Re-Union of Confederate Veterans [1895]
"All the Confederate Veterans who enlisted in the various companies in Caswell County, all resident Veterans irrespective of command, are requested to go into camp with one day's rations at Harrison's church on Monday and Tuesday, July 29th and 30th, 1895. We go into camp Monday at noon and break camp Tuesday afternoon. Everybody, ladies especially, invited to come and bring rations and have a 'good old time.'"
H. S. Thaxton, Com. of Confederate Veteran Asso., of Caswell County
Geo. M. Burton, Secretary
The Reidsville Review (Reidsville, North Carolina), Friday, July 26, 1895.
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H. S. Thaxton most likely is Henry Speck Thaxton (1834-1919).
Geo. M. Burton most likely is George Moses Burton (1845-1909).
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Purley United Methodist Church, a little more than a mile south of the old Harrison's Meeting House, is a direct outgrowth of the meeting house.
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