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VOL. 6 Issue 4 Official Publication of the Georgia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans January/February, 2020
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The Georgia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans is NEW ITEM: SURVELLIENCE SIGNS proud to announce the opening of the Division’s on-line store. After the Confederate hysteria in 2015 when many of Deterrence to vandalism at Cemeteries, the major merchants exclaimed they will not be selling and Monuments !!!!! “Confederate” merchandise anymore, the Georgia Division made the decision to open an on-line store to make Confed- When erate Flags and tags available to its membership and the public. Given the superior quality and historical accuracy you shop of our Flags, we have the most completive prices available than any other on-line store selling Flags. Our major objec- at the tive is having the patriotic symbols of the Confederate Sol- Georgia dier available for all too proudly display. All profits from the sales go directly to cover the expenses of our Division Division office. Store, What makes our Flags unique from the rest? Our supplier, Ron Moore of the Virginia Division, SCV you grow and founder of Richmond Depot Flags, has been studying the these historical flags for many years. Ron manufactured our flags based on real battle flags of the Army of Tennes- Georgia see and the Army of Northern Virginia Battle Flags which Division. makes our Flags authentic replications based on historical originals. Our Flags with these authentic designs are exclu- sively sold and distributed by the Sons of Confederate Vet- ✯ erans. Most unique are the various star patterns that repre- sent true Confederate flags. Not only are our Flags histori- INSIDE THIS ISSUE SHOP cally accurate, but they are made with polyester material, Color Photos 2, 11, 12, 13, 23 heavy duty grommets and has (4) rows of stitching on the Commander’s Report 3 LOCAL flag end for durability. Div. Officers 4 Reunion Info 5 EC Minutes 6 SHOP Get Heritage Alerts: Sign Up on website gascv.org 10 Pollard: Nash Farm 14 SCV gascv.org Camp News 19 ~ 22 Page 2 The Georgia Confederate January/February, 2020
☝Carl Tommy Miller Camp # 1914 - General Ambrose R. Wright, Columbia County, Georgia re- ceived a National Commendation Medal from Georgia Division Commander Tim Pilgrim!
☝ Div. Cmdr. Tim Pilgrim presents the Georgia Division Service Medal posthu- mously on behalf of Division Historian Mark ✯ ✯ Pollard’s many years of service to Ashley Pol- lard.
Confederate States of America
✯ ☝ A Memorial Service was held for Pvt. Jo- seph E. Anderson, Co."F", Holcombe Legion South Carolina Infantry , CSA in November, 2019 by the Lt. Dickson L. Baker Camp 926 of Hartwell at Dewy Rose, GA Baptist Church. Cmdr. Judson Barton started the service, wel- comed everyone, Hu Daughtry was our speaker and he gave the history on Pvt. Anderson. The Honor Guard was composed of members of Au- gusta’s Brig. Gen. E. Porter Alexander Camp ☝Savannah Militia Camp School Program at St James Catholic 158. The family was in great attendance and the School, Savannah, November 2019. Compatriot Jim Stevens is flag was given to Pvt. Anderson's Great Grand- pictured with the students in a show and tell. Compatriot David daughter Jean Estes from North Carolina. Milton and I did drill and ceremony demonstration with the stu- ☞ Respectively, Judson Barton-Cmdr. dents. Students in costume. The event was a great suc- Lt. Dickson L. Baker Camp 926 cess, We have been invited back for 2020. Cecil Greenwell Hartwell, GA January/February, 2020 The Georgia Confederate Page 3 for us, the Sons of Confeder- Alpharetta and Columbus are Commander's Report ate Veterans, we continue to moving forward. See the January Gentlemen, be the last stand protecting the 18, 2020 Executive Council I hope your 2020 is off to a Confederate Soldiers good meeting minutes published in good start. We have another dec- name. We must continue in our this issue of the Georgia Confed- ade before us, in 2000s our efforts, by staying active in the erate for an up-date on those on- Georgia State Flag that honored fight, maintaining and building going fights. Georgia's Confederate Veterans our membership, and supporting I was honored to be the guest was stolen from Georgia by the and participating in our Heritage speaker at the Lee/Jackson din- "progressive" politicians, liberal defense fights and efforts. ners for the Clement Evans establishment and the big busi- Good news from our Lobbyist Camp # 64 in Waycross and the ness sell-outs. In the 2010s the Firm. Nearly 30 days in the 2020 General Joe Wheeler Camp #863 all his hard work and service same groups started their attacks legislative session and no anti- in Conyers. I was welcomed gra- over the years and will miss him on our Confederate monuments. Southern legislation has been ciously by the Camps and their as our Georgia Confederate Edi- We suffered major blows, losing submitted. Hopefully we will guests. It was good seeing the tor. If you're interested in the monuments in cities in the States have a quiet legislative session Clement Camp's 8ft X 8ft Battle Georgia Confederate Editor po- of Louisiana, Texas, North this year. Our Lobbyist firm has Flag flying on the 60ft pole off sition please contact Editor Carolina, South Carolina, Flor- done an excellent job represent- Hwy 82 heading into Waycross. Perry at [email protected] or ida, Maryland and Tennessee. ing our interest. The Executive Council ap- 912-585-9144. We have seen just how vicious I offer my heartfelt thanks to proved again this year to offer a At your Service, the liberal media / establishment past 1st Brigade Commander $200 scholarship for the first 20 Tim Pilgrim is toward our Confederate Heri- and our facebook administrator Campers for the Georgia Con- Georgia Division Commander tage in their efforts of attempting Barry Colbaugh for accepting federates Youth Camp being to tie us in with acts of violence, the position of our Division held in June 2020. The cost per like the Dylan Roof murders and Webmaster. He was confirmed Camper for a week of Confeder- the Charlottesville riots. Events in by the Executive Council at ate education and fun is $350, "Stripped of all its that had absolutely no affiliation the January 18 EC meeting in with the scholarship applied covering, the naked with the Sons of Confederate Irwinville. If he runs our web- brings the cost for our young question is, Veterans and our Confederate page like he does the facebook Campers to $150 per Camper. I Heritage. It’s obvious that these account we will have an updated would like to ask our Camps of whether ours is a attacks on our Confederate Heri- and well-done job. the Georgia Division to please federal or consolidated tage are only a prelude to a more I understand that a 527 Politi- support the Georgia Confeder- government; sinister plan by the left to bring cal Action Committee named the ates Youth Camp by sponsoring down our Constitutional Repub- Veterans Memorial Coalition a Camper, either boy or girl for a a constitutional or lic and destroy our American has been created by others. The week for some of the best his- absolute one; Heritage. 