Christmas treat for Southern Patriots!

Christmas treat for you!  Visit the Confederate War College http://www.confederatewarcollege.com/ and join as a member for a year for ten dollars. For that you can download to your computer Dixie's Greatest Secret, my first book. This book which is only available here is about the Confederate Navy! Great Christmas gift to you, a Southern Patriot. Merry Christmas...

The Confederate Navy is a remarkable story of Southern technology, industry, strategy, and ingenuity. 

And, there are a number of articles at the Confederate War College that are only available to members.

Merry Christmas to you!

Mark Vogl

New England's Wage Slaves

From: bernhard1848@att.net

New England sold its slaves southward while developing a new factory labor system more efficient and practical.  For workers at the Lowell, Massachusetts mill it was reported that "there is no privacy, no retirements here; it is almost impossible to read or write alone." Another contemporary hinted that some of the girls eventually moved from mill work into prostitution; and few of the mill girls would return to their native towns with reputations unimpaired.  That "she has worked in a factory" was almost enough to damn to infamy the most worthy and virtuous girl."

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"

New England's Wage Slaves

"Chapter XII:  In Which is Explained Why Yankees Discarded Negro Chattel Slavery and Recalled the Plight of the White Wage Slaves and a Comment by Abraham Lincoln.

Negro slavery was a flop in the North.

The accent up there was on manufacturing and the Negro was at his best when teamed up with a hoe and a cotton-patch. The thrifty manufacturers of New England had a cheaper and more efficient labor supply readily at hand in the white wage slaves already there and the immigrants from Europe who came flooding in.

A healthy Negro field hand in 1860 cost $1,000 in Virginia and as much as $1,500 in New Orleans.  A new-born slave baby was worth $200.  The chattel slave had to be fed and clothed and taken care of in sickness and in health. When he got too old to work he had to be provided for.

Some States made it illegal for slaves to be worked on Sundays under pain of a fine of five pounds. It was against the law to work a slave more than fifteen hours a day in the summer and fourteen hours a day in winter. The average work day was about eleven hours. The slave was given a holiday between Christmas and New Year's.  Louisiana prescribed by law that every slave had be given a minimum of 200 pounds of pork a year.

The New England white wage slave wasn't nearly as expensive and a lot more efficient. He represented no capital outlay. He worked for starvation wages.  Laborers in the North in 1860 were earning 60 cents a day, and a day was often 14 to 16 hours.

The plight of women workers was even more appalling. In New York City, during the Civil War, women umbrella workers, after laboring 18 hours from six in the morning to midnight, earned three dollars a week.  Seamstresses in the underwear crafts got seventeen cents for a twelve-hour day.

When the wage-slave got sick he went off the pay-roll. When worn out by age and hard work, he [or she] was discarded like an old shoe.

Bells rang at daybreak in most factory towns. The wage slaves – men and women – had to report at the factory gates in fifteen minutes. An hour later they were allowed twenty-five minutes for whatever breakfast they had brought.  They got another twenty-five minutes at mid-day.  The gates opened again at 8 o'clock that night to let the wage slaves go home.

In the Eagle Mill at Griswold, [Connecticut], the work day lasted fifteen hours and ten minutes. At Paterson, New Jersey, women and children began the day's work at 4:30 o'clock in the morning.  Overseers in some textile mills   cracked a cowhide whip over the backs of women and children.

That isn't to say that chattel slavery was to be preferred to wage slavery. There were folks who used to say that back in the middle of the past century but whenever Abraham Lincoln heard them Old Abe would sort of hunch those bony shoulders of his and cock his head to one side and burn them down with a single sentence.

"They've written volume after volume to prove slavery a good thing," he'd say, "but I never heard of a man who wishes to take the good of it by being a slave himself."

(Then My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night!, W.E. Debnam, The Graphic Press, 1955, pp. 30-32)

Preaching the Everlasting Shell Game

John Brown carried one of "Beecher's Bibles" at Harper's Ferry, provided by a man greatly responsible for the war that ended the republic.  Upon Beauregard's demand for the surrender of Fort Sumter in April 1861 Beecher was to proclaim that "I utterly abhor peace . . . Give me war redder than blood and fiercer than fire." The abolitionists would offer no practical and peaceful solution to slavery, only war to the knife and a million dead. 

