[Type text] The Knoxville Guard April 2013 A Publication of the SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS Longstreet – Zollicoffer Camp #87 Knoxville, Tennessee Vaughn Hickman, Editor [email protected] H: 865-777-0880 C: 865-323-1993 Camp #87 Officers Commander’s Letter Commander…………………………….Scott Hall ST 1 Lt. Commander……………...…….Brian Fox Having recently from the Division Reunion, I’m prepared nd 2 Lt. Commander………….…………Arthur Harris to further the Charge. Let’s spread the word about the true rd 3 Lt. Commander……………….…...Richard Scott history of the Confederacy and the patriotic, selfless acts of Adjutant/Treasurer……………………John Hitt heroism by our Confederate ancestors. When their country Chaplain………….……………………..Rick Doughty and State called for action, it was your ancestors that Judge Advocate……………………….Scott Hall answered and made great sacrifices (much like our soldiers Sgt. at Arms………….…………………Stuart Ulseth of today in Afghanistan and other parts of the world). Quartermaster……………………….....Bill Bolt We need the full support of each and every member. That Publicity Director………………………Randy Tindell may not mean the same for all. Each of you has special Program Chairman …………….……..Sam Miller interests and skills which can benefit the Camp, but I Surgeon………………………..………..Larry Wolfe recognize that you also have limitations on your ability to Scrapbook………...……………………Sam Forrester serve the Camp. Please let me know how you feel you may Newsletter Editor……Vaughn Hickman-Sam Miller want to become more involved. Particularly, we presently Webmaster……………………………..Dave Jones need someone to serve as Lee-Jackson Celebration Camp Genealogist…………………….Ron Jones Promotion Director. This assignment should not take a lot of time, but is important for the event’s success and would Welcome New Member allow a member to accept a critical position in our Camp administration. Please contact me about this position. Charles H, Gerrity in honor of his great-grandfather, Pvt. Furthering our campaign, please ensure that you have the William Edward Hawley, Co. H, 32nd Virginia Infantry. following important SCV Events on your calendars. May 10 Dolly’s Parade in Pigeon Forge (Post-Parade cookout at Commander’s Home) Camp Meeting May 11 Meeting (9:00 a.m.) and Clean-up at Bethel Friday, May 10 Cemetery Saturday, May 11, 10:00 a.m., Mabry-Hazen House June 1 Decoration Day (Bethel Cemetery) Meeting & Clean-up With regard to the May 10th Dolly’s Parade in Pigeon Forge, we need all the reenactors to help for a good showing Event Schedule to the world. Non-reenactors should wear coat and tie. I plan a post-Parade social at my home in Seymour. I plan to Sat-Sun, May4-5, 9:00 – 1:00, 1:00-Close grill burgers and dogs, and ask my lovely wife to put Ramsey House Reenactment together side dishes of potato salad and baked beans. If you have a special flavor of soft drink or other beverage, you are May 10, Dolly’s Parade, Pigeon Forge welcome to bring it with you. Otherwise, I’ll have tea to serve with the meal. Saturday, June 1, Noon, Confederate Memorial Day The post-parade social / cookout will be at 523 High Bethel Cemetery Meadows Drive, Seymour, TN 37865. Spouses and girlfriends are encouraged to attend. I would love to see you [Type text] at and after the Parade; please let me know whether you will April 14, 1863 - Queen of the West , a 406-ton side-wheel join the celebration. towboat built at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1854, was converted to Thank you for communicating the true history of the a ram in 1862 for Colonel Charles Ellet's U.S. Ram Fleet. As Confederacy and the honorable purposes of the confederate Ellet's flagship, she played a prominent role in the 6 June soldier through your contributions. 1862 Battle of Memphis, which largely cleared the I am honored to serve as your Camp Commander. Mississippi of Confederate naval forces. On 2 February 1863, under the command of Colonel Charles Rivers Ellet , Queen of the West attacked the Confederate steamer City of Vicksburg under the guns of the Vicksburg fortress. Though Scott Hall, Commander damaged, she then moved down the river. For nearly two weeks, she operated independently on the Mississippi and its tributaries, where she captured four Confederate steamers. On 14 February, while seeking another prize on the Black River, Queen of the West ran aground near an enemy shore battery and was captured. Repaired, she became the Confederate warship Queen of the West . It Happened in 1863 Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863, depicting CSS Queen of the West being destroyed in Grand Lake, Louisiana, during an attack by USS Estrella (extreme April 2, 1863 - A mob demanded bread from a supply left), Calhoun (extreme right) and Arizona (second from wagon in Richmond, starting the so-called Bread Riot. The right) on 14 April 1863. mob looted other stores and was personally addressed by Jefferson Davis, who