NEXT MEETING
Then next meeting of Captain James W. Bryan Camp 1390
will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, at Hollier Cajun Kitchen, 1709 Ruth St.,
Sulphur, La. Compatriot Mike Jones will present the program on the 150th
Anniversary of the Battle of Sabine Pass. Please come and enjoy great food and
Confederate fellowship.
CAMP MEETING SCHEDULE FOR 2013
Please see the list below for meeting
dates and places for 2013. The restaurants have been contacted and their
calendars marked accordingly. Meetings last from 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
Logan’s
Road House (Lake Charles) August 13, and October 8 (Nomination of
officers).
Hollier Cajun Kitchen (Sulphur) - September 10, November 12
(elect officers).
The
camp Christmas party date would be December 10 with the location to be
determined
CAMP NEWS
Proposed Changes to By-Laws of Captain James W. Bryan Camp 1390
[Proposed Changes are in brackets & boldface]
ARTICLE VI - Meetings:
Section 2. The regular meetings
of the Camp shall be on the second (2nd) Tuesday of each month at [6:30] o'clock P.M.; except for the
December Christmas Party and the January "Lee-Jackson Banquet" at
which times and places will be voted on by the general membership.
ARTICLE VIII – Officers
Section 1. The officers of the
Camp, at a minimum, shall be Commander, First Lieutenant Commander,
Adjutant/Treasurer, Historian/Editor, Chaplain, [Quartermaster], and an Executive Committee. Nominations for
officers will be held at the regular October meeting. All officers, except
those of the Executive Committee, shall be elected by a majority vote by ballot
at the annual meeting of the Camp. They shall hold office for one year or until
their successors are elected. Officers elected at the annual meeting shall take
office at the "Lee-Jackson Banquet" conclusion.Section 2. No Change
The Executive Committee shall be composed of the Commander, First Lieutenant Commander, Historian/Editor, Adjutant/Treasurer, and the Past Commander. No Past Commander shall be eligible who has failed to maintain good standing in the Camp.
ARTICLE XVI – Amendments
Section 1. Any proposed amendment to these by-laws may be introduced by any member of the Camp at any regular meeting, or special meeting called for that purpose. A vote may be taken upon the proposed amendment, provided a copy of the intended amendment has been sent to each member in good standing, by
ARTICLE VII -
Elections/Eligibility:
Section 1. No
member shall be eligible to hold any office in the Camp which also comprises
the Executive Committee until he has been a member in good standing for a
minimum of one full year.
Section 2. No
member who has been considered suspended or expelled from the Camp; may vote
upon reinstatement until he has been a member in good standing for a minimum of
one full year.
Section 3. The
Executive Committee, as per their listed duties, will promptly check the
eligibility of all nominees for Camp office.
Section 3A. The
Executive Committee will immediately notify any nominee that it deems
ineligible. The nominee will have ten (10) days to present evidence to refute
its finding. If satisfactory proof of eligibility is not presented on time, the
nominee's name will be removed from consideration.
Section 3B. The
Executive Committee, or their designee, will promptly draw up a ballot
containing all nominees names deemed eligible for each contested Camp office.
There will be one ballot made per member in good standing, eligible to vote, as
determined by the Executive Committee. Each ballot shall contain an original
signature of the Adjutant, the official Camp stamp, or both. [A copy of the ballot will sent to each member in good standing via
the Camp Newsletter.]
Section 4. The
Executive Committee, as per their listed duties, will also promptly check the
eligibility of members to vote.
Section 4A. The
Executive Committee will immediately notify any member that it deems
ineligible. The member will have ten (10) days to present evidence to refute
its finding. If satisfactory proof of eligibility is not presented on time,
nominee will be removed from the approved list and any consideration of voting
in the election in question.
[Section 4B. The election of officers
will be held at the regular November membership meeting of the Camp. All
members in good standing attending the meeting will be eligible to vote. In the
event of a contested office, the election will be by secret ballot. The ballot
will be prepared as described in Section 3B of Article VII. All ballots will
turned over to an election committee appointed by the Commander and counted. If
no Camp offices are contested, the officers may be elected by acclamation or
unanimous consent of the members, in accordance with Robert’s Rules of Order.]