250,000 Confederate Veterans Memorial Coalition torical programs and comradeie Soldiers made the ultimate sacri- supports candidates both State that they will ever experience. If a government resting fice trying to prevent that which and National who support Vet- you can't sponsor a Camper solidly on the basis is happening today in our Coun- eran’s issues and monument pro- please consider sponsoring by of the sovereignty of try, the big government takeover tection. Those of us who want to donating to the Camp to help in Washington, DC. make a difference in the political cover the cost of a Camper. the States, We have been very fortunate arena can contribute to this PAC Please contact our Division Lt. or on the unrestrained here in Georgia. The monuments without any concerns of the Commander South Al Perry for will of a majority; that have been damaged or de- SCV 501c3 status. more details 912.585.9144. stroyed by theses "cowards in We are still searching for a In closing I regrettably inform a form of government, the night" have been replaced Georgia Division Office build- you that our Editor of the Geor- as in all other and/or repaired. We have made ing to purchase, a location large gia Confederate Al Perry is some positive gains with our enough to support office opera- ready to retire his duties as our unlimited ones, monument protection efforts. tions and a small museum. Loca- Editor so he can focus primarily in which injustice, I'm cautiously optimistic for tions we prefer are commercial on building the Georgia Confed- violence, and force decade 2020, I believe the senti- property in the Macon/Forsyth/ erates Youth Camp . Editor Perry ment of the public is on our side Barnesville area to keep the lo- has served our Division faith- must ultimately prevail." on the most part, just motivating cation in the central Georgia fully for 5 years, bringing us an them to take a stand has always area close to I-75. excellent newsletter every two - John C. Calhoun been the challenge for us. But, Our legal fights with the City of months. I am very grateful for Page 4 The Georgia Confederate January/February, 2020
Georgia Division Officers & Staff 2019/2020 Division Spokesman TAG PROJECT FUND Martin K. O'Toole : Chairman Kim Beck Executive Council [email protected] [email protected] 678-232-8638 Members: George Crawford, Michael Georgia Division Commander 478-358-4168 / 478-290-3885 Dean, Chuck Griffin, Jack Bridwell, Division Chaplain Timothy F. Pilgrim Richard Straut & Dan Coleman 5th Brigade Commander Rev. Dr. James (Jim) L. Cavanah II 20 Old Fuller Mill Rd. NE, Thomas Miller 302 Erin Court, Rincon, Ga. 31326 Marietta, Ga. 30067 TIME AND PLACE COMMITTEE: 326 Longwood Dr., [email protected] [email protected] : Chairman Thomas E. Stevens, tste- Statesboro, Ga. 30461 912-657-1698 404-456-3393 [email protected] 478-477-7468 [email protected] Deputy Division Chaplain - North Members: Al Medcalf Division Lieutenant-Commander 912-536-5775 Bobby Warren Bradford North FINANCE COMMITTEE: 6th Brigade Commander 176 Old Jones Road, (Brigades : 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13) : Chairman Richard Straut Donald Newman Ellijay, Ga. 30536 George James Crawford Members: Kim Beck 128 West Deerfield Rd. [email protected] 435A S. 6th Street, Griffin, Ga. 30224 Bloomingdale, Ga. 31302 706-273-6043 LOBBYIST COMMITTEE: [email protected] 678-360-9667 [email protected] : Chairman Michael Dean Deputy Division Chaplain - South Division Lieutenant-Commander 912-547-4212 Members: Martin K O'Toole Kim M. Beck South/Editor 7th Brigade Commander [email protected] PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMIT- (Brigades : 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) James Carter 478-358-4168 / 478-290-3885 TEE: Allison Smith Perry 3703 North Cliff Lane, : Chairman Tim Hawkins 4300 S. US Hwy. 301 Division Heritage Offense Officer Valdosta, Ga. 31605 Members: Michael Dean, George Jesup, Ga. 31546 Tony Jay Pilgrim [email protected] 229-242-0157 Crawford, Chuck Griffin, [email protected] 912-585-9144 [email protected] 8th Brigade Commander 770-296-5139 COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE: Division Chief of Staff Hershell Smith : Chairman George Crawford Timothy Hawkins Senior Aide-de-Camp 105 New Bethel Church Rd. Members: Al Perry, Barry Colbaugh 104 Suncrest Place, Dr. A. Jack Bridwell, Past Division Fitzgerald, Ga. 31750 Kathleen, Ga. 31047 Commander YOUTH PROGRAMS COMMITTEE [email protected] [email protected] P.O. Box 1353, Moultrie, Ga. 1353 : Chairman Thomas Miller 229-425-2966 478-951-2628 [email protected] 229-985-8403 Members: Al Perry, Michael Reither 9th Brigade Commander Division Adjutant Division Historian MONUMENTS COMMITTEE: Ken Arvin Richard Kevin Straut : Chairman Barry Colbaugh 69 Brooklyn Circle, 3721 Lathem Creek Rd. Members: Timothy Johnson, Billy Richland, Ga. 31825 Gainesville, Ga. 30506 Bearden, David O'Keefe
[email protected] 706-662-4532 [email protected] 770-851-3395 RECRUITMENT, RETENTION & 10 th Brigade Commander Division Judge Advocate Division HQ Office Executive Director GENEALOGY COMMITTEE: Joseph Alfred Medcalf, Jr. Daniel Coleman Thomas E. Stevens : Chairman Al Medcalf 122 Medcalf Rd., 8735 Jenkins Rd., Winston, Ga. 30187 384 North River Blvd. Members: Don Newman, Hu Barnesville, Ga. 30204 [email protected] 770-265-7910 Macon, Ga. 31211 Daughtry, Curtis H. Collier, III, Jack [email protected] 678-572-0723 [email protected] 478-477-7468 Grubb Immediate Past Division Commander 11 th Brigade Commander Scott K. Gilbert, Jr. Division Genealogist FLAGS ACROSS GEORGIA: Teddy Thomas 81 Tinsley Way, Senoia, Ga. 30276 Hu Robert Daughtry : Chairman Joel Coleman 2830 Shady Grove Rd., [email protected] P.O. Box 406, Metter, Ga. 30439 8405 Jenkins Rd., Winston, Ga. 30187 Carrollton, Ga. 30116 404-449-2521 [email protected] 912-687-6153 [email protected] 770 778-4116 [email protected] 1st Brigade Commander 770-283-0720 Division Event Coordinator DIVISION AWARDS COMMITTEE: Wendell Bruce 9th Brigade Commander Ken Arvin : Chairman Thomas E. Stevens, 12 th Brigade Commander 813 County Line Rd., [email protected] 706-662-4532 [email protected] 478-477-7468 Michael Reither Rock Springs, Ga. 30739 Division Grave Registry Coordinator [email protected] 3789 Sweat Creek Run, Garry Earl Daniell Executive Council Meeting 423-629-5222 Marietta, GA 30062-1182 [email protected] 770-639-8969 4347 Beachview De. SE, Schedule: 2nd Brigade Commander Smyrna, Ga. 30082 th June 6, 2020 after Division Michael C. Dean 13 Brigade Commander [email protected] 200 Pruitt Drive, Tony Jay Pilgrim 770-435-4605 Reunion Alpharetta, Ga. 30004 1998 Mt. Carmel Road, Division Historic Preservation Coordi- [email protected] Hampton, Ga. 30228 nator 404-771-6507 [email protected] 770-296-5139 William Lathem, 3rd Brigade Commander [email protected] 404-401-9166 Curtis H. Collier, III Georgia Division Secretary Division H.L. Hunley Award Liaison 82 Bassingborne Dr., Catherine (Kitty) Dorety Scott E. Seay Athens, Ga. 30507 Georgia Division, SCV 4425 Evandale Way, [email protected] 706-540-9062 P.O. Box 1081, Macon, Ga. 31202 [email protected] Cumming, Ga. 30040 th 4 Brigade Commander 1-866-SCV-in-GA or 1-866-728-4642 [email protected] Kim M. Beck 678-455-7641 2321 Middle Ground Church Rd. DIVISION STAFF OFFICERS COMMITTEES Eastman, Ga. 31023-3043 January/February, 2020 The Georgia Confederate Page 5
General Edward Dorr Tracy, Jr., Camp #18 Sons of Confederate Veterans VENDORS WANTED 123rd GEORGIA DIVISION REUNION JUNE 5 ~ 6, 2020 $50.00 per table
Contact: TOM STEVENS 384 River North Boulevard Macon, Georgia 31211 (Home) 478-477-7468 (Cell) 478.501.5703 [email protected]
th th 123rd GEORGIA DIVISION REUNION, JUNE 5 & 6 , 2020 THE MACON MARRIOTT CITY CENTER 240 COLISEUM DRIVE, MACON, GEORGIA
✯ Elections ✯ Amendments ✯ Tag Fund Projects ✯ Awards
