July, 2007 Volume 20 Number 2 ConfederateConfederate GazetteGazette

Major Robert M. White Camp In Belton Parade Camp #1250 Sons of Confederate For the 12th straight year the Assemble for the parade on 121 at Crusader Way (also Veterans Major Robert M. White Camp Wednesday July 4th at 8:30 a.m. known as University Drive). Web Site: will participate Follow the th www.rootsweb.com/ in the 4 of July signs for UMHB ~tx1250 Parade in Belton. and look for a This year Gordon float with Con- James Kinnear Mobley and his federate flags Camp Commander wife have coor- at location 166. P.O. Box 341 dinated the Streets start Little River, TX 76554 event for the closing at 8:30 Camp. a.m. and the John C. Perry Newsletter Editor parade will All Camp mem- P.O. Box 794 bers and friends start sharply at Salado, TX 76571 are invited to 9:30 a.m. For participate ei- directions or © 2007, Major Robert M. any questions White Camp #1250 ther in period Camp Members March in Belton Parade in 1997. clothing or not. please call Participants can either walk at parade location number 166. Gordon Mobley at 254-933- behind the float or ride on the Enter the University of Mary 1876. float. Hardin Baylor campus at Loop (Continued on page 4) Reunion Held in Corpus Inside this issue: The Division of the SCV award. The award was given to The Camp was once again pre- held its annual reunion in Cor- George posthumously. sented with the Four Star Camp th th Confederate Profile: 2 pus Christi on June 8 - 10 . Award. Camp member Greg Manning, of Salado, was elected as the Attending the Reunion as dele- Division’s Commander for the gates for the Camp were Man- Johnson’s Island 2 next two years. Also elected ning and Wooley along with Dr. was Camp member Steve Woo- Chris Ellis, Jerry Nelson, and Camp Calendar 3 ley, from Temple, to serve as John Perry. the Central Texas Brigade Com- Other Division officers elected mander. were Ray James, from College Division Officers 3 Station, 1st Lt. Commander, Past Camp Commander George nd Ballentine was honored for his Granvel Block, from Orange, 2 Lt. Commander, and Ed Krevit service to the Texas Division by rd Sailor To 4 being awarded the highest New Division Commander and from Midland, 3 Lt. Com- Be Buried Camp Member Greg Manning (Continued on page 4) Division Award, the Deo Vindice speaks to the Reunion attendees. Page 2 Confederate Gazette CCONFEDERATEONFEDERATE PPROFILEROFILE From Behind Enemy Lines

e was captured in After the war began he re- forces held out for 48 days, the 1863, but even behind signed his U.S. Army commis- Confederate forces eventually enemy lines he worked sion, in August of 1861, and surrendered to the Federals on H to aid other Confeder- offered his services to the July 9, 1863, after the fall of ate POWs, earning the wrath of Confederacy. Vicksburg. the U.S. Secretary of War. He joined the Confederate Beall was taken prisoner and William Nelson Rector Beall Army as a captain. Early in the was first sent to the Confeder- was born on March 20, 1825 in war he was assigned to Gen- ate Officers Prisoner-of-War Bardstown, . His eral serving in Camp, Johnson’s Island, off William Beall parents moved when he was a . Beall was commis- Lake Erie near Sandusky, Ohio. child, and young Beall grew up sioned a brigadier general on While he was imprisoned, an in Arkansas. He entered the April 11, 1862. He was placed in agreement was reached be- U.S. Military Academy at West command of the Confederate tween officials in Richmond and Point in 1844 and graduated cavalry forces at Corinth, Mis- Washington allowing, in 1864, four years later, 30th in his sissippi. From there he was for supplies to be purchased class. sent to Port Hudson, Beall worked from for the benefit of Confederate where he was in command of Upon graduation he entered the POWs. Beall was released on all forces, until General Frank- an office in New U.S. Army as a second lieuten- parole to help provide for the lin Gardner replaced him in ant with the 4th U.S. Infantry, supplies. York City trying to December of 1862. first serving in the northwest- From an office in New York purchase supplies ern frontier. He was trans- At Port Hudson, Confederate City, Beall worked to sell cot- ferred to the 5th U. S. Infantry forces were under siege by for Confederate ton, which was permitted to and did some duty time in Federal forces under the com- come through the Federal Texas. He was promoted to mand of Major General Nathan- POWs blockade. The proceeds from captain and assigned to the 1st iel P. Banks. Beall was in com- the cotton sales was to be used U.S. Cavalry, seeing combat mand of forces in the center of to purchase clothing, blankets, against both the Kiowas and the Confederate line. Although Commanches. the outnumbered Confederate (Continued on page 4) Johnson’s Island POW Camp Johnson’s Island was the only supplies by ship. In March 1865, in the war's Federal Camp final months, the prisoner The prison opened in April 1862. just for Confederate officers. population peaked at 3,200. The Camp was on a 16.5 acre with a 15-foot-high wooden site on an island in Sandusky stockade surrounding it. Over 10,000 different Confed- Bay, off the coast of Lake Erie, Prominent Confederate gener- erates passed through John- als imprisoned on Johnson's son’s Island until it was closed The Ohio location was selected Island were Isaac R. Trimble in September 1865. About 200 in 1861 due the site being on an ,James J. Archer, and William Confederates died there, mak- island lending itself to contain- Beall. ing it one of the safer prisons. ing POWs and its access to Page 3 Volume 20 Number 2 Texas Division Officers Name Home Position Greg Manning Salado, Texas Commander Ray Davis College Station, Texas 1st Lieutenant Commander Granvel Block Orange, Texas 2nd Lieutenant Commander Ed Krevit Midland, Texas 3rd Lieutenant Commander Cody Marshall Abilene, Texas Adjutant Officers in Jim Farrar Eastland, Texas Staff Judge Advocate the Division Chad Weldon Grand Prairie, Texas Chief of Staff will serve William “Bill” Kuhn Dallas, Texas Inspector General Jerry Haynes Longview, Texas Chaplain two year Sandy Keathley McKinney, Texas Web Master terms Bryan Fox Houston, Texas Newsletter Editor Marshall Davis Austin, Texas Public Relations Officer Van Perryman Lubbock, Texas Genealogist Shelby Little Austin, Texas Aide-de-Camp L. Prouse Orange, Texas Aide-de-Camp Kevin McCall Bullard, Texas Awards Committee Chairman Jerry Nelson Brenham, Texas Governmental Affairs Chairman Sandy Keathley McKinney, Texas Graves Registration Chairman Jerry Nelson Brenham, Texas Time & Place Committee Chair Granvel Block Orange, Texas Summerfield-Roberts Chairman Camp Schedule

