The United Confederate Veterans was an organization for former Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War, and was equivalent to the Grand Army of the Republic, which was the organization for the Union Veterans. The UCV was founded in 1889 as a "benevolent, historical, social and literary Association", and was active well into the 1940s, with it's final reunion being held in Norfolk, Virginia in 1951.
The primary functions of the organization were to provide for widows and orphans of former Confederate soldiers, preserve relics and mementos, care for disabled former soldiers, preserve a record of the service of its members, and organize reunions and fraternal gatherings. At its height, membership was approximately 160,000 former Confederate soldiers organized into 1,885 local camps. They held 3 of their annual reunions in Memphis - the first in 1901 and 20,000 veterans attended.
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