UPCOMING EVENTS. COMMANDER S CORNER by Larry Joe Reynolds. Vol. 1, No. 5 Copyright 2015 November 2015

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1 ol. 1, No. 5 Copyright 2015 November 2015 COMMANDER S CORNER by Larry Joe Reynolds Well, it appears that the 1 st Lt. David Richard Reynolds Camp is off to a good start! Thanks to all of you and to the Officers and Men of 5 th Brigade we will soon be a fully Chartered Camp. All of the paperwork and Applications have already been sent to Division and National. Although it may take a little longer than normal to get everything processed due to the amount of applications being received at National, we should have everything back in a couple of months. Robert, Richard and John, we missed you at our last meeting and hope to see you Monday night. One of the items I want to discuss at our meeting is the forming of some committees. I think it s important that we start with at least a Membership Committee and a Fund Raising Committee. Robert, please consider heading the Membership Committee and Rex will you please consider chairing the Fund Raising Committee. I would like three or four members on each committee so if any of you are interested in serving on one or both of these committees please let me know. As our camp grows we will be needing to add other committees, such as, Awards Committee, Grave Registration Committee, Building Committee, and By-Laws Committee, just to name a few. I have some exciting news for the Fund Raising Committee, but I will keep it until our meeting on Monday. I sincerely hope that each and every one of you becomes active in the Camp and help us to grow. UPCOMING EVENTS Monday, November 2nd, 7:00 p.m. Refreshments at 6:30 p.m. Old Union Community Center Hwy 67E, Mount Pleasant, Texas CIVIL WAR WEEKEND November 21 st and 22 nd, 2015 Hempstead, Texas Civil War Weekend at the Historic Liendo Plantation in Hempstead, Texas. See for full information. CEMETERY MEMORIAL October 3, 2015 Hopewell Cemetery, Winnsboro, Texas Muster at 9:00 a.m. Directions: In Winnsboro, TX at the intersection of Hwy 37 and Hwy 515 go west on Hwy 515 approx. 3.8 miles. Turn left on Wood County Road 4878 (south) go approx. ½ mile to Wood Co. Road 4870 at this intersection is Crossroads Church -- Turn right (west) on Go Approx. ½ to ¾ miles. Cemetery is on the left TEXAS REUNION June 3-5, 2016 YO Ranch Resort and Conference Center 2033 Sidney Baker (TX Hwy 16) Kerrville, TX See for full information 2016 NATIONAL REUNION July 13 th 17 th, 2016 Renaissance Dallas Richardson Hotel 900 E. Lookout Drive Richardson, Texas

2 Vol. 1 No. 5 Copyright 2105 Page 2 See for full details. DAVIDRREYNOLDS.ORG This month the following changes have been made to our web site: I ve added the latest Newsletter, Minutes and Financial Report I added Pictures from the October 3 rd Graveside Memorial at Winnsboro, Texas. I ve added an On-Line Store where we can sell items as a fund raising project. Let me know if you have any ideas of things we can sell. If you have any suggestions, recommendations or comments you can send me an to: Joe.Reynolds@davidrreynolds.org and I promise to give it my full consideration. Our Charge "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 BATTLES FOUGHT DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER Battle of Belmont - Belmont Missouri 7 November General Leonidas Polk verses General Ulysses S. Grant. Casualties: 642 Confederate, 607 Union! Battle of Kelly's Ford and Rappahannock Bridge - Kelly's Ford and Rappahannock Bridge Virginia 7 November General Robert E. Lee verses General Robert Segwick. Casualties: 2023 Confederate, 419 Union! Battle of Chattanooga - Chattanooga Tennessee {Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge} November General Braxton Bragg verses General Grant and Thomas. Casualties: 6667 Confederate, 5824 Union! Battle of Honey Hill - Honey Hill South Carolina 30 November General Gustavus W. Smith verses General John P. Hatch. Casualties: 50 Confederates, 711 Union! Battle of Franklin - Franklin Tennessee 30 November General John Bell Hood verses General John M. Schofield. Casualties: 6252 Confederates, 2326 Union! Lindsey Marion "L.M." Tillery Private Company L, 3rd Alabama Infantry Lindsey Marion Tillery was born May 14, 1844 in Covington County, Alabama. He was one of 11 children born to Milton C. and his first wife Penelope. By 1850, his family had moved to Pike County. It is what is now Bullock Co., Alabama. Three of his brothers, Milton Jared, William Joshua

