Jonesboro Guards            Sons of Confederate Veterans

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1861                                            1865

PRAESIDIUM                                  Volume 7, Issue 3                                                                                                  March, 2007

Greetings Compatriots:

The March meeting will be held at 7 pm on Tuesday, March 13, 2007.

At the Pleasant Grove Masonic Lodge 720 Pleasant Grove Road, Pleasant Grove, AL

Program: General Patrick R. Cleburne of the Army of Tennessee

(born March 16, 1828 in Ovens, County Cork, Ireland.  Killed in action beside his men charging the Union breastworks at Franklin, Tennessee on November 30, 1864)  (Power Point Presentation)

"Thoughout the war, friends and foes learned to watch the course of the Blue Flag that marked where Cleburne was in the battle."  Gen. William J. Hardee

Camp Members are encouraged to Attend - Prospective members are welcome.

Lt. General S. D. Lee’s Challenge to the SCV

“To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we submit the vindication of the Cause for which we fought; to your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier’s good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles he loved and which made him glorious and which you also cherish.  Remember, it is your duty to see that the true history of the South is presented to future Generations.”

"Sirs, you have no reason to be ashamed of your Confederate dead; see to it, they have no reason to be ashamed of you."  R.L. Dabney, Chaplin to Stonewall Jackson.

Confederate Heritage Always Requires Great Effort

Deo Vindice, Rob Cox and Erick Bush, Newsletter Editors

Lest we forget another Notable Southern Birthday in March:

March 28, 1818 - Gen. Wade Hampton was born in S.C.  At the start of the war he personally raised and mostly equipped the Hampton Legion, a force of infantry, cavalry and artillery. Hampton fought at First Manassas and participated in the Peninsula, Antietam and Gettysburg Campaigns. The last two as a cavalry commander. In September 1863 he became a major general and with Gen. Jeb Stuart's (CSA) death in May, 1864 he took command of Lee's cavalry corps during the siege of Petersburg and was involved in the great Beefsteak Raid. He was twice elected governor of South Carolina after the war and served as a U.S. Senator until 1891.

General Robert E. Lee wrote:

to Annette Carter, 28 March 1865  "I grieve for posterity, for American principles and American liberty"

Announcements

Saturday, March 10, 2007 - Army of Tennessee (AOT) Meeting:  AOT Commander Kelly Barrow is pleased to invite you to the 2007 meeting of the Army of Tennessee. Hosted by Camp Fighting Joe Wheeler #1372 at their meeting place- "The New Merkle House."  The meeting will provide National SCV Speakers, good food, and good camaraderie with other AOT members. Cost $12 per person.

Saturday, April 28, 2007 - The Grand Opening of the new museum at Confederate Memorial Park near Marbury, Alabama.  The Governor of Alabama will be on hand to make remarks and cut the ribbon to open the facility at 10 AM. The Alabama Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy will provide punch and desserts for everyone. Bob Baccus' "Olde Town Brass" band will provide music all day and Bobby Horton will play a selected tune for the occasion. The UDC is also holding their annual Children of the Confederacy convention at the park that day. We will be firing the park cannon in Cemetery #2 to mark the occasion. Period dress and participation in some living history demonstrations is encouraged throughout the day (9AM-3PM.  Interested folks should contact W.G. "Bill" Rambo ASAP.

June 8, 9, & 10, 2007 - Annual Reunion of Alabama Division SCV - Anniston, Alabama

    Host Camp:  Ten Islands, Camp 2678 - Point of Contact:  Charles W. Brown Sr.

    Telephone:  256-820-4836 - Email:  cb0537@aol.com  for details (to be posted later)

July 25-28, 2007 - SCV 2007 Annual Reunion - Mobile, Alabama

Host Camp:  Raphael Semmes Camp 11 - Check the Web site for details

http://www.scvsemmes.org/2007convention.shtml

Camp Members are encouraged to make early reservations!

The SCV GEC recently approved and passed a resolution of support for the "Bricks for Beauvoir" fundraising effort. to raise desperately needed funds for the operation and rebuilding of Beauvoir and to create the "Monument to the Unknown Soldier," which will dramatically enhance the existing Tomb of the Unknown Confederate Soldier. ANYONE may purchase a brick, whether an SCV member or not. The ONLY information that can appear on a brick is name, rank, and unit of a Confederate soldier.

