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Vol 8, No, 4. April 2019
Camp #21 Hosts Montford Point Marines
A full house witnessed an outstanding and informative presentation by Master Gunnery Sergeant Tyrone Jackson on the history of the Montford Point Marines and the Montford Point Marines Association at the GAR Hall located at 706 Newcastle Street in Beaufort, SC on February 16, 2019.
The Montford Point Marine Association (MPMA) is a nonprofit military veterans’ organization, founded to memorialize the legacy of the first African Americans to serve in the United States Marine Corps. The first African American U.S. Marines were trained at Camp Montford Point, in Jacksonville, North Carolina, from 1942 to 1949.
During his presentation, MGySgt Jackson included information about the discrimination that the Afro- American troops faced during their military training at Montford Point and after desegregation.
It was noted that initially Afro-American troops were not allowed to be trained at Parris Island, SC or San Diego, California. All of their training took place at Montford Point, a part of the Marine Corps Base Camp
Lejeune, North Carolina.
The event was well received by those in attendance and included inspirational talk, questions and discussions.
The event was sponsored by the SUVCW of Beaufort, the DUVCW, the WRC and the Parris Island Historical and Museum Society.
The event was followed by a fundraising fish fry for the benefit of the GAR Hall in Beaufort.
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Contents The March
Winner of the Marshall Hope Award for best Department newsletter
2017, 2018
The March is the official publication of the Department of Georgia & South Carolina, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.
All articles are welcome for publication, and should be sent no later than the last Friday of each of month to the Editor.
Copyright © 2019. All rights reserved
Editor: Brian C. Pierson, PDC
Department Officers
Commander: David W. Beam
Senior Vice Commander: Michael Reither
Junior Vice Commander: Timothy Klob
Secretary / Treasurer: Mark A. Hale, PDC
Department Council:
Edward C. Hackney, [email protected] Eric Peterson, PDC, [email protected] Ray Wozniak, [email protected]
Chaplain: David Allee, [email protected]
Patriotic Instructor: Michael Reither
Graves Registration Ofcr: Eric Peterson, PDC
Historian: Bill Miller, PDC
Civil War Memorials Ofcr: Ray Wozniak
Eagle Scout Coordinator: David W. Beam
Counselor: Timothy Klob
Guide: Alan Bright
Color Bearer: Donald Bickham
Guard: Timothy Klob
Montford Point Marines 1
Department Calendar 3
Department Commander’s Message 3
Around the Department 4
Naked History 5
Our Veteran Ancestors 7
The Pulpit 8
The Camp Jester 8
Grave of the Month 8
The Flag Waver, Patriotic Instruction 9
Department Encampment Information 10
For more Department information and updates, please be sure to check out
our website at
https://suvcwdepartmentofgeorgiasouthcarolina.yolasite.com/
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Department Calendar If you know of an event of interest that should be added to this calendar, or if you see a correction that needs to be made, please notify the editor. This includes re-enactments, historical commemorations, etc.
Lincoln Tomb Ceremony; Spring C of A Meeting
13 Apr
Patriots Day 19 Apr Department Encampment Beaufort SC
26-27 Apr
Loyalty Day 1 May Battle of Clinton re-enactment 4-5 May Arrest of AH Stephens, Crawfordsville, GA
11 May
Mother’s Day 13 May Battle of Resaca re-enactment 18-19 May Armed Forces Day 20 May Memorial Day (observed) 27 May Marietta National Cemetery, SVR, Camps #1, #2, #3, #4
Florence National Cemetery, Camp #10
Beaufort National Cemetery, Camp #21
Memorial Day (traditional) 30 May Gwinett County Civil War Camp for Kids
July
McPherson Commemoration, ATL 22 July
Toy Soldiers Show, Columbia State Museum, SC
10 Aug
National Encampment 8-11 Aug
Good of the Order Please keep the following Brothers in your prayers:
PDC Ted Golab, recovering from a hip replacement. Mike Shore, on the loss of his wife of 31 years. Gordon Draves, recovering from being hit by a careless driver while bicycling. Dept Chaplain David Allee, recovering from illness. Dept Color Bearer Don Bickham, recovering from illness. PCC Ray Wozniak, recovering from a knee injury.