3 Vol. 1 No. 5 Copyright 2105 Page 3 and Calvin Erastus migrated to Panola County, Texas in the late 1850 s. One of his brothers, John Bunyon, served in Company L of the 3rd Alabama Infantry. He died in the service of the Confederate States of America. Lindsey M. also served in this outfit but survived the War and lived to the ripe old age of 91. He married his wife Emaline Arrington December 3, 1873 in Bullock County Alabama. She bore him 11 children before she died in Sinton, TX, October 31, They lost the last baby in infancy in This child whose name was Dewey was laid to rest in an Arrington Family cemetery on private property with his grandparents William Robert and his wife, Cenie Dykes Arrington. Four of their children were born in Alabama before they migrated to Upshur County and Wood County, TX area before The first three children born in Texas were all girls, two of them twins. One of the twins, Genie Victoria married Will Hallonquist. They had eight children that lived to adulthood. One of their daughters, Lorena Hallonquist Stokes, lived to be in her 90 s. In her last year when shown a picture of Lindsey with his beautiful long white beard she reflected on how he lived with them up until his death, and she was the one who also trimmed his beard. He was a somewhat successful farmer, purchasing two different tracts of land. It was during an attempt to do farming in a bigger and better way that he moved to where his daughter, Queen Anne Tillery Gillespie, was living in Sinton, TX. It was here that he lost his wife of 39 years. He did not die for another 23 years. He died in Wood County, Texas, March 17, He was buried in Hopewell Cemetery next to another Veteran, S. R. Reynolds, who served in Company B of the 51st Alabama Calvary. I have often wondered if this is the man in the photo of Lindsey M. Tillery and a friend at a Veterans Reunion. SICKNESS & DISTRESS John Miller, San Antonio Camp, Get Well Card, he had a pace maker put in plus a couple of stents. He said he is really sore. He will be out of commission for quite a while. Larry Harper, Upshur County Patriots, Sympathy Card. Compatriot Larry s Mother. Peggy Joyce Harper, passed away on October 12, LAST MEETING During our last meeting on October 5 th, 3 rd Lt. Commander Bill Sterns, Upshur County Patriots, presented Commander Joe Reynolds with a check for $ to help defray the cost of starting up a new Camp. Our deepest appreciation goes out to Bill and the Upshur County Patriots. During the meeting we also presented 1 st Lt. David Richard Reynolds Camp Charter Member certificates to our members who were present. Receiving the certificates were:

