Bowling Banner Sons Of Confederate Veterans Post office Box 2355 La Plata, MD 20646 O c t o b e r 2 0 1 3 membership Dues!! $38.50 Due Oct 15 C h a r l e s C o u n t y Fa i r S e p t e m b e r 12 t h - 15 t h Editor: Brian Piaquadio 2013 Officers Bob Parker Commander Jim Dunbar 1st Lieutenant Commander / Adjutant Jack Brown- Chaplin & Judge Advocate Acting Treasurer Rick Hunt Quartermaster - Dennis Spears This Issue Charles County Fair Calling on Members The Camp would like to thank all of those who came out and volunteered their time. Thanks to Dennis Spears, Jim Dunbar, Bob Parker, Brian Piaquadio, Charlie Wood, Rachel Wood, Angel Farrell and everyone else whose name I do not have that came out and volunteered their time at the Charles County fair. We made a little money for the camp, shared southern history, southern music and hopefully sparked some interest that leads to some new members. Quite a few members dressed up which always draws interrest. Pictures were taken and Dennis Spears brought his collection of artifacts to share with the inquisative who stopped by. This is an event that gives our camp a platform to talk and teach the public about our ancestors. It s one of the few events where we are able to raise revenue for the camp by selling items. SCV CHARGE To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, We submit 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 he loved and which made him glorious and which you also cherish. Remember it is your duty to see that the true history of the South is presented to future generations. 1
Charles county fair Continued membership Dues!! $38.50 Due by Oct 15 2
From the Editor Passing the Torch, Calling on Members In with the New Members! One of the best things about events like the Charles County fair, is not only do we get to talk to those outside of the know, but we also get to talk to those we share this camp with. While at the fair I got to look through some of the older scrap books and photos from the Bowling Camp. I could see that the camp was at one time quite active. More so than we are now anyways. There is NO requirement to attend events. Only what you are comfortable with. This is about honoring our ancestors and we only need to participate how we wish. This is not a lecture, so please don t take it the wrong way. Most of the individuals in the scrap books are still members, they are just not active at events any longer for their own reasons. All sorts of things happen that make a camp either more or less active. Members come and members go but the most drastic change is when the average membership ages, there is no fresh blood to take their place, so when they are unable to attend functions, no one goes. Some of us have had to care for ailing parents or a spouse or medical issues of our own that make attending events impossible. Ok so here it comes... If you are an older member or an inactive member and if you have some uniform items, accoutrements, camp equipment or weapons that you would be willing to either donate to the camp or sell to the younger members of the Camp it could help us to become a bit more active in the living history department. As you all know dressing the part of our ancestors is part of the fun. You also know how expensive these items can be and how hard it is to find them. In the last year we have gained a few newer younger members who often ask questions about uniform purchases. It has never been a requirement to have a uniform or to attend any function dressed in period garb. However if you have done it you know it not only makes it funner but it also makes you appreciate what your ancestors went through wearing wool 24 and 7. If you have any items you wish to donate please contact: Dennis Spears at 301-751-9994 or Brian Piaquadio at 240-313-0815, to arrange a pick up. If you have items you are willing to part with but would like to sell please send the list and the price you are asking along with your contact information to motoman172@hotmail.com and I will begin posting them next month in our newsletter. This is Veteran Bowling Camp members to New Bowling Camp members. I thank you in advance. Brian Piaquadio 3
