Vol. 3, No. 9 Copyright 2017 September 2017 Winner of the 2016 Best Newsletter Award, National, Sons of Confederate Veterans Winner of the 2017 Best Newsletter Award, Tex. Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans

Winner of the 2017 Best Newsletter Award, National, Sons of Confederate Veterans

John Hall's Military Breechloaders COMMANDER’S Graveside Memorial Service CORNER Saturday, September 30th, 10 a.m. by Larry “Joe” Reynolds Piney Cemetery, Harlton, Texas

Summer’s almost gone, we have See www.5thbrigade.org for full details our first Graveside Memorial this month and October weekends are already full. I want each of you to think about and plan on attending the activities that we have planned for October 28th. DAVIDRREYNOLDS.ORG I’m working on having us a booth set up at the This month the following changes have been made Omaha Fall Festival. We’re also working on having our Color Guard march in their Parade. to our web site: http://www.davidrreynolds.org • I’ve updated our Events page to include all That evening, we will celebrate our 2nd Annual, known events by the Camp and its members. 1st Lt. David Richard Reynolds Birthday Celebration. I would like to see everyone attend, Please let me know when you do anything for so mark your calendars now. the SCV, this includes attending other camp meeting, public speaking, or even putting If not before, then at our next meeting we will go flags on graves. th over the 5 Brigade’s Heritage Defense Manual • I’ve updated our Calendar of Events page on and assign Monuments and Markers to individual the 5th Brigade’s Web Site. so that they can keep an eye on them and report any signs of Vandalism or Damage. Also, please • I’ve update our main page, adding Command keep an eye on any cemetery that you see, they in Chief Strain’s new Statement of Purpose. have already started destroying Confederate • I’ve added a 2016 and 2017 Award Page to Headstones in our area. our site

I’m still looking for biographies of your Confederate UPCOMING EVENTS Ancestor. Please try to come up with a short bio that we can put on-line. Monday, September 18th, 7:00 p.m. If you have any suggestions, recommendations or Refreshments at 6:30 p.m. comments you can send me an email to: Old Union Community Center [email protected] and I promise to Hwy 67E, Mount Pleasant, Texas give it my full consideration. Program: Compatriot Garrett Glover V

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BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES Sons of Confederate Veterans & OTHER IMPORTANT DATES Statement of Purpose

September 02nd – Danny Kid Tillery We, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, having been commissioned by the Confederate Veterans September 08th – William Harold Guy themselves, retain our responsibility and right to September 21st – Seth Clayton Thomas Clark adhere to the founding principles of the

rd of America remembering the bravery, defending the September 23 – Dennis Lloyd Gunn honor and protecting the memory of our beloved September 26th – Robert Eugene Jones Confederate Veterans, which includes their memorials, images, symbols, monuments and th September 28 – Marriann (Mrs. Buffalo) gravesites for ourselves and future generations.

NEW THEORY - WHERE IS THE Our Charge… CONFEDERATE GOLD? by Dixie Heritage "To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we (Continued from Last Month) will commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought. To your strength will be Laundering the gold given the defense of the Confederate soldier's What would they have done with the gold once it good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of arrived? those principles which he loved and which you "The Confederate Gold ... would have went to the love also, and those ideals which made him national banking system, and laundered into glorious and which you also cherish." currency," Dykstra said.

Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General, Pritchard, Hackley and William M. Ferry's brother United Confederate Veterans, New Orleans, Louisiana April 25, 1906 Edward P. Ferry were involved in or founded banks during 1870 and 1871 and those banks and others Remember, it is your duty to see that the true would have been used to launder the gold, he said. history of the South is presented to future generations! Around 1874-75, a new building was completed for Muskegon National Bank, of which Hackley was a director. It was re-chartered as Hackley National Bank in 1890. Multiple publications and advertisements say the bank had five vaults. “Breathe there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself has said, Dykstra said he believes the vaults were needed to This is my own, my native land!” store the Confederate Gold treasure. Sir Walter Scott

