 1909-1919 and undated Records for the United Confederate (Civil War) Veterans from 1909-1919. S 1105.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 1 wallet (0.1 linear feet) English. Biographical Sketch

The United Confederate Veterans was organized in 1890 by former confederate veterans. It staged annual reunions in various southern cities, including Dallas and Amarillo and other Texas locations.

 Scope and Contents

The collection includes handwritten minutes, printed programs for the 1910 United Confederate Veterans (UCV) Reunion at Amarillo, Southern Cross of Honor certificates, small scrapbooks, and other memorabilia. Some of the items are in fragile condition.

 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 Places Amarillo (Tex.)--History Canyon (Tex.)--History United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans Subjects Reunions--Texas--Amarillo Veterans--Texas Acquisition

Gift, 1999

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

Abel Ramirez, August 2000

 Preferred Citation

United Confederate (Civil War) Veterans Collection, 1909-1919 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 (Civil War) Veterans Collection, 1863-1967 and undated Collection Inventory Wallet 1 1 Southern Cross of Honor Recipients, 1915 and undated Wallet 1 2 Minutes of the Southern Cross Veterans, 1910-1913 and undated Wallet 1 3 Printed Material: Panhandle Reunion Programs, 1910-1919 Wallet 1 4 Scrapbooks: Member Registers, 1914 and undated Wallet 1 5 Memorabilia: Panhandle UCV Reunion Ribbon and Pin, 1909 and undated