The Round Mountain Report The Monthly Newsletter of Col. Daniel N. McIntosh, Camp No. 1378 Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) www.scvtulsa.com Volume 35, No. 3 to continue the battle for the Soul of the South; tell the truth; keep the unbroken Spirit March 2019 of the South alive for generations to come. March Camp Meeting Our March Camp meeting will be Tuesday, the 12 th. We will meet in the Ash Room of Hardesty Regional Library, located at 8613 E. 93 rd Street. Meeting start time is 6:30 p.m. Tulsa City/County Genealogy Center Manager, Kathy Huber, will present the program on genealogical research for Confederate soldiers. Any final details for the R.K. Gun Show on March 16-17 will be discussed as well as any other old or new business items. Please make every effort to attend this meeting and participate in your Camp s activities. Mr. Hugh Kean presenting his program at the February meeting Calendar of Events March 16-17 R. K. Gun Show Tulsa April 27 Oklahoma Division Convention Shawnee May 18 Confederate Memorial Day Tulsa May 27 National Memorial Day July 4 Independence Day July 10-13 SCV National Reunion Mobile, Alabama Tulsa City/County Genealogy Center Manager, Kathy Huber President of General Clement A. Evans Chapter, UDC
Report of February Camp Meeting The Camp Mcintosh February meeting was held on the 12 th. We had ten members and two guests in attendance: Mr. Hugh Kean, the program speaker, and Compatriot Bob Milner of the Stirling Price Camp in Denver. Bob has recently relocated to the Tulsa area, and we hope he will eventually transfer his membership to Camp McIntosh. Commander Cathey opened the business portion of the meeting by discussing the upcoming R. K. Gun Show, which will be held in the Exchange Center at Tulsa County Expo Square (fairgrounds). This is the first ever that Camp McIntosh has sponsored a recruiting table at a gun show. This first gun show will be a joint venture with the Indian Nations Camp of the Union Veterans of the Civil War. A number of our members belong to both camps. Lt. Commander Newberry offered a motion to authorize an expenditure of $80 for the gun show. The motion was unanimously adopted. Mr. Hugh Kean presented a proposal whereby it might be possible to obtain Confederate records pertaining to Indian Territory from a facility in Arkansas and have them digitized for our benefit. On a motion by Compatriot Ken Cook, Camp members unanimously authorized Mr. Kean to explore that possibility on behalf of Camp McIntosh. Commander Cathy announced that May 18 will be the date of the Camp s annual Confederate Memorial Day service. It will be held at the site of our monument to the Confederate Soldiers of Indian Territory in Rose Hill Cemetery. Details of the event will be in the April newsletter. Commander Cathey also distributed a Camp Calendar of events showing all 2019 Camp meetings, many with speakers already committed. It also showed as future, local gun shows, the annual Awards Banquet and other Camp related events. Mr. Hugh Kean, a local historian, who has written several books of Confederate topics, primarily relating to John S. Mosby, presented the program. His topic was 3 rd Cherokee Cavalry. It was a very informative presentation on a little-known topic. Upon the completion of the program, the meeting adjourned. The First Confederate Flag Day While the Provisional Congress or the Confederate States of America was still debating the permanent Constitution, it was also discussing the need for national symbols, especially a flag. The Provisional Congress established a Flag Committee to study the many flag designs being submitted and to make a recommendation. The Committee received numerous suggestions, some of them quite bizarre. The Flag Committee finally proposed its own design, or more accurately, one probably advanced by Alabama Governor Andrew B. Moore. It was created by a portrait painter named Nicolla Marschall, who lived in Marion, not far from where the Congress was meeting at Montgomery. He had been asked by Mrs. Napoleon Lockett, Governor Moore s daughter, who also lived in Marion, to try his hand at a design. The Flag Committee soon adopted it as the best choice. It satisfied the general desire for something similar to the stars and stripes, yet distinctive. Public presentation of the flag was scheduled for March 4, to coincide with the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, to show him and the U.S. government there was no going back. The new national banner was presented with great ceremony. President Jefferson Davis was given the honor of raising the flag for the first time, but he passed the honor to Letitia Tyler, a teenage granddaughter of former President John Tyler. She raised the new national flag, the stars and bars, above the Alabama capitol as the clock struck its last chime at four in the afternoon. The large crowd assembled on the capitol grounds roared its approval; local militia fired a cannon salute and the band played Dixie. Oklahoma Division Convention The Oklahoma Division Convention and Reunion will be Saturday, April 27, in Reunion Hall South on the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Campus, located at 1702 S. Gordon Cooper Drive, Shawnee, Oklahoma. Coffee and donuts will be available at 9:00. Brigades will meet at 9:30; the Convention will begin at 10:00. Please make every effort to attend the Convention and meet some of your compatriots from other camps. The first national flag with seven stars the stars and bars. The number of stars later grew to thirteen. This flag design was used from March 4, 1861 to May 26, 1863. SCV National Reunion Admiral Raphael Semmes, Camp No. 11 of Mobile Alabama will host the 2019 Reunion of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, July 10-13. The Reunion will be held at the Mobile Convention Center located on Water Street at the Mobile River. For more information, go to http://www.scv.org/new/. Click on Home and then 2019 National Reunion.
