The Dixie Banner · 2 Upcoming Meetings 3 Inventing a New Nation 6 Confederate Grapevine 13 Units by State 16 Memorial Wall 18 Purpose Statement 27 SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS The

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Commander’s

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Upcoming

Meetings 3

Inventing a New

Nation 6

Confederate

Grapevine 13

Units by State 16

Memorial Wall 18

Purpose

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The Dixie Banner Rockwall Cavalry Camp 2203

Sons of Confederate Veterans

Rockwall County, Texas

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Remembering and Honoring our Confederate

Ancestors, Their Story and Their Cause They are all now silent, so we can and must be their voice to a skeptical world

Please attend

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Commander’s Dispatch

I want to thank everyone who came to the meeting in June. Those who couldn't make it, you missed a wonderful presentation by Dr. Richard Lee Montgomery, a brother in the SCV. His presentation was on his new book, The Confederate Book of Quotes & Narratives. The presentation was very informative and well presented. I would recommend both of his books, the other is Another Look at Six Myths in The Lost Cause. They are very informative, very well written and very easy to read.

In two years, the 2016 National Reunion will be held in Richardson, Texas. We really need to work hard to recruit and get our name out in front of people, so we can help make this reunion the best one ever.

I will be donating my time to serve as an EMT and Security for the event. We need as many as possible to show up and support the SCV, and show National this is the place to be. Gentlemen, I would like to ask of you a favor. During the 4th of July holiday fly your flags, your Confederate flags. Show the world that the SOUTH WAS RIGHT and be proud of our soldier's flag. As Stonewall Jackson’s Chief of Staff Robert Lewis Dabney once said "We have no need, sirs, to be ashamed of our dead; let us see to it that they be not ashamed of us." God Bless,

Richard M.

Powell,

Commander

http://rockwallcavalry.org/

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On June 9th Dr. Rick Montgomery, Chaplain for the Stonewall Jackson Camp (as well as a church pastor) in Denton, returned with a new presentation on his brand new book The Confederate Book of Quotes and Narratives. I cannot say enough how proud I am to have men like Rick Montgomery in our ranks. He definitely brought further academic respectability to us when he joined the SCV. While a speaker for our July meeting is still pending, Dennis Brand, Commander of the Douglas Camp in Tyler, will be with us in August to speak about awarding outstanding graduate awards to deserving students in several of our area high schools. This is something we can start on right now. On September 8th we will be very fortunate to have author Scott Bowden with us. Scott, a member of the Albert Sidney Johnston Camp in Houston, Texas (actually resides in Grapevine, TX), is an accomplished author who is in rather serious demand as a speaker. Scott has written a number of books on various military history related subjects. You absolutely should not miss this meeting and presentation. The opportunity will be there for you to acquire one or more of his very fine books. See page 4 for a full page flyer on his newest publications. In October, Ronnie Atnip of the Capt. Bob Lee Camp in Bonham will visit to speak on the Lee-Peacock feud. Meetings remain on the second Monday of each month, at Soulman’s BBQ, 691 E. I-30, Rockwall (near SE corner of Ridge Rd. and I-30, next door to Applebee’s).


Upcoming Meetings

Editor’s Corner Starting next month, the memorial wall will only be included quarterly or so, in order to shorted this newsletter a bit. It will be a bit difficult, but it insures I always have something for the next issue. Also, photos from the 2014 Division Reunion can be seen here: Texas Division Reunion. I hope you guys enjoy the newsletter and find it of value. I would love to hear from you regarding it, and also I would enjoy including any articles or materials you might wish to contribute to future issues. Deo Vindice!

Daryl Coleman Lt. Cmdr & Newsletter Editor

http://www.southernlegacy.org/Southern_Legacy/2014_TX_Reunion.html

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Calendar of Events

14 July: Rockwall Cavalry Camp meeting 16 July-19 July: SCV National Reunion, Charleston, SC 11 August: Rockwall Cavalry Camp meeting, Dennis Brand presenting 8 September: Rockwall Cavalry Camp meeting, Scott Bowden presenting

Genealogy Event, Rockwall Public Library (in the works, Coleman) Grave/Cemetery work in Rockwall County (Wayne Hairston) Future Scholarship/Award Offerings (proposed) Festivals and Parades (all, need to further discuss) Recruiting Activities

Graphic created and supplied by Dr. Rick Montgomery, Stonewall Jackson Camp 901, Denton, Texas

Camp projects

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Few actors in history have been hallowed in as many points of the political compass as Abraham Lincoln. During the 1930s, portraits of Lincoln appeared at New York City rallies of American fascists and in the publications of American Communists. He was also the favorite of the most reactionary industrialists and the most advanced liberals of the time. “Getting Right with Lincoln,” as the historian David Donald has described it, has been requisite for all political elements in the United States.1

