2 1 THE KNOXVILLE GUARD November 2018 SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS Camp 87 Longstreet - Zollicoffer Knoxville, Tennessee 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. Gen. St ep hen D. Lee CAMP CALENDAR 11/13 Camp Meeting, Bleak House 7pm. 11/16 Cham of Com event Expo Center 4-7pm 12/1 Fountain City Christmas Parade. 12/2 Bleak House Christmas Tours. 12/7 WIVK Christmas Parade. Meet 5:15pm 12/8 Seymour Christmas Parade. Meet 2pm 12/9 Camp Meeting, East TN Hist Soc 2pm. 12/15 Camp 87 Christmas Party. I salute the Confederate flag with affection, reverence and undying devotion to the cause for which it stands. UP NEXT: Camp Meeting at the Bleak House, Tues 11/13, 7pm. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR CAMP EVENTS! THE ONLY THING NECESSARY FOR THE TRIUMPH OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS FOR SCV MEN TO DO NOTHING. Dedicated to all who served in the Confederate Army.
COMMANDER S CORNER Camp 87 met on Sunday October 14, 2018 at The East Tennessee Historical Society for our monthly business meeting with 38 members and guests in attendance. Byron Brady, Commander General of the Military Order of The Stars and Bars presented a program on The Escape Route of John Wilkes Booth and touched on the theory that the man killed at the Garrett farm was not Booth. During the business session that followed it was announced that Compatriot Tom Kesterson has accepted the position of Sargent at Arms. The Camp voted to have the University of Tennessee Kapa Alpha s meet us at Bleak House on Sunday November 18 to complete a week long cleanup of the grounds. I will be sending out email communications when we know exactly what days and times we are working and what tasks we are performing. Also, Judge Advocate in Chief, Scott Hall presented Division Hunley Coordinator Bob Gentry an award for Meritorious Service from National signed by outgoing Commander in Chief, Tom Strain. Finally, Camp 87 honored or more appropriately roasted Parade Coordinator, Richard Park who is leaving us for a new home and SCV Camp in Florida with a resolution signed by the Camp Executive Council. October has been another busy month for Camp 87. I want to thank Ken Williams for again hosting our annual picnic and smoking the delicious pork that we enjoyed that night. This year s event was attended by 40 members and guests and I can say that it was an excellent time of food and fellowship. Also, thank you to Sam Miller and everyone who represented us at the October Skies Festival in Oliver Springs. It is my understanding that they talked with lots of people and made some good contacts with some political folks as well. Thank you also to Rod O Barr for heading up our participation at the Civil War Roundtable s 3 day Fort Dickerson event and to all who showed up to help. Finally, thanks to John Hitt and Tom Kesterson for representing us that same weekend at the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association s event in Lenior City. We are still in search of a Parade Coordinator for Camp 87. Access to a trailer to be used for parades has been resolved in that Rod O Barr now has a trailer with seats available and Scott Hall has also volunteered the use of his trailer if needed. The missing piece is someone to organize our participation by making application to the events. I have all the contact information you need (names, phone numbers, emails, websites and etc.). If you are willing to take this responsibility please contact me by email at knoxrebs@comcast.net or phone 865-660-5655. As previously announced the Speaker for the 2019 Lee-Jackson Birthday Celebration will be State Representative Steve McDaniel. Representative McDaniel was the lead sponsor for the SCV License Tag, the establishment of the Parkers Crossroad Battlefield Park, the establishment of the Tennessee Historical Commission and the Monument Protection Act. Mr. McDaniel s topic will be It s a Political Fight Not a History Debate. In addition to explaining our current political challenges he will talk about Parkers Crossroad. Please make plans now to be at this event and invite guest and/or prospective members. Our next meeting will be Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at Confederate Memorial Hall at 7:00 pm. Michael Hardy, North Carolina Historian of year for 2010, will present a program on Kirk s Raids along the Blue Ridge. Deo Vindice, Earl John Lee, GW Murphy, and Bob Gentry were honored for their military service at the Knoxville Civil War Round Table Ft. Dickerson event.
SALUTING NEW MEMBERS Mustering in Gary Lynn Cable in honor of Pvt. Charles Garrison Gregory, Co. K, 5th Regiment Tennessee Calvary. Timothy Scott Grunau in honor of Pvt. Richard Larkin Thomas, Co. D, 5th Alabama Infantry Regiment. Welcome to the Camp! QUOTES FROM THE QUARTERMASTER "I want you to try to teach to your children and to your children's children that ours was not a lost cause. I want you to tell them that we were fighting for the right..." Gen. Wade Hampton
AROUND THE CAMP AND FOR THE CAUSE The 2018 Camp 87 Picnic hosted by Compatriot Ken Williams was another great time of food and fellowship! Thanks Ken! John Hitt sharing his expertise with the kids at Tate School of Discovery in his element! < Film Producer Bob Gentry debuts his excellent video on Camp 87 at the October meeting. Look out Michael Moore, here comes Bob! Guest speaker Byron Brady gives a power point lecture on John Wilkes Booth s postassassination escape route at our October meeting. He also spoke about efforts to revive the MOS&B. >
Recognition for his service and a sad so long to Richard Park (L) who is moving to Fl. Bob Gentry (R) presented with the Meritorious Service Award for his work as Chairman of the Hunley program. Looking back Bob Gentry (R), Navy Corpsman in the jungles of Vietnam. Thank you for your dedication to your country then and your heritage now Bob! Ken Stark and Sam Miller holding the fort at Oliver Springs October Skies Festival and mustering in new troops. Day one and day two staffs at Ft. Dickerson for the Knoxville Civil War Round Table event.
