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Calcasieu Greys Volume 35, Issue 5 Sons of Confederate Veterans, Lake Charles, May 2016

Finding Your Way Home

Commander Column May 2016

Dr. Andy Buckley, commander

Captain James W. Bryan

As the Captain James W. Bryan Camp of the Sons of NEXT MEETING Confederate Veterans we choose to be involved in The next meeting of Captain James W. Bryan Camp 1390 will be from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, May 10, at Joe’s activities which communicate the story of our brave and Pizza and Pasta Restaurant, 1601 Ruth St., Sulphur, La. courageous ancestors and fulfill our purpose. One of Our camp commander, Dr. Andy Buckley will give the those activities is our presence at the Southwest program on “Reconstruction and the New South.” We’ll Louisiana Gun Show at the Lake Charles Civic Center also discuss camp business and important upcoming four times a year. events for Confederate Memorial Day in June. Please We had an information and retail table at the make every effort to attend this important meeting. Southwest Gun Show, Saturday and Sunday April 23- 24th. Despite apparent low number in attendance it was a La. SCV RUNION positive experience meeting members of the public and The 2016 Reunion of the Louisiana Division, Sons answering questions about the purpose and philosophy of Confederate Veterans will be Saturday, June 4, at the of our organization. We talked to dozens of individuals who expressed an interest in the Sons of Confederate LouuAmite Community Center, Amite Louisiana. The Veterans. registration fee is $15 for members. The adult Saturday night banquet, for members and guests is $25 each. A special thanks to Scott Fusilier, Travis Lanier, Make checks payable to Camp Moore Camp 1223. Mail Michael Wayne Clanton, Nelson Fontenot, Gregg to: Matthew Carl, 1241 Hwy. 1046, Amite, LA 70422. Holder, Luke Dartez, Rev. Ben Lyons, Jim Ross, and The Amite Community Center is located at 101 SE Archie Toombs for their help in this project. We could Central Avenue, Amite, La. From I-55 Exit 46, go east not have done it without you guys and the members of for 1.3 miles, traveling through 5 traffic lights. At the 5th our Events Coordination Committee. traffic light, turn right, just before the railroad tracks, The caps, flags, books, and other memorabilia we and the Center will be 1 block straight ahead. sold at the gun show generated $435.25. As most of you The Reunion will begin at 9 a.m. with a full day of know the Bryan Camp keeps only about $7.00 of our informative presentations and business sessions. $47.00 annual dues with the majority going to SCV Speakers will present on a variety of subjects and will National and the Louisiana Division. We could not inspire and challenge each of us. There will be many function financially without this small infusion of cash displays of weaponry and other historical artifacts of the generated at the gun shows to fund our community War. projects. Make every effort to come to this year’s Reunion to meet and connect with Compatriots from all over the (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1) state! 1 | P a g e

(Continued from Page 1) History Award Given At Conclusion of St Louis High School Student Mass Our events Coordination Committee chose to use new It was our privilege on Friday, April 22 to present signs featuring our local camp logo, rather than the banner the Sons of Confederate Veteran Bryan History Award we have used over the past 6 years. Needless to say this to Logan Guillory at the conclusion of the mass at St was not for reasons of political correctness. If you will Louis Catholic High School in Lake Charles. Our view the pictures from the gun show [page 3] you will commander was a fill-in as Mike Jones our Historian notice our SCV National Battle Flag logo, is front and /Editor was originally scheduled to present the medal center, in a special display photo entitled “The South at the mass, but was sick with an upper respiratory Needed All Her Sons… and She Still Does.” The large infection.

