United Confederate Veterans

Many veterans of the Civil War were active in the  Amite County Chapter of the United Confederate Veterans.  They kept a record of the organization's meetings and charities in a large leather-bound book now located in the Amite County Courthouse in Liberty, Mississippi.  Veterans' societies such as this attracted a wide following in the last years of the Nineteenth Century as the Federal restrictions against Confederate Veterans were lessened after the 1860's and soldiers grew older and welcomed the opportunity to gather and reminisce.  They also banded together to provide some financial assistance to widows and orphans who were left with little recourse in the financial fluxes of the 1870s-1890s.

PHOTOGRAPH from the turn-of-the-century featuring the surviving members of the Amite County Chapter of the United Confederate Veterans.

(p. 50-52) Amite County United Confederate Veterans Minute Book transcription of condolence letter written by the Amite County Chapter of the United Confederate Veterans  in November 1889 to Varina Howell Davis on the death of her husband Jefferson Davis. 

(p. 52-55) Roster of membership in the Amite County Chapter of the United Confederate Veterans listing Name, Rank, Regiment, & Place of Residence.
 
 

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