Thursday, June 26, 2014

Fort Sumter - what nobody seems to know:



The original agreement where the national government gained possession of Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie was executed in 1805 and reads in part:

"That, if the United States shall not, within three years from the passing of this act, and notification thereof by the governor of this State to the Executive of the United States, repair the fortifications now existing thereon, or build such other forts or fortifications as may be deemed most expedient by the Executive of the United States on the same, and keep a garrison or garrisons therein, in such case this grant or cession shall be void and of no effect."

The fortifications had not been repaired by April 1861, much less in 3 years. Indeed a full 56 years had passed between the signing of the lease and the events of April, 1861. Fort Sumter had been empty until it was garrisoned December 26, 1860 when Major Robert Anderson moved his troops from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter in response to South Carolina's secession; this FIRST act of the so-called Civil War was done even though there was an existing agreement in place between the federal government and the government of South Carolina leaving Anderson AT MOULTRIE without interference by EITHER side.

With regard to Sumter, the United States had failed to fulfill it's responsibilities in the lease agreement with South Carolina and that fort had legally reverted to South Carolina. Hence, not only did Anderson destroy parts of Fort Moultrie, but he and his troops illegally invaded and occupied territory that had reverted back to South Carolina.

Valerie Protopapas

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

The Citadel.

From: cscitizen@windstream.net

Well, here I go hollering down a well again. For probably the millionth time I will say again, we need a unified front as Southerners & Christians to campaign POLITICALLY against those who attack us. The S.C.V, U.D.C, reenactors, flaggers, etc. are all good at what they do however, it's not enough, never has been, never will be.
 
The latest attack on a Confederate Battleflag in the Citadel is just the most recent one in a long line of many. Politicians use our history & heritage against us to promote themselves, their causes & political careers. Until we counter this by making them pay a political price for such attacks they WILL continue.
 
There is nothing stopping us as individual members of Southern groups from organizing outside our parent groups into a political umbrella of individuals from all these groups to campaign AGAINST those who do not support us. Until politicians are made to pay a price for their Anti – Southern actions those attacks will continue.
 
To keep on doing the things that have not worked in the past & getting the same results is the definition of insanity. We must make our enemies pay dearly for their attacks or keep losing it all piece by piece. I do not know how much more simple this solution can be expressed. The only thing missing on our part is the guts to counter-attack instead of believing we can educate everyone about the Confederacy & "educate" our way out of these attacks.
 
This has not worked & will never as our enemies DO NOT care what the truth is. Like everyone else they understand two things, reason or force, & reason has failed. Politicians only understand two things as well, they either have the votes to stay in office or they don`t. It seems it should be a part of our duties to put those who are against us out of office.
Billy E. Price
Ashville Alabama 

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Charleston Councilman`s Demands....
From: cscitizen@windstream.net

The Charleston S.C. councilman who wants the Confederate flag removed from the chapel at the Citadel is Henry Darby. His email address is: henrydarby@msn.com if you would like to politely give him your opinion on this matter.

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Citadel
To: henrydarby@msn.com

Mr. Darby,
               
With regards to your request to the Citadel to remove the Confederate Battleflag from its chapel in spite of its extensive Confederate history; Rewriting is something fascist do, are you a fascist Mr. Darby? If not why are you making unreasonable demands like this one?
 
Not everyone agrees with your view of how the Civil Rights Movement happened or the communist affiliations of many in it. However, it is what it is, history. So, why all the hell raising & political grandstanding at this late of a date on your part over historical facts? Do you hope to curry more political favor with your supporters for a re-election bid or higher office at the expense of the Citadels rich history?
 
If so, you have put yourself in the same category as any segregationist who used race in order to gain votes in the 1950 - 60`s. The only difference is instead of race you distort history to achieve the same goal.
Billy E. Price
Ashville Alabama 
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From: Henry Darby
To: Billy Price 
I am growing exceedingly tired of hearing the complaints. Are you concerned when a great number of Citadel graduates call me "Nigger" simply because I disagree. Even the tone of your email is one of hatred. I have asked even the NAACP not to get involved because I do not want the bad publicity for The Citadel. I voted for The Citadel to get funds in the past for the Johnson Hagood Stadium. If you so call know your history, why would a black man want to give funds for a person of such a racial ideology? I looked way beyond that. It is people like you who love to cause hate. Try flying a Confederate flag in the House of God where you worship. I was simply assisting constituents who wanted the matter addressed. I kept the matter at bay for over six months because I did not want it get out. I am so sorry you are so provincial in your thinking. Below, is what I stated to the news media and get your facts together before you approach me again. Alabama? No wonder...

Gentlemen, the law is the law and one has to abide by current law. I stood up for my constituents in spite of the controversy, challenges, and criticisms. I did my best. If there are those who want to make changes within the law, they need to take it to the state level; but as I stand presently, it is time for County Council to move on. In addition, I thank those members of council who stood with me during this controversial time...

Darby
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From: Billy Price
To: Henry Darby

And many in Charleston are sorry you are a councilman which, means they get no representation from you, how American. Furthermore, I have been called names all my life from some blacks but, being called names is not against the law. You are in the wrong profession to be so thin skinned. Regardless of what may have happened, real or perceived to blacks in the past getting even for it today on your part amounts to nothing but revenge which will only continue to breed more hate among the races. Now let me tell you what makes me sick, blacks like you   who claim they want to progress & move forward but, are forever stuck in the mindset that its still 1963. Two wrongs will never make a right but, you keep on trying to make it so.
Billy
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A Northern voice
Sir:
You say that have received "hateful" communications with regard to your demand for the removal of historic flags from The Citadel.
Of course, no decent, objective person would send any message that could be rationally considered "hateful," but I have also found after many years of debating the issues surrounding the effort of the Southern States to leave a union that had become hostile to their citizens that "hateful" is often another way of identifying cogent, intelligent opinions that differ from one's own point of view. And usually, the more cogent and intelligent, the more eager the recipient is to play the well-known "race card." If I disagree with you, goes the game, I am a racist. Now, I do not know if you hold to that unfortunate point of view, but I wish to declare "up front," as they say, that nothing I write to you can possibly be considered "hateful" unless, of course, you hold the above point of view.
Sadly, you and so many others are victims of a "history" that never existed. Often this historical narrative flies in the face not of Southern accounts, but of Northern ones as well. The flags which you find offensive never flew over any ship transporting slaves from Africa where black captives of interminable tribal wars were sold to Europeans by their own people. "Roots" is a total fiction! Indeed, the flag that flew from the mastheads of slave ships is the same flag (minus a number of stars) that presently flies over the Capitols in both Washington and Columbia!
But more to the point, since debating history is not permitted in these "politically correct" days (lest the truth be revealed!), it is time to recognize the fact that other people have opinions too. As well, "being offended" is not found in the Constitution! Quite the opposite, in fact! The First Amendment protects not profanity or obscenity, but unpopular political speech and thus, under that Amendment you are free to call for the censorship of the flag of the Confederate States of America - a constitutionally formed government on the North American continent - but you have no right to demand that censorship, not as a citizen and certainly not as a "public servant."
If you cannot bring yourself to permit your fellow South Carolinians to have those freedoms which you and those who want what you demand, then I would suggest that you put the matter up for the vote and let the people of South Carolina decide. And once they have spoken in referendum, I would further suggest that, if the matter goes against you, you accept their decision and let the flags fly.
Valerie Protopapas,
Huntington Station, New York

