The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 106, July 2002 - April, 2003 Page: 594
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594 Southwestern Historical Quarterly April
Twenty-eighth annual reunion of Hood's Texas Brigade, June 27-28, 19goo, held at Fort
Houston (Palestine, Texas). Photograph courtesy of the Hood's Texas Brigade Collection, Hill
College Harold B. Simpson History Center, Hillsboro, Texas.
Rufus King managed and worked on his mother's plantation. He married
in 1867 to Margaret Matthews, daughter of the local Methodist minister.
Felder acquired his own land just outside Chappell Hill in 1871 and
raised cotton, corn and cattle.
In time, veterans began to assemble at annual reunions. Rufus King was
among those gathered at Livingston, Texas, in 1891, when an official his-
tory of the Texas Brigade was approved. Throughout the 189os, annual
gatherings of the United Confederate Veterans regularly attracted tens of
thousands of veterans and an even larger number of nonveteran partici-
pants. The membership of the United Confederate Veterans peaked in
190o3 with eighty thousand members-nearly a third of all living veterans.
The group could boast 1,565 camps in 75 percent of the counties of the
states of the former Confederacy. There were more UCV groups in Texas
than in any other state.8
The 1895 reunion of the United Confederate Veterans was held in
Houston on May 22-24 in the new Winnie Davis Auditorium, named for
the youngest daughter of Jefferson Davis. Washington Camp No. 239 of
"8 Mrs. A. V. Winkler, The Confederate Capital and Hood's Texas Brigade (Austin: E. Von Boeck-
mann, 1894), ix, 285._ 1 __ __
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