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Intelligence Service Europe, INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Year V, Issue 5, Oct. / Nov. 2012 COMMANDER’S LETTER 1 EDITOR’S NOTE 2 Commander’s Letter ADJUTANT’S REPORT 3-11 Compatriots all! RE-DEDICATION OF THE PAGE TOMP 12-14 I am addressing not only our Camp members and friends, I am DAR OVERSEAS REPORT 15 sending to the entire Southland a welcome greeting in this brief foreword of our newsletter. The great endeavor of the AZORES CSS ALABAMA MEMORIAL 16-18 SCV in Europe during this sesquicentennial has been achieved. The report by Project Officer and Camp Adjutant ARTIST OF THE Chris McLarren is so detailed that I have nothing else to say CONFEDERACY TRIBUTE 19-21 but: read it. In past issues of the ISE you could see how difficult this task has been, funding, organizing, with so many MEETING IN MADRID 22-23 people involved, the SCV GEC, many Camps in America, private donors. All in one, the September re-dedication SCV FRIEND IN GUERNSEY 24 ceremony has been a heritage preserving light which will last for at least one generation. I thank you all for what has been THE PREACHER'S CORNER 25 achieved and it’s my pride to say: mission accomplished! CAMP LIBRARY 26 In the service of the South Achim “Archy” Bänsch Commander EDITOR' S NOTE Mission accomplished with full success! The most important event during the Sesquicentennial 2011-2015 in Europe took place in Rome, Italy, last September 8. The long-term Page tomb project, started years ago by Peter Rossi, Capt. James W. Bryan Camp #1390 Lake Charles, LA and Jeff O'Cain, Lt. Gen Wade Hampton Camp # 273, Columbia, SC and funded by the SCV General Executive Council together with the Europe Camp and many other Camps in America, resulted in a fully cleaned and shiny restored tomb, which is the most beautiful and impressive Confederate funerary monument in Europe. A success that will last for another century, a grave site with thousands of American visitors, A double goal has been achieved: the grave of a Confederate Veteran and great American patriot is again in the proper condition and one of the most visited beautiful tombs in the Non-Catholic Cemetery of Rome is again a memorial flame remembering the Confederate Cause. We are proud of what has been achieved! Read the full report of Camp Adjutant and Page Project Executive Officer Mclarren including lots of unique photographs! Our UDC contact in Rome, Susan Fiorentino, made a nice report for the Daughters of the American Revolution in her capacity as Overseas Chair, Oregon DAR. Several other heritage events took place in the past months. As we have been announcing, the British 290 Foundation held a memorial service for the CSS Alabama, commissioned August 1862, off the Azores. A plaque remembering the event 150 years ago and a Catholic memorial Mass for Capt. Raphael Semmes in Angra were the highlights. It is incredible how much the Alabama is remembered in the Azores islands, especially Terceira. Really great was the exhibition of Nicola Marschall paintings in his German hometown of St. Wendel. The "Artist of the Confederacy" and designer of the CS 1st National flag and the Confederate Gray uniforms was brought closer to the German and European public for the first time. Read about my meeting with the SCV-MC Florida Cracker webmaster, our associate John Polo, who has been promoted to Lieutenant of the Florida SCV Mechanised Cavalry. An "Advance the Colors Award" went to a supporter of Confederate Heritage in Guernsey, British Channel islands. Read what SCV Executive Director Ben Sewell and our Camp Adjutant said about this noble man. Sad news is the passing of Bill Burns, Commander McGowan Camp #40 in Laurens, SC, the Camp which "fathered" me in the SCV six years ago. Our "Friends of the SCV" programme is still bearing fruits with a new friend being registered in the SCV General Headquarters. For the first time our Camp Library doesn't offer a hard-copy or an e-book for free download, but recommends a book for sale: Wolfgang Ulbrich's outstanding book of live and times of Nicola Marschall, the Artist of the Confederacy. Enjoy! Raphael Waldburg-Zeil, Editor The Adjutant’s Report Return to Rome: A Confederate ceremony By Adjutant Chris McLarren “It was a beautiful summer’s morning in Rome….” Although that sounds like the beginning of a good story, it is really the beginning of the end – the end of a two-year campaign to honor a Confederate veteran in such a way that he will be seen daily for the next generation. For this was the day we would celebrate the full restoration