container placed in the middle of the table, holding the Thanks to Principal Christopher Fontenot our stick flags, features our SCV National Battle Flag logo. The camp was able to share the awarding of the Bryan two signs mounted on the wall behind the table (in place medal and certificate in front of the entire faculty and of the banner) are new. The first sign features our own student body. It was a humbling and moving James Bryan Camp logo with the caption “Celebrating Our experience to tell our ancestors story in front of one of Ancestors, Defending Our Heritage.” The second sign the most prestigious Catholic schools in the state. highlights our SCV philosophy and purpose with six major talking points explaining what we are about as an Marking of Confederate Graves in Southwest organization. Louisiana Saturday, May 28 We made these and other changes to our gun show Every Confederate Memorial Day in Louisiana format in order to do a better job of connecting with members of the Captain James W. Bryan honor the potential new members and our community. We Confederate Soldiers buried in local cemeteries in eliminated the clutter, added shelves, attached price tags to Calcasieu and Beauregard Parishes by placing small merchandise, and created an inventory system to track the First National, Second National, and Battle Flags next sales of items. Everything did not go as planned but all to the graves. This year we have moved marking of associated were pleased with the improvements. graves from June 3 (Official State holiday) to Saturday, Every good thing can be improved. We will continue May 28. Even if you cannot make all the cemeteries, to fine tune our organization in order to do a better job. please make an effort to help us with one or two. Our Most of our ideas for improvement originated through schedule with times is listed below: suggestions from our new members and members of the WEST Calcasieu AM. Events Coordination Committee. Our organizational Farquhar cemetery meet at 8:00 am; this cemetery is next to purpose remains unchanged but our methods and activities Clifton Ridge Tank Farm Road behind Citgo Refinery 8:00 are constantly evolving in order to improve our am then proceed to the following cemeteries. effectiveness. Sometimes we allow ourselves to be Dutch Cove cemetery on Moss Lake in Carlyss west of threatened by change and fight to hold on tightly to the Burton Landing. past. This will create inertia and hinder our progress. Big Woods cemetery next to Antioch Baptist Church in I do not have to tell you that all effective, growing, and Edgerly, La. successful organizations are built upon a sense of Nibllet’s Bluff cemetery north of the park ownership among members. Everyone must feel they have Royer cemetery north of Houston River on Hwy 27. Perkins cemetery just outside the entrance to the park on a stake in the organization. This is what I am trying to do Holbrook Park Rd through my leadership in the camp. We want to reach new Bagdad cemetery in Westlake on Bagdad road close to the members. We want to retain old members. We want intersection with Hwy 378 everyone to feel the James W. Bryan SCV Camp is inclusive in our decision making and leadership. Every East Calcasieu/Beauregard PM. member’s participation is important. Thank you for the Calcasieu Courthouse 5:00 pm for brief ceremony; then opportunity to serve as your servant leader in our Great proceed to the following cemeteries. Cause. Orange Grove-Graceland cemetery 1900 block of Broad St. Corporate cemetery north of Interstate 10 @ corner of Church and Moss Street. Dr. Andy Buckley, commander Bilbo cemetery on the lake next to Lakeshore Drive and Veterans Park. Sallier cemetery corner of South Ryan and Henry next to St. Patrick's hospital.

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PHOTOS FROM CAPTAIN BRYAN’S TABLE A AT THE LAKE CHARLES GUN SHOW IN APRIL By Dr. Andy Buckley, cmdr.

110th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHARGE TO THE SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS

April 25, 1906 "To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will

commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought. To your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier's good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which he loved and which you love also, and those ideals

which made him glorious and which you also cherish." Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General, United Confederate Veterans, , Louisiana, April 25, 1906.

