The Round Mountain Report The Monthly Newsletter of Col. Daniel N. McIntosh, Camp No. 1378 Sons of Confederate Veterans www.scvtulsa.com Volume 32, No. 5 to continue the battle for the Soul of the South; tell the truth; keep the unbroken Spirit May 2017 of the South alive for generations to come. Confederate Memorial Day Monument to the Confederate Soldiers of Indian Territory Rose Hill Cemetery, Tulsa April through June of each year is the time Confederate Memorial Day is observed around the South and wherever descendants of Confederate soldiers gather. Several Southern states have official state holidays recognizing Confederate Memorial Day. Oklahoma does not. Several Oklahoma SCV camps and UDC chapters observe Confederate Memorial Day at various times. It s the one time of the year in which Confederate descendants get together in a formal way to remember our ancestors, place wreaths at monuments and small Battle Flags on graves. Camp Col. Daniel N. McIntosh, SCV and Sarah Watie and BG Clement Evans chapters of the UDC will observe Confederate Memorial Day on Saturday, May 20, at 11:00 a.m. The service will be at the site of our monument to the Confederate Soldiers of Indian Territory in Tulsa s Rose Hill Cemetery. Our featured speaker will be Oklahoma Division Lt. Commander, Rex Cash. We cordially and enthusiastically invite all members of the SCV and UDC to set aside an hour or two to remember our Confederate ancestors by participating in this Memorial Day service. Please bring your lawn chairs if you want to sit. The service will last about an hour.
Report of April Camp Meeting We had a light turnout for the April meeting seven members and one guest, Mr. Charles Stafford. Mr. Stafford indicated he will be making application for SCV membership. Camp members elected Commander Bruce Bishop as the Camp delegate to the Division Convention. Adjutant Bob Woodall was elected as alternate delegate. Adjutant Bob Woodall chaired the meeting for Commander Bishop, who was on vacation. Adjutant Woodall gave the program, which was based on an April 4 article in the Wall Street Journal. The article was entitled Battles Over Confederate Icons Heat Up. It reported on the recent activity aimed at removing Confederate monuments and the resistance to that activity. It was a well written article with fair reporting. Headstone Dedication On Monday, April 24, members of the Oklahoma Division s Cherokee Brigade and Muskogee s Nathan B. Forrest Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy gathered at Greenhill Cemetery in Muskogee to dedicate the last of six headstones for previously unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers. The first five headstones were dedicated on October 29, 2016, but for some reason, the headstone of Pvt. Walter Agnew, 2 nd Cherokee Mounted Volunteers, was not ordered with the first five. Pvt. Agnew s granddaughter, Mrs. Ada Agnew Scott, and several members of her family were in attendance. Cherokee Nation Deputy Chief, Joe Crittenden, presented Mrs. Scott with the Cherokee Nation s Warrior Award honoring her grandfather s military service. Adjutant Woodall showing the Wall Street Journal article May Camp Meeting Our May Camp meeting will be Tuesday the 9 th in the Ash Room of Hardesty Regional Library, located at 8613 E. 93 rd ST. Start time is 6:30. Camp Historian, Ken Cook, will present the program, The Life and Times of Stand Watie. We will also be discussing our Confederate Memorial Day program, including preparation of the monument site. Please make every effort to attend and participate in your Camp affairs. Calendar of Events May 20 Confederate Memorial Day Tulsa May 30 National Memorial Day July 4 Independence Day July 18-23 SCV National Reunion Memphis, TN Cherokee Brigade and Camp McIntosh Commander Bruce Bishop, Mrs. Ada Scott, Cherokee Nation Deputy Chief, Joe Crittenden, and Nathan B. Forrest Chapter President, Mrs. Betty Trinka SCV National Reunion N. B. Forest, Camp 215, of Memphis will host the 2017 Reunion of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, July 18-23, at the Memphis Cook Convention Center in downtown Memphis. The primary hotel is the Sheraton (downtown). The overflow hotel is the Crowne Plaza. The Reunion is within reasonably easy driving distance, which will hopefully enable many Oklahoma Division compatriots to attend. For more information, go to the official Reunion website at http://scvmemphis2017.org. For anyone planning to attend the Reunion, it s time to think seriously about registration and hotel reservations.
