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M A Y 61 Carolina 20 TH 18 Confederate The Confederate Voice Volume XXXII, Number 2 of North Carolina March/April 2017 North Carolina Celebrates Confederate Flag Day in Raleigh RALEIGH–For the 29th consecutive year, the North Carolina Division Sons of Confederate Veterans commemorated Confederate Flag Day at the State Capitol on Saturday, March 4, 2017. Paul C. Graham, co-founder of Shotwell Publishing from Cayce, South Carolina, delivered the address. A trio of musicians comprised of Charles Eatmon, Mitchell Flinchum, and Ellis Selph supplied Confederate music for the ceremony including a rousing rendition of DIXIE to close out the day. Other participants in the ceremony included Confederate Veteran Editor Frank Powell, North Carolina Division Commander R. Kevin Stone, Col. Leonidas Polk Camp Chaplain Ed Westbury, and event organizer Dr. Boyd Cathey. Members Keynote speaker Paul C. Graham of the Colonel Leonidas Polk Camp, Garner, furnished the color guard. The Stars and Bars flew over the Capitol dome during the ceremony. Photos courtesy Frank B. Powell, III.

Division Commander Kevin Stone

Music provided by Charles Eatmon, Mitchell Flinchum, and Ellis Selph. Flag Day organizer Boyd Cathey

The Official Publication of the North Carolina Division, Sons of Confederate eteransV NC Division News Confederate Memorial Day The Carolina Confederate Official Publication of the Services around North Carolina North Carolina Division Sons of Confederate Veterans NC Division Lieutenant Commander Ron Perdue has compiled a list of Confederate Memorial Day observances from around the state. This list is The Carolina Confederate is published available on the NC Division SCV web page. See the link below for this six times each year by the North Caro- list and support your area SCV camps as we honor the service of our Con- lina Division Sons of Confederate Vet- federate Veterans. www.ncscv.org/component/content/article/315 erans. All material not identified from other sources is copyrighted by the North Carolina Division and may not The Sons of Confederate Veterans have made changes be reproduced without written permis- regarding the dues for new and reinstated members. sion. We reserve the right to not accept See the letter from Adjutant-in-Chief Douglas Nash below. any article we feel is detrimental to the principles of the SCV. The opinions ex- pressed by the authors of signed articles reflect the personal views of the writers and not necessarily the opinion of the North Carolina SCV. GENERAL HEADQUARTERS Business Advertisements are avail- Sons of Confederate Veterans able at the following rates: Full page - “Historic Elm Springs” $150, ½ page-$90, ¼ page-$60, and 1/8 page-$15. The Carolina Confederate re- March 15, 2017 serves the right to accept or reject con- tent of advertisements. All correspon- Notice from the Adjutant-in-Chief: dence should be addressed to the Editor. The General Executive Council (GEC) met in Elm Springs on Saturday, March 11, 2017 and voted, without objection, to change two (2) items which will affect doing business The next deadline is going into the 2017-2018 fiscal Year. June 1, 2017 First – As you all know a grace period of 90 days has been afforded to members to Issue Deadlines renew their dues and not be considered as becoming delinquent on August 1st each Jan/Feb Issue - February 1st year. That period will now change to only 30 days, meaning that a member who fails to Mar/Apr Issue - April 1st renew by September 1st will become delinquent. May/Jun Issue - June 1st Jul/Aug Issue - August 1st Second – Currently we prorate dues for both new and delinquent renewing members. Sep/Oct Issue - October 1st Beginning with the 2017-2018 fiscal year proration will apply to only new members. Nov/Dec Issue - December 1st Delinquent renewing members will no longer be able to prorate.

Byron E. Brady, Editor Respectfully,

P.O. Box 18901, Raleigh, NC 27619 919-622-0606 [email protected] Douglas W. Nash, Jr. Sara N. Powell Adjutant-in-Chief Production Assistant Sons of Confederate Veterans [email protected]

Distribution:

Andrew Johnson, Charlie Palmer,

Greg Parrott, and Craig Pippen P. O. BOX 59 - COLUMBIA, TENNESSEE 38402-0059 - 931-380-1844 - FAX 931-361-6712 - www.scv.org

The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 2 2017 North Carolina Division SCV Reunion Saturday, April 29, 2017 Proudly hosted by the Zebulon Baird Vance Camp 15 Asheville, North Carolina

The Maggie Valley Inn & Conference Center is a 99-room hotel with full service restaurant, piz- zeria and lounge serving full breakfast, lunch and supper daily. The meetings will be held on site in the hotel conference room. Registration is from 8:30–10:00 AM. The meeting will be called to order at 10:00 AM. A block of rooms has been set aside with a special rate of $82.00 per night plus tax & fees for Friday and Saturday nights. No minimum stay required. Ask for the Sons of Confederate Veterans rate at booking.

Maggie Valley Inn & Conference Center 70 Soco Road, Maggie Valley NC 28751 – 866-926-0201 www.maggievalleyhotel.com

Registration is $25.00 which includes lunch during the meeting. Early registration is encouraged and booking quickly is also suggested. There will be a planned drop-in supper at an off-site lo- cation on Friday night for those who are arriving the night before. Supper Friday is at your own expense. Details will be published as time nears. There is plenty to do in beautiful Maggie Valley, located 45 minutes west of Asheville. There are restaurants, scenic drives, a golf course nearby and is less than 30 minutes from Harrah’s Casino in Cherokee. Also nearby is the historic town of Waynesville NC, site of the last shot fired east of the Mississippi during the War Between the States. Registration: Make checks payable in the amount of $25.00 to Zebulon B. Vance Camp 15 and mail to: SCV Camp 15 Attn: Reunion PO Box 1423, Arden NC 28704 Questions, please contact: Commander John Davis: [email protected] Lt. Commander Larry Bradley: [email protected]

The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 3 HERITAGE DAY At the North Carolina Legislature May 10, 2017

Participating Organizations:

Children of the Confederacy Order of Confederate Rose Military Order of the Stars and Bars Sons of Confederate Veterans United Daughters of the Confederacy 26th North Carolina Regiment 6th North Carolina State Troops

Members will gather in the 1100 court (NE court) of the main legislative building at 9:00 AM where information tables will be set up for each group. Members will visit their state senators and representatives throughout the day and explain our organizations to lawmakers, staffers, and visitors. All groups will be recognized in the galleries when the Senate and House con- vene for their respective sessions.

Dress is coat and tie or uniform, no exceptions!

For complete information on General Assembly, parking, etc. see the excel- lent legislative website: www.ncleg.net