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First National Bank of Allegan was founded by speech Hackley wrote for the park statues' dedication Pritchard in 1871. in 1900. At that time, banks would ship gold bullion to the Looking back at Hackley Park, a gift to the city in the U.S. Treasury Department, and receive paper late 1800s currency with the bank name in return, Dykstra said. Hackley Park was gifted to Muskegon by Charles H. "Most national banks, during their lifetime, would Hackley in 1890. print less than $250,000 worth of currency. If a The park features five large monuments and a layout national bank got to $500,000 worth of currency, that of curved and diagonal sidewalks. was considered excessive," he said. "How did Charles Hackley pay tribute the Muskegon National Bank printed $295,000 from Confederacy? Because he would have -- he would 1870-1890, according to Antique Money. Hackley have almost felt duty-bound to do it," Dykstra said. National Bank printed $4,666,000 from 1890-1935. "But he would do it in such a way that people First National Bank of Allegan printed $797,000 wouldn't pick up on it, unless they knew to look for from 1871-1927. it." By comparison, First National Bank of Grand Rapids An aerial view of the park gave it away, he said. Its printed $516,000 from 1864-1883 while First diagonal crossed sidewalks could be seen as an National Bank of Ann Arbor printed $367,000 from outline of the Confederate Flag. 1863-1882. The curved sidewalks are a bit trickier, but Dykstra According to advertisements found by Dykstra, has an explanation: "It's a Bible. That's why the Hackley was a stockholder in 14 banks, which he sidewalks were rounded." says could have also been used to launder the treasure. In their presentation, Dykstra and Richards show a video that transforms an aerial view of the park into "They were in the banks because that's how they a Confederate Flag and an open Bible. laundered the gold, but they felt that their duty as citizens of the United States was to promote in a Hackley Park's design is nod to Confederacy, positive way," Dykstra said. researchers say Tribute to the Confederacy? The theory is that Charles Hackley paid tribute to the Confederacy with park's layout. The intersection of West Webster Avenue and Third Street downtown Muskegon is a gathering of "Within your sight stands a library built and endowed Hackley gifts: Hackley Park, Hackley by part of that same fortune, which the donor regards Administration Building and Hackley Public as a trust for the people with whom he has been Library. Other large donations include Hackley associated for more than 40 years," reads a speech Hospital and the former Hackley Art Gallery, now written by Hackley for the dedication of the statues. Muskegon Museum of Art. Hackley and his wife Julia Hackley also donated multiple endowment "If mistakes have been made in appropriating the funds. money generously tendered to the public, those mistakes have been mistakes of the head, not of the Dykstra and Richards believe there's proof hiding in heart," reads another portion of the speech. plain sight that Hackley Park was made possible by Confederate money. They also point to clues in a V

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Dykstra says the way Hackley refers to the money "Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's and donations suggests he doesn't view them as his probable," Christenson said. "I don't believe in own. coincidences." There are also clues in the Haight biography, which Dykstra believes the theory is "bullet proof" and was published in 1949, they said. Haight received reveals the true story of Charles Hackley and the notes from Hackley in 1899, and was told the book missing Confederate Gold. could be published 10 years after his death. "I don't want to seem overconfident," he said, "but I The book states that Hackley made $375,000 -- or know what I know." $7.2 million in today's dollars -- in one day during Local historians remain skeptical. 1872, the time that Dykstra and Richards believe the gold was moving. "Make no mistake, this is a "We don't feel there are a lot of facts in there cited confession from Hackley," Dykstra said. from primary literature," Soler said. "They're going to have fun with it ... I'm sure it will bring up a lot of "When you have a secret, and you think you can be interest. It's very speculative, a lot of conjecture tying caught at any time, you think one little clue will just a lot of loose pieces together. tell everybody everything," Richards said. "He's giving huge clues, but only if you can figure that "We are not believers that the story has merit as of out." yet." More presentations planned Richards and Dykstra have presented the theory to the public twice at Calvary Christian Schools, and plan to do so again at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 22. So far, audiences seem convinced and hungry for more, the duo agreed.

The April presentation will include more research, Dykstra said. The Col. Richard B. Hubbard Chapter #261 "They have good evidence," said Dr. Thomas Watkins, Calvary Christian Schools board president, Military Order of the Stars and Bars who was among the first to hear the theory during November in a private presentation. "I believe what We are looking for new members. they are telling me. It's too much information that Of you have an ancestor who would all be happenstance for it not to be true." was an officer or Larry Houseman, of Norton Shores, listened to one served in the of the presentations and said he is anxious to hear Confederate Government, more. contact "It's an interesting concept - I guess that's all it is right Dennis Brand now," he said. [email protected] Jaime Christenson, of Muskegon, was even more about membership convinced after hearing of the presentations. V

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away from him and broke for the Union lines, but a Yankee slapped the horse on the rear, sending