tossed the money from his pocket into the crowd. Police and soldiers eventually dispersed the crowd. April 5, 1863 - After sailing from Washington, D. C. to Fredericksburg, Abraham Lincoln met with Maj. Gen. Joe Hooker to discuss strategy in Virginia. April 7, 1863 - A fleet of 9 Union ironclads under the command of Samuel Dupont sailed into Charleston Harbor and attacked Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter. Sumter was April 16, 1863 - Rear Admiral David Porter sent 12 vessels visibly damaged but the Confederate batteries from the shore south on the Mississippi past Vicksburg. Although hit a heavily damage the 9 ironclads and they were forced to number of times by Confederate gunners, the vessels withdraw. Naval occupation of the harbor is ruled out. suffered little damage. April 11, 1863 - Col. Abel Streight [US] left Nashville, April 17, 1863 - Col. Benjamin Grierson [US] left La Tennessee on a raid of Rome, Georgia. The purpose of Grange, Tennessee at the head of a 1,700 man cavalry the raid was to destroy Southern railroad bridges. column heading towards Mississippi to raid the state, burning bridges, tearing up railroad tracks and generally April 12, 1863 - General James Longstreet surrounded creating havoc with no opposition. Suffolk in southeastern Virginia. April 17, 1863 - Brigadier General John Marmaduke [CS] April 13, 1863 - Federal forces engaged Fort Bisland in left Arkansas and entered Missouri on a raid. He planned Bayou Teche, Louisiana. to split his army of 5000 men into two columns and trap Gen. John McNeil’s force at Bloomfield between them. April 13, 1863 - On April 13, 1863, the newly-appointed McNeil received word of Marmaduke’s movements and commander of the District of Ohio, Gen. Ambrose Burnside, retreated to Cape Girardeau. Marmaduke pursued him and issued his famous General Order 38 threatening arrest of engaged in four to five hours of artillery bombardment Confederate sympathizers: “The habit of declaring sympathy before retreating to Jackson and then back to Arkansas. for the enemy will not be allowed in this department. April 19, 1863 - The Nebraska Territory enabling act, the Persons committing such offenses will be at once arrested first step in statehood, is signed into law. with a view of being tried ... or sent beyond our lines into the lines of their friends. It must be understood that treason, April 20, 1863 - Lincoln proclaimed that West Virginia expressed or implied, will not be tolerated in this would join the Union on June 20, 1863. How was West department.” Virginia able to join the Union? On June 11, 1861, mountaineer Unionists met at a convention in Wheeling. The focus of this convention was [Type text] separate statehood for western Virginia. However, there was April 22, 1863 - Grant's forces south of Vicksburg are a hurdle that stood in the way of western Virginia statehood, resupplied by Porter's fleet, which suffered heavy losses. it was something called the United States Constitution. when transports and barges steamed by Confederate batteries Seems that Article IV, Section 3, of the United States Constitution requires consent of the legislature to form a new state from the territory of an existing state. Now, as hard as it April 22, 1863 - Comprehensive "tax-in-kind" plan passed might be to believe, the Confederate legislature over in by the Confederate Senate. It required 10 percent of Richmond wasn’t eager to allow western Virginia to become everything produced or grown be given to the Confederate a separate state…and one that would be in the Union to boot. government. The answer for western Virginia was for the Wheeling convention to ingeniously form its own Virginia “restored April 27, 1863 - Col. Abel Streight left Tuscumbia, government.” You see, that Confederate legislature over Alabama, headed for Rome, Georgia. east in Richmond, the secessionist one, was considered illegal by Lincoln, so the Wheeling mountaineers declared April 27, 1863 - Major General Simon Bolivar Buckner all state offices vacant. The Wheeling convention appointed [US] assumed command of the Dept of East Tennessee. new state officials on June 20. Francis Pierpoint was now governor of Virginia, and the new state capitol was now in April 30, 1863 - Army of the Potomac forces set up camp in Wheeling. All these changes, as far as the Unionist western The Wilderness surrounding the Chancellor family home Virginia mountaineers were concerned, restored the state of after crossing the Rappahannock River. Virginia. The United States Congress would not allow a slave state April 30, 1863 - On April 30, Confederate Brig. Gen. to enter the Union, so first a bill requiring emancipation in Nathan Bedford Forrest's brigade caught up with Streight's West Virginia was passed in the US Senate in July, 1862. expedition and attacked its rearguard at Day's Gap on Sand It passed in the House of Representatives the following Mountain, Alabama.