The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 4 North Carolina Division Reports can be no better effort than to show like Jefferson Davis, who we honor. Commander up at the legislature on May 10 to let As I point out in the words below, our political leaders know we care we have everything to be proud of: Men of the about North Carolina’s heritage. If I bring greetings on behalf of Division you have any questions or concerns the North Carolina Division and as As May ap- about May 10, please contact our National Commander of the Mech- proaches, I want to Legislative Affairs Officer, Sam anized Cavalry. I am honored to be remind everyone Currin, at [email protected]. here today, at the greatest remain- it is our most important month of In terms of what we will be do- ing monument to our heroes and an- the year as guardians of Confeder- ing at the legislature and what you cestors, in observance of our most ate heritage. There will be dozens should be discussing with your important holiday, Confederate Me- of ceremonies across the state and representatives, allow me to make morial Day. I encourage you to attend any and some suggestions: Today, I want to share with you all you can. A full list of each cere- 1. Protect our monuments (and the story of one of our Tarheel he- mony has been organized by our Di- all monuments) from political roes, and his feelings toward our vision Lieutenant Commander Ron trends; great and honorable President, Jef- Perdue. The list has been featured 2. Confederate history is North ferson Davis. on the tarheel listserve as it is updat- Carolina History. Inclusion and di- George Davis, of Wilmington, ed, however, you can also receive versity means including us – not North Carolina, was born on his fa- the list by contacting Ron directly at erasing us. Our ancestors built ev- ther’s plantation, Porter’s Neck, in [email protected]. erything we have today; and New Hanover County on March 1st, Our most important event in 3. We are difficult to mobilize 1820. He entered the University of May will be Heritage Day at the NC for political showmanship because North Carolina at Chapel Hill at Legislature on May 10th. A flyer we are productive members of so- age 14 and graduated valedictorian with all of the relevant information ciety; however, we are a big group, in 1838 at age 18. is posted in this issue of the Caroli- we vote, and our heritage and his- He studied law in Wilmington na Confederate so you know where tory are very important to us. The and was admitted to the Bar at age to be and when. We will meet at the results of the November election 20, receiving his license to practice northeast quad of the Legislature illustrate our “demographics” dis- law the following year. Mr. Davis (the main building) at 9:00 AM and pleasure with political correctness. married Mary Polk of Mecklenburg begin fanning out to meet and greet Sam will provide his own County in 1842 and their marriage our legislators. At 11:00 AM, there talking points in the weeks prior was blessed with four children. He will be a Memorial Service at the to the event; however, be thinking was known as a most thorough, State Capitol in front of the Confed- about what you will say when you painstaking and laborious lawyer, erate monument at the end of Hills- are face-to-face with your elected and in 1848 he became general borough Street. There, we will lay representative. It is important we counsel of the Wilmington & Wel- a wreath and conduct a short ser- come off as polished and prepared don Railroad, a position he held for vice. It is imperative that we have as possible. the remainder of his life. as many members show up for this Last, I want to share a speech A staunch Unionist until Lin- day as possible. We want to more I gave on April 1, at the Confeder- coln's decision to violently coerce than double our participation from ate Memorial Day service at Stone the Southern States, the North Caro- last year and must do so if we are Mountain, Georgia. I copy it here so lina Legislature named George Da- to remain viable protectors of our you can not only see what I am up vis as a delegate to the Washington heritage. Many of you ask me what to as your chief representative, but Peace Conference which attempted you can do or why we aren’t doing also so that you, like me, will devel- to avert the coming fratricidal war more to protect our heritage…there op a deep appreciation for the men, in 1861. The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 5 North Carolina Division Reports After three weeks and a lack of a lesson of the value of a citizenship a word, never wrote a line that the compromise between the sections, which will preserve all that is good whole neutral world did not accept Davis returned to Wilmington con- in the past, and inspire to patriotism as the very indisputable truth. vinced that the secession of the and service in the future.” Aye, truth was the guiding star South was inevitable. North Caro- His last public address was a of both of them, and that is the lina seceded from the United States memorial of his former chief, Pres- grand thing to remember; upon on May 20, 1861, and Davis found ident Jefferson Davis in December that my memory rests more proud- himself elected to a two-year term 1889, on which occasion he spoke ly than upon anything else. It is a as a North Carolina Senator to the without notes in Wilmington's fa- monument better than marble, more Provisional Confederate Congress. mous Thalian Hall Opera House. durable than brass. Teach it to your During his term, Senator Davis was Already feeble, George Davis children, that they may be proud to considered a strong supporter of spoke of his fallen president being remember Jefferson Davis. the Jefferson Davis administration a “high-souled, true-hearted Chris- I want to focus on Jefferson Da- and advocate for North Carolina, tian gentleman, and if our poor hu- vis here today because over time, though tragedy struck his home as manity has any higher form than historians and academics have his beloved wife Mary passed away. that, I know not what it is.” vilified a man who was by all con- President Davis appointed him Davis ended his last oration temporary accounts, decent, hon- Attorney General on December 31, with: orable, and absolutely dedicated to 1863, succeeding Thomas H. Watts, “My public life was long since his responsibilities as president of and he served in that Cabinet post over; my ambition went down with the Confederate States. In addition, until the end of the War Between the banner of the South, and, like it, he was at the head of a government the States and the dissolution of the never rose again. I have had abun- and nation, the likes of which have Confederate government. The de- dant time in all these quiet years, never been seen before or after in feat of the Confederacy saw his im- and it has been my favorite occu- human history. He held this confed- prisonment at Fort Hamilton, New pation to review the occurrences of eration together for four long years York, until his parole in January of that time, and recall over the history against the longest odds possible 1866. of that tremendous struggle; to re- and managed to do so honorably At the April 20, 1911, unveiling member with love and admiration and without resorting to the tactics of the statue of George Davis, lo- the great men who bore their parts of his enemy. He also had the wis- cated at the corner of Market and in its events. I have often thought dom to rely on Robert E. Lee when Third Streets in Wilmington, Judge what was it that the Southern peo- he could have chosen so many oth- H. G. Conner spoke: ple had to be most proud of in all the ers. “You shall bring your sons to proud things of their record? Not No better testament can be giv- this spot, tell them the story of his the achievement of our arms! No en than the words expressed by life, of his patriotism, of his loyalty man is more proud of them than I, George Davis about his president. to high thinking and noble living, of no man rejoices more in Manassas, As a member of the Cabinet, he his moderation in speech, his pa- Chancellorsville and in Richmond; worked closely with President Da- tience under defeat, of his devotion but all the nations have had their vis through the end of the war and to your city and state as a perpetu- victories.” saw Davis in his darkest hours. He al illustration and an enduring ex- There is something, I think, bet- knew the president to be the “high- ample of the dignity, the worth of a ter than that, and it was this, that souled, true-hearted Christian gen- high souled, pure hearted Christian through all the bitterness of that tleman” that he was. gentleman. time, and throughout all the heat In Jefferson Davis, like the oth- “As you shall look on this stat- of that fierce contest, Jefferson Da- er heroes portrayed on the moun- ue, it shall be both a memorial and vis and Robert E. Lee never spoke tain behind us, we have someone

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R. Kevin Stone Commander whoJune 2 4 we, 2016 can be infinitely proud of. first official flag of the Confederate DEC meeting in Smithfield for the

Ronald L. Perdue Lt. Commander WhileMen of the we Old North remember State: and honor all States of America in Montgomery, division to consider a new logo. It

Andrew Johnson nd I am excited to announce that we now have a Division Headquarters in the 2 Lt. Commander of our ancestors, from buck private Alabama. On March 4, 1865, the was decided all submissions be sent antebellum Oak Grove plantation owned by Mr. & Mrs. Ron Lewis of Godwin, Ronnie S. Roach NC. Oak Grove is located on the Averasboro Battlefield and is the site of a very Chief of Staff to full general, we can be certain Confederate Congress adopted the to the Lt. Commander by April 1st pro-Confederate reenactment each Spring. We have a dedicated room set aside that J. Daniel Bolick will serve as the Division HQ Office and we will place SCV literature and a Adjutant those who died and suffered did not Third National Flag as the official for a committee to review and make display there for education and recruitment of the many visitors touring the site. Michael C. Hardy do so in vain because they were led flag of the Confederate States of a recommendation at the division Historian I am proud that the Division has incurred ZERO expense in obtaining our

Rev. Dr. Herman White byHeadquarters men andlike we will Jefferson form a partnership Davis.with Oak Grove Histhat is mutuallyAmerica. The First National Flag reunion. Thank you to everyone Chaplain beneficial to all parties involved. However, this partnership will require some

Joey Dickerson leadership,effort on our part as hismembers motivations, of the Division. I am askingand you his to support is this significant to North Carolina as making submissions and the com- Sergeant-at-Arms project in at least one of many ways, including but not limited to: volunteering time at the site to help upgrade the facilities; learning the history of Oak Grove and Douglas Nash discretion were of the purest origin it was designed by Orren Randolph mittee’s recommendation will be Public Affairs the Battle of Averasboro in order to become volunteer docents; assisting with activities relating to the annual reenactment; and eventually, when the planned site Frank Powell and inspired by his faith in God and Smith from Louisburg. The Sons of presented in Maggie Valley to be Parliamentarian museum opens, placing items in it on loan for display.

Dr. John Booker his trust in the honor of men. Confederate Veterans observed this considered as our new logo. Surgeon This is a great opportunity for the Division. We now have a Headquarters to hold special recruitment events at the reenactment as well as at stand-alone SCVday- nationwide again this year. In the last edition we also stated Sean K. Lloyd sponsoredThank events, you Camp orall Brigade for meetings yourand timepicnics, pandress conferences, Judge Advocate possible visits by elected officials, and whatever other possibilities arise. This year the keynote address as many of us know, there are com- Jake R. Sullivan God bless you for being here to hon- Heritage Officer Please contact your Brigade Commander if you would like to serve on the or your worthy ancestors. was given by Mr. Paul C. Graham of patriots who go beyond the call of Samuel T. Currin Division Headquarters Committee and/or have time, talents, or items that would Legislative Affairs benefit Oak Grove Plantation. South Carolina as the Stars & Bars duty for the Sons of Confederate Krystal Stone Aide-de-Camp See you on the front lines… See you on the front lines flew over the State Capitol. He gave Veterans. As Southern gentlemen, Dr. Boyd Cathey Aide-de-Camp an inspirational message remind- none of them do what they do as Greg Parrott Webmaster ing us of the great cost and great members for personal recognition Rev. Kip Vinson Education personal sacrifice of our ancestors. because we all know it is never what Homer Robbins R. Kevin Stone Color Sergeant Commander, NC Division He reminded us that our sentinels, any of us do, but it is what our an- Kevin Stone Laura Stallard Shirley White equestrians, and flags were erect- cestors accomplished that matters. Matrons of Honor Commander

ed to watch over us and help us But many times compatriots are not remember who we are, where we recognized for their efforts because came from, and what we can and we are so accustomed to witnessing should be—both as individuals and them doing what they do year after as a people. He concluded his ad- year. These gentlemen do not expect Lieutenant dress prepared especially for us in awards but we need to recognize North Carolina with these words them. Commander by author unknown, The grey rid- The nominations for national ers are gone, but yet they remain. awards must be submitted by April Southern Gen- Asleep in our soil, and alive in our 29, 2017, to Division Commander tlemen of the veins. Untouched by fire, untouched Stone for approval prior to being Old North State, by frost, they whisper within us, Our officially submitted to headquarters. cause is not lost. Please print or type your recommen- On behalf of Our next important date will be dations on the official form avail- the North Caroli- the NC Division Reunion on April able at www.scv.org/services/docu- lina Division, Sons of Confederate 29, 2017, in Maggie Valley as we ments.php and send to Commander Veterans, we would like to thank honor the tradition of our Confeder- Stone and Chief of Staff Roach. No everyone who joined us for our 29th ate veterans who gathered after the awards will be given if not approved Annual Confederate Flag Day at the war each year for a reunion in North by the division commander. Please North Carolina State Capitol. This Carolina. We look forward to seeing do not have a deserving compatriot annual observance is a tribute to everyone and trust all camps will be not receive a well-deserved award the First National Flag, also known well represented this year. by you not submitting your recom- as the Stars & Bars, which was As mentioned in the last edition mendation in the correct manner. adopted on March 4, 1861, as the there was a motion at the Winter We are pleased to report the