Note: The proposed changes were approved by the Camp Executive Committee
on August 12, 2013 for presentation to the membership at the August 13, 2013 general meeting.
CAMP FLAG
CONTEST
Captain James W. Bryan Camp 1390 is
announcing a contest for a camp flag. All Camp 1390 members in good standing
may submit entries on a 8-inch by 111/2-inch
piece of paper. The flag design should have lettering with the camp’s name,
number and Lake Charles, La. Entries may be submitted at the September, October
and November meetings. A vote will be taken at the November meeting. The winner
will receive a $25 gift certificate for our Quartermaster Store. Here are a
couple of examples that were on display at the Vicksburg National Reunion.
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Here is a good web site
for Confederate flag types:
Here
is a good book on the subject of Confederate flags.
The Flags of the Confederacy: An Illustrated
History.
By
Devereaux Cannon Jr. (Pelican Publishing, 1994)
128
pages; illustrations.
A CONFEDERATE
CATECHISM
[The following was excerpted from
A Confederate Catechism by Lyon
Gardiner Tyler, Third Edition, Nov. 21, 1929.]
10. Why did Lincoln break the truce at Fort Pickens and
precipitate the war by sending troops to Fort Sumter?
Lincoln did not think that war would result by sending troops
to Fort Pickens, and it would give him the appearance of asserting the national
authority. But he knew that hostilities would certainly ensue if he attempted
to reinforce Fort Sumter. He was therefore at first in favor of withdrawing the
troops from that Fort, and allowed assurances to that effect to be given out by
Seward, his Secretary of State. But the deciding factor with him was the tariff
question. In three separate interviews, he asked what would become of his
revenue if he allowed the government at Montgomery to go on with their tem
percent tariff. Final action was taken when nine Governors of high tariff
states waited upon Lincoln and offered him men and supplies. The protective
tariff had almost driven the country to war in 1833; it is not surprising that
it brought war in 1861. Indeed, this spirit of spoliation was so apparent from
the beginning that at the very first Congress, Grayson, one of our two first
Virginia Senators, predicted that the fate reserved to the South was to be “the
milk cow of the Union.” The New York Times, after having on March 21, 1861,
declared for separation, took the ground nine days later that the material
interest of the North would not allow of an independent South!
11.
Did Lincoln carry on the war for the purpose of freeing the slaves?
No.
He frequently denied that this was his purpose in waging war. He claimed that
he fought the South in order to preserve the Union. Before the war, Lincoln
declared himself in favor of enforcement of the fugitive slave act, and he once
figured as an attorney to drag back a runaway Negro into slavery. When he
became President he professed himself in his inaugural willing to support an
amendment guaranteeing slavery in the states where it existed. Wendell
Phillips, the abolitionist, called him a “slave hound.”
12. Did Lincoln, by his conquest of the South, save the Union?
No.
The old Union was a union based on consent. The present Union is a great
Northern nation based on force and controlled by Northern majorities, to which
the South, as a conquered province, has had to conform all its policies and ideals. The
Federal authority is only Northern authority. Today the Executive, the Cabinet,
the Supreme Court, (with one exception), the Ministers at foreign courts are all Northern men.
The South has as little share in the government and as little
chance of furnishing a President as Norway or
Switzerland.
