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ISSN - 0882-2158 1998 VOLUME 26 ISSUE NO. 3 fall 9{onorvn£ August 8j tfie 1998 Confederate Gfhsacm) Soldiers City Cemetery (Barren County, Quarterly Publication of THE SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INCORPORATED P. O. Box 157 Glasgow, Kentucky 42142-0157 SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY HISTORJCAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY P. O. BOX 157 GLASGOW, KLM I <: k\ 42U2-<H57 Oniccrs iind Dircciors 1W8- 1999 President Ruby Junes Smith Isl V ice President Jim Kolnick - Proj!;rams 2nd Vice Pn;.s»dcnt Kenneth Beurd - Memhership 3rd \ ice President Ruth B. Wood - Publicilv Recording Sccrctarj Gaylc Bern Corresponding Secretarj Juanita Bardin Treanu rer Juanila Bardin Board o! Directors Man Ed Chamberlain Loretta Murre\ Dou No\osel Ann Rodgers Past Presidents Paul Bastieo L. E. Caibouo Cecil Goode Jerr>^ Uoucben^ Brke T. Leech John Mutter J;imes >L Simmons (dccea.<ied) Katie Maude Smith (deceased) W. S:imuel Terry I\^ ON THE COVER Honoring the Confederate Soldiers of Barren County Kentucky Volume 26 - Isjsuc 3 - Fall 1998 - Page 53 Honoring the Confederate Soldiers oj Barren national le>els. Part of their etTorts include County, Kentucky, 8 August 1998, (Hasgotv marking Confederate soldier's graves, giring Municipal Cemetery. historical reenactments, scholariy publications, and regular meetings to discuss The Sons of Confederate Veterans recently the military and political history of the War honored twelve veterans at a ceremony at the Between the States. This is done by local units Glasgow Municipal Cemeten-, many of the called camps. They have annual conventions, soldiers being members of the Orphans publish newsletters and a multitude of other Brigade. The ceremony was conducted by activities. Working with other historical men of the Captain Ben Hardin Helm Camp groups, it is not affiliated with any other #1703 at Elizabethtown, KY, assisted by the group other than the Militan Order of the Emilie Todd Helm Chapter #5. Order of Stars and Bars, composed of male Confederate Rose, also of Elizabethtown. descendants of the Southern Officers Corps. They arrived early in work clothes and. with the temperature 91 degrees, spent several [f you would like more information about hours laying stones. They dug. placed the the Sons of Confederate Veterans, call 1-800- stones, cemeted and cleaned. When the MY-SOIITH, or 1-800-MY-DIXIE. Or write ceremony began, 7 of the men, in full woolen to: International Headquarters, Sons of uniforms and holding their muskets stood at Confederate Veterans, PO Box 59, Columbia, attention while another member read a brief TN 38402-0059, The SCV also maintains a historj- of the indi\idual they were honoring. wonderful web site at: http://www.scv.org/ A Confederate flag and a carnation were which explains more of the services and goals placed at each grave. There was period of of the organization which includes, among singing, prayer and a 21-gun salute for each other things, genealogical research senices. soldier. When asked about their organization, For S5.00 they will go through their files and the message is always: "It's not us to be help the descendant find information on the honored, it's the soldier!" **The citizen- soldier. A full explanation will be found on soldiers who fought for the Confederacy their page. pcrsoniflcd the best qualities of America. The prcscr>ation of liberty and freedom was the Charge to the Sons ofConfederate Veterans: motivating factor in the South's decision to "To you. Sons of Confederate Veterans, we fight the Sccond American Revolution. The submit the vindication of the Cause for which tenacity with which Confederate soldiers we fought; to your strength will be given the fought underscored their belief in the rights defense of the Confederate soldier's good guaranteed by the Constitution. These name, the guardianship of his history, the attributes arc the underpinning of our emulation of bis virtues, the perpetuation of democratic society and represent the those principles he loved and which made him foundation on which this nation was built." glorious and which you also cherish. Remember, it is your duty to see that the true Why the Organization? It is to preserve the history of the South is presented to future history and legacy of these soldiers, heroes, generations." (Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, many times mere boys. It is their desire that Commander General United