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CONFEDERATE GENERALS BURIED IN LOUISIANA 10. Brig. Gen. James Patrick Major (1836-1877) is buried in Ascension Catholic Church Cemetery in 1. Brig. Gen. Henry Watkins Allen (1820-1866) is buried Donaldsonville. He participated in the Battle of Oak on the grounds of the Old Louisiana State Capital building Hills, Mo. 10 August 1861, the Siege of Vicksburg, and in Baton Rouge. He was disabled by a wound he received commanded a cavalry brigade at the battles of in the Battle of Baton Rouge. Allen was elected governor Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, Louisiana in the Red River and historian Douglas Southall Freeman considered him Campaign of 1864. the greatest administrator the Confederacy produced. He 11. Brig. Gen. Young Marshall Moody (1822-1866) is died in Mexico City, Mexico. buried in Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans. He 2. Brig. Gen. Albert Gallatin Blanchard (1810-1891) is commanded the 43rd Alabama Infantry Regiment of buried in St. Louis Cemetery No. 2 in New Orleans. He Gracie's Brigade in the Campaign of 1862, commanded troops in the Peninsula Campaign of 1862. the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863, the Siege of 3. Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner (1823-1873) is buried in St. Petersburg, Va. in 1864 where he commanded a John the Evangelist Cathedral Catholic Cemetery in brigade. Lafayette. He commanded the last Confederate bastion on 12. Brig. Gen. Alfred Jean Jacque Alfred Alexander the River to surrender to Federal forces, Port Mouton (1829-1864) is buried at St. John the Evangelist Hudson, Louisiana in 1863. Catholic Cathedral Cemetery in Lafayette. He led the 18th 4. Brig. Gen. Henry Gray (1816-1892) is buried in Louisiana Infantry Regiment at the , Tenn. 6- 7, April 1862, then a brigade in the Teche Campaign of 1862 Springville Cemetery in Coushatta. He was the original and 1863 and a division at 7the , La. 8 commander of the 28th (Gray's) Louisiana Infantry April 1864, where he was killed in action. Regiment and commanded the Louisiana Brigade in the 13. Brig. Gen. Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls (1834-1912) Red River Campaign of 1864. is buried in St. John's Episcopal Church Cemetery in 5. Brig. Gen. John Breckenridge Grayson (1806-1861) is Thibodaux. He started the war as lieutenant commander of buried in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans. He the 8th Louisiana Infantry, lost an arm in the Shenandoah commanded the Department of Middle and Eastern Valley Campaign of 1862 and a foot in the Battle of Florida. Chancellorsville in 1863. Nicholls was a post-war governor 6. Brig. Gen. Harry Thompson Hays (1820-1876) is of Louisiana. buried in Washington Avenue Cemetery in New Orleans. 14. Gen. Leonidas Polk (1806-1864) is buried in Christ Episcopal Church Cathedral in New Orleans. He He commanded the First Louisiana Brigade in the Army commanded a corps at the Battle of Shiloh, Tenn. 6-7, April of Northern for much of the war. 1862 and then in the major battles of the Army of 7. Brig. Gen. Louis Hebert (1820-1901) is buried in St. when he was killed in action during the Atlanta Campaign of Joseph Catholic Church Cemetery in Cecilia (his remains 1864. were moved from a location on Bayou Teche to the 15. Brig. Gen. Thomas Moore Scott (1829-1876) is cemetery in October 2002). He was the first commander buried in Greenwood Cemetery in New of the 3rd Louisiana Infantry Regiment and led them at Orleans. He commanded the 12th Louisiana Infantry the Battle of Oak Hills (Wilson's Creek), Mo. 10 August Regiment and then a brigade in the Atlanta 1861. He then commanded a brigade at the Battle of Iuka, Campaign of 1864. Scott was severely wounded at Miss. and heavy artillery around Fort Fisher, N.C. the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. 30 Nov. 1864. 8. Brig. Gen. Paul Octave Hebert (1818-1880) is buried in 16. Brig. Gen. Leroy A. Stafford (1822-1864) is St. Raphael Cemetery in Bayou Goula. He commanded buried in the Stafford Family Cemetery in Cheneyville. the Houston-Galveston District early in the war and He was colonel of the 9th Louisiana Infantry in the commanded troops at the Battle of Milliken's Bend, La. 7 Army of Northern Virginia before being promoted to June 1863. He was a pre-war governor of Louisiana. brigadier general and leading one of the Louisiana 9. Gen. John Bell Hood (1831-1879) commanded Hood's Texas brigades in the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864 where Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, then a division; a he was mortally wounded. corps and then the Army of Tennessee. He was troops in 17. Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor (1826-1879) was the son of numerous major battles and campaigns, including the Seven Days Campaign, Second Battle of Manassas, Sharpsburg, President Zachary Taylor and commanded the First Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the Atlanta Campaign, Franklin and Louisiana Brigade in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign Nashville, Tenn. He suffered severe wounds at Gettysburg and of 1862. He also commanded the Army of Western Chickamauga. He died after the war in New Orleans of Yellow Louisiana in the Red River Campaign of 1864. Fever and is buried in . 18. Brig. Gen. (1830-1907) is buried in 10. Brig. Gen. St. John Richardson Liddell (1815-1870) is Ascension Catholic Church Cemetery in buried in the Liddell Family Cemetery in Catahoula Parish Donaldsonville. He was the original colonel of the near Jonesville. He commanded a brigade in the Kentucky 28th/29 Louisiana Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Campaign of 1862, a division at the Battle of Red the Chickasaw Bayou, Miss. in 1862 and the Siege of Chickamauga 19-20 September 1863 and participated in Vicksburg in 1863. Thomas was promoted to brigadier River Campaign of 1864. general in 1864 and commanded troops in the Trans- Mississippi Department.

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