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2016 NATIONAL REUNION COMMANDER’S CORNER July 13th – 17th, 2016 by Larry “Joe” Reynolds Renaissance Dallas Richardson Hotel Well summer is finally here, our 900 E. Lookout Drive weekend SCV activities are now Richardson, Texas few and far between because of the extremely hot See http://scv2016.org/ for full details. weather. This month we have also moved our th th July meeting to the 11 instead of the 4 because of the holiday. DAVIDRREYNOLDS.ORG The 2016 National Reunion is scheduled for July 13- I6 and I would like to encourage each of you This month the following changes have been made to attend. It will be held in Richardson and this to our web site: http://www.davidrreynolds.org will probably be the closest one we may ever  I’ve updated our Guardian Page to include have. The last Reunion held in Texas was 50 years ago, and it may be that long before we see the latest Confederate Hero’s graves. another one. At the Reunion You get to meet  I added a new Ancestor’s Bio for Compatriot SCV members from all over our country and even Dennis Gunn to our membership page. some from foreign countries. There will be  I’m continually working on our e-books so vendors of all kinds and you can pick up items of that we may tell the true history about the every nature that interest you. Uniforms are not War of Northern aggression. normally worn at the Reunions so don’t let that stop you. I’m still looking for biographies of your Confederate

Ancestor. Please try to come up with a short bio that we can put on-line. UPCOMING EVENTS If you have any suggestions, recommendations or comments you can send me an email to: [email protected] and I promise to Monday, July 11th, 7:00 p.m. give it my full consideration. Refreshments at 6:30 p.m. Old Union Community Center Hwy 67E, Mount Pleasant, Texas

“The flags of the Confederate States of America were 4th OF JULY PARADE July 2nd, 2016 very important and a matter of great pride to those Orr City 4th of July Parade citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a Muster at 10:00 Parade at 11:00 matter of great pride for their descendants as part of Muster on vacant lot on Peach Street, 1 Block East their heritage and history.” of Hwy 259. We need men to carry flags! Winston Churchill

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Southern effort to invade the North, and ultimately Our Charge… sealed the Confederacy’s fate.

Scott P. Hippensteel, an associate professor of earth "To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for sciences at the University of North Carolina at which we fought. To your strength will be Charlotte, analyzed the geology of Gettysburg. He given the defense of the Confederate soldier's found that a mixture of harder diabase and softer good name, the guardianship of his history, the sedimentary rocks produced features such as Cemetery emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of Hill and Little Round Top, which provided strong those principles which he loved and which you defensive positions for the Union Army. love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish." Remember, it is your duty to see that the true history of the South is presented to future generations!

Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General, United Confederate Veterans, New Orleans, April 25, 1906

INFLUENCED BY ROCKS Photographer Matthew Brady and his contemporaries were the world's first true war photographers, taking A century and a half ago, the Civil War rocked America. advantage of a relatively new technology, tools of mass But as it turns out, the war itself — in particular, the production and the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history, one pivotal battle of Gettysburg in July 1863 — was in which more than 620,000 lost their lives. This influenced by rocks. photograph of a scene in Antietam, Md. shows bodies, possibly moved in order to keep the church in the background. The photograph was taken by Alexander Gardner, who worked for a time as an assistant to Matthew Brady. American Heroes Channel: America's Civil War

But rock formations didn’t always necessarily benefit the Union side. Carbonates, limestone's and dolostones shaped the terrain of battlefields such as Antienam, the spot in Maryland where Confederate forces repulsed a Union attack in September 1862.

