The standard Long Shall our Banner Brave The breeze - The standard of the free VOL.3. Issue Issue NO. 8 Charles demorse editor & Proprietor Grand Saline, Texas Saturday,, August 12, 2017 Saturday September 9, 9 2017 7:00 pm 29 th Texas Cavalry SCV Camp # 2269 Page 1
NORTH AMERICAN cüxáxüätà ÉÇ Éy `ÉÇâÅxÇàËá Col. Charles DeMorse s 29 th Texas Cavalry Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp # 2269 NAPOM 2017 Preserving OUR NATIONAL HISTORICAL HERITAGE Editor- Compiler : Bobby W. Smith http://napom.org/ PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTEREST OF CONFEDERATE ASSOSIATIONS AND KINDRED TOPICS Committee Members Bobby W. Smith Sr. Russell Volk Johnny M. Moore Robert C. Huff Marshall Neagle James R. Graham Meeting at Van Community Center 310 Chestnut Street Van, Texas 2 nd Saturday of Each Month 7:00PM Mailing Address: 770 VZ CR 1517 GRAND SALINE, TEXAS 75140 903-245-5631 Opinions Expressed by Individual Writers are their own and do not necessarily reflect official positions of the North American Preservation of Monuments. EVERYONE WELCOME Commander Bobby W. Smith Adjutant Russell Volk 1 st Lt Johnny M. Moore Chaplin Robert C. Huff Meeting every 2 nd Saturday 7:00 pm Van Community Center, 310 Chestnut Street Van, Texas. Newsletter Published Monthly http://www.5thbrigade.org/camp2269/ Opinions expressed by individual writers are their own and do not necessarily reflect official positions of the Col. Charles DeMorse s 29 th Texas Cavalry Camp # 2269. Letters and articles may be submitted to: bsmith9305@aol.com ( Cut off for articles is 1 st of the month.) Editor- Compiler : Bobby W. Smith Page 2
Col. Charles DeMorse s 29 th TEXAS CAVALRY SCV Camp # 2269 The Last CSA Battle Texas Commander Bobby W. Smith Fellow Compatriot s, I have copies of the old Confederate Veteran Magazine, which has been very interesting reading. Well like it has been said Get your news strait from the horses mouth many Veterans had lots of things to ponder on back in the day. Many told their versions of the war, and news of the day, and about the loses of fallen Veterans. You get a real prospective of the times in which they were living. Their stories and recollection are very interesting, and are not told by people who had no idea of what these men lived and saw with their own eyes and experience. Like our grand-paws use to do but we were to busy or to young to understand. Oh how I ve wished, to talk to them now. As I have many times visited their graves, wished for an interesting conversation, and reaching back into the articles of days gone by, the Confederate Veteran has answered my wishes. Thank You, God Bless Our Veterans Deo Vindice UÉuuç ja få à{ Confederate Veteran Magazine Nashville, Tennessee Vol. V. No. 2 FEBRUARY 1897 Pg.70 Judge J. R. Daugherty of Forney, Texas, writes concerning that last battle of the war fought in Texas, May 12, 1865: The last battle of the great war was fought at Brazos Santiago or Palmetto Rancho on the Rio Grande in Texas. Col. J. S. Ford was in Command of the forces of the Rio Grande; I was O. S. of Captain White's Company, and we were on picket at Palmetto Rancho on the 12th day of May, 1865. We knew the war was over and were not expecting an attack, but to our surprise we were attacked and our camp equipage captured. We made our way to headquarters, but were ordered back without anything to eat. Early next morning the report was that the enemy was coming. We took the position that R. E. Lee took to fight the battle of Palo Alto, May 8, 1846, in the Mexican War. Only thirty of us held two regiments in check until 11 o'clock, at which time the main force was ordered out to meet the enemy. Col. Ford deployed his small force on either side of the road leading from Brazos Santiago to Brownsville, with two pieces of Page 3
of small artillery commanding the road, and when the enemy had approached as near as it was comfortable to see them, the Confederates opened fire and the cavalry was ordered to charge. The enemy beat a hasty retreat. Some were captured, some killed and several jumped into the Rio Grande River and were drowned. The Character of Lee by John Williams Jones He possessed every virtue of the great commanders, without their vices. He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guilt. He was a Caesar without his ambition; a Frederick without his tyranny; a Napoleon without his selfishness; and a Washington without his reward. He was obedient to authority as a servant, and loyal in authority as a true king. He was gentle as a woman in life; modest and pure as a virgin in thought; watchful as a Roman vestal in duty; submissive to law as Socrates, and grand in battle as Achilles. He Lost a War and Won Immortality by Louis Redmond Even among the free, it is not always easy to live together. There came a time, less than a hundred years ago, when the people of this country disagreed so bitterly among themselves that some of them felt they could not go on living with the rest. A test of arms was made to decide whether Americans should remain one nation or become two. The armies of those who believed in two nations were led by a man named Robert E. Lee. What about Lee? What kind of man was he who nearly split the history of the United States down the middle and made two separate books of it? They say you had to see him to believe that a man so fine could exist. He was handsome. He was clever. He was brave. He was gentle. He was generous and charming, noble and modest, admired and beloved. He had never failed at anything in his upright soldier's life. He was a born winner, this Robert E. Lee. Except for once. In the greatest contest of his life, in the war between the South and the North, Robert E. Lee lost. Now there were men who came with smoldering eyes to Lee and said: "Let's not accept this result as final. Let's keep our anger alive. Let's be grim and unconvinced, and wear our bitterness like a medal. You can be our leader in this." But Lee shook his head at those men. "Abandon your animosities," he said, "and make your sons Americans." And what did he do himself when his war was lost? He took a job as president of a tiny college, with forty students and four professors, at a salary of $1500 a year. He had commanded thousands of young men in battle. Page 4