BOOK REVIEW FROM FOUNDING FATHERS TO FIRE-EATERS The Constitutional Doctrine of States Rights in the Old South By James Rutledge Roesch Whenever you tell a Leftist that the South seceded over States rights, the typical response is States rights to own slaves. What is taught in our Universities is that the claim that the war was over States rights is a part of the Lost Cause Myth to cover for the fact that the South seceded and fought over one thing slavery. In this book Roesch makes it absolutely clear that the great treatises of the Old South prove that the Constitutional doctrine of States rights was never a pretense for slavery, but reflected a deep passion for self-government that was rooted in southern culture, as well as an earnest understanding of the Constitution. Roesch describes the southern states rights tradition, which is the basis of the Declaration of Independence, in its foremost advocates own words. HAPPENING THIS MONTH IN THE WAR AGAINST SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE 11/6/1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected sixteenth president without a single Southern vote. 11/1/1861 Lincoln appoints McClellan as general-in-chief of all Union Forces. 11/8/1861 Two Confederate officials are seized while sailing toward England. 11/7/1862 Lincoln replaces McClellan with Ambrose Burnside as Commander of the Army. 11/19/1863 Dedication of the Soldier s National Cemetery at Gettysburg. 11/23 25, 1863 The Battle for Chattanooga including Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. 11/27/1863 - Siege of Knoxville begins. Troops under Longstreet lay siege to the city. 11/8/1864 Lincoln reelected president. 11/16/1864 General Sherman begins the March to the Sea. 11/30/1864 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee. John Bell Hood assaults a well entrenched line. SUBJECTS OF INTEREST IN THE WAR AGAINST SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE The Burnside Carbine was the third most used carbine in the War behind the Sharps and the Spencer. It was designed and patented in 1855 by Union General Ambrose Burnside. The carbine used a special cone shaped brass cartridge designed with a collar that sealed the breech to the chamber. The weapon had two trigger guards which when pressed together opened the breech allowing the insertion of a cartridge. When the trigger was pulled the hammer struck a standard percussion cap. Some 100,000 were built with 43 Union and 7 Confederate cavalry units being issued with the carbine. Five different models were produced and production was ended towards the end of the war when the Burnside Rifle Company received a contract to make Spencers. Chambered in.54 caliber it weighed 7 lbs and was 39.5 inches long.
IN DEFENSE OF SOUTHERN HERITAGE Abraham Lincoln issued his preliminary emancipation proclamation on 22 September 1862. It stipulated that if the Southern states did not return to the Union by 1 January 1863, the proclamation would go into effect. When the Confederacy did not yield, the final proclamation was issued. Europeans watching the conflict recalled that Lincoln was doing exactly what British Lord Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia, had done 86 years earlier against Americans seeking political independence in an effort to provoke a race war and weaken the so-called rebellion. In February of 1865, at the Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln pointed out that his proclamation had been issued only as a war measure and that as soon as the War ceased it would have no further application. Lincoln then stated that it had never been his intention to interfere with slavery in the states where it already existed and that he would not have done so during the War except that it became a military necessity. He had always been in favor of prohibiting the extension of slavery into the territories but never thought immediate emancipation in the states where it already existed was practical. He thought there would be "many evils attending" the immediate ending of slavery in those states. Secretary of State Seward brought up the point that several days before the meeting there had been a proposed 13th constitutional amendment to cause the immediate abolition of slavery throughout the United States, but if the War were to cease and the Confederates rejoined the Union, there would be enough votes to kill the amendment -- he said that there would then be 36 states and that 10 states would be enough to defeat the amendment. The Confederate delegation, however, showed no interest in protecting slavery in the Confederacy, with their only interest being independence from the Union and the protection of the right to secede. ~ John V. Denson, "The Hampton Roads Peace Conference during the War between the States" "It was not at the South, but at the North, in Connecticut, that Prudence Crandall was, for teaching colored girls, subjected to a persecution as barbarous as it was persistent. After being sued and pursued by every process of law, which a New England community could devise, she was finally driven forth into exile in Kansas. She opened her school in Canterbury, Connecticut, in April 1833, and was at once subjected to the bitterest persecution conceivable. It was all well enough to hold theories about the equal rights of all mankind; well enough to abuse the institution of slavery in Virginia, in South Carolina, in Georgia, or in Louisiana; but to actually start a n r school in Canterbury, Connecticut, was