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is widely regarded as the definitive description and rationale of American nationhood and is the cornerstone of his fame. It has been memorized and declaimed by generations of schoolchildren. Its cadenced phrases are part of the American vernacular and have moved millions around the world. One might wonder why this short and rather abstract composition, hardly remarked upon at the time it was given at Gettysburg a few months after the great battle there, has achieved such importance. Part of the answer is surely Lincoln’s great rhetorical skill. In the Gettysburg Address (and other orations) he performs successfully the difficult feat of having it both ways. He appears in the famous brief oration as both the conservator of the sacred old Union and the herald of “a new birth of freedom.” Rhetorically, he encompasses right and left, the revered past and the longed-for ideal future.

Santification of the Address has not gone entirely unchallenged in America, however. The iconoclastic Henry Louis Mencken, writing in 1920, described Lincoln as “the American solar myth, the chief butt of American credulity and sentimentality.” Of the Gettysburg Address, Mencken wrote:

Inventing a New Nation at Gettysburg By Clyde Wilson, 23 May, 2014

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It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination – that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in that battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.2

Edgar Lee Masters, a poet who immortalized his and Lincoln’s home region of Illinois in Spoon River Anthology, was so troubled by the Lincoln legacy that he devoted an entire book to it (1931), of the Address, Masters wrote:

Lincoln carefully avoided one half of the American story. […] The Gettysburg oration, therefore, remains a prose poem, but in the inferior sense that one must not inquire into its truth. […] One must read it apart from the facts. […] Lincoln dared not face the facts at Gettysburg. […] He was unable to deal realistically with the history of his country, even if the occasion had been one where the truth was acceptable to the audience. Thus we have in the Gettysburg Address that refusal of the truth which is written all over the American character and its expressions. The war then being waged was not glorious, it was brutal and hateful and mean minded. 3

Mencken and Masters were reflecting, in part, revulsion at the American entry into World War I, which had been blessed by Lincolnian rhetoric as a crusade “to save the world for democracy.” 4

“Difficult to imagine anything more untrue.” “Refusal of the truth.” These are strong charges. Coming from a poet and a cultural critic, rather than from patriotic orators, political advocates, or nationalist historians, they deserve consideration. One would think that the Address should be considered less important and less definitive than the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. These were, after all, not just the words of one man, but solemn acts of the whole American people. Indeed important events in world history. But, in fact, the Declaration has come to be perceived and valued in American public discourse wholly through the interpretation that Lincoln put upon it at Gettysburg. The Declaration has been absorbed into the Address. The Declaration itself is seldom read beyond the first sentences and Americans are often surprised to see what it actually says and to have pointed out what it actually signaled in historical events. “Four score and seven years ago,” a “new nation” was “brought forth” (note Lincoln’s biblical and almost mystical language). This new nation, “conceived in liberty,” had been dedicated to a “proposition” of equality. By this formulation,

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since the new nation was “brought forth” in 1776, the Constitution adopted in 1787-1789 is merely an unfolding of the “proposition” in the Declaration. The Declaration and the Constitution are now conflated. The Constitution is merely the implementation of the Declaration – subservient to the proposition to which the new nation had already been dedicated.5

The two documents actually do not depend on or convey any dedication of a people to equality, either in text or context. They reflect, for the most part, the language and spirit of Anglo-American legal and parliamentary traditions. The Declaration created no new nation. It was an agreed-upon statement of why the thirteen united colonies “are and of right ought to be, free and independent states.” Its operative premise is not the equality of all men but that governments should rest upon “the consent of the governed.” It was a Declaration of Independence, not a Declaration of the Rights of Man, having more in common with Magna Carta than with Jean-Jacques Rousseau. What the Constitution established might in some sense be called a nation, but it was customarily referred to before Lincoln (and even in Lincoln’s earlier public documents) as a “Union.”