Now he wanted to prepare a few hundred of them for the duties of peace. So the countrymen of Robert E. Lee saw how a born winner loses, and it seemed to them that in defeat he won his most lasting victory. There is an art of losing, and Robert E. Lee is its finest teacher. In a democracy, where opposing viewpoints regularly meet for a test of ballots, it is good for all of us to know how to lose occasionally, how to yield peacefully, for the sake of freedom. Lee is our master in this. The man who fought against the Union showed us what unity means. General Robert Edward Lee 1807-1870 Farewell to the Army of Northern Virginia by Robert E. Lee After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles who have remained steadfast to the last that I have consented to this result from no distrust of them; but feeling that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that would have attended the continuance of the contest, I determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared them to their countrymen. By the terms of the agreement, officers and men can return to their homes and remain until exchanged. You may take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness of duty faithfully performed, and I earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend to you his blessing and protection. With an unceasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your country, and a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous consideration of myself, I bid you all an affectionate farewell. COMMANDER ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA Page 5
Page 6
SCV 2017 MEMPHIS TENNESSEE REUNION Photo Courtesy of Rebecca Smith, 29 th Texas Cavalry Regiment ATM TEXAS DIVISION COMPATRIOTS Left ATM Texas Commander Johnny Holly Commander Joe Reynolds & Capt. Marshall Neagle Texas Camp # 2270 and Camp # 2269 Page 7
Texas Camp Commanders ATM Commander Johnny Holly & Left; Bobby W. Smith & Right Joe Reynolds Adjutant Charles Bolding Texas Camp # 2269 and Camp # 2270 Texas Camp # 441 Army of Trans-Mississippi, Meeting Saturday July 22, 2017. Page 8
Dennis Brand Texas Camp # 124, and Joe Reynolds Texas Camp # 2270 Capt. Robert Huff, Rebecca Smith and Vickie Neagle 29 th Texas Cavalry Camp # 2269. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument Memphis, Tennessee. Page 9
Col. Charles DeMorse s 29 th Texas Cavalry Regiment SCV Camp # 2269, Visiting The Monument of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest Memphis, Tennessee 22, July 2017. Capt. Marshall E. Neagle, Commander Bobby W. Smith, & Capt. Robert C. Huff Page 10
GENERAL NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST MONUMENT MEMPHIS, Tennessee Page 11
Col. Charles DeMorse s 29 th Texas Cavalry SCV Camp # 2269 At the Texas Monument, Vicksburg National Battlefield, Mississippi. 7-23-2017 Pictured : Left to Right Capt. Robert Huff, Rebecca Smith, Vickie Neagle, Capt. Marshall Neagle. Page 12
Col. Charles DeMorse s 29 th Texas Cavalry SCV Camp # 2269 At the Texas Monument, Vicksburg National Battlefield, Mississippi. 7-23-2017 Pictured : Left to Right Commander Bobby Smith, Rebecca Smith, Vickie Neagle, Capt. Marshall Neagle. Page 13
COL. THOMAS N. WAUL WAUL S TEXAS LEGION, POSITION AT THE BATTLE OF VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI. Page 14
UPCOMING EVENTS Civil War Re-Enactment Days From: July 28-30-2017 Location: Frontier Village, Dennison, Texas. Contact: Commander Ben Fuhr ( 903 ) 421-4129 Grave Side Dedication SCV Events From: 08/19/2017 10:00 a.m. To: 08/19/2017 1:00 p.m. Location: Bowie County, Texas Description: Rose Hill Cemetery, Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas. Grave Dedication to Lt. Leslie C. DeMorse, the 2nd son of Col. Charles DeMorse, who enlisted early 1862 in DeMorse s 29th Texas Cavalry CSA. Charge to the Sons of Confederate Veterans "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 Page 15
5th Brigade Texas Division Military Order of Stars and Bars Sons of Confederate Veterans The Texas Division is divided into eleven separate Brigades of Command, each Brigade is commanded by a Brigade Commander under the direct command of the Texas Division Commander. The Texas Division 5th Brigade covers Northeast Texas consisting of Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison, Hopkins, Lamar, Marion, Morris, Rains, Red River, Titus, Upshur, Wood, Part of Smith and Van Zandt Counties and has a total of eight Sons of Confederate Veterans Camps in the Brigade. Of the eight Camps there are approximately 250 active members. The Col. Richard B. Hubbard Chapter Military Order of Stars and Bars We are looking for new members. If you have an Ancestor who was an Officer or Served in the Confederate Government, Contact: Dennis Brand hobobrand@gmail.com about membership Page 16