The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 7 North Carolina Division Reports resource of recommended speak- the last issue that camps work with gram ancestors from my daddy’s ers for camps has been updated on your brigade commanders while side of the family were from. Some the division’s website available at scheduling your Confederate Me- of them are buried in Blandford www.ncscv.org/education/recom- morial Day services. Please consid- Cemetery which is the final resting mended-speakers. If anyone iden- er spacing out your services with place of more than 30,000 soldiers tifies any speakers who need to be other camps in your area for each who wore the “Grey” and where removed or know a speaker who camp to receive maximum sup- this very special lady and her stu- would like to be added, please let port from neighboring camps and dents would start a tradition. me know. the division. As you schedule your In 1868 the wife of Union Gen- We have an update on the North services share the details with me eral John A. Logan witnessed the Carolina Division being selected at [email protected] to students decorating the graves at to host a new “SCV Recruiting, add to our list to promote your ser- Blandford Cemetery. She would Retention & Heritage Operations vice to the rest of the division. We tell her husband. He would end up Seminar” for the Army of Northern have started this list and it is updat- recommending a Federal Memorial Virginia. The original dates sched- ed as new information is shared by Day. This day is still observed today uled experienced issues for all of camps. The list is published on the on the last Monday of May as veter- the ANV to be so this seminar has tarheel.listserver and our communi- ans who died for their country from been rescheduled for Saturday, cations officer’s network. all wars are remembered. September 16, 2017. There will be As we approach our annual ob- So in case you didn’t know, yes, more details provided at a later date. servance of Confederate Memorial Southerners started this tradition This event promises to have repre- Day, please allow me to share some which is still observed today. But sentation from all the divisions in thoughts on this tradition that is like most of the truth in our histo- the Army of Northern Virginia, so special to all of us. “Memorial Day” ry they would never teach us that in let’s have a huge turnout from North also known as “Decoration Day” school. Carolina. began when Confederate women Also back then Miss Elizabeth We cannot stress enough that on wished to honor their husbands, fa- Rutherford was serving in the Sol- May 10th, which is Confederate thers, brothers, and neighbors for diers’ Aid Society in Columbus, Memorial Day in North Carolina. their service. Georgia to support the troops during we need you at Heritage Day at the There are different opinions on the war. In 1866 Miss Rutherford North Carolina Legislature. We will how this tradition was started. told a friend about the custom of spend the day with other historical One special to me is Miss Nora caring for the graves of dead heroes organizations as we meet with our Fontaine Maury Davidson who was mentioned in a novel she was read- State Representatives and Senators in charge of a school for young ing entitled The Initials by Baroness to let them know we are here pre- women in Petersburg, Virginia. On von Tautphoeus. serving our heritage. North Caroli- June 9, 1865, she took her students She suggested that a special day na history is very important to all to Blandford Cemetery to deco- should be set aside in order to honor of us. If our membership is not well rate the graves of the Confederate Confederate soldiers by decorating represented, how do we expect to soldiers. Her goal was to teach her their graves. The other women in be taken seriously when opposing students patriotism and to instill in the Columbus Soldiers’ Aid Society threats to our heritage, history and them early in life the ideals of de- agreed and they would transform veterans? We need you there along votion to duty and never forgetting their group into the Ladies’ Memo- with family and friends as well as those who made the ultimate sacri- rial Association. Ladies’ Memorial significant representation from all fice. Association chapters were formed of our membership. Petersburg is special to me be- all over the South to make sure the There was a special request in cause it is where many of my Pe- sacrifices of our veterans were not The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 8 North Carolina Division Reports forgotten. veteran. resting place in unknown hallowed The ladies of Columbus would At each Confederate Memori- grounds all over the South. pass a resolution to set aside one al Day service I experience, I can’t Many of these men are buried day each year to memorialize Con- help but think of these women of in shallow graves where they fell in federate Veterans for their honor- the South who were responsible for battle, in lands all over the South. able service. The women wrote in making sure our veterans would be Tragically many others were buried this resolution, We can keep alive honored and not forgotten. Many of in mass graves after a battle. Also the memory of debt we owe [the these women lost so much during many others were buried in mass fallen soldiers] by dedicating at this time including their fathers, graves who died as a prisoner of least one day in each year, by em- brothers and sons who went off to war. How many are there? bellishing their humble graves with war to never return. When we visit the battlefields flowers. Therefore we beg the assis- Many others would return home we will never know how many are tance of the press, (good thing they but would never be the same after there in our midst, as Lee said, his didn’t try that today), and the ladies suffering the impacts of war, both hastily buried body filled a name- throughout the South to help us in mentally and physically. There were less grave. the effort to set apart a certain day so many disabled for life, missing As we remember our ancestors to be observed. limbs and never being able to do and veterans on Confederate Me- The ladies of the South would normal activities again. This burden morial Day, let’s also remember organize this day of remembrance had to be long lasting on these fam- these men who died with their fam- each year. They, along with their ilies long after this terrible war was ilies never knowing what happened daughters, prepared the flowers to over. to them. They have no descendants decorate the graves. They would I also think of those brave men who know who they were, where also recruit the young men and boys who died who do not have a head- they are, to remember them. We in their communities to attend to the stone with their name, rank and unit must never forget them. graves and the cemeteries in prepa- marking their final resting place. The greatest tribute we can give ration for this annual tribute. Major General Fitzhugh Lee in his to our ancestors as Sons and Daugh- On Memorial Day, hundreds, address In Memory of the Confeder- ters is to make sure we are the guard- and even thousands, of citizens ate Soldier said: “If drowned amid ians of their legacy. We must teach would gather at some central loca- the hail of shot and shell, his hastily the truth of our history to preserve tion in town like a church and march buried body filled a nameless grave, this “gift” to us, our beloved heri- in procession to the cemetery where without military honors and without tage, for future generations. In Feb- the women and children decorated religious ceremonies. No page of ruary of 1863, General Robert E. the graves with flowers and ever- history recounted in lofty language Lee said these words which should greens. The ladies would schedule his courage on the field or his de- give us the inspiration and strength representatives from memorial as- votion to his country, or described today to accept our duty as their sociations to deliver prayers and how, like a soldier, he fell in the proud descendants – He who gave speeches. In those days whole com- forefront of battle.” freedom to our fathers will bless the munities participated in these events There is a special feeling for all efforts of their children to preserve honoring the soldiers who died for of us when we pass the stones with it…. their country. the inscription “Unknown” when In closing this should give all of Today, regretfully, it is no lon- we are visiting our cemeteries. We us the inspiration to attend as many ger whole communities observing must always remember the ‘Un- Confederate Memorial Day services this tradition, but it is us. We keep known Confederate Soldier’ and as possible and to be present and ac- this tradition to remember the sacri- never forget those who do not have counted for on May 10th in Raleigh fice and service of the Confederate these stones marking their final at our 2nd Annual Heritage Day. The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 9 North Carolina Division Reports

