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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.5…………………………………………………….……………Issue NO. 4 Charles demorse editor & Proprietor Van-Grand Saline, Texas Saturday, April 13, 2019 2018 TEXAS DIVISION FOUR STAR CAMP AWARD Saturday May 11, 2019 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 29th 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 1st Lt Johnny M. Moore Chaplin Robert C. Huff Meeting every 2nd Saturday 7:00 pm Commander Bobby W. Smith Van Community Center, 310 Chestnut Street Van, Texas. Fellow Compatriot’s, As a new year begins, I would like to Newsletter Published Monthly http://www.5thbrigade.org/camp2269/ remind everyone that our purpose is to Always, Remember our Fallen Veterans. To Honor them Opinions expressed by individual writers are their with Pride and the Dignity they deserve. To own and do not necessarily reflect official positions preserve their memories. Veterans of the of the Col. Charles DeMorse’s Confederacy were AMERICAN’S also and 29th Texas Cavalry Camp # 2269. should be dignified as such. In these days of our History many people are trying to rewrite their Letters and articles may be submitted to: history, and take down their memorials. Not [email protected] st Only Confederate Veterans but even American ( Cut off for articles is 1 of the month.) History. This should be never tolerated. Our Editor- Compiler Nation’s History is what is. We should always Bobby W. Smith remember it and better ourselves, from it’s transgression’s, and see that it never happens again. Always to live in brotherhood. God Bless America. See you all, At the next Camp Meeting! Deo Vindice UÉuuç jA fÅ|à{ Copyright © Bobby Wayne Smith Sr. , All Rights Reserved, 2019 Page 2 THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF COL. CHARLES DEMORSES’ 29TH TEXAS CAVALRY CAMP GEN. STEPHEN DILL LEE REVIEWING U. D. C., PARADE TAMPA, FLA. Statement of Purpose We, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, having been commissioned by the Confederate Charge to the …… Veterans themselves, retain our responsibility Sons of Confederate and right to adhere to the founding principles of Veterans the United States of America remembering the bravery, defending the honor and protecting the "To you, Sons of memory of our beloved Confederate Veterans, Confederate Veterans, we will commit the which includes their memorials, images, vindication of the cause symbols, monuments and gravesites for for which we fought. To ourselves and future generations. your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier's Support the Texas Division’s Mission good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those The SCV Texas Division's continuing principles which he loved and which you love also, and those mission is to preserve the history and protect ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish." the honor and memory of our Confederate Soldier ancestors. But, we need your help. Please consider donating to our Heritage Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General, Defense Fund today. Time is of the essence as United Confederate Veterans, we see our flags, our monuments, and our New Orleans, Louisiana April 25, 1906 historical sights attacked on a daily basis by those that have much more funding and undue influence with local government. Please consider donating Copyright © Bobby Wayne Smith Sr. , All Rights Reserved, 2019 Page 3 THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF COL. CHARLES DEMORSES’ 29TH TEXAS CAVALRY CAMP REFELCTIONS OF THE PAST / AT DALLAS, TEXAS. OUR SACRED CAUSE AT DALLAS, TEXAS, DEDICATION OF THE GRAND MONUMENT. History of the Dallas Chapter, United Daughters of the preciation of her unceasing labors for the advancement of the organization Confederacy, and Its Noble Work. not only in the Dallas chapter and the Lone Star state, but through the On March 1, 1894, a small band of Southland. patriotic women met with .Mrs. Kate Cabell Currie and conceived the idea of securing a suitable resting- Right well have the Dallas Daughters place for ex-Confederates living in of the Confederacy performed their Dallas who might die without the means mission, for they have carefully of burial. No sooner the idea than the examined the histories taught in the determination to form an association schools, correcting errors where whose objects should be justice to the possible, calling attention to the living by preserving the truths "of unparalleled bravery of the Confederate history, charity for the needy soldier, and explaining to the young veterans, and securing a suitable the causes that led to the war. burial-plot for them when life's fitful battle should be o'er. Organization They have secured the burial-plot, speedily followed, and the name chosen marking the grave of each veteran with was " Daughters of the Confederacy." a pretty marble headstone bearing his Thus this little band became the name and the company in which he fought originators in the state of Texas of during the war. They have been as the proud association of U.D.C., that ministering angels to the sick; they now has fully twenty-five chapters on have fed the hungry, clothed the her roll of honor. unclad, supplied fuel for the cold and cheerless home the widow and orphans, and have ever been ready to relieve It was not long after this before those in distress. Their last efforts other Texas cities formed like or- to bring comfort to the veterans have ganizations, and a state division was been the placing of three beds bearing formed. Mrs. Kate Cabell Currie was the name "Daughters of the Confederacy" chosen its first President, and enjoyed in the St. Paul's Sanitarium and sup- that honor until elected at the Bal- plying them with the nicest of linen, timore convention to be President of etc., for the use of the veterans the U. D I an honor bestowed in ap- in sickness and need. Copyright © Bobby Wayne Smith Sr. , All Rights Reserved, 2019 Page 4 THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF COL. CHARLES DEMORSES’ 29TH TEXAS CAVALRY CAMP concourse of people. As the stone It was not long after organization dropped into its place the band played before their work broadened and a great "Dixie," and the old Rebel yell was desire to erect a grand Confederate heard anew, that seemed as an echo from Monument in the City Park at Dallas. a hundred battle-fields where the Texas sprung up. No sooner the thought Southern flag had waved for victory. than the work began, and on April 29, Almost another year of work lay 1897, their hopes became a grand before the Daughters of the Confederacy realization, and the monument honoring before they could see their fondest the privates and the chieftains was hopes realized , but they faltered not, unveiled amid the shouts of the mul- and at the appointed time all was titude and the admiration of the old complete; and in their great joy they and young. bade all the world come and help them It is impossible to record the honor the Confederate heroes. labors and sacrifices of these noble women during these three years, but they deemed it a pleasure and duty to deny self that valor and patriotism might be honored. As the monument was .0 stand on Texas soil, it must be built by Texas workmen and of Texas stone. The uniform of the Confederate soldier was gray, and the towering column must be of gray granite; thus it would be a reminder of the unwavering lines of gray-clad soldiers who under the stars and bars, ever stood as a stone wall, ready to repulse every attack of the foe. When the day of completion seemed far off and the burden too heavy to 2019 Photo of Dallas Monument bear, they had but to remember the gallant deeds of the six hundred "Come," they said, "on April 28 and 29, thousand men in gray who- without an for the monument is completed, and it arsenal within the limit of their is a thing of beauty and glory, for not country, with every seaport closed, cut only is the private on his column of off from the world, narrowed and hemmed gray, but our chieftains are there too, in by land and sea. With no resources ready, as of old, to stand watch and save those of their war-riven land guard in sunshine and in rain. Yes, — fought two million seven hundred and come to the love-feast we have prepared fifty thousand men for four years, and for you and to the unveiling how victory wreathed with chaplets of ceremonies, for the private is on his glory all their banners in nine battles pinnacle of glory, and on pedestals at out of ten. and the burden would grow the base are life-size statues of as feather-weight, and with renewed President Jefferson Davis, Gens. R. E. zeal and energy they would begin their Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Albert work again : and success crowned their Sydney Johnston." This invitation went efforts, for the monument, rearing its far and wide. Gov. Culberson left his soldierly statue to the blue dome of capital city to show honor to our heaven, was ready for unveiling in soldiery ; the Texas Legislature closed April, 1897. its doors, that her lawmakers might On three occasions the Daughters of come, thus letting the world know that the Confederacy bade every one rejoice.
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