Today in Confederate History 1st 2nd October 1862 General Nathan Bedford Forrest s cavalry skirmish at Athens and Huntsville, AL 1862 Battle of Columbia, MS 3-4th 1862 Battle of Corinth, MS 5th 5th 1863 CSS David, a Confederate torpedo boat explodes spar torpedo damaging the USS New Ironsides in Charleston harbor, SC 1864 Battle of Allatoona Pass, GA 7th 8th 9th 1861 CSA signs alignment treaty with the Cherokee Nation. The Cherokee Braves flag is flown in honor of the event. 1862 Battle of Perryville, KY 1862 General J.E.B. Stuart s cavalry raids Chambersburg, PA, in first ride around McClelland s army 10th 1864 General Nathan Bedford Forrest s troops inflict heavy damage to union vessels and troops at Eastport, MI on the Tennessee River. membership Dues!! $38.50 Due Oct 15 10th 1864 Sherman s invading troops burn all foundries, mills and shops of every kind in Rome, GA 12th 1815 General Willima Hardee s birthday. 12th 1870 General Robert E. Lee died. 13th 1864 General John B. Hood s forces seize Western & Atlantic RR above Resaca, GA 14th 1863 Fighting at Bristoe Station, VA 15th 1863 H.L. Hunley sinks for a second time training exercises killing 7 crew members 16th 1863 Skirmishes at Grand Coteau, LA, Fort Brooke, FL and Pungo Landing, NC 18th 1862 General John H. Morgan s cavalry seize Lexington, KY 19th 19th 19th 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek, VA 1864 CSS Shenandoah officially received into Confederate Navy. 1864 Confederate raid on St. Albans, VT 20th 1863 Fighting at Barton s Station, Dickeson s Station, Cane Creek, AL and Treadwell s Plantation, MS 21th 1861 Battle of Leesburg (Ball s Bluff), VA 23th 25th 26th 1828 Birthday of General Turner Ashby 1864 General Hoods men attack yankees at Round Mountain near Turkeytown, AL 1824 General Arthur M. Manigault s birthday 27th 1864 Union attacks South Side Railroad at Petersburg, VA 28th 1863 General Longstreet engages General Hooker at Wauhatchie, TN, in rare night attack 29th 1877 General Nathan Bedford Forrest died.
Confederate History The Cherokee Braves General Stand Watie was born in the Oothcaloga Valley south of present-day Calhoun, Ga. in 1806. His birth name was Tak-er-tawker meaning Stands Firm and later Degadoga for He Stands On Two Feet. Baptized as Isaac he later combined a portion of his Cherokee name with his father s name Oo-wat-ie to form Stand Watie in English. Little is known of his early years in Georgia, he may have been educated in Georgia mission schools that were set up to Englishise the Cherokees. He was the brother of Buck Oowatie who later took the name of Elias Boudinot and became a newspaper editor, and the nephew of the prominent Cherokee Chief Major Ridge. The Oowatie and Ridge families were two of the more prominent slave owning aristocrat families of the Cherokees owning most of the estimated 1600 owned by Cherokees. Those in the lower classes, poorer than the Ridge and Oowatie factions tended to be less pro slavery and were more traditionalist and less likely to favor a move west from Georgia and the western Carolinas. Brigadier General Stand Watie, C.S.A., By 1820 one third of the tribe moved west of the Mississippi River. Those who remained began to split into factions. Those who favored fighting removal to the west rallied behind John Ross, a Scottish Cherokee from Tennessee. Ross had only one eighth Cherokee but considered them to be his people over his white counterparts and was extremely popular having support of the majority. On the opposing side was the Oowatie Ridge faction who believed that the lower classes of the tribe would never make it in the white mans world, believing that in years to come they would be decimated even lower to drunkenness and poverty and that moving west was in the tribes best interest. In 1827 John Ross was elected to lead and represented them in their first centralized government to help them deal with the white world around them. By 1832 the rivalry between those of the Ross faction and the Oowatie Ridge factions began to grow, and in the next few years worsened. In 1835 it came to a head when the the Ridge faction supported a treaty with Washington that would give the Cherokees 5 million dollars in return for their removal west of the Mississippi. The Ross side refused to sign hoping to hold out for at least 20 million. It was clear that no treaty would be made at that time since the majority of Cherokees sided with the Ross faction. Then in December 1835 the Ridge Oowatie faction managed to sign the Treaty at New Echota Georgia receiving $15 million dollars and 800,000 acres of land in Oklahoma for the Cherokees. They believed they had secured the best terms possible in the best interest of the tribe while the Ross followers considered it an act of treason against them. The Trail of Tears followed in 1838 with Federal and State militias enforcing the removal. In 1839 the bitter animosity between the two tribes remained in Oklahoma. A hundred or so Cherokees from anti treaty faction met in secret and decided on death for the the Ridge and Watie men. On June 22, 1839 John Ridge was dragged from his home in Indian Territory and was stabbed to death. His father Major Ridge was ambushed and killed in Washington County Arkansas. Elias Boudinot the brother of Stand Watie was attacked at his home and axed to death. Stand Watie also marked for death was forewarned and escaped. 5