Something had happened to the Declaration between the American founding and Lincoln at Gettysburg – the French Revolution. The transition was perfectly illustrated by Karl Marx, who in January 1865 wrote an address in praise of Lincoln for an “International Conference of Workers”. Marx described the American war as a contest between “the labor of the emigrant” and the aggression of “the slave driver” and lamented that an evil rebellion had sprung up in the “one great democratic republic whence the first Declaration of the Rights of Man was issued.” 6 (A different European reaction to the American war occurred in the same month that Lincoln gave his Address. Father John B. Bannon, chaplain in the Confederate Army, had a series of audiences with Pius IX. Father Bannon emphasized the justice and conservatism of the Southern cause, the religious devotion of the Southern people, and their friendly reception of Catholics in contrast to the bitterly hostile Protestant North. His efforts resulted in a kindly papal letter to President Jefferson Davis and a mission to Ireland to preach against Northern recruiting of cannon fodder there, something which is glimpsed in the recent film Gangs of New York).7

Lincoln begins the Address with language that is directly patterned on the King James Bible so familiar to his audience. “Four score and seven years” rather than “eighty-seven”; “brought forth” rather than “established”. Thus he invokes the ancient and sacred: the American Union as a special manifestation of God’s plan for the improvement of humanity. The first Puritan settlers of Massachusetts had named themselves “a City upon a Hill” and “a beacon to all mankind.” As historians have shown abundantly in recent decades, this theme, projected rhetorically to an ideal America, was already well-developed in the post-Puritan culture of the North, especially in New England and New Englander settled areas of the West.8 It is amply displayed in such


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highbrow places as the writings of Emerson and in such lowbrow places as The Battle Hymn of the Republic. The notion of the special role of the United States in history has become a powerful and lasting motivation and rationalization. It has appeared in countless sermons down to the present day and in the rhetoric of President George W. Bush in the 21st century.

Lincoln thus, in practical terms, rhetorically nailed down one of the two most important and dedicated of his constituencies and one of the two most forceful ideological elements of the North. The second, like the first, disdained the Jeffersonian limited government ideals of the Confederacy and of Lincoln’s Northern opponents. The second group, which Lincoln must capture and merge with the first to make a success of the Address, is made up of Marx’s “emigrants.” Historians have long noted the influence of German refugees from the revolutions of 1848 in the founding of the Republican Party and in Lincoln’s election, but usually without allowing its true weight. Between 1840 and 1860 the total free American population increased by one-third from immigrants alone – including at least a million and a half Germans. These settled mainly in Lincoln’s Midwest and in 1860 made up from 8 percent to 17 per cent of the population of the Midwestern states.9

Lincoln recognized this constituency early on by secretly purchasing a German language newspaper and subsidizing others. German delegates were prominent in the convention that nominated Lincoln and in the campaign orators who stimulated the grassroots on his behalf. It appears that these immigrants tipped the balance, swinging the traditionally Democratic Midwest into the Republican column and making Lincoln’s election possible. The German revolutionaries brought with them an aggressive drive to realize in America the goals that had been defeated in their homeland. Their drive was toward “revolution and national unification” in the words of the Party of the Left at the Frankfurt Convention. The most prominent among them, Carl Schurz, expressed disappointment at the non-ideological nature of American politics and vowed to change that.10

The Germans brought into to the American regional conflict and into Republican rhetoric a diagnosis of class conflict (crusade to overthrow the “slave drivers”) and a revolutionary élan. They also contributed out of proportion to the Northern military effort. Freidrich Engels remarked: “Had it not been for the experienced soldiers who had entered America after the European revolution, especially from Germany, the organization of the Union army would have taken still longer than it did.” 11 Thus Lincoln consolidated his base, justified and sanctified the Northern cause and victory both as preservation of the hallowed old and a birth of the new. He created an image of the United States that has had and continues to have incalculable effects on American public life and, indeed, on the world.


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That Lincoln’s accomplishment was a revolution and not a “preservation of the Union” (whether one finds the revolution pleasing or troubling) is beautifully illustrated by an incident in Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War, the Civil War memoir of Confederate General Richard Taylor. Taylor was a learned man acquainted in the highest circles, an able though not a professional soldier. He also possessed an active sense of humour. In May 1865, after the surrender of the main Confederate armies and the capture of his brother-in-law Jefferson Davis, Taylor found himself in command of a small army in Alabama. He opened surrender negotiations with the nearest Union commander, General Canby. With one staff officer Taylor went to meet Canby in a hand-driven railroad sled under a flag of truce. The formalities of capitulation completed, courteous federal officers invited the hungry Confederates to join them at dinner. Taylor relates what happened next: There was, as ever, a skeleton at the feast, in the person of a general officer who had recently left Germany to become a citizen and soldier of the United States. This person, with the strong accent and idioms of the Fatherland, comforted me by assurances that we of the South would speedily recognize our ignorance and errors […] and rejoice in the results of the war. […] I apologized meekly for my ignorance, on the ground that my ancestors had come from England to Virginia in 1608, and, in the short intervening period of two hundred and fifty-odd years, had found no time to transmit to me correct ideas of the duties of American citizenship. Moreover, my grandfather, commanding the 9th Virginia regiment in our Revolutionary army, had assisted in the defeat and capture of the Hessian mercenaries at Trenton, and I lamented that he had not, by association with these worthies, enlightened his understanding. My friend smiled blandly, and assured me of his willingness to instruct me.12