See: http://www.scv.org/pdf/Beauvoir.pdf for application details.

"Truth and honor will prevail"

Robert E. Lee

Deo Vindice                                                                                               Buy a Tag this Year!

Historic Movements of the Jonesboro Guards

Jonesboro, Alabama - March 1862  (Taken from Isaac McAdory's Diary)

Company 'H' was raised in the County of Jefferson, about the last of February 1862, and was organized and officers were elected on the 1st of March 1862. The following were chosen: S.H. Tarrant, Capt.; W. M. Hawkins, 1st Lt.; W.R. McAdory, 2nd Lt.; Perry Hammond, 3rd Lt.; E.R. Bell, 1st Sgt.; W.H. McLeod, 2nd Sgt.; Hugh Crooks, 3rd Sgt.; J.B. Hickmon, 4th Sgt.; and I. Hammond, 5th Sgt.; J. Nail, 1st Corp.; S.F. Huey, A.A. Justice and C.M. Justice, Corporals.

The 13th of March was the day set apart to meet and start for camp.  I joined this company on the 11th of March. On the 13th we bid adieu to our homes and started for Shelby Springs where the 28th Alabama was organized under Col. J.W. Frazier, Lt. Col. J.C. Reid and Maj. Davis.  We remained at this place until the 12th of April, when we started for Corinth via Selma and Mobile.

Shelbyville, TN - March 1863 (Taken from Isaac McAdory's Diary)

I returned to my Co. on the 1st of January 1863, then on the battlefield, the day after the memorable conflict, the Battle of Murfreesboro, in which Capt. Hawkins received a mortal wound and died on the 3rd of Jan.  Lt W.R. McAdory and C.S. Jordan, S.L. Keith, W. Howton, T. Salter were wounded. We remained in line of battle until 4th of Jan.  We retreated to Shelbyville, TN where we remained till the 27th of June.  The 28th and 34th Ala. were consolidated in Feb.,'63 and remained so till the 1st of June. Co. 'H' and 'D' commanded by Capt. Nabors. Lt. Wm B. McAdory was promoted to Capt. C.S. Jordan to 1st Lt. 

Dalton, Georgia - March, 1864: The 28th Alabama remained with the Army in winter camp until the 1st of May, 1864. Winter camp was a quiet time for the 28th AL with drilling, etc. before the magnificent campaign of 1864 commenced! General Joseph Johnson was in command of the Army of Tennessee.

Selma, Alabama - March, 1865 (Taken from Isaac McAdory's Diary) NOTE: (the 28th AL Regiment was in Columbus, MS in January, 1865 after retreating from TN with Hood - Regiment is on the way to Carolina to rejoin the Brigade in March of 1865)

---start from Montgomery March 2nd, arrive at Columbus, GA in the evening.  Start from Columbus and arrive in Macon on the 5th of March, arrive in Milledgeville in the evening, where Rob McAdory and myself have a nice time, being treated kindly by a family who accommodated us to a good bed, two or three fine looking and intelligent young ladies in the family.  March from Milledgeville on the 7th, through Barnett's Station on the Augusta and Atlanta R>R> took the cars, run through Augusta on the 10th.  We march across the Savannah River and camp near Hamburg, S.C. for 8 days.

We marched on the 18th of March from Hamburg 12 miles in route for the Army of North Carolina.  19th we marched 15 miles cheered and encouraged, along the route, by the ladies who congregated by every cross road and white house to see the little band of S.D. Lee march by.  They presented bouquets to the soldiers as they passed.  In some places were large wreathes of evergreens, with mottos such as "God is with us"; "Welcome the Army to South Carolina"; "Old Virginia Never Tires", etc.  March 20th we marched 16 miles - the same repeated by the ladies.  21st we resumed the march and march about 150 miles through Edgefield, Newburg, Laurens, Spartanburg, Union into Chester when we took the train and came on to the Army then at Smithfield, rejoined our Brigade on the 31st of March, and remained quietly in camp until the 10th of April.   

