November is fast passing us by and soon it will be December. We began the month with a great dedication service at the Matthew Johnson cemetery in Summerville. we had a nice turnout and several speakers that included Ms. Beth Cavin, and Representative Barbara Reece. Photos are on or camp website athttp://scv507.weebly.com
On Saturday, November 14th, Stan Nix, Scott 'Snake' Brock, Roger Cothran, and myself went back to Farmersville cemetery and worked about 5 or 6 hours clearing brush and hauling out logs, trees, and debris. Mr. Lowerys horses are still able to roam freely through the cemetery as the fence is still on the ground. I think we should really start looking to ways to raise money to replace the fence. Ya'll think about it and get back to me on it. December is already looking to be packed ... or at least the first weekend. We’re scheduled to be at the Christmas in The Park in Summerville on Thursday night, Dec 3rd. The following night, Dec. 4th is the Christmas party with the LaFayette and Chickamauga camps in LaFayette . Sunday the 6th is the Victorian Window display in downtown Summerville, and Monday the 7th is the Christmas Parade.
I hope everybody can attend these events and enjoy the good company of our fellow camp members.
Have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving,
Dale Camp 507 Commander
Gentlemen, I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. The Christmas season is now upon us, and with that comes all the special events of that season.We have a few things to do next weekend. Next Thursday, Dec. 3rd, at about 5:00, I'd like as many of us as can come to meet at Dowdy Park in Summerville for our Christmas in the Park living history display. I hope we have a big turn out. Bring muskets! We'll try to get a demonstration volley off at some point. If you have a uniform, wear it!
The following night, Friday, the 4th, is the annual joint Christmas party hosted by the Chickamauga and LaFayette camps and one to which we have been invited for the last three years. This year will be a little different. Instead of pot luck, it's being catered and the host camps have decided to ask each attendee to pay $10.70 per plate. I suggested at our October meeting that you can pay me and I'll just give the host camps a single check to cover the total cost. If you ARE going to the party, please let me know in advance. I told them to expect at least 15 from Camp 507.
Sunday, Dec 6th is the Victorian Window display in downtown Summerville. It starts at 2 pm and runs to 6 pm. I'd like to have the same guys in the window as last year: Jamie Cavin, Stan Nix, Jim Nicholson, Michael Nicholson, and Joel Ulrich ..... in full Confederate uniform. Camp Chaplain Dale Willingham is in charge of this event for us and can fill you in on more of what they want and don't want. Everyone else should go by and look at the great displays in the windows.
Then on Monday, December 7th is the Summerville Christmas parade. We are scheduled to march in the parade most likely from the Huddle house to about Armstrongs BBQ and we'll peel off somewhere in that area. Those who have a Confederate uniform should wear it. Those who don't can still march. Just wear khaki pants and a white shirt. Maybe you can carry a banner or something. I'll also need a couple of people to ferry folks from where we leave our cars to the jump off point. Again, bring your musket! Maybe we'll shoot up downtown or something.I should have an exact time for this event by next Monday.
As usual, if there are questions or concerns, call me as soon as is possible at 706 331-1255 or e-mail me at [email protected]
Dale Mitchell Commander Chattooga Camp 507 SCV
Chaplains CornerI have done my duty under as deep a sense of responsibility to God and man, as I have ever felt. Under a full conviction that the salvation of the whole country is century. Bright and happy days are yet before us; and before another political earthquake shall shake the continent, I hope to be "where the wicked cease from troubling and where the weary are at rest."
It only remains to say, that whatever be the fortunes of the South, I accept them for my own. Born upon her soil, of a father thus born before me from an ancestry that depending upon the action of the South, I am impelled to deepen the sentiment of resistance in the Southern mind, and to strengthen the current now flowing towards a union of the South, in defense of her chartered rights. It is a duty which I shall not be called to repeat, for such awful junctures do not occur twice in a occupied it while yet it was a part of England's possessions she is in every sense, my mother. I shall die upon her bosom she shall know no peril, but it is my peril no conflict, but it is my conflict and no abyss of ruin, into which I shall not share her fall. May the Lord God cover her head in this her day of battle!
THANKSGIVING SERMON
DELIVERED AT THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH , NEW ORLEANS , ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1860,
BY
REV. B. M. PALMER, D.D.
The Confederate States of America
There had been many woeful misunderstandings between North and South in the years that led up to the Civil War, but the most tragic misunderstanding of all was that neither side realized, until it was too late, that the other side was desperately in earnest. Not until the war had actually begun would men see that their rivals really meant to fight. By that time it was too late to do anything but go on fighting. Southerners had been talking secession for many years, and most people in the North had come to look on such talk as a counter in the game of politics. You wanted something, and you threatened that dire things would happen if you did not get what you wanted; but you didn't necessarily mean to do what you were threatening to do, and there was no sense in taking brash words at their face value. America as a nation of poker players understood all about the business of calling bluffs. Not until the guns began to go off would the North realize that when men like Jefferson Davis talked about seceding from the Union they meant every word of it. The same was true, in reverse, in the South. It seemed incomprehensible there that the Federal Union meant so much in the North that millions of people would be ready to make war to preserve it. The North seemed to dislike both slavery and slave owners; to the average Southerner, it stood to reason that the North would be happy to get rid of both.
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"Whether in the United States the citizen owed allegiance to the Federal Government as against his State Government was a question upon which men had divided since the birth of the Republic. The men of the North responded to the call of the sovereign to whose allegiance they acknowledged fealty--the men of the South did the same. It was a battle between rival conceptions of sovereignty rather than one between a sovereign and its acknowledged citizens."Henry Carter Stuart, Governor of Virginia , Dedication of the Virginia Memorial at Gettysburg , Friday, June 8, 1917
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Not for fame or reward, Not for place or for rank, Not lured by ambition, Or goaded by necessity, But in Simple Obedience to Duty As they understood it, These men suffered all, Sacrificed all, Dared all--and died.
(Inscription on the monument to the dead of the Confederate States Army, Arlington National Cemetery , Washington , D.C.)
This month in history November 4, 1862 - Richard Gatling patented his first rapid-fire machine gun which used revolving barrels rotating around a central mechanism to load, fire, and extract the cartridges.
November 6, 1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th U.S. President and the first Republican. He received 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote.
November 15, 1864 - During the U.S. Civil War, Union troops under General William T. Sherman burned Atlanta
November 19, 1863 - President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address during ceremonies dedicating 17 acres of the Gettysburg Battlefield as a national cemetery. Famed orator Edward Everett of Massachusetts preceded Lincoln and spoke for two hours. Lincoln then delivered his address in under two minutes. Although many in attendance were at first unimpressed, Lincoln 's words have come to symbolize the definition of democracy itself.
November 24, 1863 - The Battle of Chattanooga took place during the U.S. Civil War as General Grant's soldiers scaled heavily fortified Lookout Mountain and overran Confederate General Braxton Bragg's army.
"To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we submit 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 he loved and which made him glorious and which you also cherish. Remember it is your duty to see that the true history of the South is presented to future generations."
Credit: John A. Griffin GASCV
Quotes of Robert E. Lee
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God. Quotes of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time... Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.
·Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet! (Stonewall Jackson 's reply to Colonel B.E. Bee when he reported that the enemy were beating them back. At the first battle of Bull Run, July 1861)
Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time... Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.
Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time... Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.