Lawmaker Reworks Bill Removing Flag's Confederate Link Journalfazette.net (AP) March 7, 2019 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) An Arkansas lawmaker is trying to revive his proposal to remove the Confederate designation from the state flag, introducing a reworked bill after the original plan was tabled. A House panel on Wednesday rejected the original proposal, which Gov. Asa Hutchinson has endorsed. Democratic Rep. Charles Blake filed a bill Thursday that would eliminate language in state law that says the blue star above Arkansas' name on the state flag commemorates the Confederate States of America. Under the new proposal, the star would represent the United States of America, which is currently designated by one of three blue stars beneath the state's name. The star currently honoring the U.S. would commemorate Native American nations. As with the original proposal, the bill wouldn't change the flag's design. Moving the Confederate Monument Not a Done Deal Mississippi Clarion Ledger March 7, 2019 While student leadership at the University of Mississippi voted this week to relocate a Confederate monument on campus, the process to move the Ole Miss statue could take a long time, if it is ever moved. Interim Chancellor Larry Sparks issued a statement laying out the steps that will be taken next, indicating it could be weeks before the university takes any action. First, "the university would need to develop its justification that the cemetery is a suitable location," Sparks said in an emailed statement, adding that the university would also have to "consult with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History due to the landmark status of the monument. Next, the ASB's resolution goes to the Dean of Students. From there, it will be sent to the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs. Both of those officials must sign off on the resolution before it lands on the Chancellor's desk, Elam Miller, Ole Miss ASB President told WLBT. The Confederate monument on the campus of the University of Mississippi features the likeness of a generic Confederate soldier on a tall pedestal Wake Up, Before It s Too Late Editorial Ken Cook, Editor The incessant attacks on Confederate memorials and particularly on our Confederate soldier ancestors, would be laughable if they were not so serious. These generic soldier statutes symbolically represent the common people of the South, who fought to protect their families and homes from a rapacious government, whom they, with good reason, had come to fear and distrust. The statues emphatically do not represent a political philosophy or make a statement for slavery or anything else. They represent common soldiers, period, nothing more. Because they invariably represent no specific person, but rather the citizen soldiers at large, attacks on the statues are, in fact, attacks directly on their descendants, who are alive today ordinary Southern people. In other words, removing the statues and hiding them inside buildings of some kind or, at the extreme, destroying them, means doing the same thing to Southern people and our heritage and culture. The forces of leftism, socialism, Marxism, or whatever one wants to call it, intend to expunge Southern culture and our pride in being Southern. They intend to marginalize us in the extreme, so that when we do speak up, we are immediately branded racists end of the conversation. These reactionary forces are slowly accomplishing their purposes, and WITH the willing help of a great many Southern people, who are oblivious to what is actually happening to them. By the time they awaken to that reality, it will likely be too late and irreversible.