4 Vol. 1 No. 5 Copyright 2105 Page 4 O.M. Adams Jimmy Reynolds Richard Fountain Tommy Reynolds Kenny Phillips Rex McGee

5 Vol. 1 No. 5 Copyright 2105 Page 5 boundaries that guarded against confusion, corruption and deceit. Just as the Israelites of old placed landmarks on the ground to maintain order, God has placed landmarks in His Word to set boundaries concerning our behavior. When we conduct ourselves according to God's landmarks, we honor Him and we live as good neighbors. There are also landmarks in our heritage. We observe customs, traditions and symbols that keep us connected to our cherished history. Michael Mars In recent months, we have witnessed the removal of what we consider old landmarks and the blurring of sacred boundaries. Many of the time-honored rights, laws, and symbols that we hold dear have come under assault. We undoubtedly live at a point in history that is as critical as anybtime in our nation's history. Let us be true to the Old Landmarks! FROM SCV TELEGRAPH Compatriots and friends, "Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set." Proverbs 22:28 After we have traveled a particular route a number times, we begin to recognize certain landmarks. Whether they are natural landmarks, such as trees or physical features, or man-made structures, landmarks have long been used to help travelers find their way. In ancient Israel, men would set stones in the ground to mark property lines. As time passed and property was handed down through subsequent generations, young people were taught to honor the landmarks set by their forefathers. The landmarks were sacred Since June the Sons of Confederate Veterans, as an organization and as individual members, have endured much. Unfortunately we will continue to endure all those who hate us. I am proud how each of you have persevered, and like our ancestors who were outnumbered, we shall be victorious in the end. With all this in mind, I would like to reflect on another piece of history. Today, 25 October is not only Saint Crispin's Day but is also the 600th Anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt. This battle is forever immortalized in William Shakespeare's play Henry V. It is in Act 4, Scene 3, where King Henry gives a speech to his outnumbered men as they are about to go into battle. This speech is motivational and uplifting in any century. As we, the SCV, continue to move forward in the current culture war, take the time to read the words below and remember your ancestors, those band of brothers who fought outnumbered for what they knew was right!

6 Vol. 1 No. 5 Copyright 2105 Page 6 This day is call'd the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say "To-morrow is Saint Crispian." Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say "These wounds I had on Crispian's day." Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember, with advantages, What feats he did that day. Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words- Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester- Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red. This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. You know your places: God be with you all! Deo Vindice! Charles Kelly Barrow Commander-in-Chief Sons of Confederate Veterans EIGHTEENTH TEXAS INFANTRY The Eighteenth Texas Infantry was organized during the summer and fall of 1862, specifically May 13, 1862, in Jefferson, Texas, in Marion County. The entire career of the Eighteenth was spent within the Trans-Mississippi Department, and the regiment had up to eleven companies and participated in more than twenty military engagements. The Eighteenth was also known as Ochiltree's regiment. The eleven companies of the Eighteenth Texas Infantry were: Company A from Cherokee County commanded by Capt. Matthew A. Gaston; Company B from Rusk and Marion counties commanded by Capt. R. Z. Buckner; Company C from Rusk and Cherokee counties commanded by Capt. Thomas R. Bonner; Company D from Jefferson and Marion counties commanded by Capt. John K. Cocke; Company E known as the Grayrock Volunteers from Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, commanded by Capt. Richard Keningham; Company F from Homer, Angelina, and Titus counties commanded by Capt. Joseph G. W. Wood; Company G from Rusk County commanded by Capt. J. Dansby; Company H from Coffeeville, Upshur County, commanded by Capt. J. W. Duncan; Company I from Shelbyville, Shelby, and Rusk counties commanded by Capt. W. W. Thompson; Company K from Jacksonville, Cherokee County, commanded by Capt. W. H. Lovelady; Company L commanded by Capt. James McKnight. During late 1862 a detachment of the unit was temporarily mounted and ordered south of the Rio Grande into Mexico, where a large herd of cattle had been purchased for the Confederacy. The detachment brought these cattle back across the Rio Grande to Central Texas. In October 1862 a new division was formed, and the Eighteenth Texas Infantry was incorporated into the First Brigade. In December, John G. Walker assumed command of the division, and the division was later known as "Walker's Greyhounds" denoting its many long, forced marches back and forth across Louisiana and Arkansas. In January 1863 the division was sent to the Arkansas Post, located on the Arkansas River near the Mississippi River, to assist in its defense.

