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R         United Confederate Veterans.  Campbell Camp No. 488 (Springfield, Mo.).

60                    Records, 1894-1915.

                                    One volume.

 

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This volume contains records of the Campbell Camp No. 488 of the United Confed­erate Vet­erans at Springfield in Greene County, Missouri.  The volume includes the constitu­tion and by­laws, minutes of meetings, lists of members, and miscellaneous papers.

 

Campbell Camp No. 488 was organized at Springfield on 6 March 1894.  The records of the camp in this volume consist primarily of minutes of meetings, beginning with the organ­iza­tional meeting and continuing through 4 June 1904.  Among the topics addressed in the minutes are the admission of members to the Confederate Home at Higginsville, Missouri, the mainte­nance of the Confederate Cemetery at Springfield and the erection of a suitable monu­ment there, and the ob­ser­vance of Memorial Day.  The local chapters of the Sons of Confed­erate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy often cooperated with the Campbell Camp in these endeav­ors.

 

Tipped-in at the end of the volume are miscellaneous papers dating to May 1915.  They in­clude eulogies for deceased comrades and papers concerning state pensions for Con­federate vet­er­ans.  A list of selected contents has been filmed at the front of the volume.

 

 

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