The Confederate Informant The official newsletter of the Major James Morgan Utz Camp #1815 Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Brigadier General Francis Marion Cockrell Chapter # 84 of the Military Order of the Stars and Bars May 2016 issue... ************************************************************************************* Commander...Dave Roper; daveroper166@gmail.com 1st Lt. Commander...Duane Mayer; dmayer11@frontier.com 2nd Lt. Commander, Florida...Rojer Snyder Adjutant...Brad Bludsworth; jobluds@aol.com Treasurer...Bill Bowden; confedman@gmail.com ***************************************************************** Visit our camp website at...www. utzfmc.wordpress.com Visit the Missouri Division website at www.missouridivision-scv.org Visit our international website at scv.org In this issue... Commander s Call Page 2 Chaplain Corner. Page 3 MOSB Corner.Page 3 Missouri Confederate Memorial Day.Page 4 May 8 Mother s Day.Page6 My Confederate Ancestor.Page 8 Upcoming Calendar Page 10
Commander s Call: A lot has happen since our last Camp Newsletter. The Utz Camp was well represented at this year s Missouri Division Reunion. Those in attendance were Billy and Ellie Bowden, Jeff and Patty Futhy, Steve and Christie Pfeil, Bob Arnold, Brian Cook, Carl Cullens, Bob Fallert and Dave and Cindy Roper we all had a great time. On March 14 our Friend and Camp Compatriot Ron Harvey passed away. Brad Bludsworth, Duane Mayer, Carl Cullens, Charlie and Francine Heisinger and Dave Roper did a SCV grave side service at Ron Funeral. Ron family was really appreciated of our effort. The Utz Camp also sent a plant to his widow. On April 19 several Camp Members attended a Pilot Knob Battle presentation by Doug Gifford at the Spencer Street Library. Those present were Mike Bevill, Bill Bowden, Gene Dressel, Bob Fallert, Dan Jacobs and his bother Rick who is sending in his application for membership. Marty and wife Brenda Martin, William Stogner, Dave Roper.
Our next Camp Meeting will be May 14 at the Community Commons/Spencer Road Library Room 240, at 1 PM. All Camp Meeting are on the 2 nd Saturday of each month at 1:00 PM in room 240. The address is 427 Spencer Road, St. Peters, MO 63376. It is just off Mexico Road and South of the new Menards Home Improvement Center. You can access Mexico Road from Interstate 70 by exiting either at Mid-Rivers Mall Drive and go south to Mexico Road, then East to Spencer Road or exit at Cave Springs and go south to Mexico Road and then West to Spencer Roads when you get to Spencer go south a few blocks to Boone Hills Drive. The Community Commons Building 427 Spencer Road) is located at the South-East corner of that intersection. Chaplains Corner: WAKE UP AMERICA! Never has our nation fallen so far. We have removed God from our schools, his commandments from our courthouses and can no longer pray in public. We have stripped Christians of their rights to freedom of religion, while false faiths flourish in the name of diversity. We are so afraid of political correctness, that we have silenced the voice of moral righteousness. As the silent majority, we are quickly becoming the quieted minority. As Christians, we have forgotten to fight the good fight. What would our ancestors of 150 years done if they would have faced this battle of political correctness? I'm sure they would have attacked with the same fury they showed against the Yankees. How can we do anything less today... MOSB Corner: The General Francis Marion Cockrell Chapter 84 will co-host our eighteenth annual Confederate Memorial Day Service at Fee Fee Cemetery May 22, 2016 at 2 PM. Plans are underway to make it another memorable and special event. Come prepared for weather and bring a lawn chair if needed. We are sponsoring a Raffle for a 1858 Remington 44 cal. pistol replica. The tickets are6 for $5.00. Send me a self-addressed stamped envelope and I will mail your tickets to you. Please make your check payable to Billy Ed Bowden, 2182 Paige Marie Drive, Warrenton, MO 63383.