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"

Preaching the Everlasting Shell Game

"Henry Ward Beecher, the most popular preacher in America, famous for his spellbinding crusades against slavery, liquor, the secret vice and every other evil, committed adultery with at least one woman of his congregation, a woman who happened also to be a Sunday School teacher and the wife of an admiring protégé of Beecher's. 

The offense itself is not so revealing as the spirit of callous exploitation with which it was carried out and the deceit and hypocrisy with which it was covered up. Beecher was warmly defended by the establishment of his day.  Most of the press declared his innocence and his parishioners raised $100,000 for his legal expenses, while those who brought the charges that we now know to be true were hounded.

The powers that be, then as now, rush to the rescue when their most valuable asset, their pretense of superior moral vision, is threatened. Henry's deceit in this episode was not merely a weakness displayed on one painful occasion. It was a way of life to a man whose fame and riches were built on a conveniently abstract, unscrupulously-aggressive, politically irresponsible moralizing. 

In his memoirs, for example, Henry lied about so simple a thing as a college debate. He recounted an occasion in which he had carried the house against a proposal for the colonization of blacks outside the United States.  In fact, he had not participated in the debate in question and the pro-colonization side had won.  Characteristically, he had falsely glorified his own role and distorted the historical record to make his antislavery stand date to a much earlier and more dangerous period than it actually did.

The story of the Beecher's is that of people who proclaimed themselves the champions of freedom and morality and demonized those who disagreed, while all the time keeping their hand in the till and their eye on the main chance.  The chief lesson we can learn is that there is something in the American fabric that guarantees that now and then such people will succeed outrageously.

Today's secular liberals will, of course, dismiss Henry Ward Beecher as simply a typical hypocritical Protestant moralist. Yet he was one of them. He was a leading liberal of his day, a crusader not for souls but for political and  social reform.  He was an establishment figure, not a small-town vigilante.  He spoke from a position of power and respectability from which he safely and irresponsibly rode to the outer limits every fad of his day.

Beecher is not the father of the Moral Majority; he is the father of the smug establishment figures who juggle morality and sybaritic life-styles in an everlasting shell game. 

That strange combination of Puritanism and democracy which wreaked so much havoc in the 19th century, having done its work and reached the natural limits of its expansion, began a retreat into narrower and less dangerous limits after the debacle of Reconstruction. Something very similar is perhaps happening now.  If so, we can hope once again for leaders for whom public life, as for Lee, is an arena for the exercise of private virtue rather than, as for the Beechers, a vehicle for the social mobilization of private greed and discontent." (1982)

(The Enemy Up Close, book review of The Beecher's, Milton Rugoff, 1981; Clyde N. Wilson, Defending Dixie, Essays in Southern History and Culture, FAE Press, 2006, excerpt, pp. 209-210)

3 Cheers For Pat Godwin!

To All:
          
Pat Godwin & those with the intestinal fortitude to stand their ground & fight IN for the Gen. Forrest Monument in Selma Alabama proves that we can win in court. It only takes the guts & courage to do so. She & all those involved in this fight to save a piece of our Southern history, heritage & culture should be awarded the South`s highest honors from all our organizations & recognized for being the modern-day Southern heroes that they are.
 
They should receive the respect & admiration they deserve for their actions instead of just delivering hollow words like so many do in our organizations. If you want to see real live Southern heroes look at them instead of those who hang medals, honors & awards on themselves for doing very little. They all deserve the Southern Medal of Honor in my humble estimation. They have earned our respect instead of demanding it.

Billy E. Price
Ashville Alabama 

Black Soldiers on Both Sides

The first black unit, including black line officers, in the War Between the States was the Louisiana Native Guards of New Orleans, accepted into State militia service by Governor Thomas D. Moore on May 2, 1861. The Daily Crescent assured its readers that "They will fight the Black Republicans with as much determination and gallantry as any body of white men in the service of the Confederate States." The Northern States used black troops to allow their white men to avoid service in the unpopular war.