As always, I especially thank on-site cafeteria in the basement as willing to come down there on a you again for all you do in vindicat- when we did that last year, it was weekday to show we care about our ing the cause for which he fought, quite the visual spectacle and we mission. We must look good and defending the Confederate soldier’s created a buzz. Before that, how- present ourselves in a manner which good name, commitment to the ever, we are having our Division honors our ancestors, not one which guardianship of his history, emulat- Confederate Memorial Day service embarrasses them. I look forward to ing his virtues, perpetuating those at 11:00 AM at the Confederate seeing you there. principles he loved and living those soldier statue on the grounds of the ideals that made him glorious which state Capitol. We will lay a wreath Jake Sullivan you also cherish. and have a quick service with color Division Heritage Officer guard. It will help remind us why To the Guardianship of his we do what we do. The meetings Memory, with your representatives usually go into the afternoon and last year Save These things wound down around 3:00 PM. A more formal schedule will be Dates Ronald Lee Perdue provided leading up to the event. Division Lieutenant Commander If you have any questions about where to go or what to do, I urge you Saturday again to pay particular attention to the related flyer printed in this issue. April 29, 2017 We will also have an organizational 10:00 AM Heritage meeting on the evening before – the time and location will be announced NC Division Officer as soon as possible. Meanwhile, if Sons of Confederate Division Mem- you still have unanswered ques- Veterans bers, tions, please contact our Division Legislative Officer, Sam Currin at Annual Reunion My column in [email protected]. Maggie Valley this issue is particu- As for talking points, do not larly short; however, overcomplicate things. Just remem- ber what motivated you to join the its point is paramount to our efforts. SCV in the first place. Our main pri- Wednesday Our 2nd annual Heritage Day at the ority is protecting the legacy of our NC Legislature is on May 10th. As May 10, 2017 Confederate ancestors. This means you will see from the flyer printed supporting any and all efforts to pro- North Carolina in this same issue, we will be meet- tect and preserve their monuments, ing in the northeast quad of the Heritage Day memorials, and final resting places. main building at 9:00 AM. Coat and If you can’t think of anything else, at the tie is required. Generally, members bring that up. We are not there to will then find their legislator’s of- North Carolina argue with people and to cause con- fices and try to spend at least a few troversy. We are there to show our General Assembly minutes reminding them of our pur- representatives and the public that pose. We will all try to have lunch Raleigh we are professional, organized, and (or “dinner” as it is known) in the The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 10 North Carolina Division Reports

not representing your camp, inter- Retweet, retweet, retweet. There Twitter ests and experiences. Here is mine: is nothing I love more than when “NC Division SCV @NCDivision- someone retweets one of my histo- Officer SCV. We kept it simple and to the ry posts. Stay relevant and timely, point. For your camp’s website, if don’t tweet a ton one day and stay Hello, my name is Chadwick J you don’t have one, just leave it off for a couple of months; you will Rogers. I am the Second Lieutenant blank right now but you can create lose followers. Tweet links, i.e. If Commander of the Major Charles a blog to voice your opinions in a you see an article you like about the Q. Petty Camp 872 and the new longer form and use that as your Confederate flag, history or any- Twitter officer (Aide-de-Camp) for website. thing else important to you and your the NC SCV. I think most will agree Make your twitter page public. I camp on a website, copy and share Social Media is going to be key to hear all the time about a camp hav- the link with your followers and the growth of the SCV. Twitter and ing a Facebook page or group pri- link it in your tweet account. Facebook are two of the most valu- vate which I do not understand. So Check your grammar! I make able tools on the Internet today for please don’t make your twitter page this mistake often and need to work marketing, but Twitter is special be- private…the goal is to find new on it. Make sure you spell things cause of the age of most users. The members for your camp. This is correctly and write in simple, clear key to networking is using resourc- the biggest Twitter mistake anyone English. However, you do not have es around you, and Twitter is one can make. If you make your profile to rush like me, take your time and we can take advantage of at no cost. private, people will not follow you. do it right and it will pay off for A tweet can now have long reaching The key to Twitter or Facebook suc- your camp. They obviously care impacts on large groups of people. cess is having followers. If you have what you tweet about; you should I have come to realize most peo- a public profile on Twitter or Face- be respectful and follow back. ple don’t fully understand the power book you can ban any bad apples Twitter is more than just a place of Twitter. I must admit, I did not who pop up from both platforms, so to explain where you are going or understand it until two years ago. why hide? what you are doing. It is a way to How should you use Twitter? Here Your first tweet is always the connect with so many people just are some guidelines I have come up hardest. Pick a Confederate Gen- by writing in 140 characters or less. with on how to use Twitter appro- eral’s Birthday or something else Where else are we going to get our priately. Often it is used unprofes- from the war. Make sure to tweet camps names out to the public for sionally, which could end up hurt- something with content, something cheaper? Share your Twitter han- ing you more than helping. Using it that matters. I have found a picture dle (your @camp username) when to do good is always supported by with information works good on you go to meet people and share it the people on Twitter. Facebook or Twitter. Tweet about with me so I can follow you back. First off, create a Twitter handle a subject you are passionate about: I recommend adding a new title to for you camp — it is simple. Just history, States’ rights, the Consti- you camp like aide-de-camp for the go to twitter.com and follow the tution, social media, or education. person you pick to run your camp’s instructions (a “handle” is the “@” Never use anything you can’t verify Twitter or Facebook account. Thank in front of your Twitter username, factually, however. Use hashtags. you for your time – I look forward ex. @NCDivisionSCV). Once you These # symbols are created to to working with you and for the Di- have created your profile, it is vital trend a topic. Use a hashtag to join a vision. you add a photo of camp or the SCV discussion. The hashtag creates uni- Logo. Create a short biography for formity about a topic. I use #SCV Chadwick J Rogers your camp. Be professional in this. #NCSCV #HQSCV all the time Twitter Officer Make it in first person; a PR firm is and I hope more camps will also.

The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 11 North Carolina Division Reports ing wolves in sheep’s clothing. can a person be transformed. Old Chaplain But let us consider some Bible things pass away, (the life of sin), “The War Con- evidence to back the claim that Je- behold all things become new, (that tinues Against the sus of Nazareth was indeed the First life born from above). Resurrection of Je- Fruit of the resurrection on the first If you are a sinner, then come sus” day of the week. to God through Jesus Christ in true Matthew 28:6 A. The empty tomb. (This was repentance and faith, and you will only possible by one of two ways; receive forgiveness of sins and a The celebration of the awful some one removed the body or Jesus new life in Him. Rev. 1:18 says, price Jesus paid for our redemp- was indeed raised from the dead). “I am He that liveth, and was dead; tion, his burial, and the great victory 1. Did some one remove the and behold, I am alive for evermore, on resurrection morning may have body? The disciples did not, could Amen; and have the keys of hell and passed before our Carolina Confed- not, for the tomb had been sealed of death.” erate comes out. But from the time and Roman soldiers guarded against that Jesus’ body was placed in the that happening, (Matt. 27:62 to 66). W. Herman White, tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, the 2. If Jesus’ body had still been D. Min, D.D. Division Chaplain devil’s crowd have been working there on the first day of the week to discredit this great truth. Why? the enemies of our Lord would have Because the very foundation of the gladly produced it to prove there Quartermaster Gospel of Jesus Christ was, and is, was no resurrection. As the new NC Division Quar- the truth of the bodily resurrection 3. The disciples would have termaster, I will have a division ta- of Jesus of Nazareth. This literal been complete fools to be willing ble of merchandise at the upcoming jihad against this truth began short- to die for something they knew was April reunion. I am working with ly after Jesus’ burial (Matt. 27:62 indeed a lie if Jesus was not raised our Division Commander and State to 66), and has continued down from the dead as he had foretold. Fair Coordinator in keeping an in- through history. However, that war B. The body of Jesus was resur- ventory of merchandise for the divi- did not begin to heat up until the rected as He had promised them. sion. Please be patient as we gather 1800s and grew to a fevered pitch. 1. Jesus’ appearances. I do not merchandise for you and the public This war is closely related to the have the space to list all of the ap- to purchase. Stop by the division jihad against everything Southern. pearances between his resurrection table and speak with me about any For the truth of the Gospel of Je- and ascension forty days later. Suf- ideas. Attached is a picture of new sus Christ is the very foundation of fice it to say that there were ten or stickers (I support Confederate Her- the Confederate Culture (heritage). eleven recorded in God’s word, and itage) for sale ($20 per roll) at the Therefore the same evil spirit is be- in one of these appearances we are reunion. Thank you for your patron- hind the efforts to totally eradicate told Jesus appeared to more than age. everything Southern. 500 brethren (I Cor. 15:6a). These attacks in every type of 2. Experimental proof of Jesus’ Darwin Roseman media are examples of the continu- resurrection. This evidence that Division Quartermaster ing efforts to discredit the Bible Jesus came out of the tomb with a truth of the resurrection. Especially new body over which death had no in our day these efforts come dis- power is the people changed by the guised as a search for the truth. Most power of the gospel. Not reformed of these attacks are from so-called individuals, but transformed ones. scholars, theologians, preachers, People may reform themselves, but and other important sounding titles only through the resurrected One which they use. But they are raven- The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 12 Confederate Memorial Services in NC May 6, 2017 HERITAGE DAY May 13, 2017 May 10, 2017 7:00 AM – McDowell County 1:00 PM - Steele Creek Pres- byterian Church, Charlotte Courthouse -Marion 9:00 AM – Confederate mon- ument on Falls Road, Rocky 1:00 PM - Haynes Jarvis Cem- 9:00 AM – Confederate monu- Mount ment in downtown Graham etery, near 5930 Gate Court, Clemmons 9:00 AM - 2nd Annual Her- 10:00 AM – Euphronia Pres- itage Day, NC Legislative 2:30 PM – Lexington Ceme- byterian Church, 169 Euphro- Building, Raleigh nia Church Road, Sanford tery, 400 N. State Street, Lex- ington 6:30 PM – Cross Creek Ceme- 10:00 AM – Old City Ceme- tery, Fayetteville tery, Raleigh May 20, 2017 6:30 PM – Green Hill Ceme- 11:00 AM – Whiteville Memo- tery, Greensboro 10:00 AM – Silent Sam rial Cemetery, Whiteville Confederate Monument, 7:00 PM – Confederate Me- UNC-Chapel Hill campus, 2:00 PM – Old Dallas Court- morial Monument, Lincolnton Franklin Street, Chapel Hill house Dallas, North Carolina 2:00 PM – Mingo Militia 2:00 PM – Oakwood Ceme- May 13, 2016 Monument, corner of Taylor's tery, Raleigh Chapel Road, Dunn 9:00 AM – Old County Court- house, Dobson 2:00 PM – Montford Cove 3:00 PM – Oakwood Ceme- Baptist Church Cemetery, tery, High Point. 9:00 AM – Maplewood Ceme- 4920 Cove Road, Union Mills tery, Durham