Confederate future generations won't forge! the sacrifice Veterans, New Orieans, Louisiana, 1906) they made and why the war was fought. The SCV is made up of direct male heirs of the Those honored in the ceremony: ConfederateVeterans It is patriotic, non- political and determined to |)resent a correct William M. Steenbergen William Dickinson history of the Ci^il War in the Confederate William W. Franklin John A. Murray effort. Membership can be obtained through Luke Chenault Franklin Gorin, Jr. either direct or collateral family lines and Ambrose S. Clayton Alonzo E. Peden kinship to a veteran must be documented E. M. Smith Jack Lewis genealogically. The minimum age for Fountain C. Carter John H. Yancev membership is 12. What does the organization do? The SCV conducts sessions at the local, state^ and Volume 26, Issue 3 - Full 1998- Page 54 Photographscourtes} ofthe G]asgo>^ Daily Times, Roanie Ellis, Photographer Photograph #1 Three of the Guards in Prayer: (Left to right): BillRails,Lester Crossw hite, Joey Oiler. £ Photograph #2 - At Attention: (Left to right): Gary Belk, Chris Long, Jim Bo>\ en. Bill R;ills, Lester Cross»hite, Joev Oiler. Volume 26 - Issue 3 —Fall 199S —Page Sons of Confederate Veterans continued: Biographies as read for some of the veterans Those participatingin the ceremony included; honored and forwarded the SCV: Tim Bowman, Commander GBHHelm Camp CHENAULT. Luke. 6*'' Kentucky lnfantr>. Gar>' Belk. Chaplain Company B. August 21. 1837 to Nov. 23, 1910. Michele Cull. Vice-President. ETHelm Washington Luke Chenault enlisted at Camp Chapter Green River on Sept. 26, 186L Apparently he Joey Oiler, State Adjutant of the Kentucky could not write, since all pay vouchers and Division. reccipt rolls, as well as his oath of allegiance Color Guard at the end of the war were signed with an Identified as "signs by mark". According to This program wasdedicated to the memory' of Ed Porter Thompson, he fought at Vicksburg, Mr. Jimmie Simmons, late of Glasgow. Baton Rouge, Stone River. Jackson, Special thanks were given to: Mr. ScottFife. Chickamauga, Rocky Face Gap, Resaca and Ms. Sandi Gorin, Mr. Paul Bragg, Mrs. Dallas. On July 1, 1864. he was severely Darlene Mercer. wounded while on the skirmish line at the Chattahootchie River. He recuperated in the Do TheyStill Love Us In Dixie? Buckner Hospital in Newman, Georgia. Luke (Read by Darlene Mercer). surrendered in Atlanta on May 9, 1865. He was identified at that time as being 6 feet 1 Do they loveyou still in Dixie? Inch tall and ha>ing blue eyes, light hair and a Ah„ hmv they loveyou still! fair complexion. Although originally from The deathless courage ofyour lives Hardin County, he apparently moved to Makes ever true heart thrill Glasgow after the war. And beat yvith loving yvarmth andprice At deeds so nobly done; CLAYTON, A. S.. e**" Kentucky Infantry, So shall it be throughout theyears Company E. June 22, 1884 - Feb 18, 1924, Till quick and deadare one. Ambrose Clayton followed "Old Joe" into Confederate senice in October of 1861 when Do they laveyou still in Dixie? he was only 17 years old. He was hospitalized Ah, couldyou have a doubt while the army was in Bowling Green but That Dixie sons ofDixie sires rccovcred and left the state with them in Would ever turn about February, 1862. In spite of his youth, he And worship at a lesser shrine fulfllled his year's enlistment, but was Than thatyou raisedso high? discharged for being under age In November Its matchless glory cannotwane, of 1862. its starsyet pierce the sky. DICKINSON, William, Lieutenant, 6"* Do they loveyou still in Dixie? Kentucky infantry-, Compay D. August 28, Ah, can they e'erforget 1845 - November 3, 1890. Will Dickinson How nobly strove those ranks ofgray claimed to be 21 years old when he enlisted When hope'sfair sun hadset, but in reality, he was only 16. When he was And bleeding died their cause to save. offered a discharge for being under age in Nor dying yvon the day. July of 1862, he refused and remained with Though cause morejustman ne'er has known the company. In February 1863 he was Or deadlieryet thefray? promoted from Corporal to 2"'' Lieutenant. He fought at Vicksburg, Stone River, Jackson, Yes, ^ve love you still in Dixie! Chickamauga, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca and You andyour sweethearts, too. Dallas; from Dallas to Atlanta, at Peachtree, For your s^veethearts are our mothers Intrenchment and Utoy Creeks, both days at Can you doubt that yve are true? Jonesboro. He was detailed by Col.