United Confederate Veterans
American Civil War veterans' organization for soldiers and sailors of the CSA / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 |
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Successor | Sons of Confederate Veterans |
Formation | June 10, 1889 (1889-06-10) |
Dissolved | December 31, 1951 (1951-12-31) |
Type | American Civil War veterans' organization |
Purpose | Social, literary, historical and benevolent |
Headquarters | New Orleans, Louisiana |
Publication | The Confederate Veteran |
Affiliations | United Daughters of the Confederacy |
The U.S. equivalent of the UCV was the Grand Army of the Republic.