Brandy
Station Battlefield
(Brandy Station,
Va.) – The Civil War Trust, America’s largest nonprofit battlefield
preservation group, today announced that it has successfully completed a $3.6
million national fundraising campaign to preserve 56 acres of historic
Fleetwood Hill on the Brandy Station Battlefield in Culpeper County, Va., site
of the largest cavalry battle ever fought on the North American
continent. In celebrating the success of this project, one of five most
ambitious in the organization’s history, Civil War Trust president James
Lighthizer issued the following statement: “This is a day that those of us in
the preservation community have long dreamt of, the day we can finally say that
Fleetwood Hill is protected forever. Prior to this, the Trust and its partners
had protected some 1,800 acres at Brandy Station, but without those crowning
heights set aside for future generations, no visitor could gain a full and
definitive understanding of this critical action. Now that we have raised the
full purchase price and closed on this property, the heart and soul of the
Brandy Station Battlefield, we have turned a preservation success story into a
triumph. “This achievement simply would not have been possible without the
cooperation of the entire battlefield preservation community — particularly the
Central Virginia Battlefields Trust, the Journey Through Hallowed Ground and
the Brandy Station Foundation, whose assistance, both advisory and financial,
has been indispensable. Moreover, the enthusiastic support of the National Park
Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program and the Commonwealth of
Virginia’s Civil War Sites Preservation Fund has meant the difference between
dream and reality. Without the vital matching grants supplied by these two
programs, an undertaking of this scale would have been all but insurmountable. “I
also offer my heartfelt thanks to each individual who contributed to this
effort. The outpouring of support that the Trust received toward this project,
illustrating the number of Americans who firmly believe in the respect and
protection of our shared history, has been inspirational. Much work remains on
this tract, as we lay the groundwork to remove modern structures and restore the
land to its wartime appearance, but I know that all of our members and allies
join me today in celebrating this tremendous achievement.” The Battle of Brandy
Station is considered by historians as the beginning of the momentous
Gettysburg Campaign. Union cavalry, long considered inferior to their
Confederate counter parts, launched a bold crossing of the Rappahannock River
in the early hours of June 9, 1863. They initially surprised the Southern
horsemen, with charge and countercharge raging across the landscape for much of
the day before the Federals retired back across the river. All told, more
than 20,000 cavalrymen fought at Brandy Station. The epicenter of the
fighting was Fleetwood Hill, which overlooked much of the battlefield and served
as headquarters for Confederate chieftain, General James Ewell Brown “J.E.B.”
Stuart. Historian and preservation advocate Clark “Bud” Hall calls Fleetwood
Hill “without question the most fought over, camped upon and marched over real
estate in the entire United States. Cumulatively, the Civil War Trust has
protected more than 1,850 acres at Brandy Station and maintains a public
interpretive trail across the battlefield.
JONES PRESENTS
LIBRARY PROGRAM
Captain James W. Bryan Camp 1390
Editor Mike Jones presented the Tidbits of History program September 3 at the SWLA
Genealogical and Historical Library at 411 Pujo St. in Lake Charles. He was
also interviewed by Channel 7 TV Station.
Jones’ topic was “The Calcasieu Tigers at
the Siege of Vicksburg.” He pointed out that the Calcasieu Tigers was a
volunteer military company for the Confederate
Army organized at the Calcasieu Parish Courthouse on March 7, 1862 by
our camp namesake, James W. Bryan, who was elected captain and commanding
officer, The unit went on to fight at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, Dec. 28,
29, 1862, and the Siege of Vicksburg of 1863.
The presentation was based on his new
book, The Vicksburg 28th Louisiana Infantry (Createspace.com, 2013).
CONFEDERATE OF THE MONTH
Lt. Col. Elijah V. White
35th Battalion Virginia Cavalry
BE A
MUSEUM FOUNDER
The truth about the South's struggle to form a new nation is under
attack as never before. The National Battlefield Parks have been taken over by
the “it's all about slavery” provocateurs. Museums have changed their
collections and interpretations to present what they call the cultural history
of the War for Southern Independence. In reality this new perspective is
nothing more than South bashing. The forces of political correctness have gone
into high gear. They attempt to ban any and all things Confederate through
their ideological fascism. Even what was once a highly respected museum now
claims proudly they are not a museum for the Confederacy, merely about it.
There needs to be at least one
place where the people of the South and others can go to learn an accurate
account of why so many struggled so long in their attempt to reassert government by the consent of the governed in America!
The General Executive Council
of the Sons of Confederate Veterans made the commitment in October of
2008 to start the process to erect a new building that will have two purposes.
One of the uses of this new building will be to give us office space and return
Elm Springs to its original grandeur. However the main function is to house The
Confederate Museum. We are planning a museum that will tell the truth about
what motivated the Southern people to struggle for many years to form a new nation.
At the SCV Reunion in July of 2009 the GEC set up a building fund for this purpose. One of the goals is to provide an accurate
portrayal of the common Confederate soldier, something that is currently absent
in most museums and in the media.
You are invited to make your stand for the future by contributing
to this fund.
Send checks to:
Sons of Confederate Veterans
c/o TCM Building Fund
P.O. Box 59
Columbia, TN 38402
Or you can call 1-800-MY-DIXIE to pay by credit card.
Future generations will thank you for your efforts in erecting The
Confederate Museum.
