NEXT MEETING
Then next meeting of Captain James W. Bryan Camp 1390
will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, at Logan’s Roadhouse Restaurant, (see story
in Camp News Column).
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) October 8 (Nomination of officers).
Hollier Cajun Kitchen (Sulphur) - November 12 (elect officers).
The camp Christmas party date would be December 10 with the location to
be determined.
Dwayne Clemens on 150 Gettysburg Anniversary and the Nominations
for 2014 Officers
Capt. J. W. Bryan Camp 1390, Sons of the Confederate
Veterans, will meet at Logan’s Road House, HWY 14 Lake Charles at 6 p.m.
Tuesday, October 8. Dwayne Clemens, a Social Studies History teacher at
Episcopal Day School, SCV member, and War Between the States Re-enactor, will
present the program on the 150th anniversary and re-enactment of Gettysburg.
Dwayne and his wife actually participated in the Gettysburg re-enactment.
At our last meeting our membership provided the following
feed-back regarding our experience at Logan’s (August 13th) Dr. Andy Buckley,
our Judge Advocate met with Logan’s manager Daniel on September 18th and
personally addressed the concerns of the membership.
1. The air conditioning was not turned on until members
began to arrive at 5:45 and therefore the room was too hot, especially for
those sitting against the west windows. The room should be cool when we arrive
at 5:45.
2. The orders were all delivered at the same time, between
7:20-7:30 pm, with most of our members waiting 1 hour and 15 minutes. It is
imperative the food be delivered before the business meeting begins at 7:00 pm.
The Camp requests orders be taken and processed as member arrive and several
waiters be assigned the meeting.
3. Many members complained of cold food and most did not
even have their drinks refilled.
4. At our September meeting in Sulphur the overwhelming
response of our membership was negative about further meetings at Logan’s after
Tuesday, October 8th. We agreed to address these concerns with the management
and requested they make every effort to deal with the
issues listed above.
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 11 1/2-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.
Please feel free to submit
other historic Confederate flag-types as the basis of your design, such as the
First National, Richard Taylor-style, Van Dorn-style, etc.
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.
Please feel free to submit
other historic Confederate flag-types as the basis of your design, such as the
First National, Richard Taylor-style, Van Dorn-style, etc.
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.
150-years-ago
The
Battle of Chickamauga, Ga.
[National
Park Service]
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| Brig. Gen. Preston Smith |
After
the Tullahoma Campaign, Rosecrans renewed his offensive, aiming to force the
Confederates out of Chattanooga. The three army corps comprising Rosecrans’ s
army split and set out for Chattanooga by separate routes. In early September,
Rosecrans consolidated his forces scattered in Tennessee and Georgia and forced
Bragg’s army out of Chattanooga, heading south. The Union troops followed it
and brushed with it at Davis’ Cross Roads. Bragg was determined to reoccupy
Chattanooga and decided to meet a part of Rosecrans’s army, defeat them, and
then move back into the city. On the 17th he headed north, intending to meet
and beat the XXI Army Corps. As Bragg marched north on the 18th, his cavalry
and infantry fought with Union cavalry and mounted infantry which were armed
with Spencer repeating rifles. Fighting began in earnest on the morning of the
19th, and Bragg’s men hammered but did not break the Union line. The next day,
Bragg continued his assault on the Union line on the left, and in late morning,
Rosecrans was informed that he had a gap in his line. In moving units to shore
up the supposed gap, Rosecrans created one, and James Longstreet’s men promptly
exploited it, driving one-third of the Union army, including Rosecrans himself,
from the field. George H. Thomas took over command and began consolidating
forces on Horseshoe Ridge and Snodgrass Hill. Although the Rebels launched
determined assaults on these forces, they held until after dark. Thomas then
led these men from the field leaving it to the Confederates. The Union retired
to Chattanooga while the Rebels occupied the surrounding heights.
