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The Official Newsletter of Col 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.4……………………………………………….……………Issue NO. 1 Charles demorse editor & Proprietor Grand Saline, Texas Saturday, January 13, 2018 Saturday February 10, 2018 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 th 29 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 Commander Bobby W. Smith 1st Lt Johnny M. Moore Chaplin Robert C. Huff Fellow Compatriot’s, nd Meeting every 2 Saturday 7:00 pm The Col. Charles DeMorse, 29th Texas Van Community Center, Cavalry Camp # 2269, would like to wish 310 Chestnut Street Van, Texas. everyone a safe, and Happy New Year. Newsletter Published Monthly http://www.5thbrigade.org/camp2269/ We have had a very good year and looking forward to next year, in 2018. Opinions expressed by individual writers are their own and do not necessarily reflect official positions I, as Commander, wish to thank of the Col. Charles DeMorse’s everyone in our camp for all their support, in th 29 Texas Cavalry Camp # 2269. all the activities and interest that they have shown. I look forward to next year, as we fill Letters and articles may be submitted to: our list with activities and field trips to Honor [email protected] our Confederate Ancestors. ( Cut off for articles is 1st of the month.) Editor- Compiler See you all, at the next Camp Meeting! Bobby W. Smith Deo Vindice UÉuuç jA fÅ|à{ Copyright © Bobby Wayne Smith Sr. , All Rights Reserved, 2017-2018 Page 2 THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF COL. CHARLES DEMORSES’ 29TH TEXAS CAVALRY CAMP NORTH AMERICAN cÜxáxÜätà|ÉÇ Éy `ÉÇâÅxÇàËá Charge to the Sons of NAPOM 2017 Confederate Veterans Preserving OUR NATIONAL HISTORICAL HERITAGE "To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause Editor- Compiler : Bobby W. Smith for which we fought. To your strength will PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN be given the defense of the Confederate THE INTEREST OF CONFEDERATE soldier's good name, the guardianship of his ASSOSIATIONS AND KINDRED TOPICS history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which he Committee Members loved and which you love also, and those Bobby W. Smith Sr. Russell Volk ideals which made him glorious and which Johnny M. Moore you also cherish." Robert C. Huff Marshall Neagle James R. Graham Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Meeting at Van Community Center Commander General, 310 Chestnut Street Van, Texas United Confederate Veterans, 2nd Saturday of Each Month 7:00PM New Orleans, Louisiana April 25, 1906 Mailing Address: 770 VZ CR 1517 GRAND SALINE, TEXAS 75140 903-245-5631 Opinions Expressed by Individual Writers are their own and do not necessarily reflect official positions of the North American Preservation of Monuments. http://napom.org/ Copyright © Bobby Wayne Smith Sr. , All Rights Reserved, 2017-2018 Page 3 THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF COL. CHARLES DEMORSES’ 29TH TEXAS CAVALRY CAMP UPCOMING EVENTS Moonlight & Magnolias / Lee –Jackson Banquet Ball Saturday/ January 20, 2018, 5:00-7:00pm / Ball 7:00-10:30. Navarro College, Cook Center, Hwy 31 West, Corsicana, Texas. Hosted by: J. L. Halbert, SCV Camp #359 Cost $30.00 a person/ 6 people for a RSVP Table for $25.00 a person. Contact Billy Ford: 903-654-0131. Lee / Jackson Dinner January 26, 2018 6:30 p.m. Potpourri House, 3320 Troup Hwy, Suite 300 Tyler, Texas. Battle of Poison Springs, Camden, Arkansas “ Civil War Re-Enactment Days “ From: April 21-22-2018 Location: Poison Springs / Camden Arkansas Battle of Poison Springs Location will be Poison Spring State Park, Chidester, Arkansas. Union and Confederate soldiers will re-enact the Battle of Poison Spring. Contact: Phone: 870-818-3565 Ouachita County Historical Society Website Copyright © Bobby Wayne Smith Sr. , All Rights Reserved, 2017-2018 Page 4 THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF COL. CHARLES DEMORSES’ 29TH TEXAS CAVALRY CAMP Battle of Honey Springs Preparations for Battle 17th July 1863 Honey Springs was a stage stop on the Texas Road before the Civil War. The main attraction was Also Known as several springs that provided water for men and The Battle of Elk Creek horses. There was also a commissary, log hospital, and numerous tents for troops. In 1863, the The Battle of Honey Springs (also known as Confederates sent about 6,000 soldiers to the spot. The Battle of Elk Creek) on 17th July 1863, was an Provisions were supplied from Fort Smith, Boggy American Civil War Engagement. An important Depot, Fort Cobb, Fort Arbuckle, and Fort Victory for Union forces in their efforts to gain Washita. However, the Confederates failed to stop a control of the Indian Territory. It was the largest 200- wagon Federal supply train in an engagement confrontation between Union and Confederate forces known as the Battle of Cabin Creek. The supply in the area that would eventually become Oklahoma. train reached Fort Gibson about the same time as The engagement was also