Winner of the 2016 Best Newsletter Award, Sons of Confederate Veterans

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1 ol. 3, No. 4 Copyright 2017 April 2017 Winner of the 2016 Best Newsletter Award, Sons of Confederate Veterans COMMANDER S CORNER by Larry Joe Reynolds March was a busy month for SCV activities. I attended the Confederate Flag Day activities at Camp Ford in Tyler, the DEC quarterly meeting in Gatesville, Camp meetings in Paris, Longview and Marshall and visited several cemeteries to place flags on our Confederate Heroes' graves. The Division is working hard on Heritage Defense issues and moving in a positive direction. The other Camps that I visited are working on various projects just as we are to further fulfilling the Charge. For those of you who do not attend other camp meetings, I would encourage you to do so whenever you get a chance. Any SCV member is always welcome in any other camp and the Calendar of Events on the 5thbrigade.org web site list all the different meeting dates and times. April is also shaping up to be a very busy month. We already have Graveside Memorial Services scheduled for the first three weekends. I would also like to take this time to invite everyone out to the Old Union Community Center on Saturday night at 5:00 p.m., April 22nd, for a Pinto Beans and Cabbage dinner. There will be music and fellowship so bring the family. This is a fund raiser for the Community Center and the proceeds will go to help improve the place we meet. Last Month we talked about having two meetings per month, we have some potential members who cannot make the 1st Monday meeting night, but could possible make another night. This is just food for thought, and I'd like to discuss it more this coming Monday Night. Another option would be to move our meeting night from the 1st Monday to say the 3rd Monday, what are your thoughts on this? Let's plan on a good discussion at our next meeting. While I'm thinking about it, I would like to Thank all of you that help provide the food we eat and the beverages we drink. And a special thanks for those that keep our members that cannot be with us in their thoughts, prayers and for taking time to contact and visit with them. UPCOMING EVENTS Monday, April 3 rd, 7:00 p.m. Refreshments at 6:30 p.m. Old Union Community Center Hwy 67E, Mount Pleasant, Texas Program: Confederate Chaplains Chaplain Michael Mars BATTLE OF PLEASANT HILL April 7 th - April 9 th, 2017 Pleasant Hill, LA Pleasant Hill re-enactments and activities in the reenactors camp will take place 3 miles north of Pleasant Hill at Hwy. 175, Pelican, LA. GRAVE DEDICATION April 8 th :00 a.m. Hubbard, Bowie County, Texas See for full details CEMETERY MEMORIAL SERVICE April 15th, :00 a.m. Marietta, Cass County, Texas See for full details

2 Vol. 3 No. 4 Copyright 2107 Page 2 CIVIL WAR WEEKEND May 5 th May 7 th, 2017 Jefferson, Texas See: CEMETERY MEMORIAL SERVICE May 13 th :00 a.m. Old Mings Cemetery, Gilmer, Texas See for full details 2017 TEXAS DIVISION REUNION June 2 nd 4 th, 2017 Radisson Hotel 2540 Meacham Blvd., Fort Worth, Texas See for full details NATIONAL REUNION July 18 th 23 rd, 2016 Sheraton Downtown Hotel 250 N. Main Street Memphis, TN See for full details. 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 Remember, it is your duty to see that the true history of the South is presented to future generations! DAVIDRREYNOLDS.ORG This month the following changes have been made to our web site: I ve updated our Events page to include all known events by the Camp and its members. Please let me know when you do anything for the SCV, this includes attending other camp meeting, public speaking, or even putting flags on graves. I ve updated our Calendar of Events. I m still looking for biographies of your Confederate Ancestor. Please try to come up with a short bio that we can put on-line. 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. Perryman Taylor Black Private 2nd Texas Cavalry Perryman T. Black was born in Georgia in His first wife was Margaret Harris, who was born in 1821 in Georgia. She was the daughter of James and Lucretia Harris who are buried in Green Hill Cemetery. Perryman and Margaret were married in Alabama in the late 1830's; and in a few years moved to Jefferson, Texas, where he had a tannery and a leather and harness shop. They lived in Jefferson until about 1855 when he sold his business and moved to Titus County, settling on lands he had

