Vol. 3, No. 5 Copyright 2017 May 2017 Winner of the 2016 Best Newsletter Award, National, Sons of Confederate Veterans CEMETERY MEMORIAL SERVICE COMMANDER’S CORNER May 13th 2017 - 10:00 a.m. by Larry “Joe” Reynolds Old Mings Cemetery, Gilmer, Texas It’s been another busy month for See www.5thbrigade.org for full details our camp, three Graveside Memorial Services, manning the display at the 2017 TEXAS DIVISION REUNION nd th Longview Museum, and taking care of our June 2 – 4 , 2017 Confederate Heroes at our cemeteries. We still Radisson Hotel have a few upcoming events so watch your 2540 Meacham Blvd., Fort Worth, Texas 76106 calendar. See www.txdivreunion.com for full details.

It’s also getting close to time for our Texas 2017 NATIONAL REUNION th rd Division Reunion. I would like for each of you July 18 – 23 , 2016 to consider supporting our camp and the Texas Sheraton Downtown Hotel Division by attending the meeting in Fort Worth. 250 N. Main Street If you can’t make the whole meeting, at least Memphis, TN 38103 consider attending the Business Meeting on that See www.scvmemphis2017.org for full details. Saturday. I will carry the Camp Colors up there.

Don’t forget that we will still meet on the first Monday this month, however, starting in June we DAVIDRREYNOLDS.ORG will move our meeting date to the 3rd Monday of each month. This month the following changes have been made to our web site: http://www.davidrreynolds.org Who have you asked to join the SCV this month? • I’ve updated our Events page to include all known events by the Camp and its members. UPCOMING EVENTS Please let me know when you do anything for the SCV, this includes attending other camp Monday, May 1st, 7:00 p.m. meeting, public speaking, or even putting Refreshments at 6:30 p.m. flags on graves. Old Union Community Center • I’ve updated our Calendar of Events. Hwy 67E, Mount Pleasant, Texas Program: TLS Stories from the Soil I’m still looking for biographies of your Confederate Compatriot Terry Smith Ancestor. Please try to come up with a short bio that we can put on-line. CIVIL WAR WEEKEND May 5th – May 7th, 2017 If you have any suggestions, recommendations or Jefferson, Texas comments you can send me an email to: See: http://www.jeffersoncivilwardays.com/ [email protected] and I promise to give it my full consideration. V

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returned to Kentucky where he graduated from Our Charge… Bardstown College in Bardstown, Kentucky, in 1839. Upon returning from college, he enlisted as a "To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we private under Edward Burleson’s command will commit the vindication of the cause for in the Republic of Texas. He immediately received a which we fought. To your strength will be commission as adjutant of the regiment and went to given the defense of the Confederate soldier's northern Texas to fight the Indians. good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of He returned to Mississippi and made his living in those principles which he loved and which you banking and agriculture through the end of the 1850s. love also, and those ideals which made him While in Mississippi he married Sally Huger glorious and which you also cherish." Magrant in 1850. He served in the Mississippi State Legislature in 1858. Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General, United Confederate Veterans, In early 1861 he operated as a Confederate agent in New Orleans, Louisiana April 25, 1906 Louisiana, helping the state to secede. When the Remember, it is your duty to see that the true Confederate States of America was formed, history of the South is presented to future President offered Adams the generations! position of Postmaster General, which he declined. Instead, he re-turned to Mississippi and formed the 1st Mississippi Cavalry regiment. Commissioned its Colonel and commander, he fought a rear-guard action as the Confederates were forced to flee Kentucky. He then saw action at the April 1862 Brigadier General William Wart Adams Battle of Shiloh and the April to June 1862 Siege of By Tom Todd Corinth. After the fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi, in July, 1863, his command harassed and had skirmishes with Union cavalry units. In September of 1863, another regiment was assigned to Colonel Adams regiment and he was promoted to Brigadier General, PACS on September 25, 1863. After his promotion he was given the unenviable task of attacking Union Major General William T. Sherman's forces, who were marching on Meridian, Mississippi. Towards the end of the conflict, he served with General Nathan Bedford Forest in Alabama. His brigade surrendered in Sumter County, Alabama, on May 4, 1865, and he gave his fare-well

