Charge to the John M. Jordan Camp, S. C. V. 

“In the course of time the organization of Confederate Veterans will cease to exist, for the ranks of the ‘old boys who wore the gray’ are fast thinning out, and in thirty years more, nearly all will have crossed the river; and to their sons and grandsons must be committed for preservation, the old records and relics, and this trust we should gladly and willingly accept, as well as cultivate the ties of friendship that ought to exist between all whose ancestors have together shared the privations, dangers, and sufferings of such a conflict as took place in the trying days of war for Southern Independence.”

Samuel L. Adams
Cluster Springs , VA
May 20, 1908