of the Family Tomb of Captain Thomas Jefferson Page in the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome, Italy. In May 2010, at the urging of Ms Nancy Hitt of Louisville, Kentucky and with the support of the late (and much-missed) SCV Compatriot Pierluigi (Peter) Rossi, Europe Camp held a Remembrance Ceremony at the Captain’s graveside. We vowed then to do our utmost to restore the final resting place of a man who defended at sea the same nation so many of our Confederate forefathers defended on land. And so, for two years, this Camp led the drive to fund the Cemetery’s long-held plan to restore one of their favorite tombs. We reported in the June 2012 ISE on the campaign - of the irreplaceable efforts of Jeff O’Cain of South Carolina to raise money stateside – of the generosity of Raphael Waldburg-Zeil, editor of this Newsletter, and his cohorts on Spain - and of the vision of the SCV General Executive Council in matching the funds collected. So here is the end of the story… When we heard that the restoration was in progress, we began to prepare for our Re- Dedication of the Tomb. The participants of the 2010 Ceremony – the local branches of the Navy League of the United States and the Daughters of the American Revolution were invited. They replied enthusiastically (“If only more of our organizations were able to be so Patriotic it would be a better world.” President Laila Volpe, Rome Council, U.S. Navy League). Letters of invitation also went out to US Ambassador Thorne, the Naval Attaché, the Community Liaison Officer, the Cultural Attaché. (Susan Fiorentino, with much effort, got our notice into the U.S. Embassy’s weekly newsletter, twice!) Thursday I arrived in Rome from Berlin on the Thursday before the Saturday ceremony. After settling into my Bed & Breakfast, I walked to the Cemetery for my appointment with the Director. As I passed through the front gate, I glanced up the hill in the vague direction of the grave – and instantly smiled, for from there, half-way up the hill, I had the distinct impression that the Angel of the Tomb was smiling back at me - in all her white glory! You see, when I left her two years ago, she was covered in gray and green. The Tomb in 2010 And now, she was dressed in a gown of white. The newly-restored Family Tomb of Captain T.J.Page in 2012 And I knew the work and the money had been worth it! I found the Director, Dr Amanda Thursfield, to be as delightful in person as in her many emails of the last two years. Susan Fiorentino, our local Daughter of the Confederacy in Italy joined us. Susan is a distant relative of Captain Page and she enthusiastically acted as our local monitor during the restoration. Dr. Thursfield immediately took us to the tomb. And my first impression was confirmed – the Tomb had been transformed! It now literally shone in the sunlight! Friday: On Friday morning, I again met with Dr Thursfield. I had to wait for her because she had a funeral going on. (The NCC is the oldest still-active cemetery in Rome). The rest of the day I spent preparing for the next day. In the late afternoon, our Camp Commander, Achim (Archy) Bänsch arrived from Germany. We found ourselves a nice restaurant, literally around the corner from his hotel. We ate and talked until late evening, since it is not often that this Commander and Adjutant can sit down and discuss Camp affairs face-to-face. Saturday : “It was a beautiful summer’s morning in Rome….” That is the only way to describe the Saturday morning of the ceremony. Archy walked the ten minutes from his hotel to pick me up after breakfast and together we walked the few minutes to the Cemetery. Yes, it really was warm (29°C / 85°F) – and I was dressed in the wool coat of a Surgeon of the Confederate Navy, but there was a delightful breeze. Susan, Archy and I set about preparing the Chapel. We placed a 50-star U.S. Flag on the Chapel pole and we placed our SCV Camp flag on a pole we had brought. I placed my C.S. Navy hat and a pair of white gloves on the solitary chair, as if the Captain had just placed his own there. The Chapel Drs Thursfield and Stanley-Page arrived – and we were then ready. Now all we needed were the guests! We had dreamed of a major event in Rome. But realistically 21st Century Rome has little interest in a 19th-Century American naval figure, especially in early September. The date of the ceremony, which had to be in early September, was good for us but impossible for the Romans who are still away on vacation because of the heat! Then the few, the hearty, the brave came.
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