July 4, 2007 July 14, 2007 Next Camp Meeting: Participate in the Belton 4th of Quarterly Camp Dinner July 14th July Parade, position #166. meeting 7:00 PM at Meet at 8:30 AM. Cotton Patch Café, Tem- 7:00 PM ple Mall . Speaker: TBA Cotton Patch Café July 7, 2007 Temple Mall Quarterly highway Clean-up August 14, 2007 September 11, 2007 Meet at 7:00 AM at the McDon- Camp meeting at Cotton Patch Camp meeting at Cotton Patch ald’s in Belton. Café, Temple Mall at 7:00 PM. Café, Temple Mall at 7:00 PM. Speaker: TBA Speaker: TBA ConfederateConfederate GazetteGazette P.O. Box 794 Salado, Texas 76571

Page 4 Alabama Sailor to Be Buried William Beall (Continued from page 2) at Fort Lafayette in New York tions. The funeral ceremony will Raphael Semmes Camp #11, SCV, and other supplies for Confeder- harbor. Beall wasn’t released take place on July 28th at Magnolia will conduct funeral services for ate POWs. until well after Cemetery in Mobile, Alabama. an unknown Confederate crew the war was Over 1,100 other Confederates are Beall was appar- member of the CSS Alabama. He over, on August buried in Magnolia. ently too suc- died, going down with his ship, on 2, 1865. June 19, 1864, in a sea battle off cessful. On Cherbourg, France. January 3, 1865 Post-war Beall Division Reunion Union General lived in St. His remains were recently re- (Continued from page 1) Louis, Missouri covered during salvage opera- mander. See a full listing of all wrote to General where he be- th Division officers and staff mem- Ulysses S. Grant came a mer- 4 of July Parade bers on page three. saying, “The chant. selection of Gen- The Division is financially strong He died at age (Continued from page 1) eral Beall was This year we will again use Rocky and the membership is at 2,262 William Beall’s grave at Mount 58 in McMinn- unfortunate, for Sprott’s trailer and George including 83 Life Members, 2 Real Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Ten- ville, he seems dis- Johnson’s pick-up will pull the Sons, and 5 Cadet members. nessee on July 25, 1883, posed to make all trailer. Camp members are and he was Also receiving awards were Camp the trouble he can.” buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in invited to help assemble the float Members Jerry Nelson, Gold rd U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Nashville, Tennessee. on Tuesday July 3 at 9:00 AM at Cross, Chris Ellis, Silver Cross, Stanton suspended Beall’s parole 503 North Wall Street in Belton. and Bronze Crosses were given to and Beall was placed in custody William Cole and Betty Nelson.