3 Vol. 3 No. 4 Copyright 2107 Page 3 purchased out of Major Farris Survey in what is now White Oak community of the county. This was on the Mt. Pleasant-Clarksville road. He has a toll bridge across White Oak Creek, and this road has always been referred to as "Black's Bridge Road". It was near this bridge that members of the Belcher family lay wait in 1895 for D. Oliver, shooting Oliver and killing John Fry. He had a grist mill west of Greenhill and the location was referred to as "Black's Mill", but all were moved in the 1880's. His home on the Major Farris Survey was destroyed by fire about Margaret Harris Black died in 1859 and was buried in Black Cemetery, which is a private cemetery near the family home. Perryman T. Black died in 1900, and was also buried in this cemetery. Long prior to his death, he had moved to El Paso County and married again; there being some children from this second marriage. He had four children by the first marriage. One of Black's neighbors in the White Oak community was George Baker, a large Negro landowner, who lived north of Black on the edge of White Oak Creek bottom. George Baker outlived Perryman T. Black by a good many years; and as long as George was living, he took care of the Black Cemetery, seeing that it was fenced and kept clean. There were several monuments in the cemetery and probably 15 to 20 graves. After George Baker's death, the Perryman T. Black descendants bought a lot in Greenhill Cemetery and moved the monuments from the Black Cemetery to Greenhill Cemetery, but no effort was made to remove the remains of the various ones who had been buried there. Traylor Russell, Author ARKANSAS OFFICIALLY DUMPS ROBERT E. LEE Arkansas' governor, Asa Hutchinson, signed legislation Tuesday ending the state's practice of commemorating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the third Monday of January. Hutchinson championed the bill, which also expands what is taught in schools about "civil rights," saying it will unify the State and improve its image. His signature comes two years after similar efforts failed before a legislative panel, with critics saying it belittles the state's Confederate heritage. Despite reports that Lee would receive a day of his own on the second Saturday in October, Lee will NOT be receiving a State Holiday in Arkansas. Arkansas has had a holiday in honor of Lee since Alabama and Mississippi are now the only states that still observe the Lee State Holiday on the third January of January. Arkansas' officials are already encouraging a proposal is pending in the Alabama Legislature to end that state's holiday in January and merge the commemoration of Lee's birthday to Confederate Memorial Day, which Alabama celebrates as a state holiday in April. The measure has yet to clear a legislative committee. No bills to end the dual holiday were filed in Mississippi this year. SEVEN CIVIL WAR STORIES YOU DIDN'T LEARN IN HIGH SCHOOL For many American historians, the Civil War is the climax in the story of how the United States came to be what it is today. But it's also a source of some bizarre and surprisingly cool trivia. I ll bring you one each month. 3. THE UNION USED HOT AIR BALLOONS AND SUBMARINES The balloons, directed by aeronaut Thaddeus Lowe, were used to spot enemy soldiers and coordinate Federal troop movements. During his first battlefield flight, at First Bull Run, Lowe landed behind Confederate lines, but he was rescued.

