Governor Kemp's Chairman Rev. Mosley Indicates “We've Just Taken Our First Step Today.”

VOL. 6 Issue 6 Official Publication of the Georgia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans May/June, 2021 Governor Kemp's Chairman Rev. Mosley indicates “we've just taken our first step today.”

CALL to ACTION: Georgia park with Kemp Broke Campaign Promise, Selling out his Base. giant Confederate We need to hold him Accountable carving approves changes “As Governor, I will protect Stone Mountain and historical monuments in Georgia from the

Mon, May 24, 2021, 2:09 PM radical left. We should learn from the past – not attempt to re-write it.” Brian Kemp July 3, 2018 STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — The board overseeing a We need to send Governor Brian Kemp letters, emails, and phone calls to his office mountain park near Atlanta with a immediately. Be sure to do all three (letter, email and call) giant carving of Confederate Let him know that you were a supporter of his and how disappointed you are that he broke leaders voted Monday to relocate his campaign promise to protect Stone Mountain and our Veterans Monuments. He has sold his Confederate flags from a busy walking trail and create a mu- base out to the radical left. seum exhibit that acknowledges Governor Brian P. Kemp [email protected] - Governor the site's connection to the Ku 206 Washington Street Klux Klan. Suite 203, State Capitol The moves were part of an ef- [email protected] - Chief of Staff fort by the Stone Mountain Me- Atlanta, GA 30334 morial Association to address Call : (404) 656-1776 [email protected] - Deputy Chief of Staff criticism of the park's Confeder- ate legacy and shore up its fi- nances. The chairman of the asso- Good judgment comes from ciation's board promised more experience, changes. and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

We will never have true civiliza- Remember, tion until we have learned to PAID PAID it is your duty to see that the true his- recognize the rights of others. PERMIT #3 #3 PERMIT U.S.POSTAGE U.S.POSTAGE ~ Will Rogers NON PROFIT ORG ORG PROFIT NON

CALLAHAN,FL32011 CALLAHAN,FL32011 tory of the South is presented BrainyQuote to future generations. INSIDE THIS ISSUE Color Photos 2, 13,14,15,16,27 Commander’s Report 3

Div. Officers 4 Legal Defense Fund 5 EC Minutes 6 Last Roll 18 Why remember ? /O’Toole 20 Historical Markers/Colbaugh 22 Camp News 25 The Georgia Confederate Confederate Georgia The 1081 Box P.O. 31202 GA Macon, Page 2 The Georgia Confederate May/June, 2021

☜ L. Cmdr. Jud Barton presents the Hunley Award to Cadet Sgt. Kaden Johnson McLane. R. Cadet Battalion Com- mander Mary Evelyn Holmes of the Hart County JROTC receives the $250.00 Hunley scholarship for her excellent achievements. Lt. Dickson L. Baker Camp 926 See Page 25

☝ Camp #2314 "CSS Chattahoochee" awarded Cadet Lt Col Shantira Brunam of the Early County High School in Blakely, Georgia, the Hunley Award. Presentation done by Captain Jack C. Cowart.

For information on the ☝ Left to Right: Chaplain John Fusco; Staff Sergeant ☝Cmdr. Miller,R. presented Cadet Seaman Collin Georgia Divi- Bargeron; Commander Mike Pettus; Senior Airman Long; Crowe, Naval JRROTC - Greenbrier High School, Colum- sion Cadet and Adjutant Jessie Pinson; David W. Payne Camp 1633 bia County with the Georgia Division Hunley Medal, Cer- Program, Hunley Award See Page 25 tificate, and check for $250 to further his education! We check with were well received at the Greenbrier Awards Service A your Camp short review of the Hunley was surprising to most. The Commander or JRROTC has the Hunley included in one of their pro- Adjutant grams.

GMI The carriage restoration of the Georgia Military Institute (GMI) cannon at the Marietta Confederate Cemetery is complete and the cannon is now back in position – facing north - at the cemetery. The wooden carriage that supported the cannon was rotten and was replaced by an aluminum carriage funded by the SCV Georgia Division tag fund and SCV Camp donations. Thank you to Camp Commander Wayne Willingham (Gen. William J. Hardee #1397) for leading this project . May/June, 2021 The Georgia Confederate Page 3

124th State of the Division ing Heritage Tourism that edu- webpage address is Address cates park visitors through living www.Vetmc.org . history attractions and events. The Division continues its Gentlemen, I would like to give you a State The Executive Council voted to out-reach effort to new and exist- of the Division Address. spend 18K to get a professional ing JROTC High School pro- It has been my great honor to video and proposal prepared. We grams to make available the H. serve as your Division Com- presented the video and proposal L. Hunley Awards that we have mander in my third year and my to the Governor's Office and the in stock for our Camps at our second term. It's been another Stone Mountain Memorial Asso- Division HQ Office. The Divi- ciation. Most have commented sion also continues to provide a tough year for us. We have had sion has distributed over 275,000 on how well it was done and $250 scholarship to every H.L. additional Confederate monu- "Truth Concerning the Confeder- even the SMMA consultants Hunley award recipient. ments removed illegally for a ate Battle Flag" CDs by Pastor commented that our ideas of I'm thankful to say this is the total of 5 monuments. As many John Weaver throughout the Heritage Tourism were in line 6th year the Georgia Division of you are aware, Governor Confederation and the Country. with what they have been trying Headquarters Office has been in Kemp and the Stone Mountain Very importantly, we have in- to recommend to the SMMA. We operation. We have on staff a Memorial Association have ap- stituted a recruitment and voter can just hope that these Heritage Division Secretary, Mrs. Kitty proved some unfavorable registration campaign. We have Tourism ideas will be discussed Dorety that manages our Divi- changes at the Memorial Park to get our members and our sup- further. sion’s daily operations. Main- that we are solidly against and porters registered and energized Now let me give you some taining a Division HQ Office has will likely become a legal chal- to vote. Our enemies are winning positive news. I'm pleased to re- been a key element in taking our lenge. the day getting their supporters port the Georgia Division is Division to the next level of The Georgia Division has ten registered and energized and we stronger than ever. The Georgia growth. major legal battles on-going. One have got to out-do them to keep Division remains the largest Di- The Division has decided to get with the City of Alpharetta con- Georgia from becoming a Vir- vision in our Confederation, into the used book business by cerning a 1st Amendment viola- ginia. There are stacks of voter serving approximately 3,300 selling used books that have been tion and the other nine lawsuits registration applications and members in 100 active Camps donated to the Division (tax de- concerning the removal of our SCV recruitment brochures that are located through-out the ductible). These books are being Confederate Monuments. The available at Reunion. We can largest State East of the Missis- sold through an on-line book Confederate Monuments in Co- make a difference here. Take a sippi River. broker AbeBooks.com , and all lumbus, DeKalb, Clarke/Athens, pack of voter registration appli- We contribute much of our proceeds are used to help make Rockdale and Henry Counties cations with you, keep them in strength to our communications our Division office operations were removed illegally in the your vehicle, give them out to efforts. Keeping our Division and Heritage Defense self sup- middle of the night. Currently we our supporters and help them get membership informed is one of porting . We continue to operate have stay orders in Newton, registered to vote. our primary objectives. We issue our on-line store making avail- Glynn/Brunswick and Randolph/ Gentlemen in closing our email notifications and press re- able Confederate Flags, Tags, Cuthbert Counties. Ware/County membership is comprised of leases through our constant con- Stick Flags, lapel pins, and his- is pending to be heard before the some of the most dedicated Con- tact account, and our web-page torical literature and CDs . Ware County Superior Court. federates in our Confederation. and social media accounts are up The Georgia Division's Flags The Georgia Court of Appeals We are doers, we are fighters, we -dated regularly. Our Division Across Georgia program is going has already heard the Newton never give in and we never give Newsletter the Georgia Confed- strong. We have 12 large Divi- County case in April and sched- up. We have got to keep up the erate is sent to our membership sion Flag poles across the State uled to hear the Rockdale and good fight, give to our legal de- every two months. of Georgia. The Division pur- Henry County cases in July. We fense efforts, keep active recruit- The Georgia Division has cre- chases these oversize Battle have four lawsuits pending with ing and living the Charge. As the ated a 501c4 organization that Flags for these Division poles Gwinnett County, City of Rome, Gospel says in Galatians 6:9, allows the 501c4 organization to and distributes them to the local City of Kennesaw and City of "Let us not grow weary of doing engage in funding unlimited lob- Camps that maintain these poles. Fairburn. good, for in due season we will byist and legislative activities We are always on the lookout for Earlier this year we were in- reap, if we do not give up.” formed that Silver Dollar City, without involving the SCV's any "prime" locations to erect who is the entertainment com- 501c3 status. A separate 527 Po- new flagpoles. The 3rd Battalion, Your humble servant, pany operating Stone Mountain litical Action Committee the po- Company B of the Mechanized Tim Pilgrim Memorial Park was terminating litical arm supported by the Calvary unit of the Division Georgia Division Commander their lease agreement which we Georgia Division has been cre- mans a preventative maintenance saw as an opportunity to propose ated called the Veterans Memo- crew that inspects and make re- some operational changes that rial Coalition, Inc. to help sup- pairs to our Division poles as re- would serve to honor our Con- port candidates that support Vet- quired. federate Heritage by implement- erans monuments. The PAC's As of Date the Georgia Divi- Page 4 The Georgia Confederate May/June, 2021

770-296-5139 9th Brigade Commander Ken Arvin

Georgia Division Officers & Staff 2020/2021 [email protected] Division Office Staff Executive Council 74 Oak Bend Drive, 706-662-4532 Georgia Division Secretary Georgia Division Commander Hull, Ga. 30646 Catherine (Kitty) Dorety Division Grave Registry Coordinator Timothy F. Pilgrim eric.cleveland@outlook.com Georgia Division, SCV Garry Earl Daniell 4347 Beachview De. SE, 20 Old Fuller Mill Rd. NE, 404-771-0903 P.O. Box 1081, Macon, Ga. 31202 Smyrna, Ga. 30082 Marietta, Ga. 30067 4th Brigade Commander [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Kim M. Beck 1-866-SCV-in-GA or 770-435-4605 404-456-3393 2321 Middle Ground Church Rd. 1-866-728-4642 Division Historic Preservation Coor- Division Lieutenant-Commander Eastman, Ga. 31023-3043 Staff Officers dinator North [email protected] Division Spokesman William Lathem, (Brigades : 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13) 478-358-4168 / 478-290-3885 Martin K. O'Toole [email protected] George James Crawford [email protected] 678-232-8638 404-401-9166 5th Brigade Commander 435A S. 6th Street, Thomas Miller Georgia Confederate Editor Division H.L. Hunley Award Liaison Griffin, Ga. 30224 326 Longwood Dr., Allison Smith Perry Scott E. Seay [email protected] 678-360-9667 P.O. Box 447, Fitzgerald, Ga. 31750 4425 Evandale Way, Statesboro, Ga. 30461 [email protected] 912-585-9144 Cumming, Ga. 30040 Division Lieutenant-Commander [email protected] South 912-536-5775 Division Webmaster & Face book [email protected] Administrator 678-455-7641 (Brigades : 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) 6th Brigade Commander Charles "Chuck" Griffin Barry Colbaugh Division Poet Laureate Donald Newman [email protected] 470-768-2888 3393 Swamp Road, George Ray Houston 128 West Deerfield Rd. Poet Laureate Georgia Division SCV Waycross, Ga. 31503 Bloomingdale, Ga. 31302 Division Chaplain [email protected] Kim M. Beck [email protected] [email protected] 912-816-6078 2321 Middle Ground Church Rd. Committees 912-547-4212 Eastman, Ga. 31023-3043 Division Chief of Staff Tag Project Fund : 7th Brigade Commander [email protected] Timothy Hawkins Chairman Kim Beck James Carter 478-358-4168 / 478-290-3885 Members: George Crawford, Michael 104 Suncrest Place, 3703 North Cliff Lane, Kathleen, Ga. 31047 Deputy Division Chaplain - North Dean, Chuck Griffin, Jack Bridwell, Valdosta, Ga. 31605 Bobby Warren Bradford Richard Straut & Dan Coleman [email protected] [email protected] 229-242-0157 176 Old Jones Road, Time and Place: 478-951-2628 Ellijay, Ga. 30536 8th Brigade Commander Chairman Thomas E. Stevens, tste- Division Adjutant Hershell Smith [email protected] [email protected] 478-477-7468 Richard Kevin Straut 706-273-6043 105 New Bethel Church Rd. Members: Al Medcalf 3721 Lathem Creek Rd. Deputy Division Chaplain - South Fitzgerald, Ga. 31750 Finance: Gainesville, Ga. 30506 [email protected] Division Sergeant at Arms Chairman Richard Straut [email protected] 229-425-2966 David W. Aderhold Members: Kim Beck