Civil War re-enactors are shown here at the site of the battle of Stones River, one of the many battles where geology played a role in the outcome

A just-published article in Geosphere, the journal of the Geological Society of America, details how rock formations helped to determine the outcome at Gettysburg, where Union forces stopped a desperate

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While there were images taken during the Mexican War The second kind of photo was the carte de visite. The of 1847 and the Crimean War in 1854, the Civil War saw carte de visite, or cdv, was also primarily a portrait an explosion of both techniques and photographers. In photograph, except it was made with a glass, wet-plate fact, both armies used photography to document their negative. The negative meant unlimited copies could be own soldiers as well as to collect information about created. Prints were made on albumen paper, according enemy forces. This photograph, also by Gardner, to the center. These portraits of generals, statesmen, documents a dead Confederate sniper in Gettysburg actors and other celebrities were mass produced and given out like trading cards in an effort to keep up “On many battlefields, outcropping limestone proved morale. Sergeant Cornelius V. Moore of Company B, beneficial for attacking troops,” Hippensteel writes. 100th New York Volunteers, a sergeant of 39th Illinois “Differential weathering within carbonate formations Regiment, a corporal of 106th New York Volunteers, and produced rolling terrain that limited the range and a private of the 11th Vermont Regiment pose in camp effectiveness of both artillery and small arms.” scene

Other battlefields with such features included Stones River, Chickamauga, Franklin, Nashville and Monocacy, a July 1864 battle in which Union troops thwarted a Confederate assault on Washington, D.C.

New techniques and commercialization led to the flowering of photography just before the Civil War JAMES MADISON GUNN started. The invention of the tintype, which was a metal image, and the ambrotype, printed on glass, allowed for PRIVATE mass production of small photographs usually kept by 9th LOUISIANA INFANTRY, CSA families in wooden or glass cases. Here, John E. Cummins of the 50th, 99th and 185th Ohio Infantry regiments poses in Union uniform next to a horse

One example of the latter was the infamous “Sunken Road” at Antietam, where 2,600 Confederate troops managed to hold off a Union force of 5,500 for three- and-a-half hours, thanks in part to the terrain. The Union ultimately prevailed, but took heavy casualties.

James Madison Gunn

Private James Madison Gunn was one of 9 children born to James William Gunn (b 1791) and Harriet Quick. His Grandfather and Grandmother were both

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born in Scotland. His father was born in North the area between 1854 and 1855 was used to Carolina and his mother was born in South Carolina. transport the troops. Pvt. Gunn was born in 1834 in Alabama. He died in The Landrum Guards unit was organized in 1897 and was buried in Maud, Bowie County, TX. Shreveport in Sept 1861 and was comprised He and his wife Nancy Ann Westbrooks had 12 primarily of Irish railroad laborers. These men had children, most of whom were born in Smith County, been imported to build the railroad to Marshall but MS in the community called Gunn (now White Oak), were soon left stranded when the contractor went MS. His wife Nancy died in 1885 and was buried in bankrupt. They then hired themselves out to the the Dukes Cemetery in Gunn, MS. Confederacy as foot soldiers for the going rate of $40.00 per month. There was also a Scotch Rife In the late 1850s the family moved from MS to Guard and a Polish unit that served as part of the LA Livingston Parish, LA. We believe they moved there Infantry. to provide lumber and labor to the railroad that was being built through the area in the late 1850s between Summer of 1861, 1st Battle of Bull Run. New Orleans and Jackson, MS. He enlisted into the The Grey forces won the 1st Battle of Bull Run CSA from that Parish. (Manassas). That battle awakened the North to the Pvt. James Madison Gunn is believed to have lost task ahead. It stiffened their resolution to suppress two brothers in the Civil War. the rebellion. Private James Madison Gunn and the Civil War 15 March 1862, Enlistment. 27 May 1861. All of LA and the southern portions James Madison Gunn was 26 when the Civil War of MS and AL were designated as Department 1 of began and had been married to Nancy Ann the C.S.A. MG David E. Twiggs, 71 years old, was Westbrooks for 8 years, since 1854. They had 3 assigned as Commanding Officer of this children. He enlisted into the C.S.A. on 15 March geographical region of the War Department with his 1862 at Amite Springs, LA. headquarters in New Orleans. James Madison Gunn was listed upon induction as Major training grounds for CSA troops in LA: "28 years old, 5' and 11" tall, with dark complection, light eyes, dark hair, and a farmer." By the time he The first major camping and training ground for CSA enlisted to serve the "War Years", the LA forces were troops in Department 1 was at Camp Walker. It was filling up fast with volunteers. All the physicians and established at the Metairie Race Course in New students at LSU School of Medicine had volunteered, Orleans. Because of the thousands of troops entering thus forcing the school to close during the war. the camp, along with wagons and horses, the Camp Other institutions did the same. was a breeding ground for disease as the spring and summer rains fell. Later that year most of the soldiers Camp Moore. were moved several miles north of New Orleans to It is not known for how long James Madison trained Camp Lewis, which was near Carrollton. Camp at Camp Moore prior to being sent to VA or how the Lewis was a temporary facility until a better training traveled to VA from LA. But, the CSA in VA was camp could be built 78 miles north of New Orleans fully engaged by 1862. in the piney woods of St. Helena Par. This was Camp Moore. Most of the soldiers arrived in Camp Moore, The LA forces were distributed as follows in the from Camp Lewis, by train. The New Orleans, Spring of 1862 (19,152 men): Jackson and Great Northern Railroad (now called the Illinois Central Gulf) which had been constructed in Regiment of Artillery (regulars), 740 men V