DEMONSTRATE YOUR CAMP’S DUTY. SEND ALL YOUR ELIGIBLE DELEGATES ! Page 6 The Georgia Confederate January/February, 2020 have added surveillance signs to the list. Sons of Confederate Veterans These are to be posted in cemeteries and around monuments as a vandalism deter- Georgia Division rence. Adjutant’s Report: Executive Council Meeting Jan. 18, 2020, Irwinville, GA Adjutant Richard Straut provided a detailed Division Financial Report to the Executive Executive Council Members Present The creation of a 501c4 has been com- Counsel for review Div.Cmdr. Tim Pilgrim Present pleted. The 501c4 allows unlimited lobbyist The Division is doing well, books are bal- Lt. Div.Cmdr. N George Crawford Present expenses and allows donations to be made to anced, and bills are paid Lt. Div.Cmdr S Al Perry Present a 527 Political Action Committee (PAC). Reports Div. Adj. Richard Straut Present Commander Pilgrim also reported that a 527 Lt. Commander South-Al Perry: Key Div.J.A. Dan Coleman Present PAC named the Veterans Memorial Coali- points below Div. CoS Tim Hawkins Present tion has been created by others, to support Need articles, events and pictures to support Past Div. Cmdr Scott Gilbert candidates both State and National who sup- the Georgia Confederate. Absent, Excused port Veteran’s issues and monuments. We need more cadets for the Georgia Con- 1st Brig. Cmdr. Wendell Bruce Present We are still searching for a Georgia Divi- federate Youth Camp. Each Camp needs to 2nd Brig. Cmdr. Michael Dean Present sion Office space. A location large enough, sponsor a camper this year. 3rd Brig. Cmdr. Curt Collier around 1500 sq. ft., to support office opera- Looking for an editor for the Georgia Con- Absent, Excused tions and a small museum. Locations we pre- federate. If you are interested, please contact 4th Brig. Cmdr. Kim Beck Present fer are commercial property in the Forsyth/ Commander Al Perry. This is a Division paid 5th Brig. Cmdr. Thomas Miller Present Barnesville area to keep the location in the position. 6th Brig. Cmdr. Don Newman Present central Georgia area close to I-75. Lt. Commander North-George Crawford: 7th Brig. Cmdr. James Carter Legal Fights : Attached, Key points below: Absent, Excused We are moving forward with the Alpha- Speaking at different Camp and supporting 8th Brig. Cmdr. Hershell Smith Present retta Old Soldiers Parade litigation with on- many different Camp events. 9th Brig Cmdr. Ken Arvin Present going discovery questions, arguments in Please contact Commander Crawford if you 10th Brig. Cmdr. Al Medcalf April and court projected in May. We will would like him to speak at your Camp or Absent, Excused keep you updated as the litigation progresses. support a Camp event. 11th Brig. Cmdr. Ted Thomas The Division is supporting the Cotriss legal Brigade Reports Absent, Excused fight over the flying of the Confederate Bat- Provided reports attached 12th Brig. Cmdr. Michael Reither Present tle flag by a Police Officer on their private 1st Brigade Commander Wendell Bruce: 13th Brig. Cmdr. Tony Pilgrim Present property. Case is currently under US court of Working with Camps appeals. Plans to meet with Camps to discuss our Meeting Minutes Columbus Linwood Cemetery legal fight limitations as a 501c3 organizations. Call to Order by Commander Tim Pilgrim continues, case has been filed in the Musco- 4th Brigade Commander Kim Beck at 1:10 gee County Superior Court. Planning a Brigade meeting in February with Invocation and given by 4 th Brigade Com- Division Secretary is working recruitment Camp leadership. mander Kim Beck ads in local newspapers. This is to reach the 5th Brigade Commander Thomas Miller Flag Salutes and SCV Charge were led by local communities to let them know who we Hunley Awards are now available. Camps Sergeant at Arms Thayer. are and that anyone can purchase the SCV need to start contacting the local JROTC Motion made by Commander Pilgrim for vehicle tag. units at local schools for Hunley Awards the Chief of Staff Tim Hawkins to document Division Secretary Report: candidates. If you’re not supporting a local meeting minutes and accept the agenda as the Roster updated completed school, make contact to insure they are aware order of business for the meeting; Motion Christmas cards have been mailed to Geor- of the Hunley Awards program. passed gia Legislators that supported HB 77 wishing 8th Brigade Commander Hershall Smith Motion made by Commander Pilgrim to them a Merry Christmas and thanking them Jefferson Davis Park Museum remodel is accept the Executive Council meeting min- for their support of SB77. complete. utes from Sept 7, 2019 meeting. Second pro- All Camp E File 990’s completed Soliciting funds for a new ice maker and vided by Al Perry, motion passed Supporting phone inquiries from member- landscaping around the facility. Division Commanders Report: key points ship and the public 10 th Brigade Report below. Contacting local newspapers to run recruit- Commander gave recognition to the Barnes- Our Lobbyist firm is currently engaged at ment ads ville Blues Camp # 2137 who donated $750 the State Capitol this 2020 legislative ses- Operating the Division Store. We continue towards the Columbus Linwood Cemetery sion. So far, no anti-Southern legislation has to have flags and other items for sale. We litigation. been submitted this session. EC Minutes: Continued next page > January/February, 2020 The Georgia Confederate Page 7
EC Minutes: Continued To the Commander and EC members of the Georgia Division The support was discussed by the Sons of Confederate Veterans Committee Reports: Executive Council and a motion 6TH Brigade Report Time and Place Committee; re- was made to provide the $250. A ported by Commander Kim Beck second was provided and motion The 6 th Brigade consists of 11 active camps. We also have two for Commander Tom Stevens passed. new Camps in the forming stage. rd 123 Georgia Division Reunion Commander Pilgrim noted he The active Camps are listed below. will be held at the Macon Marriott was contacted by National SCV The Brigade Mourns the passing of our longtime member Com- Central Plex on June 5- 6, 2020. for a Georgia Division Flag that patriot, James (Rooney) Kea. Camp 2164 Montgomery Sharp- Vendors needed; tables are $50 will be displayed in the New SCV shooters, Mt Vernon Ga. Rooney was a former Lt Commander each. If you’re interested contact Museum in Elm Springs. of the GA Division, Camp Commander and served his camp as Commander Tom Stevens. tste- After a short discussion on the Adjutant. He was an encyclopedia of Confederate History. He [email protected] 478-477-7468 proposed adoption of the 1956 will be missed. New Business: Georgia State Flag as the Georgia I would like to remark as member of the retention committee. The Georgia Division webpage Division Flag with the addition of Recruitment is no problem for our organization. Men want to development is complete. We are Georgia Division around the State join us. Our camp leadership has got to find ways to keep our now in the update phase to keep Seal, a motion was made, sec- members involved. Our division membership has stagnated at the website current as things onded and passed to adopt the around three thousand members for many years. With all the change. We have solicited for a 1956 Georgia State Flag as the recruitment we all have done we should be many thousands website/page manager and Barry Georgia Division Flag. A new cot- more than where we are. Colbaugh has agreed to take the ton flag will be embroidered and #93 Francis S. Bartow camp. Savannah position. He has already begun sent to SCV National for display #154 Tattnall Invincibles. Reidsville getting an understanding of the in the Museum. #918 The Appling Greys. Baxley webpage layout and making up- Stone Mountain: #932 Gen. Robert Toombs Higgston dates. This is a paid position; we Stone Mountain Confederate His- #1386 McLeod-Moring Swainsboro have been paying $40 per hour tory month celebrations will be #1657 Savannah Militia Pooler th during the development and Barry held on April 18 beginning at #1902 Ebenezer Rifles Rincon has agree to manage the updates 12:00 in front of the Monument. #1919 Gen. Robert H. Anderson. Jesup for $25 per hour. Thanks to the negotiation team of #2073 Camp Davis Springfield Motion made by Commander Commander Pilgrim, Adjutant #2164 Montgomery Sharpshooters. Mt. Vernon Perry to appoint Barry Colbaugh Richard Straut and Legal Counsel #2600 Immortal Six Hundred Richmond Hill as the Division webpage manager Martin O’Toole we have no re- with an hourly fee of $25. Motion strictions on how we celebrate. Two Largest events we need help with. Re-enactors and SCV second provided and passed unani- We will have a PA system for the members. mously. speakers and many cannons to an- Tuesday March 17 th St Patrick’s Day Parade in Savannah. Info Commander Pilgrim discussed a nounce our support for Confeder- call Don Newman 912-748-7387 proposed Division by-law change ate History month. Also, Thanks Saturday and Sunday April 4/5 Bellville GA. Reenactment Bat- to provide more flexibility when to the Stone Mountain Park Asso- tles at Manassas. Between Claxton and Reidsville. negotiating Division Reunion ciation for supporting our special Don Newman Commander. 