Confederate History continued John Ross denounced the murders but did nothing in aiding the capture of the killers. He was accused of hiding them in his home by the now Watie faction while Ross denied involvement in the murders. President Andrew Jackson wrote to Stand Watie now the leader of the former Ridge Oowatie faction and denounced Ross. On March 7, 1862 Stand Watie was part of Earl Van Dorn s 16,000 man army in the area of Fayetteville Arkansas attempting to encircle the right flanks of Major General Curtis s 12,000 troops. Curtis was on the defensive entrenched at Pea Ridge about thirty miles northeast of Fayetteville. After two days of fighting Van Dorn was unable to penetrate and ended up withdrawing. Stand Watie had distiquished himself by leading his command in capturing a Union artillery battery and by committing a skillful rear guard action stopping a disaster. This flag was carried by Colonel Stand Watie s Cherokee Mounted Rifles; the body of the flag is the First National pattern flag of the Confederate States; the canton is blue with eleven white stars in a circle, surrounding five red stars representing the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole); It was here during this action that Stand Watie was noticed by his superiors for his bravery and exceptional military abilities, which got him considered for a higher command in the Confederate Army. The First Cherokee Mounted Rifles was formed on August 31, 1862 with Colonel Stand Watie commanding, with Lieutenant Colonel Calvin Parks second in command. This unit along with others adopted the Cherokee Braves flag as their regimental colours. After Pea Ridge many of the Cherokees left the war, but Stand Watie and his Cherokee Braves remained for the duration of the war scouring the region using guerilla warfare, cutting Union supply lines and disrupting Federal operations throughout the Indian Territory. He was feared by his loyal Cherokee counterparts for the next three years. On May 10, 1864 he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General, the only Native American to reach the rank of General. Along with this first, he was also the last Confederate General officer to formally cease hostilities two months after Appomattox and Bentonville. His formal agreement to end hostilities was issued on June 25, 1865 and like Col. Mosby of Virginia he never officially surrendered. Watie had displayed unfailing devotion and bravery during his service to the Confederacy. He died on September 9, 1871 and was laid to rest at Polson Cemetery in Delaware County, Oklahoma. In 1995 the US postal Service issued a set of 20 commemorative stamps showing 16 individuals and 4 battles of the Civil War. General Stand Watie was one of those honored along with others such as Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Joseph Johnston. Cherokee Confederates reunion in New Orleans, 1903. 6
Upcoming Events October Events October 10/26/2013 (Saturday) Alsatia Mummmers Parade 89th annual Fall Parade in Hagerstown MD. 2012 the Maryland Division Color Guard received a Judge s Award. Let s all be there this well attended parade. Note we are meeting at the new location below so we don t have to walk so far at the end of the parade: November membership Dues!! $38.50 Due Oct 15 11/02/2013 (Saturday) Point Lookout Ceremony Annual Ceremony sponsored by the Camalier Camp at Point Lookout the final resting place of thousands of Confederates. All were incarcerated by the Federal Government. Let s make this the first of many special Point Lookout Ceremonies in the new Confederate Memorial Park. Formation at 10:30 A.M. for the 11:00 A.M. Ceremony. Car pool from the 195 Park and Ride leaving at 7:30 A.M. Please let me know if you will car pool. Camp Sutlery LIMITED EDITION BELT BUCKLES ARE HERE! Great news compatriots. Belt buckles are back. The Camp just received our allotment of belt buckles. Camp T-Shirts are still available in 2X. We received approximately 20 belt buckles out of the 500 made. Each belt buckle is numbered with the botony cross Son s of Confederate Veterans Maryland Division. The buckles are $21 each and can be bought at our monthly meeting or you may contact the quartermaster Dennis Spears 301-751-9994. The price is $15.00. They are well worth it and they look great. Please remember that the shirts are for Private Wallace Bowling Camp Members only. If you cannot make the meeting and want a T-Shirt please call Dennis Spears @ 301-751-9994 You do not have to be an SCV member to purchase. Belt buckles are numbered and guaranteed against breakage. 7
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