7 Vol. 1 No. 5 Copyright 2105 Page 7 They arrived too late to help. They were sent on two long marches one via the Red River to counter Gen. Nathaniel Banks in Alexandria, Louisiana, and one to Perkins Landing, fifteen miles from Vicksburg. Both times they arrived too late, and their participation was limited to skirmishing with several Union gunboats. The Eighteenth saw action on June 7, 1863, at Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, with 184 casualties, including two officers killed. They again saw action on June 15, 1863, at Richmond, Louisiana, where they were commanded by Col. David B. Culberson. They crossed the bayou and charged the enemy at the point of the bayonet, driving them into the timber. On November 3, 1863, the Eighteenth was in a battle at Bayou Bourbeau, near Grand Coteau, Louisiana. The infantry brigade was formed in a battle line composed of the Fifteenth, Eighteenth and Eleventh Texas infantries. The Fifteenth was commanded by Col. Joseph W. Speight, and they took their position on the right of the brigade. The Eighteenth was commanded by Col. Wilburn H. King and was assigned to the center, while the Eleventh, commanded by Col. Oran Milo Roberts, took their position on the left of the brigade. The battle lasted three hours with twenty-one killed, eighty-two injured, and thirty-eight taken prisoner. On April 8, 1864, the Eighteenth Texas Infantry engaged in battle at Sabine Cross Roads, near Mansfield, Louisiana. The battle was a stunning victory for the Confederates under the command of Gen. Richard Taylor. This defeat for the Union ultimately caused General Banks to abandon his march toward Shreveport and turn back to New Orleans. The Confederates lost about 1,000 in the battle. Walker's Texans, including the Eighteenth, engaged General Banks again on April 9, 1864, with an attempt to separate Banks from his gunboat on the Red River, sixteen miles to the east. They fought at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, with 1,200 casualties for the Confederacy and 1,369 for the Union. During mid-1864 the Eighteenth Texas Infantry served at Shreveport, Louisiana, and in early 1865 the unit was moved to Hempstead, Texas. Although the regiment is listed among the Confederate Trans- Mississippi forces surrendered at Galveston, it had already ceased to exist by that date. An unofficial report states that the regiment disbanded at Hempstead in late May 1865 when the news of the collapse of the eastern Confederacy reached the region. There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind. Prologue Gone With The Wind A BRIEF EXPLANATION OF CONFEDERATE FLAGS To understand Confederate flags, it first helps to understand United States flags. The United States Flag

8 Vol. 1 No. 5 Copyright 2105 Page 8 This is the flag of the United States of America. It is a national flag it represents the United States as a nation. Because of its design, it is sometimes called The Stars and Stripes It is the latest in a series of starry-and-stripped flags dating to 1777, During the War for American Independence ( ), various military units used various flags. Three of those flags are pictured below. Each of these flags represented a military unit fighting for the independence of the United States, none of them represented the United States as a nation. taken from the national flag of Scotland, and alludes to the tradition that St. Andrew the Apostle was crucified on an X-shaped cross. Not all Confederate units used battle flags based on the Southern Cross. Here are four examples. 33 rd Alabama Infantry Cherokee Mounted Rifles Culpeper Minute Men Bedford Minute Men Guilford Court House These Flags represented militia units. The Culpeper Minute Men were from Virginia, the Bedford Minute Men were from Massachusetts, and the Guliford Court House flag represented a North Carolina unit. Hardee s Corps Polk s Corps NATIONAL FLAGS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Battle Flag (oblong) Battle Flag National Flag of Scotland When most people hear the phrase Confederate Flag, they think of the first two flags show above. The proper name of this design is The Confederate Battle Flag, and an often-heard nickname is The Southern Cross. These were never the national flag of the Confederate States of America. The square form was the basis of several units battle flags mostly units serving in the Army of Northern Virginia. Some used the flag as-is; others placed devices of writing such as the unit designation, o the flag. The oblong form was chiefly a Naval banner, but some Army units used it instead of the square version. The chief device on these flags (the X) is called a saltire, or sometimes St. Andrew s Cross. It is First National Flag ( 4 March 1861 to 1 May 1863) When the seceded States formed the Confederate States of America, they adopted this as their national flag. It represented the Confederate States of America as a nation. Whereas the United States flag is nicknamed The Stars and Stripes, this flag was nicknamed The Stars and Bars. As more States joined the Confederate States, more stars were added. In the confusion of battle, especially when the First National Flag was hanging limp from lack of a

