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2015 ~ 2016 DeWitt Smith Jobe Award Winner VOL. 5 Issue 4 Official Publication of the Georgia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans January/February, 2019 Breaking news! Sb # 77 Protect all Veterans’ Monuments ! Call to duty Write your Representatives TODAY Ask them to support this SB # 77 At 12:00 noon Dixie Jubilee will world’s largest monument to the ✯✯✯✯✯ See page 5 ! start playing some of the best Confederate soldier. We need to Southern Bluegrass Gospel in the show the public and our politicians To name all of the members of ber, relative, friend, associate of the South. Perfect time to have a pic- we will not let the memory of the Georgia Division that have Georgia Division to send a hand nic dinner and enjoy the music. these Confederate heroes be for- worked very hard for the last two written letter to all your Represent- They will continue to play after the gotten. Be sure to bring family & years to make this opportunity to atives asking for their support of Memorial Service. friends and enjoy a picnic lunch give Georgians a strong veterans’ SB # 77 . At 1:00 pm. the memorial ser- after the service. monument protection law would YOUR HELP NOW IS vice begins. The keynote speaker A Cannon Bounty Is Offered & take up more room than I have will be SCV National’s CIC Paul we Need Honor Guard Reenactors. here. VITAL TO THE SUCCESS Gramling with a cannon and Hon- If you have an artillery piece or Our folks working with the OF THIS LEGISLATION ! or Guard Salute immediately fol- serve on a crew of a gun, we need team of Poole & Dunn have gotten We MUST act NOW ! lowing. your cannon, we are offering a us to this very important position. If you can’t find your Repre- National Confederate Memorial Cannon Bounty of $200. If you are The veterans’ monument protection sentative’s and Senator’s mailing Day Service is held at Stone a reenactor and would like to serve bill is ready to make its way address, call Mountain Park in front of the in the Honor Guard we would be through the 2019 Georgia Legisla- honored to have you participate. ture. 866-728-4642 WE NEED YOUR HELP. We are calling EVERY mem- GA. Div. Secretary Kitty Dorety Contact: David Denard 404/372- 3420, [email protected] BAD NEWS ! or Dave Floyd, 770/979-2637, Opposition files hate bills !!!!! [email protected] HB175 & SB51 These MUST be defeated !!!!!!! The Charge Inside this issue: to the Georgia Division DIVISION NEWS BRIGADE REPORTS 1 ~ 10 To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we submit the vindi- COLOR PHOTOS 2, 11, 14, cation of the Cause for which we fought; to your strength will 23 be given the defense of the Confederate soldier’s good name, HISTORY, GA. DIV. 12, 13 the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, MARK POLLARD the perpetuation of those principles he loved and which made CHAPLAIN-IN-CHIEF 16, 17 him glorious and which you also cherish. CAMP NEWS AND 18 ~ 21 ARTICLES Permit # 80002 # Permit Remember, it is your duty to see that the true history of the Jesup, GA 31545 GA Jesup, NON PROFIT ORG PROFIT NON U.S. POSTAGE PAID POSTAGE U.S. South is presented to future generations. Private MacFeeley 18 Page 2 The Georgia Confederate January/February, 2019 1. 1. Milledgeville monument, repairs completed. 1. 2. 2. On November 10, 2018, members of the Black Creek Volunteers Camp #549 raised a 6’ x 10’ Battleflag on a 30’ flagpole and recruiting sign on U.S. HWY 301 North of Sylvania, GA. This was a collaborative effort involving the Ogeechee Rifles Camp donating the pole and Dale Thompson of the Buckhead-Ft. Lawton Bri- gade Camp clearing the site. Those helping were Bill Arthur, Caden Arthur, Duncan Arthur, Adam Bazemore, Don Bazemore, Samuel Bazemore, Donny Mallard, Kerry Mallard, and Carl Sheppard. 3. Damage to Viet Nam Veterans’ monument in Macon. 4. The Yancy Independent Camp in Worth County in cooperation with the American Legion held a clean-up of the Sikes Cemetery. Sgt. William J. Ford, 10th Geor- gia Infantry is a Confederate Veteran buried here. 5. Members of Montgomery Sharpshooters Camp 2164, Mount Vernon, Lt. James T. Woodward Camp 1399, Warner Robins and Pine Barrens Volunteers Camp 2039, Eastman held joint memorial services on Novem- ber 10th. North of Alamo, a service was in honor of John Clark CSA at Clark Cemetery at 11 am. At 2 pm, the Camps moved to the Miller Cemetery in Laurens Co. to conduct a service to honor Harrison Sears CSA. Sears is an ancestor of Compatriot Ben Lowery of Camp 1399. 6. Annual Longstreet Memorial in Gainesville’s Alta Vista Cemetery 1/13/19 3. 2. ☜ Georgia Confederates Youth Camp ~2018~ ~2019~ June 23-28 New 4. Ebenezer 6. 5. 4. 