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David's Dispatch Volume 3 Number 5 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 Vol. 3 No. 5 Copyright 2107 Page 2 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 Colonel 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 Jefferson Davis 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 Vol. 3 No. 5 Copyright 2107 Page 3 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 United States 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 Vol. 3 No. 5 Copyright 2107 Page 4 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.
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