Captain Nicholson safely back to Confederate lines. Afterwards, the Eleventh Texas Cavalry served as part of the rear guard for the army. 11th TEXAS CAVALRY Disease proved to be a much tougher adversary initially than Yankees to the Eleventh Texas Cavalry, The Eleventh Texas Cavalry Regiment was as typhoid, pneumonia, and measles thinned the organized on October 2, 1861, at Camp Reeves, ranks of Young's regiment. After a tough winter with Grayson County, Texas, by the energies of its many deaths and discharges due to disease, the original colonel—William C. Young, a Mexican regiment was dismounted at Jacksonport, , War veteran, former U.S. marshal and lawyer, and, and placed in the Texas Brigade under Joseph Hogg. in 1860, the wealthiest planter in Cooke County, Hogg also succumbed to disease, and Colonel T. H. Texas. The companies that formed the regiment were McCray assumed command. The brigade contained from Northeast Texas—Cooke, Grayson, Hopkins, the Tenth, Eleventh, Fourteenth, and Thirty-second Red River, Fannin, Collin, Hunt, Titus, and Bowie Texas Cavalry regiments, dismounted, McCray's counties. Arkansas Regiment, and Douglas's Texas Battery. In April, soon after the , the regiment Young's field officers were Lt. Col. James J. was sent to Corinth, Mississippi. Diamond, who had been a member of the Democratic National Convention in Charleston in 1860 and had On May 8, 1862, in response to the new Confederate stormed out at the nomination of Douglas. The Conscription Act, the regiment was reorganized. regimental major was John W. Mayrant, a farmer Colonel Young had resigned his commission on from Grayson County. Most of the company April 16, 1862, and Lieutenant Colonel Diamond commanders were planters, farmers, or lawyers, with was appointed colonel. Diamond, however, was not the exception of L. G. Harman, of Company D, who reelected, nor was Maj. John W. Mayrant. The new was a surveyor, and Joseph M. Bounds, of Company field officers of the Eleventh Texas Cavalry were G, who was a hotelier. John C. Burks as colonel, Andrew J. Nicholson as lieutenant colonel, and H.Y. Bone as major. Following its organization, the regiment was sent to the Indian Nations, where it was engaged at John C. Burks was a fine choice as colonel. Burks, a Chustenahlah on December 26, 1861. The initial twenty-seven-year old lawyer born in Georgia and engagement of the Eleventh Texas Cavalry proved to practicing law in Red River County, had the be a victorious one for the regiment. One man was confidence of the men and appeared to have a fine killed, one died of his wound, and four others were future in front of him. Nicholson never served in his less seriously wounded. One of the wounded was new office. He had to resign due to his Pea Ridge Capt. James D. Young, Colonel Young's son, of wound. Neither did Bone, as he was rejected as an Company A. He suffered a painful but not serious officer by the Examining Board. Bone later served as wound to the thigh. After the battle, the regiment was chaplain of the regiment but resigned in July 1862. dispatched into Arkansas for the winter. To take their places, Captain Bounds of Company G was appointed lieutenant colonel in July 1862, and On March 6–7, 1862, the regiment was engaged at Otis M. Messick was named major on May 25, 1862. the battle of Pea Ridge, or , Arkansas. During the battle, Capt. Andrew J. Nicholson of In mid-summer 1862, the newly-christened Army of Company F was shot through the wrist. His horse got Tennessee, under the command of Gen. , commenced a forward movement into V