5. Lest We Forget January/February, 2019 The Georgia Confederate Page 3 [email protected] or call her 1-866- consideration. My family feels as Commander's Report 728-4642 and she will help you get Americans it is our duty to always Gentlemen, the information. preserve the honor and sacrifices of Remember the main points we our Veterans. Now our time has come, Senate need to emphasize about the SB Bill Thank you, Bill No. 77 has been issued and as- XX are that it accomplishes the fol- (Signed by you and maybe other signed to committee. All of us as lowing: family members in your household) defenders of our Confederate Herit- Broadens types of monuments age need to do our part and make Now some bad news, on February to be covered in this code sections every effort to help get this legisla- 6, SB 51 was introduced that gives by including religious, civil, politi- tion passed into State law. cities and counties the authority to cal, social, or cultural events or We need to write, call and visit our remove and/or conceal from display series of events. State Senators & Representatives to any monument, plaque, marker or Creates a deterrent through ago when we opened our Division let them know about our concerns memorial. Basically, it would allow strong civil penalties such as tre- Office and brought on a part time of these acts of vandalism against these liberal mayors and city coun- ble damages for the cost of repair Division Secretary to manage our all our Veterans’ monuments and cil members to do as they may with and restoration, as well as attor- office, store, rosters, deposits and the absolute necessity of strength- our Veterans monuments by resolu- ney’s fees and court costs. many other necessary items to ening our monument protection tion. maintain our Division’s daily opera- laws. SAMPLE LETTER: The Description to Senate Bill 51: tions. It’s my opinion that our Divi- It has been proven that the most Dear Representative / State Senator A BILL to be entitled an Act to sion Office and Secretary have influential and effective way to _________________, amend Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Ti- brought us to a level of profession- communicate with your Legislator My name is ____________ from tle 50 of the Official Code of Geor- alism and establishment that we is to: your district. My Family and I are gia Annotated, relating to state and need to maintain as a Division. Send them a polite, to the point appalled with the acts of vandalism other flags, so as to provide that Those of you who have dealt with handwritten letter (Sample letter against our Veterans’ Monuments local governments may relocate, our Division Secretary, Kitty provided below). across our Country. These acts of remove, conceal, obscure, or alter Dorety know where I’m coming Schedule a meeting with your vandalism and removals are noth- certain monuments; to provide for from. We were looking for a rental Legislator if at all possible. ing more than pre-planned overre- related matters; to repeal conflict- office in Forsyth but, in the process, Have friends and family write a actions to events that are not re- ing laws; and for other purposes. have located a building in the his- letter and meet with their Legislator. motely related to our Heritage and We need to adamantly oppose torical Forsyth square that was in Place an announcement or ad in the sacrifices our Veterans made for Senate Bill 51 and make reference good shape and affordable for the your local newspaper, (the Division their Country and State. It’s an to it in our correspondence with our Division. We are in negotiations has a prepared ad available contact agenda by radical leftist groups, State Representatives and Senators. now with a real estate company and Division Secretary Kitty Dorety at establishment liberals and the liber- In addition a more destructive bill, the owner and hopefully by the next [email protected] or call her 1- al media to destroy our Nation’s HB175 has been filed to make it issue of the Georgia Confederate 866-728-4642 and she can e-mail history. legal to destroy and/or remove ALL we can announce we have a new you a copy). Confederate monuments. This is We respectfully ask that you oppose Division Office and small museum Direct folks to our Division Web serious. and vote against any legislation that in Forsyth. This will be a big ac- -page at www.gascv.org/monument weakens our monument protection complishment for our Division and -protection which gives detailed Other good news, I’m pleased to law 50-3-1 and any legislation that give us a permanent office that we instructions on the Monument Pro- report that the Division’s annual would give any authority to the lo- own.