A CONFEDERATE
CATECHISM
[The following was excerpted from
A Confederate Catechism by Lyon
Gardiner Tyler, Third Edition, Nov. 21, 1929.]
13. Could Lincoln have “saved” the Union by some other method than
war?
Yes.
If he had given his influence to the resolutions offered in the Senate by John
Jay Crittenden, the difficulties in 1861 would have been peaceably settled.
These resolutions extended the line of the Missouri Compromise through the
territories, but gave nothing to the South, save the abstract right to carry
slaves to New Mexico. But New Mexico was too barren for agriculture, and not
ten slaves had been carried there in ten years. The resolutions received the
approval of the Southern Senators and, had they been submitted to the people,
would have received their approval both North and South. Slavery in a short
time would have met a peaceful and natural death with the development of
machinery consequent upon Cyrus H. McCormick’s great invention of the reaper.
The question in 1861 with the South as to the territories was one of wounded
pride rather than any material advantage. It was the intemperate, arrogant and
self righteous attitude of Lincoln and his party that made any peaceable
constructive solution of the territorial question impossible. In rejecting the
Crittenden resolutions, Lincoln, a minority president, and the Republicans, a
minority party, placed themselves on record as virtually preferring the
slaughter of 400,000 men of the flower of the land and the sacrifice of
billions of dollars of property to a compromise involving a mere abstraction,
and they intrigued an unwilling North into the war. Some historians have
actually boasted of the trickery.
14. Does any present or future prosperity of the South justify the
War of 1861-1865?
No.
No present or future prosperity can make a past wrong right, for the end can
never justify the means. The war was a colossal crime, and the most astounding
case of self stultification on the part of any government recorded in history.
15. Had the South gained its independence, would it have proved a
failure?
No.
General Grant has said in his Memoirs that it would have established “a real
and respected nation.” The states of the South would have been bound together
by fear of the great Northern Republic and by a similarity of economic
conditions. They would have had laws suited to their own circumstances, and
developed accordingly. They would not have lived
150-years-ago
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| Lt. R.W. Dowling |
The
Battle of Sabine Pass
About 6:00 am on the morning of September 8, 1863, a Union
flotilla of four gunboats and seven troop transports steamed into Sabine Pass
and up the Sabine River with the intention of reducing Fort Griffin and landing
troops to begin occupying Texas. As the gunboats approached Fort Griffin, they
came under accurate fire from six cannons. The Confederate gunners at Fort
Griffin had been sent there as a punishment. To break the day-to-day monotony,
the gunners practiced firing artillery at range markers placed in the river.
Their practice paid off. Fort Griffin’s small force of 44 men, under command of
Lt. Richard W. Dowling, forced the Union flotilla to retire and captured the
gunboat Clifton and about 200 prisoners. Further Union operations in the area
ceased for about a month. The heroics at Fort Griffin—44 men stopping a Union
expedition—inspired other Confederate soldiers.
[National Park Service]
Museum Closed, Reopens Oct. 15
NEW ORLEANS – Confederate Memorial Hall will be closed the entire
month of September and part of October due to a major construction project.
Aside from repairs to the building being completed, when it reopens in October,
it will have several new exhibits. Website gift shop will remain open for
online purchases. The museum is tentatively scheduled to reopen October 15,
2013. Memorial Hall exists solely through
admissions and your generous contributions, receiving NO state or Federal
funding. The Memorial Hall Foundation was founded in 1984 in order to create an
endowment and help support Memorial Hall by making an annual contribution to
the museum to help offset the costs of exhibit restoration, building repairs,
preservation materials and operational expenses. Foundation is a 501(c)3
nonprofit organization. Donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent of
the law. Please send donations to
Memorial Hall Foundation, 929 Camp St., New Orleans, La. 70130.
CONFEDERATE OF THE MONTH
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5th Texas
Infantry Regiment.
He was born in Calcasieu Parish
In 1832 and died May 28, 1862 in Virginia.
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.
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