Travis Archie Camp Commander of
Campbell's Company #2252 will be our speaker Friday evening. The
Woman's tour Saturday morning will be the Downtown Fulton "The
Brick District", Art House, Brick District Playhouse, Kingdom of
Callaway Historical Society Museum and several retail shops. The afternoon
tour we will visit 8-10 of the Gray Ghost Trail interpretive panels in
Callaway County and if time allows The Battle of Moore's Mill and the
mass grave site also if time allows the Halton Cemetery. All tours will
have free bus to take everyone around.
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Sunday, March 19, 2017
Monday, April 27, 2015
Slavery Was Not the Cause of the War Between the States, The Irrefutable Argument. -- FUNDRAISING for Camps, Chapters, Units; DONATING by Individuals
Published by
Charleston Athenaeum Press
"Historians used to know - and it was not too long ago - that the War Between the States had more to do with economics than it did with slavery. The current obsession with slavery as the "cause" of the war rests not on evidence but on ideological considerations of the present day. Gene Kizer has provided us with the conclusive case that the invasion of the Southern States by Lincoln and his party (a minority of the American people) was due to an agenda of economic domination and not to some benevolent concern for slaves. This book is rich in evidence and telling quotations and ought to be on every Southern bookshelf."
Clyde N. Wilson
Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History
University of South Carolina
"Gene Kizer persuasively shows how the North fought the South out of necessity to prevent economic collapse. No where else is proof of this motive made clearer with indisputable evidence. Mr. Kizer writes with authority from the desire to tell the truth. His common sense style is the product of honesty. One cannot read his work without concluding that this is a man to be trusted."
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Professor of English
University of Georgia
Author of
Our Fathers' Fields; Walking Toward Home;
and many other outstanding books
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Thursday, January 29, 2015
This Month in the Civil War on the Western Border - January 2015
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014
150th Anniversary of the Battle of Westport
Thursday, October 23, 2014 is the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Westport, a pivotal battle in the Trans-Mississippi Theater. I’m thrilled our four hereditary organizations (SUVCW, DUVCW, SCV, and UDC) are conducting a joint commemoration Thursday evening, October 23rd at Loose Park, 5200 Wornall Road, Kansas City, Missouri.
5:30 pm – Informal Meet and Greet
6:15 pm – Commemoration Service
Enclosed is a promotional flyer; feel free to share with your membership, family, friends, and other Civil War enthusiast. Thanks
Dale Crandell
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Five Unknown Soldiers Monument Dedication Ceremony by Maj. Gen. J.O. Shelby SCV Camp #191
When:
November 8, 2014
Time:
2 p.m.
Location:
The
Adkins Couts cemetery is located on Venture Road in Morgan county,
Mo. Venture Road ends in a loop that goes through a residential area
on the Lake of the Ozarks. The cemetery is at the top of the hill on
the loop.
Directions:
To
get to the cemetery go to Stover, Mo. on Highway 52. Turn south on
highway 135 at Stover. Proceed to Ivy Bend Road and turn right.
Follow Ivy Bend Road to Webb Loop and turn right at the GEM mini
mall. Follow this road for about two miles. Stay to the right when
the road forks. the street sign says Venture Road. Follow Venture
Road to the cemetery. The cemetery has a metal fence around it.
Park along the road on the same side as the cemetery.
Perhaps
I should mention that the Missouri Department of Conservation has a
public fishing area on Webb Loop called Wigwam School Access. There
is a sign for Wigwam School Access across from the Gem mini mall. If
you can find Wigwam School Access you are almost to Venture Road and
the cemetery.
A
little History about this Cemeterey:
Five
Unknown Soldiers
Some
thirty years ago the residents of Venture Valley were clearing brush
from an overgrown cemetery in their neighborhood, when they found a
common fieldstone bearing the inscription “Five Rebel Soldiers.”
Since then the stone has disappeared, but the memory of it has not.
The question remains to this day; who were they?
There
were no skirmishes reported in the immediate area of the cemetery
during the war. There were, however, a few small skirmishes reported
on Deer Creek, farther to the west. The largest of these occurred on
October 16, 1863, but it is unlikely that the dead from these
skirmishes would have been transported to the north side of the Osage
River, and then another nine miles as the crow flies to the
Adkins-Couts cemetery.
So how
did the five Rebel soldiers come to be buried in the Adkins-Couts
cemetery? The most plausible explanation stems from a sweep of the
town of Versailles and the surrounding neighborhoods on March 25,
1862, by a company of the Federal Sixth Missouri Volunteers, with the
assistance of a detachment of Missouri State Militia Cavalry. They
had been sent to root out a band of fifteen or twenty Southern
recruits who had been stealing horses and harassing the Union
citizens of the town at night. This detachment took a number of
suspects into custody and attempted to extract information from them.
Lt. Col. James H. Blood, reported that some of these captives were
suspended with a rope by the neck. One young male, described by his
captors as a boy, was hung the most. After repeated hangings he
“confessed his complicity with the gang…told five names connected
with it…described some of the horses they had stolen and said the
gang left that morning and would camp that night on Buffalo Creek
twenty miles distant.”
The most
important part of Blood’s report concerning the actions of the
Federal detachment sent to Versailles is what he did not say. He
wrote his report because he had been ordered by his superiors to
investigate accusations that his troops had acted improperly at
Versailles by hoisting several of their prisoners by their necks.
Blood defended his men’s actions, by maintaining they had gotten
valuable information from their prisoners.
Blood had
reported his men knew the names of five recruits who would camp on
Buffalo Creek on the evening of March 25th.
His men had been sent to Versailles to put and end to the harassment
of the Union citizens by the recruits. This begs the question; did
his men pursue them? The obvious answer is they probably did. Had his
troops skirmished with the recruits, he certainly would have reported
it. However, if they had captured the recruits and executed them
without a trial, Blood would have had good reason not to make the
admission in writing. This would have been especially so, since his
superior, Maj. Gen. Henry Halleck in St. Louis had issued a death
order on March 13, 1862, for individuals who joined guerrilla bands.
Halleck, however, backtracked in April and clarified the meaning of
his order to require a legal process before the death penalty could
be enforced.
No report
has been found which states who the five Confederate soldiers were
who are buried at the Adkins-Couts cemetery or how they died. Had it
not been for the words “Five Rebel Soldiers” inscribed on a
common field stone to mark their grave, we would not know these men
ever existed or endeavored to serve their then divided country. Once
again a stone has been inscribed in their memory, may it long remain.
Everyone
is welcome to join this event of a dedication on the unknown
Confederate Soldiers.
Confederatly
Yours,
Paul
Lawrence, Commander Maj. Gen. J. O. Shelby camp #191
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