Sixth Annual Sam Davis Youth Camp

Co-Ed Camps: The first camp will be held form Sunday June 29th to Saturday, July 5th at Three Mountain Retreat, 1648 FM 182 Clifton TX 76634. The deadline for applications is Monday June 23, 2008. The second camp will be held from Sunday July 27th to Saturday August 2nd at Magnolia State Park, Millen GA, between Waynesboro and Millen at a beautiful historic site.
The deadline for applications is Monday July 21, 2008. You may download an application at http://www.scv.org/pdf/2008SamDavisYouthCampApplication.pdf Scholarships are available for deserving youth whose parents or host SCV camp cannot afford the tuition; however, the camper, his family or host SCV camp must get the child to and from the camp site according to the camp schedule.

Nathan Bedford Forrest Boyhood Homecoming

The annual fund raising celebration will be held all day on Saturday June 21,2008 at the Forrest Boyhood Home near Chapel Hill TN. Please come to this event to see the progress on the restoration of this unique early 1830s structure, join the fun, and helped support the efforts to raise additional funds to speed up the restoration work. For more information, go to http://elmspringscsa.tripod.com/id18.html

Bank Ends Our SCV Credit Card Program

The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) and the Texas Independent Bank (TIB) have had a mutually beneficial affinity credit card arrangement for the past nine years. TIB has decided to not renew the contract and our business association will terminate on April 30, 2008 which they claim is due to the small number of SCV card holders. TIB further states they are unable to pro­vide the SCV names and addresses of current card holders. The SCV is seeking a new contract with a different bank. If you wish to continue to support the SCV through a new affinity card, please provide your name and address to SCV, P O Box 59, Columbia TN 38502-0059, by email to HYPERLINK "mailto:exedir@scv.org"exedir@scv.org, or phone (800) 380-1896 ext 207. TIB has promised to print a trun­cated version of this information on individual credit card statements during the period 4/15/08 through 5/13/08.

Poll Results: What is your camp's relationship with its brigade?

71 people responded to the latest poll question, seeing how much interaction there is from camp to brigade. 69% responded that their camp interacted with other camps in their brigade, 64% said their brigade commander had visited their camp in the last year, 52 % said their camp had participated in a brigade-level event (meeting, memorial, etc.), 15% said they know who their brigade commander is, but that commander hasn't visited their camp, 14% said they knew their brigade commander, and he had been to their camp, but their camp had not participated in a brigade-level event, 8% reported that their camp wasn't in a brigade, and 7% said they didn't know who their brigade commander was. While the ideal is for brigade commanders to visit each camp in their brigade once a year, a report of 64% success in that area is a solid start, and the fact that more than 2/3 of camps are interacting with other camps, and more than 1/2 of camps are participating in brigade-level events is also very encouraging. Connectivity is the theme for the brigade level of administration. The brigade commander in most divisions is a voice on the division executive council for his brigade, and brigade commanders are often relied on by division commanders in carrying out projects, and in two-way communications with local camps since many divisions now have more camps than a division commander can physically maintain regular visits and contacts with.

Group marks every known Confederate grave in county

By Jean Cole
jean@athensnews-courier.com

Confederate soldiers rested with a little more distinction this Memorial Day.

Members of the Thomas Hubbard Hobbs Camp No. 768 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans have spent the last two years placing 493 stones at the graves of every known Confederate soldier in Athens and Limestone County.

“This involved many hours of research to identify each soldier, document his service and then locate his gravesite,” said SVC member Buzz Estes of Athens. “Some of the private cemeteries were on land that had changed hands, and the present owners did not have as much motivation to maintain the cemetery.”

Led by Commander Jimmy Hill, the members placed 150-pound footstones and a few headstones in 93 cemeteries scattered across the county. Some were easy to find, others were grown over and forgotten.

“It is unclear whether this it the first camp to accomplish this task in the entire country, but it certainly is among the first,” Estes said.

The SCV celebrated Confederate Memorial Day April 20 with a ceremony dedicating the last stone and a marker at the Hobbs Street entrance to Athens City Cemetery. Civil War re-enactors made the dedication ceremony come alive. The SCV were joined by Order of Confederate Rose, Daughters of the Confederacy, state and national officers of the UDC and SCV, and local dignitaries.

The monument stone at Athens Cemetery is dedicated to all of the soldiers still sleeping in unmarked graves in family plots throughout the county and for all of the graves of Confederate soldiers yet to be found, Estes said.

Civil War fought again as history lesson

Saturday, May 24, 2008
BY Malcolm Hall
REPOSITORY STAFF WRITER

LOUISVILLE Standing a few feet away from a roaring cannon, eighth-grader Hayden Perreault and his classmates got an up-close look at America's bloodiest conflict. As a part of their history curriculum, Louisville Middle School eighth-graders spent time outside the school observing encampments staged by Civil War buffs who are part of enactment groups.

"This is way better," Hayden, 14, said. "You are doing stuff instead of listening. I like seeing all the weapons and stuff."

And presenting students with a chance to experience the Civil War on Friday was the purpose of the middle school's Annual Civil War Day. The event featured table displays of weapons and bullets used by the Union and Confederate forces during the war, which raged from 1861 to 1865.

History teacher Ray Klein is the prime organizer of the event, which aims "to bring history alive for the kids," he said. "Instead of me lecturing them or watching a video or books, they get a hands-on experience, see the artifacts, handle them."

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“Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from Slavery”

The SCV merchandise operation and book store currently sells a book called, "Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from Slavery" which was written by three New England journalists and accurately tells the rest of the story about Slavery and the North’s part in it. This is a hard bound book which you will want for your library, and it may be purchased new from the SCV for $25.95 plus shipping and handling.

Additionally, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) carries a TV show entitled Tony Brown’s Journal on which he interviewed one of the authors during a segment that was most recently aired on Sunday May 18th. Part two of this show will be aired on Sunday, May 25, 2008 at 12:30 PM on the East Coast. The title of this week’s segment is "Southern Slavery A Northern Lie?" You should check your local listings to find the correct time to watch this interesting and informative show.