770-851-3395 [email protected] 9th Brigade Commander Lobbyist Liaison: Division Judge Advocate 678-409-5790 Chairman Michael Dean Ken Arvin Daniel Coleman Deputy Sergeant at Arms - South Members: Martin K O'Toole 69 Brooklyn Circle, 8735 Jenkins Rd., Richland, Ga. 31825 Wright Thomas Harrell Jr. Public Relations: Winston, Ga. 30187 [email protected] [email protected] Chairman Tim Hawkins [email protected] (229) 385-8322 Members: Michael Dean, George Craw- 706-662-4532 770-265-7910 Division Heritage Defense Officer ford, Chuck Griffin, 10th Brigade Commander Tony Jay Pilgrim Immediate Past Division Com- Joseph Alfred Medcalf, Jr. Communications: [email protected] Chairman George Crawford mander 122 Medcalf Rd., 770-296-5139 Members: Al Perry, Barry Colbaugh Scott K. Gilbert, Jr. Barnesville, Ga. 30204 81 Tinsley Way, Senoia, Ga. 30276 Senior Aide-de-Camp Youth Programs: [email protected] 678-572-0723 Dr. A. Jack Bridwell, Past Division [email protected] Chairman Thomas Miller 404-449-2521 11th Brigade Commander Commander Members: Al Perry, Michael Reither Teddy Thomas P.O. Box 1353, 1st Brigade Commander 2830 Shady Grove Rd., Moultrie, Ga. 31353 Schedule Wendell Bruce Carrollton, Ga. 30116 [email protected] 813 County Line Rd., 229-985-8403 Executive Council Meetings [email protected] Rock Springs, Ga. 30739 770-283-0720 Division HQ Office Executive Direc- June 5th Following Reunion [email protected] tor 423-629-5222 12th Brigade Commander Thomas E. Stevens Michael Reither 2nd Brigade Commander 384 North River Blvd. 3789 Sweat Creek Run, Macon, Ga. 31211 Michael C. Dean Marietta, GA 30062-1182 [email protected] 478-477-7468 200 Pruitt Drive, [email protected] 770-639-8969 Alpharetta, Ga. 30004 Division Genealogist [email protected] 13th Brigade Commander Hu Robert Daughtry P.O. Box 406, Metter, Ga. 30439 404-771-6507 Anthony "Tony" Jay Pilgrim 6089 Kathie Ct., [email protected] 3rd Brigade Commander 912-687-6153 Ellenwood, GA 30294 Eric Manley Cleveland [email protected] Division Event Coordinator May/June, 2021 The Georgia Confederate Page 5

863 Joseph Wheeler Camp $500.00 We Hoist Our Flags Call for all Georgia Division Camps 914 Cherokee Legion $500.00 By: George Ray to Donate at least $500 to our Legal 1399 Lt. James T. Woodward Camp $500.00 Houston 1607 Stewart Webster Camp $500.00 Poet Laureate Fight to Save our Monuments. Georgia Division SCV 1807 Ochlocknee Rifles $500.00 Brothers, we have spent nearly $146,000.00 on 2164 Montgomery Sharpshooters $500.00 We hoist our flags 2218 The Unknown Soldier $434.00 in all seasons, Legal Fees since July 2020 fighting the good fight During any time and to save our Confederate Monuments and to pro- 64 Clement A. Evans $400.00 1633 David W. Payne Camp $250.00 for heritage reasons; tect our 1st Amendment Rights. The Newton We fly the battle flag 1386 McLeod-Moring Camp $200.00 of glory; County has been heard before the Georgia Court 1977 Private John Ingraham $180.00 of Appeals and is awaiting a ruling. The Rockdale Out of respect 1729 Sharpsburg Sharpshooters $105.00 save truth of story, and Henry County cases go before the Georgia 105 Captain Charles W. Baldwin $100.00 Great grandchildren of free- State Appeals Court in June. We either stand or 2313 C.S.S. Chattahoochee $100.00 dom whose demands we die, having the funds to cover our Attorneys fees 2600 Immortal Six Hundred $100.00 set. is paramount to achieve Victory. Please give to the The truth of the contest we Division's Legal Fight Fund. Announcement ne’er shall forget; We defend our history with- May 26, 2021 Camps that Answered the Call to Support out regret. Abe Lincoln’s invasion we Heritage Defense Legal Fights : Camp Dues for the attest, 1552 Camp McDonald $4,005.00 2021 Billing Statements: Gray clad warriors 97 Brig. Gen. T.R.R. Cobb $3,200.00 lain to rest.

91 Thomson Guards $2,800.00 O’er our Southern grave- 78 Alexander H. Stephens $2,400.00 Camp Commanders & Adjutants, yards in suits of gray 485 Thomas Marsh Forman $2,000.00 They stood defiantly 1446 Gen. Leonidas Polk Camp $2,000.00 We are in the process of getting the 2021 yesterday. 158 Brig. Gen E. Porter Alexander $1,900.00 membership billing statements ready to be Protection of homes and 700 Kennesaw Battlefield $1,800.00 firesides alike mailed out to the membership. We hope to 1404 27th GA Regiment $1,490.00 Into the souls of the 1914 Maj. Gen. Ambrose R. Wright $1,375.00 have them ready to send out by mid-June. enemy fear would strike. 2137 Barnesville Blues $1,365.00 With irony our culture 1449 John B. Gordon Memorial $1,200.00 If you have any changes to your Camp dues mocked, With resistance their 91 Thomson Guards $1,100.00 please send a notification to Division Secretary 941 Ogeechee Rifles $1,070.00 sarcasm blocked. Kitty Dorety at [email protected] so she 2102 Buckhead-Ft. Lawton Brigade $1,050.00 Our modern day enemy cuts 96 Maj. William E. Simmons $1,000.00 can up-date the Division Rosters with your re- our skin With the Bowie knife’s 1397 Gen. William J. Hardee $1,000.00 vised Camp dues and be included on the bill- sharpened steel; 1642 Col. Hiram Parks Bell $1,000.00 ing statements. Attempts to destroy our 1639 Chattahoochee Guards $1,000.00 heritage begins, 2200 Georgia Division HQ $1,000.00 Please have any Camp dues It is with honor 1855 Calhoun Rifles $900.00 and defiant will 154 Tattnall Invincibles $750.00 changes to Kitty We stand poised to fight 517 Gen. Henry L. Benning $700.00 again. 926 Lt. Dickson L. Baker $700.00 by June 4, 2021. Hoist our battle flag 1859 Joseph McConnell $572.00 in our Southern wind 682 Jefferson Davis Cowboys $565.00 [email protected] Our honored heritage 943 Lt. Col. Thomas C. Glover $530.00 we shall defend. 18 Gen. Edward Dorr Tracy, Jr. $500.00 The shield of Achilles our 79 Gen. Lafayette McLaws $500.00 glorious banner 89 Gilmer Light Guards $500.00 on high, 141 Lt. Col. Thomas M. Nelson $ 500.00 Across our Confederate 469 Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest $500.00 nation; across 670 Col. Wm. H. Stiles Warren-Aiken $500.00 our Southern sky, 690 W.F. Jenkins $500.00 Saint Andrew’s leaning 707 State of Dade $500.00 cross shall continually fly. Page 6 The Georgia Confederate May/June, 2021 Sons of Confederate Veterans 192 the creation of SMMA. Our Commander Pilgrim made the intentions to file a lawsuit will be following appointments. Georgia Division made to the SMMA if they follow David Aderhold was assigned Executive Council Meeting 1 May 2021 through with any of the proposed Sergeant at Arms. Joshua Thayer Macon, Ga. changes. is stepping down due new job Commander Pilgrim gave an up- work hours. Executive Council Members Present senting the Division. We date on a contracted effort with Lt. Commander North George Cmdr. Tim Pilgrim Present are making progress and the Matthew Film Company to Crawford is assigned the Division Lt. Cmdr., N. George Crawford Present hopefully will be estab- prepare a documentary video that Disciplinary Officer to handle dis- Lt. Cmdr., S. Chuck Griffin Present lishing standing and set- promotes the use of Heritage ciplinary issues that arise. He has Adj. Richard Straut Present ting a precedent if we Tourism at Stone Mountain. This the authority to appoint permanent J.A. Dan Coleman Present win any of the ongoing would implement more living his- or temporary disciplinary commit- C.O.S. Tim Hawkins Present cases. We are aggres- tory demonstrations and attrac- tees as needed. Past Cmdr. Scott Gilbert Absent sively working lawsuits tions. A written proposal was also Commander Pilgrim is calling 1st Brig. Wendell Bruce Absent in Newton and Rockdale completed and provided to the for a division wide voter registra- 2nd Brig. Michael Dean Present Counties, Columbus, SMMA board at the 26 April tion and recruitment campaign. 3rd Brig. Eric Cleveland Present Alpharetta, Athens, meeting. We have requested to be Members need to be energized 4th Brig. Kim Beck Absent Brunswick, and the City added back to the May 17 SMMA down through the Camp. As 5th Brig. Thomas Miller Absent of Waycross. agenda to present the full docu- Camp and Division leaders we 6th Brig. Don Newman Absent Commander Pilgrim mentary and proposal. The docu- must maintain a proactive and 7th Brig. James Carter Absent informed everyone of mentary video and the proposal positive outlook to our members. 8th Brig. Hershell Smith Absent the debacle within the will be presented to Governor We should inspire our members to 9th Brig. Ken Arvin Present Stone Mountain Memo- Kemp on May 14. be active in their local communi- 10th Brig. Al Medcalf Absent rial Association Commander Pilgrim informed ties. We can make a difference. 11th Brig. Ted Thomas Present (SMMA) that led to the the Council on the closing of Each Brigade Commander should 12th Brig. Michael Reither Present last-minute removal of Hiram Bell Research Center prop- order some voter registration 13th Brig. Tony Pilgrim Present the official Confederate erty that was used as the Camp packets to distribute to the Camps. Memorial Day celebra- location for the Hiram Bell Camp The Camps should push the voter Meeting Minutes tion permit. After intense plan- 1642 for several years. The Camp registration forms, we need peo- Call to Order by Commander Tim ning, time and money invested by had an extensive library and had ple to get out and vote. Pilgrim at 10:30 all involved SMMA canceled the been selling books online. As the Division Spokesman/Litigation Invocation given by Al Perry. permit. Then more recently Gov- property closes the remaining Coordinator – Martin O’Toole Flag Pledge and Salutes led by ernor Kemp appointed Rev. Abra- books estimated at a value of Martin gave a summary of the on- Joshua Thayer. ham Mosely as the Chairman of $20,000 will be donated/ going litigations in the Division. Motion made by Commander the SMMA. At an April 26 meet- transferred to the Division. The He covered Newton, Rockdale, Pilgrim for the Chief of Staff Tim ing Bill Stephens proposed the Division will continue the online and Henry Counties; lawsuit on Hawkins to document meeting following six changes to Stone sales of books to support the Divi- City of Waycross for monument minutes; Motion Passed. Mountain. sion Office operations. We are removal and pending lawsuit on Motion made by Commander Change the name of Confederate also asking Camps that may have SMMA on proposed park Pilgrim to adopt previous meeting Hall. books they wish to donate to con- changes. minutes of 16 Jan., 21; Motion Relocate the Flags from the me- tact the Division Secretary. The Brunswick lawsuit will have Passed. morial flag terrace to an obscure Commander Pilgrim informed to wait until the monument is Motion made by Commander area of less prominence. the Council as the Division Op- moved. We do not have a case Pilgrim to the adopt the agenda as Rename roads in the Memorial erations grow, we again are look- until they actually do something. written; Motion Passed. Park to names not related to the ing for larger office space with The Georgia Division is build- Commanders Report – Tim Pil- Confederacy. better parking. We are looking in ing a confederacy of attorneys, grim: Construct a bell tower chapel on the Barnesville, Jackson and For- some that can work legal actions Commander Pilgrim stressed the top of Stone Mountain named syth areas with easy access to the in court, some that can do research, file cases or support other need to continue the fight for our “Freedom Chapel” unrelated to interstate. attorneys. If you know of any at- Confederate Heritage. The fight is the Confederacy. Commander Pilgrim went over torney that may be interested, real and has no end in sight, so we New display in Memorial Hall the details of the National SCV please have them contact the Di- must stand strong, never giving in prominent with the contextual his- data breach. The National SCV is vision Office. and never giving up. We expect tory of the controversial carving -- looking into how this may have Division Secretary Kitty Dorety no less from our leadership and - including “Klan” involvement. happened and if we can go after Everything going good in the each of our members. Change the SMMA Logo to re- those that are sharing the informa- Division Office Commander Pilgrim informed move the Stone Mountain carv- tion. This also stresses that we Heritage donations have been everyone that we are continuing ing. must be vigilant with our data at received, sending out Thank You the lawsuits and have excellent These proposed changes are in all levels. packages commensurate with the support from the attorney’s repre- violation of SB 50-30-1 and 12-3- donation. EC minutes: Continued next page > May/June, 2021 The Georgia Confederate Page 7

