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David's Dispatch Volume 5 Number 11 Vol. 5 No. 11 Copyright 2019 November 2019 Winner of the Texas Division Best Newsletter Award, 2017 & 2018 Winner of the SCV National Best Newsletter Award, 2016, 2017 & 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS fight against, of course that will probably be something else we strongly believe in. Commander’s Corner…...……………………..1 Upcoming Events……………………….……..1 DavidRReynolds.org…………………………..1 Our Charge…………………………………….2 UPCOMING EVENTS A Blast from the Past………………………….2 Last Camp Meeting…………………………....3 Opinion by Andrew England…………………..3 Battles Fought During the Month………….….5 Monday, November 18th, 7:00 p.m. Can today’s Southern Patriots in Texas live up to Refreshments at 6:30 p.m. Southern values?.................................................5 Old Union Community Center Guardian News…………………….………..…6 Hwy 67E, Mount Pleasant, Texas Birthdays & Anniversaries…………...………..8 Amputations, saved by the saw………………..9 Graveside Memorial Service.………………….9 DAVIDRREYNOLDS.ORG This month the following changes have been made COMMANDER’S to our web site: http://www.davidrreynolds.org CORNER by Larry “Joe” Reynolds • I’ve updated our Calendar of Events. • I’ve updated our Events page to include all Well, I think winter is almost known events by the Camp and its members. here, some cold weather is nice, but don’t want to Please let me know when you do anything for see freezing weather this early. Of course, Mother Nature doesn’t really care what we the SCV, this includes attending other camp WANT! Much like some of our enemies, what meeting, public speaking, or even putting we want or care about doesn’t matter, all that flags on graves. matters is that they get their way. It’s sad that so many of our courts and political leaders had I’m still looking for biographies of your Confederate rather give in to them then to be called a raciest. Ancestor. Please try to come up with a short bio that we can put on-line. All we can really do is to keep up the fight, to stand strong for our beliefs and know in our If you have any suggestions, recommendations or hearts that we are the ones that is in the right. I’m comments you can send me an email to: sure that in time they will find something else to [email protected] and I promise to give it my full consideration. V Vol. 5 No. 11 Copyright 2019 Page 2 Southland to the Union save as St. Paul saw fit to observe: "Have they whereof to boast? We have more." Our Charge… We have to resort to Scripture to keep up with the Mayflower descendants, or soon Bunker Hill "To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we Monument will overshadow the tomb of Napoleon as will commit the vindication of the cause for the "Spirit of the Pilgrims" spreads in the Champs- which we fought. To your strength will be Elysees. Sooner or later extremes meet, and the given the defense of the Confederate soldier's good name, the guardianship of his history, the "Puritan in Paris" will doubtless be as interesting an emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of anomaly as the Witch of Salem. those principles which he loved and which you Yet as the proud past of the South to-day blends with love also, and those ideals which made him the glory of the present the heart of the nation is glorious and which you also cherish." quickened by the tread of heroes, veterans from Bull Remember, it is your duty to see that the true history of the South is presented to future Run and Chickamauga and veterans from Chateau- generations! Thierry, Soissons, and the Marne. Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General, Never was there such a military pageant in American United Confederate Veterans, history as when Pershing led the victorious American New Orleans, Louisiana April 25, 1906 expeditionary. army through the Triumphal Arch at Washington. Many of them were the sons of Dixie, whose fathers had followed Gen. Robert E. Lee's advice at Appomattox to "go home and rebuild the A BLAST FROM THE PAST South." (Taken from the November 1919 Edition of the Confederate Veteran - 100 Years Ago) Be it ever remembered that an Alabamian, Gen. Robert Lee Bullard, whose name was a talisman of WHERE PAST AND PRESENT BLEND. bravery, turned the tide at Chateau-Thierry by his AN APPRECIATION BY CASSIE MONCURE determination, expressed in this epigram that will LYNE, RICHMOND, VA. forever live in history: "It is not within the dignity of our flag to retreat. My men would not understand such an order. I mean to counter-attack." When President Wilson was touring the West in behalf of