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United Confederate Veterans

The United Confederate Veterans (UCV, or simply Confederate Veterans) was an American Civil War veterans' organization headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was organized on June 10, 1889, by ex-soldiers and sailors of the Confederate States of America as a merger between the Louisiana Division of the Veteran Confederate States Cavalry Association; N. B. Forrest Camp of Chattanooga, Tennessee; Tennessee Division of the Veteran Confederate States Cavalry Association; Tennessee Division of Association of Confederate Soldiers; Benevolent Association of Confederate Veterans of Shreveport, Louisiana; Confederate Association of Iberville Parish, Louisiana; Eighteenth Louisiana; Adams County (Mississippi) Veterans' Association; Louisiana Division of the Army of Tennessee; and Louisiana Division of the Army of Northern Virginia.[1][2]

Abbreviation

UCV

Sons of Confederate Veterans

June 10, 1889 (1889-06-10)

December 31, 1951 (1951-12-31)

American Civil War veterans' organization

Social, literary, historical and benevolent

New Orleans, Louisiana

The Confederate Veteran

United Daughters of the Confederacy

The U.S. equivalent of the UCV was the Grand Army of the Republic.

Confederate Memorial Day

List of Confederate monuments and memorials

Grand Army of the Republic

Confederate Memorial Hall

Confederate Memorial Hall Museum

Southern Cross of Honor

Lost Cause of the Confederacy

Louisiana in the American Civil War

headquartered in Columbia, Tennessee

Sons of Confederate Veterans

United Daughters of the Confederacy

Cimbala, Paul A. Veterans North and South: The Transition from Soldier to Civilian after the American Civil War (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2015). xviii, 189 pp.

Dorgan, Howard. "Rhetoric of the United Confederate Veterans: A lost cause mythology in the making." in Oratory in the New South (1979): 143–73.

Hattaway, Herman. "The United Confederate Veterans in Louisiana." 16.1 (1975): 5–37. in JSTOR

Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association

Hattaway, Herman (Summer 1971). "Clio's Southern Soldiers: The United Confederate Veterans and History". Louisiana History. XII (3). Louisiana State University: 213–42.

Marten, James Alan. Sing Not War: The Lives of Union & Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America (Univ of North Carolina Press, 2011).

P. P. Zimmerman, member of the United Confederate Veterans in 1905
1914 Confederate Veterans Convention at The World Digital Library

at the New Georgia Encyclopedia

Confederate Veteran Organizations

at the Online Books Page

Minutes of the Annual Meetings and Reunions of the United Confederate Veterans

at the Online Books Page

Organization of Camps in the United Confederate Veterans

Archived August 1, 2013, at the Wayback Machine at Louisiana State University

United Confederate Veterans Association Records

Archived April 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine at James Madison University

United Confederate Veterans Collection

at The Political Graveyard

United Confederate Veterans Politicians

at Historic-Memphis

United Confederate Veterans Reunions held in Memphis

at Encyclopedia of Arkansas

United Confederate Veterans Reunion of 1911

at Encyclopedia of Arkansas

United Confederate Veterans Reunion of 1928

at Encyclopedia of Arkansas

United Confederate Veterans Reunion of 1949

Archived May 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at the Tennessee State Library and Archives

United Confederate Veterans Tennessee Division Records

at the Library of Virginia

United Confederate Veterans Virginia Division Records

at Encyclopedia of Arkansas

United Confederate Veterans (UCV)

at Internet Archive

Works by or about United Confederate Veterans