9 Vol. 1 No. 5 Copyright 2105 Page 9 breeze, it looked very much like the United States Flag, so a new National Flag was called for. Second National Flag Stonewall Jackson (1 May 1863 to 4 March 1865) $ note The Second National Flag also represented the Confederate States of America as a nation, It is often nicknamed The Stainless Banner. Sometimes it is called The Stonewall Jackson Flag because one of its first uses was to drape the coffin of General Thomas Jonathan Stonewall Jackson, and because it and General Jackson s portrait were featured on a $500 note. The Second National Flag solved the problem of confusion with the United States Flag but when it was hanging limp from lack of a breeze, it looked very much like a flag of truce, so once again a new National Flag was called for. Camp Leadership Lt. David R. Reynolds Camp Mount Pleasant, Texas Commander Larry Joe Reynolds (903) Joe.Reynolds@DavidRReynolds.org 1Lt. Commander Alvin Rex McGee (903) AlvinRexMcGee@hotmail.com 2Lt. Commander Robert Eugene Jones (903) rj416b@gmail.com Sergeant-at-Arms Kenneth Roy Phillips, Jr. (903) confederateglory@yahoo.com Chaplain John Michael Mars (903) jmmars74@gmail.com Web Master / Newsletter Editor Joe Reynolds (903) Joe.Reynolds@DavidRReynolds.org Third National Flag (4 March 1865 present) The Third National Flag represents the Confederate States of America as a nation. It is often nicknamed The Blood-Stained Banner. It neither resembled the United States Flag, nor looked at rest like a flag of truce. The Gift of Time The last wishes of Alexander the Great... On his death bed, Alexander summoned his army generals and told them his three ultimate wishes: 1. The best doctors should carry his coffin The wealth he has accumulated (money, gold, precious stones) should be scattered along the procession to the cemetery...

10 Vol. 1 No. 5 Copyright 2105 Page His hands should be let loose, so they hang outside the coffin for all to see!! One of his generals who was surprised by these unusual requests asked Alexander to explain. Here is what Alexander the Great had to say: 1. "I want the best doctors to carry my coffin to demonstrate that in the face of death, even the best doctors in the world have no power to heal. 2. "I want the road to be covered with my treasure so that everybody sees that material wealth acquired on earth, will stay on earth I want my hands to swing in the wind, so that people understand that we come to this world empty handed and we leave this world empty handed after the most precious treasure of all is exhausted, and that is : TIME. We do not take to our grave any material wealth. TIME is our most precious treasure because it is LIMITED. We can produce more wealth, but we cannot produce more time. When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back. Our time is our life! The best present that you can give to your family and friends is your TIME. May God grant you plenty of TIME, to share with all! BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES & OTHER IMPORTANT DATES If they (the North) prevail, the whole character of the Government will be changed, and instead of a federal republic, the common agent of sovereign and independent States, we shall have a central despotism, with the notion of States forever abolished, deriving its powers from the will, and shaping its policy according to the wishes, of a numerical majority of the people; we shall have, in other words, a supreme, irresponsible democracy. The Government does not now recognize itself as an ordinance of God, and when all the checks and balances of the Constitution are gone, we may easily figure to ourselves the career and the destiny of this godless monster of democratic absolutism. The progress of regulated liberty on this continent will be arrested, anarchy will soon succeed, and the end will be a military despotism, which preserves order by the sacrifice of the last vestige of liberty. They are now fighting the battle of despotism. They have put their Constitution under their feet; they have annulled its most sacred provisions; The future fortunes of our children, and of this continent, would then be determined by a tyranny which has no parallel in history. Dr. James Henly Thornwell of South Carolina, in Our Danger and our Duty, 1862 NEWSLETTER EDITOR Larry Joe Reynolds 1007 Stone Shore Street Mount Pleasant, TX (903) Joe.Reynolds@DavidRReynolds.org Keesie Reynolds Nov. 10th