speech to the troops two days later. He had served Adams was born in Frankfort, Franklin County, gallantly throughout the war and was never Kentucky, on May 22, 1819. His parents were Judge wounded. George and Anna (Weissiger) Adams. His father was a personal friend of American statesman and orator He returned to Mississippi after his parole, and was Henry Clay. The family moved to Natchez, appointed a state revenue agent in 1880, a position Mississippi, in 1829, and his father served as a he held until 1885 when President Grover Cleveland district court judge from 1836 to 1839. William appointed him as postmaster of Jackson, Mississippi. V

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On May 1, 1888, William Wirt Adam met John H. That phenomenon wasn't limited to financial Martin, a newspaper editor, on the streets of Jackson, institutions. Mississippi. The two had been quarreling for some "Any store or business, from what I understand, did time over political differences. Words were issue their own tender," Harper said. "So there was a exchanged, both drew pistols and in less than a large amount of inequity, because we were very minute they lay dead. disorganized here in the South." Wirt is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in "It was almost like a company store," Haymes added, Jackson, Mississippi. recalling the era when companies would pay workers in script that was legal tender in groceries and other company-owned outlets.

TEXAS EXHIBIT DRAWS ATTENTION "Companies did that for many, many years," Harper (from Dixie Heritage Newsletter) added. "Even after the Civil War." Southern currency is the starting point for a lecture The Confederate Heritage exhibit at Gregg County scheduled 7 p.m. Thursday by the Rev. Richard Historical Museum isn't going to make anyone rich, Hester of Gilmer First United Methodist Church, a but visitors will learn how money evolved for the regional aficionado. Southern states struggling against a financially fortified North. The Confederate descendants emphasized the exhibit celebrates heritage but not the distasteful side of the "When the war started, President Lincoln established era. the federal banking system in this country," Larry Harper of the Upshur County Patriots said recently, "We want people to understand that the war was not sitting in the Ann Lacy Crain Exhibit Center at the about slavery," Harper said. "A 42.5-cent tax on Fredonia Street museum. cotton - yeah, that's taxation without representation." A dozen Confederate brigade flags lined one wall near Harper and John Gregg Camp Chaplain Jerry

Haymes. A 12-pound mountain howitzer stood nearby, and weapons and other memorabilia filled a SEVEN CIVIL WAR STORIES YOU display opposite the banners. DIDN'T LEARN IN HIGH SCHOOL

The museum's exhibit, lasting through April 29, coincides with Confederate Heritage Month. For many American historians, the Civil War is the climax in the story of how the came to "That's an 1858 Springfield," Harper said of the long be what it is today. But it's also a source of some rifle over his shoulder. "All our guns, everything that bizarre and surprisingly cool trivia. I’ll bring you is here, will fire. Nothing's loaded, there are no one each month. munitions available as far as powder." 4. "DIXIE" WAS ONLY A NORTHERN SONG A display case at the exhibit center's east end holds a confusion of paper money. The precise details of when composer Dan Emmett wrote "Dixie" seemed to change every time he told "Since the South had seceded, we would not use the story (and some even dispute that Emmett was government tender," Harper said. "So, different the author in the first place). But he first performed banks began to establish their own currency." V