EC minutes: Continued I would like to say ‘Thank If you need forms, contact 2nd Brigade Report 1 May 2021 You’ to all the attorneys that the Division Office or the Alpharetta Parade Suit– No ruling to date Reconciling Division Ros- are handling the court cases address on the form for more from the Appeals court. ter. around the Georgia Division. forms. Hiram Parks Bell Camp 1642 Call volume has increased I know they have been ex- We need to get these forms on people seeking member- (Cumming) / Bell Research Center – The tremely busy working on out to the Camps. ship. Bell Research Center (BRC) is Division store going well. these monument cases. New Business closing effective 1 June 2021 due to lose of We have flags, lapel pins. I want to remind everyone Motion made by Com- our building. We could not agree to the pro- that the Georgia Reunion is mander Pilgrim for the Divi- Looking forward to donated posed new lease imposed by the City of coming up June 4-5. This is sion store to sell used books. books. Cumming. Voter registration forms an election year for all Bri- Motion properly seconded The core collection of regimental histories, available at the Division Of- gade Commanders. In the and passed. genealogical books, cemetery records, etc. fice. southern part of the state, it Motion made by Com- has gone to the Forsyth Historical Society Hunley awards going well; looks like we will have all mander Pilgrim to proceed and will remain available to the public. new schools have been new Brigade Commanders, with lawsuit against the City added. as not one of the incumbents of Waycross and City Com- 910 books we had listed for sale on ABE- Online registration for Re- for Brigades 4-9 will be missioners individually. Mo- books have been donated to the Division, as union going good but slow. were 400 surplus WBTS books. Division will Need everyone to register seeking re-election. I want to tion properly seconded and take over the ABE storefront, with sales to and support the Division and say ‘Thank You’ to those passed. represent your Camp. men who have served their Motion made by Com- benefit the Georgia SCV. Remember if you call the Brigades and wish them the mander Pilgrim to bring law- The Camp will meet in the Old School- office to leave a message, best on their future endeav- suit against SMMA if pro- house in Cumming until a better location can Kitty will return your call. ors. We have been notified of posed changes to Stone be found. Heritage Violations – Camp 1642 Adjutant Report Richard candidates for all those Bri- Mountain Park are made. (Cumming) maintains the McAfee cemetery, Straut gades except the Sixth Bri- Motion properly seconded near Hog Mountain. Two Iron Crosses there Books are balanced and gade. If someone is inter- and passed. were pushed over, but otherwise undamaged. bills are paid. Adjutant Straut ested in serving, please an- Georgia Division social me- We have uprighted them and will renew the went over the written report nounce. dia policies in work. concrete on our next maintenance visit. Our with the Executive Council. Georgia Confederate Editor Two amendments to be PVC pipe flag pole was cut down as well, A motion was made and Al Perry voted on at the reunion. and has been repaired. passed to accept the Adju- Moved to a new printer for Have your nominations tants report. This was all found two weeks ago, and the Georgia Confederate; old ready at the reunion for CPA going over books, seems the work of teens from the nearby printer pulled their support Camp of the year and Con- quarterly review. neighborhood. not wanting to do business federate of the year. Lt Commander North - Camp 914 (Canton): Karl Haun, long time with the SCV. Meeting concluded with George Crawford Camp Commander and past Brigade Com- New printer is doing a great Benediction by Al Perry. GA Division Disciplinary mander, has passed away. No one has (yet) job; better overall quality Singing of Dixie to dismiss Chairman: committed to taking the vacated position. printing. at 2:00 ❖ Having been appointed There are 11 current members on the roster. Georgia Confederate Youth Georgia Division Discipli- They are now considering membership trans- Camp going strong. We have nary Chairman by GA Divi- Camp Dues for the fer to neighboring camps, and subsequent six Boys and five Girls sion Commander Pilgrim, I 2021 Billing Statements closure of the camp. signed up so far for this year. have been tasked to formu- Camp Commanders & Adju- Camp 1860 (Dahlonega): Tim Ragland, Would like more, but thank- late a structure for dealing tants, long time Camp Commander, has passed ful for those signed up. with disciplinary issues Brigade/Committee Re- We are in the process of away. Jeff Martin has stepped up to be com- within the Georgia Division. ports Made By: getting the 2021 membership mander, very much to his credit. Camp 1860 Heritage Defense: 2nd Brigade Commander Mi- billing statements ready to be held a triple grave marker dedication on 4/26. Upon notification of the pro- chael Dean mailed out to the member- Camp 0089 (Ellijay): The Camp held a posed legislation to place a 3rd Brigade Commander Re- ship. We hope to have them CMD ceremony at City Cemetery on 4/25, so-called “Let Freedom port Eric Cleveland ready to send out by mid- attended also by other 2nd Brigade members. Ring” bell atop Stone Moun- 9th Brigade Commander Re- June. The pouring rain did little to dampen the fine tain in the Georgia General port Ken Arvin If you have any changes to Southern spirit of the day. Assembly, as you know, our 12 th Brigade Commander Mi- your Camp dues please send At 2:00 that afternoon the SCV were in- voices were heard loudly in chael Reither a notification to Division vited guests at the first CMD ceremony held the General Assembly and 13 th Brigade Commander Secretary Kitty Dorety at by a new chapter of the UDC in Ellijay. This the legislation was killed in Tony Pilgrim [email protected] so she was also a fine event. committee. Hear, hear! Thomas Stevens – Ways and can up-date the Division Deo Vindice, Michael Dean, 2nd Brigade Lt. Commander South – Means – Reunion Rosters with your revised Commander Chuck Griffin Old Business Camp dues and be included Voter Registration forms on the billing statements. Page 8 The Georgia Confederate May/June, 2021 Georgia Division Pending Litigation Report

Update: May 27, 2021 stay any legal action while ageing sued when all appeals were ex- Court issued a ruling in favor of not to remove the monument dur- hausted. the county on the basis of sover- City of Waycross, Ware ing the stay. The SCV agreed to Newton County Superior Court eign immunity. The Georgia Divi- County - O.C.G.A. § 50-3-1 vio- the terms of the motion to stay Judge John Ott issued an order in sion has filed with the Georgia lation and the Superior Court Judge is- favor of the County Commis- Court of Appeals. The Georgia Synopsis: sued a consent order. It is ex- sion’s action stating that the doc- Court of Appeals is scheduled to On April 1, 2021, three (3) pected that once the appeals in the trine of sovereign immunity ap- rule on the case in July. members of the City Commission Newton, Rockdale and Henry plied. The Georgia Division, SCV of the City of Waycross, Georgia cases come to a final decision that immediately filed an appeal. The Henry County - O.C.G.A. § 50-3 voted to remove the Confederate this case will be disposed of – one next day the County Commis- -1 violation Monument from its historic loca- way or the other. sioner Chairman was attempted to Synopsis: tion in Phoenix Park in Waycross, have the Confederate Monument The Henry County Board of Georgia in violation of O.C.G.A. City of Brunswick, Glynn removed. This action, violation of Commissioners voted to remove § 50-3-1. On April 29, 2021, The County - O.C.G.A. § 50-3-1 vio- the understanding reached at the the Henry County Confederate Georgia Division Sons of Confed- lation earlier hearing, prompted Judge Monument. The Georgia Division erate Veterans and the Gen. Clem- Synopsis: Ott to issue an Order to stay and filed for a Temporary Restraining ent A. Evans Camp #64 filed a On November 18, 2020, the forbid the removal of the Confed- Order (TRO) and filed a lawsuit lawsuit and a request for a Tem- City of Brunswick City Council erate Monument until the final for the actions proposed in viola- porary Restraining Order. The voted to remove the Glynn decision is made. He also ordered tion of O.C.G.A. § 50-3-1. lawsuit names the three (3) City County Confederate Monument. the Sheriff of Newton County to The Henry County Superior Commissioners individually and The Georgia Division has filed for arrest anyone trying to remove the Court Judge did not issue a TRO. in their official capacity as defen- a Temporary Restraining Order monument while ordering that the He accepted the County’s defense dants for violation of Official (TRO) and filed a lawsuit for vio- Commission Chairman be person- based on the doctrine of sovereign Code of Georgia Annotated § 50- lation of O.C.G.A. § 50-3-1. All ally served with a copy of the or- immunity. The Georgia Division 3-1. the City Council members will be der to ensure he had notice. filed a motion to reconsider after Status: listed individually as defendants. Status: finding a lease agreement between The TRO and lawsuit are pend- Status: Oral Arguments were heard by the County and City showing the ing to be heard by the Ware The city of Brunswick issued a The Georgia Court of Appeals on property where the Monument County Superior court. resolution to halt all actions to April 13, 2021. We are awaiting a was standing was leased by the remove the monument until the ruling. City of McDonough. Therefore, City of Cuthbert, Randolph Georgia Court of Appeals rules on the County had no standing to re- County - O.C.G.A. § 50-3-1 vio- the Newton and Rockdale County Rockdale County - O.C.G.A. § move the Monument. lation cases. The Glynn County Superior 50-3-1 violation Status: Synopsis: Court issued a stay order and dis- Synopsis: Henry County Superior Court On December 14, 2020, the City missed the SCV case without Chairman Oz Nesbitt, Jr., Chair- issued a ruling in favor of the of Cuthbert City Council voted to prejudice (meaning it can be refil- man of the Rockdale County county on the basis of sovereign remove the Randolph County ing within six months). Board of Commissioners made an immunity. The Georgia Division Confederate Monument. The “executive decision” to remove has filed an appeal of the ruling to Georgia Division filed for a Tem- Newton County - O.C.G.A. § 50 the Rockdale County Confederate be heard by the Georgia Court of porary Restraining Order (TRO) -3-1 violation Monument. No formal discussion Appeals in July. and filed a lawsuit for violation of Synopsis: or vote was obtained from the O.C.G.A. § 50-3-1. All the City The Newton County Board of Rockdale County Board of Com- City of Athens/Clarke County - Council members will be listed Commissioners voted to remove missioners. The Monument was O.C.G.A. § 50-3-1 violation individually as defendants. the Newton County Confederate removed that very night under the Synopsis: Status: Monument. The Georgia Division cover of darkness. Georgia Divi- City of Athens Clarke County On January 19, 2021, the Geor- filed for a Temporary Restraining sion filed a suit for violation of Consolidated Government gia Division filed for a Temporary Order (TRO) and filed a lawsuit O.C.G.A. § 50-3-1 in Rockdale (ACCG) stood by and permitted Restraining Orders and filed a for violation of O.C.G.A. § 50-3- County Superior Court. We have "mostly peaceful protestors" to lawsuit for violation of O.C.G.A. 1. While the Newton County Su- sued the Chairman both as an in- vandalize the 1871 Clarke County § 50-3-1against the City of perior Court Judge did not issue a dividual as well as Chairman of Confederate Monument located at Cuthbert and the City Council TRO, he ruled that nothing would the Commission. the intersection of Broad Street Members as individuals. The City happen to the Confederate Monu- Status : and College Avenue. The ACCG offered a motion to temporarily ment until a final ruling was is- Rockdale County Superior then voted to remove the Confed- Lawsuits: Continued Next Page > May/June, 2021 The Georgia Confederate Page 9

Lawsuits: Continued erate monu- The Georgia Division is waiting Judge William Ray ruled awaiting court date in Superior ment to an obscure location in for the decision in the Court of against the motion to reconsider. Court. Clarke County at the end of a Appeals in the Newton County The Georgia Division as filed an dead-end, rubbish-strewn road. case before we file a lawsuit appeal with the United States 11th DeKalb County - O.C.G.A. § 50 They claim the move is necessary against Gwinnett County. This Circuit Court of Appeals. Attor- -3-1 violation for a pedestrian walk-widening will permit us to craft the new ney Walker Chandler as filed an Synopsis: project that has been the works Complaint to incorporate any new entry of appearance and pleadings June 18 th the City of Decatur since 2019. The plans received issues in the Court of Appeals de- with the 11 th Circuit Court of Ap- quietly slipped in a crane and re- under an open records request cision. peals, and we are waiting for the moved the DeKalb County Con- clearly shows that proposed relo- court date to be set. federate Monument from the cation of the Confederate monu- City of Rome - O.C.G.A. § 50-3- Interestingly enough, the grounds in front of the Old Court- ment was not considered until 1 violation American Legion is preparing to house Building. This was done May 2020. The Georgia Division Synopsis: hold the parade without city assis- following a court order declaring filed for a Temporary Restraining On January 18, 2021, the City tance. All compatriots may wish the monument a "nuisance." The Order (TRO) and filed a lawsuit of Rome removed the General to attend to ensure a great turnout SCV believes it can show that for ACCG’s violation of Nathan Bedford Forrest statue on the SCV’s part. DeKalb County and the City of O.C.G.A. § 50-3-1. The Superior from the top of the monument Decatur were acting in collusion County of Clarke County denied base in the middle of the night. City of Columbus - Linwood to get the court order issued. the Georgia Division a TRO (Do you notice a pattern in these Cemetery - O.C.G.A. § 50-3-1 Status: based on the doctrine of sovereign actions? Does John 3:19 come to violation The Georgia Division is cur- immunity. mind?) Synopsis: rently having an attorney draft a