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Regiment of Infantry (regulars), 1,033 men Cpt Peck, lLT Shadburne, 2LT Reading, Jr., 2LT 1st -19th Regiments of LA Vol., 14,949 men Williams Wheat's Battalion, 415 men Dreux's Battalion, 480 men 23 May 1862, James Madison Gunn's 1st battle 14 companies transferred to the CSA service engagement, Front Royal, VA. Apparently he didn't for state service, 1,231 men actually fight as he was counted as "absent, and sick" 4 CO. of Orleans Artillery (to protect the MS on the roll call roster. 25 May. James was still River mouth), 304 men absent and sick when the Battle at Winchester, VA occurred. 9 June. James was sick through the battle Livingston Parish LA, where James Madison lived, at Port Republic, VA on this date. Why was James contributed 754 men to the cause. He was enlisted Madison Gunn sick for three or more weeks? Some by Captain Singletary of the 9th Regiment of LA insight into this can be learned from eyewitness Volunteers (Infantry). The 9th Regiment was accounts of the time: organized by Richard Taylor as Colonel, E.G. "In mid-April, 1862, 2/3 rds of the men of the CSA Randolph as Lieutenant Colonel, and N.J. Walker as forces near Manassas are without tents. Each day, Major, and was mustered into service on 6 Jul 1861. disease sends hundreds of our troops to the rear of It was immediately ordered to VA. This regiment our lines. The men are working in rain, standing in consisted of the following volunteer units, James mud without shelter, fire or sufficient food. Madison was in Co G (Coyell Guards). Exhaustion is rampant. Roads are bad, and Bossier Volunteers ambulances are in short supply. Richmond is rapidly Cpt Hodges, lLT Huges, 2LT Crawford, Jr, 2 LT becoming the hospital center of the South." Hancock June 1862, The War of Seven Days didn't help Bienville Blues Cpt Pierce, 1LT Eagan, 2LT Ardis, Jr, 2LT Theuis anyone's health either. On the 24th of June 1862, Brush Valley Guards James Madison was finally well and present in his Cpt Gray, lLT Cook, 2LT Milton, Jr, 2LT Potts first major engagement, the Battle of Cold Harbor. DeSoto Blues The Union General McClelland was accumulating Cpt Williams, lLT Bennett, 2LT Jackson, Jr., 2LT forces at Fort(ress) Monroe, VA, outside of Sutherland Washington, D.C. for quite some time. He was Colyell Guards amassing forces for a major attack on Richmond, the Cpt Gardner, lLT Dunn, 2LT Schneltory, Jr., 2LT capitol of the South. The regiments of LA and other Gardner states were rapidly being assigned to the Manassas Jackson Grays area to block General McClelland's movements. Cpt Cavanaugh, lLT McCranie, 2LT Kidd, Jr., 2LT Because of this rapid deployment, supplies were McBryde dangerously low. Combined with terrible weather, Washington Rifles Cpt Richardson, lLT Slocomb, 2LT Mager, Jr., 2LT Camp Bartow, a field hospital outside of Richmond, Wadsworth VA, was becoming a painful scene of human Moore Fencibles mortality due to disease, especially among troops Cpt Capers, lLT Blackman, 2LT Grigsby, Jr., 2LT from NC, GA, AL, & MS. Blackman Casualties during the spring and early summer of Stafford Guards Cpt Stafford, lLT Gordon, 2LT Waters, Jr., 2LT 1862. On the 16th of June BG Wise reported that Cummings, Jr "25% of my entire command of 1,700 men are ill." Milliken Bend Guards At Front Royal on the 23rd of May, James Madison's 9th regiment lost 42 enlisted men. On the 9th of V