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it in New York City in 1859, with the title "I Wish I When John Brown first came South, he would sneak Was in Dixie's Land." into the slave quarters delivering spikes to the African people with instructions that they were to use them to kill their Southern White families, or he would kill their babies, and family members. Little did he understand that these Africans while afraid to tell or warn their White family members of his threats or intent; they had become use to the Southern White folks Christian charity, not to be construed with White folk guilt. And, were not even going to carry out this evil plot. Emmett was a member of a blackface troupe known as the Bryant's Minstrels, but he was indignant when Here in the twenty first century, far too many he found out that his song had become an unofficial Southern White folk equate White folk guilt, a anthem of the Confederacy. He went on to write a disease manufactured by Yankees to lure Southern musicians' marching manual for the Northern army. White folk into believing the false narrative in the public school system , and body politic, that they Before and during the war, the song was a huge hit (Southern White's ) are guilty for the economic in New York and across the country, and quickly institution of slavery, that they fought a war to became one of 's favorite tunes. maintain it, and that throwing their ancestors into a The day after the Surrender at Appomattox, Lincoln cess pool of historic evil perpetrated by them against told a crowd of Northern revelers, "I have always the African people will somehow vindicate them. thought 'Dixie' was one of the best tunes I have ever And, lastly they are to think of this as White folk heard. Our adversaries over the way attempted to charity; which is a high misnomer. appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday that we fairly captured it." He then asked a nearby band to play it And, furthermore, this White folk guilt has opened in celebration. the door for the hatred analogous to what happened to the African people of the South during the twelve year period of so called reconstruction, as they were duped into turning against their only true friend in America; the Southern White man (still). See: the WHITE GUILT DEFINED actions of Dylan Roof were caused by the Southern by H. K. Edgerton Cross, the Isis modus operandi - move and destroy the memorials to the Confederate soldier, move the Southern Cross as a symbol in State flags ( Georgia, Mississippi ), and worse of all to attack the good names of those Confederate Generals that befriended the African people. White folk guilt is a greater enemy for the people of the South than anything . It bears no truth , serves no purpose other than moving Black folks back into the cess pool of reconstruction that put the love that black folks and White folks found for each other in the South almost asunder, in lieu of the economic

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have come once again to steal what was left behind May 29th – Kenny Phillips as we now face Southern social and cultural genocide May 5th – Patricia Guy with the new occupation. May 20th – Donna King May 10th – This date in 1863 General Thomas J.

Jackson died and is buried in Lexington Virginia. LAST CAMP MEETING This date is Confederate Memorial Day in North Carolina. Our April meeting was a success and I would like to thank everyone who participated. We had two May 30th – Confederate Memorial Day in Virginia. visitors, Joe and Seth Clark, I’ll be looking for an ancestor for Joe and Seth is already eligible to join as a Cadet.

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Colonel Edward Clark organized the 14th Texas Chaplain John Michael Mars presented our program, Chaplains in the Civil War. Infantry in April 1862. On June 12, 1862, General orders No. 5, ordered the regiment to Little Rock, The camp once again discussed having two meeting and report to the Commander of the army, per month, however there was not enough interest to west of the Mississippi River. Captain McNight's move forward with the idea. However, motion was Company L of the 18th Texas Infantry was made, seconded, voted, and approved that starting in transferred to the 14th Regiment Texas Infantry June, 2017, we move our meeting night from the 1st sometime prior to October 31, 1862, and became Monday to the 3rd Monday of each Month. (1st) Company K On November 10, 1863. Clark's 14th Texas Infantry, under General Horace Randal's Brigade, was directed to organize the troops in the Districts of Western Louisiana and in the Indian Territory. In March through May 1864, the 14th BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES Texas Infantry participated in the Red River & OTHER IMPORTANT DATES Campaign and the . On March 14, 1864, the Federals landed at Simsport and May 19th – Rex McGee captured Fort De Russy. Prisoners captured by Brigadier General A.J. Smith's command in the Red V

