The Confederate Informant

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1 The Confederate Informant the official newsletter of the Major James Morgan Utz Camp #1815 Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Brigadier General Francis Marion Cockrell Chapter # 84 of the Military Order of the Stars and Bars February 2016 issue... ************************************************************************************* Commander...Dave Roper; daveroper166@gmail.com 1st Lt. Commander...Duane Mayer; dmayer11@frontier.com 2nd Lt. Commander, Florida...Rojer Snyder 2nd Lt, Commander, Pilot Knob...RobGraham;docrgraham@gmail.com Adjutant...Brad Bludsworth; jobluds@aol.com Treasurer...Bill Bowden; confedman@gmail.com ***************************************************************** Visit our camp website at...www. utzfmc.wordpress.com Visit the Missouri Division website at Visit our international website at scv.org 1

2 In this issue... Commander s Call.Page 2 Chaplain s Corner. MOSB Corner.Page 3 Heritage Defense.4 Black History Month.5-6 Camp Calendar.Page 7 My Confederate Ancestor.8 Missouri Division Son of Confederate Veterans and Missouri Society Military Order of Stars and Bars 2016 Reunion.Page 9-10 Commander s Call: The January Camp Potluck was a great success even though the weather was trying to get in the way of our great time. But those that made it had a lot of fun. Forty two people showed up. I would like to thank everyone for the great food and the donation of the things for the auction we raised $ for Camp. Another activity that took place in January was the Missouri Division Lee Jackson Dinner at Osage Beach. Those in attendance was Bill and Ellie Bowden, Gene Dressel and Mary Hause, Steve and Christie Pfeil, David Eichler, John and Tiffany Bates and Dave and Cindy Roper. Our next Camp Meeting will be on February 13 at the Community Commons/Spencer Road Library Room 240, at 1 PM. All Camp Meeting are on the 2 nd Saturday of each month at 1:00 PM in room 240. The address is 427 Spencer Road, St. Peters, MO It is just off Mexico Road and South of the new Menards Home Improvement Center. You can access Mexico Road from Interstate 70 by exiting either at Mid-Rivers Mall Drive and go south to Mexico Road, then East to Spencer Road or exit at Cave Springs and go South to Mexico Road and then West to Spencer Roads When you get to Spencer go south a few blocks to Boone Hills Drive. The Community Commons Building (427 Spencer Road) is located at the South- East corner of that intersection. We will have the Raffle Tickets at the next Meeting. 2

3 Chaplain s Corner: By Duane Mayer Southern Soldiers Prayer Should fate find us in battle, may our cause be just. May our leaders have clear vision. May our courage not falter. May we earn victory as we show mercy to our enemies. May our efforts bring lasting peace. May we return to our loved ones unharmed. If we are wounded, heal our wounds. If we Parrish in the struggle for freedom, may you great Lord embrace us and find a place for us in the Kingdom. In Jesus holy and powerful name, Amen. MOSB Corner: By Bob Arnold Most of us in the MOSB know where our Confederate ancestors are buried. Perhaps it's only one, or perhaps there're several of them, not only our MOSB officer/government graves but also those of our Confederate enlisted men. I'd like to remind us, each one, that if we're not tending to their graves and to their headstones, we really should be doing so. It's more than just locating them. It's all about keeping them looking good, and readable. Information of proper cleaning material and brushes is readily available. I visit my Confederate ancestors' graves each two years to clean them. In so doing I've noticed a few other nearby CSA graves which I also tend. The visits require only a long weekend or so, and do not interfere with family vacations. It's also important to pass this routine along to the next generation, as grave sites are part of our heritage. If we don't do it, who will? 3

4 Heritage Defense: By Bob Arnold I'm not sure if this is "heritage", per se, except to say that I honestly believe we're fighting much the same war that our ancestors fought, for much the same reasons and as they predicted. With that in mind, I'd like to pass along this information. I've heard that doctors' offices are now asking on their patient information forms whether or not you own guns along with the supposed health related questions as to whether or not you've ever felt threatened, defensive, depressed or had the desire to do harm. Under the current administration's policies such information may be passed along to the government. If you've not encountered this you may see it anytime. The best answers would be neutral, such as "not yet", or "nobody's business by my own". Or lie. Up to you. But be prepared for it, and be forewarned. I hope everyone is following the Virginia Flaggers' stories of success. For every Confederate flag taken down, for every monument threatened, for every Confederate holiday attacked, a dozen St. Andrew cross battle flags are going up, all over the state. We're winning in Virginia. Tune in to info@vaflaggers.com and request to be added to their list. You'll get two or three s/week. The VA Flaggers are not SCV, but are receiving the attention and support of SCV camps. Black History Month: Blacks and the Confederacy 4