the League of Nations, he gave voice to this That is a sentiment as sublime as Pershing's salute to remark: "I have the blood of the Covenanters in my France: "La Fayette, we have come." veins." And the speech conjured up at once. Grey Friars Abbey and St. Giles Graveyard in Edinburgh, "The blue and the gray together sleep In the heart of our native land, so that fancy could glimpse "Old Mortality" with his But their offspring dared the deep, chisel picking out on time-worn sandstone those To rally to Pershing's command." names which stood for conscience and for country, written with their hearts' blood as "loyal unto death." It fell to my honored privilege to arrange the flowers Even so at the Confederate Reunion in Atlanta we on the bier of the noble gentlewoman, Miss Mary harked back to our glorious past as "stepping-stones Lee, the last of the Lees. The floral offering which to higher things," for, as has been said, "A nation that bore the card of "The President and Mrs. Wilson" I careth not whence it came careth little whither it placed at the head of the casket, while by request the goeth." This is no vain boast in the mouth of the Jefferson Davis Chapter in Washington put their V Vol. 5 No. 11 Copyright 2019 Page 3 beautiful tribute at her feet. Never did a more where our maimed are being cured and cared for and representative assembly enter any edifice than that the scars of war effaced so far as is humanly possible. which, despite the press of world war, left everything They are the men who were carried back from the and came to Epiphany Church to the funeral services blood-stained waste of Chateau-Thierry, Soissons, of the daughter of Robert E. Lee. Chief Justice White the Marne, Argonne, and St. Mihiel. When and Secretary Baker, being of the pallbearers, Pershing's men swung down Pennsylvania Avenue, walking next to the casket. All was quiet and with the dome of the Capitol as a background and the dignified and simplicity personified, for every one Triumphal Arch awaiting them, these brave fellows present realized that it was in truth and verity "the went on cots, crutches, and canes to cheer their end to the chapter of Confederate history." comrades in arms as they passed; men that had sailed the sub-harassed seas and gone "over the top." Every Like Alsace and Lorraine, the South waited for fifty eye that witnessed their waving empty sleeves was years to come within her own ; but since Gettysburg wet with tears. The crowd felt the presence also of has healed as a red scar of honor across the nation's those who sleep in Flanders fields, as our own heart, the South that gave Washington, Jefferson, Tennessee bard has so beautifully expressed it: Madison, Marshall, and Monroe to the Union is no longer a military district dominated by carpetbaggers "O, death is long and the grave is deep and policed by Ku-Klux. In the White House rules a Where the spade-packed turf is swarded, Virginian-born, whose first wife sleeps at Rome, Ga., But one by one we could see them creep and whose present helpmate springs from From the mounds which their rifles guarded; Pocahontas, the little Indian maid who saved the For faint and low on the winds that crept colony of Jamestown, the first permanent English On by where the poppy tosses They heard, 'Fall in !' and the echo swept settlement on the continent of North America. Back to their wooden crosses." Most of the great mobilization camps for training our expeditionary army were located in Dixie Land, due And yet the veterans in gray at the Confederate to our balmy climate; nevertheless, it was a tacit Reunion, men who had fought in the battle of acknowledgment by the Union of the military ability Atlanta, wearing their crosses of honor, the thin gray of our great Confederate leaders that they were line, seemed the halo of where the past and the named after Lee, Jackson, Gordon, Wheeler, and present blend. Beauregard. And since we have forgotten our differences as a great country and think of our many unities, the fact that our "boys" wore khaki and not the blue or the gray makes us feel as a nation that we LAST CAMP MEETING are woven out of a whole piece of cloth, and this is as it should be in the strength of our world power. Our last meeting and program were outstanding and And yet "to reminisce" is one of the sweet aftermaths if you missed it I’m sorry. This month we will hold out Holiday Dinner, this was voted on by the camp When we think of the origin of names, it is also a instead of having a Thanksgiving and Christmas great compliment from the United States that its most meal.
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