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Rejecting the Time-Honored Spirit of Compromise



From: bernhard1848@gmail.com

North Carolinian John A. Gilmer of Guilford County struggled mightily with the Republicans to find compromise but failed.  The same was done by Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis who said in July 1864: "I tried in all my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, and for 12 years, I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not.  The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize the musket and fight our battle, unless you acknowledge our right to self-government" The refusal of the Republican party to pursue peaceful compromise caused the war, and subsequent loss of the Founders' Constitution.

Bernhard Thuersam, Chairman

North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission

"Unsurpassed Valor, Courage and Devotion to Liberty"

www.ncwbts150.com

"The Official Website of the North Carolina WBTS Sesquicentennial"

Rejecting the Time-Honored Spirit of Compromise

"Gilmer turned to Republicans in the [US House] chamber.

"I would say to my Northern friends . . . that you have it in your power . . . to crush this [talk of disunion] out in one hour."  Simply allow both sections equal rights in the territories and there would be "a speedy end to the ambitious schemes of disunion politicians."  The endless debate was no more than "an excuse for agitation" that accomplished nothing. 

"I incline to the opinion that in the future, as heretofore, soil, climate, and productions would settle the question of slavery in the Territories, if peace and quiet were restored.  After all that has been said and done, Congress has never made a free State out of any Territory that nature intended for a slave State, and has never made a slave State out of territory where free labor could be profitably employed."

Gilmer pleaded with his Republican colleagues to consider any compromise, any concession that might deprive secessionists of their arguments.  Southern fears were real and would continue to be exploited if Republicans kept silent or ignored the problem.

"You say you have elected your President constitutionally," said the North Carolinian. "I admit it.  You express wonder and surprise that the South should be alarmed at this.  Now, let me reason with you . . . Suppose the positions of the two sections of the union were reversed; suppose the [Southern] States were eighteen, and the [Northern] States fifteen; suppose the [Southern] States had a majority in this House . . . [and the Senate and electoral college, and nominate a Southern president and vice-president, and all adopt] a resolution intimating that it is in the power of Congress, as well as the duty of Congress, to provide that no more free States shall be admitted into the Union . . . 

[S]uppose all these things were to happen, and then speeches, assurances, and telegrams, should be freely circulated throughout your country, that the South intended to make all the States slaveholding States: I submit to you, my Northern friends, would you not be very much warmed up against that Southern movement, and begin to feel that you were but small folks in this Government? Would you not feel like looking out for yourselves, at least to the extent of asking for some guarantees?"

Settlement of every sectional dispute was within reach if only the time-honored spirit of compromise could be revived. "Is it possible that the sons of American fathers cannot agree on this trifling matter?"  What would the Founding Fathers do under these circumstances?  Would they let matters go on until blood was shed?  Should compromise fail and conflict come, Gilmer knew it would be his duty to stand by North Carolina.

"I want men gentlemen North and South to mark my words:  when . . . this country should be laid waste; when shipping in our ports shall be destroyed, when our institutions of learning and religion shall wither away or be torn down; when your cities shall be given up for plunder and for slaughter; when your sons and my sons, your neighbors and my neighbors, shall be carried from this bloody field of strife; and our mothers, our sisters, our wives, and our daughters, shall assemble around us, and, with weeping eyes and aching hearts, say: "Could you not have done something, could you not have said something, that would have averted this dreadful calamity?

I want to feel in my conscience and in my soul that I have done my duty." 

(Taking a Stand, Portraits From the Southern Secession Movement, Walter Brian Cisco, 1998, White Mane Books, pp. 97-98)

Monday, June 23, 2014

Jefferson Davis Never Convicted of Treason


Cruel punishment was inflicted upon President Jefferson Davis during his imprisonment: placed in irons, guards pacing in his cell and candlelight twenty-four hours a day, no exercise, and food that was barely edible.  Even the London Times was shocked at the torture and wrote in defense of "a man whom a little success would have transformed from a traitor to a monarch."
Bernhard Thuersam, Chairman
North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission
"Unsurpassed Valor, Courage and Devotion to Liberty"
www.ncwbts150.com
"The Official Website of the North Carolina WBTS Sesquicentennial"
Jefferson Davis Never Convicted of Treason
"Finally, on May 10, 1866, in the circuit court of the United States for the District of Virginia, Jefferson Davis was indicted for treason.  Davis had been held at Fort Monroe on three charges: conspiracy to assassinate the President.  2., starvation and murder of Union prisoners. 3. Treason. 
Two New York members of the bar, George Shea and Charles O'Conner, had previously agreed to represent Davis without pay.  There was a great deal of pressure from prominent persons in the North for the defense of Davis, not the least among them was Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune.  Other lawyers volunteered to help bring about a speedy trial.
There were those in the government who would have been happier if the whole problem had been avoided by an escape of Jefferson Davis to a foreign country in the first place instead of capture.  There were those who also suggested that Davis ask for a pardon to which he would never consent.  Since he felt he had never committed any crime, he would never ask for a pardon.
Still the Federal government procrastinated.  Chief Justice [Salmon P.] Chase tenaciously clung to the idea that there should be no trial for treason.
"If you bring the leaders to trial it will condemn the North, for by the Constitution secession is not rebellion.  Trials for treason in the civil courts are not remedies adopted to the close of a great civil war.  Honor forbids a resort to them after combatants in open war have recognized each other as soldiers and gentlemen engaged in legitimate conflict . . . It would be shockingly indecorous for the ultimate victor to in such conflict to send his vanquished opponent before the civil magistrate to be tried as if he were a mere thief or rioter.
Lincoln wanted Jefferson Davis to escape, and he was right. His capture was a mistake; his trial will be a greater one. We cannot convict him of treason. Secession is settled. Let it stay settled."
When the term of the court at Richmond was opened in May, 1867, George Shea filed for a petition on behalf of Davis for a writ of habeas corpus, and the writ was granted and served on the commanding officer at Fort Monroe . . . In the company of his counsel Davis came into court on May 13, 1867.
Horace Greeley, Cornelius Vanderbilt and other prominent Northern men posted bond in the amount of $100,000, and Davis was set free."
(Jefferson Davis, Herman S. Frey, Frey Enterprises, 1977, pp. 69-72)