Status: Status: General Henry Benning Camp complaint against the DeKalb The Georgia Division lawsuit Again, the Georgia Division is #517 entered into an agreement County and plan to file before th for violation of O.C.G.A. § 50-3-1 waiting for the decision in the formally adopted by resolution June 17 . is awaiting a court date. The Court of Appeals in the Newton with the Mayor and City Council Georgia Division re-filed the law- County case before we file a law- of the City of Columbus on Octo- City of Kennesaw - O.C.G.A. § suit adding the mayor and city suit against Rome. This will per- ber 4, 1994. The SCV was permit- 50-3-1 violation commissioners to the lawsuit as mit us to craft the new Complaint ted to erect two 35 foot flag poles Synopsis: individual defendants and asking to incorporate any new issues in flying the Confederate Battle On June 16, the city of Kenne- for a restraining order until the the Court of Appeals decision. Flags in the Confederate Sections saw removed the Confederate case is resolved. Because the of the Linwood Cemetery. Some- Battle Flag displayed at the Me- Court did not issue a restraining time in 2016 the Battle Flags were morial Park as a monument to order , the City is erecting the City of Alpharetta - Old Sol- removed and replaced with 1st Captain William Fuller, hero of monument at the dead end road diers Day Parade- 1st Amend- National Flags. The Camp made the Great Locomotive Chase, as location and workers have dam- ment violation various attempts to resolve the well as part of the Memorial to aged and continue to damage the Synopsis: issue with the Mayor by rotating Phillip’s Legion – a Confederate monument. The Georgia Division filed for a the flags with the many different unit largely raised locally. The Temporary Restraining Order flags of the Confederacy, but the Mayor, before being better ad- Gwinnett County - O.C.G.A. § (TRO) in the United States Dis- Mayor refused to permit any flag vised, boasted he knew he was 50-3-1 violation trict Court for the Northern Dis- bearing the familiar Saint An- breaking the law. Now the posi- Synopsis: trict of Georgia. The TRO was drews cross to be displayed. The tion of the City is that replacing The Gwinnett County Solicitor denied by Judge William Ray and Camp then placed, as clearly per- the Battle Flag for the less- Brian Whiteside filed a lawsuit Georgia Division then filed a suit mitted under the Agreement, a recognizable Georgia Militia flag claiming the that the Gwinnett against the City of Alpharetta for Battle Flag back on one pole. The is an interpretation permitted un- County Confederate Monument at violation of their 1st amendment Mayor and Council responded by der the law. the old historic County Court- rights. having the Memorial Flag poles Status: house was a "nuisance" and is a Judge William Ray again ruled cut at the base, destroying and The Georgia Division is waiting public safety issue and could against the Georgia Division cit- removing them. for the decision in the Court of cause injury or even death. The ing that the parade was governed Status: Appeals in the Newton County Georgia Division and the Major by the concept of governmental Georgia Division filed a suit for case before we file a lawsuit William E Simmons Camp #96 speech. The SCV has filed a mo- violation of O.C.G.A. § 50-3-1 in against the City of Kennesaw. file a motion to intervene to be a tion for reconsideration with the Muscogee County Superior Court, This will permit us to craft the party to the suit. On January 24, United States District Court of the awaiting a court day to be set. The new Complaint to incorporate any 2021 Gwinnett County removed Northern District of Georgia Georgia Division filed an amend- new issues in the Court of Ap- the monument in the middle of based on based upon the issue of ment adding the mayor and city peals decision. the night. forum analysis. commissioners to the lawsuit as Status: Status: individual defendants. We are Cotriss Case - 1st Amendment Lawsuits: Continued Next Page > Page 10 The Georgia Confederate May/June, 2021 Lawsuits: Continued Georgia Division 2020/21 that support Veterans monuments. ment initiatives, the implementation violation Annual Report The PAC's webpage address is of our associate membership program, Synopsis: www.Vetmc.org . having a Division Genealogist on Silvia Cotriss was a Greetings from the Georgia Divi- As of date the Georgia Division has staff and having a Division Head- police sergeant with sion, allocated approximately $597,200 Quarters Camp for new members who the Roswell city po- I'm pleased to report the Georgia from our specialty tag funds to help are looking for a home Camp. lice. She was fired Division is stronger than ever. The our Camps fund local Heritage pro- The Georgia Division's Flags for flying a Confed- Georgia Division remains the largest jects and Division wide projects. In Across Georgia program is going erate Battle Flag in Division in our Confederation, serv- March, 2021 a new Confederate strong. We have 12 large Division ing over 3,300 members in 101 active front of her home. A monument was erected at the Green- Flag poles across the State of Geor- Camps that are located through-out black pharmacist wood Cemetery honoring 152 Con- gia. The Division purchases these the largest State East of the Missis- federate Heroes by the Calhoun Rifles oversize Battle Flags for these Divi- complained he was sippi River. Camp #1855; an aluminum replace- sion poles and distributes them to the deeply offended as he We contribute much of our strength ment carriage for the GMI memorial local Camps that maintain these poles. walked by her house through our communications efforts. cannon at the Marietta Confederate We are always on the lookout for any because she had a Keeping our Division membership Cemetery has been completed; and "prime" locations to erect new flag- city police car parked informed is one of our primary objec- two new Bronze Confederate Soldier poles. The 3rd Battalion, Company B at her home. Accord- tives. We issue email notifications monuments have been casted awaiting of the Mechanized Calvary unit of the ing to her attorney, and press releases through our con- to be erected, all completed using our Division mans a preventative mainte- the police car was stant contact accounts, our web-page specialty tag funds. nance crew that inspects and make actually in the shop and social media accounts are up- The Division continues its out-reach repairs to our Division poles as re- on the day in ques- dated regularly. Our Division News- effort to new and existing JROTC quired. tion. She sued based letter the Georgia Confederate is sent High School programs to make avail- As of Date the Georgia Division has on the city firing her to our membership every two months. able the H. L. Hunley Awards that we distributed over 275,000 "Truth Con- when she was exer- The Georgia Division has nine (9) have in stock for our Camps at our cerning the Confederate Battle Flag" cising her 1st amend- major legal battles on-going. One (1) Division HQ Office. The Division CDs by Pastor John Weaver through- ment rights at her with the City of Alpharetta concern- also continues to provide a $250 out the Confederation and the Coun- home. Additionally, ing a 1st Amendment violation and scholarship to every H.L. Hunley try. These CDs are distributed by the she was just fired the other Eight (8) lawsuits concern award recipient. Division at our bulk purchase cost without any warning the removal of our Confederate I'm proud to say this is the 6th year of .35 cents each which makes our or hearing. Monuments. The Confederate Monu- the Georgia Division Headquarters minimum order of 100 CDs for $35 ments in DeKalb, Clarke/Athens, Office has been in operation. We have plus shipping very affordable for indi- The case went be- Rockdale and Henry Counties were on staff a Division Secretary, Mrs. viduals and Camps to distribute to fore United States removed illegally in the middle of the Kitty Dorety that manages our Divi- folks who need a history lesson and District Court of the night. Currently we have stay orders sion’s daily operations. Our Division all they have to do is listen. These Northern District of in Newton, Glynn/Brunswick and Office is located in the American Fed- CDs are available at our Division Georgia and Judge Randolph/Cuthbert Counties. Ware/ eral Building at 544 Mulberry Street, store. William Ray (again) County is pending to be heard before Ste. 310, Macon, Ga. 31202, 1-866- The Georgia Division fully supports ruled against her. the Ware County Superior Court. The 728-4642. Maintaining a Division HQ the Georgia Confederates Youth Status: Georgia Court of Appeals has already Office has been a key element in tak- Camp and congratulates the Youth The case was ap- heard the Newton County case in ing our Division to the next level of Camp on their 5th year of successful pealed and now is April and scheduled to hear the Rock- growth. The Division has decided to operations. The Division continues to awaiting a ruling dale case in June with the Henry get into the used book business by support the Youth Camp by offering a from the US 11th County case to follow thereafter. We selling used books that has been do- $200 scholarship to young men and Circuit Court of Ap- have two (2) lawsuits pending with nated to the Division (tax deductible). women to attend a full week of South- peals. The SCV has Gwinnett County and the City of These books are being sold through ern /Confederate Heritage education assisted by paying Rome. We have solid monument pro- an on-line book broker Abe- curriculum modeled after the Sam the expenses in this tection laws and when we get rulings Books.com, and all proceeds are used Davis Christian Youth Camp. that follow the letter of the law we vital case. If upheld, to help make our Division office op- In conclusion, the Georgia Division should prevail. erations self supporting. We continue is the largest and most proactive Divi- the precedent could The Georgia Division has created a to operate an on-line store making sion in the Sons of Confederate Veter- be set that no Con- 501c4 organization that allows the available Confederate Flags, Tags, ans. Our membership is comprised of federate heritage sup- 501c4 organization to engage in fund- Stick Flags, lapel pins, and historical some of the most dedicated Confeder- porter has a right to ing unlimited lobbyist and legislative literature and CDs. Please visit our ates in our Confederation. We will any government job. activities without involving the SCV's Division's web-site at www.gascv.org continue to lead and to do what we do ❖ 501c3 status. A separate 527 Political to see the store items we have to of- best, to honor our Confederate He- Action Committee has been created fer. roes. Live the Charge, called the Veterans Memorial Coali- Our Camps are aggressively recruit- GCYC tion, Inc. to help support candidates ing new members through advertise- Timothy F. Pilgrim Georgia Division Commander May/June, 2021 The Georgia Confederate Page 11

Captain Henry Wirz, C.S.A. and taken to Washington, D.C. really know the history of the the Federal armed troops. Under Excerpts from an address by for trial. After a long and tor- War Between the States. their doctrine, Southern histori- Rev. Fr. Alister C. Anderson menting trial, he was condemned Mr. Louis Schade, Wirz’s De- ans, educators and politicians to death and hanged in the yard of fense Attorney wanted to have were not permitted to write or at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Old Capitol Prison, the present Wirz’s body removed from the teach in the new Federal Govern- November 9, 2002. site of the Supreme Court build- Washington Arsenal where it had ment schools that sprang up all