John Bell Hood Ken Cook, Camp Historian John Bell Hood was born at Owingsville, Kentucky on June 29, 1831. His father was a country doctor, who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps. Young John had other ideas, and with the help of his uncle, Congressman Richard French, gained admittance to West Point in 1849. Hood s academic accomplishments were mediocre at best, and he was very nearly expelled in his third year because of excessive demerits. He graduated in 1853, 44 th in a class of 52. Two of his classmates were future Union generals, George Thomas and John Schofield, both of whom would later hand Hood severe defeats in battle. Hood s first assignment was Fort Scott, California, where he remained until October 1855, when he was promoted to first lieutenant and assigned to the 2 nd Cavalry at Fort Mason, Texas. He received his first combat wound in battle with Comanches at Devil s River, Texas, on July 20, 1857. He was shot in the left hand by an arrow. In September 1860, Lt. Hood was ordered to West Point as an instructor of cavalry, but he appealed to the Adjutant General for permission to remain with the 2 nd Cavalry, and the orders were rescinded. Hood resigned his commission on April 16, 1861, three days after Fort Sumter. Hood entered the Confederate army in May 1861 at Montgomery, Alabama. He was assigned to the army in Virginia and rapidly rose in rank. On March 7, 1862, he was promoted to brigadier general and given command of the Texas Brigade. The Brigade would participate in battle under Hood s command at Gaines Mill, Second Manassas and Sharpsburg. It was at the latter battle that the young brigadier s leadership so impressed his commander, Stonewall Jackson, that Jackson promoted him to major general and made him a division commander. After the reorganization of the army following Jackson s death, Hood s division was assigned to Longstreet s corps. Hood received his second battle wound on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, resulting in the loss of the use of his left arm. During the time Hood was recovering from his wound, Longstreet s corps was detached to assist General Braxton Bragg s Army of Tennessee at Chickamauga, Georgia. Hood rejoined his division on September 18, in time for the decisive day of the battle. Hood received his third and most serious wound during that battle. His right leg was amputated almost at the hip joint. As soon as he was able, Hood was transported to Richmond to recuperate. It was during that time that he struck up a warm relationship with Jefferson Davis. In the meantime, Hood had been promoted to lieutenant general. After recuperation, Hood was given a corps command in the Army of Tennessee, now commanded by Joseph E. Johnston. It was during this period that Hood began his correspondence with Davis and his military assistant, Braxton Bragg, that led to the undermining of the Johnston and his subsequent removal and replacement by Hood. Hood took command of the army on July 18. Over the next five weeks, Hood engaged the Union army in four major battles Peachtree Creek, Decatur (Battle of Atlanta), Ezra Church and Jonesboro losing all four. The last one was decisive. The Union army had severed the last rail connection to Atlanta. Hood withdrew the army southeast to Palmetto. For the next two months, all he could do was harass Sherman. Hood concocted a grand plan to sweep wide around Sherman and aim for Nashville hoping to sever Sherman s supply line and force a withdrawal from Atlanta. Unbeknownst to Hood, Sherman could not have cared less about his supply line. He had other plans and would not need a supply line. In two bloody battles, Franklin and Nashville, Hood led his army to destruction. In the meantime, Sherman was marching unopposed to Savannah and laying waste to the Georgia heartland. Hood was devastated by the losses to his army and submitted his resignation as army commander on January 23, 1865. Joseph E. Johnston was recalled to pick up the pieces. During the last months of the war, Hood was ordered to the Trans- Mississippi to help Edmund Kirby-Smith organize a last-ditch resistance. The end of the war preempted those plans. Hood surrendered at Natchez, Mississippi, on May 31, 1865. After the war, Hood entered the cotton brokerage and insurance business in New Orleans. He married in 1868 and fathered eleven children, including three sets of twins, in ten years. His businesses were wiped out by the yellow fever epidemic of 1878. Hood, himself, along with his wife and oldest child succumbed to the fever in 1879. He died on August 30, destitute and leaving ten orphans, who were eventually adopted by seven different families in five states. General Robert L. Lee said of Hood: [He] is a good fighter, very industrious on the battlefield, careless off I have a very high opinion of his gallantry, earnestness and zeal. Lee had observed Hood s performance as a brigadier and only on the second day of Gettysburg as a division commander. That John Bell Hood was personally brave under fire is without question. He was an excellent brigade commander and may have made a good division commander, had he not been wounded. As an army commander, he was a complete disaster. Unfortunately for his reputation, his disastrous command of the Army of Tennessee is how he is most remembered. John Bell Hood 1831-1879
Oklahoma Monuments to Confederate Soldiers Oklahoma has many fewer monuments honoring the memory of Confederate soldiers than the former Confederate states and none as grand as some. However, we have some very nice ones, and all, regardless of their size or grandeur, were erected with the utmost reverence for the courage and sacrifice of our Confederate soldiers. Here, and on the first page, are some examples of Oklahoma monuments that memorialize our Confederate ancestors. Confederate Section of Rose Hill Cemetery, Ardmore Oklahoma s oldest Confederate monument was erected by the UDC in 1913 on the grounds of the Cherokee National Capital at Tahlequah. To Our Confederate Dead 1861-1865. Fairlawn Cemetery, Oklahoma City Bryan County Courthouse, Durant Lest We Forget These were men whom power could not corrupt, whom death could not terrify, whom defeat could not dishonor.
Shieldsboro Rifles, Camp No. 2263, of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi commemorate Confederate Memorial Day at the Tomb of the Unknown Confederate Soldier on the grounds of Beauvoir April 22, 2017 Ah! Fearless on many a day for us They stood in front of the fray for us And held the foeman at bay for us And tears should fall Fore'er o'er all Who fell wearing the gray for us The Round Mountain Report is the voice of Colonel Daniel N. McIntosh, Camp No. 1378, Sons of Confederate Veterans, a non-profit organization of patriotic, historical, sectional and genealogical orientation, as a service to its Compatriots and their friends. Opinions reflect the views of the writers and are not necessarily a statement of the Camp, SCV or their policies. Contents may be reproduced only when in the best interest of the SCV. Comments and articles to newsletter are solicited. Please direct inquiries, articles, photos, changes of address, etc. to the address shown below or to khcook469@gmail.com. The Round Mountain Report 5417 S. Oxford Ave. Tulsa, OK 74135