Sunday, June 22, 2014

Treason Against the United States in 1861




From: bernhard1848@gmail.com

John Brown was hung by the State of Virginia in October, 1859 after being tried on a charge of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, his intent being the overthrow of Virginia's government and inciting rebellion within the State. His act of treason against Virginia was not an act of treason against the other States, and his trial followed the letter of the United States Constitution.  Read more at: http://www.ncwbts150.com/ActsofTreasonAgainstNorthCarolina.php

Bernhard Thuersam, Chairman

North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission

"Unsurpassed Valor, Courage and Devotion to Liberty"

www.ncwbts150.com

"The Official Website of the North Carolina WBTS Sesquicentennial"

Buchanan Knew the Limits of Presidential Authority

"Mr. [James] Buchanan, the last President of the old school, would as soon have thought of aiding the establishment of a monarchy among us as of accepting the doctrine of coercing the States into submission to the will of a majority, in mass, of the people of the United States.

When discussing the question of withdrawing the troops from the port of Charleston, he yielded a ready assent to the proposition that the cession of a site for a fort, for purposes of public defense, lapses, whenever that fort should be employed by the grantee against the State by which the cession was made . . . [and] the little garrison of Fort Sumter served only as a menace, for it was utterly incapable of holding the fort if attacked . . . [and the attempt to provision it would be] readily construed as a scheme to provoke hostilities."

(Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Vol. I, Jefferson Davis, 1881, pp. 216-217)

"Article 3, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution defines treason as "only" levying war upon the United States, or giving aid and comfort to their enemies. The "United States" is in the plural, signifying free and independent States that are united in a cause. The word "THEIR" is most important because it also signifies that treason is defined only as levying war upon "THEM" – the free and independent States, not something called "the United States government." This of course is precisely what Lincoln did when he levied war upon the Southern States."

Dr. Thomas L. DiLorenzo, Loyola College

"[Dr. Marshall DeRosa writes] . . . that Article III, Section 3, of the Constitution states that "Treason against the United States shall consist of levying war against THEM or adhering to THEIR enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." [DeRosa explains:] "This is why Lincoln's invasion of the Southern States was the very definition of treasonous behavior under the Constitution."

(The Long March Through the Constitution, C. Williamson, Jr., Chronicles, June 2014, pg. 27)

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Help Save North Anna!


Civil War Trust
Save North Anna

“Why Didn't You Throw Them Back?”

On the afternoon of May 23, 1863, Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren's Fifth Corps crossed the North Anna River at Jericho Mill and marched onto the peaceful plains of the Fontaine Farm. Before long, they were set upon by the Confederates of Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill's corps, which was intent on throwing the Federals back across the river before they could establish a bridgehead. Despite their initial success, Hill's men were unable to drive Warren from the south bank of the river, leaving a disappointed Robert E. Lee to ask, "Why did you let those people cross here? Why didn't you throw your whole force on them and driven them back as Jackson would have done?" By sunset the fighting was over and the Yankees began entrenching at Jericho Mill. Lee's North Anna line had been breached.
If we act quickly, the Civil War Trust now has the opportunity to save 665 acres of the Fontaine Farm—the entire battlefield at Jericho Mill—in one fell swoop. In addition to the lush field of the Fontaine Farm, this pristine ground (which historian Douglas Southall Freeman called "one of the most picturesque spots on all the battlegrounds of Virginia") includes the ruins of the historic Jericho Mill, the site of Warren's pontoon bridges, the road dug by Federal engineers, and artillery pits dug by Yankee gunners, all of which can still be seen today. A remarkable $10-$1 match will allow us to save this crucial piece of the Overland Campaign and preserve it for generations to come.
P.S. Any gift of $31.40 or more will receive the special Overland Campaign Animated Map DVD produced by the Civil War Trust, so you can see firsthand how we are working to interest more people—especially younger generations—in battlefield preservation.

Sunday, June 15, 2014

CONFEDERATE truth as you've never read it


After reading entirely the hyperlinked article this message refers to--- You should be convinced that most Confederate descendants need to update their knowledge of Confederate truth, and to begin a concentrated program of SHARING THE REAL CONFEDERATE TRUTH. RATHER THAN MERELY EULOGIZING ANCESTORS.  WE MUST RESPOND TO THOSE ANCESTORS URGING US FROM THE GRAVE TO PROVE TO THE WORLD THAT THEIR SOUTH WAS RIGHT—THAT THEY, THEMSELVES, WERE RIGHT IN DEFENDING THE FAMILIES, THEIR HOMES, THEIR LAND AND THEIR SOUTH. JH

DAVID AIKIN WROTE THE FOLLOWING: 
"The whole of American history and American literature has been dedicated to defending monsters, to sanitizing, to whitewashing, to glorifying criminals. In my lifetime, American higher educated has been slavishly committed to the outrageous premise that the invasion of the South was a good thing, and the people who perpetrated that invasion were virtuous people. Lincoln and his Administration along with Sherman, and all the officers, sergeants and privates who were active in that enormity are heroes, so we teach American students today. And anybody who disagrees with this imperial bias, anybody who questions the fundamental premise, is called names – racist, ignorant, unqualified, out of date, imbalanced, unprogressive, un-American and domestic terrorist"
"Any historical document that disagrees is ignored, or destroyed. That's why Simms's account of invading "monsters of virtuous pretension" was neglected for 140 years, and almost destroyed, resulting not in a fair and historical report, but in unexamined and unconfirmed assertions of northern righteousness and Southern degeneracy, as if Americans are not supposed to know any history, as if knowing the past makes Americans incapable of seeing grand universal principles."
"More importantly, though, eyewitness sources contradict American romantic myths about Lincoln and Mr. Lincoln's War."  (WILLIAM GILMORE SIMS—AMERICA'S ERASED LITERARY GIANT) [SIMS WAS AN AMERICAN LITERARY GIANT UNTIL HE DEFENDED THE SOUTH BY RELATING MUCH OF WHICH WAS SEEN THROUGH HIS OWN EYES DURING THE UNCIVIL WAR.] JH
Please read the fascinating article from which the above was taken —   http://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/review/monsters-of-virtuous-pretension/        was written about Sims by another amazing scholar…researcher we should all respect and honor for his amazing, daring truth telling! 

