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Patriot's Periodical South. Patriot’s Periodical Upshur Co. Patriots Camp #2109 Sons of Confederate Veterans Gilmer, Texas ©Copyright 2021 July 2021 Next Meeting July 6, 2021 www.upshurpatriots.org Texas Division 5th Brigade Officers Sons of For the New Term Confederate Veterans The Texas Division met in Waco, TX May Commander Bill Elliot 28th, 29th and 30th for the annual reunion. 1st Lt. Commander Phil Davis Members attended in the largest turnout in 2nd Lt. Commander Larry “Joe” Reynolds recent memory to vote on constitutional Color Sergeant George Linton amendments and to elect officers of the Chaplain Jerry Haymes Division and Brigade. Photographer Albert Colvin This well attended reunion saw the election of the officers below along with appointments of the Chief of Staff, Adjutant, Staff Judge Advocate, and 2021 National Reunion Chaplain. July 21-24, 2021 Metairie-Kenner Jefferson Parish Commander John McCammon Louisiana Lt Commander Michael Hurley 2Lt Commander Kyle Sims 3Lt Commander Jim Cox Chief of Staff Shelby Little Beauregard Camp № 130 Adjutant Allen Hearrean Sons of Confederate SJA Rob Jones Veterans P. O. Box № 10413 New Orleans, La. 70181 Chaplain James Bozeman scv.org John McCammon, Texas Div. Commander 1 Camp Leadership The Guardian Upshur County archives.gov Patriots Camp #2109 But if he finds his ancestor's name and Commander position in full therein Eugene Brown inscribed he will be (903) 759-4230 satisfied that a [email protected] grateful country had 1st Lt. Commander done due honor to the soldier whose Gregg Gipe sacrifice is one of the proud recollections of (903) 353-0670 his family history. General Montgomery [email protected] Meigs, Quartermaster General's Office, February 8, 1873. 2nd Lt. Commander Editor David Palmer General Meigs directed a program (903) 237-8941 that lay to rest hundreds of [email protected] thousands of fallen soldiers scattered on former battlefields throughout Adjutant the South. Quartermaster deputies under Don Loyd Meigs's command scoured the landscape of (903) 797-6922 the South to locate, unearth, and identify [email protected] the remains of soldiers that lay in the Deputy Adjutant former battlefields and prison and hospital Eddie Pricer yards stretching from Maryland to Texas. By (903) 692-3388 1870, the remains of nearly 300,000 [email protected] soldiers had been buried in seventy-three national cemeteries. Although temporary Chaplain James Eitson wooden headboards were first used to (903) 592-4110 mark the graves of the deceased, Meigs saw [email protected] to it that by 1879 each fallen veteran, known and unknown, would be "done due Librarian honor" with a proper permanent marker at Brandon Pricer the head of his grave. (682) 552-5802 [email protected] The SCV Guardian Program is in place to honor our Confederate Ancestors. Consider Meetings of the taking part in this worthwhile program. Upshur County Patriots are now held Contact Program Chairman Phil Davis for at the Upshur County information at: [email protected] Museum 2 Upshur Co.Patriots Guardians OUR PLEDGES Name Guardian Number of PLEDGE TO THE Status Graves U.S. FLAG: Phil Davis Full 29 Kim Duffey Full 3 I pledge allegiance to the Flag Jamie Eitson Full/GPT 8 Of the United States of America, And to the Chris Loyd Full 5 republic for which it stands, One nation, George Linton Full/W/GPT 46 under God, indivisible, With liberty and T. Mitchell/G. Linton Full 5 justice for all. Eddie Pricer Full/GPT 40 Milt Ojeman Full/GPT 4 PLEDGE TO THE David Palmer Full 1 TEXAS FLAG: Bill Palmer Full 10 Tommy Ray Full/GPT 19 Honor the Texas Flag; I pledge Bill Starnes Full/W/GPT 7 allegiance to thee Texas, one state under Frank Smith Full 2 God, one and indivisible. Mitch Tyson Full 3 Gregg Gipe GPT 3 SALUTE TO THE CONFEDERATE FLAG: W=Wilderness GPT=Guardian Pro Tem I salute the Confederate Flag With affection, reverence, and Undying devotion to the cause For which it stands. If you are interested in perpetuating the ideals that motivated your Confederate ancestor, the SCV needs you. The memory and reputation of the The Sons of Confederate Confederate soldier, as well as the motives Veterans is a non-profit, for his suffering and sacrifice, are being heritage organization whose consciously distorted by some in an attempt mission is to preserve the history and legacy of Confederate Veterans. It is to alter history. Unless the descendants of not associated with any anti-government or Southern soldiers resist those efforts, a hate groups. Membership is open to any unique part of our nation's cultural heritage male descendant of a Confederate Veteran will cease to exist. who served honorably in the Confederate armed forces. 