This morning I dedicate this ing of the United States. When been buried in an unmarked over the South. Only Federally address to Captain Henry Wirz. the Federal officer commanding grave. The Washington Arsenal approved text books could be Through what we call in theologi- the execution said to Captain stood where the buildings of Ft. used. It is obvious why we only cal terms “the communion of Wirz, “I have my orders,” Wirz McNair and the National Ware hear about Andersonville. The saints” I want to tell him that as replied, “I know what orders are College on Haines Point now entire South was blamed for the years pass, his memory will Major, I am being hanged for stand. On 23 February, 1869 Mr. Andersonville and Captain be honored as a dedicates Chris- obeying them.” Schade petitioned the Federal Heinrich [Henry] Wirz, the Com- tian soldier who did all he could Over the years the trial of Cap- Government to allow Captain mandant, was made out to be an to alleviate the suffering of the tain Wirz has been studied by Wirz’s body to be remove to Mt. inhumane devil. He was illegally prisoners at Andersonville. He many fine legal scholars and his- Olivet Cemetery. At Mt. Olivet hanged and made the scape-goat will be recognized as a true torians. The definitive and con- Cemetery a small five inch square for a huge Federal cover-up for Christian, Southern martyr, not clusive opinion of these scholarly stone with just the name Wirz their own infamous POW camps. only by those of us who know the experts has been summarized by carved on it was placed over his What I have been saying is that truth about his good life and Major Glen W. LaForce of the grave. Some years later, we do the Federal Government wanted work, but by people all over our Judge Advocate Corps of the not know when, the stone was to cover-up their own brutal country and in Europe as well. United States Army. He wrote probably stolen. On 27 Decem- POW camps, and the best way to We will not rest until he has been these words in his report: ber, 1956, Colonel and Mrs. Tho- do that was to single out Confed- officially pardoned by the United “The trial and execution of mas Spencer placed another lar- erate POW camps and particu- States Government. May his Captain Henry Wirz was worse ger stone at the head of the grave. larly the one at Andersonville, good soul rest in peace. than a mistake, worse than even a It reads, “Captain Henry Wirz, Georgia. And, my friends, that miscarriage of justice: it was a CSA Confederate Hero-Martyr, cover-up is still going on today Captain Henry Wirz was born national disgrace. Wirz was a died November 10, 1865.” [2002]. It is going on and has in Zurich, Switzerland in 1823. scapegoat and was tried in order Immediately after the War, a been vastly expanded into what I He immigrated to the United to incriminate the Confederate vindictive, revengeful Federal call a new kind of Reconstruction States in 1849 and settled in Lou- leaders and to deflect criticism Government, which had already of the entire United States, but isiana. When the War for South- from Secretary of War, Edwin M. completely destroyed the material particularly the Old South and her ern Independence began, he Stanton.” substance of the Southern States, culture. Anti-Southern and Anti- enlisted in the 4 th Louisiana In- Friends, we all know that Sec- and had killed hundreds of thou- Confederacy demagogues who fantry. After being wounded at retary Stanton was a very bad sands of soldiers and innocent display contemptuous bigotry and the Battle of Seven Pines on 31 man. He was a conniving and civilians, launched a vicious pol- ignorance are cursing Southern May, 1862, he was assigned as evil and he had plans for the trial icy to “reconstruct” the Southern monuments and statues and in assistant adjutant to the staff of and execution of President Jeffer- society and her culture. We cases removing them from public Brigadier General John H. son Davis and General Robert E. know that policy by the name of view where they have stood for Winder, Superintendent of Con- Lee and other prominent Confed- the Reconstruction Era which over a hundred years of more. federate Military Prisons and pro- erate political and military lead- lasted in some Southern states for These same bigots who do not by motes to Captain. His wound in ers. more than ten years. Under Re- number or opinion represent the the right arm was very severe and Mr. Louis Schade was Captain construction doctrine, the South American people at all, rail he was in great pain the rest of Wirz’s defense attorney and be- was divided into military districts against the flags of the Confeder- his life. In December, 1862 lieved that the trail was nothing and ruled by Federal Army gener- acy. They have declared a war President Jefferson Davis sent but a mock trial modeled after the als. Under this doctrine, paroled against Southern heritage and Captain Wirz on a secret mission horrible trials of the French officers who returned to their cultural organizations such as the to the Confederate Commission- Revolution. In Wirz’s last mes- own homes could not vote or Sons of Confederate Veterans, ers James Mason in London and sage to Mr. Louis Schade written hold public office. During Re- the United Daughters of the Con- John Slidell in Paris. He returned just hours before his execution he construction, paroled soldiers and federacy, the League of the South to the Confederate States of said: “My life is demanded as an sailors could not vote. They and the Southern Historical Asso- America in February, 1864 and atonement. I am willing to give it could not reclaim the land they ciation. These bigots would have was ordered as commandant at and hope that after a while, I will owned which in many cases had the American people believe that Camp Ft. Sumter, Andersonville, be judges differently from how I been given away illegally to we all are “right-wing-fanatics” Georgia. In May, 1865 while re- am now.” And thank our Good [former] slaves. Many negroes who would support the reintro- leasing the last Federal prisoners and Merciful Lord God, he is who could neither read nor write duction of slavery and whose at Andersonville, he was arrested judged differently by those who were elected to public offices by Wirz: Continued next page > Page 12 The Georgia Confederate May/June, 2021

Wirz: Continued flags are compa- HISTORY OF THE HANOVER who sacrificed their lives and never States of America (CSA) was not rable to the Nazi flag. SQUARE CONFEDERATE returned home. These monuments Treason as you hear so often said. We all know who these people MONUMENT, BRUNSWICK, do NOT promote the Confederacy, The twenty-foot tall, obelisk-type but those men and boys who had Monument made of sandstone with are and for what they stand. We GEORGIA by Meredith Drew Trawick daddies, mothers, brothers, and sis- the statue of a lone Confederate Sol- can hardly call them true Ameri- (August 2020) ters, just as the soldiers from the dier on top made of white, Italian cans. They seem to hate the North did. These monuments are marble, after many years, was whole country and especially the The Monument in Hanover Square very innocent. They are not wicked, cleaned by the Old Town District South and our history and cul- is the ONLY Monument dedicated they only honor the fallen soldiers. residents. The North facing statue ture. to the Civil War erected in Glynn The Ladies Memorial Association with its downward gaze appears to County, Georgia. made up of many chapters across the be in dignified reflection, but not Now as I look at his grave I South were known for their primary defeated or disgraced. This common say to this Christian Confederate Confederate Monuments are usually community memorials and that objectives of providing decent burial soldier’s booted foot is placed for- soldier, “Henry, you know these is certainly the case with this Monu- for Southern soldiers and erecting ward into the future. words of Holy Scripture. They ment that was erected by the Ladies monuments in their honor. The Ninety-four years after the Hano- have always applied to your life. Memorial Association of Bruns- members took to the gruesome task ver Monument was erected, local of dis-interring bodies, many buried citizens were still passionate about I repeat them for you and for all wick, Georgia in Hanover Park. It hastily in mass graves after battles the Monument and in 1996, the Tho- us here. From the Book of Job was dedicated on April 26th, 1902 as “a Tribute of Love to the Heroes and some just left on battlefields to mas Marsh Forman Camp of Bruns- and the Gospel of John, I read: of the Confederacy 1861-1865”. It decay. On many occasions, they col- wick, Sons of Confederate Veterans For I know that my took these women 15 years starting lected bones, put the remains in indi- headed a campaign to collect dona- redeemer liveth, and that he in 1887 to collect enough donations vidual boxes, and tried to contact tions for a restoration that was com- family members. pleted in December 1996. The shall stand at the latter day to pay for the Monument. In 1902, Maria Morris Madden founder and Monument was Rededicated on upon the earth: And though when the Monument was erected, common sense tells us that nothing President of the Ladies Memorial April 26th, 1997 with a parade from after my skin worms destroy could have been erected on City- Association of Brunswick also Oak Grove Cemetery to Hanover this body, yet in my flesh shall owned property, such as Hanover mourned the loss of so many local Square. The Brunswick Civic Or- I see God: Whom I shall see Park, without the permission of the men including Adjutant General chestra provided music in solemn Thomas McIntosh her first husband form. The Thomas Marsh Forman for myself, and mine eyes shall governing body, the City of Bruns- of only 14 months who was killed at Camp and the Lanier of Glynn behold, and not another; wick. We know that the City accepted this Monument as a Gift or it the Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam). Chapter of Brunswick, United though my reins be consumed never would have been erected. An- Five years after his death, she mar- Daughters of the Confederacy were within me. other way the City showed accep- ried former battlefield surgeon Dr. in charge of the Program. tance of the Monument was by pay- James M. Madden and they resided Anyone born or raised below the in Brunswick. Mason-Dixon Line, is most likely a Jesus said …., I am the ing to prepare the solid mound on which the monument was placed. The text on the Hanover Monu- descendant of a soldier who fought resurrection, and the life: he This was a huge undertaking and is ment does not mention Slavery. during the Civil War for the Confed- that believeth in me, though he why the monument is still standing Fewer than ten percent of Southern- erate States of America. (Which we were dead, yet shall he staunchly today after 118 years hon- ers owned slaves. The Confederate all are.) This War was fought on soldiers did NOT fight to preserve AMERICAN soil between AMERI- live: And whosoever liveth and oring Confederate dead. Slavery. They fought because of CANS and upwards of 850,000 believeth in me shall never die. This Monument is a sacred memorial to the dead. Confederate sol- high Taxes and Tariffs put on the Northern and Southern men died of South by the North. The North IN- wounds or diseases. This was more Rev. Fr. Alister C. Anderson diers, sailors, and Marines that fought in the Civil War were made VADED the South and the Confed- men than we have lost in ALL the United States Veterans by at least erates fought for States’ Rights and wars we have ever participated in Wirz’ bones: four separate acts of Congress. If a Free Trade and to protect their fami- from The American Revolution to Captain Wirz’ body was dis- Confederate statue, monument, or lies, homes, farms, and businesses. Afghanistan. Therefore, this Civil membered and paraded around headstone is removed; the entity is That is why the War is often rightly War is a huge part of our American referred to as The War of Northern history which should NOT be de- the north for a time. His de- in fact, removing a statue, monument, or headstone of a U. S. VET- Aggression because the North in- stroyed. scendents spent time and money ERAN; therefore, this Memorial vaded the South -The South did not Healthy societies do NOT destroy petitioning the courts to recover should NOT ever be Removed. invade the North and the South did their own history; tearing down his- his body for proper burial. Erecting the Monument was a way not attempt to overthrow the United tory does NOT help others RISE. If Most was recovered and han- for the community to memorialize States government. The War was you don’t know what happened in its losses right here in our coastal between two sovereign and inde- the past THEN you can’t learn from dled as you read in Rev. Fr. pendent countries (what was left of it, and if you can’t learn from it, Anderson’s article. However, a community. Hundreds of people wearing black mourning attire came The United States of America & the you’re doomed to repeat it. display is still made today in a on foot and in horse-drawn buggies new Confederate States of America). We can debate the War of 155 Govern- to watch the unveiling of the Monu- Thomas Jefferson wrote in the years ago until the cows come home, ment mu- ment. Declaration of Independence that but what will it accomplish to tear governments “…derive their just down this Monument which has seum con- After the Civil War, Union and powers from the consent of the gov- stood for 118 years in this same lo- taining Confederate burials were not treated the same. Since the Confederacy lost erned, and that, whenever any form cation with beautiful surroundings some of the War, there were many thousands of government becomes destructive maintained by Signature Squares? W i r z ’ that never received a proper burial. of these ends, it is the right of the Nothing, absolutely NOTHING!!! bones. So, the Ladies Memorial Associa- people to alter or abolish it, and to ❖ tion wanted Memorials for the men institute new government”. Thus, the forming of the Confederate May/June, 2021 The Georgia Confederate Page 13 Confederate Memorial Day

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John Taylor (1753-1803) wrote, “Tyranny is something which takes away our money, transfers our property and comforts to those who did not earn them, and eats the food belonging to others.” Page 14 The Georgia Confederate May/June, 2021

☜ Commander Roy Butts of the General La- Fayette McLaws Camp #79, in Fayetteville accepted the Confederate History Month Procla- mation from Fayette County Commissioner Charles Oddo Members and friends of Gen. McLaws Camp #79 March in Fayette County Bicentennial Parade

✯ ON FAME’S ETERNAL CAMPING GROUND, THEIR SILENT TENTS ARE SPREAD, AND GLORY GUARDS WITH SOLEMN ☝☜ ROUND, General Ambrose THE Ransom Wright BIVOUAC OF ☝Top: grave marker detail, Ellijay: 2nd Lt. William Holloway; Co. F 11th SCV Camp 1914 GA Inf./#1 L to R Joe N. Carver; Steve Farist; Johnathan Davis; Mike Davis; and Troop2, CSRA THE DEAD. Rick Fountain; Bobby Bradford. Gilmer Light Guards Camp 89 Squad Confederate Lower: CMD, April 24, 2021 [pouring rain] Camps Gilmer Light Guards 89, Memorial Day Ser- ✯ Col. Hiram Parks Bell 1642, Blue Ridge Rifles 1860, 27th Georgia Reg. 1404 vice at our Colum- bia County Monu- “I myself see in this war, if the North triumph, a dissolution of the ment. bonds of all society. It is not alone the destruction of our property, but the prelude to anarchy, infidelity and the ultimate loss of free responsible government on this continent.” Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson May/June, 2021 The Georgia Confederate Page 15

☝Thank you to new member Rick Hollingsworth and future member Samuel Bazemore for working at the Humphreys Cemetery this morning! Thanks is also due to neighbor Wayne Anderson who assisted with his tractor. Those buried there include Curtis Humphreys, Sr., Screven County’s secession convention delegate, and J. Emmett Williamson who served with him in Col. Wright’s 12th Georgia Cavalry (State Guards). Cmdr. Adam Bazemore Black Creek Volunteers Camp #549

☜ ☝Camp 1432 Member Dennis Elm received National Medal for Meritorious Service also Camp 1432 The Confed- Lest we forget erate Memorial camp meeting Richard Straut

☝☞ Lt. Dickson L. Baker Camp 926 had a very nice BBQ dinner on Lake Hartwell to celebrate Con- federate His- tory and Heri- tage Month Two members receive 25 year membership pins. ☝Confederate Memorial Day; Sylvester; See Page 26 See Page 25 Page 16 The Georgia Confederate May/June, 2021

☞ I want to thank all my Steadfast Brothers and Sisters that felt the pulse of their Ancestors Blood and Our Heritage of Defiance against Tyr- anny. You Felt the Call and made the Ride to Stone Moun- tain. It was a Grand Time. (TBo) Carl T. Miller Camp #1914 General Ambrose R. ☝Thomson Guards, Camp 91, met to mark the 110 Confederate sol- Wright Columbia dier’s graves in the Old Thomson Cemetery See Page 25 County, GA

☜My 14 year old son Tyler helping me put out the flags on the Confederate graves Carl Tommy Miller, Jr.