912-748-7367 venue contracts. The proposed event. [email protected] Facebook scv savannah change would change the “2nd The memorial flag pole by the st Saturday in June” to read the “1 Confederate monument at the ~ 2020 ~ DEADLINES or 2 nd Saturday in June” in Article Fairburn City Cemetery has been VIII, Division Convention. A mo- removed by the City of Fairburn. The Georgia Confederate tion for the Executive Council to Currently we are getting more in- recommend this proposed by-law formation on this matter, but this ✯ April 1st ✯ June 1st ✯ August 1st change to our Delegates at reunion may become another State Code made by Commander Crawford, violation of 50-1-3. ✯October 1st ✯ December 1st second provided and motion Next Executive Council meeting passed unanimously. will be on June 6, 2020 after the Commander Pilgrim noted that Division Reunion. [email protected] the Florida Save the Monuments Meeting concluded with Bene- group had solicited Georgia Divi- diction by Commander Kim Beck. Editor sion for monetary support of $250 Singing of Dixie to dismiss at ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ to assist in their lobbyist efforts. 2:40. ❖ Page 8 The Georgia Confederate January/February, 2020
“More of the Story” on Monuments or down in silent memorial. In seem to indicate that most of the the larger cities, the monuments Confederate monuments fit into (Source: Blue And Gray Dispatch ) were larger and more elaborate. history better as part of a na- by Waite Rawls – December 20, 2019 Many of the statues were custom tional narrative called the made by sculptors who would do “Memorial Period,” during Paul Harvey made thousands participation and valor in a Yankee one month and a Rebel which of radio recordings in which he battle. And America's Civil War the next. And many of them the entire nation mourned the would tell a story and then add, battlefields are covered with were monumental in size, much death of the 750,000 men who “the rest of the story.” For those these markers. Gettysburg alone larger than anything in Rich- died and memorialized the sacri- of us in the history field, we now has 1,328 of them. By the mond. The largest in the country fices of the three million who know there is no such thing 1880s, the effort to remember is in downtown Indianapolis, served for causes which most of as “the rest of the story,” be- the valor and sacrifice of the erected in 1902 and 285 feet them believed were just. To sin- cause there is always “more of soldiers had spread to the home- high, more than three times as gle out the Confederate statues the story.” With that in mind, towns from which those soldiers large as Richmond’s biggest, the and attribute them wholly and this article gives “more of the came. Again, this phenomenon 90-foot-high Confederate pyra- only to the Jim Crow or Lost story” of the Confederate monu- began in the North; but it mid in Hollywood Cemetery. Cause era seems to me to tell ments in Richmond and else- quickly spread to the South, with The 60-foot-high monument in only part of the complicated where. southerners often noting their Richmond of Robert E. Lee, story of American history. As In today's public narrative on jealousy of the North or a sense dedicated in 1890, was dwarfed we contemplate the monuments Confederate monuments, we of competition with the North. a year later in Chicago with a to Confederates, we deserve to commonly are told that the great The efforts of women across 100-foot-tall monument to Grant know more of the story. majority of the monuments were the country quickly caught up and the 165-foot-tall Grant’s Source: Mountain Muster ; erected between 1885 and 1925. and surpassed the efforts of the Tomb in New York in 1897. Thanks to Editor Greg White, Many say that this time period veterans themselves, with the And all were much smaller than David W. Payne, Camp # 1633 corresponds with the “Jim Crow women of the North again taking the Lincoln Memorial in Wash- Era” or the “Lost Cause Era,” the lead. The Daughters of Un- ington, D.C., which was done in either of which identify them as ion Veterans was created in the same period—begun in 1914 products of the white supremacy 1885, and the National Society and completed in 1922. and black suppression of that of the Daughters of the Union Despite the competition, the time. As a result, the monuments began in 1912. The southern South could never keep up, as have become testaments to ra- counterpart, the United Daugh- there are more than twice as cism and their subject matter is ters of the Confederacy, started many markers, monuments, and racist and is to be rejected by a in 1894, but numbered only statues in the North today than modern, enlightened, and appro- about half the participants of there are in the South. priately sensitive population. northern women’s groups. Counting monuments is a little While those causes cannot be Again, there was a sense of ri- tricky, because statues are dismissed or discounted, they valry. clearly in the count, but how are not the whole story. The “Memorial Period” be- about other markers? The South- Historians of the era would came almost a frenzy of activity, ern Poverty Law Center has tried also call it the “Memorial Pe- with thousands of statues being to count those in the South; but riod” because of all the statues, erected. At the court house or they include statues, schools, monuments, and memorials that town square of small towns buildings, streets, license plates, were being erected all across the across the country, monuments dams, even a fire department That this may be a country – North and South, East went up, usually with inscrip- that are all named after Confed- and West, urban and rural. As tions that sounded like “In erates. Their count of Confeder- sign among you, that Dr. Caroline Janney points out Honor of the Men of (your town ate markers comes to 1,728 in when your children in her book, Remembering the here) Who Served in the Great the entire country, with 223 in ask their fathers in Civil War: Reunion and the Lim- Civil War” or something similar. Virginia, only 95 of which are its of Reconciliation , the great The statues on the top of the recorded as monuments. In con- time to come, saying, tidal wave of monuments pedestals were often ordered trast, counting only monuments What mean ye by began shortly after the war with from catalog companies, where and statues, websites for New these stones? Union veterans going to the vari- you could specify the type of York State claim 280 Civil War ous battlefields and erecting hat, whether bearded or clean statues and monuments and Then ye shall answer markers – many small and some shaven, carrying a musket or a Ohio sites claim 269. them, monumental in size – to their sword, and looking up and alert “More of the story” would Joshua 4: 6, 7 a. January/February, 2020 The Georgia Confederate Page 9
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"I loved the old government in 1861. I love the old Constitution yet. I think it is the best government in the world, if administered as it was before the war. I do not hate it; I am opposing now only the radical revolutionists who are trying to destroy it. I believe that party to be composed, as I know it is in Tennessee, of the worst men on Gods earth - men who would hesitate at no crime, and who have only one object in view - to enrich themselves."
~ Nathan Bedford Forrest, in an interview shortly after the War Page 10 The Georgia Confederate January/February, 2020 THE GEORGIA DIVISION, SCV LAUNCHES A NEW DIVISION WEB-PAGE www.gascv.org
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☝ 27th Georgia Regiment Camp #1404 Gainesville, Georgia Christmas dinner. ~ Roger Pendley
☝Habersham Guard Camp #716, Clarkesville, Ga.- Featured guest at our annual Christmas dinner was Division Adjutant Richard Straut. Adjutant Straut was on hand to accept a $500 donation from Commander Michael Dale that the camp raised for Georgia's Heritage Defense Fund.