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"

Black Soldiers on Both Sides

"Chapter XX: In Which is Recalled the Fact Negroes Served on Both Sides In That War and Yankee Recruiters Fished a Long Way From Home and Hardly Got Their Bait Back.

The Civil War wasn't entirely a white man's fight. Negroes served in both the Federal and Confederate forces.  Soon after Edmund Ruffin pulled the trigger at Charleston, Negroes tried to enlist in both the Northern and Southern armies but their services, as was the case in the Revolution, were at first declined.

This attitude changed rather quickly in the North. The Federal Congress, in July of 1862, passed a law permitting the enlistment of Negro troops. Their pay at first was fixed at $10 a month compared to $16.50 for white troops. Fred Douglas protested to Lincoln and Old Abe told him that if he were a Negro he'd be glad to fight for his freedom free of charge. Douglas and the other Negro leaders continued to protest and the pay differential was wiped out.

Negro troops were used in the main by the North for garrison duty and labor forces and, after Appomattox, for occupation duty in the South; but they saw action in 250 battles and skirmishes, including the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg in which Negro troops were scheduled to have led the charge after that mine was exploded. They missed the assignment due to a foul-up in orders.

Northern governors sent 1,405 agents into captured areas of the South in an attempt to recruit Negro slaves to help fill their State draft quotas but business was mighty poor.  They worked for several months but got only 5,052 recruits. When the war ended there were 178,975 Negroes in the Yankee armies, comprising 116 regiments.

In the South, free Negroes came forward at first in large numbers to offer their services to the Confederacy. Richard Kennard of Petersburg gave $100.  Jordan Chase, of Vicksburg, gave a horse and authorized the government to draw on him for $500. Down in New Orleans, Thomy Lafon gave $500.  An Alabama Negro gave 100 bushels of sweet potatoes.  At Charleston a little Negro girl gave twenty-five cents.  Confederate war bonds found many Negro subscribers (The Negro in the Civil War, Quarles).

Negroes by the thousands were employed in Southern war factories. Free Negroes were paid the prevailing wage. Slaves impressed into service were given food, shelter and clothing and their owners paid $25 a month.  If a slave ran away or died, the owner was paid $354.

Negroes in the South rendered their greatest service to the Confederacy by tilling the farms and taking care of the folks at home while the white men were at the front. The slaves could have ended the War overnight had they chosen to rise in rebellion. Southern armies would have headed back home en masse at even the rumor of such a development.

As the War dragged on, the need for men became finally so desperate the Confederate Congress, acting on the recommendation of General Lee and the governors of North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi, passed a law in March of 1865 authorizing enlistment of Negroes, both slave and free.

They were to be paid the same as white troops; and slaves, if they remained loyal through the War, were to be set free.  President Davis signed the law on March 13.  It was less than a month before Lee's surrender."

(Then My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night!, W.E. Debnam, The Graphic Press, 1955, pp. 49-50)

"God Will Protect Us; God Will Take Care of Us"

From: bernhard1848@att.net

William Henry Belk was a child of three in 1865 when his father Abel was murdered by Sherman's bummers, leaving his mother Sarah not only a widow but with three babies and several Negro hands to feed and clothe. The industrious William would be working his first job in Monroe, North Carolina at age fourteen, and at twenty-six had started his own business which eventually spread to every State in the South.

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"

God Will Protect Us; God Will Take Care of Us

"Across more than four-fifths of a century of incredible change William Henry Belk remembers the day his father left home to escape the advancing Federals. It was 1865, and the Confederacy was dragging wearily into its last days.  The South was almost prostrate now; even Sarah Walkup Belk's beloved Waxhaw country, the country of Andrew Jackson, the gallant William Richardson Davie, and her own Wauchope family, lay under the heel and torch of Sherman.

This Federal general . . . was moving north after his march to the sea, pillaging and burning and slaughtering, and in the path of his troops, in the border region between South Carolina and North Carolina, lay the modest home of   Abel Washington Belk.