☝ Newest member of Gen. ☝ 17 April 2021 Confederate Memorial Day Atop of Stone James Longstreet Camp ☜ Confeder- Mountain John Hall and Billy Bearden 1289.Robert Laborde (left) , who ate Memorial joined on his ancestor Jean Pi- Day at the erre Guillory, Hotton's Company ☞ J.C.Carter, member of Thomas Marsh Foreman Camp 485, Confederate La. Artillery( Crescent Artillery), along with his wife Libby and Oak Grove Cemetery Society Powder Works being presented his certificate by member Troop Nightingale placed the Confederate Iron chimney, Au- Commander Doug Brown.. Crosses back into the old city cemetery. They had been re- gusta in accor- moved last spring after threats were made from extreme groups dance with to destroy the Confederate grave markers as well as the Con- Col. George federate monument located in downtown Brunswick . W. Rains wishes. L to R: Ron Udell, Carl T. Miller, Sr, Tommy Chappell

☜ Carl T Miller Jr.> Thomas Rey- nolds > Teddy Forbes> Chuck Moore >+ Stone ☝ Thomson: On Thursday evening, May 25, The MTN, Confed- Thomson Guards, Camp 91, Thomson, Georgia, wel- erate Memo- comed three new members. Shown are l to r: Adju- rial Day Cele- tant David Butler, Dobbie Lambert, Casey Harris, bration Lee Spradling and Camp Commander Tom Holley May/June, 2021 The Georgia Confederate Page 17

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One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. Psalm 145: 4 Proclaim Your Southern Heritage! Page 18 The Georgia Confederate May/June, 2021 Georgia Division Program Speaker Roster Sons of Confederate Veterans

Speaker Bri- Phone Email gade Dr. Max E. White 3rd 706-677-2043 [email protected]

John C. Hall Jr. 4th 404-964-6896 [email protected]

Kim Beck 4th 478-290-3885 pinebarrensvolun- Daniel “Glenn” Moore [email protected] Clement A. Evans #64 Hu Daughtry 5th 912 687-6153 [email protected] Michael A. Mull 5th 912-314-0350 michaelanthony- John Robert O’Neal [email protected] GA. Div. HQ #2200 Maxwell (Max) Scott 5th 912-225-3607 [email protected]

David Butler 5th 706-564-2433 [email protected] Joseph Harold Bryan Gen, John B. Gordon Memorial Adam Bazemore 5th 912-978-1526 [email protected] #1449 Nicholas Cammaroto 6th 301-609-0687 [email protected] David Moncus 6th 706-840-9439 [email protected] Michael Larry Webb Sterling Skinner 6th 608-346-9786 [email protected] Wm. Thomas Overby # 715 John Turrentine 7th 706-847-7666 [email protected] Bo Slack 8th 229-343-2345 [email protected] Georgia Division Used Book Store George Ray Houston 8th 229-272-6703 [email protected] James W. King 9th 229-854-1944 jkingan- Thanks to a generous donation by the Hiram Parks [email protected] Bell Research Center, we are offering used books for Ken "Sarge" Arvin 9th 706-662-4532 [email protected] sale through our Division Store. Jack Cowart 9th 229-379-6714 [email protected] Scott Gilbert 11th 404-449-2521 [email protected] Donate books or purchase valuable period history Brian Hooper 11th 404-403-8004 [email protected] books through the Store. Martin O'Toole 12th 678-232-8638 [email protected] Contact our Division Secretary Kitty Dorety Van Wing 12th 404-784-8950 [email protected] David Aderhold 13th 678-409-5790 [email protected] at [email protected] or call her at Eli Stancel 13th 724-562-0239 [email protected] (866) 728-4642 . for more details. Charles Kelly Barrow 13th 770-468-4246 [email protected] Speakers from other Divisions and Non SCV offering Programs Tim Kent Ala- 256-366-7363 [email protected] bama Peter Mullen Flor- 904-879-4931 [email protected] ida Vincent Balducci New 908-328-2912 [email protected] Jer- sey Phillip Whiteman Non- 770-587-2172 [email protected] The Georgia Confederates Youth Camp [GCYC] SCV Robert Jones Non- 678-772-2008 [email protected] Updated list of DVDs available: SCV Donna Faulkner Barron Non- 678-908-3555 [email protected] The Hope for the Southern Christian Cause/ John Weaver SCV Dewitt Smith Jobe/ John Weaver Audio /CD DeWitt Smith Jobe John McKay Non- 678-230-9194 [email protected] Jefferson Davis/ Herman White ❖General Mosby/ Herman White SCV Jennifer O’Kelley Non 478.474.7663 [email protected] Pt. Lookout/ Herman White ❖ Jesse James/ John Weaver Myths of the War/ Jack Marlar ❖ C.S.S. Hunley / Jack Marlar Contact the speaker to see what programs are available. Manse Jolley/ John Weaver ❖ This list was compiled from speakers who replied to a Divi- Confederate Rose Greenhow/ John Weaver ❖ sion wide email, if you would like to be added to the list, please send the following information to: Today’s Garbage/ Herman White ❖ [email protected] DVDs available for any donation to The Georgia Confederates Youth Camp. Make checks payable to: GCYC and mail to, Your Name, Phone Number, Email Address, and Brigade Number. GCYC/ .al perry. P.O. Box 447 If you are sending information for someone else, please get their permission Fitzgerald, GA 31750-0447 before doing so. May/June, 2021 The Georgia Confederate Page 19

March 17, 2021 STAY INFORMED: Division Recruitment and Receive eMail copies of Voter Registration Campaign Press Releases .

Gentlemen, Contact Division Secretary: Following up on the Division's Recruitment and Voter Registra- [email protected] tion Campaign: We have received 100 packs of voter registration applications at our Division Office ready for distribution. P.O. Box 1081, Macon, Ga. 31202 Brothers, I can't emphasize enough how serious our situation is. 866-728-4642 If we don't get our like-minded Georgians registered and out to vote, Georgia will be headed down the same path as Virginia has ✯✯✯ gone. We can't let the leftist in Fulton and DeKalb Counties deter- DEADLINES The Georgia Confederate mine our State's future. ✯✯✯ This Recruitment and Voter Registration Campaign is an action ~ 2021 ~ that we all can take part in, and it will make a substantial differ- August 1st ence. Make it a personal goal to get 5 to 10 like-minded Georgians October 1st December 1st registered to vote and try to recruit them in the ranks of the SCV. [email protected] Have a stack of voter registration applications available at Camp ✯✯✯ events, booths, and meetings along with SCV membership applications. A copy of the individual's ID is required to submit along with Send all articles, photos, and items the application. Purchase a cheap printer so you can make a copy for The Georgia Confederate to: for them on the spot to get it ready to mail. [email protected] We have made it easy to get voter registration applications and recruitment brochures: Send any change or correction of

Email or Call Division Secretary Kitty Dorety at secre- mailing address to: [email protected] or (866) 728-4642. We have both voter applica- [email protected] tions and SCV membership brochures available that she can mail to you. Email the Secretary of State’s office, Rachell Simmons at rsim- JROTC Hunley Awards

[email protected] and request that she ship you a few packs of Division H.L. Hunley voter registration applications. Award Liaison Go to your County's Board of Elections office and ask for a pack of voter registration applications. Scott E. Seay Go on line to the Secretary of State web-page and register to vote 4425 Evandale Way, on line : www.registertovote.sos.ga.gov/GAOLVR/ Cumming, Ga. 30040 beginRegistration.do [email protected] Brothers, we can do something about the direction our State is heading. Get some voter registration applications and SCV mem- 678-478-6826 bership applications on hand to give out. Keep some in your vehicle, you never know when the opportunity will present itself. We “I hold concession or compromise to be have plenty of like-minded young men and women that need to be fatal. If we concede an inch, concession would registered to vote and in the ranks of the SCV. follow compromise, If you're interested in serving as the Voter / Recruitment coordi- until our ranks would be so broken nator for your Camp or Brigade please email me or give me a call. that effectual resistance would be impossible.” [email protected] or 404.456.3393. ~ John C. Calhoun Page 20 The Georgia Confederate May/June, 2021

Why Remember? War to Civil Rights.” I am un- field grade and company grade and this all took place before the By Martin O’Toole aware that any civil rights na- officers showed that the leader- burning of Atlanta. Before the Sesquicentennial, tional parks are incorporating ship of the pre-war South was Sherman wrote his wife Ellen over 50,000 books and pamphlets Civil War themes into their pres- decimated. By comparison, we that the Southern civilians since the firing on Fort Sumter - entations. lost four generals and admirals in “regard us just as the Romans roughly one published every day. Why should we in the South World War II—one of whom was regarded the Goths and the par- Certainly, that number has not remember? What was the cost of killed by friendly fire courtesy of allel is not unjust.” This from the slacked in the last few years. the unsuccessful War for South- the United States Army Air man who succeeded in his prom- The War is remembered - by ern Independence? Force. ise to “make Georgia howl.” whom and why? Some people Let us take a look at the war 50,000 civilians - almost all in His antics in Mississippi and today do not know anything itself as expressed in numbers. the South - died from causes that the Carolinas show that Georgia about our past. 10,000 engagements historians say are war related: was not a fluke. Take Confederate Memorial Traditional estimation of 620,000 Disease, exposure, malnutrition In modern times, the civilian Day. I was shocked to see in that combat dead. Now raised to as and outright starvation. death rate is only matched in font of all knowledge, Wikipedia , high as 850,000 with 750, 000 As only one example, Sherman World War II by the civilians on this assertion posted by one sa- being accepted as a working emptied Atlanta driving the civil- the Ruhr in Germany and Rus- vant “Having lived in Mississippi minimal estimate. ian population out into the com- sians on the Volga. for my whole life and never hav- That today would be as if 8 mil- ing fall and winter before he be- Two-Thirds of Southern as- ing heard about this ‘holiday,’ it lion soldiers died in 4 years. Re- gan his march to the sea. It would sessed wealth was “gone with the seems to be just some paltry at- call our Vietnam experience: we be said that a crow flying over wind.” Freed slaves, burned tempt at either humor or insult to lost about 58,000 men between Georgia would have to carry its farms and houses, looted silver people south of the Mason-Dixon 1945 and 1975 and the nation own rations because of the delib- was the legacy of the passage of line.” reeled under the weight of the erate policy of destruction the Federal troops. The unseen losses Recently an Open Records Re- casualties. Union army conducted. of the war would include the quest from Brunswick brought an The total of casualties in the But there is seldom any focus promise of those dead who would email from a mother who had ex- “Civil War” was greater than all on what it meant to the women never make any further contribu- plained to her son that the statue killed in Colonial Wars, Ameri- and children at home whether on tion to Southern society. They on their square was put up for can Revolution, War of 1812, a plantation “big house” or, more would write no poems, make no “bad people.” Mexican War, Spanish-American commonly, a log hut when all inventions, build no homes or On Saturday, the local police War, World War I, World War II, their supplies were taken or delib- businesses. demanded that an SCV Confeder- Korea and Vietnam as well as our erately destroyed. Wells were de- Many of the surviving women ate Memorial Day service imme- operations in Grenada, Panama, stroyed or polluted. If you will would find no husbands. There diately furl the Confederate Bat- Iraq - twice—and Afghanistan. read “Children of Pride” you will would be no family of descen- tle Flag in the last five minutes of “Civil War”, six to eight times learn what this meant. Federals dants. It is hard to calculate pre- the event least a snowflake see it the death rate of World War II: would tell a Georgia woman she cisely what might have been - but and melt. Juvenal, the Roman his- 750 - 850,000 men served the and her children that “You have is not hard to understand the lost torian moaned: That we have South under arms. 75 - 80% of no right to even wood or water.” promise of a lost war. been reduced to this! military age white men of the Sherman’s Christmas present to To the victors belonged the The War is being remembered - South. Lincoln was quite different from spoils. Now the North had its all- in often bizarre ways completely At least 260,000 died. Probably his Christmas present to Georgia. time high tariff rates and added severed from real history. more in the neighborhood of A family note: My great- discriminatory freight rates to For example, former Congress- 350,000. 200,000 seriously grandfather, R. L. Hope, told my keep the South in a form of mer- man Jesse Jackson, Jr. proposed, wounded mother that when he was a child, cantile subjugation. A piano or and Congress mandated a re- This is at least a 30 to 35% he observed federal cavalry come finished manufactured product quirement that all National Parks death rate. About 1 in 5 maimed. to their home outside Atlanta. shipped north from Georgia cost with “civil war” themes integrate Largest expenditure for Southern They emptied the possessions and much more than the same article civil rights messages into their state budgets for some years after furniture from the house piling shipped south into Georgia. Geor- presentations. the war was for artificial limbs. them in the yard. Everything was gians were explained that this Well, the Honorable Mr. Jack- There was no assistance - no then set afire. Most of the cavalry was fair because cotton or pea- son was sent to federal prison for Marshall plan such as defeated rode off to repeat the process at nuts would cost more to ship into theft. He stole money in order to Germany and Japan enjoyed - other unfortunate homes. Several Georgia from, say, Minnesota, buy such necessities of life as Mi- from the federal government for troopers stayed behind and when than it would cost to ship from chael Jackson fedoras and cash- “rebels.” the flames were almost burned Georgia to Minnesota. mere capes, but his mandate lives The Vietnam War had the next out, they picked up embers and In effect, Dixie remained an on. Recently I heard it said that highest death rate at 7%. A total threw them into the house caus- economic colony until World the presentations at Kennesaw of 92 Confederate generals killed. ing it to burn to the ground as War II when Georgia’s then- Similar rates of death among the well. These were civilian homes, Go v- Mountain will run “From Civil Why?: Continued next page > May/June, 2021 The Georgia Confederate Page 21

