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Newsletter of the Frank P. Gracey SCV Camp #225

Meeting – Tuesday, February 12, 2019

We meet at Paul and Jackie’s Country Kitchen at 1578 Zinc Plant Road.

We eat at 5:30 PM with the program and business meeting starting at 6:30 PM.

Our Speaker - We welcome our past commander Drew Scholes - his topic: The Confederate Constitution.

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TELL YOUR FRIENDS SEE YOU AT THE MEETING

From the Camp Commander

Members of Camp 225,

A big THANKS goes out to Carolyn Ferrell for her presentation on her new book “Colonel William A. Forbes and the 14th TN Infantry”. It is always a pleasure to hear her presentations – now we just must get her to write another book,

When our Adjutant Charles Morrison and I delivered 25 Iron Crosses to the SCV HQ in January, I took a picture of the new SCV Confederate Museum that is being constructed – we were told that they were planning on moving “stuff” in mid-summer of this year.

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Dennis and I are looking for speakers for the coming summer months = do not leave it up to us = if you have any ideas let us know.

Many of you have visited Fort Negley in Nashville but do you know what it really looked like back in 1864?

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Deo Vindice.

Donald Horton, Commander

From the Lieutenant Commander

Atlanta's Confederate Avenue fades into History

By the Associated Press Posted Jan 22, 2019 at 7:30 AM

             Atlanta, Residents in an Atlanta neighborhood are celebrating the renaming 

of Confederate Avenue

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       But the fate of many other Civil-War themed streets and markers remains undecided. 

The switch from" Confederate Ave " to " United Avenue" is among the latest changes amid 

nationwide debate over Civil-War themed monuments and symbols, the Atlanta Journal- 

Constitution reported. 

       The newspaper reports that Atlanta is home to at least 25 streets believed to be named 

for military figures and leaders who supported the Confederacy during the Civil War. 

A panel in 2017 recommended that other Atlanta Streets be renamed, just as Confederate

Ave. was. A city council committee is now exploring how to carry out that recommendation. 

       The panel which had been convened by former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed recommended

that the city immediately change the names of the streets honoring " John B. Gordon", a 

Confederate General who was the head of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia after the Civil War. 

       The panel also called for immediate changes to streets named after Robert E. Lee,

Nathan Bedford Forrest, a founder of the Ku Klux Klan; Stephen D. Lee a Confederate General 

and founder of an organization that championed the " Lost Cause”, and Howell Cobb, an

opponent of reconstruction

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        The city council's street names committee will meet again in the coming weeks. 

With the exception of Confederate Avenue, which was named for a convalescent home on the 

street that served the war's veterans until 1941, it took a great deal of research to determine

whether street names such as Lee, Forrest, and Cobb were in honor of rebel leaders, the 

Atlanta newspaper reported.   

           My take on this article; yes, a lot of research it says, and because these streets had 

these names for so long a time.

Why change them? 

The demographics in areas of cities do change over time. That and the present-day mode 

of protest of long-established monuments, symbols, names, titles, etc. All are components of true history of a local or national nature, is up for slander and attack. Why is the question to ask, to begin to research this nationwide pattern? 

      

Could the ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Firm, other such civil rights as they call themselves,

 groups be the sources? Not the local residents of these areas, they say are celebrating now ? 

Could former Mayor Kasim Reed have been the source of desire to this, or these so called 

civil rights organizations, that are private, not public elected, and so can take funding their

activities from whomever they wish. 

         The same type situation as happened in causing the Charlottesville Virginia episode. 

Dennis Bagwell. Lt Commander

RELATED MEETINGS OF INTEREST

Colonel Cyrus Sugg Camp #1792, Adams, TN

The meeting will be Saturday, 9 February 2019, the meal begins at 5:00 pm, The Business meeting at 5:45pm, Program at 6:00 PM SHARP, ending at 7 PM SHARP. The meeting is held at MOSS’S Restaurant, 7617 Hwy. 41N, Adams TN (The old Bell School). TOPIC TBA

Clarksville Civil War Roundtable

The Clarksville Civil War Roundtable meets the 3rd Wednesday of each month at the Bone and Joint Center. Meetings begin at 7 PM. 

February 2019 - David Deatrick, Louisville CWRT – “Kentucky Union General Lovell Rosseau”

March 2019 – Michael Shaffer, author/historian, Marietta, GA. – “In Memory of Self and Comrades: Thomas Colley and the 1st Virginia Cavalry”

April 2019 - TBA

May 2019 – Dr. Peter Carmichael, author, historian, director of the Gettysburg College Civil War Center – topic TBA

June 2019 – Brad Butkovich, historian/author – “The Battle of Allatoona Pass: The First Battle of Hood’s Tennessee Campaign”

Porter’s Battery

The following are the activities for Porter’s Battery in the coming months.

Surrender of Clarksville - Feb. 23, Sat. 2019 - Ft. Defiance Clarksville Tn

Irish Day Celebration and Parade - Erin Tennessee - March 16, 2019

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Photograph of the January Meeting

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Second LT Bob Parker, and Lt Commander Dennis Bagwell flank Commander Horton as he presents Carolyn Ferrell with a Certificate of Appreciation for her presentation on her newest book on Col Forbes and the 14th Tennessee.

FORT DEFIANCE CIVIL WAR EVENTS COMING UP

Schedule Of Events ~ 2019 PUT ON YOUR CALENDER

The Fort Defiance Interpretive Center, located at 120 Duncan Street, will host a living history event to commemorate the 157th anniversary of the surrender of Clarksville to Union soldiers in 1862 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23.

Join us at Ft. Defiance on March 30th from 12 pm until 2 pm as local author Phillip Ross Chadwick autographs copies of his book, The Yankee Present. 

There will be a Native American Artifact Display at the Fort Defiance Interpretive Center on Saturday, April 13 from 10 am until 3:30 pm. Come out and take a look at many types of Native American Artifacts. The public is invited to come and bring their own collections to show and talk about.

Friends of Fort Defiance will present the annual March To The Past event on Saturday, May 4th from 10 am til 3:30 pm. There will be numerous exhibits on civilian and military life in the 19th century, artillery firing and more!

Mark Britton will speak about medical treatments and medicine during the Civil War era from 10 am until 3:30 pm on Saturday, May 25th at the Fort Defiance Interpretive Center. Learn about medicine and doctors in the 1860s and see a display of 19th century medical instruments.

 

Music At the Fort will be held on Saturday, June 22nd from 11 am until 3 pm. Come out and bring blankets and chairs to sit on and a picnic for your family while you enjoy Marlin Rood and his String Band as they play period Civil war era music.

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January Meeting

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FRANK P. GRACEY CAMP OFFICERS – 2018

|Camp Commander/Editor |Lt. Commander | Adjutant |Second Lieutenant |

|Donald Horton |Dennis Bagwell | Charles Morrison |Bob Parker |

|224 Cody Court |3415 Tarsus Rd | 504 Christine Dr |1788 Dunbar Rd |

|Clarksville, TN 37043 |Palmyra TN 37142 | Clarksville, TN 37043 |Clarksville, TN 37041 |

|drhorton40@ |dennisbagwell11@yahoo.. |com morrison4771@ | droptop_1963@ |

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