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June, during a retreat from Winchester, the regiment faith according to our conscience and the leading of lost 36 enlisted and 4 officers. At Cold Harbor the Holy Spirit, rather than according to (Gaines Mill) 15 enlisted men were wounded and governmental mandate. four were killed. Within 7 days, the 9th regiment was Recently, we have witnessed challenges to again in fierce combat at Malvern Hill (1 July). Here traditionally accepted religious expression and will 10 enlisted men were either wounded or killed. likely experience more challenges in the near future. James Madison was present at both engagements. The good news is that regardless of what (Continued Next Month) unconstitutional measures may ever be used to restrict the free exercise of the Christian faith, our God will continue to be God and Christ will continue to reign as Savior. I sometimes have to remind myself that Jesus and his first disciples did not live under religious freedom. The early Church exploded in growth despite persecution and restrictions on religious liberty. Remember, compatriots, our rights to think, believe, worship and share our faith are from God. We have the duty to be good citizens and live peaceably. However, just as our forefathers had the courage to "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the stand on the principles of freedom and liberty, even Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." if it meant losing everything , let us have the courage 2 Corinthians 3:17 to be true to God's Word, even if it should become In just a few days, the United States of America will dangerous to do so. Even if not another move was be 240 years old. Though we are proud of the ever made against the ancient truths of Christianity, honorable service our ancestors gave to the what greater service could we give our nation than to Confederacy, we know that they valued the serve our God and Savior with our whole hearts? American ideals of liberty and freedom. In fact, for May God bless the United States of America. the most part, our ancestors believed they were Michael Mars fighting for the same principles which the Founding Chaplain Fathers declared in 1776 and through which they framed the Constitution of the United States. We, like many generations before us, cherish the rights and liberties that have been secured and preserved for SICKNESS & DISTRESS the citizens of this land. 14 July - A Get Well Card was sent to Compatriot One of our country's foundational principles is that Jimmy Reynolds our rights are given to us by the Creator, and not by any human being or act of government. Our forefathers knew this was an indisputable truth. They also knew that the right to worship and express one's religious beliefs is sacred and vital to a free GUARDIAN NEWS society. Very few societies on Earth have had By 1Lt Cdr Rex McGee complete religious freedom, and we have been very This month has been very busy for CDR Reynolds and fortunate to have been able to exercise our Christian me. We started out the month by driving to Kerrville, V