If young Belk, whose weak lungs had prevented his joining the Confederate army, should be found at home, the Belk's feared that Sherman's men would steal his property, burn the house, and possibly hang him. If he should leave and hide out with some of the Negroes and the valuables that could be removed, the Yankee marauders might spare the house . . . over the heads of a defenseless young woman and her three babies.

So he loaded up the wagons and took some of the Negroes and they went down to Gill's Creek some fifteen miles east of Lancaster, South Carolina . . . refugeeing on the creek down there until the Yankees had got out of the country.  And it wasn't long before the Yankees caught a fellow . . . who figured he'd save his own hide and get in their good graces by turning up my grandfather, old man Tom Belk. This scoundrel told them that my grandfather had barrels of gold hid out at his mine . . . .

But old Sherman's men didn't come by our house . . . [and] caught my father instead of my grandfather. They asked him where the gold was hid out. He told them he didn't know. But they thought he was just trying to save his gold.  So they took him down to the creek . . . and held him by the feet and pushed his head down under the water.

Then they'd jerk him up and ask again where the gold was. When he'd tell them he didn't know – which he didn't – they'd push him down again.  That went on several times. His weak lungs couldn't stand it. I reckon they just filled with water . . . But they did drown him . . . on Gill's Creek."

A letter which was written by Henry Belk's uncle to Sarah Walkup Belk was her first news of the tragedy. It read as follows:  "Sister Sarah, I have sad news to tell you. Abel, your husband and my brother, is I suppose no more.   He is not found as we know but there is a certain person buried about one and a half miles below here, in Graham's field, who I suppose is Abel. His clothes were like those that Abel had on [and] Abel's little mule is lying dead on the road not far from where the man was drowned. [signed] Herron."

It was a cheerless, somber day when Sarah Walkup Belk turned away from the red mound in old Shiloh graveyard. But even darker were the thoughts that threatened to crush her, for everywhere she seemed to sense the very presence of death.

Beyond the stones of the graveyard . . . lay fields bare and brown and dead, and there was little promise anywhere that the resurrection of spring would provide adequate crops.  The Confederacy, too, she knew, was at its death and tired hungry hopeless men could no longer stem the rush of advancing hordes from the north.

And now her husband was dead.  What would she do now? Where would she turn?  How could she make a living for herself and her three babies?  How actually to find enough food?

She went back to her farm and organized what poor efforts she could command. She found food and clothing for herself, her babies and the Negroes. She managed to provide security in those perilous days, joy even and much love. And always she taught her children.  Sometimes it seemed that doubt and despair would engulf her. Always when the darkness was heaviest the pinpoint of a star broke through.  She held to her faith.  And she worked.

When the days were darkest she would repeat over and over again and in staunch faith the prayer and prophecy of that day when without knowing it she had waved her last good-bye to her young husband: "God will protect us; God will take care of us."

(William Henry Belk, Merchant of the South, LeGette Blythe, UNC Press, 1950, pp. 3-8)

Quote by James W. King-Commander of Camp 141 Sons of Confederate Albany Georgia.