4 Vol. 3 No. 4 Copyright 2107 Page 4 The Union Army Balloon Corps got no respect from military officials, and Lowe resigned when he was assigned to serve, at a lower pay grade, under the director of the Army Corps of Engineers. In all, the balloonists were active for a little under two years. In contrast, the paddle-powered Alligator submarine saw exactly zero days of combat (which is why it can't officially be called the U.S.S. Alligator). It suffered from some early testing setbacks, but after some speed-boosting tweaks, it was dispatched for Port Royal, South Carolina, with an eye towards aiding in the sack of Charleston. It was to be towed south by the U.S.S. Sumpter, but it had to be cut loose off of North Carolina on April 2, 1863, when bad weather struck. Divers and historians are still looking for the Alligator today. But the undersea capers don't end there. A few months after the loss of the Alligator, the CSA launched their own submarine, the H.L. Hunley, named after its inventor. The Hunley attacked and sank the U.S.S. Housatonic off the coast of Charleston, making it the first submarine ever to sink an enemy ship. The only problem is that it also sank soon afterwards, and all eight crewmen drowned. Thompson was born June 3, 1844 to Robert Staley and Phillis Corley, according to information provided by Guy from the Old Edgefield District Genealogical Society. Thompson served as cook for the Confederacy in Company A, 1st Regiment of the Reserves. She served continuously from Sept. 1, 1863 to the end of the war in Thompson, whose occupation was in farming, applied for a Confederate pension in 1923 and the pension was approved. Thompson died at the age of 84 on June 4, 1928 in Aiken County, Tabernacle Township and was buried at an unmarked grave at Smyrna Baptist Church in the same community. Guy said there are efforts to get a Confederate tombstone on her grave. Several of Thompson's family members and supporters assembled at the Statehouse for her recognition. The South Carolina division of The Sons of Confederate Veterans and the State's United Daughters of the Confederacy both supported the resolution along with the State's African-American Chamber of Commerce. SENATE RECOGNIZES BLACK FEMALE CONFEDERATE VETERAN A Black Confederate Veteran with ties to Aiken County, South Carolina was recently recognized by the State Senate after her family discovered what they describe as a remarkable story. The Senate presented a resolution on Feb. 21 to the family of Lavinia Corley Thompson, of Salley, to honor Thompson, who served in the Confederacy during the WBTS. Thompson is the only known female black Confederate Veteran in the state of South Carolina, said Tonya Guy, with the Old Edgefield District Genealogical Society. LAST CAMP MEETING Although we had a poor turnout, we had a very productive and enjoyable meeting. This month we decided to hold a business meeting instead of having a guest speaker. We discussed to possibility of going to two meetings per month, appointing committees to work on our scholarship, awards and camp leadership. We also discussed Fund Raisers, and the cost and breakdown of the Confederate Purple Heart and the CSA Army Service Medal was discussed. Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies

5 Vol. 3 No. 4 Copyright 2107 Page 5 them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction. Sir William Wallace, 1281 Walker s Greyhounds By W. Michael Hurley Walker's Texas Division was organized at Camp Nelson, near Austin, Arkansas, in October The only division in Confederate service composed, throughout its existence, of troops from a single state. It took its name from Major General John George Walker, who took command on January 1, During its existence it was commonly called the "Greyhound Division" or "Walker's Greyhounds in tribute to its special capability of making long, forced marches from one threatened point to another within the Trans-Mississippi Department. Elements of the division attempted to relieve the siege of Vicksburg by attacking the federal troops at Millken's Bend in June and took part in the battle of Bayou Boubeau in Louisiana in November The high point of its service came during the early months of 1864, when it opposed Federal Major General Nathaniel Bank's invasion of Louisiana by way of the Red River Valley. On April 8-9, 1864, Walker s Greyhounds were committed with other Confederate forces in the battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, halting Bank's advance on Shreveport, LA and Marshall, TX. On April 10, 1864, with Thomas J. Churchill's and William H. Parson's division, the Greyhounds began a forced march north to intercept Federal Major General Frederick Steele, who was moving from Little Rock to Camden, Arkansas, in cooperation with Bank's invasion from the South. Stelle reached Camden on April 15, then evacuated it on the 27th. On the 30th he was overtaken by Confederate forces, including Walker's Division, at Jenkin's Ferry on the Saline River, fifty-five miles north of Camden. The ensuing fighting was desperate, costing the lives of two of the three brigade commanders of the division, Brigadier General William Read Scurry and Brigadier General Horace Randal. Steele completed his withdrawal to Little Rock, ending the last real threat to western Louisiana and Texas during the war. In June 1864, General Walker was directed to assume command of the District of West Louisiana, and Major General John Horace Forney took command of the division. During March and April 1865, the division marched to Hempstead, Texas where the men disbanded themselves in May To the novice Historian, the fighting service of Walker's Texas Division may seem less arduous than that of many similar commands in the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee. However, it operated efficiently, under extreme and peculiar difficulties unknown east of the Mississippi River and it deserves major credit for preserving Texas from the devastation, robbery, rape, and destruction which usually accompanied Federal invasion. So, the next time you pass that beautiful old historic Marshall courthouse, or do genealogy record research on your Texas roots, give a tip of the hat to old Major General John George Walker, and his brave Texan Greyhounds who kept Texas from the Union torch! BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES & OTHER IMPORTANT DATES April 4 th - Randy Brock April 6 th - Bill & Patricia Guy April 23 rd - Confederate Memorial Day for Alabama and Mississippi.