May 7, 2017 10:00 AM – Old Courthouse, May 21, 2017 Statesville 7:30 AM – Confederate Mon- ument, Old Fort Bragg Road. 10:00 AM – Court Square, 2:00 PM – Willowdale Ceme- Fayetteville Shelby tery, Goldsboro,

May 10, 2017 11:00 AM – St. Peter's Luther- May 28, 2017 an Church, Rowan County 9:00 AM – Confederate mon- 4:30 PM – Rockingham Coun- ument on Falls Road, Rocky ty Veterans Park, Wentworth Mount The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 13 A new flower has emerged on the landscape of New flower bloom the South. The Major General Pender has been regis- tered in Wilmington, North Carolina by SCV member named for General Edward W. Fredrickson. The new flower bloom was William Dorsey Pender registered in 2017 (ACS Registration Number 3032). The species is japonica and is a semi-double bloom type. The bloom color is pinkish purple with yel- low anthers and white filaments. The bloom size is 3.5 inches by 2 inches and its bloom season is mid season. The new plant’s growth habit is upright and open. The General bloom type is a profuse bloomer, falls in one piece and is long lasting with heavy pet- al texture and consistent form. The plant and leaves are dark leaves green have medium serration average. The plant is suitable for landscaping and exhibition uses. The new bloom was named for Confederate Gen- eral William Dorsey Pender (1834-1863), one of the youngest generals of the Confederacy who was mor- Major General Pender tally wounded on the second day of Gettysburg.

SCV National Award Nominations Deadline Set for April 29, 2017 The deadline for nominating a member of your camp for a National SCV Award is April 29, 2017. Award nomination forms are available on the national web page. Send your nomina- tions to ANV Department Commander Ronnie Roach at: [email protected], by the deadline.

Carolina Confederate This Issue’s Favorite Quote Advertising Rates Full page - $150.00 “You have no reason to be ashamed of your Half page - $90.00 Confederate dead; see to it they have Quarter page - $60.00 no reason to be ashamed of you.” One-eighth page - $15.00 – Robert Lewis Dadney, Make check payable to Chaplain for Stonewall Jackson NC Division SCV and mail to: Do you have a favorite quote? Byron Brady, PO Box 18901, Send it to us in care of the Editor. Raleigh, NC 27609 Include your name and camp. by that issue’s deadline.

The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 14 Still the Designated Opponent The Greensboro Historical Museum, Greensboro, NC The Greensboro Historical Museum located at 130 Summit Avenue, Greensboro, has made the decision to close the Dr. John Murphy Civil War Collection in March of 2017. This is the largest collection of Con- federate manufactured rifles and carbines on display in the United States along with a collection of original Don Troiani paintings. We are requesting all people who care about this period of history to please take the time to write a polite, but firm letter to the Greensboro Historical Museum Board of Trustees President and Museum Director and request they please reconsider this action. It is our opinion they do not think many people will care if this exhibit is closed. If their e-mail accounts are flooded with responses, they may change their mind. You can also send letters to the editor of the Greensboro News & Record newspaper. What Can You Do? Please begin e-mailing the following two people and the Greensboro newspaper requesting the decision to close the Dr. John Murphy Civil War Collection be reversed.

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The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017- Page 16 From The Mountains To The Sea News From the Camps In North Carolina

Robert Henry Ricks Camp 75 Rocky Mount 47th Regiment NC Troops Camp 166 The Robert Henry Ricks Camp 75 cleaned eight cem- Wake Forest eteries over the last couple months. They were assisted in this clean up by members of the Gen. William Dors- ey Pender Camp 1916. The cemeteries included the Miles Bobbitt Cemetery, the George Ricks Cemetery, the Viverette-Williams Cemetery, the Womble Burial Grounds, the David B. Ricks Cemetery, the Marma- duke Ricks Cemetery, the Lawrence Ricks Cemetery, and the Battle Farm Cemetery.

Shown from left is Confederate Veteran Editor Frank Powell, new Hawaii Camp Commander Steve Brock, and 47th Regiment NC Troops Camp Commander Byron Brady displaying the battle flag on Oahu’s North Shore in February 2017. The 47th Regiment Camp is assisting in establishing a new SCV Camp Before clean up After clean up for the Hawaiian Islands. The before and after pictures of David Ricks Cem- etery are shown above. David was the father of the Fayetteville Arsenal Camp 168 camp’s namesake. Fayetteville

Kelly Hinson provided a presentation at the November The deadline for submitting news 8, 2016, meeting of the Fayetteville Arsenal Camp on and photos for the next Anna Jackson, wife of Stonewall Jackson, and reading The Carolina Confederate the letters that General Jackson sent to her during the War of Northern Aggression. is June 1, 2017.

The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 17 na on the behalf of Thos V. Strain, Jr., SCV Command- er-in-Chief. Ms. Valeria Hall Frazier, granddaughter of Confederate Veteran Weary Clyburn of the 12th South Carolina Volunteers, was recognized with the prestigious Commander-in-Chief Ladies Appreciation Award. Ms. Frazier had earned the camp’s admiration for her years of support to her dear mother Real Daugh- ter Mattie Clyburn Rice. She is a proud member of the UDC and Life Member of the Order of Confederate Rose Chapter in High Point.

Columbus County Volunteers Camp 794

Kelly Hinson portraying Anna Jackson at the No- vember 8, 2017, meeting of the Fayetteville Arsenal Camp 168.

Lieutenant William Corbitt Camp 525 Rutherfordton

Ms. Valeria Hall Frazier and Camp Commander Ron Perdue at the camp’s February meeting.

Columbus County Volunteers Camp 794 Whiteville

Members of the Lt. William Corbitt Camp 525 origi- nally chartered in the 1920s and reactivated in 2015. Pictured (front row) are Historian William Stallings, Jr., Commander Alan White, Lt. Commander Rev. Creighton Lovelace, Compatriot Lynn Miller, and Color Sgt. Rev. Brian Rome. Pictured (back row) Compatriot James Warren, III, Adjutant Gaither Harwood, and Chaplain Rev. Van Austin Hoyle, Sr.

Lieutenant F. C. Frazier Camp 668 High Point Commander Mike Hollingsworth (shown at right) of the Columbus County Volunteers Camp 794 wel- On February 21, 2017, Division Lt. Commander Ron comes new member Compatriot Roy Gore. Perdue recognized a very special lady in North Caroli- The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 18 Colonel Leonidas Lafayette Polk Camp 1486 Colonel John B. Palmer Camp 1946 Garner Burnsville

The Colonel John B. Palmer Camp 1946 met January 17, 2017, to hear NC Division Historian Michael Har- dy’s program on Mrs. Fannie Palmer, the wife of the camp namesake. At the camp’s February 21st meeting, Michael Hardy addressed the camp on The Battle of Fish Camp on Watagua Lake.

Rocky Face Rangers Camp 1948 Taylorsville Members of the Colonel Leonidas Lafayette Polk Camp 1486 conducted a War Between the States Living History Day at Cary Christian School March 2, 2017. Camp members participating were, Keith Hargreaves, Woody Ragan and Darwin Roseman.