Saturday, June 14, 2014

What did the Rebel yell sound like?


From: davyandjim@sprintmail.com

To most of us, perhaps, the men who fought the Civil War (sic) may seem like the inhabitants of a sort of cinematic prehistory, quaintly memorialized in Currier & Ives prints, old newspaper engravings and the photographs of Mathew Brady. But here they are, like living ghosts in the flesh, the survivors of Bull Run and Antietam, Shiloh and Chickamauga, who saw Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee with their own eyes, and cheered their comrades into battle with these very voices that we now hear.

Thousands of (these) veterans lived far into the 20th century. In 1913, 54,000 Union and Confederate veterans gathered at Gettysburg for the battle's 50th anniversary, and an astonishing 2,000 were still alive to show up for the battle's 75th anniversary in 1938. (Both events are represented in the library's film and audio collections.) The last verified Union veteran died only in 1956, and the last Confederate in 1951. From the early 1900s through the 1940s, they were filmed, recorded and interviewed at reunions, parades and other patriotic events where, as the century advanced, they came increasingly to seem like ambulatory trophies from some distant age of heroes.

In one newsreel, ancient but still frisky vets dance hoedown-style with a bevy of young women at a Confederate reunion in Biloxi, Mississippi. In another, also dating from the 1930s, old Confederates decked out in gray uniforms step up to a microphone and, one after another – their eyes flaring for a moment with the ferocity of their youth – let loose with the howling yelp that was once known as the fearsome "Rebel yell."  One of them, stooped with the years, shrills, a bit unnervingly even now, "Go for 'em boys! Give 'em hell."

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/civil-war-veterans-come-alive-in-audio-and-video-recordings-97841665/#WgKy0YtkxrMPfszF.99
                 
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/civil-war-veterans-come-alive-in-audio-and-video-recordings-97841665/?no-ist

Side note:  The Smithsonian is not immune from (take your pick) either ignorance or bias, e.g., "No black volunteers served with the Confederacy,…"    Rather surprisingly, the magazine then goes on to announce, " Ironically, however, the most surprising film of African American "veterans," a few minutes of silent footage made at a Confederate reunion in 1930, shows a dozen elderly black men wearing fragments of gray uniforms, flourishing miniature battle flags and wearing lapel buttons representing Robert E. Lee."  Of course, these men are dismissed as having been "(e)nslaved body servants, or perhaps laborers who had been pressed into service by Confederate armies,…presumably served up to newsmen as "proof" that slaves were so loyal and happy in their servitude that they fought to retain it."

From the very beginning of the War for Southern Independence, the Confederate armies had black soldiers (both free and slave).  Furthermore, there is ample evidence that many Confederate armies were fully integrated units.  By contrast,  the Union army would not even allow blacks to serve until 1863 — fully two years into the War, and the U.S. Army remained segregated until 1948 — three years after the end of World War II.  http://www.parispi.net/opinion/columns/article_2b5d2d78-a871-11e3-98bf-001a4bcf887a.html#.Ux3sz0Ixsy4.facebook

Friday, June 13, 2014

SCV National Reunion will be held at the North Charleston Convention Center



   Sons of Confederate Veterans

Compatriots 
Beginning July 16th and running through July 19th, the 119th SCV National Reunion will be held at the North Charleston Convention Center, located in North Charleston, SC. The location is central to many of Charleston's historical locations. The harbor sights, the gardens, maritime center and historic homes are but a few of the options available for visitors to Charleston. First and foremost, we the members of the this grand heritage of honor organization will meet in reunion to conduct business, elect new officers and continue paving the way for the future of the organization.
We are requesting that camps bring their colors to the opening ceremonies for a grand procession into the convention hall. Please bring a single base to post you camp colors.
The reunion committee would like to pass on to you that there are spots available for all meals and tours. The window is closing for registering for events at the convention. The reunion committee will soon be sending numbers the caterers. The Meet and Greet Harbor Tour will have heavy hors d'oeuvres to eat on the trip through the historic Charleston harbor past the sights where the War for Southern Independence began. The preservation luncheon is honored to have Allen Roberson, Director of the SC Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum as the speaker. Mr Roberson will be bringing flags from the SC Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum. These original Confederate flags have been preserved with
the help of the SC Division SCV. Mr. Roberson will be giving presentation on preserving these artifacts of our heritage.  
The Heritage Dinner presents the opportunity to hear Ben Jones. You may remember Mr. Jones as Cooter Davenport in the original and real show the Dukes of Hazard. Mr. Jones is a life member of the SCV and staunch defender of our Confederate Heritage. The Hunley Tour and Fort Tour will provide and insight to the defenses of Charleston. Eighteen debutantes will be presented at the grand ball. There is still time to register for the convention, tours and other events. Every registered member will get a reunion medal, convention program and an opportunity to see your Confederate brethren from around the country.  Registration information can be found on the reunion website given below.
We look forward to seeing you in July
2014 SCV Reunion Committee


Sons of Confederate Veterans | PO Box 59 | Columbia | TN | 38402




Thursday, June 12, 2014

Tonights Hughes Camp Meeting Details

There was a scheduling snafu by Ernies Restaurant/Kross lounge on the meeting room for this Thursday night. We will still eat at the restaurant as usual around the normal 6 PM, but then will move caddy corner across the street to the Moose Lodge for the meeting at 7 pm. Ernie's was apologetic and helped us line up the Moose Lodge.

To get into the Moose Lodge, enter that building on the South side of the building, the meeting room is on the second floor, The only real requirement from the moose lodge is that we buy and drink some beer! The address is 510 1/2 N. Sterling Ave. It's at the same intersection as Ernies, just caddy corner accross the street, to the south west. But basically across the street!