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River Campaign included 3 officers and 19 enlisted 1 May 1863 - General John C. Pemberton verses men from the 14th Texas Infantry. On April 8, 1864, General Ulysses S. Grant. Casualties: 1650 the occurred, a confederate Confederate, 1863 Union! victory with a cost of approximately 1,500 Battle of Chancellorsville - Chancellorsville confederate casualties. On April 9, 1864, the Battle Virginia of Pleasant Hill was fought in which Taylor's attack was repulsed with heavy loss. General John G. 1-5 May 1863 - General Robert E. Lee verses Walker was wounded and there were an estimated General Joseph Hooker. Casualties: 12,754 2,000 confederate casualties. After being mauled at Confederate, 16,792 Union! Marks’ Mills and Poison Spring, Maj. General Fred Steele’s forces retreated. On April 29, the Union Battle of Williamsburg - Williamsburg Virginia forces reached Jenkins’ Ferry and began crossing the 5 May 1862 - General Joseph E. Johnston verses Saline River. Rebel forces arrived on the 30th and General George B. McClellan. Casualties: 1603 attacked repeatedly. April 30, 1864 the Battle of Confederate, 2239 Union! Jenkin's Ferry had begun. The confederate loss was estimated at 443. On October 10, 1864, the 14th Battle of The Wilderness - The Wildereness Texas Infantry Regiment is mentioned in a Virginia memorandum to Adjutant and Inspector General's 5-7 May 1864 - General Robert E. Lee verses office that the regiments raised in the States West of General Ulysses S. Grant, General George G. Meade. the Mississippi River are now serving in the region Casualties: 7750 Confederate, 17,666 Union! East of the Mississippi River. The 14th Texas Infantry was surrendered by General E.K. Smith, Battle of McDowell - McDowell Virginia commanding Trans - Mississippi Department, on May 1862 - General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson May 26, 1865. verses General Robert C. Schenck. Casualties: 498 Confederate, 256 Union!

Battle of Spotsylvania Court House - Spotsylvania Court House Virginia BATTLES FOUGHT DURING THE MONTH OF MAY 8-20 May 1864 - General Robert E. Lee verses General Ulysses S. Grant. Casualties: 9500 Confederate, 18,399 Union! Battle of Drewry's Bluff - Drewry's Bluff Virginia 12-16 May 1864 - General P.G.T. Beauregard verses General Benjamin F. Butler. Casualties: 2506 Confederate, 4160 Union! Battle of Resaca - Resaca Georgia 13-15 May 1864 - General Joseph E. Johnston verses General William T. Sherman. Casualties: 3800 Confederate, 2747 Union! Battle of Fort Gibson - Fort Gibson Mississippi Battle of Jackson - Jackson Mississippi V

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14 May 1863 - General Joseph E. Johnston verses 26 May - 9 July 1863 - General Franklin Gardner General William T. Sherman. Casualties: 1339 verses General Nathaniel P. Banks. Casualties: 7200 Confederate, 1000 Union! Confederate, 3600 Union! Battle of New Market - New Market Virginia Battle of Seven Pines - Seven Pines Virginia 15 May 1864 - General John C. Breckinridge verses 31 May - 1 June 1862 - General Joseph E. Johnston General Franz Sigel. Casualties: 577 Confederate, verses General George B. McClellan. Casualties: 831 Union! 6134 Confederate, 5031 Union! Battle of Chamberlin Hill - Edward's Station Mississippi

16-17 May 1863 - General John C. Pemberton verses General Ulysses S. Grant. Casualties: 3851 Confederate, 2441 Union! - Vicksburg Mississippi 18 May - 4 July 1863 - General John C. Pemberton verses General Ulysses S. Grant. Casualties: 39,491 Confederate, 8,873 Union! A Legacy of Courage Battle of Front Royal - Front Royal Virginia Joshua 1:9

