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

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

 

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

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

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)

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