OUR CHARGE...OUR DUTY!
“To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought. To your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier’s good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which he loved and which you love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish.
Lieutenant General Stephen Dill Lee
Commander-in-Chief
United Confederate Veterans Reunion - New Orleans, Louisiana
25 April 1906