Volume 1 Number 10 October 2019 A Publication of President Jefferson Davis Camp 175, Colorado Springs, Colorado IN THIS ISSUE “The principle for which Commanders Report 2 we contend is bound to 2nd Lt Comm’s Report 2 reassert itself, though it Make the Yankees Work may be at another time 3 for Us and in another form.” Naming the War 4 - Pres. Jefferson Davis Charge to the Sons of Confederate Veterans: "To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought. To your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier's good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which he loved and which you love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish." Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General, United Confederate Veterans, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 25, 1906 1 Greetings Compatriots and Friends! ll we ask is to be let alone. Jefferson Davis’ eight simple, powerful words are still ring true today for many Southerners. But in today’s world and society, we are asking that our heritage, monuments, A statues and history be left alone. I suppose, in some sense, we still just want to be left alone, just as President Davis desired so long ago. Now that concept may seem strange to some folks. We are, after all, still citizens of the Union that finally conquered the honorable, Christian Confederate Army. Despite the harsh treatment and perpetual prejudice, Southerners assimilated once again into the nation. Southerners adopted a positive attitude and produced some of the greatest post-war leaders, citizens and warriors. Yet despite our best efforts, we are still ostracized, brutalized, penalized and marginalized. We are still characterized as racists, Commander's Report misogynists and anarchists. Regardless of how hard we try to be “good” citizens of the USA, we are still viewed with a jaundiced eye as “second Buck Dugger class” citizens, those redneck crackers and hillbillies with the IQ of a cornpone. We will never be left alone, and we will always be “those rebels”. So, what do we do? How do we act and react? I can tell you how I will deal with this conundrum. I will engage. If I will not be left alone or accepted, I will take every opportunity to engage, correct and educate those that will not leave me alone. I will strive to disprove their lies, misrepresentations and character assaults. When I get through with them, they will wish they had “let me alone”. Each of us must decide how we will cope and react to our treatment in today’s society. Some will hide and avoid even the most benign skirmish. Others will blindly attack with reckless abandon. My recommendation is to educate yourself with the truth and facts, then strongly engage with a respectful tone. “Did you know…” Were you aware that…” Or, “Would you show me where you got that information?” These have worked well for me. Perhaps you would want to try this approach. We will face someone somewhere that has been schooled with the politically correct attitude of, “Well, everybody knows…” We must actively and strongly battle that enemy today, and every day. The Flag Lt. Commander's The Confederate Flag is not the official flag of the KKK. The KKK has used the Stars and Stripes more than the Confederate Battle Flag. Report Television, history books, the media and the schools abound in Jim Latham falsehoods and inaccuracies concerning the Confederate States of America’s Battle Flag. Mainly to outsiders this flag represents everything they fear in our history, and they associate this fear with the KKK. It is noted that at all KKK meetings, in actual photographs and films from the past, and on KKK cable access talk shows they all proudly display the U.S. flag as their banner. Norfolk, Virginia Suing the Commonwealth The city of Norfolk, Virginia is suing the Commonwealth to move a 2nd Lt. Commander's Confederate statue of a Confederate soldier. Since 2017, his monument Report has been vandalized three times with words like, "shame" and "take it down." They say that the purpose of moving the statue, for example to a Luke Montoya cemetery, is to make it less likely to be vandalized, however the Commonwealth of Virginia contains legislation that protects monuments from removal, relocation or alteration. Read the rest here: https://legalnewsline.com/stories/513708228-after-monument-of-confederate-soldier-vandalized- virginia-city-sues-to-move-it-elsewhere The Jefferson Davis Dispatch October 2019 Vol 1, Number 10 2 City of Franklin, Tennessee Employees Remove Civil War Markers A complaint has been filed against the city of Franklin by the Sons of Confederate Veterans due to unknown employees of the city removing markers commemorating generals in the Confederacy and their deaths. Eric Stuckey, City of Franklin administrator, says the markers are confusing and doesn’t know who placed them, going on to say that the reason they were taken down was due to long study by the city's Civil War Historical Commission. Read the rest here: https://wreg.com/2019/08/19/sons-of-confederate-veterans-says-markers-improperly-removed/ They Can't Keep Us Down A pole bearing the Confederate Flag was raised, ripped down and raised again in Pittsboro, North Carolina. On September 26th, in the cowardly dead of night, trespassers tore down the flag, along with pole. By the next afternoon, the Virginia Flaggers, staunch supporters of our culture, had the flag and pole upright once more. A post of theirs on Facebook reads, "We are thrilled at the reaction and support from local citizens, who are fed up with the attempts by activist liberals to eradicate local history and disrespect their veterans." Read the rest here: https://www.wral.com/confederate-flag-raised-felled-raised-again-in-pittsboro/18662513/ The Jefferson Davis Dispatch October 2019 Vol 1, Number 10 3 NAMING THE WAR. Confederate veterans of two States have lately gone on record as opposing the term “Civil War,” applied to the war during the sixties; and the South Carolina Division, U. C. V., in annual convention at Greenwood July 22 and 23, in indorsing the resolutions presented by Gen. C. I. Walker against the use of this term, also prohibited its use at or during any official reunions or other meetings of this Division. Veterans in convention at Bonham, Tex.. July 4 also indorsed similar resolutions presented by J. I. Dupree and passed them unanimously. The resolutions presented to these two conventions are so similar in expression that they are not given here in full, but in combined form as setting forth, reasons for objection to the term. The term “Civil War” can be properly applied only to wars between contending factions of the same government, and the war in the sixties was fought between two separate de facto and de jure governments, which were in existence and in complete running order before a gun was fired in that war; it means a contest between two or more portions of the people of the same country, and the Southern States had legally, constitutionally, and peacefully seceded from the other States of the Union, and therefore were not of the same country. The war between the Federal and Confederate governments was not a struggle between clans or factions, and the term would be correct only if the sovereign States so seceding did not constitutionally leave the old Union. Many people use the term “Civil War” without due consideration of its legitimate and inferential meaning and do not realize that it implies that their patriotic ancestors were traitors to the Union rather than defenders of the great American principle that all governments should rest upon the consent of the governed; and every veteran, son, or daughter of the Confederacy who uses the term pleads guilty to the old charge of rebellion which was so freely made against the South, but on which President Davis could never be brought to trial. In his resolutions General Walker suggested that the war be known as the “War of Secession”; but as there was some diversity of opinion, it was not agreed upon. The Texas veterans strongly indorsed the use of “Confederate War.” This matter will be brought before the General Reunion in Atlanta, and it is hoped that some definite term will be agreed upon and the objectionable “Civil War” be eliminated by strong prohibition. The Texas veterans also made strong protest against the use of “Yanks” as a name for the American troops of to-day, saying: “No sectional name should be applied to our armies now, and the glorious term ‘American troops,’ which was applied to our brave soldiers of the American Revolution and of the Mexican and Spanish Wars, is still good enough for us.” In response to the editorial reference to this subject in the Veteran for August, page 284, Lloyd T. Everett writes from Ballston, Va.: “It seems to me that the answer is to be found in the selfsame number of the Veteran, page 318, where Mr. Hiscocks writes from Cleveland, Ohio: ‘If you could only live where I do and see the ignorance of otherwise intelligent Northern people regarding the war for Southern independence, etc.’ “In these days of revival of Confederate principles under the name of ‘self-determination’ of freedom-loving peoples, why not dispel some of this prevailing ignorance by using a name for our struggle that will of itself help show the identity of 1861 with those of the liberty-loving nations of 1914? Stonewall Jackson called it ‘our second war of independence’ (Dabney's Life of Jackson, 1866.