5 Last July, Anthony Hervey, an outspoken black advocate for the Confederate flag, was killed in a car crash. Arlene Barnum, a surviving passenger in the vehicle, told authorities and the media that they had been forced off the road by a carload of "angry young black men" after Hervey, while wearing his Confederate kepi, stopped at a convenience store en route to his home in Oxford, Mississippi. His death was in no small part caused by the gross level of ignorance, organized deceit and anger about the War of Much of the ignorance stems from the fact that most Americans believe the war was initiated to free slaves, when in truth, freeing slaves was little more than an afterthought. I want to lay out a few quotations and ask what you make of them. During the "Civil War," ex-slave Frederick Douglass observed, "There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers, but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels" (Douglass' Monthly, September 1861). "For more than two years, negroes had been extensively employed in belligerent operations by the Confederacy. They had been embodied and drilled as Rebel soldiers, and had paraded with White troops at a time when this would not have been tolerated in the armies of the Union." (Horace Greeley, in his book, The American Conflict). "Over 3,000 negroes must be included in this number (of Confederate troops). These were clad in all kinds of uniforms, not only in cast-off or captured United States uniforms, but in coats with Southern buttons, State buttons, etc. These were shabby, but not shabbier or seedier than those worn by white men in rebel ranks. Most of the negroes had arms, rifles, muskets, sabres, bowie-knives, dirks, etc. They were supplied, in many instances, with knapsacks, haversacks, canteens, etc., and were manifestly an integral portion of the Southern Confederacy Army. They were seen riding on horses and mules, driving wagons, riding on caissons, in ambulances, with the staff of Generals, and promiscuously mixed up with all the rebel horde" (report by Dr. Lewis H. Steiner, chief inspector of the U.S. Sanitary Commission). 5

6 In April 1861, a Petersburg, Virginia, newspaper proposed "three cheers for the patriotic free Negroes of Lynchburg" after 70 blacks offered "to act in whatever capacity" had been "assigned to them" in defense of Virginia. Those are but a few examples of the important role that blacks served as soldiers, freemen and slaves on the side of the Confederacy. The flap over the Confederate flag is not quite so simple as the nation's race "experts" make it. They want us to believe the flag is a symbol of racism. Yes, racists have used the Confederate flag as their symbol, but racists have also marched behind the U.S. flag and have used the Bible. Would anyone suggest banning the U.S. flag from state buildings and references to the Bible? Black civil rights activists, their white liberal supporters and historically ignorant Americans who attack the Confederate flag have committed a deep, despicable dishonor to our patriotic Southern black ancestors who marched, fought and died not to protect slavery but to protect their homeland from Northern aggression. They don't deserve the dishonor. Dr. Leonard Haynes, a black professor at Southern University, stated, "When you eliminate the black Confederate soldier, you've eliminated the history of the South." Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. Camp Calendar: February 13 Camp Meeting at 1:00 PM 6

7 Duane Mayer will have a few things to auction off that he couldn t bring to the Pot Luck. So bring cash or check book. Guest Speaker David McCollistered will be speaking on the Battle of Antietam or as we know it as the Battle of Sparpsburg. March 5 - National Confederate Flag Rally Day March 12 Camp Meeting Speaker Duane Mayer April 8 & 9 Missouri Division Annually Reunion April 9 - No Camp Meeting Apr Lincoln County Gun Show My Confederate Ancestor: Compatriot James Austin Boulware My Confederate Ancestor was Richard Walker Austin. He was the son of Richard Durrett and Susan (Mansfield) Austin who were both born Virginia. 7

8 Their son Richard Walker Austin was born on Oct in Randell, Missouri. He enlisted in the Confederate Army as a Private in Captain Wurton P. Wills Company. Company D of the 1 st Regiment, Northeast Missouri Calvary at the age of 25 years old. He enrolled on Aug in Monroe County. Missouri. His younger Brother Andrew Jackson Austin who was 19 years old, was signed up at the same time by Colonel Joseph C. Porter. Later the same day Richard was killed at the Battle of Newark, Knox County. Missouri. His burial place is not known. Flags from the Lee Jackson Dinner 8

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