Modestly, Taylor did not mention that his father had been President of the United States. NOTES 1 DAVID H. DONALD, Lincoln Reconsidered. New York: Knopf, 1956. 2 The Vintage Mencken. New York: Vintage Books, 1958, pp. 79-80. 3 EDGAR LEE MASTERS. Lincoln: The Man. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1931, pp. 478-479. This book was recently republished by Foundation for American Education Press. 4 See RICHARD M. GAMBLE, The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2003. 5I am drawing here on the brilliant analyses of Lincoln’s rhetoric by the late Professor M.E. Bradford. Bradford’s half-dozen ground-breaking Lincoln essays are scattered through almost as many of his books. See especially MELVIN E. BRADFORD, A Better Guide Than Reason. Lasalle, Ill.: Sherwood Sugden, 1979, pp. 29-57 and 85-203; and Remembering Who We Are. Athens, GA and London: University of Georgia Press, 1985, pp. 143-156. On the dissolvable nature of the Union see ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, Democracy in America. New York: Vintage Books, vol. 1, pp. 143-156. 6 The manifesto is printed in PHILIP S. FONER, ed., Abraham Lincoln: Selections from His Writings. New York: International Press, 1944, pp. 93-94. International Press was an organ of the U.S. Communist Party. 7PHILLIP THOMAS TUCKER, The Confederacy’s Fighting Chaplain: Father John B. Bannon. Tuscaloosa, AL and London: University of Alabama Press, pp. 157-178.


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8 In general American historians have paid relatively little attention to the antebellum North, implicitly postulating it as the American norm, and the South as an un-American anomaly to be explained. However, recently attention has been paid to Northern society, showing an aggressive economic and cultural agenda that was something new. Among other things, these works have demonstrated the power of Northern forces desperate to prevent a free trade South and by emphasizing the racism of the politicians and soldiers of the Union, have cast new light on the supposed benevolence of the campaign against slavery. See ANNE NORTON, Alternative America’s; ERNEST L. TUVESON, Redeemer Nation; HARLOW SHEIDLEY, Massachusetts Conservative Leaders and the Transformation of America; RICHARD F. BENSEL, Yankee Leviathan; SUSAN-MARY GRANT, North Over South; JOAN P. MELISH, Disowning Slavery; CHARLES ADAMS. When in the Course of Human Events; THOMAS DILORENZO, The Real Lincoln. 9 CHARLOTTE L. BRANCAFORTE, ed., The German Forty-Eighters in The United States. New York, Peter Lang, 1989; A.E. ZUCKER, ed., The Forty-Eighters; Political Refugees of the German Revolution of 1848. New York: Columbia University Press, 1950; American Historical Review, 16: 774ff, and 47:51ff.; Journal of American History, 19:192ff. and 29:55ff. 10 HANS L. TREFOUSSE, Carl Schurz: A Biography. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982. 11 Engels quoted in the Lincoln pamphlet cited in footnote 6. 12 Richard Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Reminiscences of the Late War. Nashville, TN: Sanders Southern Reprints, 1998. Originally published 1879 About Clyde Wilson Clyde Wilson is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina where he was the editor of the multivolume The Papers of John C. Calhoun. He is the M.E. Bradford Distinguished Chair at the Abbeville Institute. He is the author or editor of over twenty books and has contributed to dozens of scholarly and popular publications.


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Fresh Pickings from the


In 1862 when he took command of the Union Army of Virginia, Union General John Pope boasted to the troops, "I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemy." When he heard the statement, Richard Ewell joked "Pope would not want to see the backs of my men. Their pantaloons are out at the rear!" Stonewall Jackson was more grim, "They say this new general claims my attention. Well, please God, he shall have it!" (And he did!) The pompous Yankee was quickly trounced and sent back west to learn a bit of humility…

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" Fort Worth 1903, a group of Confederate veterans met for a reunion and picnic on the grounds of the Burleson Schoolhouse. "In the top row, standing on the porch, are John Shannon, Wick Tye, William Fairless, William Bransom, D.L. Murphy, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Dickenson and W.M. Ferris. Second row, from left, are R.L. Roberts, unknown, unknown, Mr. East, Mr. Summerlin, Joe Thompson and, at far right, seated on the top step, another unknown. Third row, from left, are Jimmy McGee, Mr. Roddy, Mr. London, Mr. McNairn, unknown, Mr. Jackson, A.J. Beavers, Y.P. Bowers and unknown. Front row, W.E. Pope, unknown, [former Mayor of Fort Worth] Capt. B.B. Paddock, unknown, Mr. Leveritt, Mr. Rust, Mr. Jackson, and Walter Neeley." Confederate Veterans Reunion, 1903 From Mack Williams' In Old Fort Worth, Copyright 1977, Pg. 113--

