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.

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

SCV Chaplains' Conference

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

Jefferson Davis, Born 3 June 1808

American Statesman, Soldier, Senator, Secretary of War, President

From: bernhard1848@att.net

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

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. Help Save Port Republic! »

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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

ANNUAL OLD SOLDIER DAY

Hosted by Ervin & Barbara Garnto, near Scott, GA (location of our winter drill of January 2012). This Memorial Service is for all soldiers that have passed on.  Special honor is paid to our re-enactor brothers and sisters who have departed this life - a list that sadly grows longer with each passing year. Many of us attend memorial services all year long to remember and honor Confederate soldiers. This is an opportunity to remember our brothers and sisters who actually sat around the campfires with us and stood in line of battle, sharing the good times and the bad. Uniforms are certainly encouraged but not mandatory.
    
The Garntos would like very much for anyone that can and will to come and help with this awesome event.  They will be attending a graduation service for their grandson earlier in the day but said they would be at the homestead around noon or so. A meal will be served in the afternoon (about 2:30-3PM) for all that attend.  The memorial service will follow as the cool of the evening begins to set in.
    
There will be signs at each turn from the caution light in Scott, GA by the big white church {SCOTT BAPTIST CHURCH}; come and get a blessing. Those wishing to stay over Saturday night are welcome to do so. For more information phone 1-478-290-6945, 478-668-4115 or e-mail at: bjgarnto@hotmail.com. Directions from the point of Scott Baptist Church on U.S. 80: 2 1/2 miles to Glen Donaldson Road, turn left go 1/2 mile to Bill Garnto Rd. turn left go 1/4 mile to Dogwood Ln; turn on Dogwood follow road around to pond follow arrows there will be signs @ each turn.