23 May 1862 - General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good Jackson verses Colonel J. R. Kenly. Casualties: 50 courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for Confederate, 904 Union! the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. First Battle of Winchester - Winchester Virginia Joshua must have felt overwhelmed when The Lord 23-25 May 1862 - General Thomas J. "Stonewall" gave him the responsibility to lead Israel. The Lord Jackson verses General Nathaniel P. Banks. promised him, though, that He would give him the Casualties: 400 Confederate, 2769 Union! strength to do what was right if he would have the Battle of North Anna River - North Anna River courage to be obedient. Moments earlier, The Lord Virginia had promised, "as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee." Joshua, having been taught and mentored by 23-26 May 1864 - General Robert E. Lee verses Moses, could reflect on Moses' courage and faith as General Ulysses S. Grant. Casualties: 2000 a pattern for daily living and for fulfilling his Confederate, 1973 Union! responsibilities. God's Word is always good and true. Battle of New Hope Church - New Hope Church What was right in Joshua's day remains right, and Georgia doing the right thing still requires as much courage as ever. 25-29 May 1864 - General Joseph E. Johnston verses General William T. Sherman. Casualties: 3000 We, as descendants of courageous and honorable Confederate, 2400 Union! people, have been endowed with a legacy of courage. We have each accepted the charge to defend the Siege of Port Hudson - Port Hudson Louisiana honor of our ancestors and perpetuate the values for which they stood. Whether they volunteered for V

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service or were conscripted, we know that our or other individuals, but that which shows the ancestors exhibited courage in fulfilling their duty. principles for which the South contended and which We can look at their deeds and know that they were justified her struggle for those principles.” men of courage. We can also understand that the Robert E. Lee principles for which they fought were right and just and know that they have left us an honorable heritage. Doing what is right always requires courage, and it GUARDIAN NEWS requires much more courage to stand up for the honor By 1Lt Commander Rex McGee of those who are not present than it does to attack the honor of someone who is not present. It takes more courage to do the right thing than to cut corners. It takes more courage to be truthful than to lie. It takes more courage to stand up to an enemy than to hide. Let us be courageous to do what is right, whether it is in defense of our heritage or our nation, or in making everyday choices in life . As the voices and threats of those who reject the truth of God's Word and history become louder and more numerous, let us remember that the God of Moses and Joshua is still God, and He still works through those who have the courage to serve Him faithfully. Yours in Christ, Michael Mars The rural South has a long-standing tradition of “Decoration Day”. At this time of the year families gathered at the local cemeteries to clean up the SICKNESS & DISTRESS graves and freshen up the cemetery as a whole. Decoration Day occurred in the rural South's calendar after spring planting, but before long st April 1 – Get Well Card sent to Donna King who is summer day’s required extensive maintenance of the having severe breathing problems. Spent a couple of crops and livestock. Decoration Day has it origin in days in the hospital. Keep her and Harry in your the South prior to the Civil War and is continued in prayers. many communities until this day. Tradition has it that April 18th – Sympathy Card sent to Harold the inspiration for “Memorial Day”, a day of Kennington of Pittsburg. He lost his Grandmother, remembrance of fallen American Heroes and a Oleta Pierce Kennington, on April 17th. National holiday came from the tradition in the South of “Decoration Day”. The literal definition of Decoration Day or "Decoration," as it is sometimes called, taken from the Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, is: "An occasion on which a “Everyone should do all in his power to collect and family or a church congregation gathers … to place disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a flowers on the graves of loved ones and to hold a place in history and descend to posterity. History is memorial service for them. Traditionally this not the relation of campaigns and battles and generals V