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Texas to attend the Division SCV Annual Reunion. We Southern Heroes and we can utilize the Guardian Program drove over 800 miles over a period of four days. We had as a bulwark for protecting Southern Pride. a great time and received a lot of good information. I had If you have any questions regarding the Guardian an opportunity to discuss the Guardian Program with Program or wish to participate in these efforts, please people from around the state. There are a lot of interesting contact me at 903/577-3233. I will be happy to assist you things being done in the Guardian Program. It is very in getting started. We have a couple of cemeteries that satisfying for me to see so many compatriots display an need adopting that are close to the camp. Please give interest in this program. consideration to assuming this responsibility. As many of you know the CDR & I are involved in the The ILT David Richard Reynolds camp has 9 Guardians, Masons, Eastern Star, Shriners, and in the Board of a 19 Cemeteries, and 117 Confederate Heroes graves in 3 Community Center among other things. It seems that Northeast Texas counties enrolled in our Guardian June & July are the magic months for annual meetings, program as of June 30, 2016. elections, installation of officers and the like. We both serve as Officers in each of these organizations and are requested (required) to attend all of the festivities. On top of all this we have participated in scholarship programs, BBQ’s for local entities, worked at non-profit garage sales, etc. Needless to say we are dragging. The excuse I am trying to develop with all this information is that we have had very little time to go cemeteries, put up flags, and take pictures and complete Guardian paperwork. After establishing that excuse I will tell you that we have added only one Guardian & one grave to our numbers this month. Compatriot Dennis Gunn has applied as Guardian for a relative of his who is buried in the Center Ridge Cemetery in Bowie County. He has a few other graves he is applying for and we will try to get all the work performed to get those assigned to him next month. We are very thankful for Compatriot Gunn assuming this Again, I’ll leave you with the question that Phil responsibility and being very patient with the CDR and Davis, Upshur Patriots CDR and Chairman of both myself these past few weeks while we were busy with other SCV business and activities in other organizations. the National and Texas Division Guardian Program always asks, When one thinks of retirement their thoughts usually lean toward leisure. I guess the CDR & I are very fortunate “Are you a Guardian? If not, why not?” that our leisure is also our passion. Some forgotten writer once wrote “Choose a job (I guess instead of a vocation it would be an avocation for us) you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life”. That is true. I guess our only complaint is that the day just does not have enough hours to accomplish all that we feel needs to be accomplished. We hear many stories about the people who are trying to Twenty Second destroy our Southern Heritage by taking down statues of Southern Heroes, re-naming schools, denigrating our Alabama infantry Confederate flags, & trying to re-write history. The Guardian Program is one way to show our pride in our The 22nd Alabama Infantry Regiment was first organized at Montgomery on 6 October 1861, and V

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was encamped at Mobile during that winter. Men were recruited from Calhoun, Cherokee, Choctaw,

Clarke, Mobile, Montgomery, Pike, Randolph, and Walker counties. Ordered to west , it was brigaded under Gen'l Adley Gladden of Louisiana. The regiment was engaged at Shiloh, with heavy loss (reported 123 men fit for duty after). Later, Gen'l Frank Gardner was placed over the brigade (19th, 22nd, 25th, 26-50th, and 39th AL regiments) and led it into . The Col. Richard B. Hubbard Chapter It was present at Mumfordsville, and it skirmished at Perryville. It came back with the army and fought at Military Order of Stars and Bars Murfreesboro (94 casualties). Gen'l Zachariah Deas then assumed command of the brigade. The regiment We are looking for new members. was in the line of battle which moved to assault US Of you have an ancestor who Gen'l William Rosecrans at Chickamauga, where it was an officer or lost 5 color bearers and 175 k and w out of about 400 engaged. served in the Confederate Government, They lost lightly at Missionary Ridge and wintered contact at Dalton, GA, claiming 272 men and 171 arms. The Dennis Brand regiment, under the command of Gen'l George D. Johnston of Perry County, participated in the [email protected] campaign from Dalton to Atlanta, losing gradually about membership by the constant fighting. At Atlanta, 22 and 28 July, the loss of the regiment was high, as it was at Jonesboro. BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES It moved into Tennessee with Gen'l John Bell Hood & OTHER IMPORTANT DATES and suffered severely at Franklin, lightly at July 6th – Jimmy Reynolds Nashville. The regiment was transferred beyond the Edisto and moved into North Carolina, skirmishing July 23rd – O. M. & Karen Adams with the advance of US Gen'l George Thomas' army. The loss at Kinston and Bentonville was light, Col. Harry Toulmin leading the brigade. “The Union government liberates the enemy’s slaves The regiment was consolidated with the 25th as it would the enemy’s cattle, simply to weaken Infantry in the field in early 1863; it was also them in the conflict. The principle is not that a human consolidated with the 25th, 39th, and 26-50th at being cannot justly own another, but that he cannot Smithfield, 9 April 1865, with H. T. Toulmin as own him unless he is loyal to the United States.” Colonel, N. B. Rouse (Butler) as Lt. Col., and Robert Donald (Limestone) as Major, and then surrendered London Spectator in reference to the Emancipation at Greenesboro, NC, on 26 April 1865. Proclamation