Albert Pike Ken Cook, Camp Historian Albert Pike was born in Boston in 1809, studied at Harvard, but dropped out because of poverty, taught school for a short time, then headed west to seek his fortune. He wandered around the Southwest for a while, visited several Indian tribes and finally settled in the raw, frontier village of Little Rock, Arkansas. Somewhere along the way, he apprenticed as a lawyer and hung his shingle in Little Rock. Over the succeeding years he developed a thriving practice, becoming one of Arkansas s most prominent attorneys and publishing a newspaper. Pike was another of those characters that only the American frontier seems to have been able to produce. He was a huge man, weighing nearly 300 pounds, with appetites to match. He dressed expensively and flamboyantly, wore his hair shoulder length and grew his beard long and full. He was eccentric and conceited, but nevertheless was popular in Arkansas and had powerful political connections within the state. One might imagine his huge, boisterous presence overpowering some tiny frontier courtroom. Pike educated himself in several languages including Latin, Greek, Sanskrit and several Indian languages. Besides being a successful lawyer and newspaper publisher, he was a scholar and a poet. President Jefferson Davis appointed Pike as an emissary to the tribes of Indian Territory with the mission of securing treaties of alliance with the Confederacy. He was an excellent choice to negotiate with the Indian Nations. He not only knew some of their languages, he had studied the local tribes and respected their cultures, particularly those of the Five Nations. When Cherokee Chief John Ross and his party passed through Little Rock during the Cherokee removal, it was Pike who provided a gravesite for Ross s first wife, who had just died. A large portion of his law practice was devoted to representing the interests of the Five Nations. Just before the War of Southern Independence began, he had won a judgment for the Choctaws of almost $3 million from the Federal government. Pike set out on his mission to the Indian Nations in characteristic Pike fashion. He rode in a buggy, followed by a long train of wagons loaded with food, wine and assorted trade goods. He was authorized to spend up to $100,000 to secure the treaties. His first stop was Park Hill, John Ross s farm near the Cherokee capitol. Pike was joined there by General Ben McCulloch of Texas. Chief Ross politely met with the two emissaries, and just as politely rebuffed their proposal. McCulloch returned to Fort Smith, and Pike and his entourage traveled on to meet with the Creeks, whom he found more divided than the Cherokees. However, on July 10, 1861, Pike signed his first Confederate with the pro-confederate Creeks. He also authorized the Creeks to raise a regiment to defend their territory. Two days later Pike visited with the Chickasaw and Choctaw, who had already announced their support for the Confederacy. He quickly secured treaties with these nations. He then went on to the Seminole, also a divided people, but was able to obtain a treaty signed by John Jumper, a pro-confederate chief. He also authorized Chief Jumper to raise a Seminole battalion to join the McIntosh Creek regiment. Pike was pleased with his successes thus far and now set out to meet with the so-called wild tribes of the plains. His entourage had grown to include a mounted escort company of fifty-six Creek and Seminole flying a Confederate flag and accompanied by Chilly McIntosh, John Jumper and Motey Kennard (or Kinniard), another Creek chief. Pike and his party met the plains tribes at the old Wichita Agency near abandoned Fort Cobb. Caddo, Waco, Tonkawa and other small sedentary groups that lived around the agency, as well as a large number of Comanche, met with Pike. The Comanche were more than happy to eat the food he brought and to accept his gifts, and even to make their marks on his treaty papers. However, Pike was more than a little out of touch with reality if he thought they were interested in his war. Their interest lay in driving the Texans off their territory, which they did their best to do, and with a considerable amount of success during the war years. After the Confederate victory at Wilson s Creek, Missouri, Pike was finally able to secure a Cherokee treaty. He returned to Fort Smith with his briefcase filled with treaties and quite satisfied with himself. His successful negotiations with the Indian Nations earned him a brigadier general s commission in the Confederate army. He was given command of Indian Territory, replacing Ben McCulloch who had been transferred to another command in Arkansas. Although Pike had been a captain of volunteers during the Mexican War, he was in no way a military man. After the Confederate defeat at Pea Ridge, at which the Indian units played only a minor role, he fell into a serious dispute with General Thomas Hindman, the commander in Arkansas, and resigned his commission. The War Department finally accepted his resignation on November 11, 1862. Pike spent the remainder of the war in Arkansas and Texas. Although Albert Pike s involvement in the Confederate War of Independence was short lived, the alliances he secured with the Five Nations were instrumental in protecting Texas from invading Union armies and impeding their invasion into Arkansas. After the war, Pike spent time in Memphis and Washington practicing law and journalism and taking an active role in the Masonic order. He died in Washington in 1891 at the age of eighty-two. BG Albert Pike, CSA December 29, 1809 April 2, 1891
First Confederate Flag Day On March 4, 1861, one hundred, fifty-eight years ago, the "Stars and Bars," designed by Nicola Marshall of Marion, Alabama, and adopted by the Flag Selection Committee of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America, was raised for the first time over the Alabama state capitol, also then the seat of the government of the Confederate States of America. The Round Mountain Report is the voice of Colonel Daniel N. McIntosh, Camp No. 1378, Sons of Confederate Veterans, a non-profit organization of patriotic, historical, sectional and genealogical orientation, as a service to its Compatriots and their friends. Opinions reflect the views of the writers and are not necessarily a statement of the Camp, SCV or their policies. Contents may be reproduced only when in the best interest of the SCV. Comments and articles to the newsletter are solicited. Please direct inquiries, articles, photos, changes of address, etc. to khcook469@gmail.com or to the address shown below. The Round Mountain Report 5417 S. Oxford Ave. Tulsa, OK 74135