6 Vol. 3 No. 4 Copyright 2107 Page 6 April 26 th - Confederate Memorial Day for Georgia and Florida. BATTLES FOUGHT DURING THE MONTH OF APRIL 9 April General Richard Taylor verses General Nathaniel P. Banks. Casualties: 1500 Confederate, 1369 Union! McLean House - Appomattox Courthouse - Appomattox Courthouse Virginia 9 April Overwhelming firepower and numbers forced General Robert E. Lee left little choice but to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant, thus ending the Confederacy's chance of winning the War for Confederate States Independence. We today have the opportunity, if we dare to roll back that surrender, and reverse the results of that horrible war. And that by the Yankee Empire's own hand! Battle of Fort Sumter - Fort Sumter South Carolina Battle of Five Forks - Five Forks Virginia 1 April General George E. Pickett verses General Philip H. Sheridan. Casualties: 5200 Confederate, 884 Union! Final Assault on Petersburg - Petersburg Virginia 2 April General Robert E. Lee verses General Ulysses S. Grant. Casualties: {Unknown} Confederates, 4140 Union! Battle of Shiloh - Shiloh Tennessee 6-7 April General Albert Sidney Johnston, General P.G.T. Beauregard verses General Ulysses S. Grant. Casualties: 10,694 Confederate, 13,047 Union! Battle of Sabine Cross Roads - Sabine Cross Road Louisiana 8 April General Richard Taylor verses General Nathaniel P. Banks. Casualties: 1000 Confederate, 2900 Union! April General P.G.T. Beauregard verses Major Robert Anderson. Casualties: 0 Confederate, 3 Union! Battle of Fort Pillow - Fort Pillow Tennessee 12 April General James R. Chalmers, General Nathan B. Forrest. Casualties: 100 Confederate, 351 Union! Battle of Jenkins Ferry - Jenkins Ferry Arkansas 30 April General Edmund Kirby Smith verses General Frederick Steele. Casualties: 443 Confederate, 528 Union! SICKNESS & DISTRESS March 1 st Get Well Card sent to Compatriot Richard Fountain, he has blood clots in legs and in really bad shape. Battle of Pleasant Hill - Pleasant Hill Louisiana

7 Vol. 3 No. 4 Copyright 2107 Page 7 Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right, a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Abraham Lincoln U.S. Congress, 1847 GUARDIAN NEWS By 1Lt Commander Rex McGee Article from The Confederatos Holiday The Confederados were some 10,000 to 20,000 Confederates who immigrated to Brazil, chiefly to the state of São Paulo, from the Southern United States after the American Civil War. Although many eventually returned to the United State after Reconstruction, some remained and descendants of Confederados can be found in many cities throughout Brazil. In 1865 at the end of the American Civil War a substantial number of Southerners left the region; The most popular destination for emigration was the Brazilian Empire. Emperor Dom Pedro II wanted to encourage the cultivation of cotton. After the American Civil War, Dom Pedro offered the potential immigrants subsidized transport to Brazil, cheap land, and tax breaks. Many Southerners who took the Emperor's offer had lost their lands during the war, were unwilling to live under a conquering army, or simply did not expect an improvement in the South's economic position. Most of the immigrants were from the states of Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina. The immigrants settled in various places, but Most of the Confederados settled in the area to the north of São Paulo, around present-day Santa Bárbara d'oeste and Americana. Dom Pedro's program was judged a success for both the immigrants and the Brazilian government. The settlers quickly gained a reputation for honesty and hard work. The settlers brought modern agricultural techniques for cotton, as well as new food crops, which spread among native Brazilian farmers. Some dishes of the American South were also adopted such as chess pie and southern fried chicken. The early Confederados continued many elements of American culture, for instance, establishing the first Baptist churches in Brazil. In a change from the South, the Confederados also educated black freedmen in their new schools. A few newly freed slaves in the United States emigrated alongside their Confederate counterparts and in some cases with their previous owners. The first generation of Confederados remained an insular community. As is typical, by the third generation, most of the families had intermarried with native Brazilians or immigrants of other origins. Descendants of the Confederados increasingly spoke the Portuguese language and identified themselves as Brazilians. As the area around Santa Bárbara d'oeste and Americana turned to the production of sugar cane and society became more mobile, the Confederados moved to cities for urban jobs. Today, only a few descendant families still live on land owned by their ancestors. The descendants of the Confederados are mostly scattered throughout Brazil. They maintain the headquarters of their descendant organization at the Campo center in