Thanks,
Larry Yeatman
Adjutant-Hughes Camp

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Uniforms for Confederate Chaplains Monument Dedication



Gents,
Please pass along to your camp memberships... if anyone that is attending the Confederate Chaplains Monument Dedication on June 14, at 1:00 p.m. and can come in Confederate Uniform, that would be great.  The more the better!
Darrell Maples




Details on Lone Jack Commemoration

Greetings,

First I want to apologize for the lateness of this email.  This year the Lone Jack Commemoration will be on August 16, 2014, 152 years to the day of the actual battle!  As usual, we will have have a parade starting at 10:00 am, the Boy Scout's Pancake Breakfast, a Memorial Service & in the evening, a Candlelight tour at the Cave Hotel.  This will be similar to the one we held at the 150th and will be vignettes of the battle's aftermath.  The rest of the schedule has not been finalized yet.
 
There will be a small fee of $15, per each 10X10 space, to set up a booth this year.  This will help us defray the costs of the outdoor restrooms, that in the past was covered by a donation from the City.
 
If you would like to come out and set up a booth or table, I've attached the registration form.  Please fill it out and send return it via email.  If you have any questions, please give me a call. 
 
Thank you and again, I apologize for the late notice.

Alinda


 

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

URGENT: June 2014 - Hughes Camp Meeting Details

There was a scheduling snafu by Ernies Restaurant/Kross lounge on the meeting room for this Thursday night. We will still eat at the restaurant as usual around the normal 6 PM, but then will move caddy corner across the street to the Moose Lodge for the meeting at 7 pm. Ernie's was apologetic and helped us line up the Moose Lodge.

To get into the Moose Lodge, enter that building on the South side of the building, the meeting room is on the second floor, The only real requirement from the moose lodge is that we buy and drink some beer! The address is 510 1/2 N. Sterling Ave. It's at the same intersection as Ernies, just caddy corner accross the street, to the south west. But basically across the street!

Thanks,
Larry Yeatman
Adjutant-Hughes Camp

Monday, June 9, 2014

Early Camp Announcement


To all,

It is with pride and duty that I have the privilege to announce a exciting new project which honours our Florida volunteers who defended their land, home and families during the War for Southern Independence 1861-1865.

With assistance from John Stemple who sought our help in moving this project forward we intend to fund and construct the "Traveling Florida Confederate Memorial Wall" in the months to come. Referring to this in the future as TFCMW we are seeking donations from supporters of the Southern Cause as a means to educate the public in a honourable fashion.

The idea was conceived 2 years past but remained dormant till April when John contacted the Early Camp for our assistance. Having noted the excellent care and promotion of Confederate Memorial Park in Tampa we have formed a committee and secured a graphics provider to design and produce this project.

The wall will consist of 10 panels 4 foot wide by 6 foot in height as a means to support 4,265 soldier names who lost their life during the conflict. It will mirror the Viet Nam Memorial in Washington DC with it's appearance but with a Confederate theme.

The cost of the wall which includes a mounting base totals $ 8,500
 total and will be funded with your donations. We have received nearly 3,000 dollars in pledges after just 4 days of contacts. Any camp or chapter who will send us a contribution will be allowed to display the wall in any venue they choose. For example the Finley Camp in Havana Florida has plans to exhibit at the State Capital in Tallahassee. Imagine the exposure which will enhance respect for those men 150 year later.

We are accepting donations commencing this Memorial Day weekend and we urge everyone to have a part with this project.
Any amount will be accepted from SCV Camps, UDC and OCR Chapters plus Veterans Organisations, historical clubs and most importantly individuals throughout the country.

The Early Camp will set up a Pay Pal feature on our web site or you may donate a check / money order to the following address below. Please consider supporting this outstanding concept as we remember the ultimate sacrifice of our Confederate ancestors.

Mailing Address;
TFCMW
PO Box 3885
Winter Haven, Florida  33885

Confederately,
Mike Herring Camp 556.....  813 681 6922
John Stemple Camp 556
Commander David King Camp 556.....  727 224 4484

www.tampascv.org  Early Camp

www.tfcmw.org  Traveling Florida Confederate Moving Wall

e mail;  info@tfcmw.org

Sunday, June 8, 2014

Resisting Furious Abolition Fanaticism



From: bernhard1848@gmail.com

Antebellum Presbyterian Pastor James Henley Thornwell's understanding of Providence envisioned no Utopian solution to slavery -- the only hope was the gospel. He stated that "our design in giving [Africans] the Gospel is not to civilize them, not to change their social conditions; not to exalt them into citizens or freemen; it is to save them." Likewise, Robert E. Lee understood that the gentle hand of Christianity would solve the riddle in time.

Bernhard Thuersam, Chairman

North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission

"Unsurpassed Valor, Courage and Devotion to Liberty"

www.ncwbts150.com

"The Official Website of the North Carolina WBTS Sesquicentennial"

Resisting Furious Abolition Fanaticism

"Northerners calling for an immediate end to Southern slavery seemed to forget the long history of bondage in their own States. For generations African slaves had toiled in each of the thirteen American colonies, purchased from other Africans and brought in chains to the New World in the holds of New England slave ships.

Pennsylvania's experience was instructive.  There, long before independence, the Quaker-dominated assembly recognized slavery and codified a rigorous system of slave control.  William Penn himself owned a dozen black slaves and is said to have preferred them to indentured whites because slave labor was permanent.  In colonial days some Quakers expressed misgivings, but most readily accepted slavery.

During the American Revolution many Pennsylvania slaves ran away, some joining the Tory cause, lured by promises of freedom should Britain win the war.  In 1780 the Pennsylvania legislature passed the gradual Abolition Act, the first such statute in America.  By its provisions all slaves born before March first of that year remained slaves for life, while children born to slaves after that date would be set free after twenty-eight years of servitude.

Alexis de Tocqueville observed that when Northern masters were faced with the imminent prospect of having to let go of their slaves they often sold them to new owners in States where slavery still existed. "Consequently," observed the Frenchman, "the abolition of slavery [in the North] does not make the slave free but just changes his master to a Southerner instead of a Northerner."  Southerners inclined to consider emancipation had fewer practical choices in de Tocqueville's view.  "The North rids itself of slavery and of the slaves in one move. In the South there is no hope of attaining this double result at the same time."