☝Camp Commander James King [L.] Lt. Col. Tho- mas M. Nelson #141 has been awarded the SCV Heri- tage Defense Medal authorized by Commander in Chief, Paul C. Gramling, Jr. acknowledged by Georgia Division Commander Tim Pilgrim at the Annual Gen- eral Robert E. Lee Birthday Celebration and awarded by 9th Brigade Commander Ken Arvin.
makedixiegreatagain.org Walter D. (Donnie) Kennedy ☝Compatriot J.B. Crowe erects Georgia Division recruit- Chief of Heritage Operations, ment sign on family farm [U.S. 441N, Telfair County] in SCV honor of his g-gf Henry Hugh Harrelson. [See Page 22]
☟Annual Longstreet Graveside Memorial which was held on 1/12/2020, Gainesville, GA. It Lest was hosted by Blue Ridge Rifles #1860 Dahlonega, Georgia. The 43rd Georgia and other ele- we ments of the GA DIV 2nd Brigade provided the Honor Guard. Roger Pendley, Camp Historian 27th Georgia Regiment Camp#1404 forget
Confederate States of America Annual Longstreet Graveside Memorial Service Page 12 The Georgia Confederate January/February, 2020
☝[L to R] Terry Herrin (L) reading ‘The Charge’ as he is being sworn in as newest member of Clement A. Evans Camp by Commander Brant Thrift; Dennis Evans, Steve McCarthy, Will Griffin all received a Certificate of Appreciation from Commander Thrift for their dedication to the Camp.
☝ Pine Barrens Volunteers #2039 Camp member Brian Lowery, Camp newsletter Edi- ☝ [Clockwise] New member Christopher ☞ Pine Barrens tor, wins The "Hold the Line" Carter Todd is flanked by Cmdr. Mike Pet- Volunteers #2039 Award for being the hardest tus, Chaplain Russell Shreeve, and Adj. walking in Christ- worker for our Camp in 2019. Jessie Pinson. [Top] Author Mary Phagan- mas parade in ~ Cmdr. Corey Harrelson King, Adj. Jessie Pinson, and Cmdr. Mike Chester, Ga. Pettus at the December 12th Camp Meet- ing. [R] Author John W. Latty, guest Corey Harrelson speaker at the Lee/Jackson, January 18th, SCV Camp #2039 David W. Payne Camp 1633. Commander Camp Publicist Greg C. White [ See Page 21] January/February, 2020 The Georgia Confederate Page 13
☝Clement A. Evans Camp #64 setup recruitment and educational tables at two different community events on December 7th ☝ Georgia Division Commander Tim Pilgrim delivered a great program on General Robert E. Lee to the members and guest of the Clement A. Evans Camp 64 for their annual Lee-Jackson supper. ☞ Commander Pilgrim presented a Georgia Division Service Medal to Lt. Commander Dennis Evans (L) and Commander Brant Thrift (R), for their outstanding work they do for the Confederation. Chuck Griffin
☜ Special ☟ 4th Brigade Com- Guest “Stoney” mander Kim M. Beck attends Alexan- was honored in pre- der H. Stephens senting the Distin- Camp #78 meet- guished Service Medal ing as Cmdr. from our National or- John Carroll and ganization to Hu Member Butch Daughtry. Congratula- Killebrew look tions Hu! on. Well deserved!
☞ Gen. Leonidas Polk Camp 1446, Smyrna, GA. 1st. Lt. ☝ Pine Barrens Volunteers Camp #2039 pre- Commander David sented a Living History just before Christmas Sapp (R) presents Holidays for students at Dodge County Middle membership certifi- School. DCMS Principle Elvis Davis got some cate to new member artillery practice in. Oran Harris. Page 14 The Georgia Confederate January/February, 2020
Research appears to back up claims of Nash Farm's status as battleground Henry Herald/McDonough, Georgia April 4, 2019 By Joe Adgie
McDONOUGH — Recent of items including troop move- comments from a member of the ments, archaeological surveys, Henry County Board of Com- information from the American missioners concerning Nash Battlefield Protection Program Farm angered several Civil War and reports from those who re-enactors and researchers. fought at Nash Farm on Aug. 20, After Tuesday’s BOC meeting, 1864. District 5 Commissioner Bruce Pollard told the Herald on Fri- Holmes told the Herald that the day that it was “very upsetting” story of Nash Farm being a Civil to see Holmes’ comments. War battlefield was a “myth” “To call hallowed ground, Program resurveyed the engage- ion forces been captured at Nash and a “fraud” when explaining where men died, a fraud, without ment area. Farm like had happened with a his opposition to the use of providing any type of evidence, “The resurvey also found that nearby raid around Newnan, At- simulated rounds at a Civil War is heresy and a lie, very upset- the battlefield’s boundaries lanta might not have fallen. Pol- re-enactment later this month. ting,” Pollard said. “Once again, needed to be expanded to in- lard said U.S. President Abra- On Tuesday evening and we have to come here and settle clude the fighting in and around ham Lincoln needed Atlanta to Wednesday afternoon, the Her- this matter, been settled time and Nash Farm and Walnut Creek in fall in order to secure re- ald heard from Tim Culbreth and again.” Henry County,” the letter reads. election. Other rail lines leading Tony Pilgrim of the Charles T. Pollard said he and other indi- That letter stated the ABPP to Atlanta had been cut, but the Zachry Camp of the Sons of viduals have worked for over 15 believed the area should have rail line from Savannah and Confederate Veterans. Both years to document the history of been studied for inclusion in the Macon, which led through were angered by Holmes’ com- Nash Farm and its significance National Register of Historic Lovejoy, still stood. ments and provided research that to the Civil War. Places. “Sherman changed his battle refuted those claims. Also included in the packet The battle was not a lengthy plans for the rest of the Atlanta In an email on Tuesday eve- was a National Park Service map one, as 10 companies of Gen. campaign. I’m going to send my ning, Pilgrim said that Holmes of the battle of Lovejoy Station, Judson Kilpatrick’s Union Cav- foot soldiers to do what my cav- was not truthful when disputing which spilled over to Nash Farm alry charged a handful of Texas alry couldn’t.” Nash Farm’s status as a Civil that day in 1864, and a letter cavalry companies at Nash Farm The rail line ended up getting War battlefield. from the National Park Service at 2 p.m. on Aug. 20, 1864. The cut in Jonesboro, rather than “Henry County District 5 detailing the work of the Civil Texan forces were outnumbered Lovejoy, which led to the Battle Commissioner Bruce Holmes War Sites Advisory Commission — Pollard said by a 10 to one of Jonesborough, one of the has proven himself to be a liar,” in 1993 concerning the most sig- ratio. main battles of the Atlanta cam- Pilgrim wrote. “He knows it. His nificant battles of the Civil War. On Friday, Pollard said the paign, a battle which took sev- colleagues know it as well.” According to the NPS’s map, events of Aug. 20, 1864 were eral thousand lives. Pilgrim provided a number of much of the battlefield core area significant as they set a chain of “If they had successfully cut points that he stated proved his included Nash Farm, while the events into motion. Kilpatrick’s the railroad line at Lovejoy and case that a battle took place on land — and area surrounding it Union Cavalry had destroyed defeated the Confederates, there Nash Farm in 1864, including a — was considered to be in- rail lines heading down through wouldn’t have been a Battle of claim from Thompson Nash, the cluded on the National Register Lovejoy, as part of Gen. William Jonesborough,” Pollard said. farm’s owner, the book of Historic Places. T. Sherman’s effort to cut off “But if they had been captured, “Sherman’s Horsemen” by Dr. The letter stated the site of the Atlanta, but the rails were Lincoln might not have been re- David Evans, a book that Pil- Battle of Lovejoy was one of the quickly repaired within 24 elected.” grim said “describes in detail more significant battles “to tell- hours. In 2011, a letter from the what happened during ing the whole story of the war.” “He knew his cavalry could not United States Department of In- Kilpatrick’s Raid through Nash That battle was one of 383 out of and would not successfully cut terior to Nash Farm Battlefield Farm and Henry County” nearly 10,500 engagements of the railroad line,” Pollard said. stated, “The Federal defeat at This research, performed by the Civil War. “So he sent his infantry in... to Lovejoy Station would greatly Mark Pollard , the county’s Civil According to the letter, the Jonesboro to break up the line.” affect the rest of the Atlanta War historian, features a number American Battlefield Protection Pollard said that had the Un- Pollard’s findings: Continued next page > January/February, 2020 The Georgia Confederate Page 15