Department Commander’s Message
Brothers of the Department,
In late April we will gather in beautiful Beaufort, South Carolina for our 12th Department Encampment. It will be my privilege to assemble with those Brothers who attend to conduct the business of the Department and enjoy comradery. Please join me in the Garden Room of the host hotel Friday evening for a little fireside fellowship. Saturday morning and afternoon, we will handle our business professionally and then meet for the Hail and Farewell Dinner later that evening at one of Beaufort’s many excellent restaurants. I truly hope to see you there!
This will be my last edition of the “Department Commander’s Comments” for The March. I want to close by thanking you all for the support you have shown me over the past two years. A lot has been accomplished and a lot more is planned (such as the 2020 National Encampment). It takes the valiant efforts of each of you to make the Department a success.
Most importantly, I want to thank each Brother for what you do locally within your individual communities to highlight the good and honorable name of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. What you do every day representing the Order provides an infinite good that helps keep green the memory of the Boys in Blue. Your ancestors who fought to maintain the Union would be very proud of each of you.
In Fraternity, Charity, and Loyalty, David Beam, PCC, Department Commander
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Around the Department
Passing the Torch
Brother Ray Wozniak recently donated a set of uniform pants and jacket to an aspiring re-enactor whose dad has a Union ancestor.
Battle of Aiken, SC
On 23 - 24 Feb, Brothers Moss & Robison took part in the annual Battle of Aiken. Despite the rain it was an enjoyable event, and the opportunity was presented quite often to speak with folks about the SUVCW and the potential for their joining to help remember the services of the Veterans of ‘61.
Dept JVC Tim Klob Appointed Magistrate
Dept JVC and Camp #2 Commander Tim Klob has been appointed a magistrate judge. Last summer, Brother Tim retired as a Colonel from the US Army Reserve, where he served as a JAG. Congratulations, Brother!
Camp #2 Meeting, December
Battle of Broxton’s Bridge. SC
On 2-3 March, Brother Moss took part in the annual event at Broxton’s Bridge Plantation near Erhardt, SC, on whose grounds can be found the original earthworks constructed by the Confederate forces to resist Gen. Sherman’s Carolinas Campaign.
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Around the Department
Teaching a new generation about the past
Winter Muster Encampment – 26 January, Lexington, SC.
Brothers Moss, Robison & Sandow took part in this event at the Lexington County Museum. The event was attended by over 200 spectators who saw periods represented from the American Revolution to Desert Storm. We spoke with a number of people about the service of the Union Veterans during the war, as well as provided general information about the uniforms, arms, equipment, etc.
Santa Has an Accident
Last December, Brother Ray Wozniak, while dressed
as Santa on his way to see some disadvantage children,
had an accident. Fortunately, he escaped unharmed.
The lesson? Santa shold stick to a sleigh.
Naked History: Brownlow’s Crossing of the
Chattahoochee (from The Georgia Unionist)
In the military, servicemen have a penchant to
embellish stories, and the more colorful, the better.
This was true in the Union Army as well. One
episode, ocurring during the Union Army’s crossing of
the Chattahoochee River, serves as an amusing
example.
By July of 1864 the Confederates had retreated to the south bank of the Chattahoochee River, a barrier they considered formidable for the Union forces in the Atlanta area.
General Sherman had often and again outmaneuvered General Johnston thus far in the campaign by moving on the right flank. Having learned of river fords to his left near modern Shallow Ford Road and Powers Ferry Road, as well as a fish dam near Sope Creek where it enters to the Chattahoochee, Sherman, betting that Johnston would think that he was attempting his usual flanking movement, demonstrated along a thirty mile front as if probing for a crossing to his right, when he really intended to move across upstream on his left. Johnston obligingly moved the bulk of his forces and all of his cavalry to his center and left to block the Union right. He was later criticized for being slow to protect all of the river fords, although all of the bridges had been destroyed by the retreating Confederates.