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Several men were among the "prophetic"... Thomas Nelson Page, several years ago, gave the South a great warning which we of the South did not heed. He said: "In a few years there will be no South to demand a history if we leave history as it is now written. How do we stand today in the eyes of the world? We are esteemed 'ignorant, illiterate, cruel, semi-barbarous, a race sunken in brutality and vice,' a race of slave drivers who disrupted the Union in order to perpetuate human slavery and who as a people have contributed nothing to the advancement of mankind.' " TRUTHS OF HISTORY Mildred Lewis Rutherford Historian General United Daughters of The Confederacy

History is not was, it IS. -William Faulkner

Units, by State, represented by ancestors of members of the

Rockwall Cavalry Camp

This is something I put together from our Memorial Wall. I thought it might prove useful in that it makes it just a bit easier to see where our various ancestors served, and it will also prove useful for another little project I am going to attempt where I will list, from time to time, the Order of Battle for certain battles. The Order of Battle is a listing of units or partial units involved in that particular battle. If you see your ancestor’s unit involved, say, at Shiloh, you will still have to ascertain whether said relative was actually present at that battle or not. IF you need help trying to do that and don’t know how, ask me or one of the other members and we will help you. I will update this as needed. — The Editor ALABAMA 15th Alabama Inf. Absalom J. Ogletree (Coleman)

ARKANSAS 1st Arkansas Cav. Samuel Madison Corley (Powell) 2nd Arkansas Inf. James M. Shields (McWhorter) 15th Arkansas Inf. Edwin J. McWhorter (McWhorter)

FLORIDA

GEORGIA 4th Georgia Cav. Ezekiel Andrew McClure (McWhorter) 4th Georgia Inf. James Hamilton McWhorter (McWhorter) 5th Georgia Reserves William Taylor Harris (Coleman) 6th Batt. Georgia Cav. Capt. John Bailey Rogers (McWhorter) 6th Batt. Georgia Cav. Andrew J. Boyles (McWhorter) 7th Georgia Inf. John Gilmore Fry (Coleman) 9th Georgia Inf. Warren Osbourne McWhorter (McWhorter) 9th Georgia Inf. Samuel Wightman McWhorter (McWhorter) 13th Georgia Inf. Benjamin Hartwell Starr (Coleman) 22nd Georgia Inf. William Harrison Jones (Coleman) 24th Georgia Inf. Lt. Elijah Fletcher Starr (Coleman) 29th Batt. Georgia Inf. John Thomas Jossey (Vickers) 31st Georgia Inf. Elijah Phillips (Coleman) 34th Georgia Inf. Thomas Bray (Bray) 34th Georgia Inf. David A. Bray (Bray) 35th Georgia Inf. Samuel Henry Starr (Coleman) 42nd Georgia Inf. William S. Starr (Coleman) 42nd Georgia Inf. Silas Andrew Starr (Coleman) 44th Georgia Inf. John Tyler Peebles (Coleman) 44th Georgia Inf. Henry Madison Moore (Coleman) 44th Georgia Inf. Col. William Hubbard Peebles (Coleman) 44th Georgia Inf. James McIntosh Coleman (Coleman) 45th Georgia Inf. Abner Hammond (Coleman) 53rd Georgia Inf. Benjamin Josiah Harris (Coleman) 56th Georgia Inf. Thomas Caryl James (Wilson) 60th Georgia Inf. Samuel Dupre McClure (McWhorter) 60th Georgia Inf. Lemel Rogers McWhorter (McWhorter) 60th Georgia Inf. William Franklin McWhorter (McWhorter) 63rd Georgia Inf. John M. C. Coleman (Coleman)

Howard’s Batt. Sidney James Hightower (Wilson)

Georgia Sharpshooters Henry Clay Harris (Coleman)

LOUISIANA 11th Batt. Louisiana Inf. Young William Hicks (McWhorter) 13th Batt. Louisiana Cav. Atlas Griffin Hicks (McWhorter) *28th (Gray’s) La. Inf. Reg. Atlas Griffin Hicks (McWhorter) MISSISSIPPI 2nd Mississippi Cavalry Joshua McCarthy (McWhorter)

NORTH CAROLINA 26th North Carolina Inf. John McWhorter (McWhorter) SOUTH CAROLINA 1ST South Carolina Rifles William David McWhorter (McWhorter)

19th Batt., South Carolina Cav. Columbus Washington DuBose (DuBose)