Pollard’s findings: Continued be removed from the museum. Campaign. Though Kilpatrick’s Clemmons and Holmes have C. Mark Pollard Obituary forces were able to escape the both stated that no battle took C. Mark Pollard, age 64, of McDonough, died Wednesday, De- Confederate encirclement at place in the Nash Farm area. On cember 4, 2019. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia to the late Jesse Nash Farm, their inability to sig- Tuesday, Holmes stated that any Paul Pollard and Doris Allene Pollard. nificantly damage the vital activity that took place was a Mr. Pollard is loved by all and survived by family and friends. Southern railroads forced U.S. “skirmish” rather than a full- The family asks that in lieu of flowers donations be made to Dolly Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman fledged battle. Goodpuppy Society at dollygoodpuppy.org to use his infantry to destroy the However, according to the Cannon Cleveland Funeral Directors, rail lines feeding the Confeder- Lamar Institute, a nonprofit or- ate garrison at Atlanta. This ma- ganization that conducts ar- Last Flag Down neuver would ultimately be suc- chaeological and historical re- cessful and force Confederate search in the Southeastern November, 2020 St. Simons Island Gen. John B. Hood to abandon United States, Nash Farm is the Atlanta in order to save his site of Kilpatrick’s Raid, a CSS Shenandoah army.” “massive cavalry action in Geor- Aboard the LYNX Several years later, in 1871, gia and one of the most memora- Thompson Nash, who owned the ble in the entire Civil War.” Speaker/Emcee Gerry Wells property, filed a claim with the At least two archaeological Southern Claims Commission, digs were conducted on the For more information, contact arguing the Union armies had property, including one by Richard Watson 912.996.6018 used the property and taken sup- Lamar Institute. During those plies from the property. digs, some 3,000 artifacts, in- [email protected] In his email Tuesday evening, cluding bullets, coins, jewelry, Pilgrim said the Nash claim was clothing, personal weapons, Or Freddie Watson 912.885.1015 the primary source of evidence kitchen items, horse equipment proving that Nash Farm had and musical instruments, were been the site of a battle in 1864. discovered. This is not the first time that The Lamar Institute had been Nash Farm’s status as a Civil retained by the Henry County War battlefield has been ques- government in 2007 to examine tioned and defended. In 2017, a the battlefield property. museum on the Nash Farm site That research was supported was closed after Commissioner by Pollard’s findings, which Dee Clemmons reportedly re- were separate from Lamar’s quested that Confederate flags 2007 research. ❖
~ 2020 ~ DEADLINES Guest Speaker Susan Lee The Georgia Confederate VaFlaggers ✯✯✯ Lee ~ Jackson Banquet April 1st June 1st Lt. Col. Thomas M. Nelson Camp #141 August 1st February 29, 2020 American Legion Hall, Albany, Georgia October 1st December 1st For more information: ✯ James King [email protected] [email protected] Page 16 The Georgia Confederate January/February, 2020
to Absalom's service on the CSS Hunley . The CSS Hunley was
raised from the bottom of the harbor and the bodies of Absa- lom Williams and his fellow
crew members were recovered from the submarine. They were
hastily buried together in the Mariner's Cemetery in Charles- ton. In 1999, the remains of Ab-
salum Williams and his crew members were uncovered during construction at Johnson Hagood
Stadium. The crew members Palmetto State and CSS Chi- were reinterred in May 2000 at A Confederate Sailor Absalum Williams Confeder- cora , including Absalom Wil- Magnolia Cemetery in Charles- Sam Davis was a Private in the ate Service, Death and Burial , liams. On August 29, 1863, after ton, SC with full military hon- Army of the Confederate States CSS H.L. Hunley Service: having dived and surfaced sev- ors. of America. He was a uni- Service records for A.(Absalum) eral times around the harbor, Lt Source: fold 3 by Ancestry formed courier, riding on a mis- Williams indicate that he John Payne who now com- Added by Lawdog2705 · sion when he came upon some enlisted in the Confederate manded the CSS Hunley , or- August 14, 2015 riders dressed in Confederate Army on May 16, 1862 in New- dered the crew to make for the uniforms. They were yankees berry, SC where he was born. docks at Ft Johnson in Charles- and captured Sam without a He was a private in the 25th ton Harbor. As the submarine shot being fired. SCV Company H which was approached the dock, she sub- He was charged with being a stationed around Charleston, merged suddenly with the “spy”, offered his freedom and a SC. According to his service hatches open plunging 40 feet to horse [the yankees had stolen records, he was transferred to a the bottom. Lt Payne and three the horse he was riding on] if gunboat (believed to be the CSS others escaped the sinking ves- he would tell all he knew about Palmetto State ) by orders of sel. Absalom Williams and four his fellow soldiers and officers. General G.T. Beauregard on Oc- other crew members drowned. Sam refused: “If I had a tober 23, 1862. On April 16th, Lt Charles Hasker, who was one thousand lives I would lose 1863 he was transferred back of the survivors, later wrote that them all before I would betray from the gunboat to the 25th the sinking was due to Lt Payne the trust of a friend or the con- SCV Co. H. Absalom Williams inadvertently stepping on the fidence of an informer.” was again transferred back to lever that controlled the fins ☟ Interior of CSS Hunley Sam was hung November 27, the gunboat ( CSS Palmetto while climbing through the Recovered August 8, 2000 from 1863 by order of yankee Gen. State ) on April 25, 1863. On manhole resulting in the subma- the place where it sank, the Grenville Dodge based on lies August 12th the CSS Hunley rine diving as it approached the Hunley has undergone preserva- and misapplication of military arrived in Charleston, SC. after dock. Lt Payne had planned for tion in Charleston, SC. law similar to what we still see being transported by rail from the CSS Hunley to make an eve- today practiced by politicians. Mobile, Alabama. The CSS ning attack on the Union block- As king Solomon proclaimed, Hunley was initially manned by ade that same fateful day. The “There is nothing new under the non-military personnel em- Confederate compiled service sun.” ployed by the owner in quest of records for A. (Absalum) Wil- Sam did have the privilege of a $100,000 bounty offered for liams end after April 1863, cor- the company of U.S. Chaplain sinking the blockading ship the roborating his death on James Young, as he confessed USS Ironsides . After 12 days, 8/29/1863. In the Confederate his salvation by Jesus Christ, the local military forces became Service Record card catalogue and they both sang Sam’s favor- impatient with the lack of offen- at the SC state archives in Co- ite hymn “On Jordan’s Stormy sive activity by the CSS Hunley lumbia, SC the following nota- Banks.” and seized the vessel. By Au- tion was made for A. Williams: If it has not been removed by gust 26, 1863, the CSS Hunley "Transferred to torpedo boat and socialists, there is a statue of was staffed by Confederate lost in attempt to blow up USS Sam in Nashville, TN at the Navy volunteers from the CSS Ironsides". This is clearly a link Capitol. .al perry. January/February, 2020 The Georgia Confederate Page 17 JROTC Hunley Awards
Division H.L. Hunley Award Liaison Scott E. Seay 4425 Evandale Way, Cumming, Ga. 30040 [email protected] 678-455-7641
Lest we Genealogy Resources Hu Daughtry Al Medcalf forget Georgia Division National SCV Gen. Committee P. O. Box 406 [email protected] Metter, Ga. 30439 678.572.0723 Mailing Address [email protected] , 912.687.6153 Georgia Division P.O. Box 1081 NEED HELP ? If you need assistance in locating Macon, GA 31202 your Confederate ancestor, relieve all the anxiety. Help is only a “click” away ! Contact Al or Hu. 866-728-4642 Page 18 The Georgia Confederate January/February, 2020 SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS GEORGIA DIVISION CALENDAR OF EVENTS
April 4, 2020, 19 th Annual National Confederate Memorial Day June 5 & 6, 2020, 123rd Annual Georgia Division Reunion in Service at Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Park 12:00 Macon The 123rd Annual Georgia Division Reunion in Macon at the Edgar Noon Service will be held on the Memorial Plaza in front of the Carvings H. Wilson Convention Center connected to the Marriott City Center at Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Park 12:00 Noon, the ser- Hotel. We have set up different Reunion packages where you can pur- vice will begin at 12:30 pm with our Keystone Speaker following by a chase directly with a credit card through the Division Store at cannon and honor guard salute. Bring a picnic lunch and enjoy the www.gascv.org or you can download the registration form and mail it day at the world’s largest Confederate Memorial. in directly.