Our Chapter has raised the money for a tombstone for Lt. William T. Plumlee. Utz Camp members were very generous with their donations. Our Chapter wishes to give the Utz members a special thank you for their generosity. I wish to thank the state MOSB for their donation of $100.00. Missouri Confederate Memorial Day June 4 at Higginsville, MO. CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY June 4, 2016 125th Anniversary of Julius Bainberge admission as the First Inmate 124th Anniversary of the completion of the Chapel 123rd Anniversary of 60 men admitted and the Official Opening of the Confederate Veterans Home with Gen. Jo Shelby in attendance
112th Anniversary of the Deeding of the Cemetery to the UDC 110th Anniversary of the Lion Confederate Monument Unveiled 94th Anniversary of the Last Building Completed, The Hospital CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAM 10:00 - Need a meeting time? / Visit Vendors, friends, look at displays, Period Music. 10:30 - Children of the Confederacy, MO State Meeting in Chapel 11:00 - Chapel Tom Rafiner 11:30 - Chapel - Quantrill Society Meeting and Program on Q s List and Waverly 12:15 P.M. - Lunch - bring your own lunch a group may sell sandwiches 12:45 - All those that are part of Opening Ceremonies please move to the Cemetery 1:00 - Confederate Memorial Day Service - Parade enters 1:05 - Color Guard presents Colors. There will also be the Pledge, Salute, & Charges 1:10 - Welcome Jim Beckner 1:15 Invocation 1:18 - Recognition of Groups 1:21 - Why we Gather by Jim Beckner 1:23-3 Stories of real Confederate Heroes 1:35 - Responsive Reading Harold Dellinger 1:40 - Commander s Comments Missouri Division Commander 1:45 - President s Comments Missouri UDC President 1:50 - Children of the Confederacy Comments 1:54 - Recognition of Confederate Ancestors everyone
2:00 Dixie 2:02 - Closing Jim Beckner 2:04 - Benediction 2:06 - Retire Colors STAY AS LONG AS YOU WANT Anyone wanting to car pool from St. Charles Park and Share we will be leaving at 6:30 AM. It s said to take 2 hours and 43 minutes to get there. You need to take you own lunch. Call Dave Roper 618-304-7758 if you would like to go. May 8 is Mother s Day thought you may like this. True Confederate Mother s Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1813 or 1814 October 1, 1864) was a renowned Confederate spy during the American Civil War. A socialite in Washington, D.C. during the period before the war, she moved in important political circles and cultivated friendships with presidents, generals, senators, and high-ranking military officers. She used her connections to pass along key military information to the Confederacy at the start of the war. In early 1861, she was given control of a pro-southern spy network in Washington, DC by her handler, Thomas Jordan, then a captain in the Confederate Army. She was credited by Jefferson Davis, the Confederate
president, with ensuring the South's victory at the First Battle of Bull Run in late July 1861. Captured in August, Greenhow was subject to house arrest; found to have continued her activities, in 1862 after an espionage hearing, she was imprisoned for nearly five months in Washington, DC. Deported to the Confederate States, she traveled to Richmond, Virginia and new tasks. Running the blockade, she sailed to Europe to represent the Confederacy in a diplomatic mission to France and Britain from 1863 to 1864. In 1863, she also wrote and published her memoir in London, which was popular in Britain. After her returning ship ran aground in 1864 off Wilmington, North Carolina, she drowned when her rowboat overturned as she tried to escape a Union gunboat. She was honored with a Confederate military funeral. In 1993, the women's auxiliary of the Sons of Confederate Veterans changed its name to the Order of the Confederate Rose in Greenhow's honor. (Photo Rose O'Neal Greenhow with her youngest daughter and namesake, "Little" Rose, at the Old Capitol Prison, Washington, D.C., 1862) Also: Antonia J. Ford was the principal spy and guide for Captain Mosby in his recent raid on Fairfax Court House, and aided in planning the arrest of Gen. Slaughter, Wyndham and others.' She was arrested and brought to the Old Capitol Prison, on Sunday last, with $1,000 Confederate money on her person. The following is a copy of her commission: To all whom it may Concern : Know ye that, reposing special confidence in the patriotism fidelity and ability of Antonia J. Ford, I, J. E. B. Stuart, by virtue of power vested in me as Brigadier General, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, hereby appoint and commission her my Honorable Aide-de-Camp, to rank as such from this date. She will be obeyed, respected and admired by all lovers of a noble nature. Given under my hand and seal, Headquarters Cavalry Brigade, at Camp Beverly, 7th October, 1861, aud first year of our Independence.' J. E. B.. STUART. By the General: L. T. Bryan, A. A. G."
THE SOUTHERN WOMEN OF THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION H.W.R. Jackson My Confederate Ancestor: Compatriot Ron Verner My Confederate Ancestor was Private George W. McMullen. He was born July 13 1847 in Lowndes Co. Georgia. George enlisted in the 1 st Florida Calvary Regiment along with his Brothers John and William. They all were surrendered by Major General Sam Jones CSA to Brigade General E. M. McCook at Tallahassee, Florida on May 10 1865. And was paroled May 22 1865 at Madison, Florida. George married Juliet Jessup on January 6 1876 in Brooks Co,. Georgia. He passed away March 27 1932 in Thomas Co., Georgia. And is buried in Hickory Head Baptist Church in Quitman, Brooks,
Georgia. No one knows when George enlisted but at the start of the War he was only 14 years old and was 18 when it ended. The 1 ST Calvary Florida Regiment originally organized in July 1861 at Tallahassee. Battles engaged Siege of Knoxville, September December 1863 Kentucky Campaign Battle of Chickamauga Battle of Chattanooga Atlanta Campaign Tennessee Campaigns (Franklin-Nashville Campaign, Second Battle of Franklin, and Battle of Nashville) of John Bell Hood Carolinas Campaign Some of the 1st Florida Cavalry Regiment surrendered in North Carolina.
Up Coming Calendar: May 8 Mother s Day May 14 - Utz Camp Meeting May 22 Utz Camp Confederate Memorial Day 2:00 PM- Fee Fee Cemetery May 30 - Memorial Day June 11 Utz Camp Meeting June 25 - Utz Camp Picnic At Charlie Heisinger Home Black Jack, MO. July 9 Utz Camp Meeting July 13-17 SCV National Reunion Dallas, Texas Thanks so much for the ones that helped with this Newsletter. Anyone that would like to help with your Newsletter contact Editor Dave Roper. 618-304-7758