Slavery had other costs more difficult to measure. According to de Tocqueville, writing in the aftermath of Nat Turner's abortive 1831 slave insurrection, the specter of revolt haunted the Southern mind.  Northerners, secure from danger themselves, freely discussed the prospect of a race war drowning the South in blood.  "In the Southern States there is silence," said de Tocqueville, "one does not speak of the future before strangers . . ."

With abolitionists calling for slavery's violent overthrow, Southern reaction to threatened terrorism was predictable. "The abolitionist is as free to hold his opinions as I am to hold mine," said [John] Randolph of Roanoke, "But I will never suffer him to put a torch to my property, that he may slake it in the blood of all that are dear to me." Randolph labeled slavery a "cancer," but one that "must not be tampered with by quacks, who never saw the disease or patient."

When Randolph died his slaves were freed, sent to farms purchased for them in the free State of Ohio under the terms of his will.  There they were met by mob violence and forced to flee. Yet it was incessant abolitionist propaganda that demonized Southerners and pictured their country as fit only for destruction. "If Northern abolition action has goaded and driven us to be also fanatical," claimed Virginians Edmund Ruffin, "our fanaticism has been, and is altogether defensive."

Thornwell categorized abolitionism as but one of the modern "isms," a manifestation of "a general spirit of madness" growing in nineteenth-century America.  "It is a hot, boiling, furious fanaticism, destroying all energy of mind and symmetry of character and leaving its unfortunate victim . . . a spectacle of pity and of dread."

(Taking a Stand, Portraits From the Southern Secession Movement, Walter Brian Cisco, 1998, White Mane Books, pp. 55-57)

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Great grandfather who helped end slavery and save a nation remembered


As we all know, Yankee historians just gloss over the atrocities committed by Sherman and his men. Here are first hand accounts of some crimes committed against the citizens of Georgia.

http://peoplesworld.org/great-grandfather-who-helped-end-slavery-and-save-a-nation-remembered/

Note they were fighting to free the slaves??? Please everyone please post some facts regarding these actions.

Here are my comments----

This would be a good story if all of it was true. For instance the tens of thousands of Negroes to the Union Army. How about those that was conscripted and dragged away from their crying families??? I do like the firsthand accounts of the looting, burning and destruction done to the South by the invaders. This is something that most Yankee historians and scholars deny. See my website http://confederatepows.southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com/page.php?6

As to freeing the slaves, the freeing of the salves wasn't a goal at the beginning of the war. The passing of the Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves belonging to the REBELS. It should be noted West Virginia came into the Union as a slave state.

And then we have this about the great victory parade —-

No Black Veterans in the Army of Emancipation Grand Review:

"More surprising [in the Washington Grand Review of the federal armies] was the exclusion from the parade of the black Union regiments, some of which had fought a good deal longer than the white units on parade. A number of observers commented on their absence, the Inquirer concluding that "by some process it was arranged that none   should be here….They can afford to wait. Their time will yet come."

The few blacks in the review marched as parts of "pick and shovel" brigades or were included as comic relief. Two large black soldiers with Sherman's army, for example, were displayed "riding on very small mules, their feet nearly touching the ground."

Captured slaves were described as "odd looking "contrabands" dressed in all the colors that ever adorned Joseph's coat." In the rear of the First Pennsylvania, one such captive, mounted on a solitary Confederate mule, "created much laughter, in which the President and others joined heartily" as he was carried past the reviewing stand.

Neither the free black nor the free black soldier was to be the hero of this national pageant; instead, each was relegated a secondary, rather uneasy position within it. The exclusion of blacks from the celebration was a clear message about the sort of Union the white [Northern] veterans felt they had preserved." (Glorious Contentment, The Grand Army of the Republic, Stuart McConnell, UNC Press, 1992, pp. 8-9)

George Purvis

gpthelastrebel@att.net

Friday, June 6, 2014

The Principles And Values The CSA Flag Represents


From: jkingantiquearms@bellsouth.net
SHNV Compatriots,
   
The Albany Georgia SCV Camp will hold a Flag dedication Ceremony as noted in the article posted below. Three Southwest Georgia newspapers are printing my article posted below.
James W. King
Albany GA. SCV Camp Commander
Lt. Col. Thomas M. Nelson Camp 141
jkingantiquearms@bellsouth.net

A flag dedication ceremony will be held on location Saturday May 31 at 9AM by the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) organization on behalf of the Confederate Battle Flag flying beside highway U.S.19 in north Mitchell County just south of Baconton Georgia. As part of the Georgia SCV "Flags Across Georgia" project, the 12 ft. x  !5 ft. flag was installed on a 55 ft .flagpole this past January. This flag increases the number of Confederate Battle Flags installed by SCV to 11 in the state of Georgia, all of which are located at highly visible locations beside major highways on private property.
 
The installation of the flag was a project of Albany Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 141 Lt. Col. Thomas M. Nelson and was funded by the Georgia SCV Division partially by funds received from the sale of specialty vehicle tags that bear the SCV emblem and Confederate Battle Flag. A new tag design became available this year and statewide sales of the specialty license plate have significantly increased. Baconton resident George Davis who is a member of the Albany SCV Camp leased the location to the SCV at no charge.
 
Albany SCV camp commander James W. King will deliver the keynote speech at the dedication ceremony. The public is invited to attend and join SCV and UDC members from all areas of southwest Georgia for the dedication ceremony.
 
The Confederate Battle Flag serves as a reminder of the principles and values America was founded upon by the founding fathers, who were primarily Southern gentlemen from Virginia, and has the same meaning as the original U.S. Betsy Ross flag. America was founded as a Constitutional Federal Republic composed of a limited Federal government and sovereign states. The four principles and values represented by both the Confederate flag and the U.S. Betsy Ross flag are 1.-Limited Constitutional Federal Government 2.-States' Rights' 3.-Resistance to Tyranny, and 4.-Christian Values and Principles. As America experiments with Socialism and Secular Humanism (the belief that there is no God and that man, science, and government can solve all problems), the Confederate Battle Flag and the Betsy Ross Flag serve as daily reminders of those principles and values. Both flags are 180 degrees diametrically opposed to Socialism and Secular Humanism. In this respect the Confederate flag serves as the keystone, sheet anchor, and guardian of the principles America was founded upon.
 