NOTE: IF YOU WANT AN EVENT LISTED ON THE GEORGIA DIVISION CALENDAR, PLEASE SEND YOUR INFORMATION TO [email protected] AND [email protected]
General Lee’s Favorite Get Away JROTC Hunley Awards By Larry Upthegrove
June 29, 1869: From Atlanta, today’s “Constitution” Division H.L. Hunley Award Liaison has this good news from Virginia: “The Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, will be open the 1’st of June next. Before the War this was the most popular wa- Scott E. Seay tering place in Virginia. Its situation in Southwest- 4425 Evandale Way, ern Virginia on the Eastern slope of the Alleghenies, Cumming, Ga. 30040 gives it beautiful scenery, a healthful climate, and a pure bracing air. Messrs. Wilson & Lorentz, two en- terprising Virginians, have leased it for a term of [email protected] five years, have thoroughly repaired, newly fur- nished, and will open it on a scale surpassing its 678-455-7641 former grandeur. Visitors to this place travel the entire distance by rail, getting off at Big Tunnel Sta- tion, on the Springs Branch R.R. New baths, billiard and bowling saloons, have been erected for the comfort and amusement of visitors. Post office, Telegraph, Express and Ticket-office are on the premises. Daily lines of stage will run through the wildest scenery in Virginia. Travelers between points North and South will find this a most delight- ful resting place. The fare has been reduced to the moderate price of $3 per day, $20 per week, and $70 per month, giving the privileges of special rates to larger parties for longer time.” White Sulphur Springs, Recently Remodeled ☞ Courtesy: The Howling Dawg Wayne Dobson www.gascv.org January/February, 2020 The Georgia Confederate Page 19
“Archaeology of the Dead ” The Charge
by to the Georgia Division Thomas Gresham Archaeologist To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, for the TRR Cobb, Camp #97, Sons of Confederate Veterans’ we submit the vindication of the Cause Historical Presentations Series
for which we fought; The program for the February 6 (2020) regular meet- ing of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, TRR Cobb to your strength will be given the defense Camp #97, will be provided by the above historian. of the Confederate soldier’s good name, As a public ser- vice effort, Camp the guardianship of his history, #97 will move graves of five un- the emulation of his virtues, known Confeder- ate soldiers who the perpetuation of those principles he died enroute to hospitals while loved their trains were stopped at the Winterville train station. These soldiers were hastily buried in a nearby field, now and which made him glorious located near the Winterville Methodist Church. Mr. Gresham will advise the Church and Camp #97 in remov- and which you also cherish. ing and reinterring the remains of the soldiers to a suitable location in the Winterville City Cemetery. In his career as Remember, an archaeologist Mr. Gresham has located over 500 ceme- teries and delineated over 40. In 1991 he was involved in it is your duty to see that the true history Georgia legislation that guided how relocation of most of the South is presented cemeteries and graves would be handled in the future. Mr. Gresham will briefly review how archaeologists dealt to future generations. with burials before and after the 1991 laws were passed, and will discuss the added requirements to consult with the descendants of the deceased and to have archaeolo- CADET MEMBERSHIP gists involved in the exhumations. He will describe a case For more information, contact: study of moving a family cemetery and will discuss the planned removal and reinternment of the five Confederate soldiers. Thomas Miller The meeting is open to the public. This presentation is part of the Sons Confederate Veterans Camp #97 monthly [email protected] series of historical talks about the South, the War Be- 912.536.5775 tween the States, the Confederacy, and other historical aspects of the era, and is provided as a public service. The talks are presented by authors, historians, and re- searchers. The meeting is held at 7:00 pm, first Thursday of each month, at the Oconee County Veterans’ Memorial Park Senior Center Auditorium, 3500 Hog Mountain Rd (GA 53), Watkinsville, GA 30677. Refreshments are served afterwards.
For more information, please contact Lowry Harper, [email protected] (706-769-9770). Page 20 The Georgia Confederate January/February, 2020
GEORGIA General Stand Watie Camp #915 CONFEDERATES Calhoun, Georgia YOUTH CAMP December 12, 2019 [GCYC] Stand Watie Birthday Celebration Christmas Party June 7th ~ 12th Commander Biddy welcomed 2020 AOT Commander Jason Boshears, guests, and mem- bers. Commander Biddy announced the passing of Refuge Baptist new member, William Cavender and special apprecia- tion to David Mitchell, who helped re-charter the Camp Camp in 1995. WE NEED CAMPERS Commander Biddy gave a brief history of Stand Boys & Girls, ages 12 ~ 17 Watie, our Camp’s namesake. 20 girls 20 boys in 2020! Adjutant Chambers led the group in pledges and sa- lute to the Confederate flag. SCV, Army of Tennessee Commander Jason The 1st 20 Campers to sign up Boshears presented a program on Sam Davis. While receive a $200.00 scholarship serving as a Confederate courier, Private Davis was captured by the Yankees and hung as a spy. He was provided by the Georgia Division!!!! 21 years old and would not give information that DON’T WAIT. would have saved his life. His home in Smyrna, Ten- nessee is a memorial to his memory. Camp Officers were sworn in by out-going Chaplain Check out our new web site for info and apps: John Warren. Door prizes: David Mitchell won U.S. flag; Wesley Houston won Georgia flag; Jerome Silvers won gcyouthcamp.org Cherokee Braves flag; Stephen Chastain won Battle flag that had flown over Resaca Confederate Ceme- tery. Questions ? Please contact me: Commander Biddy read the Stephen D. Lee Charge to the Sons of Confederate Veterans. [email protected] 912.585.9144 Commander Boshears led all in singing Dixie.
