RUCKER RANGERS Newsletter Published Monthly Aug 2012 Gen. Edmond Winchester Rucker Chapter #2534 United Daughters of the Confederacy Enterprise, Alabama NEXT MEETING: Thursday, August 9, 2012, 4:30 pm Citizens Bank Community Room, Enterprise Program: Camp Douglas (Donna Clark) Refreshments: Donna Clark Coffee County Rangers Camp #911 12th Ala. Inf. Regt., Co D Sons of Confederate Veterans Enterprise, Alabama NEXT MEETING: Thursday, August 9, 2012, 7:00 pm Citizens Bank Community Room, Enterprise Program: Judah P. Benjamin (Louis and Carol Glayre) Drinks and Refreshments: Stuart Mock Children of the Confederacy Chapter Rucker s Belles and Beaux, and Camp 911 Cadets will meet at the Pea River Historical Society Library at 108 S. Main St., Enterprise, August 9, at 7:00 pm for their regular program and refreshments. For more information about C of C or the Cadets, contact Daniel and Kim Larson. UPCOMING EVENTS September September 13-15, 2012, Mobile 117 th Alabama Division Convention will be held at the Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel, 64 South Water Street, Mobile. For hotel room reservations, call 1-866-316-5957. Registration forms must be postmarked no later than August 31. OFFICERS UDC SCV President/Treasurer Shirley H. Edberg Commander Joe E. Clark, Jr. Vice President Patsy Ann Richter 1 st Lt. Commander Mack Lott 2 nd Vice President Holly Muller 2 nd Lt. Commander Daniel Larson Secretary Lavinia Helms Adjutant James E. Edberg
AUGUST BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES August 4, 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay August 17, 1862 CSS Florida becomes first foreign-built warship constructed for the CSA August 6, 1864 CSS Tallahassee breaks the Union blockade beginning a two week campaign in which 30 Union ships are destroyed August 18, 1864 Gen. Grant refuses second Confederate request to exchange POWs. August 19, 1861 Confederate Congress agrees to an alliance with Missouri's Confederate government August 8, 1862 Battle of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee August 9, 1862 Battle of Cedar Mountain, Virginia August 21, 1864 Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry captures Memphis August 28-30, 1862 Battle of Second Manassas, Virginia August 31-September 1, 1864 Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia August 10, 1861 Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri
Chapter News At the July meeting of Gen. Edmond Winchester Rucker Chapter, President Shirley Edberg presented a framed photograph of Miz Alberta Martin, last-known Confederate widow, to the Pea River Historical and Genealogical Society. The photograph was accepted by Georgia Fleming, Librarian. At the July meeting of Camp 911, Doug Newman, a graduate of the University of Tennessee and an Air Force veteran, presented a program on Cotton, Slaves, and Arrogance. Camp 911 members Daniel Larson and Mark Howard pose with Mayor Kenneth Boswell at the Downtown Enterprise Summer Festival. 1 st Vice President Pat Richter presented a photograph of General Edmond Winchester Rucker to the Pea River Historical and Genealogical Society.
President Shirley Edberg presented UDC membership certificates to Suzan Stokes Smith and to Christine Bearrentine, whose certificate was accepted by her mother, Donna Smith. Clark Smith is the newest Cadet member of the Coffee County Rangers. He is the son of Camp member Steve Smith and the grandson of Camp Commander Joe Clark "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 loves and which you love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish." -- Lt. Gen. Stephen D. Lee, Commander General, United Confederate Veterans New Orleans, Louisiana, April 25, 1906 IMPORTANT REMINDERS Ladies, please continue to bring canned goods for the food pantry donation box, cancelled stamps, old pairs of spectacles, used cell phones, and back issues of the UDC magazine. Also, bring toys and diapers for use at the House of Ruth. Personal hygiene articles are needed. We will be sending out another mailing of items for the hospital in Bagram. Please bring items to the meeting on or bring a donation for Marie to purchase items. This will be a "variety pack -- magazines, decks of cards, toilet articles, Chapstick, snack items, and hard candy. Use your imagination but remember "more weight = higher shipping costs.
Confederate Trivia by Georgia Fleming In honor of August events: 1. Who was the only full admiral in the Confederate Navy? 2. What ship did the above admiral command in the Battle of Hampton Roads? 3. Who was Rev. Emmeran M. Bliemel? 4. In the Battle of First Manassas, Confederate Generals Joseph E. Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard defeated Union general Irvin McDowell. In the Battle of Second Manassas, General Lee defeated what Union general? 5. What battle has been called the Bull Run of the West? VISIT OUR WEBSITES http://www.coffeecountyrangers.org/ http://www.flemingmultimedia.com/udc/e W Rucker 2534.html Camp 911 has a page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/scvcampenterprise/ Click on Ask to Join Group. The Battle of Newton Committee has its own website. Visit it at: http://www.battleofnewton.org/ Battle of Newton Committee supporters also have a Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/groups/353992361301853/ TRIVIA ANSWERS (1) Franklin Buchanan, (2) CSS Virginia, (3) Chaplain of the 10 th Tennessee Regiment, he was killed at Jonesboro, the first American Catholic Chaplain to die in battle, (4) John Pope, (5) Wilson s Creek. MEMBERSHIP REPORT Gen. Edmond Winchester Rucker Chapter #2534 38 members Coffee County Rangers Camp #911 48 members, 6 Cadets Rucker s Belles and Beaux #968 Children of the Confederacy 22 members
FLEMING MULTIMEDIA COMPUTERS 122 S. Main St. Enterprise, AL 36330 334-347-0017 Brian Fleming, Owner Please patronize our advertisers and let them know you appreciate their ad in our newsletter. ADVERTISING You can support the newsletter by buying and selling ads. Ads are 1/8 of a page, and cost $10 per month or $100 for 12 months. The ad can be commercial or personal (for example, birthday wishes or in honor of ancestors). All members are urged to buy and sell ads. Funds raised through sales of ads will be divided between Camp 911 and Gen. Edmond Winchester Rucker Chapter. Please help us make this a success. If you sell or wish to buy an ad, contact Brian or Georgia Fleming at 347-0017 or e-mail mpegcd@yahoo.com or hyacinth@ala.net Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns and battles and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles. -- Robert E. Lee