3 Charge to the Sons of Confederate Veterans Love of God and “To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we Patriotism on will commit the vindication of the cause for Independence Day which we fought. To your strength will be sermoncentral.com given the defense of the Confederate soldier’s good name, the guardianship of his The words of Irving Berlin’s memorable history, the emulation of his virtues, the composition, God Bless America, should perpetuation of those principles which he ring out in our hearts on this 4th of July loved and which you love also, and those 2021, and every day. ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish.” Loving God and loving one’s country then can be in harmony. We can be religious people who are also loyal citizens. The Founding Fathers of our nation were religious men as we read in the Declaration of Independence or as John Jay, the first “Remember, it is your duty to see that the Supreme Court Justice wrote to Jedidiah true history of the South is presented to Morse in 1797, “Providence has given to future generations.” our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” The Founding Fathers never intended that religious expression should not be expressed publicly. After all, they were deeply religious men. Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander The modern interpretation of the notion of United Confederate Veterans Separation between Church and State is not New Orleans, Louisiana, April 25, 1906 what the Founding Fathers understood it to be. Rather, the Framers of the Constitution “The SCV’s Best Hope for Success is held that no religion should be established Knowledge of the Truth” as the official religion for any state. God is always present to us, but when we close 4 ourselves to his presence because of a 1863 mistaken understanding of how our nation July 5 - The Battle of Lebanon takes place in should relate to him then we reap the Lebanon Kentucky. The battle goes down consequences of our foolishness. We can as a Confederate victory. see this in what’s happened to our public July 1–3 – The Battle of Gettysburg, schools and neighborhoods. Pennsylvania. The only way out of the quagmire that we 1864 find ourselves is to once again embrace the July 10 - Union cavalry raids begin at Christian roots that our nation was Decatur, Alabama under the leadership of founded. General Lovell Rousseau. The raids will head into Marietta, Georgia and span to July 22nd. July 17 - The rail works running between Historical Montgomery, Alabama and Columbus, Dates In July Georgia is destroyed by a Confederate force. This action occurs at Opelika, Alabama. 1861 July 30 – The Battle of the Crater, Siege of July 11 – The Battle of Rich Mountain, Petersburg, Virginia. (West) Virginia. July 22 - Battle of Atlanta, Georgia. July 21 -Confederate forces claim the first major victory of the war at the First Battle 1865 of Bull Run Manassas, Virginia. July 5 - The Union prison camp at July 22 - The United States Congress pushes Columbus, Ohio is closed - Camp Chase. through a resolution that declares the raging war to be about the preservation of the Union and not the ending of slavery. July 27 - Confederate Colonel John Baylor, with forces from Texas at his disposal, claims Fort Fillmore at San Augustine Springs in New Mexico. Battle of Lebanon 1862 wikia.org July 1 – Battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia. July 13 - Murfreesboro, Tennessee is taken The Battle of Lebanon occurred July 5, by Confederate cavalry forces under the 1863, in Lebanon, Kentucky, during command of General Nathan Bedford Morgan's Raid in the American Civil War. Forrest. 5 Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan and effective cavalry raids of the American Civil his 2,460 handpicked War. The raid achieved its aim of destroying Confederate cavalrymen rode military supplies and disrupting the west from Sparta in middle Montgomery and West Point Railroad Tennessee on June 11, 1863, around Notasulga and Loachapoka in intending to divert the attention of the Macon County and Auburn and Opelika in Union Army of Ohio from Southern forces in what is now Lee County. The raid included the state. On June 23, the Federal Army of the Battle of Ten Islands Ford on July 14 and the Cumberland began its operations the Battle of Chehaw Station on July 18. against Gen. Braxton Bragg’s Confederate Army of Tennessee in what became known as the Tullahoma Campaign, and Morgan decided to it was time to move northward. By July 2, Morgan had crossed the rain- swollen Cumberland River at Burkesville, Kentucky. After being defeated by Michigan troops along the Green River at the Battle of Tebbs' Bend on July 4, Morgan withdrew and circled to the west, hoping to reach Fourth of July Louisville.
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