On 8 July, Johnston’s confusion became apparent as the 12th Kentucky crossed the river in pontoon boats that had been hidden in Sope Creek. They quickly built a pontoon bridges and by nightfall two brigades had crossed and entrenched on the far bank. Another crossing was made at Shallow Ford near Roswell. The following day, Colonel James Brownlow readied the 1st Tennessee to cross at the fish trap ford futher downstream at Cochran’s Ferry. His men had for several days been enjoying the abundant fish they extracted at night from the fish traps. Ordering two companies to strip naked and bring only their weapons and leather gear to ford the river, Brownlow went a step further and selected the nine best swimmers in his unit, and ordered them to strip as well. They loaded their weapons and gear in a canoe, and he personally led them in swimming the river.
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Gaining the far bank undetected they signalled the two companies to start fording. They are reported to have done this with great enthusiasm until they began to sink in the water – they had missed the narrow crossing where the fish traps were and soon began taking fire from the Confederate defenders, forcing them to take cover behind rocky outcrops in the river.
Meanwhile, Colonel Brownlow and his men had armed themselves and, still without their uniforms, crept near the Confederate position. Realizing that that the main attack of the two companies was stalled, they attacked the Confederate rear, taking twelve prisoners and causing the rest to flee.
One prisoner complained that, “Y’all should not have come up on us like that,” apparently referring to their disconcerting lack of clothing. Eventually, a boat brought over their uniforms.
General Sherman, who had been concerned with
taking casualties during the crossing, was well-pleased
with the outcome. For Jefferson Davis, losing the
river barrier to Atlanta was the last straw and he
replaced General Johnston with General Hood,
someone more to Sherman’s liking.
From here, the story took wings. When the rest of the
Union Army heard the story, it began to morph into an
entertaining yarn, with plenty of jokes about “raw
courage” and “naked aggression.” Around the
campfore or on the march, the story circulated that
disrobed Yanks, wearing only leather goods crossing
the river, ducking under the surface to advance, then
popping up to fire carbines that used waterproof
cartridges. This supposedly unhinged the Rebels so
badly that they all fled, except for ten men who stayed
behind and gave themsleves up just to see how the
Yankees loaded their muskets underwater. This tale is
still repeated in some history books as fact, proving
that the truth rarely gets in the way of a good story. In
Victorian times, Colonel Brownlow’s unusual
maneuver caught the , ahem, imagination of the
general public.
This attack appears to have become conflated with another attach that same day, in which elements of the 4th Ohio Cavalry, and the 17th and 98th Illinois also
began a stripped-down attack, fording the river with only their heads above water and firing carbines.
The number of
Confederate defenders
is not known, but this,
too, has bene subject to
some exaggeration on
both the low and high
side, depending on
who’s telling the story.
They range from an
“inconsiderable”
number of sharpshooters
and a single field piece
to two hundred troops
and two pieces of artillery.
In 2017, G. Wayne Flinchum wrote The Naked Charge
– Brownlow’s Yankees Cross the Chattahoochee,
which is available as a paperback on Amazon.
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Cpl Elijah P. Ford, 88th Illinois Infantry
Great-great Grandfather of Brother D. Gordon Draves
My grandmother, May Belle (Ford) Draves told me that the Ford family arrived in the U.S. in 1629 and that her grandfather Elijah P. Ford was in the Civil War. But I was probably less than 10 years old and I didn’t think to ask her for more details or for her to write down that information.
Many years later, I found my great-great-grandfather Elijah in the 1860 Census. He and his wife Sarah Eliza (Lee) Ford and their firstborn were living in Shipman, Macoupin County, IL. In 1862, he joined the 88th Illinois Infantry Regiment, which was called the Second Chicago Board of Trade regiment.