8 Vol. 3 No. 4 Copyright 2107 Page 8 Santa Bárbara d'oeste, where there is a cemetery, chapel and memorial. The descendants foster a connection with their history through the Associação Descendência Americana (American Descendants Association), a descendant organization dedicated to preserving their unique mixed culture. The Confederados also have an annual festival, called the Festa Confederada, dedicated to fund the Campo center. The festival is marked by Confederate flags, Confederate uniforms and hoop skirts, food of the American South with a Brazilian flair, and dances and music popular in the American South during the antebellum period. The descendants maintain affection for the Confederate flag even though they completely identify as Brazilian. Many Confederado descendants have traveled to the United States at the invitation of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, an American descendants' organization, to visit Civil War battlefields, attend re-enactments, or see where their ancestors lived. The Confederate flag in Brazil has not acquired the same political symbolism as it has in the United States. Many descendants of the Confederados are of mixed race and reflect the varied ethnic groups of Brazilian society in their physical appearance. Campo Cemetery with its chapel and memorial, in Santa Bárbara d'oeste, is a site of memory, as most of the original Confederados from the region were buried there. Because they were Protestant rather than Catholic, they were excluded from the local cemeteries and had to establish their own. The cemetery was originally established because the immigrants were mostly protestant in a Catholic country that wouldn t allow heretics in Catholic cemeteries. History tells us that each year 2,000 Brazilians gather at the annual festival of the Fraternidade Descendência Americana, the brotherhood of Confederate descendants in Brazil, on a plot near the town of Americana, which was settled by Southern Patriots 150 years ago. The graveyard is usually empty save for its caretaker or the odd worshipper drawn to its little brick chapel. On the April morning of the festival, a public-address system playing the Confederate battle song had interrupted the cemetery's silence. Brazilians wearing ten-gallon hats and leather jackets called out greetings and honoring the honored dead of the Confederacy. February 2017 was a good month for the Guardian Program in our Camp. Our numbers increased to 187 graves in 30 cemeteries in 4 counties attended to by 12 Compatriots. This is one of the most important duties we can ever perform for our Confederate heroes in order to insure that their graves nor their legacies will be lost to the ravages of time and history. We thank all Compatriots involved in the Guardian Program. 1 st Lt. David Richard Reynolds Camp # 2270 Sons of Confederate Veterans Current Guardians Effective February 28, 2017 Name County Cemetery Graves Adams, O.M. Titus Edwards 14 Gunn, Dennis Bowie Center Ridge 1 Guy, W. H. (Bill) Titus Ft. Sherman 3 Jones, Robert Titus Coopers Chapel 11 Love, Rodney Cass Linden 1 Love, Rodney Cass Shiloh 1 Love, Rodney Cass Antioch 7 Love, Rodney Cass Center Grove 5 Love, Rodney Cass Center Hill 2 Love, Rodney Cass Mt. Zion 2 Mars, John Michael Titus Barrett 4 Mars, John Michael Titus Long 2 Mars, John Michael Titus Marshall Springs 1 Mars, John Michael Titus White Oak 5 Springs McGee, Rex Titus Bivens 16 McGee, Rex* Titus Greenhill 24 McGee, Rex Titus Lone Star 2 McGee, Rex Titus Nevill s Chapel 8 Reynolds, James Titus Old Cookville 10 Robert Reynolds, James Titus Philips-Taylor 1 Robert Reynolds, James Morris Wheatville 2 Robert Reynolds, Jerry Don Titus Old Union 7