TENNESSEE 11th Batt., Gordon’s Tenn. Cav. James Corley (Powell) 45th Tennessee Inf. Jones Burton Corley (Powell) 46th Tennessee Inf. William E. Corley (Powell) TEXAS 1st Texas Inf. (Hood’s Tx. Bde) Andrew Jackson Cravey (Bray) 6th Texas Inf. Drury Connally (McWhorter) 6th Texas Cav. Charles Williamson (Bray) 10th Texas Inf. James K. Polk Connally (McWhorter) 11th Texas Reg. Benjamin Franklin Ivy (Wilson) 18th (Ochiltree’s) Tex. Inf. William Leroy Connally (McWhorter) 23rd Texas Cav. Adelbert Priestly (Powell) 23rd Texas Cav. Lt. Col. John Austin Corley (Powell) Hood’s Texas Brigade Robert Micajah Powell (Powell) Waller’s Reg. Tex. Cav. James Daniel Kyle (Chief Bear) VIRGINIA 3rd Corps, ANV Lt. Gen. Ambrose Powell Hill (Powell)

24th Virginia Inf. Reg. Pvt. James Burley Merriman (Merriman)

Graphic created and supplied by Dr. Rick Montgomery, Stonewall Jackson Camp 901, Denton,

Texas

Memorial Wall to our Confederate Ancestors

In Honor of

Lt. Gen Ambrose Powell Hill

“little Powell”

Commander, 3rd Corps, ANV

KIA—Petersburg, VA, April 2, 1865

Richard Powell

In memory of cousin

Lt. col. John Austin corley

23rd texas cavalry reg., csa

Richard powell

In Remembrance of

Pvt. William E. Corley

46th Tennessee Infantry, C.S.A.

POW, Camp Douglas, Illinois

Richard Powell

In memory of

Capt. Adelbert Priestly

Corley

23rd Texas Cavalry, CSA

Richard Powell

In Memory of Great

Grandfather

Pvt. Jones Burton Corley

Co. B, 45th Tennessee Inf, C.S.A.,

Pow at Rock Island, Ill.

Richard Powell

In Memory of

Pvt. James Corley

Co. F, 11th Battalion,

Gordon’s Tennessee Cav, C.S.A.

Killed during the War

Richard Powell

In honor of cousin

Col. Robert micajah powell

Hood’s texas brigade, CSA

Surrendered the brigade at

Appomattox courthouse

Richard Powell

Major Samuel Corley

Served under Gen. A. S.

Johnston

Died in battle 10 Sept 1863

Bayou Fourche, Arkansas

Richard Powell

In memory of

James Burley Merriman

Co. B, 24th Virginia

Infantry Regiment Orville Cole Merriman

In Honor of my Great

Grandfather

Pvt. James Daniel Kyle

Co. B, Waller’s Regiment

Texas Cavalry, C.S.A. Chief Bear Who Walks Softly

Pvt. John mcwhorter

Co. b, 26th reg, north

Carolina inf, csa

Kia battle of Gettysburg, his

remains buried on the field

Matt mcwhorter

Sgt. William franklin

mcwhorter

Co. e, 60th Georgia

regiment, csa

Matt mcwhorter

Pvt. William david

mcwhorter

Co. a, 1st south Carolina

rifles

Matt mcwhorter

1st sgt. William henry

mcwhorter

Walker independents

Kia at sharpsburg Matt mcwhorter

Pvt. Edwin j. mcwhorter

Co. c, NW 15th Arkansas

infantry, csa

Kia battle of Corinth

Matt mcwhorter

Pvt. Young William Hicks

Co. B., 11th Batallion,

Louisiana Inf., SCV

Matt McWhorter

Pvt. Atlas Griffin hicks

28th (Gray’s) Inf. Regiment,

Louisiana and co. f, 13th

Battalion, Louisiana Cavalry

Reg’iment (Partisan Rangers)

Matt McWhorter

In Memory and Honor of

William Leroy Connally

Co. E, 18th (Ochiltree’s)

Texas Infantry, C.S.A.

Matt McWhorter


Pvt. Joshua McCarthy

Co. K, 2nd Mississippi

Cavalry, csa

Matt mcwhorter

Pvt. Drury connally

Co. f, 6th texas infantry,

CSA

Matt mcwhorter

Pvt. Samuel dupre mcclure

Co. c, 60th Georgia inf.