The Confederate Battle Flag is often incorrectly referred to as the "Stars and Bars" by people unfamiliar with flag design and nomenclature. There are actually five major different Confederate flags 1. - Bonnie Blue (unofficial) 2.-First National Stars and Bars 3.-Second National 4.- Third National and 5.-Battle Flag.  While the Battle Flag was incorporated as part of the design of the 2nd and 3rd National it was not the official flag of the Confederate government. It was the soldiers flag based on the blue X Cross of St. Andrew flag of Scotland. After the Battle of 1st Manassas (Bull Run) on July 21, 1861 it was decided that a new Confederate flag would be designed for use by Confederate soldiers because the "Stars and Bars" flag looked too similar to the U.S. flag and resulted in confusion by soldiers of both the Confederacy and the Union.
   
The Confederate Battle Flag has been controversial for many years because of misuse and abuse by racist groups including the KKK and Skinheads but these same groups have also abused and misused the U.S. Flag the "Stars and Stripes". The U.S. Flag is actually the official flag of the KKK. The Sons of Confederate Veterans organization in national convention in 2006 passed a resolution condemning the use, misuse, and abuse of the Confederate flag by such groups.
 
The Confederate flag and the U.S. flag are held to different levels of accountability. The U.S. flag gets a complete pass and the Confederate flag is berated, disparaged, and condemned. Yet the U.S. 'Stars and Stripes" has far more baggage. It flew over slave ships for many years going to and from Africa as well as the genocide and near extermination of the Native American Indians. Neither the Confederate flag nor the flags of any southern colony or state ever flew over any slave ship. The Confederate Battle Flag is not and has never been a racist flag. But it has been the victim of one of America's most successful "Smear Campaigns" by dishonest northern socialist historians. Black Americans have been especially susceptible to indoctrination by these biased northern propagandists. They have been told that the Confederate flag represents racism, bigotry, and a painful reminder of slavery.
 
Confederate soldiers fought to preserve the Constitution and Bill of Rights and for government of, for, and by the people. In contrast the Civil War was planned by northern socialists and supported by the infamous European socialist Karl Marx for the purpose of changing America from a Republic to a Socialist nation. After the failed European Socialist revolution of 1848 thousands of Socialist Germans came to New York City. They joined with American Socialists and various other radicals and fanatics to form the Republican Party in 1854. The Ft. Sumter incident was a setup so that the war could be blamed on the south. The Confederate States of America fought to preserve States' Rights' and in resistance to an unfair sectional tariff tax and in defense of their homes and states from the ruthless unconstitutional, illegal, and immoral invasion by U.S. armies under the misguided direction of Socialist and Atheist Abraham Lincoln. Slavery was already a dying institution before the "War of Northern Aggression" or "War for Southern Independence" (Civil War) but slavery has been the weapon of choice used by these northern propagandists in their attacks on the Confederate flag and the Confederate States of America.. The SCV GA. Division has produced a CD "The Truth Concerning The Confederate Flag" which gives a 55 minute speech telling the truth, history, and facts about the Confederate Battle Flag. It will be available free of charge at the flag dedication ceremony.

Thursday, June 5, 2014

William C. Carter grave marking



From: b.hall.mcdonald@gmail

Dear Chuck,

On Saturday, May 3, 2014, I was honored to attend the grave marking, by Capt. WYC Hannum Chapter 1881, UDC, of a FREE born, black Confederate soldier, who received a pension from the State of Tennessee; His name was William C. Carter.  The ceremony held at the Baker's Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Blount County, TN was attended by his descendants, many of whom learned his story for the first time.  Of course, Mr. Carter was not the only free black to join the Confederacy from Tennessee, but his memorial stone reflects the words of his application: "I was free born."

Mr. Carter joined Captain Rowan's unit, 62nd Infantry Co. G, later Co. D in 1861. He was detailed for two months to help man a flourmill in Loudon Co. He served as a waiter for Col. Ashby until the surrender in 1865 in Georgia. His application is filed under William McCarter as #171 of the 267 pensions granted by the Negros' Pension Law, and was approved on Oct. 9, 1923. He purchased a 104-acre farm in 1880 in Meadow located in District 2 of Blount Co. on the waters of Baker's Creek. He died on May 15, 1930 in Knoxville while living with his son Joe and family. Other members of the Carter family are also buried at Baker's Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery along.

I believe that Tennessee was the first state to offer the Colored Man's Pension for service to the Confederacy, and that Mississippi followed as the next state to do so. Applicants had to prove that they served honorably until the end of the War. Mr. Carter's approved application for a Confederate pension debunks two myths:  1-that there were no Confederates/Confederate soldiers from East Tennessee; and 2-that there were no free born black men who enlisted as Confederates.  Many black Confederates enlisted and served.  Yet, Yankee institutions continue to propagate these myths.

Brenda Hall McDonald

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

SCV Chaplains' Conference



   Sons of Confederate Veterans
                                 
Dear Chaplains and Friends of the Corps:
Our annual Chaplains' Conference is planned for June 19 - 20, at the Providence Baptist Church, June 19 and 20, 1441 Erickson Avenue, Harrisonburg, VA.  Our opening service is on Thursday evening, at 7:00 p.m. On Friday, we shall have speakers throughout the day and also times of fellowship.  Friday's noon meal will be served at the church.  .  For accommodations, we recommend The Village Inn, 4979 S, Pike, Harrisonburg, VA 22802.  Their website address is http://www.thevillageinn.travel/ .  Their telephone numbers are (800) 736-7355 / (540) 434-7355).  Please see the program and speakers following this announcement.
It will be a blessing to have you present.  Wives are encouraged to attend.  We also welcome visitors.  If you need more information or help, please send an email or call my cell phone, (864) 631.8952. 
Yours in Christ's service,
Mark W. Evans
Chaplain-in-Chief     
SCV CHAPLAINS' CONFERENCE
Providence  Baptist  Church
1441 Erickson Avenue
Harrisonburg, VA 22802
THURSDAY EVENING SESSION
7:00 p.m.
Welcome, Hymn, and Prayer
Music
Sermon:  Pastor John Weaver  
Hymn and Prayer
 
FRIDAY SESSION

9:00 a.m.  Welcome, Hymn and Prayer
9:15 a.m.  Dr. Charles Baker   
10:15  a.m.  Questions and Break
10:45  a.m.   Dr. H. Rondel Rumburg,  
11:45 a.m.  Break for Dinner
1:00  p.m.  Prayer and Hymn
1:15  p.m.  Pastor Lloyd Sprinkle
2:15 p.m. Break
2:30 p.m.  Pastor Herman White
3:30 p.m.  Closing remarks and Concluding Prayer





