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MAIL CALL Fort Blakeley Camp #1864 Sons of Confederate MAIL CALL Fort Blakeley Camp #1864 Sons of Confederate Veterans Thomas B. Rhodes, III, LTC USA (Ret.) Commander Baldwin County, AL March 2016 Volume 17 Issue 03 Battle of Fort Blakely, April 1864 Dedicated to the memory of the Confederate soldier, the ideals for which he fought and those Southern Patriots who supported and sacrificed all for the Southern Cause. MAIL CALL is the official newsletter of Camp 1864 and is published monthly by The Fort Blakeley Camp # 1864, Southwest Brigade, Alabama Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans Isaac Brownlow III, EDITOR Message from the Commander’s Tent: Greeting from the Commander’s tent! I want to make sure you compatriots know that I am honored to serve as your Commander. I am proud of our camp; our meetings; our programs, our speakers; our activities; our involvements; you, our members; our growth; our Southern Heritage, our Southern History; our Confederate Ancestors; and the Cause in which they believed. Without you Compatriots, our camp would not be able to accomplish our duty to our ancestors. You all do me proud to be associated with such a fine group of Southern Compatriots. The 2017 AL SCV Div Executive Committee Meeting was held in Montgomery on Saturday, 18 Feb 2017. Your Chaplain, Adjutant, and Commander attended the meeting. There was a special seminar for Camp Chaplain while the Cdr. And Adj. attended the business portion of the meeting. The new Alabama Division Website was introduced. Check it out if you have not already done so. http://www.alscv.org/ For your information, SCV IHQ has a new website also. Be sure to check it out too. http://www.scv.org/new/ April is Alabama’s Confederate History and Heritage Month We have received the Alabama SCV Division Heritage Posters and will have them at the March meeting for you to pick up and deliver to businesses, libraries, museums, welcome centers, schools, VFW Post, American Legion Post, doctor’s offices, law offices, etc… We place them for the month of April but you can deliver them in March. You don’t have to wait till April. Get them out!!! Promote our Southern Heritage. Also at our March meeting, we will have 12” x 12” Battle Flags for you to pick up to place on our Confederate Veterans graves during the month of April which is Alabama’s Confederate History and Heritage Month. The camp will sponsor a Confederate Memorial Service in April at Confederate Rest in Point clear, AL. More info will be provided. Compatriot Woody Barnes of the Steven Mallory Camp in Pensacola was our speaker at our February meeting. He presented a video about “Raising the Hunley”. It was most interesting and informative. Our knowledge about the Hunley was greatly increased. On a sad note, we lost Trudy Rowley, our dear friend and wife of our Past Chaplain Jerry Rowley. She passed away peacefully on 1 Mar 2017. Compatriot Rowley was with her until the end. She is now at peace with her Lord and Savior. She always enjoyed attending our meetings and did so faithfully until she was no longer able. She will be missed. Please keep Jerry in your prayers. A memorial service will be conducted. A date is to be determined. The Alabama SCV Division will sponsor the 2nd Annual Education Conference in Prattville, AL on Saturday, 25 March 2017. Education Conference Information- http://www.alscv.org/education-conference/ Registration Form- http://www.alscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/AEC-Application.pdf Make plans to attend. Check out the new issue of the Alabama Confederate. It has the registration form and a list of the speakers in it. You will be glad you did. It will be well worth your time. We will have a fun day with our compatriots from across the Alabama Division. CAMP NOTES: The Ft. Blakeley Camp #1864 now has 37 AL Division Guardian Members. Thanks you Compatriot Richard Sheely for all your efforts. Four more are in the works. The camp also has seven National Guardian Members. The camp now has Life Memberships available. We have had camp Life Membership made and also have a nice Life Membership Certificate. We have two Compatriots who plan to check out a Parrot cannon in Mississippi to see if it is what we need. Check out our camp website. http://www.fortblakeley1864.org/ Thank you Webmaster Chris your contribution to the camp. CAMP LIBRARY: Books are available for check-out at our Camp Library. Contact Camp Librarian Judy Johnson if you are interested. [email protected] CAMP LIBRARY: If you have some books you would like to donate, please bring them to a meeting or contact her or the Commander and we can make arrangements to pick them up. All donations are appreciated. Remember, we are a 501-C-3 organization which means your donations are tax deductable. We can give you a letter documenting your donation for you to use for tax purposes. “The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory, destroy its books, its culture, its history, then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.” Milan Hubl, Czech Historian SHOW YOUR COLORS! Ask Adjutant Doster about a Ft. Blakeley Camp 1864 Lapel Pin. Purchase one and wear it with pride. FACT: The war fought from 1861 to 1865 was NOT a “civil war.” Civil war suggests two sides fighting for control of the same capital and country. The South didn’t want to take over Washington, D.C., no more than their forebears wanted to take over London. They wanted to separate from Washington, D.C., just as America’s Founding Fathers wanted to separate from Great Britain. The proper names for that war are either, “The War Between the States” or, “The War of Southern Independence,” or, more fittingly, “The War of Northern Aggression.” Had the South wanted to take over Washington, D.C., they could have done so with the very first battle of the “Civil War.” When Lincoln ordered federal troops to invade Virginia in the First Battle of Manassas (called the “First Battle … WBTS Q & A: Question - What Kentucky battle also has, as part of its landscape, a Bull Run? Answer – See below Monthly Confederate Quote: “Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.” Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, CSA, KIA- 30 November 1864, Battle of Franklin, TN War of Northern Aggression Fact: Union commanders typically named battles after the nearest river or creek. Confederates typically named battles after the nearest city or town. But these rules did not always apply; they were highly dependent on the names employed by the victors, the public and the media. Alabama War of Southern Independence Fact: Lloyd Bowers was the Confederate Postmaster of Mobile, Alabama . Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA, was the only man in either the Confederate or the Union army who rose in rank from an enlisted private to a Lieutenant General Damn Yankee Quote: Sometime, during the war, when a civilian badmouthed Grant, Sherman defended his friend, saying, “General Grant is a great general. He stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk; and now, sir, we stand by each other always.” Major General William Tecumseh Sherman, USA Southern Quote: “It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties.” - Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, CSA Northern Quote: From the commencement of the titanic American strife the workingmen of Europe felt instinctively that the star-spangled banner carried the destiny of their class.. Lincoln is the single-minded son of the working class, who has lead his country to the matchless struggle for the rescue of the communist revolution and the reconstruction of the social order. - Carl Marx WBTS Q & A: Question – How long was Andersonville in use as a prison site? Answer – 14 months. Another Southern Quote: "All this has been my fault." - Robert E. Lee repeatedly spoke this line to the survivors of Pickett's Charge as they stumbled back to Confederate lines. Black Confederate: With the South’s surrender, men stacked arms and went home. Many had no home to go to. During the early 1900s, many members of the United Confederate Veterans advocated awarding former slaves rural acreage and a home. There was hope that justice could still be served to those slaves who were once falsely promised “forty acres and a mule.” In 1913, this plan was printed and promoted by the Confederate Veteran Magazine, as “the right thing to do.” There was much gratitude toward former slaves, which stated, “thousands were loyal, to the last degree,” now living with total poverty in the big cities. Regrettably, this proposal fell on deaf ears on Capitol Hill. Damn Yankee Trivia: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., future chief Justice, was wounded three times during the Civil War: in the chest at Ball’s Bluff, in the back at Antietam and in the heel at Chancellorsville Confederate Quote: “I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat.
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