Colonel John B. Palmer Camp 1946 Burnsville Members of the Rocky Face Rangers Camp 1948, participated in the Taylorsville, North Carolina Christmas parade held December 3, 2017. Special Ceremony set for Charlotte May 13

CHARLOTTE–This Stonewall Jackson Camp 23, Charlotte, and the Charles Q. Petty Camp 872, Gastonia, along with several other area camps will be honoring Captain John Randolph Erwin at their joint Confeder- ate Memorial Day service. The service will be held on May 13, 2017 at 1:00 PM at the Steele Creek Presbyte- rian Church, 7407 Steele Creek Road in Charlotte. The keynote speaker will be R. Kevin Stone, Commander of the North Carolina SCV. The following is information on Captain Erwin. Captain John Randolph Erwin The subject of this sketch was born on the 1st day of August, 1838, in Bethesda township, York County, S. C. He was a son of William L. and Annie Members of the John Palmer Camp 1946 cleaned Williamson Erwin, who belonged to the old Scotch- their Adopt-A-Highway section on February 26, Irish families who emigrated to this country before 2017. the Revolution. Capt. Erwin was raised on a farm, The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 19 and was educated in In April of that year he was elected captain of a the old field schools, cavalry company, organized in Charlotte by Maj. M. except two sessions N. Hart. After equipping and drilling his company at spent at an academy the old fair grounds at Charlotte, Captain Erwin was in Ebenezer, S. C. In ordered to join Evan’s Battalion at Kinston, NC. In 1851, William Erwin the winter of 1862 the Battalion was ordered to Garys- moved to Mecklen- burg, where the Fifth Cavalry Regiment was formed; burg County, North this regiment was sent to Virginia in 1863, and took Carolina, locating at part in the memorable campaign of Gettysburg. When Ranalesburg, Steele the regiment went to Virginia Capt. Erwin was left at Creek Township, Garysburg with typhoid fever, and did not rejoin his and from that time men until they returned to Culpepper Court House, Mecklenburg was where the famous North Carolina Brigade, composed Capt. Erwin’s home. of the First, Second, Third and Fifth Cavalry, was or- In the fall of 1856 he ganized. This brigade was commanded by the gallant entered the general Gordon until his death in front of the breast works merchandise store of near Richmond in 1864, when Gen. Rufus Barringer Captain John Randolph Erwin Fisher, Burroughs & took charge of the brigade. In this command Capt. Erwin served till the close of the war, taking part in Co., of Charlotte, and remained with that firm until all the battles in which his regiment was engaged. the winter of 1859. Then he decided to improve his At the bloody battle of Chamberlain Run his colo- fortunes by going West, so he went to Texas with a nel, McNeil, and Lieutenant Colonel Shaw were both party trading on the Rio Grande. He remained there killed, and Maj. Galloway being sick, the command until South Carolina passed the ordinance of seces- of the regiment devolved on him to the close of the sion, when he sacrificed his business and returned to war. He did not surrender his regiment, but marched his home. He volunteered as a private in the Ranales- it back to North Carolina, and in Charlotte he re- burg Rifles, but his popularity soon won for him the ceived from John C. Breckenridge, Secretary of War, position of first lieutenant of his company. Soon after an order to disband his company. After the war Capt. organization this company was ordered to the camp Erwin again entered the mercantile field as a clerk of instruction at Raleigh, and was at the Capitol when for Taylor & Duncan, which position he held for two North Carolina seceded on May 20, 1861. The com- years. On the 5th of June, 1867, he married Miss Jen- pany was then ordered to Garysburg, NC, where he nie, a daughter of Maj. Z. A. Grier, of Steele Creek. was made adjutant of the post by Col. W. D. Pender. In January, 1868, Capt. Erwin moved to Steele Creek Here it was that the Third, afterwards the Thirteenth and began the life of a farmer. In January, 1873, he Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers, was orga- returned to Charlotte and accepted a position with W. nized, and Capt. Erwin was selected as major of the H. Houston, a wholesale grocery merchant. In May, Regiment. Owing to the absence of his captain, who 1873, Capt. Erwin was elected city marshal, or chief had been wounded, and to the earnest entreaties of of police, which office he held until April, 1875, his men, he declined this honor and remained with when he was appointed by D. Schenck, judge of this the company. The company was sent from Garysburg district, clerk of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg to Suffolk, VA, and from there to Todd’s Point on the county, in which capacity he served for twelve years. James River, where they spent the summer. In the fall the company was sent on detached duty to Ragged Limit of photos for Island, opposite Newport News, and was in camp there and witnessed the naval engagement of 1861 in The Carolina Confederate which the warships Cumberland and Congress were Unless your event is considered a Brigade-wide or destroyed. In the spring of 1862 the Regiment was Division-wide event, you will be limited to no more ordered to the peninsula near Yorktown, VA, to hold than three (3) photos per issue due to space limits. in check the advance of Gen. McClellan. The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 20 Upon his retirement the following tribute was paid him by Col. H. C. Jones, at the close of Capt. Erwin’s Elmira Prison Camp last court : “I desire to call your honor’s attention to ELMIRA, NY the fact that the term of office of our much esteemed –On June 24 - 25, 2017, there will be a clerk, Capt. Erwin, is about to close. It has been many dedication of a restored original Elmira Prison Camp years since he entered upon the duties of his office, building and a reproduction of a prison camp barracks. and in all that time he has discharged them so effi- This dedication includes a newly created memorial gar- ciently, with so much fidelity to the important trust den. Many thanks go to the master gardeners of Cornell committed to him, with such patience and industry, University for their work in designing and beginning with such kindness and courtesy to the members of the construction of the memorial garden. When pos- the bar, that I know I speak their sentiments when I sible, the state flowers of each Confederate state will say we part from him with feelings of affectionate re- be planted in this memorial garden. On June 25th there gret. He came to the position entirely without experi- will be a multi-denominational (Protestant, Catholic, ence and without any acquaintance with the business Hebrew) memorial service held in the Confederate sec- that his office devolved upon him, but he devoted tions of the Woodlawn National Cemetery to honor and himself to the task with such patient industry that he remember those who died at Elmira and killed in the soon became, what I now pronounce him, one of the great Shohola Prison train wreck. Make your plans to best—if not the very best—clerks within the limits attend. For more information may be found at www. of this State. “In May, 1878, Capt. Erwin’s wife died, elmiracivilwar.com. Keep checking on their website for and on the 11th of December, 1879, he was married more information about schedule of events. to Miss Sallie, daughter of Col. William M. Grier, of Steele Creek, and a sister of Calvin E. Grier, a prom- Tom Fagart inent lawyer of Charlotte, who died in 1889. After Cabarrus Guards Camp, Concord, NC leaving the clerk’s office, he retired to his farm in Steele Creek, where he had made large investments in a milling plant. In 1888 he was elected chairman of FLAGS ACROSS THE CAROLINAS

The SCV Mechanized Cavalry of North Carolina is proud to announce that the the Finance Committee of the county, which position “FLAGS ACROSS THE CAROLINAS” fund has been officially established to he held until 1892, when he was elected a member of raise money to support the project of the placement of mega size Confederate flags in many high profile locations on private land across the Carolinas. the State Legislature. Although his first experience as This exciting project was adopted by the NCSCVMC in a partnership with the a lawmaker, he at once took a prominent position and North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans to post the was the chairman or a member of several commit- Confederate Battle Flag like the mega flags flying currently in other States all over the South like the twelve new flags flying in the State of Virginia. tees. In August, 1893, he accepted a position as pri- vate secretary to Congressman S. B. Alexander, and There is a minimum donation of $10$5.50 required to receive one of these new spent two years in the City of Washington. In 1895 North Carolina Division pins but all he moved back to Charlotte and in the same year money donated above the minimum amount will be collected and donated was made chairman of the Board of County Com- by NB Forrest Camp 803 to this project to fly our Flags Across The Carolinas! missioners. During his administration and through his influence, the first iron bridges were erected for These pins can also be individually ordered as gifts or extras. Consider our the County of Mecklenburg. He was also chairman mission by adding extra money for postage with your order. Please submit DONATION FORM of the committee which had in charge the building of completed form & check payable to Name: the Mecklenburg County Courthouse. On the 19th of NB Forrest Camp 803 and mail to: ______

March, 1901, while seated in the courthouse in Char- AdjutantAdjutant Chris Nance Nance Address: 210 High512 MartinRidge Drive, Street Apt. H ______lotte, he died very suddenly, and was laid to rest in Carthage,Sanford, NCNC 27330 28327 City, State and Zip Code: the old cemetery at Steele Creek. During the war he

Additional Info or Would Like to ______had made an enviable record as a soldier, and to all Donate Land for a Flag – Contact: Qty: Donation: who knew him his name was a synonym for honor Commander Kevin Stone ______and uprightness.—Contributed by Miss F. Grier. [email protected] 919–721–1231 Thank You for Your Support!!!

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A re-creation of the final chapter of the War Between the States. The CSS Shenandoah had sailed back to Liverpool arriving November 5, 1865 to lower the Confederate colors and surrender the vessel to HMS Donegal and British Authorities on November 6, 1865. This warship was one of many successful and feared commerce raiders against Union shipping.