Why?: Continued ernor Ellis Arnall by taxes from the entire nation - wise decorating the graves of believed that the soul never died got the Supreme Court to declare became a bureaucracy with all comrades who died in the defense so long as someone remembered the discriminatory freight rates that suggests, the South paid out of their country during the late them. unconstitutional. It took Hitler of its own meager resources the rebellion.” The South, explained But we must keep in mind that and Hirohito knocking at the door necessary funds to honor and re- Logan, was engaged in our ancestors did not fight for to get the North’s attention on member its lost soldiers as well “rebellious tyranny.” Later the markers. They wanted to survive this matter. as their cause. It was, in truth, an day became known as Memorial the war and continue with their For the decades that followed, affirmation and purification. Day, diluting the name of Con- lives, work, raising families, as Dixie labored under this sys- Across the South, from small federate Memorial Day. farming, worshiping at church, or tem designed to keep it in pov- groups in small towns or county Obviously, the South was ex- simply enjoying life in an inde- erty, Southerners had to endure seats to large memorial associa- cluded from the celebrations. So, pendent Southland. Northern jibes that somehow it tions such as the ladies of the we made and maintained our own But, for practically all South- was the South’s fault that she was Hollywood Cemetery in Rich- commemoration of our people’s erners, the pressure of events had poor. mond or the Atlanta Ladies’ Me- independence struggles. Despite other plans for their lives follow- Keep in mind that it is the argu- morial Association, the South re- the talk of all Americans, back in ing the election of Abraham Lin- ment of the descendants of the membered. one great union again, General coln and the final split between abolitionists today that it is bad The modest tablet and plaque Logan and many others made it North and South that had been environment that creates poverty that graces Fayetteville was clear that for some the former brewing for years. and ignorance. If they were cor- erected during the Great Depres- Confederacy was excluded. So, the South fought. They rect, the economic policies for- sion as a sacrificial testament to One of the over 260,000 who fought in their neighborhoods - mulated during Reconstruction the spirit of the soldiers who died was General Patrick Cle- often in their own back yards. and maintained for the next seven fought for the Southland. Such burne. In a prophetic statement Southerners fought afar on land decades were designed to create remembrance is now hated by the the General said: “It means that and on sea - girdling the earth at a an inferior environment in the professionally tolerant. the history of this heroic struggle time when few people went more South. The Southland honored its dead will be written by the enemy; that than a few miles from home. After the war, the Federal gov- by actions from the women’s our youth will be trained by The Confederates on the battle- ernment allocated $4 million to groups who with loving hands Northern school teachers; will field and on the home front did establish cemeteries for Northern tended the graves of their dead learn from Northern school books not fight for markers or memori- soldiers. Despite Lincoln’s argu- sons, brothers and husbands. In their version of the war; will be als. They fought for us. They ment that the South had never left the poverty of defeat, the South impressed by all the influences of sought to make this land a better the Union, Southern dead were looked to itself to create monu- history and education to regard place for us. They sought to ele- excluded from burial in national ments, memorials and even its our gallant dead as traitors, our vate our morals, educate our cemeteries. Worse, Southern bod- own holiday: Confederate Memo- maimed veterans as fit objects for minds and ensure liberty for us. ies were sometimes exhumed rial Day. derision. It means the crushing of The truth be told, they fought from hasty battlefield graves after Georgia took April 26th as the Southern manhood, the hatred of that we might have a better life. the war by federal squads and date of remembrance. It was the our former slaves, who will, on a Herein is the lesson of the lives then, when it was discovered, day that General Joseph E. Johns- spy system, be our secret police.” of our Confederate ancestors. Just these were the remains of Con- ton’s troops surrendered and What a vision of the future! Is as they did, we should dedicate federate soldiers, the bodies were ended the war in the east as there anything in this paragraph our lives and our energies to often abandoned above ground Robert E. Lee had already surren- which has not, to some extent those who come next - those born and ignored. dered. Other dates selected across come true? and those yet to be born. This dishonorable and ignoble the South included Jefferson So, we must remember the sac- Our Confederate ancestors, be- policy horrified decent Northern- Davis’ birthday and the date of rifices of those who went before ing human, made mistakes. We ers such as one correspondent for Jefferson Davis’ capture. us. The defamatory language should learn from those mistakes the Atlantic Monthly shared his Why a separate holiday or sepa- poured on them today by the rul- and profit thereby. After all, the disgust with his readers. At this rate cemeteries? Federal General ing classes of academia, media cost of some of these mistakes time, the Southern political lead- John Logan, in his proclamation and the corporate world is more has been enormous. ership was at a minimum disen- as Commander of the Grand of a reflection on our masters But, their lives, whether it be franchised or in exile when not Army of the Republic (some said than our ancestors. And the vir- Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee clapped in irons and rotting in Grand Army of the Republicans) tues of our ancestors were at one or a mere private like Lawson dungeons like Jefferson Davis. in 1868 named May 30 as the day time recognized, respected and Henderson Hope of the Georgia In this poverty and deprivation to remember the dead and their celebrated around the world. Militia cavalry, despite their post- our ancestors undertook, from sacrifices of the late unpleasant- The Confederates would be war poverty, were rich, leaving us their little remaining resources, to ness. At the time it was called pleased - maybe even surprised - a heritage of honor. form private associations and Decoration Day. He stated that to know that we think of them Our Confederate ancestors’ tend to their sacred dead. While the purpose of the holiday was today over a century and a half concern for us today is evident in the federal program – supported “strewing with flowers or other- later. Indeed, the ancient Greeks their Why?: Continued Page 23 > Page 22 The Georgia Confederate May/June, 2021 Historical Markers mission was approved with the By Barry Colbaugh passing of aged Confederate veterans and also the 1956 Confed- In September 2020 the State erate Battle Flag in the state flag. Marker "End of Confederate The commission's other major Line" was reported damaged with work was erecting some 1,800 a broken post on Hwy 61 in front historical markers. In 1962, the of Paulding County High School approaching American Civil War on Facebook. The Gen William J. Centennial inspired the commis- Hardee Camp # 1397 in Dallas, sion to set 750 Civil War markers Georgia responded quickly and in place before the observance in Leonidas Polk had his headquar- ordered a new aluminum post of 1965. Slowly but surely these ters. The red circle usually ap- the Georgia Historical Society. located in the Atco mill Village markers are slowly aging and pears when the signs are exposed The Camp commander Wayne in Cartersville as a part of the need repair and some are gone all to the sun. This particular spot Willingham said that his Camp area sidewalk trail. So you can together. Maintaining the markers was covered in brush and briars used to help maintain the markers see what a new and repaired most related to the War is impor- and it took me a bit to clear. In in his county. I was curious about marker looks like. Our goal is to tant and anything a camp can do cutting back the brush I discov- this and wondered if Bartow clean up all markers like this. to report them damaged, missing ered something else nearby. County was listed. I spoke via or stolen is important. email with Elyse Butler of the Georgia Historical Society and she shared a list of the markers in Bartow County. The Georgia His- torical Society does not have the resources to monitor the condition of all of the markers state- This smaller marker was at the wide so it seemed like a perfect base of a tree and a cement mount camp project. As you can see put there in 1948 by the Patriots from the photo above most of the of Bartow and one member was original poles are made of cement Colonel Spencer who wrote his- Here in Oak Hill Cemetery is a with a metal skirt to hide the ce- torical articles in the Daily Trib- marker the Stiles/Akin Camp in- ment and prevent damage. There This marker is among the first une newspaper about the War and stalled for the memory of General is also a piece of rebar in the cen- you may see when you come into the history of the County. The P.M.B. Young using donations to ter which is keeping the plaque Bartow County via Adairsville. GHS historical marker was the Camp and matching Georgia from falling. This particular Notice how all the paint is chip- placed around 1952 sometime SCV funds. The marker has our marker was damaged by vandals ping. The marker is located be- after this plaque. Along with this logo. The designer is Sewah Stu- but they do often take a beating tween Highway 41 and what is project we will include all the dios and if a camp wants to place from bush hogs and lawn mow- called Old 41. It is in the center markers of Bartow County for new historical markers this may ers. Being close to the road also median and gets a lot of exposure inventory with the Camp project. be an option. make them targets for cars and to the sun. To add to the chipping These plaques use allen key drunk drivers. paint a mystery lichen covers screws to attach the plaque to the some of the opposite side. I call it post. While the screws are effec- a mystery because while there are tive at attaching the plaque to the trees across the street there is post, one lick with a bush hog nothing but open pasture and a and you start the sign spinning. church lawn nearby. I cleaned off The screws are not meant for this most of the lichen with distilled force and not only strip the water and a soft brush but the screws but damage the concrete sign is still in need of painting underneath. Making the plaque and I reported the results to the difficult to reattach, striping the We discovered 6 historical Georgia Historical Society. The screws and needing the screw markers were missing mostly to post is in fine condition. holes re-tapped. The GHS sent development. If we can determine In this picture [next] you can me some replacement screws for Most of these markers were the markers where abouts it will see a common problem with the the rusted out ones but so far they first placed back in the 1950s by cost significantly less to replace older markers. The red circle that have been ineffective. the Georgia Historical Commis- them. One such marker was the appears in the center. This marker This particular marker [next] sion in February of 1951. It’s no historic Felton Home located represents the location of the was replaced in 2020 and it is mere coincidence that this com- along Hwy 411 but due to the McKelvey House where General freshly painted. This marker is Markers : Continued next page > May/June, 2021 The Georgia Confederate Page 23

Markers: Continued road construc- Why?: Continued actions and their tion along Hwy 411, Hwy 20 and sacrifices. We would be deeply Peeples Valley Road the marker is unworthy if we did not recall Georgia Division missing. Using Google Maps time them, study them, learn from SONS OF CONFEDERATE feature we see the markers loca- them and improve, where possi- tion in 2012. The next date in ble, upon them. VETERANS 2018, we can see the marker is What did they want from us? gone so it gives a rough timeline Very little has actually been re- NEEDS YOUR for the time the marker was miss- quested. ing. We contacted the State and Listen to General Stephen D. County DOT and other govern- Lee’s charge given in 1906 to ment entities but no luck in recov- the next generation of Southern- “USED ering the marker. ers: This is why I want to encourage “To you, Sons of Confederate you to consider this as a camp pro- Veterans, we submit the vindica- ject. The Georgia Historical Soci- tion of the Cause for which we BOOKS” ety will appreciate the help and we fought; to your strength will be can identify possible theft and given the defense of the Confed- The Georgia Division, SCV is now sell- damage of these markers. Keeping erate soldier's good name, the ing used books from our Division Of- track of these markers will help guardianship of his history, the keep you connected to the history emulation of his virtues, the per- fice to help cover our Division Office of the county. It might be possible petuation of those principles he Expenses to make our office to move the markers to more ap- loved and which made him glo- self-sufficient. propriate locations where they are rious and which you also cher- safer and easier to visit. This is a ish.” Remember, it is your duty If you have any used books or know worthwhile project. You can con- to see that the true history of the anyone who has any used books they tact Elyse Butler with the Georgia South is presented to future gen- Historical Society at 912-651- erations. would like to donate 2125 or 404-382-5410 0r email at But we have other debts to [email protected] She pay. We also owe our posterity as a tax deductible contribution, can get you a list of all the coun- our best efforts to make their ties markers and will appreciate world a better place. And above please contact our Division Secretary the help. ❖ all, we owe them the truth. Kitty Dorety at [email protected] or That is what is expected of us Barry Colbaugh both by those who have gone call at (866) 728-4642. Stiles/Akin Camp #670 before and those to whom we Assistant Editor will pass the torch. Will you be

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Martin K. O'Toole gascv.org Division Spokesman Fayetteville, GA April 26, 2021 Confederate Flags, tags, stick flags, “I call upon my God to judge me, he knows lapel pins, historical literature and that I love my friends and above all others my CDs wife and children, the, opinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.” Shop where your business is appreciated ! ~ Degataga Page 24 The Georgia Confederate May/June, 2021 Genealogy Resources SONS OF CONFEDER- David W. Payne Camp 1633 At the May 13th meeting of the Hu Daughtry Al Medcalf ATE VETERANS David W. Payne Camp 1633 , Sons