This Month in Alabama during the War for Southern Independence

March 4, 1861 - The first National Confederate flag (the Stars and Bars) was raised over the Alabama capitol at 3:30 PM by Letita Tyler, granddaughter of former U.S. president John Tyler.

March 11, 1861 - The Confederate Congress, meeting in Montgomery, adopts a permanent Constitution for the Confederate States of America to replace the provisional constitution adopted the previous month. The seceded states then ratified the essentially conservative document, which was based largely on the United States Constitution of the Old Union.

March 17, 1863 - John Pelham, a 24-year-old Confederate hero from Calhoun County, AL is mortally wounded on the battlefield at Kelley's Ford, Virginia. He died the next day and his body lay in state in the capitol at Richmond before being taken to Alabama for burial. Pelham's skill and daring as an artillery commander distinguished him from the outset of the Civil War and earned him the nickname "the gallant Pelham" from Robert E. Lee. His statue is located in Jacksonville, AL

March-April, 1865 - Wilson's Raid:  James Harrison Wilson was born in Illinois on September 2, 1837.  After graduating from West Point and being commissioned in 1860, he was initially assigned to garrison duty in Washington State.  Wilson’s first direct involvement in the Civil War came with his assignment to the Union Army of the Tennessee in 1862.  After serving as inspector general for this department, he was eventually promoted to Major General.  Before becoming involved in Alabama, significant actions of Wilson’s career were in the Vicksburg Campaign in 1863 and the Battle of Nashville in 1864.

            Wilson was selected by General Ulysses S. Grant to lead the Civil War’s largest cavalry force for operations deep into the Southern heartland of Alabama, with primary objectives being Selma and Montgomery.  A secondary objective was to divert Confederate efforts to defend Mobile.  This cavalry force was intended to disrupt and destroy remaining Confederate military and industrial infrastructure.  After spending the winter training at Gravelly Springs, in Lauderdale County, Alabama, operations began in March of 1865.  General Wilson and his force passed through Jasper and reached Elyton (present day Birmingham), where Arlington House was used as a headquarters.  After detaching a force of 1,500 troops under General Croxton to move towards Tuscaloosa, Wilson continued south with the main force of 9,500 Union troops.  Throughout the operation, several prominent Confederate ironworks were destroyed.

            There were skirmish actions fought at Montevallo on March 30-31, 1865, after which Wilson passed through Centreville.  After the skirmish at Montevallo, Confederate troops were forced to fall back towards Selma.  Another sharp cavalry exchange took place at Ebenezer Church in Chilton County on April 1, 1865.  Confederate forces under Forrest were forced to fall back into Selma.  After a full assault on Selma’s extensive earthworks on April 2, 1865, Confederate troops under Forrest were forced to abandon the city.  After capturing Selma, Wilson destroyed the vital Confederate arsenal, naval yard, iron works, and other related war industries.

            After capturing Selma, Wilson continued towards Montgomery, fighting a small skirmish near Lowndesboro.  The Confederates evacuated Montgomery without resistance, and Wilson formally accepted the surrender of the city on April 12, 1865.  Beyond Montgomery, Wilson continued east towards Georgia, and fought a small skirmish with remaining Confederate forces near Tuskegee.  Before approaching the Chattahoochee River, Wilson divided his force into two groups.  Forces under Wilson attacked the remaining Confederate defenses guarding the approaches to West Point and Columbus, Georgia.  The Battle of Fort Tyler (present day Lanett, Alabama) and the Battle of Girard (present day Phoenix City) were fought on April 16, 1865.

The North may have won the war; but the South reaped the Glory

ARIZONA ORDINANCE OF SECESSION

Passed by the People of Arizona in Convention Assembled at La Mesilla, Arizona Territory, March 16, 1861