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involved singing, dinner on the ground as well as a Love, Rodney Cass Shiloh 1 religious service." Love, Rodney Cass Antioch 7 Love, Rodney Cass Center Grove 5 In our area “Decoration Day” is the month of May or Love, Rodney Cass Center Hill 2 a week or so on either side of this month. This is a Love, Rodney Cass Mt. Zion 2 wonderful time to visit your Confederate Heroes Mars, John Michael Titus Barrett 4 graves and get them spruced up. A good cleaning of Mars, John Michael Titus Long 2 the area, cleaning of the stone and a fresh flag, if Mars, John Michael Titus Marshall 1 Springs needed, is a wonderful way to celebrate the life of Mars, John Michael Titus White Oak 5 your hero. Let us not forget the tradition of Springs “Decoration” and honoring our fallen heroes. McGee, Rex Titus Bivens 16 McGee, Rex* Titus Greenhill 24 At the Division Executive Committee (DEC) McGee, Rex Titus Lone Star 2 meeting on March 18, 2017, Phil Davis, Chairman of McGee, Rex Titus Nevill’s 8 the State & National Guardian Committee program, Chapel proposed an optional Lapel Pin to be available to Reynolds, James R. Titus Old 10 those in the Guardian Program and have attained the Cookville Full Guardian status. This pin can be worn on any Reynolds, James R. Titus Philips- 1 Taylor civilian dress to show your status as a Guardian. It is Reynolds, James R. Morris Wheatville 2 not meant to replace the Guardian Medal but to allow Reynolds, Jerry Don Titus Old Union 7 you to show your devotion to “The Cause” whether Reynolds, Larry Joe* Titus Brantley 1 in uniform or at any function. I know I will wear Reynolds, Larry Joe Titus Bridges 10 mine almost all the time. They will be available for a Chapel cost of $4.00 plus shipping. Reynolds, Larry Joe Morris Concord 7 Reynolds, Larry Joe Titus William 1 ILT David Richard Reynolds SCV Camp # 2270 Cook Compatriots attended the following ceremonies this Reynolds, Larry Joe Titus Binnion 3 month honoring our fallen Confederate Heroes. Reynolds, Larry Joe Titus Tranquil 14 Reynolds, Tommy Titus Liberty Hill 15 • MEMORIAL DEDICATION SERVICE, April 1st, 2017 at the Pine Forest Cemetery in Talks With White Titus Center 9 Hopkins County Texas Buffalo Grove- • GRAVE DEDICATION, April 8th, 2017 - Yancey Talks With White Titus Blevins 14 11:00 a.m. Hubbard, Bowie County, Texas Buffalo • CEMETERY MEMORIAL SERVICE, April TOTALS th 15 , 2017 - 11:00 a.m. Marietta, Cass Guardians (12) (4) (31) (203) County, Texas * Full Guardians 1st Lt. David Richard Reynolds Camp # 2270 Current Guardians We have numerous cemeteries and individual graves Effective April 30, 2017 that need a compatriot to step up and be counted as it Name County Cemetery Graves relates to showing our respect for our forefathers. Adams, O.M. Titus Edwards 14 Many of you have cemeteries that are a stone throw Gunn, Dennis Bowie Center Ridge 1 from your front door. Two to three hours of your Guy, W. H. (Bill) Titus Ft. Sherman 3 Jones, Robert Titus Coopers 11 time per year will insure that the graves in these Chapel cemeteries will not be lost to history. Our Love, Rodney Cass Linden 1 Confederate Heroes gave up to four years of their V

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lives fighting a war while some paid the supreme sacrifice for us and our families. Show them that they did not serve in vain. Camp Leadership 1st Lt. David Richard Reynolds As usual, I’ll leave you with the question that Phil Camp #2270 Davis, Upshur Patriots CDR and Chairman of both Mount Pleasant, Texas the National and Texas Division Guardian Program always asks, Commander Larry “Joe” Reynolds “Are you a Guardian? If not, why not?” (903) 717-8608 [email protected]

1Lt. Commander “Our poor country has fallen a prey to the conqueror. Alvin “Rex” McGee The noblest cause ever defended by the sword is lost. (903) 577-3233 The noble dead that sleep in their shallow though [email protected] honored graves are far more fortunate than their 2Lt. Commander survivors. I thought I had sounded the profoundest Robert Eugene Jones depth of human feeling, but this is the bitterest hour (903) 573-5349 of my life.” [email protected] Colonel John Singleton Mosby Adjutant Vacant

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