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The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 22 Powell Benton Reynolds Company D, 5th Kentucky Infantry and Company K, 50th Virginia Infantry By Dale Whitfield, Historian, 47th Regiment NC Troops Camp 166, Wake Forest career in education. He was a stu- July yesterday morning, it having dent at Richmond College from been about a week on the road. I 1865-1870, president of Shelton also received one from you while College in St. Albans, West Vir- we were at Hagerstown in Mary- ginia from 1872-1884, and pas- land, dated the 18th of June. So tor of Union Baptist Church in first and last, I suppose I have got- Waynesboro West Virginia. He ten all the letters you have written. served as president of Buckner It seems that you have all the writ- College in Arkansas from 1884- ing to do, for I get no letters from 1885. In 1885 he went to West any of the rest, nor can I hear of Virginia University as professor their writing any. I suppose I shall of English Literature, was chair of have to excuse them up to this the meta-physics department from time, as they have all been sick, Powell Benton Reynolds 1889-1893, was acting president but I give them fair warning that 1841-1914 from 1893 to 1895 (refused to be if they do not get to writing pretty president), professor of philoso- shortly now, I shall get after them. Powell Benton Reynolds phy 1895-1897, professor of meta- What there can be to prevent Pap, served in the Confederacy during physics and political science from Elam, Hortense or Columbia from the War Between the States. He 1897-1901, and chaplain/profes- writing me a letter almost every enlisted in Company D, 5th Ken- sor of economics and sociology week, I cannot imagine. Proba- tucky Infantry and later company beginning in 1901. He wrote many bly they consider that I have been K, 50th VA Infantry. The 50th letters home giving accounts of somewhat slow about writing my- was organized under Captain Jef- battles which were made into a self and therefore have no right ferson Thompson Lawson at Pat- book (about 1970) in the West Vir- to complain. It is true I have not rick Courthouse on June 22, 1861. ginia University library. written since I wrote the one of the They served along with the 51st Powell Benton Reynolds was a 10th of June of which you spoke, Virginia Infantry. In 1863, the prolific writer who wrote hundreds but you must consider the circum- 50th fought at Chancellorsville of letters home telling of his war stances under which I have been and Gettysburg. The 50th fought experiences. The letter below to placed. in the Wilderness, Spotsylvania his Mother Roxanna Shelor detail- I suppose that the first thing Courthouse, Lynchburg, Maryland ing his struggles immediately af- you wish to hear about is the state Campaign, Richmond, and Peters- ter Gettysburg, is reflective of the of my health. I have had about as burg; but only a handful reached condition of our brave Southern hard a time of it as I ever had in Appomattox. Powell was cap- men during the war. my life, but have managed to keep tured in 1864, imprisoned at Point up so far. I stood it tolerably for Lookout Maryland, and paroled Camp near Orange Court the first two or three weeks after April 9, 1865. He served with two House, Virginia on August 7th starting upon the march. But from of his brothers, and his father was 1863 (after battle of Gettysburg). the time we crossed the Potomac a captain. going to Maryland I could feel a After the war ended, Powell Dear Mother, perceptible difference every day Benton started his distinguished I received yours of the 26th of until it seemed almost impossible

The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 23 for me to get along at all. I kept You have heard before this time sition and fortified it strongly to along until the day before the fight of the part we took in the Battle keep the enemy in check until at Gettysburg, when I was so bro- of Winchester. We moved directly the Potomac got fordable. We re- ken down that I had to get a seat forward by way of Charlestown, crossed the river ten miles above in an ambulance for the first time to the Potomac, which we crossed Shepherdstown; at Williamspost since I have been in the army. Be- at Shepherdstown, some ten miles Md. on the morning of the 12th of fore going into the first I left my above Harper's Ferry. We stayed July. We had it to wade, it taking us knapsack and all my clothes in the several days near Harpsburg in up to the armpits. We came back to ambulance, for I was to weak that Maryland lying in line of bat- Winchester by the way of Martins- I could not carry them. I have not tle three or four days and nights. burg. We came on to Front Royal seen them since; consequently all We could plainly see the "Stars aiming, as I suppose, to recross the clothes I have in the world are & Stripes" floating over the ene- the Blue Ridge at Manassas Gap, on my back. I kept up with the reg- my's works in Maryland Heights the way we went into the valley, iment while it was supporting our some ten miles distance. We went but we found the Yankees there. So batteries, but When it started upon across Maryland by way of Hager- we went some 25 miles further up the charge I found that I could not stown, and entered Pennsylvania the Shenandoah and crossed near keep up with it. I caught up with the at Middleburg, We took the road Luray. We then came by way of company shortly after the charge for Harrisburg, passing through Madison to this place. was over, a little after dark, and Greencastle, Chambersburg, We have been here four or five was with it through all the fight- Shippensburg and numerous other days, expecting to move every ing the next day. I was not with smaller towns. We proceeded as minute. We may stay here several Dozier when he was wounded nor far as Carlish, supposing all the days yet and we may leave in half did not see him afterwards. When while that we were going to attack an hour. I have no idea where we we started to fall back from that Harrisburg, where we learned will go. That is wholly dependent place, I was compelled to throw that the militia were assembling. upon the movements of the enemy. away my gun in order to keep up. But we about faced at Carlisie, We are faring some better here Since that time I have been able to and shortly took the road for Get- than we have been. We have a march part of the time and a part tysburg, crossing the Blue Ridge. much better chance to cook our of the time have had to be hauled. We met up with the enemy at the rations and have been getting a We have been resting four or five town of Gettysburg, and fought the little fruit to eat with our meat and days now and I feel a little better greatest battle of the war. The par- beans. We have been getting some than I have. I have fallen off until ticulars of which you have heard corn meal and bacon, which goes I can span my arms anywhere. I before now. I will just remark here much better than fresh lean beef, weighed 177 lbs when I left Dub- that it is given up by good judges sour at that if it has been cooked lin, but suppose I would weigh 135 that such commanding has never any length of time. we have been now. But do not let this render you taken place before in the world. able to wash up our clothes too, uneasy, for I think if I can get some We retired from before the en- and consequently we feel and look rest I will recruit up again. emy's works on the night of the much better. I wore my shirt with- I would like to be able to give third of July, and spent the fourth out having it washed from the 15th you all a full account of our Penn- lying in an open field exposed to of June until the 3rd of August. sylvania Campaign, but it would the rain, about two miles from the It could not be helped We are all require too much time and room town. During the night of the fourth pretty ragged and a great many for this place. I must content my- we again commenced falling back, of us are barefooted. I have shoes self with a brief sketch now and and continued our retreat through now, but was entirely barefooted defer giving the details until I get rain and mud until we arrived at three days since we came back to home or get more leisure. Hagerstown. We there took a po- Virginia. One day I had to march.

The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 24 So and being sick and tenderfoot- Pap that I have been keeping 50 Indiandozer ed both at once, I suffered more dollars for him and Grandpa a Boganshield Shelor that day than I ever suffered in one long time but have had no chance NOTE: “Dozer” mentioned in this day in my life. to send it. Tell Grandpa that I hope letter is Powell's uncle, Indian- The soldiers are all in bad spir- to get to talk over these war mat- dozer Boganshield Shelor (1828- its and are deserting in gangs. If ters with him in peace one of these 1865). He was wounded July 15, matters look as dark in the coun- days yet. Give my respects to the 1863, along the line of retreat from try as they do in the army there is girls and tell them to write to me. Gettysburg. On May 12, 1864, dark times indeed. Our Pennsyl- Clum and Hortense and Columbia he was captured in the Battle of vania campaign has done more to must write. I wrote to Pyrrbus the Spotsylvania Courthouse. He was dispirit and demoralize this army other day, and sent my respects a prisoner at Point Lookout from than anything that has occurred to Oliver. Uncle Henry is well. I May 18, 1864 to July 30, 1864, since the war. I knew it could only would like to know if Dozier has then at Elmira, New York, from serve to discourage our soldiers gotten home yet. August 2, 1864 to February 16, and unite the enemy before it was 1865, when he died from starva- made. But I am really sorry that so Your affectionate son... tion and exposure. He is buried in many are deserting. P. Benton Reynolds Elmira, New York, at marker 1818, If there is not a stop put to J. Sherlor, Co. K, 50 VA Reg, CSA. it, it will ruin both the army and Mr. Reynolds passed away De- He signed his name I.B. a lot in his country. I learn that the mountains cember 29, 1914, and is buried in letters and apparently the “I” was up in our country are full of run- Oak Grove Cemetery in Morgan- confused with “J” in his military aways. It is too disgraceful! Some town, West Virginia. records. Elmira death records list are too ready to give up. It is a him as “Sherlor, J.” his last name gloomy time, but there has been was also misspelled. darker times, and light yet came. I do not doubt our ultimate success, and will hang on to the best. I was really sorry to hear that you are were having so hard a time with sickness, and am really glad to hear that you all have gotten through safely. I am glad to hear that you all have a pretty fair crop, for what you do not produce you will have to do without. You fair- ly made my mouth water speaking of your vegetables in yours of the 18th of June. I am afraid though that I shall not be there to help eat them. Tell my little brothers that I am glad to hear they are indus- trious and I hope they will behave The grave of Indiandozer Bo- well. Nearly all I think about of Powell Benton Reynolds’ grave ganshield Shelor (1828-1865) late is getting back home and hav- markers located in the Oak Co. K, 50 VA Reg, Confederate ing a good peaceable time study- Grove Cemetery in Morgan- States of America, located in El- ing and working with them. Tell town, West Virginia. mira, New York, at marker 1818.