Sons of Confederate Veterans | PO Box 59 | Columbia | TN | 38402


Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Jefferson Davis, Born 3 June 1808


American Statesman, Soldier, Senator, Secretary of War, President
A West Point graduate, Davis distinguished himself in the Mexican-American War as a colonel of the Mississippi Rifles volunteer regiment, and was the United States Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce. Both before and after his time in the Pierce Administration, he served as a US Senator from Mississippi. As senator he argued against secession but believed each State was sovereign and had an unquestionable and constitutional right to secede from the voluntary Union of the Founders, just as they had seceded from England seeking political liberty.  Davis resigned from the Senate in January 1861 after receiving word that his State of Mississippi had voted to leave the voluntary Union.  Davis explained his actions saying: 
"[To] me the sovereignty of the State was paramount to the sovereignty of the Union. And I held my seat in the Senate until Mississippi seceded and called upon me to follow and defend her. Then I sorrowfully resigned the position in which my State had placed me and in which I could no longer represent her, and accepted the new work. I was on my way to Montgomery when I received, much to my regret, the message that I had been elected provisional President of the Confederate States of America."
Davis was a great and patriotic American who tried to save the old constitutional republic from abolitionist revolutionaries, and who left the old union with the old constitution intact to form a "more perfect Union" and with the consent of the governed. He contended that he would rather be out of the Union with the Constitution than to be in the Union without the Constitution. Davis remarked in July 1864:
"I tried in all my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, and for 12 years, I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not.  The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize the musket and fight our battle, unless you acknowledge our right to self-government.  We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence, and that, or extermination, we will have....Slavery never was an essential element.  It was the only means of bringing other conflicting elements to an earlier culmination.  It fired the musket which was already capped and loaded.  There are essential differences between the North and the South that will, however this war may end, make them two nations."
Reminded during the war of the destruction of his Mississippi plantations by occupying Northern troops, we dismissed it as the cost of war, yet confessed that he pitied his poor Negroes, who had been driven off by those troops and abandoned to misery or ruin.  He resisted arming the slaves as they were not trained as soldiers, were needed to raise food for the armies in the field, and he would not use them as mercenaries and cannon-fodder as Lincoln was doing to avoid conscripting unwilling white Northerners. 
At the end of the War, when a fellow traveler remarked that the cause of the Confederates was lost. Davis replied:  
"It appears so. But the principle for which we contended is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form."  
We may be experiencing his prediction now in the midst of State sovereignty resolutions and 10th Amendment reaffirmations across the country. In 1881, Davis was critical of the Gilded Age corruption and ignorance of the United States Constitution and remarked: 
"Of what value then are paper constitutions and oaths binding officers to their preservation, if there is not intelligence enough in the people to discern the violations; and virtue enough to resist the violators?"  
Davis was guilty of no treason and demanded a fair trial in order to argue the constitutionality of the South's actions in 1860-1861. This was denied by his tormenters, the reason was revealed by Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, Salmon P. Chase, in 1867. Chase admitted that:
"If you bring these leaders to trial, it will condemn the North, for by the Constitution, secession is not a rebellion. His [Jefferson Davis] capture was a mistake. His trial will be a greater one. We cannot convict him of treason."
President Davis died on December 6, 1889

Monday, June 2, 2014

Save Port Republic


Civil War Trust
Save Port Republic

Save Port Republic

After three weeks of embarrassing the Yankees, "Stonewall" Jackson still had one more trick up his sleeve. In the early morning hours of June 9, 1862, Jackson's men advanced against the Union position along Lewiston Lane, just north of Port Republic. Abetted by Union artillery atop a high knoll called the Coaling, the Federals put up stiff resistance, repulsing Jackson's men and chasing them across the open field in an impetuous counterattack. But Confederate reinforcements ultimately seized the Union artillery position and turned the tide of the battle. With their own guns now turned on them, the Yankees fled across the Lewiston Farm. Southern control of the Shenandoah Valley—at least for the time being—was secure.
The Civil War Trust and its partners now have the opportunity to nearly double the land saved at the Port Republic battlefield. Located on both sides of the Lewiston Lane, these 429 acres were the scene of the heaviest infantry fighting of the battle, where blue and gray lines seesawed back in forth during five hours fighting. This land will be added to the 523 acres the Trust has saved at Port Republic—the crowning achievement of Jackson's Valley Campaign.

Sunday, June 1, 2014

SCV 2014 Reunion Information/Update


Compatriots

Beginning July 16th and running through July 19th, the 119th SCV National Reunion will be held at the North Charleston Convention Center, located in North Charleston, SC. The location is central to many of Charleston's historical locations. The harbor sights, the gardens, maritime center and historic homes are but a few of the options available for visitors to Charleston. First and foremost, we the members of the this grand heritage of honor organization will meet in reunion to conduct business, elect new officers and continue paving the way for the future of the organization.

We are requesting that camps bring their colors to the opening ceremonies for a grand procession into the convention hall. Please bring a single base to post you camp colors.

The reunion committee would like to pass on to you that there are spots available for all meals and tours. The window is closing for registering for events at the convention. The reunion committee will soon be sending numbers the caterers. The Meet and Greet Harbor Tour will have heavy hors d'oeuvres to eat on the trip through the historic Charleston harbor past the sights where the War for Southern Independence began. The preservation luncheon is honored to have Allen Roberson, Director of the SC Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum as the speaker. Mr Roberson will be bringing flags from the SC Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum. These original Confederate flags have been preserved with

the help of the SC Division SCV. Mr. Roberson will be giving presentation on preserving these artifacts of our heritage.

The Heritage Dinner presents the opportunity to hear Ben Jones. You may remember Mr. Jones as Cooter Davenport in the original and real show the Dukes of Hazard. Mr. Jones is a life member of the SCV and staunch defender of our Confederate Heritage. The Hunley Tour and Fort Tour will provide and insight to the defenses of Charleston. Eighteen debutantes will be presented at the grand ball. There is still time to register for the convention, tours and other events. Every registered member will get a reunion medal, convention program and an opportunity to see your Confederate brethren from around the country.  Registration information can be found on the reunion website given below.

www.scv2014.org

We look forward to seeing you in July

2014 SCV Reunion Committee