Regiment, csa

Matt mcwhorter

Captain john bailey

rogers

Co. b, 6th Batallion

Georgia cavalry, csa Matt mcwhorter

Pvt. James k. polk

connally

Co. b, 10th texas inf, csa

Matt mcwhorter

Pvt. James m. shields

Co. a, 2nd Arkansas

infantry, csa

Matt mcwhorter

Corp. Ezekiel Andrew

mcclure

Co. f, 4th Georgia

cavalry, csa Matt mcwhorter

Pvt. Patrick henry mcclure

Served at camp bartow

Kia at first battle of

manassas

Matt mcwhorter

Sgt. Lemel rogers

mcwhorter

Co. c, 60th Georgia

infantry, csa Matt mcwhorter

Pvt. James Hamilton

mcwhorter

Co. f, 4th Georgia inf., csa

Matt mcwhorter

Pvt. Andrew j. boyles

Co. a, 6th battalion,

Georgia cavalry, csa

Matt mcwhorter

1st sgt. Warren Osbourne

mcwhorter

Co. b, 9th Georgia regiment,

Anderson’s brigade, hood’s

division, longstreet’s corp

Matt mcwhorter

Pvt. Samuel Wightman

mcwhorter

Co. g, 9th Georgia inf., csa

Matt mcwhorter

In Honor of

Thomas caryl james

Pvt., Co. g. 56th, Georgia

infantry Regiment, csa

Tom & aaron Wilson

In Honor of

Benjamin Franklin ivy

Pvt., Co. K., 11th texas reg.

randall’s Bgd.

Tom & Aaron Wilson

In Honor of

Great-Great Grandfather

Sidney James Hightower

Pvt., Co. B, Howard’s BatT.,

Georgia Volunteers

Tom & Aaron Wilson


John Thomas jossey

4th sgt., co. b, 29th

battalion, Georgia

cavalry, csa

Robert Charles vickers

2nd Great Grandfather

Columbus Washington

Dubose

19th battalion, South

Carolina Cavalry, C.S.A.

Joseph Daniel dubose

andrew Jackson cravey

1st texas inf. (hoods texas

brigade

Gary bray

In Honor of Great

Grandfather

Pvt. David A. Bray

Co. H, 34th Georgia Inf, CSA

Gary Bray

Thomas bray

Co. h, 34th Georgia inf.,

csa

Gary bray

Charles Williamson

Co. b, 6th texas cavalry

“The rockwall cavalry”

Csa

Gary bray

in Honor and Memory of


William Harrison Jones

22nd Reg, Georgia Inf, C.S.A.

Daryl K. Coleman

In Honor of my

3rd Great Uncle

John Tyler Peebles

44th Georgia Reg, CSA

Daryl K. Coleman

In Honor of my cousin

Sgt. William S. Starr

Co. B, 42nd Georgia Inf., CSA Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Missionary

Ridge

Daryl K. Coleman

In Memory of my cousin

Pvt. Samuel Henry Starr

Co. F, 35th Georgia Inf., CSA Last seen wounded and standing near a

log on the Gettysburg Battlefield,

assumed to have died in Federal captivity

Daryl K. Coleman

In Memory of My Uncle

Col. William Hubbard Peebles

44th Georgia Volunteer

Infantry, CSA

Daryl K. Coleman

3rd Great Grandfather

Henry Madison Moore

Co. A, Weems Guards,

44th Reg.

Georgia Infantry, C.S.A.

Daryl K. Coleman

In memory of cousin

Abner Hammond

Co. I, 45th Georgia Inf., CSA

Daryl K. Coleman

In Honor of my cousin

Absalom J. Ogletree

Co. I, 15th Alabama Inf, CSA

Daryl K. Coleman

In memory of cousin

SgT. Silas Andrew Starr

42nd Georgia Inf, CSA

Daryl K. Coleman

In Memory and Honor of


Pvt. John M. C. Coleman

Co. G, 63rd Reg, Georgia Vol.

Inf., C.S.A.

Daryl K. Coleman

In Honor of Great

Grandfather

William Taylor Harris

Pvt., Co. L, 5th Georgia Res.,

CSA

Daryl K. Coleman

In Memory of Cousin

Pvt. Benjamin Josiah Harris

Co. I, 53rd Georgia Inf, C.S.A.

Killed in Action, War for

Southern Liberation

Daryl K. Coleman


In Memory of 3rd Great Uncle

Pvt. James McIntosh Coleman

Co. E, 44th Georgia Infantry

Confederate States Army

Daryl K. Coleman

In Honor of cousin

Lt. Elijah Fletcher Starr

Surgeon, Co. C

24th Georgia Inf Reg, CSA Daryl K. Coleman

In Memory of cousin

Pvt. Benjamin Hartwell Starr

13th Georgia Infantry, CSA

Killed, Battle of the Wilderness,

buried on the battlefield

Daryl K. Coleman

In Memory of


Elijah Phillips

Pvt., Co. B, 31st Georgia Reg.