In 2017 for my third summer of bicycle touring and genealogy, I decided to be on the Katy Trail in Augusta, MO for the eclipse of the sun on July 21. To get there, I started with buses to Danville, IL where my great-grandparents Levi and Susan M. (Gritton) Bloomfield lived and had 14 children before going to Arkansas. From there, I traveled west on the Kickapoo Rail Trail and many straight roads beside corn fields across the state to Springfield where I visited Lincoln’s Tomb and tried to visit the Daughters of Union Veterans headquarters, but there just wasn’t enough time.
When I got to Macoupin County where Shipman is located, I went to Carlinville, the county seat, to their library and made a great genealogical discovery in their digitized newspaper--Carlinville Democrat. We
put in Elijah P. Ford and only one article came up, but E.P. Ford brought in more than a dozen that led to discovering many ancestors who I had not known about.
It was very good to ride the streets of a place Elijah walked before he left for the Civil War. He enlisted August 12, 1862. The 88th was at the Battle of Perryville, KY where the Union prevailed, and Kentucky was kept in the Union. The second battle was the hard-fought Battle of Stones River, TN. He
was either wounded there or in the third battle the 88th fought in at Tullahoma. He was discharged as disabled on July 15, 1863 in Gallatin, TN with rank of corporal. While his duty with the 88th was rather short, his regiment participated in many battles, which included most of the campaigns in Georgia.
Colonel Francis Trowbridge Sherman was commander of the 88th until he was captured in Georgia, exchanged three months later and joined the fight in the east. His letters and diary have been made into the book, Quest for the Star. He commanded brigades but it was after the war was over before his appointment as a brigadier general.
Elijah and family moved to Wichita, KS; then he moved to Los Angeles and became postmaster in 1897. In 1907, my grandmother and her future husband Bertram Arthur Draves moved to California and were married at Elijah and Sarah's
home. Elijah died in Hermosa Beach, CA on October 27, 1914 at age 83.
Brothers and Sisters,
If you would like to share your veteran ancestor’s story, please email the editor with a bio and any
photos (if you have them).
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What Ike Likes I came across a short anecdote with the above title in an old issue The Chaplain, a magazine for military chaplains.
President Eisenhower told 250 clergymen from the Washington area that he liked “militant preachers and chaplains.
Said he: “I so firmly believe that all free government is soundly based on religious faith that I feel no one teaching moral standards and spiritual ideals should do so apologetically.”
Turning to a group of chaplains who accompanied the clergymen, the President said: “I occaisionally have had quarrels with chaplains. It was always because they were too diffident in their preaching. I think they should have been a little more belligerent in what they had to say.”
As I thought about this story, I think President Eisenhower knoew of the ancient metaphor of the Church Militant, which consists of Christians on earth who struggle as soldiers of Christ against sin, the devil, and “against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.” The idea of the soldier of Christ is based on New Testament military metaphors, especially that of the Armor of God, as well as certain passages of the Old Testament.
I think President Eisenhower considered clergy as the chaplains of the Church Militant. Therefore, he wanted them to be fearless preachers in order to inspire the troops.
Our Order’s Rituals regularly appeal to our Lord. By these invocations, we affirm that we too are soldiers for “one nation under God.”
Let us, as we perform our happy duties in the Order, also boldly proclaim our faith. Something, I think we can all agree, which is sorely needed today.
Keep the faith, brothers!
The Camp Jester
Civil War Era Humor
More Conundrums
What is the best proof of a woman's insanity? To see her admire another woman more than herself.
Why has old Abe been too liberal to Gen. Rosencrans? Because he has Granted him more than he desired.
What's the most accumulative capital a man can have? A capital wife.
What did Adam and Eve do when they were expelled from Eden? They raised Cain.
Why are shoemakers the most endurable of mechanics? Because they wax stronger as their work becomes heavier.
Grave of the Month PVT James Carlyle
Co H, 56th Massachusetts
POW, died at Florence Stockade 1 Nov 1864. Buried in trench grave.
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First Death of the Civil War
Private Daniel Hough
14 April 1861, Fort Sumter, SC
Daniel Hough was the first soldier to be killed in the American Civil War. He was an Irish immigrant from County Tipperary who had enlisted in Battery D of the 1st United States Artillery Regiment. After serving out his enlistment, he re-enlisted on December 6, 1859 at Ft. Moultrie, South Carolina. This time he was assigned to Battery E, 1st United States Artillery.