monstrous. The townmeeting promptly voted to " petition for a law against the bringing of colored people from other towns and States for any purpose, and more especially for the purpose of dissemination of the principles and doctrines opposed to the benevolent colonization scheme. "In May an act prohibiting private schools for non-resident colored persons, and providing for the expulsion of the latter, was procured from the legislature, amid the greatest rejoicings in Canterbury, even to the ringing of church bells." The most vindictive and inhuman measures were adopted against the offender; the shops and meeting-houses were closed against her and her pupils; " carriage in public conveyances was denied them; physicians would not wait upon them; Miss Crandall's own family and friends were forbidden under penalty of heavy fines to visit her; the well was filled with manure, and water from other sources refused; the house itself was smeared with filth, assailed with rotten eggs, and finally set on fire." Thomas Nelson Page 1892
PLAN TO ATTEND AND BRING A GUEST! ANNOUNCING... 26 th th Anniversary ROBERT E. LEE and STONEWALL JACKSON BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION DATE: Saturday, January 26, 2019 HOST: Longstreet-Zollicoffer Camp # 87 Sons of Confederate Veterans Knoxville, Tennessee TIME: Doors open 5 p.m. for Social Hour; Buffet Supper at 6 p.m. LOCATION: The Foundry on the World s Fair Site, Knoxville, Tennessee DRESS: COST: Period Dress or Business Attire $32 per person; $15 children 12 and under (Price includes door prize tickets) PROGRAM: We Are In A Political Battle, Not A History Debate Presented by: Steve McDaniel Former State Representative, District 72 Steve McDaniel represented District 72 in the Tennessee House of Representatives. This district includes Henderson, Chester and parts of Decatur and Wayne counties. He attended Jackson State Community College and is a graduate of the University of Memphis. During his career he has served as Deputy Speaker and Assistant Majority Leader of the State House of Representatives. Representative McDaniel was instrumental in the Sons of Confederate Veterans obtaining the vehicle license tags that we enjoy today. He was a driving force in establishing the Historical Preservation Act. He was the main sponsor of the bill that established Parker s Crossroads Battlefield Park. Representative McDaniel is the Historian of Parker s Crossroads Battlefield Association; Chair, Parker s Crossroads living history and reenactment; Member, John B. Ingram Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 219; Member, National Rifle Association; City Manager, Parker s Crossroads and Member, Tennessee Civil War Preservation Association. Make plans to join Camp 87 as we celebrate our Confederate Heritage with a night of fun and fellowship. RESERVATIONS: Reservations are required and accepted via payment, only! Seating is limited. All reservations must be received by Wednesday, January 23, 2019. Please send all payments to: LEE-JACKSON DINNER SCV Camp #87 P. O. BOX 943 KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 37901 QUESTIONS? John Hitt: 865-689-4592 Earl Smith: 865-687-2732 Ken Stark: 865-200-5601 CONTACT: Scott Hall: 865-428-9900 DID YOU FORGET??? CAMP 87 HAS 30 MEMBERS WHO HAVE YET TO RENEW YOUR CAMP MEMBERSHIP. WE NEED YOU NOW MORE THAN EVER IN THE FIGHT FOR OUR HERITAGE!!! PLEASE RE-UP AND ANSWER THE CALL.
PARTING SHOTS George S. Patton visiting the grave of his grandfather, George S. Patton Sr, who died from a wound he received during the Third Battle of Winchester. The senior Patton is buried in Stonewall Cemetery in Winchester, with his brother Waller T. Patton who died of wounds received during the Battle of Gettysburg. Although confined to a wheelchair and in nearly constant pain, Mrs. Mary Randolph Custis Lee worked hard to support her husband and the Confederate war effort. Throughout the war, she and her daughters' knitted socks for Confederate soldiers, which she sent to her husband by the hundreds to distribute to his men. Mary Lee did visit Arlington a few months before her death in 1873. Unable to get out of the carriage, someone brought her a drink of water from the well. I rode out to my dear old home but so changed it seemed but a dream of the past. I could not have realized it was Arlington but for the few old oaks they had spared & the trees planted by the Gen and myself which are raising their tall branches to the Heaven which seems to smile on the desecration around them. Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee died on November 5, 1873 at the age of 66. She is buried next to her husband on the Washington & Lee campus in Lexington, Virginia. CAMP 87 STAFF AND CONTACT INFO Commander Earl Smith - knoxrebs@comcast.net Chief of Staff/Genealogist..Ron Jones - ronann619@comcast.net 1st Lt. Commander Ken Stark 2nd Lt. Commander..Kyle Stewart 3rd Lt. Commander..David Halbrooks Adjutant/Treasurer..John Hitt - jchitt@comcast.net Chaplain.Jeff Sardella Judge Advocate/Camp Heritage/Camp Spokesman..Scott Hall scott@scottdhallesq.com Asst Camp Spokesman/Quartermaster/Newsletter..Rod O Barr Rodbobarr@icloud.com Program Chairman/Newletter..Sam Miller Hunley Award Division Chairman Bob Gentry Hunley Award Coordinator Bill Bolt Photographer.Sam Forrester Webmaster..Dave Jones Camp Website: http://www.camp87scv.org/ Camp Address: Sons of Confederate Veterans, PO Box 943, Knoxville, TN. 37901
SCV CAMP #87 P.O. BOX 943 KNOXVILLE, TN. 37901 THE KNOXVILLE GUARD