ANDERSONVILLE POW CAMP & CAPT. WIRZ FARCE TRIAL-MEMORIAL SERVICE
TO: Compatriots ON SHNV FORUM


"The trial of Andersonville POW Camp Commander Capt. Henry Wirz was a travesty of American justice and a complete farce in which the outcome of being found guilty was predetermined. This trial remains a dark chapter in the American justice system and especially highlights immoral and unethical proceedings and conduct by military courts of this time period. It places the names of the members of the military court in the "Infamous" category and their names are forever stained in the perspective of all Americans who truly understand and care about this gross miscarriage of justice and the willful execution of an innocent man. The key witnesses for the prosecution committed perjury and the star witness was a deserter from a New York regiment who had never been at Andersonville. He presented himself as a grandnephew of Lafayette under the assumed name of Felix de la Baume and blatantly lied vividly describing  atrocities committed by Wirz but the victims were always "name unknown". The vast majority of witnesses for the defense were barred from testifying. These witnesses included former Union prisoners who had been at Andersonville and included James Madison Page, a Michigan cavalryman, who later wrote a book completely exonerating Wirz and placing the blame for Andersonville hardships and death squarely upon the Lincoln Administration and especially Sec. of War Stanton and Gen. Grant. Capt. Wirz was a scapegoat for misinformed Northerners who demanded revenge for what they wrongly believed were intentional acts of starvation and murder of Union POW's. The death rate of POW's at Andersonville was approximately 25% whereas the death rate of Confederate POW's at Elmira New York was about 44% and intentional. The Elmira commander bragged that he had killed more Confederates than any soldier on the front lines. Camp Douglas at Chicago was another "Death Camp" in which Confederate POW's were deliberately starved, frozen, tortured, and murdered as accurately portrayed by the recent History Channel presentation "80 Acres of Hell".  The Union commander's of these camps were never tried for war crimes. It is my opinion that they should be tried posthumously and their dastardly deeds made known to Americans. Furthermore the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives passed Joint Resolution SR97 stating the intent to deliberately cause the death of Confederate POW's by starvation, exposure to inclement weather, and disease. After the execution of Capt. Wirz the barbarian Yankees cut up his body parts and exhibited them at various places in the North and charged a viewing fee. It took Wirz's attorney four years to get enough body parts returned so that a Christian burial could be conducted for  this unfortunate Southern martyr who was offered his life if he would implicate Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the plot to assassinate Union President Abraham Lincoln. In a final act of honor Wirz refused to lie and implicate an innocent man. Had Wirz been a dishonorable man he could have saved his life and avoided the gallows".

James W. King-- Commander SCV Camp 141 Lt. Col. Thomas M. Nelson Albany Georgia

WIRZ TRIAL FACTS AND INFORMATION BY JAMES W. KING

In the past 400 years in English and American history there are 3 trials that stand out as absolute farces and travesties and they remain a dark blot on the English and American Judicial systems. They are the trial of King Charles I of England who was tried, convicted, and beheaded by Oliver Cromwell following the English Civil War of 1642-1649, the Trial of Confederate Captain Henry Wirz commander of the Confederate Prisoner of War Camp at Andersonville Georgia and his conviction and hanging for war crimes by a U.S. Military Tribunal following the American Civil War (War for Southern Independence) of 1861-1865. The third farce trial of equal proportion was that of Mrs. Mary Surrat who was falsely accused, convicted, and hanged for conspiracy by a U.S. Military Tribunal following the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln shortly after the close of the Civil War.
  
The pettiness, dishonesty, and unmanliness of U.S. Judge Advocate Col. N.P.Chipman in later years is reflected in his statements made from his post-war home in California. He presided over the trial and never apologized for the discovery soon after the trial that the key witness Felix de la Baume was actually Felix Oesser a New York 7th Regiment deserter who had never been at Andersonville and had also claimed to be born in France and claimed to be a grand nephew of Marquis de Lafayette but was actually a German. In all his later post-war statements Chipman skirted the facts and truths concerning conditions at Andersonville and continued to place blame upon the Confederate States of America rather than on U.S. Secretary of War Stanton, U.S. General Grant, and U.S. President Abraham Lincoln who were in fact to blame for the high death rate. Chipman was never manly and honest enough to admit that the trial was a farce and apologize. His name and those of 6 U.S. Generals and 2 U.S. Colonels who were on the U.S. Military Commission continue to be remembered in infamy.
  
Lincoln is the only leader in world history known to have declared medical supplies as contraband during a war. Even in World War II Germany, Japan, and America did not declare medical supplies contraband. Much of the problem with inadequate food at Andersonville was due to a lack of pots, pans, bowls etc. with which to distribute food to the thousands of prisoners. Lincoln also declared such items contraband. Northern citizens who tried to take supplies to family members that were POW's at Andersonville were welcomed by Confederate authorities but were arrested by fellow Northern Military personnel or Police and were not allowed to take medical supplies or clothing to their loved ones at Andersonville.  The Union POW's knew who was to blame and they "Damned" Stanton repeatedly.
   
Confederate officer Col. Ould who was in charge of arranging exchanges pleaded with Northern Authorities and told them in no uncertain terms that "We cannot feed or take care of the prisoners--no exchange is necessary-just come get them". When Northern authorities declined Col. Ould replied to them "Are You People Monsters". The North had refused to send doctors and medicine to treat their own people, they had refused to exchange prisoners, they had refused to accept them back with no exchange required, and finally when the Confederate officials offered to pay the North in cotton and gold to "just come get them" they refused.  The disaster at Andersonville rests squarely on the backs of Stanton, Grant, and Lincoln and not Confederate authorities and officers. But the victor of a war writes the history and dishonest Northern historians continue to lie and refuse to tell the true facts concerning Andersonville and Capt. Henry Wirz. But Truth no matter how deeply buried always finds a way to surface and the true facts concerning Andersonville are slowly becoming known.
   
But the degree of depravity and barbarian behavior of the Yankees who convicted and hung an innocent man following a farce trial is borne out by the fact that they cut up his body into parts and displayed them at locations in the North. Great credit, appreciation, and thanks are due to Wirz's attorney Louis Frederick Slade for his defense of Capt. Wirz during the trial and in the 4 years that followed in which he worked to get body parts returned so that Wirz could be given a Christian burial.

James W. King---Albany Georgia-- SCV Camp Commander

Wirz Memorial Service--Andersonville POW Camp--South Wrongly Blamed For Andersonville by James Gaston.

On Sunday afternoon, November 10, memorial services honoring Capt. Henry Wirz will be held in Andersonville, Georgia, the site of one of the saddest stories of the American War Between the States.  Hanged as a scapegoat shortly following the War, Captain Wirz has a tall obelisk monument dedicated to his memory in downtown Andersonville, and natives of the region who know well the truths behind the years of revisionist history hold services in his memory each fall.
  
The story of Andersonville is well known, often having been told by Hollywood, writers, and historians.  The true story of Andersonville is not as well known.   Established as the location of a prisoner of war camp by the Confederacy during the War for Southern Independence because of its remote location from the front of the War and because of the location of the rail depot for transport, Camp Sumter at Andersonville was one of the primary POW camps in the South during the War. 
  
Of the 45,000 Union prisoners held at Andersonville during the War, more than 12,000 perished, mainly from malnutrition and dysentery.  The nearly 28 percent mortality rate among the prisoners is a sad fact of the War but is also one that is often grossly over reported, particularly in light of the fact that at the same Camp, 226 of the roughly 1,000 Confederate guards also died from the same conditions.  Approximately the same number of Confederate guards and Union prisoners died at Andersonville because of the blockade that the Union had enforced upon the South, along with the scorched earth policy practiced by Sherman as he marched through Georgia and the Carolinas.  Food and medical supplies were simply not to be had at that late date during the War.
   
To his credit, Captain Wirz attempted to alleviate the suffering of the Union prisoners by paroling five Union officers and sending them to the Union lines to offer the prisoners at Andersonville as an exchange for Confederate prisoners.  In spite of the fact that the Union soldiers reported the scarcity of food and medicine available to the Confederates in Andersonville, their pleas fell on deaf ears with Union leadership.  Union General Ulysses S. Grant had enacted a nationwide ban on prisoner exchanges; even when Captain Wirz offered to release the prisoners without exchange if the Union provided for their transport, Union leaders refused the request.
    
Following the War, Captain Wirz was blamed for the malnutrition and lack of medical service provided to the prisoners in Andersonville.  His efforts to alleviate their suffering went unheard; and on November 10, 1865 at 10:32 a.m., Henry Wirz was hanged in Washington, D.C.

For the last 150 years, both Captain Wirz and the South have been blamed for the death of the prisoners who fell at Andersonville; but little has been said of his efforts to save them or of the same percentages of Confederate guards who died at the Camp.  Still less is reported of the atrocities which occurred against Confederate POW's in Union prison camps such as Elmira Prison, New York where 25 percent of the prisoners died, or Camp Douglas, Illinois where more than 25 percent of the Confederate prisoners died as compared to less than five percent of the guards stationed there throughout the War.  (posted by James W. King with permission by James Gaston)

James Gaston, Chairman

Capt. Wirz Memorial Committee
Alex. H. Stephens Camp, SCV
Americus, GA