"WHEREAS, a sectional party of the North has disregarded the Constitution of the United States, violated the rights of the Southern States, and heaped wrongs and indignities upon their people; and WHEREAS, the Government of the United States has heretofore failed to give us adequate protection against the savages within our midst and has denied us an administration of the laws, and that security for life, liberty, and property which is due from all governments to the people; and WHEREAS, it is an inherent, inalienable right in all people to modify, alter, or abolish their form of government whenever it fails in the legitimate objects of its institution, or when it is subversive thereof; and WHEREAS, in a government of federated, sovereign States, each State has a right to withdraw from the confederacy whenever the treaty by which the league is formed, is broken; and WHEREAS, the Territories belonging to said league in common should be divided when the league is broken, and should be attached to the separating States according to their geographical position and political identity; and WHEREAS, Arizona naturally belongs to the Confederate States of America (who have rightfully and lawfully withdrawn from said league), both geographically and politically, by ties of a common interest and a common cause; and WHEREAS we, the citizens of that part of New Mexico called Arizona, in the present distracted state of political affairs between the North and the South, deem it our duty as citizens of the United States to make known our opinions and intentions; therefore be it...

RESOLVED, That our feelings and interests are with the Southern States, and that although we deplore the division of the Union, yet we cordially indorse the course pursued by the seceded Southern States.

RESOLVED, That geographically and naturally we are bound to the South, and to her we look for protection; and as the Southern States have formed a Confederacy, it is our earnest desire to be attached to that Confederacy as a Territory.

RESOLVED, That we do not desire to be attached as a Territory to any State seceding separately from the Union, but to and under the protection of a Confederacy of the Southern States.

RESOLVED, That the recent enactment of the Federal Congress, removing the mail service from the Atlantic to the Pacific States from the Southern to the Central or Northern route, is another powerful reason for us to ask the Southern Confederate States of America for a continuation of the postal service over the Butterfield or El Paso route, at the earliest period.

RESOLVED, That it shall be the duty of the President of this Convention to order an election for a delegate to the Congress of the Confederate States of America, when he is informed that the States composing said Confederacy have ordered an election for members of Congress.

RESOLVED, That we will not recognize the present Black Republican Administration, and that we will resist any officers appointed to this Territory by said Administration with whatever means in our power.

RESOLVED, That the citizens residing in the western portion of this Territory are invited to join us in this movement.

RESOLVED, That the proceedings of this Convention be published in the Mesilla Times, and that a copy thereof be forwarded to the President of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, with the request that the same be laid before Congress."

Cleburne Statue

The Patrick Cleburne Society is raising money for a bronze statue commemorating the venerated division commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.  Currently, the only memorial to General Cleburne is an obelisk at his grave. There are no statues on battlefield sites where he fought. Such an honor is long overdue. 

The statue will be located at the site of his greatest independent action, Ringgold Gap, Georgia. Following the Confederate retreat from Missionary Ridge in November 1864, Cleburne’s Division was ordered to delay the Federal pursuit and make a stand at Ringgold. At state was the survival of the Army of Tennessee. Outnumbered four to one, Cleburne’s Division of 4,000 soundly defeated the principal elements of Joseph Hooker’s Union army corps. The gallant defense of the gap saved the army’s wagon and artillery trains, and earned Cleburne the official thanks of the Confederate Congress. 

The Patrick Cleburne Society with the aid of local organizations including the Sons of Confederate Veterans has secured the permission of the Department of Transportation to place the statue on the current site of the wayside park in Ringgold.

ABOUT THE SCULPTOR

Ron Tunison, one of America’s premier historical sculptors of military art, has been commissioned to sculpt the Cleburne statue. The sculpture depicts Cleburne, with field glasses in hand, leaning forward, gazing in the direction of Colonel David Ireland’s advancing New York regiment. As a testament to Mr. Tunison’s artistry, several organizations have commissioned his talents for battlefield art at Gettysburg National Military Park, Antietam National Battlefield, and Pamplin Historical Park in Virginia.

This special commemorative piece, signed and numbered limited edition cold cast bronze bust is your gift with a donation of $250.00 to the Patrick Cleburne Society Statue fund. The sculpture measures 6" in height, is finely detailed and finished in a light bronze patina. The bust is a casting from the original sold-out model edition for the monument, commissioned by sculptor Ron Tunison.  All proceeds go to the statue completion.

Patrick Cleburne Society
c/o Mauriel Joslyn
9687 Jones Street, Sparta, Ga 31087

For more information about becoming a member of the Patrick Cleburne Society contact:

mailto:members@patrickcleburne.com