Georgia Division National SCV of Confederate Veterans, Judy Car- Established 1896 the penter, President of the Union P. O. Box 406 [email protected] Sons of Confederate Metter, Ga. 30439 678.572.0723 County Historical Society, was pre- Veterans is the oldest sented with the SCV's certificate of [email protected] , and largest Veterans' appreciation. Carpenter spoke to honor society in the Camp 1633 about the numerous Country. Whose charge past accomplishments of the UCHS PLEASE is to honor, protect and and its ongoing efforts to pre- Send all articles, photos, and items for preserve the true his- serve Union County records and tory of the Confederate landmarks and educate the public The Georgia Confederate to: on the county's considerable his- Soldier. tory. ❖ [email protected] To Join call toll free: 866-728-4642 or visit Send any change or correction www.gascv.org National Membership of mailing address to: We will help you find Coordinator Sons of Confederate Veterans [email protected] your Confederate An- cestor. HQ P.O. Box 59 Dear Editor, Columbia, TN 38402-0059 (800) 380-1896 ext 202 It was my privilege and honor to attend the reenactment [email protected] of the Battle at Resaca, Georgia. A daughter, a couple of DM123 www.scv.org my grandchildren, and friends from our SCV Camp in South Georgia enjoyed the day. Afterwards we went to the NEW ADJUTANT TRAINING Cemetery. Moved by what I saw, I penned these words. AT GHQ . YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A MEMBER Today I walked on Hallowed Ground. TO OBTAIN A Amidst the musket fire and the powerful cannon thunder, SONS OF CONFEDERATE I did cringe at the smell and awful sound, VETERANS SPECIALTY TAG. THE My thought went to those whose bodies were torn asunder. PLATES ARE AVAILABLE THRU THE DMV TO THE PUBLIC. I saw their men and horses crossing that field, And yes, I knew they were actors playing a part. History Lessons on-line: Pastor John Weaver And I knew that one side by history did yield, https://youtu.be/pj4wECARPWg?t=611 But today I walked on ground that broke my heart. “Politically incorrect history” by Pastor John Weaver With many of their lives the payment was paid. In this 57th broadcast of TBR Radio Presents: The TBR History Hour, Dr Ed The soil was soaked with their blood, now made hallow. DeVries talks with Pastor John Weaver about the power of the State. On that day, this field their sacrifice was made. Does the government have the authority to close churches, schools, and busi- In the heat of the battle that day they were frail and sallow. nesses? Does the government have the authority to order you to wear a mask? To social distance? Or to Now among the tombstones and markers we do walk, stay away from your own family? Reminded by the many whose name here is not known. With hat in hand and flags to place, it is hard to talk. More: https://www.youtube.com/watch? Knowing that here, the youth have their blood sown. v=pj4wECARPWg Weaver sermons: Sleep on my lads gathered on that far away shore. sermonaudio.com/weaver Nobler men the world has not crowned. [youtube.com / must type in jeetfeet to get This day I remember you and your place in that war, videos] For today, I walked on Hallowed Ground. Freedom Ministries Fitzgerald, GA

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Thomson Guards Lt. Dickson L. Baker Lt. Dickson L. Baker CAMP NEWS Camp 91 Camp 926 Camp 926 On April 17, 2021, the Thomson Hunley Awards Lt. Dickson L. Baker Camp 926 David W. Payne Camp 1633 Guards, Camp 91, met to mark the Cadet Battalion Com- had a very nice BBQ dinner on Hunley Awards 110 Confederate soldier’s graves mander Mary Evelyn Lake Hartwell to celebrate Con- The Sons of Confederate Veter- in the Old Thomson Cemetery. Holmes of the Hart County federate History and Heritage ans have a Junior ROTC Hunley There was a short memorial ser- JROTC is a Senior and Month. Members and their wives Awards Program, named after the vice in which the camp poet, Mr. won several awards at the and lady friends had a very enjoy- C.S.S. Hunley, the first submarine Phil Turner read “The Last Rebel program this evening. After able time and lots of good BBQ in history to sink an enemy war- Yell”. The photo was taken in graduation she is planning to from Backstreet BBQ in Hartwell. ship, and its designer, Horace L. front of the five previously un- attend University of North It was a good celebration, Hunley. The award is presented to known soldiers that were wounded Georgia and participate in Cmdr. Judson Barton a Cadet who best exemplifies the in the Battle of Atlanta. In transit "Corp of Cadets" to earn her [Photo Page 11]Compatriot characteristics of the crew and by train to the hospitals in Au- commission as an officer in Eddie Grizzle on left and Compa- commander of the famed Confed- gusta, they died and were removed the United States Army triot Keith Norris on right re- erate submarine - honor, courage and buried in Thomson. In recent Cadet Sgt. Kaden Johnson ceived their 25 year Membership and commitment. The David W. years, four of the five have been McLane. Kaden clearly dis- medals from Lt. Dickson L. Baker Payne Camp 1633, Sons of Con- identified with their graves marked tinguishes himself above his Camp 926 Commander Judson federate Veterans, recently pre- appropriately. Those participating peers through his willing- Barton in center. The Baker camp sented the Hunley Award to Staff included, L to R, Tom Holley, Bob ness to serve in many ca- had a nice BBQ dinner on Lake Sergeant Benjamin Kyle Bargeron Gibson, Phil Turner, David Butler, pacities to include: JROTC, Hartwell with lots of members and Senior Airman Dawson Tho- Mike Lacefield and Mr. Durham Athletics, and his Church. attending to celebrate Confederate mas Long, students of Mountain Milburn. Not shown Lewis Smith. ❖ History and Heritage Month. ❖ Area Christian Academy in Mor- Photo credit: Dollie Lacefield ganton, Georgia. ❖ Tom Holley, Thomson Guards ❖

“Charged with Treason: The Roswell prior to be- David W. Payne Mill Workers” ing charged Camp # 1633 with the Sunday, April 25th, at the Union Michael Hitt, Historian prisoners’ County War Memorial in Blairs- for the care, will be TRR Cobb, Camp #97, Sons of Confederate Veter- ville, the David W. Payne Camp looked at. ans’ 1633, Sons of Confederate Veter- These two Historical Presentations Series ans, held its annual Confederate important Memorial Day ceremony at the The program for the May 6 (2021) regular points will Union County War Memorial in meeting of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, TRR give a Blairsville. The ceremony was Cobb Camp #97, will be provided by the above his- greater understanding of the Charged with Treason delayed a full day due to inclem- torian. incident. ent weather the previous day. In Roswell, Georgia, in 1864, was an important tex- The meeting is open to the public. This presenta- spite of the delay, a good crowd tile town to the Confederate government supplying tion is part of the Sons Confederate Veterans Camp was on hand to hear keynote cotton and wool materials to the Quartermaster De- #97 monthly series of historical talks about the speaker Dr. Dan Eichenbaum. In partment in Atlanta. During the Atlanta Campaign, South, the War Between the States, the Confederacy, spite of its small population, Un- the mill employees were expected to help defend the and other historical aspects of the era, and is pro- ion County raised at least eleven industries at Roswell if attacked. In July of 1864, vided as a public service. The talks are presented by military companies in the 1861- Federal Cavalry was sent to capture the Roswell authors, historians, and researchers. The meeting is 1865 War for Southern Independ- Bridge spanning the Chattahoochee River, setting in held at 7:00 pm, the first Thursday of each month, at ence . ❖ motion events that would lead to treason charges be- the Smith House, 1760 Old Epps Bridge Road, Ath- ing leveled against most of the citizens of Roswell. ens, 30605. Because of the increase in corona-virus ✯✯✯ Two French flags were flown in defiance by the in Georgia, and that we have many members in the town, as well as other defiant acts, at the woolen mill DEADLINES ‘at-risk’ group, social distancing will be practiced The Georgia Confederate which would cause the deportation of 400 men, and masks are strongly encouraged. Masks and hand women, and children. Who was the person behind ✯✯✯ sanitizer will be available at the door. ❖ the idea of flying the French flags and what hap- ~ 2021 ~ For more information, please contact Lowry Harper, pened to the mill employees once in prison? Their August 1st [email protected] (706-769-9770). physical abuse, at the hands of the prison doctor, has October 1st to be understood by understanding who the doctor December 1st was. The ordeal this contract surgeon experienced, Photo: Roswell Mill Workers housing. [email protected] ✯✯✯ Page 26 The Georgia Confederate May/June, 2021

Confederate Memorial Day Commander Slack read to the 9th Brigade John K. McNeill #674 Sylvester audience the Charge of Gen- Americus, Georgia Camp #78 Alex- Apparently several Iron A large crowd gathered on a eral Stephen Dill Lee from the ander H. Stephens, Commander Mar- Crosses were pulled up by van- beautiful Sunday, 25 April general’s speech of 1896. The tin A. McDonald, Guest Speaker Jack dals at the Westview Cemetery, around 4PM in Sylvester, GA salute to the Confederate Flag C. Cowart, Bagpipes Dan Bray. Moultrie, GA. The Camp will for the 29 th annual Confeder- was recited by Reverend Jerry install them again with cement Bainbridge, Georgia Celebrated by ate Memorial Service. Chap- Etheredge, pledge of alle- foundations. Charles Parks re- Camp # 1689 "The Decatur Grays" lain Bobby Joe Brown opened giance to the Real GA Flag of ported the vandalism to the city st Commander John Fisher, Speaker Dale the service with a moving 1956 was recited by 1 Lt police. Cox. Commander Ronald Chapman prayer. Commander Eugene Submitted by Bo Slack “Bo” Slack started with the and the Farewell Address of Camp #2071 "Lt. Lovett Allen announcements of VIP’s pre- General Robert E. Lee was Tully" celebrated Confederate Memo- th sent, former 9 Brigade Com- recited by Judge Advocate rial Day on the Square of Colquitt, mander Raymond Harrell was Charles Rodney Hutchinson, Georgia. on hand for the celebration Keith Ford led the group in Submitted by Capt. Jack Cowart along with other dignitaries, our Southern National An- CSS Chattahoochee Camp # 2313 former 8 th Brigade Com- them, Dixie and George Ray mander Charlie Parks and Houston, Poet Laureate of the Camp Commanders Pete Georgia Division, read his Cowart of the Moultrie John K poem, “The Legends of Gray”. McNeil Camp, Commander The names were read of all the Jack Cowart of the CSS Chat- Worth County Confederate tahoochee Camp, Charlie Ivey Soldiers who died in the war from the Albany Lt Colonel defending their young nation Nelson Camp, {retired} Lt from a brutal invasion by an- Colonel Perry Bennett, Con- other nation, the United States. federate Re-enactors Andy Two motivating and exciting Carson, Charlie Parks, Pete speeches were made by Com- Cowart, Mike Kennedy and mander Jack Cowart and Lt Tommy Parramore, the Order Colonel Perry Bennett. of Confederate Rose, escorted Wreathes were laid by the Or- by the GA Mechanized Cav- der of Confederate Rose, the alry from the Perry, GA area Confederate Re-enactors shot and many others were present. a three volley salute with mus- SW Georgia Confederate Memorial Park kets and George Ray Houston Colors were posted and our A crowd gathered at the Southwest Georgia Confederate Memorial Park beloved Confederate Flags played Taps. The service in Albany on Saturday, May 8 for our Confederate Memorial service 2021. were proudly waving in the ended with a prayer by the Commander James King was the master of ceremony and introduced the Southwest Georgia wind. Yancy Independents Chaplain VIP’s. Chaplain Bobby Joe Brown of the Yancy Independents, Camp 693 of nd Judge Advocate Charles and 2 Lt Commander Bobby Sylvester was in charge of all prayers for the day. George Ray Houston of the Rodney Hutchinson was Joe Brown. Photos were made Yancy Independents and Poet Laureate of the Georgia Division Sons of Con- th awarded a special Certificate and the 29 Annual Confeder- federate Veterans read his poem “The Long Lonesome Road”. The Key Note of Achievement for becoming ate Memorial Service was now Speaker for the event was one of the great speakers of our era, Commander a lifetime member of the Inter- in history. ❖ Eugene “Bo” Slack of the Yancy Independents. Commander Slack received a national Sons of Confederate standing ovation for his spectacular speech on General Robert E. Lee and Lt Veterans. General Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson. Commander King read off the names of each seceding state of the Confederate States of America by date If I ever disown, repudiate, or apologize of secession while individuals stood when their state was named. Flowers for the Cause for which Lee fought were placed at the foot of the Confederate Monument as each state was called. and Jackson died, let the lightenings of Confederate Re-enactors saluted the Confederate dead with musket and cannon volleys. All had a great time honoring our Confederate kin and heroes. Heaven rend me, and the scorn of all good men and true women be my portion. Georgia Division Spokesman, Martin K. O’Toole Sun, moon, stars, all fall on me when I cease Georgia Division Spokesman, Martin K. O’Toole addresses the crowd at to love the Confederacy. Confederate Memorial Day Ceremony , presented by General LaFayette ‘ ‘Tis the Cause, not the fate of the Cause, McLaws Camp #79, in Fayetteville, Ga. that is glorious! May/June, 2021 The Georgia Confederate Page 27

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☜ David W. Payne Camp 1633, Sons of Confederate Veterans, held its annual Confederate Memorial Day, [R] Dr. Dan Eichenbaum delivers the keynote address

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