.al perry. ~ 2020 ~ DEADLINES “Proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ” The Georgia Confederate And protecting the good name ✯✯✯ of the Confederate Veteran. Georgia Confederates Youth Camp, Inc. April 1st June 1st Tell ye your children of it, August 1st and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. October 1st Joel 1: 3 December 1st ✯ It’s time to teach our children the TRUTH. [email protected] January/February, 2020 The Georgia Confederate Page 21 CAMP NEWS Montgomery Sharpshooters We Lay the Wreaths Mr. J.B. “Angelo” Crowe lives By: George Ray Houston
David W. Payne on his family farm in Wheeler The flowers and garlands with a moment’s pause County as his family has done Camp # 1633 Rendered in prayer their Holy cause, since the mid-19th century. Mr. Christopher Carter Todd was Upon the foot of the monument we lay to rest, Crowe is a life member of the Sons sworn in as the newest member of The final chapter; they gave their best, of Confederate Veterans Camp David W. Payne Camp #1633, Upon the fields of battle in fallen death #2164. The Harrelson family Sons of Confederate Veterans, at All are gone; none are left. their December 12th meeting in cemetery is located on the property and contains 6 generations of his The bodies of valor beneath the stone Blairsville. From L to R: Camp Their heroic death, all alone, Commander Mike Pettus, Compa- family. There are veterans from the Enemy invaders we deplore; triot Todd, Chaplain Russell War Between the States, WW I, Unwelcome presence for evermore Shreeve and Adjutant Jessie Pin- WW II, and Korea. As we lay the wreaths for our fallen kin son. Mr. Crowe recently put up a sign For a war in which the foe would win. Author Mary Phagan-Kean, to honor his Great grandfather great niece of the 13-year-old At- Henry H. Harrelson who was a Pri- Upon the battle fields and rivers the blood runs red, lanta factory worker murdered by vate soldier in the 4th Georgia Cav- We celebrate with reverence our Confederate dead. Leo Frank in 1913, spoke to the alry during the War Between the The days of Lee and Stonewall united, David W. Payne Camp #1633, States. Their skills in battle ignited Sons of Confederate Veterans, at The family cemetery is clearly Fire in the souls of the legions in gray their December 12th meeting in visible from the sign. The sign and To end the Yankee invasion of the day Blairsville. Phagan-Kean is cemetery are located on the Jeffer- And upon the fields of destruction our heroes are laid, flanked by Camp Adjutant Jessie son Davis Memorial Highway just The death of our kin from a federal raid, Pinson (L) and Camp Commander north of Little Ocmulgee State Neglect of Yankee repentance, Mike Pettus (R). Park. As anyone can see, the The Confederate cause craving independence, The David W. Payne Camp Harrelson family has protected this As our ancestors craved the independence chore #1633, Sons of Confederate Vet- country and State from enemies Far away from Britain’s shore. erans, held its annual Lee-Jackson both foreign and domestic since Upon the grave sites of our soldiers in gray Dinner at Brother's at Willow long before there was a Wheeler Remembered with solemnity on this solemn day Ranch, Young Harris, on January County. As we place the wreathes with special care 18th. The guest speaker was Civil Camp Commander Robert Cook On monuments and graves everywhere. War author John W. Latty who Montgomery Sharpshooters We inherit today insults at home spoke on the lives of Generals Camp 2164 And all the places we might roam, Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. Upon the fields of modern day "Stonewall" Jackson. Enemies wish to take away ~ Camp Publicist Greg C. White Our monuments and flags from yesterday And we must stand upon our land Stand and fight for what is right We salute the flags our soldiers would hold “Obstacles may retard, but In high regard we ne’er must fold; Yesteryear’s heroes who wore the gray they cannot long prevent the Fought Yankee invaders along the way, Their honor we cherish; their bravery we crave, progress of a movement sanc- Through their virtue and valor we salute the brave As we lay the wreaths upon their grave. tified by its justice, and sus- tained by a virtuous people.”
President Jefferson F. Davis, Confederate States of America Page 22 The Georgia Confederate January/February, 2020
FEBRUARY 2020 CONFEDERATE ECHO B/G E. Porter Alexander Newsletter of the Lt. Dickson L. Baker Camp 926 Camp # 158 I asked Wig-Wag Editor Bob 8198 Mt. Olivet Rd. Hartwell, Georgia 30635 “To you Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the Cause for which Green to send me the number we fought. To your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate Soldier’s good name, the of paid-up members for his guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which Camp: 92. he loved and which you love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you cherish. Bob recognizes the names of REMEMBER, it is YOUR DUTY to see that the true history of the SOUTH is presented to future 23 Life Members of the SCV generations.” in the Camp’s newsletter. Commander’s Note That’s 25% of the total mem- Men February is the start of a new year 2020 and I do hope all y’all had a Joyous bers of Camp 158. Christmas and keeping up with all your New Year resolution. My Camp only has 7%. I would like to see all of you please work hard on recruiting, each member bring How’s your Camp doing? us in (2) new recruits. Men with all the hate and lies being told by our enemies about GC .editor, .al perry. the truth of our Blessed CONFEDERATE HERITAGE, and all the monuments being
destroyed by our enemies we have got to stand strong, and a large membership helps. . It is a shame the local UDC ladies won’t repair the monument on the Courthouse II Timothy 2: 23 ~ 26 square in Hartwell, but they say it belongs to them and UDC. I do wish the SCV could find a really nice place in Hartwell to erect a new Confederate monument to But foolish and Honor the Brave men that left their homes and families to fight for what they believed unlearned questions in. At our February meeting I have 2 books on the 37 th Georgia and 9 th Battalion I avoid, knowing that they will bring and we will talk about your ancestors that served in this unit. We have sev- do gender strifes. eral members that has Confederate ancestors that served in these units from Hart, El- bert, and Franklin counties. Y’all men please y’all get up and tell us a little family his- And the servant of the tory on your kin from the 37 th . Lord must not strive; but I do hope all of you and family are in good health, if y’all know any member or be gentle unto all men, their family that is in bad health or need our prayers –Contact Me-Please…….. Cmdr Jud Barton apt to teach, patient, NEXT CAMP MEETING In meekness instructing So men make plans to be at your February 10, 2020 SCV meeting at 6:30 pm in those that oppose them- UDC clubhouse. Remember visitors are always welcome, so bring a friend male or female or wife. RECRUIT—RECRUIT—RECRUIT!!!! selves; if God peradven- ture will give them re- ELBERT COUNTY JUNIOR ROTC AWARDS . pentance to the acknowl- On March 14 , 2020 at 1800 the Elbert Co. High School JROTC Banquet will be held. I will be there presenting the H.L. Hunley Medal and Scholarship award. If any edging of the truth; member would like to join me at this prestige time to present this award to a Honor- And that they may re- able Chosen Cadet please let me know ASAP. I have to let Maj. Lovin know how many will be eating. cover themselves out of OFFICERS the snare of the devil, Cmdr. Jud Barton –Phone 706-717-0969 Email: [email protected] who are taken captive by Adj. Bob Beck------Phone 706-476-7987 Email: [email protected] Historian Leon Smith---- Phone706-283-3987 him at his will. Chaplain Ty Thompson---Phone 706-961-1931 “ BE KINDER THAN NECESSARY, FOR EVERYONE YOU MEET IS FIGHTING SOME TYPE BATTLE” January/February, 2020 The Georgia Confederate Page 23
☝The 2020 camp officers for David W. Payne Camp #1633, Sons of Confeder- ate Veterans, Blairsville, were sworn in by Compatriot Ed Massengale (far right) ☝Georgia Division Commander, Tim Pilgrim, recognizes author and histo- at their January 18th Lee-Jackson dinner. From L-R: David Junghans, rian, compatriot Jack C. Cowart [L] as the keynote speaker at this year’s An- Lt.Commander; Mike Pettus, Commander; Russell Shreeve, Chaplain; nual General Robert E. Lee Birthday Celebration, January 18, Jeff Davis Jessie Pinson, Adjutant; and Pete White, Treasurer. Memorial Park.
☜ ☞ [L] Carl Tommy Millers, Sr., Jr., III attend the E. Porter Alexander Camp 158 an- nual Lee/ Jackson Banquet along with 4 other SCVCamps from Georgia and South Carolina. [R] MC Captain Lionel Harris and wife Hilary with the Millers.
☜ 4th Brigade Commander Kim Beck and Camp Lest #2039 Commander Corey Harrelson inducting we newest members Waymon Cannon and Bobby Ba- forget con.
☜Camp 1914 Cmdr. Carl Tommy Miller, Jr. presents the GHQ Com- mendation Award to Camp 158 Cmdr. John Baxley.
☝Mechanized Cavalry at the re-dedication of "Ole Jeff" that was damaged by an automobile in the City of Milledgeville Jan. 19th ☜ Brigade Commander Kim M. Beck installed new officers for the Pine Bar- rens Volunteers Camp #2039, Eastman, Georgia. Pictured R/L- Brigade Com- mander and Camp Adjutant Kim Beck, Commander Corey Harrelson, 1st Lt. Wright Harrell, 2nd Lt. Tony Crumbley, Quartermaster Gary Lowery, and Chaplain Chris Harrelson. Not picture: Historian/Newsletter Editor Brian Low- ery, Judge Advocate Tony Winborn and Color Sgt. Kyle W -Kim Beck Page 24 The Georgia Confederate January/February, 2020 The Georgia Advertisement Policy & Rates Confederate Ad Rates are as follows Official Publication of the Full Color Back Georgia Division, Page.$185.00 Sons of Confederate Veterans Full Page………... Copyright 2010 …..$125.00 By Georgia Division, SCV One-Half Page…...... … All Rights Reserved ~ EDITORIAL BOARD ~ $70.00 TIM PILGRIM One-Fourth Editor Emeritus Page…...... $40.00
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