His military record states that he had gray hair, blue eyes, a fair complexion, and was 5 feet, 8 inches tall.
Private Hough was serving as an artillerist, posted at Ft. Sumter, out in Charleston Harbor, when the Civil War began on the morning of April 12, 1861. The garrison put up a spirited defense, and the bombardment lasted until April 14, when the fort's commander, Major Robert Anderson,
agreed to evacuate the fort.
The Union garrison surrendered the fort on 14 April at 2:30 p.m. No one from either side was killed during the bombardment. On the 50th shot of the 100-gun salute to the U.S. flag — one of Maj Anderson's conditions for withdrawal — a pile of cartridges exploded from a spark, instantly killing Private Hough, mortally wounding Private Edward Galloway, and seriously injuring the rest of the gun crew. The salute was ended at 50 shots. Hough and Galloway were the first fatalities of the war that cost over 625,000 lives.
Sadly, the fate of Private Hough's body is not known. His remains were first interred in Ft. Sumter's parade ground shortly after his death. It is possible that he was re-interred in the Ft. Moultrie burial ground on Sullivan's Island nearby. The location of this cemetery, however, is unknown today. His body may have been taken to the St. Lawrence Cemetery in Charleston. However, the cemetery has no records concerning Hough. If Hough's remains stayed at Ft. Sumter, it is highly likely they were destroyed by the heavy Union bombardments of the fort during the 1863-1865 Siege of Charleston.
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Remember: All members in good
standing of the SUVCW and Allied
Orders may attend
Schedule:
Friday April 26, 2019
Social Event (cash bar) in the
Garden Room at the Hotel
Dinner at a local Restaurant,
7:00 pm
Saturday April 27, 2019
9:00 am Credential Check for all
delegates
9:30 am Morning Business
Session
12:00 pm Lunch – To be
Determined
2:00 pm Afternoon Business
Session
7:00 pm Dinner. Location TBA.
Department of Georgia & South Carolina, Sons of Union
Veterans of the Civil War
12th Department Encampment
April 26-28, 2019 The Twelfth Department Encampment business meeting will be held on April
27st at the Beaufort GAR Hall. The Hall is located at 706 Newcastle Street,
Beaufort, South Carolina 29902.
Hotel accommodations are at the Quality Inn at Town Center,2001
Boundary Street in Beaufort . Call (803)524-2144 if you wish to reserve a
room at the Hotel. The Sons of Union Veterans have obtained a special room
rate of $90.00 per night plus tax (includes free breakfast). Mention Dept. of
GA/SC Encampment to obtain the special rate.
The Business meeting will be from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm on April 27th. Please
feel free to check-in on Friday at the Hotel and enjoy comradeship at a local
Pub hosted by Edward Wallace Camp. Cash bar will be available.
At 7:00 pm on Saturday join the Department Commander for a Hail and
Farewell dinner. Location to be determined.
There is a possibility of a field trip to the Parris Island Historical Museum at
11:00 am if there is enough interest.
Department of GA & SC SUVCW
Department Secretary Mark A. Hale
10134 Fox Fire Terrace
Jonesboro, Georgia 30238
Phone: 770-900-5415
E-mail: [email protected]
(Name)
(Address) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (Phone) Check if attending the Saturday Night Hail and Farewell Dinner Check Payable to Dept. of GA & SC
Event Registration
Sign up for: Price Sub total
Friday Social Event on your own $00.00
Business Meeting included $00.00
Encampment Registration $20.00
Reservations must be received by April 1st,
2019
Fill out the tab below and return it with check payable to the Department of GA & SC,
SUVCW
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2019 Department Encampment, Beaufort, SC
Reservation Information Brothers,
Here is the hotel information to make your reservations for the 2019 Department Encampment in Beaufort.
The Encampment will be held the weekend of 26 April and will be hosted by Camp #21.
Hope to see you there!
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