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THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF COL. CHARLES DEMORSES’ 29TH TEXAS CAVALRY CAMP The standard “ Long Shall our Banner Brave The breeze - The standard of the free “ VOL.5…………………………………………………….……………Issue NO. 2 Charles demorse editor & Proprietor Van-Grand Saline, Texas Saturday, February 9, 2019 2018 TEXAS DIVISION FOUR STAR CAMP AWARD Saturday March 9, 2019 7:00 pm 29th Texas Cavalry SCV Camp # 2269 Page 1 THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF COL. CHARLES DEMORSES’ 29TH TEXAS CAVALRY CAMP Col. Charles DeMorse’s Col. Charles DeMorse’s 29th Texas Cavalry 29th Texas Cavalry Sons of Confederate Veterans Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp # 2269 Camp # 2269 EVERYONE WELCOME Commander Bobby W. Smith Adjutant Russell Volk 1st Lt Johnny M. Moore Chaplin Robert C. Huff Meeting every 2nd Saturday 7:00 pm Commander Bobby W. Smith Van Community Center, 310 Chestnut Street Van, Texas. Fellow Compatriot’s, As a new year begins, I would like to Newsletter Published Monthly http://www.5thbrigade.org/camp2269/ remind everyone that our purpose is to Always, Remember our Fallen Veterans. To Honor them Opinions expressed by individual writers are their with Pride and the Dignity they deserve. To own and do not necessarily reflect official positions preserve their memories. Veterans of the of the Col. Charles DeMorse’s Confederacy were AMERICAN’S also and 29th Texas Cavalry Camp # 2269. should be dignified as such. In these days of our History many people are trying to rewrite their Letters and articles may be submitted to: history, and take down their memorials. Not [email protected] st Only Confederate Veterans but even American ( Cut off for articles is 1 of the month.) History. This should be never tolerated. Our Editor- Compiler Nation’s History is what is. We should always Bobby W. Smith remember it and better ourselves, from it’s transgression’s, and see that it never happens again. Always to live in brotherhood. God Bless America. See you all, At the next Camp Meeting! Deo Vindice UÉuuç jA fÅ|à{ Copyright © Bobby Wayne Smith Sr. , All Rights Reserved, 2019 Page 2 THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF COL. CHARLES DEMORSES’ 29TH TEXAS CAVALRY CAMP GEN. STEPHEN DILL LEE REVIEWING U. D. C., PARADE TAMPA, FLA. Statement of Purpose We, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, having been commissioned by the Confederate Charge to the …… Veterans themselves, retain our responsibility Sons of Confederate and right to adhere to the founding principles of Veterans the United States of America remembering the bravery, defending the honor and protecting the "To you, Sons of memory of our beloved Confederate Veterans, Confederate Veterans, we will commit the which includes their memorials, images, vindication of the cause symbols, monuments and gravesites for for which we fought. To ourselves and future generations. your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier's Support the Texas Division’s Mission good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those The SCV Texas Division's continuing principles which he loved and which you love also, and those mission is to preserve the history and protect ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish." the honor and memory of our Confederate Soldier ancestors. But, we need your help. Please consider donating to our Heritage Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General, Defense Fund today. Time is of the essence as United Confederate Veterans, we see our flags, our monuments, and our New Orleans, Louisiana April 25, 1906 historical sights attacked on a daily basis by those that have much more funding and undue influence with local government. Please consider donating Copyright © Bobby Wayne Smith Sr. , All Rights Reserved, 2019 Page 3 THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF COL. CHARLES DEMORSES’ 29TH TEXAS CAVALRY CAMP Gettysburg, Pa…………………………………..3,680 Glendale, Va……………………………………1,198 Grafton, W. Va…………………………………1 ,276 Hampton, Va…………………………………..11,549 Jefferson Barracks, Mo………………………..12,642 Jefferson City, Mo………………………………..843 NATIONAL CEMETERIES Keokuk, Iowa…………………………………….906 Knoxville, Tenn………………………………...3,552 The following gives a list of the National Lebanon, Ky……………………………………..875 Lexington, Ky…………………………………..1,136 Cemeteries in the United States authorized by act of Little Rock, Ark……………………………… 6,916 Congress of July 17, 1862, and subsequent acts, and Loudon Park, Md……………………………….4,002 shows the number of interments in each up to June Marietta, Ga…………………………………...10,424 30, 1917. The list was taken from the National Memphis, Tenn………………………………..14,441 Tribune, of Washington, D. C, for which paper it Mexico City, Mexico…………………………..1 ,552 was prepared by the War Department (Office of the Mill Springs, Ky………………………………….729 Quartermaster General): Mobile, Ala……………………………………..1,127 Mound City,……………………………….111 5,432 Alexandria, La………………………………….4,542 Nashville, Tenn………………………………16,77 1 Alexandria, Va………………………………….3,565 Natchez, Miss…………………………………..3,414 Andersonville, Ga……………………..............13,723 New Albany, Ind……………………………….3,146 Andrew Johnson, Tenn…………………… ………19 Newbern, N. C………………………………….3,399 Annapolis, Md………………………………….2,544 Philadelphia, Pa…………………………………3,444 Antietam, Md…………………………………...4,759 Poplar Grove, Va……………………………….6,217 Arlington, Va………………………………….24,478 Port Hudson, La………………………………...3,851 Balls Bluff, Va……………………………..............25 Quincy,………………………………………111 317 Barrancas, Fla………………………………….1 ,663 Raleigh, N. C……………………………………1,214 Baton Rouge, La………………………..............3,163 Richmond, Va…………………………………..6,578 Battle Ground, D. C……………………………….44 Rock Island,………………………………...111 ; 424 Beaufort, S. C…………………………..............9,492 Salisbury, N. C………………………………...12,149 Beverly, N. J……………………………...............201 San Antonio, Tex……………………………….1,970 Camp Butler,………………………………111 1,597 San Francisco, Cal……………………………...7,166 Camp Nelson, Ky………………………………3,660 Santa Fe, N. Mex……………………………….1,099 Cave Hill, Ky…………………………..............4,790 Seven Pines, Va………………………………...1,400 Chalmette, La………………………................13,120 Shiloh, Tenn…………………………………….3,622 Chattanooga, Tenn…………………………….13,706 Soldiers' Home, D. C…………………………...7,825 City Point, Va…………………………………..5,180 Springfield, Mo…………………………………2,451 Cold Harbor, Va………………………………..1,969 St. Augustine, Fla………………………………1,775 Corinth, Miss…………………………...............5,737 Staunton, Va………………………………………766 Crown Hill, Ind………………………………… 816 Stone River, Tenn………………………………6,149 Culpeper, Va……………………………………1,375 Vicksburg, Miss……………………………….17,070 Custer Battle Field, Mont………………………1,583 Wilmington, N. C……………………………….2,361 Cypress Hills, N. Y…………………………….7,673 Winchester, Va…………………………………4,546 Danville, Ky……………………………...............359 Woodlawn, N. Y………………………………..3,278 Danville, Va…………………………………….1,331 Yorktown, Va…………………………………..2,196 Fayetteville, Ark………………………………..1,316 Finns Point, N. J………………………………..2,632 Total………………………………………….372,164 Florence, S. C…………………………………..3,013 Fort Donelson, Tenn……………………………...676 Over seventy thousand of these are Union Fort Gibson, Okla………………………………2,488 Soldiers who died in Confederate Prisons and are Fort Harrison, Va…………………………………818 buried in National Cemeteries adjacent to the points Fort Leavenworth, Kan…………………………4,046 where the prisons were located. Andersonville, Fort McPherson, Nebr……………………………854 Florence, and Salisbury are entirely prison Fort Scott, Kan…………………………………...885 cemeteries. Fort Smith, Ark………………………………...2,399 Fredericksburg, Va……………………………15,186 Copyright © Bobby Wayne Smith Sr. , All Rights Reserved, 2019 Page 4 THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF COL. CHARLES DEMORSES’ 29TH TEXAS CAVALRY CAMP Of these interments approximately 10,578 are those of Confederates, being mainly in the following National Cemeteries: Arlington, Va…………………………………….300 Camp Butler,………………………………...111 865 City Point, Va…………………………………….131 Cypress Hills, N. Y………………………………456 GEN. ADAM RANKIN JOHNSON Finns Point, N. J………………………………..2,436 (1834–1922) Hampton, Va……………………………………..284 Fort Smith, Ark…………………………………..127 Jefferson Barracks, Mo…………………………..826 Little Rock, Ark………………………………….922 Philadelphia, Pa………………………………….200 Springfield, Mo…………………………………..549 Woodlawn, N. Y……………………………….3,012 Total ………………………………………..121,108 'Leaves have their time to fall, and flowers wither at the North wind's breath ; But thou, thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death." CONFEDERATE VETERAN Vol. XXX. No. 10. NASHVILLE, TENN., OCTOBER, 1922. THE GALLANT GRAY BY MILLARD CROWDUS, NASHVILLE, TENN. In homespun gray they marched away, The bugles sang: "Come, life is gay!" Brave hearts beat high, cheers soared to sky, Brave lips stilled sobs: "Good-by, good-by!" In homespun gray they marched away, The bugles laughed: "Come, Youth, and play!' In tattered gray they met the fray, The frantic bugles shrilled: "This way!" Through hell's red glare, on, on, and there — Defeat, at last, but not despair. Poor shattered gray, Fate ruled that day, The bugles sobbed: "Come, come, away!" In hallowed gray they sleep to-day; The bugles hushed and silent lay. The south wind sighs, where battle cries Long echoed—blue and fair the skies — In hallowed gray they sleep to-day, Sweet rest be theirs, the gallant gray! Copyright © Bobby Wayne Smith Sr. , All Rights Reserved, 2019 Page 5 THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF COL. CHARLES DEMORSES’ 29TH TEXAS CAVALRY CAMP Adam Rankin "Stovepipe" Johnson (February 6, Johnson was appointed brigadier general on September 1834 – October 20, 1922) was an antebellum Western 6, 1864, to rank from June 1, 1864, though his frontiersman and later an officer in the Confederate States appointment was never confirmed