unique in the fact that General Blunt himself arrived, accompanied by white soldiers were the minority in both fighting more troops and artillery. Federal forces at the fort forces. African and Native Americans made up totaled only about 3,000 men. significant portions of each of the opposing armies. According to his after-action report to General th The Battleground is about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) Schofield, Blunt arrived in the area on 11 July. He northeast of what is now Checotah, Oklahoma and found the Arkansas River was high and ordered his 15 miles (24 km) south of Muskogee. It was also troops to begin building boats to ferry them across about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Fort Gibson. the river. During this time, he apparently contracted encephalitis, because he had to spend 14th July in Background bed fighting a high fever. Believing they were numerically superior, the At the start of the American Civil War, for Confederates plotted a counteroffensive against cultural and economic reasons, all of the Five Union forces at Fort Gibson, to be launched by Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory opted to side Cooper’s Indians and some attached Texan Troops, with the Confederate States of America, raising and 3,000 soldiers of Brigadier General William Cabell's Brigade, camped in Fort Smith, Arkansas, native troops under the leadership of General th Douglas H. Cooper, and driving out pro-Union which were expected to reach Honey Springs by 17 Creek Indian forces after a short campaign July. Cooper moved his army forward to Honey culminating in the Battle of Chustenahlah. By 1863, Springs, Indian Territory, an important Confederate Confederate fortunes in the region had sunk low, supply depot, to rest and equip, while awaiting however. A Union campaign launched from Kansas Cabell’s Brigade, marching to link up with Cooper. led by Major General James G. Blunt having driven Union forces under General Blunt got wind of the Confederacy from the north of the region, many Cooper’s plan however, and opted to attack him of the Cherokee switched sides to support first, before Cabell arrived, which would have given the Union. Union forces led by Colonel William A. the Confederates overwhelming numerical Phillips reoccupied Fort Gibson in Indian Territory superiority. Blunt’s Command included three federal during April, The move threatened the Confederate Indian Home Guard Regiments recruited from all the Five Nations and the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, forces at Fort Smith in 1863. However, Phillips’ th supply line stretched from Fort Gibson to Fort Scott, with two white Cavalry Battalions (6 Kansas and Kansas, 175 miles (282 km) to the north. 3rd Wisconsin), one white infantry battalion Confederate Cavalry, operating from Cooper’s consisting of six companies of the 2nd Colorado encampment at Honey Springs, frequently harassed Infantry Regiment, and two Kansas Artillery Fort Gibson and attacked its supply trains. Batteries making the remainder. Copyright © Bobby Wayne Smith Sr. , All Rights Reserved, 2017-2018 Page 5 THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF COL. CHARLES DEMORSES’ 29TH TEXAS CAVALRY CAMP Battle of Honey Springs 17th July 1863 Also Known as The Battle of Elk Creek Opposing Forces Confederate Force : Union Forces : 1st Brigade, Indian Troops – District of the Frontier – Brigadier General Douglas H. Cooper Major General James G. Blunt Texas Brigade - Colonel Thomas Coker Bass 1st Brigade - Colonel William R. Judson 20th Texas Cavalry (Dismounted) --- 2nd Indian Home Guard --- Colonel Thomas Coker Bass Lieutenant Colonel Fred W. Schaurte 29th Texas Cavalry Regiment 1st Kansas Colored Infantry--- Colonel Charles De-Morse (W) Colonel James M. Williams (w), 5th Texas Partisan Rangers--- Lieutenant Colonel John Bowles Colonel Leonidas M. Martin 6 Companies, 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry --- Captain Edward R. Stevens Indian Brigade – Brigadier General Douglas H. Cooper 2nd Brigade - Colonel William A. Phillips 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles --- 6 Companies, 2nd Colorado Infantry --- Major Joseph F. Thompson Colonel Theodore H. Dodd 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles --- 1st Indian Home Guard --- Lieutenant Colonel James M. Bell Colonel Stephen H. Wattles Cherokee Regiment---Colonel Stand Watie Detachments of 6th Kansas Cavalry* --- (not present at battle) Colonel William F. Campbell 1st Choctaw---Chickasaw Mounted Rifles - Colonel Tandy Walker Artillery 1st Creek --- Colonel Daniel N. McIntosh 2nd Creek--- Colonel Chilly McIntosh 2nd Kansas Light Artillery 1st Section --- Artillery & Cavalry Captain Edward Smith 2nd Section --- Lee’s Battery--- Lieutenant John P. Grassberger Captain Roswell W. Lee 3rd Kansas Light Artillery --- Scanland’s Squadron Texas Cavalry --- Captain Henry Hopkins Captain John Scanland Gillett’s Squadron Texas Cavalry --- Captain L.
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