9 Vol. 3 No. 4 Copyright 2107 Page 9 Reynolds, Larry Titus Brantley 1 Joe* Reynolds, Larry Joe Titus Bridges Chapel 10 Reynolds, Larry Joe Morris Concord 7 Reynolds, Larry Joe Titus William Cook 1 Reynolds, Larry Joe Titus Binnion 3 Reynolds, Larry Joe Titus Tranquil 14 Reynolds, Tommy Titus Liberty Hill 15 Lee Talks With White Titus Center Grove- 9 Buffalo Yancey Talks With White Morris Blevins 14 Buffalo TOTALS Guardians (12) (4) (31) (203) * Full Guardians As usual, I ll leave you with the question that Phil Davis, Upshur Patriots CDR and Chairman of both the National and Texas Division Guardian Program always asks, Are you a Guardian? If not, why not? Greetings to each of you in the name of Him that came into this wicked world to save sinners. I would like to share a few thoughts with you concerning my Textbook, The Holy Bible, but first of all let me say that if you have never been born again you cannot understand the spiritual aspect of the Bible. It contains spiritual information about God, about angels, about man, and about Satan or the Devil. There is information about the past, the present and the future. The Apostle Paul writes in 1 Corinthians that the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. Now the natural man is one that has never been born again as opposed to the spiritual man who has. So, what we write in this column will be foolishness to some and spiritual food for others. The Holy Bible is the greatest book ever written. It is a collection of sixty six different books and letters, some of which are history, some are poetry, some of songs, some prophesy, some wisdom and proverbs, some personal letters. It was penned by some 40 different writers, but one author, who is the Holy Spirit of God. The Apostle Paul writes in 2 Timothy 3:16, All scripture is given by inspiration of God. It is centered around one person, the Godman, Jesus Christ and its central theme the eternal salvation of lost and dying men. Not all men accept the Holy Bible in this format of 66 books. For instance, the Roman Catholic Bible contains 8 or 9 books in their Old Testament that are not found in our King James Version today. They are called the Apocrypha. These books were written by men and not included in those Scriptures that Paul says are inspired of God. Several reasons that they are not and should not be included in the Bible: 1. The original Old Testament was written in the Hebrew language and the Apocryphal books were all written in Greek with the exception of one which was in Latin. 2. They were never accepted by the Jews, who were the custodians of the Hebrew scriptures. Romans 3:2 3. They contain statements that either contradict the inspired scriptures or do not agree with them and sometimes contradict themselves. For instance, in the two books of Maccabees, Antiochus Epiphanes is made to die three different deaths in three different places. 4. There are doctrines taught in these books that are at variance with the inspired Bible. 2 Maccabees 12:43-45 is the basis for the belief in purgatory. Ecclesiasticus 3:30 and Tobit 12:8-9, 17 teaches salvation by works.

10 Vol. 3 No. 4 Copyright 2107 Page 10 Tobit 6:5-8 teaches the use of magic potions to drive away the Devil. It is here in Wisdom 8 that the basis of the doctrine of theory that Mary was born sinless. These teachings are not found in the Holy Bible therefore they should be rejected by every child of God. 1 Peter 4:11, If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. This column was written as an endeavor to answer a couple of questions asked me by one of our fellow compatriots. I hope that it answers those questions to his and God s satisfaction, and that the rest of the camp finds something of value here. Sincerely, His servant and Your SCV Chaplain Brother Kelley Hinson. The consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it. Robert E. Lee NEWSLETTER EDITOR Larry Joe Reynolds 1007 Stone Shore Street Mount Pleasant, TX (903) Joe.Reynolds@DavidRReynolds.org Opinions expressed by individual writers are their own and do not necessarily reflect official positions of the 1 st Lt. David Richard Reynolds Camp #2270. Letters and articles may be submitted to: Joe.Reynolds@davidrreynolds.org (Cutoff for articles is 15th of the month) Camp Leadership 1 st Lt. David Richard Reynolds Camp #2270 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 Adjutant Vacant Chaplain John Michael Mars (903) jmmars74@gmail.com Sergeant-at-Arms Kenneth Roy Phillips, Jr. (903) confederateglory@yahoo.com Quartermaster O. M. Adams (903) toshman@gmail.com Web Master / Newsletter Editor Joe Reynolds (903) Joe.Reynolds@DavidRReynolds.org