UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS, ARMY TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT — CHATTANOOGA REUNION BOOKLET, OCTOBER 25-27, 1921

UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS, ARMY TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT — CHATTANOOGA REUNION BOOKLET, OCTOBER 25-27, 1921

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Original wire-stitched booklet in printed wrappers, issued by the Headquarters, Army Trans-Mississippi Department, United Confederate Veterans, Batesville, Arkansas, for the Chattanooga, Tennessee reunion of October 25-27, 1921. Approximately 8 x 5 inches, paginated to at least 58 pages. The front wrapper is printed in blue and red and headed VOLUME THREE, with the reunion dateline, a halftone bust portrait of Jefferson Davis captioned "LAST PICTURE OF," the department heading in ornamental red display lettering, the United Confederate Veterans battle flag device dated 1861-1865, and the names of Virgil Y. Cook, Lieutenant-General Commanding, and Cornelius Y. Ford, Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff. Running heads throughout read TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT on the verso and UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS on the recto.

The booklet opens with a chronological list of former reunions with their dates, host cities, commanders-in-chief and adjutants-general, running from Aberdeen, Mississippi in 1888 through Chattanooga in 1921, followed by the departmental roster. Virgil Y. Cook of Batesville, Arkansas is listed as Lieutenant-General Commanding, his service given as Private, Company H, 7th Kentucky Mounted Infantry; Brigadier-General Cornelius Y. Ford of Odessa, Missouri as Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff, Corporal, Company G, 2nd Missouri Cavalry; with Colonel R. B. Coleman, Company D, 8th Missouri Infantry, of McAlester, Oklahoma, and Colonel George P. Gross, of Major-General Fagan's Escort, Higginsville, Missouri, as Assistant Adjutants-General.

Among the memorial pages is a full-page In Memoriam to Lieutenant Finis E. Dodds, Company H, 7th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Forrest's Cavalry Corps — enrolled August 17, 1861 and mustered in as Second Lieutenant the following month; rendered supernumerary at the consolidation and reorganization of the regiment on February 28, 1865 and, though never fully recovered from a severe wound received at Brice's Cross Roads, Mississippi, June 10, 1864, serving out the war as a private with the Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, Washington Field Artillery. Born in Graves County, Kentucky, January 18, 1832; died February 8, 1872 while steamboating on the Ohio River. Dodds served in the same company as General Cook, and the tribute appears to have been placed at Cook's instance.

A second In Memoriam, at page 17, honors Colonel Ryland Todhunter (Kentucky, February 10, 1840 – Missouri, February 21, 1921) and carries his portrait. The facing page prints an editorial note on the sword of General Lee, disputing the persistent account that Grant declined to accept Lee's sword at Appomattox and observing that the terms of capitulation left officers their side arms, together with devotional verses and an appreciation of General Nathan Bedford Forrest contributed by Dr. John A. Wyeth of New York City, Forrest's biographer and himself a private of Company I, 4th Alabama Cavalry, reprinted from the New York Sun.

Pages 18 and 19 carry the "Sons of the Blue and Gray" verses and the opening of the List of General and Field Officers, Arkansas Troops, Confederate States Army, compiled by Colonel V. Y. Cook of Batesville — a useful reference listing, beginning with the general officers (Beall, Churchill, Cleburne, Dockery, Fagan, Govan, Gantt, Hawthorne, Hindman, McCray, McNair, McRae, Pike, Polk, Reynolds, Roane, Rust and Tappan, with dates of rank) and continuing into the field officers of the Arkansas battalions and regiments.

The latter pages carry the Order of Parade, formation by J. F. Shipp, Quartermaster General, United Confederate Veterans, setting out the marching order of the Trans-Mississippi Department by division — Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Pacific — each with its commander, mounted staff, division sponsor and official ladies in automobiles, and with the maimed veterans of each division carried in auto trucks. Facing this section is a printed letter signed by Warren G. Harding, regretting that engagements prevent his attendance and remarking on the reunification of the sections in the World War.

CONDITION

Wrappers toned with scattered foxing and a few small amber stains to the front cover, a small red mark at the head, light edge wear and a shallow crease at the lower corner. Text block clean and sound; stitching tight. Very good.  [ss][ph:L]

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