Confederate States Army

Daryl K. Coleman

In honor and memory of

4th Great Grandfather

John Gilmore fry

Chaplain, Co. F

7th Georgia inf, CSA

Daryl k. Coleman

In honor of

Henry clay harris

Pvt., co. b, 4th battalion

Georgia sharpshooters Daryl k. Coleman

From the Leadership Training Conference, Gainesville, Texas, 31 May, 2014

Texas Division 2nd Lt.

Cmdr Gary Bray

speaking on Camp

Growth, Stability and

Membership Retention

Bob Rubel, 7th Brigade 1st Lt. Cmdr and

Commander of the Terry’s Texas Rangers

Camp in Cleburne speaking on Tracing Your

Confederate Ancestor

Texas Division Commander Johnnie Holley

speaking on Commanders Command, Camp

Operations, Programs and Projects

Cooke County

Courthouse and

Confederate Statue,

Gainesville, Texas (Courtesy of Paul

Ridenour)


Texas Division 1st. Lt. Cmdr David

Moore speaking on Heritage

Defense and Offense

Lunch served by the ladies

of the Order of the

Confederate Rose

Photos courtesy

of David Moore


Daryl Coleman (1st Lt. Cmdr,

Rockwall Cavalry Camp) speaking

on Writing a Camp Newsletter

Some of the OCR ladies who took

such good care of us

Texas Division Adjutant Cooper

Goodson provided Adjutant Training

Phil Maynard, 1st Lt. Cmdr 5th Brigade

(Red Diamond Camp, Texarkana)

speaking on Public Relations & Dealing

With the Press


Dennis Brand, Cmdr of the Douglas

Camp in Tyler, speaking on Awards,

Forms and Procedures

Phil Davis, Upshur County Patriots

Camp, Gilmer, Texas, speaking on the

Guardian Program

Dick Croft and Kansas Division

Commander Kevin Ivy. Both traveled

from Kansas to attend

Gary Bray & Bob Rubel

Calvin Allen (3rd Brigade Cmdr), Larry

Martin (Cmdr Gov. W.T. Lanham Camp,

Weatherford) and Jerry Puckett

Gary Bray receives his Guardian Certificate at a recent meeting of the Wells

Camp in Plano. It is high time to have guardians in the Rockwall Cavalry Camp.

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T H E D I X I E

B A N N E R


Purpose Statement, Sons of

Confederate Veterans

The citizen-soldiers who fought for the Confederacy personified the best qualities of America. The preservation of liberty and freedom was the motivating factor in the South's decision to fight the Second American Revolution. The tenacity with which Confederate soldiers fought underscored their belief in the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. These attributes are the underpinning of our democratic society and represent the foundation on which this nation was built. Today, the Sons of Confederate Veterans is preserving the history and legacy of these heroes, so future generations can understand the motives that animated the Southern Cause. The SCV is the direct heir of the United Confederate Veterans, and the oldest hereditary organization for male descendents of Confederate soldiers. Organized at Richmond, Virginia in 1896, the SCV continues to serve as a historical, patriotic, and non-political organization dedicated to ensuring that a true history of the 1861-1865 period is preserved. Membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans is open to all male descendants of any veteran who served honorably in the Confederate armed forces. Membership can be obtained through either lineal or collateral family lines and kinship to a veteran must be documented genealogically. The minimum age for full membership is 12, but there is no minimum for Cadet membership. Friends of the SCV memberships are available as well to those who are committed to upholding our charge, but do not have the Confederate ancestry.

Editor

Daryl Coleman

2015 Sumac Dr.

Forney, Texas 75126

Phone: 469.762.6082

Cell: 214.725.3330

E-mail: [email protected]

News of The Rockwall

Cavalry Camp #2203, SCV

http://rockwallcavalry.org/

Rockwall Cavalry

Camp #2203 Officers

Richard Powell, Commander [email protected]

Daryl Coleman, Lt. Cmdr [email protected]

Chief Bear, Adjutant [email protected]

Aaron Wilson, 2nd Lt. Cmdr [email protected]

Wayne Hairston Chaplain No email

Sissy Bray, Camp Matron [email protected]

Joe White, 4th Brig. Cmdr. [email protected]

Johnnie Holley, Texas Div. Cmdr. [email protected]

Michael Givens, CINCSCV

[email protected]

Opinions expressed by individual

writers are their own and do not

necessarily reflect official positions of

the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

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 26, 1906

Documents

The Dixie Banner · 2 Upcoming Meetings 3 Inventing a New Nation 6 Confederate Grapevine 13 Units by State 16 Memorial Wall 18 Purpose Statement 27 SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS The