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 FIDELITY— PATRIOTISM — PROGRESS. Confederate Veteran.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTEREST OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS AND KINDRED TOPICS. Entered al the postoffice, Nashville, Tenn., as second-class matter. Advertising Rates: $1.50 per inch one time, or $15 a year, except last page. One page, one time, special, $35. Discount: Half year, one issue; one year, two issues. This is below the former rate.

Contributors will please be diligent to abbreviate. The space is too important for anything that has not special merit. The date to a subscription is always given to the month before it ends, For instance, if the Veteran be ordered to begin with January, the date on mail list will lie December, and the subscriber is entitled to that number. The "civil war" was too long ago to he called the "late" war, and when correspondents use that term the word "great" [war] will he substituted. Circulation: '93, 79,430; '94, 121,644; '95, 154,992; '96, 161,332. Officially represents: United Confederate Veterans, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Sons of Veterans and other Organizations. The Veteram is approved and endorsed by a larger and more elevated patronage, doubtless, than any other publication in existence. Though men deserve, they may not win success, The brave will honor the crave, vanquished none the less. Price $1.00 Year. y Single copy 10 Cents,

Vol. V

NASHVILLE, TENN., JANUARY, 1897.

No.1 S. A. CUNNINGHAM, Proprietor. Patrons of the Veteran from the beginning will [be gratified to learn that its support starts off with 1897 more zealous and ardent than at any previous period of its history. It was so much a question of propriety to print 15,000 as a beginning for the year that some advertising circulars were printed at 14,000, but the higher figure, which was adopted on going to press, is hardly sufficient, and there is good reason to hope that it will reach 20,000 before the next great reunion. It is remarkable that the Confederate elementthe Southern peoplehave sustained this above anything in the history of Grand Army publications, with their enormous wealth in the aggregate and membership four or five times the Confederate soldier element. A comrade who had been indulged for two years paid up recently and ordered his discontinuednot that he did not appreciate it, but "rigid economy" was "necessary." Will all who are so situated consider how important it is for each one to stand firm? Wont such as feel they can't afford to renew, procure four subscribers, and thus continue? Do let us all stand together, making a true record as long as our lights hold out to burn. Confederate Prisoners in Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Indiana. (See page 33).