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11 July 1861 - Colonel John Pegram verses General William S. Rescans. Casualties: 600 Confederate, 46 Union! Battle of Tupelo - Tupelo 13-15 July 1864 - General Stephen D. Lee verses General Andrew J. Smith. Casualties: 1376 Confederate, 674 Union! Battle of Peach Tree Creek - Peach Tree Creek

Georgia BATTLES FOUGHT DURING THE 20 July 1864 - General John Bell Hood verses MONTH OF JULY General George H. Thomas. Casualties: 2500 Battle of Malvern Hill - Malvern Hill Confederates, 1600 Union! 1 July 1862 - General Robert E. Lee verses General First Battle of Manassas - Manassas Virginia George B. McClellan. Casualties: 5355 Confederate, 21 July 1861 - General Joseph E. Johnston, General 3214 Union! P.G.T. Beauregard verses General Irvin McDowell. Battle of Gettysburg - Gettysburg Pennsylvania Casualties: 1981 Confederate, 2645 Union! 1-3 July 1863 - General Robert E. Lee verses General Battle of Atlanta - Atlanta Georgia George G. Meade. Casualties: 28,063 Confederate, 22 July 1864 - General John Bell Hood verses 23,049 Union! General William T. Sherman. Casualties: 8500 Siege of Vicksburg Ends - Vicksburg Surrenders Confederates, 3722 Union! - Vicksburg Mississippi Second Battle of Atlanta or Ezra Church - Ezra 4 July 1863 - General John C. Pemberton surrenders Church Georgia his Confederate Army and thereby the City of 28 July 1864 - General John Bell Hood verses Vicksburg Mississippi to Union General Ulysses S. General William T. Sherman. Casualties: 4300 Grant. Casualties: 39,941 Confederates and 8873 for Confederate, 632 Union! the Union! Battle of "The Mine" - Petersburg Virginia Ends - Port Hudson Surrenders - Port Hudson Louisiana 30 July 1864 - General Robert E. Lee verses General Ulysses S. Grant. Casualties: 1200 Confederate, 26 May - 9 July 1863 - General Franklin Gardner 3798 Union! surrenders to General Nathaniel P. Bank Battle of Monocracy River - Monocracy River Maryland 9 July 1864 - General Jubal A. Early verses General “Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of Lew Wallace. Casualties: 700 Confederate, 1880 honor or the service to your country … Know that Union! death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal” Battle of Rich Mountain - Rich Mountain Western Virginia Robert E. Lee V

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Camp Leadership “Had the cotton gin of Massachusetts inventor Eli Lt. David R. Reynolds Camp Whitney not come on the scene in the late 1700’s, Mount Pleasant, Texas African slavery in this country was most likely doomed. The antislavery and emancipation feeling in Commander the South was ascendant, but thwarted by profitable Larry “Joe” Reynolds slave-trading and hungry cotton mills in New (903) 717-8608 [email protected] England which gave rise to more plantations in the

South, and the perpetuation of slavery. And after 1Lt. Commander years of treating the American South as an Alvin “Rex” McGee agricultural colony, New England set out in 1861 to (903) 577-3233 strip it of political power.” [email protected]

Bernhard Thuersam- Director Cape Fear Historical 2Lt. Commander Institute NC. Robert Eugene Jones (903) 573-5349 [email protected]

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Web Master / Newsletter Editor Opinions expressed by individual writers are their own and do Joe Reynolds not necessarily reflect official positions of the (903) 717-8608 1st Lt. David Richard Reynolds Camp #2270. Letters and articles may be submitted to: [email protected] [email protected] (Cutoff for articles is 15th of the month)