MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONIAL-- 1918
Our handouts for the meeting had a facsmile of the 1918 United Confederate Veterans Camp 8 of Chicago, Illinois, ceremony at the Confederate Monument to the 6000 dead of Camp Douglas at Oakwoods Cemetery. They were assisted by the Sons of Confederate Veterans and Daughters of the Confederacy.
I had never thought of there being a UCV camp or SCV camp in Illinois. I'd always thought that Camp Douglas 1507, founded in the 1980s, was the first such camp in Illinois.
The monument had been dedicated by General James Longstreet on May 1895.
Listed Camp 8 UCV officers in 1918 were Commander Edward Rose, Adjutant W.C. Vaughn, and Treasurer Ramsey H. Stewart. The UDC Illinois Division consisted of the Chicago, Stonewall Jackson and Raphael Semmes chapetrs. State President was Miss Ida F. Powell of 1447 E. Marquette Road and Corresponding Secretary was Miss Ada Grantham of 7750 South Shore Drive.
Order of Exercises started with Reveille-Assembly. "Comrades: We gather today to pay tribute of our love and the homage of our tears to thge memory of our heroic dead."
Then, a prayer by the Reverand George D. Wright, Chaplain, an address, and singing of "Nearer, My God, To Thee" and "America."
Then, another address, singing of "Sweet By and By", Lord's Prayer--Benediction and Taps.
I certainly didn't know there was a Confederate presence in Chicago back then. Blockade-R.
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