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Tennessee and then into Kentucky. On August 30, Dr. John Cunningham died suddenly about, five 0' 1862, the brigade, still under the command of clock this morning. When the War Between the Colonel McCray, fought at Richmond, Kentucky. States broke out, he volunteered and served Desperately outnumbered, McCray's Texans and throughout the bloody conflict. At the battle of Arkansans nearly destroyed the Federal army, Shiloh, he was in command of a company under leaving the ground strewn with dead and wounded. General . He also served as a The Southern army, styled the Army of Kentucky surgeon in the Confederate Army and was stationed under the command of , at Lookout Mountain. He was captured by the captured 4,303 of the enemy and numerous weapons Federals and kept a prisoner for a time at Camp and other supplies. Chase in . He moved to Fannin County, Texas, in 1867. The regiment suffered an unknown number of casualties at Richmond, however. At least three were ** Newspaper Notes** killed, seven wounded, and nineteen became 1895 prisoners of war. Afterwards, the regiment withdrew into Tennessee. Dr. John Cunningham, of Ravenna, Texas has the (Continued Next Month) thanks of the editor for a present of a beautiful pair of eight-inch jack rabbit ears from the head of the native Texas Mollie Cottontail jumper, of masculine gender. Resembling a splendid pair of donkey auricles, we think the gift an eminently appropriate one for an editor, and after having tanned and framed the pair, they now hang pendent on the highest Dr. John Cunningham altitude of our sanctum sanctorum. Some more of Captain your curiosities, Doctor, but of a different character, Co. G, 4th Kentucky Mounted Infantry - Dr. you know too many of us are already flop-eared. Medical Corp. (Trigg County Historical Clippings, Vol 2) March 15, 1895 ** Service Record** Dr. Cunningham In The Sixties - His Location In CSA (Confederate States of America) - enlisted at Texas and What He had to Undergo - Camp Burnett, Tennessee, with ninety other men from Trigg County, Kentucky. Company G, 4th KY An Interesting letter Regiment., 1st KY Brigade - appointed 1st Lt. on Editor Telephone: 9/13/1861 - fought at Shiloh, resigned in June 1862 in order to transfer from the Infantry to the Medical In your issue of the 29th of November, 1894, you Corps - at the Battle of Shiloh he was in command of printed my second letter, and spread on more soft a company of men serving under General Albert soap and compliments, which was duly appreciated Sidney Johnson - he was stationed at Lookout and all proper allowances made for errors in the same Mountain as a surgeon, where he was captured by the requesting me, with Mr. Cyrus Thompson and enemy and kept a prisoner for a time at Camp Chase several others to write again at pleasure or sooner, in Ohio. and commit the same overt act of folly and nonsense I suppose. Hence, here I am again, at 10 o'clock at ** Obituary** night after a hard day’s work doing nothing, ready to get up another voluminous epistle of airy nothings. I V

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am surprised that you print such ribaldry and balderdash in so respectable a journal as the Phone in the enlightened age; but then it has been said a thousand times o'er. That where ignorance is bliss “tis folly to be wise.” No dig at the editor or good people of Trigg, but the people love things to fly from the sublime to the ridiculous, but as I cannot aspire to the sublime, I can only try to pet my part in my own peculiar kind of way . Well after the great way between the States that tried men's souls of '61 and '65 everything was turned topsy-turby, not only in grand old Kentucky, but the entire Southland, and I wanted to go to Texas a€" to ATM Commander Johnnie Holley talks about the Outlaw fresher fields and greener pastures, but brother Josey Wales William (who was always kinder good and home- Commander Joe Reynolds updated everyone on the st like) heard of my intentions. He took me aside and National Reunion in Memphis, where the 1 Lt. st gave ma a long talk on Texas and her extravaganzas. David Richard Reynolds Camp won 1 Place for He told me in a confidential undertone that Texas Best Newsletter in the SCV and won the Superior was filled with race-riders, drunkards, gamblers, Camp award for the Best Camp in the Army of the dare-devils, robbers, cut throats, murderers, and Trans-Mississippi and the second best in the Sons of vagabonds. I admitted his arguments (such being the Confederate Veterans. common understanding - Captain John Cunningham is the Great Great Grandfather of Compatriot Jerry Lester.

LAST CAMP MEETING We had a very nice meeting last month, lots of visitors, including 5th Brigade Commander Sam Mercer and his wife Christy, 2nd Lt. Commander George Linton, 5th Brigade, Camp Commander Phil 1st Lt. Commander Rex McGee was presented with a Davis and Frank Smith from the Upshur County SCV Commendation Medal that he won at the Patriots and of course our Guest Speaker, Army of National Convention and Commander Holley and Trans-Mississippi Commander Johnnie Holley and Mercer swore in our two newest members, Dave his wife Norma. Davey and Jerry Lester. Commander Holley gave an informative and very interesting speech on “The Outlaw Josey Wales” V

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Battle of Chantilly - Chantilly 1 September 1862 - General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson verses Generals Stevens and Kearny.

OUR PLEDGES Casualties: 800 Confederate, 1300 Union! Battle of Cheat Mountain - Cheat Mountain PLEDGE TO THE U.S. Western Virginia FLAG: 10-15 September 1861 - General Robert E. Lee I pledge allegiance to the Flag verses General Joseph J. Reynolds. Casualties: 120 of the United States of Confederate, 81 Union! America, And to the republic for which it Harper's Ferry Western Virginia - Harper's stands, One nation, under God, indivisible, With liberty and justice for all. Ferry Western Virginia 12-15 September 1862 - General Thomas J. PLEDGE TO THE TEXAS "Stonewall" Jackson verses D.S. Miles. Casualties: FLAG: 500 Confederate, 11,783 Union!