The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 25 Looking Back Thirty Years Ago

From the archives of The Carolina Confederate - Volume 2, Number 2 - Summer 1987

Camp Stokes Marker Unveiled

Camp Stokes, a Confederate Boot Camp located in Greensboro during the late years of the War Between the States, was marked by the Colonel John Sloan Camp 1290 during Confederate Memorial Day Ser- vices in Greensboro May 10th. The location of the marker is in city-owned Alma Pinnix Park. The Camp was named for Confederate Colonel Montford Sidney Stokes of Wilkes County who was killed in Virginia in 1862. Besides being a camp to train young Confed- erate recruits, Camp Stokes also contained 200 Union prisoners captured at the Battle of Bentonville. Funds for the $1,000 marker were raised through the camp’s Annual Gun Show held in Greensboro in September.

47th Regiment NC Troops Camp Challenge The 47th Regiment NC Troops Camp 166, Wake Forest, has contributed $1,000 to the building of the new SCV National Confederate Museum on the grounds of Elm Springs in Columbia, Tennessee.

The camp membership now challenges all other SCV Camps in North Carolina and in the nation, to match our contribution of $1,000 or to exceed it.

Let’s Build This Museum Now!

Proposed Confederate Museum Sons of Confederate Veterans Columbia, Tennessee

The Carolina Confederate - March/April 2017 - Page 26 Dixie Donors - Memorials to Our Confederate Ancestors Dixie Donors – Tributes to your Confederate Ancestors are available with the Dixie Donor Pro- gram founded in 1987 by Charles Britton of Oklahoma. To join, submit a check for each ancestor payable to the NC Division to the Editor and include your ancestor’s name, rank, company, regi-

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PRIVATE NATHAN ASBY JOHN M. AUSTIN PRIVATE JAMES BAILEY PVT. WILLIAM HENRY MAY Co. C, 40th Regiment Co. H, 43rd Regiment Co. D, 47th Regiment, NC Troops 3rd Artillery Volunteers Corporal North Carolina Troops Joined at age 16, Survived the Battle of North Carolina Troops Co. B, 15th Regiment Confederate States of America Gettysburg, Captured at Petersburg, in Confederate States of America North Carolina Troops Prisoner of War on March 26, 1865 prison at Point Lookout, MD at end of war. Phil Asby – Greenville, NC (4) Confederate States of America at Point Lookout, Maryland Michael May Cary, North Carolina (21) Maj. Gen. Bryan Grimes Camp 1488 Jerry C. Austin – Charlotte, NC (5) Barney E. Bailey - Laurel Hill, NC (166) SIMEON C. CARISLE TEMPLE IRVING CLAIBORNE COLONEL JOHN SLOAN Co. A, 22nd Battalion Virginia Infantry Be a Co. B of “Guilford Grays” (CARLYLE) Sergeant, Wounded at Fredericksburg on 27th North Carolina Troops Private, Co. A, 63rd Regiment 13 Dec 1862, Chancellorsville, 03 May 1863 Dixie Donor Elected Captain on 20th April 1861. 5th North Carolina Cavalry and Cold Harbor, 03 Jun 1864. Elected to Colonel on 23rd December 1861. Present with Gen. Robert E. Lee at Paroled at Appomattox, 10 Apr 1865. today Col. John Sloan Camp 1290 Appomattox, Virginia in April 1865 Ted Kinker & Grandson Patrick Gen. R. F. Hoke / Col .W. J. Hoke Camp 1616 Greensboro, North Carolina (5) J. Ray Edmundson, Jr. – Snow Hill, NC (43) Lincolnton, North Carolina (4) JOSEPH LITTLE PETWAY PVT. EMERSON H. PENDER PRIVATE JOHN JACKSON Pvt., Co. G, 5th Regiment, NC Infantry Co. H, 3rd Artillery, 40th Regiment Wounded and captured in Williamsburg, VA Honor your ancestor EDMUNDSON, JR. on May 6, 1862 and died on May 25, 1862 North Carolina Troops “Captain P. L. Burwell’s Company” at Fort Monroe, VA with a Confederate States of America Provost Guard T. Homer Robbins Goldsboro, North Carolina T. Homer Robbins Dixie Donor North Carolina Division Color Sergeant Elm City, North Carolina (2) J. Ray Edmundson, Jr. North Carolina Division Color Sergeant (2) Bull Head Plantation, Snow Hill, NC (24) PVT. LAUCHLIN J. MCLEAN PATRICK HENRY MARSHALL GEORGE BENTON MARSHALL Company B, 36th Regiment 2nd Virginia Cavalry, Co “K” 5th Virginia Cavalry, Payne’s Brigade Your ancestor North Carolina Troops Albemarle Light Horse Brigade Wounded November 1864, Hope Mills, VA Wounded and Captured at Fort Fisher, NC. Captured in February 1864 and eventually Yet, “preferred to continue fighting, could be imprisoned at Fort Delaware, Maryland until F. Phillip Saunders, J. Timothy Saunders, M. preferring death to capture.” Donald Saunders he escaped September 1864 honored here Col. John Sloan Camp 2190 Graham Benton Patterson, Jr. & GBP, III Graham Benton Patterson, Jr. & GBP, III Greensboro, North Carolina (5) High Point Camp 668, North Carolina (3) High Point Camp 668, North Carolina (3) FELIX CICERO FRAZIER SOLOMON R. HENDREN MAJOR GENERAL Pvt. Co. C, 30th Regiment NC Troops Confederate MAJOR CHARLES Q. PETTY Lieutenant States of America. Wounded and captured at Co. H, 49th Regiment BRYAN GRIMES Company A, 10th Battalion Spotsylvania Courthouse May 12, 1864. POW at “Gaston Rangers” 2nd Corps Division Commander North Carolina Heavy Artillery Point Lookout, Maryland North Carolina Infantry Army of Northern Virginia until released in March 1865 Confederate States of America Gary Lee Hendren Confederate States of America Maj. Charles Q. Petty Camp 872 Lt. F. C. Frazier Camp 668 Gen. James B. Gordon Camp 810 Major General Bryan Grimes Camp 1488 High Point, North Carolina (4) Wilkesboro, North Carolina (1) Gastonia, North Carolina (4) Greenville, North Carolina (4)

PVT. EDWARD ROBBINS HENRY CALVIN PRESNELL REUBEN L. HARMON Co. I, 30th Regiment Pvt., Company K, 52nd Regiment Be a Corporal - Co. D, 14th Regiment North Carolina Troops North Carolina Troops Captured at Mechanicsville, Virginia on Confederate States of America Confederate States of America Dixie Donor May 20, 1864, exchanged November 15, T. Homer Robbins P. Dwain Roberts 1864 at Savannah River, Georgia North Carolina Division Color Sergeant First, Farthest & Last Camp 1966 today John, Daniel and Harmon Lackey Elm City, North Carolina (2) Asheboro, North Carolina (6) Lincolnton, North Carolina (4)

HENRY HINNANT JAMES A. WHITTINGTON GEORGE JOSEPH TOSTO RUFUS HENRY HOLLAND Private - Co. H, 11th Regiment Private, Co. B, 7th Regiment Co. F, 13th Battalion, Light Artillery Corporal - Co. D, 14th Regiment North Carolina Troops North Carolina Infantry 1st Co H, 40th Regt., NC Troops Captured near Petersburg 02 April Wounded in hand, later transferred to Confederate States of America 3rd North Carolina “Branch Artillery” 1865. Wounded in both legs. POW at Mallet’s Battalion. Paroled in May 1865. Bill Starnes T. Homer Robbins Point Lookout, Maryland for 86 days In Memory of D. Frank Hinnant Major Charles Q. Petty Camp 872 North Carolina Division Color Sergeant In Memory of D. Frank Hinnant Gastonia, North Carolina (4) Fremont, North Carolina (307) Elm City, North Carolina (2) Fremont, North Carolina (307)

JOSEPH B. SMITH JOHN BOYKIN WILLIAMS EPHRAIM WILSON STARNES PETER DAVID KINKER Private, Co. C, 13th Battalion Pvt. - 7th Battalion (Enfield Rifles) Private, Co. E, 4th Regiment Purveyor of Fine Spirits Wright’s Battalion - NC Infantry South Carolina Infantry 59th North Carolina Cavalry to the Captain Guilford W. Cox Company Wounded at Drury’s Bluff, Virginia Confederate States of America Army of Northern Virginia North Carolina Volunteers May 16, 1865 Bill Starnes Ted Kinker & Grandson Patrick Jackie Haddock John Howard Talley, III Major Charles Q. Petty Camp 872 Gen. R. F. Hoke / Col. W. J. Hoke Camp 1616 Maj. Gen. Bryan Grimes Camp 1488 Wilmington, North Carolina (2) Gastonia, North Carolina (4) Lincolnton, North Carolina (4) Clayroot, North Carolina (5)

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