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Clinch Valley News
Tazewell, Jeffersonville, Tazewell County, Virginia
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In Lake Mills, Wis., on Jan. 1, G.A.R. commanders G. H. Poundes and E. B. Neinstreet urged Wisconsin members to petition against Rep. Bulwinkle's bills providing Marine Band and bedding for the 1929 Confederate Veterans' reunion in Charlotte, N.C., calling it undeserved honor for rebels.
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Lake Mills, Wis., Jan. 1.—In a letter to members of the G. A. R., department of Wisconsin, G. H. Poundes, commander, and E. B. Neinstreet, assistant adjutant general, vigorously attacked the introduction of two congressional bills by Representative Bulwinkle of North Carolina and asked for a petition of protest from all members. The bills asked that the marine band be in attendance at the Confederate Veterans' reunion at Charlotte, N. C., June 4 to 7, 1929, and that the secretary of war provide bedding for use during the encampment.
"It is the duty of every Union veteran and every loyal citizen to protest against the bills just introduced and all further honoring of those who have been honored only because they were rebels and traitors," the letter read.
"The undersigned Union veterans of the Civil War and other loyal Americans respectfully petition congress to defeat the bills * * * drawn to honor rebels and traitors by sending the marine band to their meeting and to provide them with camp equipment, as undeserved honors which they misconstrue as approval of their slave-holders' rebellion."
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Lake Mills, Wis.
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Jan. 1.
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G. A. R. commanders sent a letter attacking two congressional bills introduced by Representative Bulwinkle of North Carolina, which proposed Marine Band attendance and bedding provision for the Confederate Veterans' reunion in Charlotte, N. C., June 4 to 7, 1929, and called for petitions of protest from Union veterans and loyal citizens.