Honor the Texas Flag; I pledge Battle of South Mountain - South Mountain South allegiance to thee Texas, one state under God, Carolina one and indivisible. 14 September 1862 - General Robert E. Lee verses General George B. McClellan. Casualties: 2685 SALUTE TO THE CONFEDERATE FLAG: Confederate, 1813 Union! Battle of Turner's Gap and Crampton's Gap - I salute the Confederate Flag Turner's Gap and Crampton's Gap Maryland With affection, reverence, and Undying devotion to the cause for which it 14 September 1862 - General Robert E. Lee verses stands. Generals Burnside and Franklin. Casualties: 4343 Confederate, 2325 Union! Battle of Munfordville - Munfordville Kentucky BATTLES FOUGHT DURING THE 14-17 September 1862 - General Braxton Bragg MONTH OF SEPTEMBER verses General J.T. Wilder. Casualties: 288 Confederate, 4133 Union! V

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Battle of Luka - Luka Mississippi GUARDIAN NEWS By 1Lt Commander Rex McGee 19 September 1862 - General verses General William S. Rosecrans. Casualties: 1516 Confederate, 782 Union! Battle of Chickamauga - Chickamauga Georgia 19-21 September 1863 - General Braxton Bragg verses Generals Thomas and Rosecrans. Casualties: 18,454 Confederate, 16,170 Union! Third Battle of Winchester or Opequon - Winchester Virginia 19 September 1864 - General Jubal A. Early verses General Philip H. Sheridan. Casualties: 3921 Confederate, 5018 Union! Battle Fisher Hill - Fisher Hill Virginia Last month I wrote about some possible damage that the Anarchist was threatening as it related to 22 September 1864 - General Jubal A. Early verses Confederate Cemeteries and Confederate graves. General Philip H. Sheridan. Casualties: 1235 This month we have had several instances of the Confederate, 528 Union! Ultra Left Anarchists applying their acts of Battle of Athens - Athens Georgia destruction to cemeteries, graves and monuments. We also hear of them marching on schools to change 23-24 September 1864 - General Nathan B. Forrest school names and on cities to get them to change the verses General George H. Thomas. Casualties: 30 names of streets and public buildings. This madness Confederate, 950 Union! is being perpetrated by a bunch of groups that have Battle of Poplar Springs or Peeble's Farm - little to do except find things to demonstrate about. Poplar Springs Virginia Hopefully, law enforcement and the general public will get tired of this civil unrest and destruction and 30 September 1864 - General Robert E. Lee verses put an end to it through laws that are on the books General Ulysses S. Grant. Casualties: 900 and through sheer power of the public to castigate, Confederate, 2889 Union! alienate, embarrass and throw negative publicity upon them as individuals until they are properly identified as the little thugs they have become. We need to pray that the political correctness frenzy that SICKNESS & DISTRESS is destroying the history of this country will subside before it is too late. th August 14 – Get Well Card sent to Compatriot Dr. This has been a long hot & wet summer. I spent last Larry Pepples, Red Diamond Camp #2193. month cleaning up around my Confederate Heroes Compatriot Pepples had a stroke and fell, hitting his graves, washing tombstones and the like. I noticed head and causing bleeding on the brain. that the summer had been hard on the flags due to the hot sun and rain I mentioned earlier. I took down the flags as I do not want soiled or discolored flags at our Heroes graves. Please take the time to prepare your V

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graves for the coming fall and winter and remove any Camp Leadership flags that are no longer serviceable and replace them st with new ones. If you do not have replacement flags 1 Lt. David Richard Reynolds please insure the discolored & soiled flags are Camp #2270 removed from the graves and remember to properly Mount Pleasant, Texas dispose of them as they had previously marked the grave of a Confederate Hero. Commander Larry “Joe” Reynolds As usual, I’ll leave you with the question that Phil (903) 717-8608 Davis, Upshur Patriots CDR and Chairman of both [email protected] the National and Texas Division Guardian Program always asks, 1Lt. Commander Alvin “Rex” McGee “Are you a Guardian? If not, why not?” (903) 577-3233 [email protected]

2Lt. Commander Robert Eugene Jones Lincoln, when asked, “Why not let the South go in (903) 573-5349 peace”? replied; “I can’t let them go. Who would pay [email protected] for the government”? “And, what then will become of my tariff”? Adjutant Vacant to Virginia Compromise Delegation March 1861 Chaplain John “Michael” Mars

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