BG Evander Law Gazette

Volume 2 Issue 1 January 2014 Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp #1323 Lakeland, Florida

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COMMANDERS CORNER
Compatriots, Family and Friends of the South, I hope you all well and had a blessed Christmas. As we have entered the New Year, many challenges face our camp and the Southern Cause. Some of the challenges that we face include membership recruitment and retention, participation in camp events, and continuing attacks from those individuals and/or organizations that want to completely erase our Southern Heritage. I would like to ask each and every one of you to reflect on the reasons as to why you are a part of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Our ancestors made a decision to leave their families and homes to fight an invader that threatened our lives and beliefs of individual liberties and freedoms. Many of our ancestors and brethren never returned from battle. The Southland continues to suffer from the effects of Reconstruction. Blatant lies are being taught in the public schools to our children and grandchildren, stating that Lincoln is the savior of the Union and

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that slavery was the main cause to go to war against those sovereign states that did not go along with his policies. Thus wanting to dishonor what our ancestors fought for. Are we honoring our ancestors by simply going to a meeting once a month and talk about these injustices, just to go home and do nothing. Again, I ask you as to why you are part of this organization. Take that step forward just as your ancestors did 150 years ago. Do something about it. Deo Vindice. Stay Southern My Friends, Commander Shannon Roth

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CONTENTS
3 Commanders Corner

FIRST-CLASS STAMPS TO COST 49 CENTS STARTING JAN. 26

Mailing a letter is about to get a little more expensive. Postal regulators on Tuesday approved a price hike of 3 cents for a first-class stamp, bringing the charge to 49 cents a letter. The independent Postal Regulatory Commission said the change was justified by severe mail volume decreases since 2008. The new price is effective Jan. 26 and will last no more than two years, allowing the Postal Service to recoup $2.8 billion in losses. Regulators rejected a request to make the price hike permanent. Bulk mail, periodicals and package service rates rise 6 percent. The mail industry opposes the price increases. It says charities using mass mailings and bookstores competing with Amazon will suffer. The Postal Service says it lost $5 billion in the last fiscal year. Source: http://tinyurl.com/201401SCV01

4 First Class Postage 4 Secession from the United States 5 Romney Campaign 7 Battle of Logans Crossroads 9 March to Meridian 11 Emancipation Proclamation 12 Packin House Antiques 13 Mini Pineapple Upside Down Cakes 14 Prayer Request 15 Memorial Invitation 16 C.S.A. Poem

SECESSION FROM THE UNITED STATES IN JANUARY 1861

January 9 January 10 January 11 Mississippi secedes from the Union Florida secedes from the Union Alabama secedes from the Union

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January 19 January 26 Georgia secedes from the Union Louisiana secedes from the Union

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After South Carolina had approved and seceded from the Union on December 20th, 1860, the five other states shown above immediately followed suit showing their unification in the hostile attempt by the Union Government to exert an unlawful taxation against the southern states.

THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN

On January 1, 1862, General Stonewall Jackson begins the Romney Campaign from Winchester, Virginia. Joe Johnston watched the Shenandoah Valley with great concern late in 1861 because he received word of Union plans to his west. The Confederate commander knew there was great Union interest in completing the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and that only 900 men were guarding the western approach to his flank. W. W. Loring might be able to advance in Western Virginia and distract the Yankees if Loring had more support in the Shenandoah Valley. On November 4, 1861, Johnston ordered recently promoted Major General Stonewall Jackson to take command of the Valley District of the Department of Northern Virginia, creating the Army of the Valley, headquartered in Winchester. William S. Rosecrans, in command of the Department of West Virginia, had 22,000 men, many in the rugged eastern mountains. Of these 5,000 were stationed in Romney under Brigadier General Benjamin Franklin Kelley. Working on roughly 200 miles of track between Grafton, Virginia and Point

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of Rocks, Maryland, Union engineers were making good progress protected by a small force from Nathaniel Banks' 16,000-man Fifth Corps stationed in Maryland. Confederates depended on raids to set the engineers back from time to time. Upon his arrival in Winchester, General Jackson found that a contingent of Union cavalry was north of the Potomac River, ready to move south as soon as a crossing of the rain-swollen river could be made. In response, Jackson asked for command of the men at Cheat Mountain, Loring at Huntersville and Carson's men in the Valley. Jackson also determined that an Attack on Dam Number 5 would wreak havoc with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. The dam was slightly over 30 miles north of Jackson's position in Winchester. Using a small force at Falling Waters to create a "distraction" for General Banks at Williamsport, Stonewall advanced to Dam Number 5. Arriving on Saturday, December 7, 1861, the Confederates were opposed by a company (from the 13th Massachusetts) armed with smooth-bore rifles, which could not accurately fire across the river. Although the Rebels were chased off the following day, Jackson breached the dam making the C&O Canal useless for days below the dam. A native of the Tygart Valley, Jackson realized that the Union commanders were widely dispersed and it would be difficult to coordinate Rosecrans' force, more than double the size of Jackson's. The Confederate commander also realized that if "Old Ben" Kelley joined his 5,000 man force with the 16,000 men under Nathaniel Banks in western Maryland, attacking Winchester would be an easy proposition. An unusually warm December was coming to an end when Stonewall Jackson issued orders to the Army of the Valley to prepare to march. The Confederate Army began moving into northwestern Virginia (now West Virginia), but were slowed when the balmy December was replaced on the day they left by a brutal January. After taking Bath, Virginia Jackson moved on Hancock, Maryland. The Confederates began shelling Frederick Lander's 3,000 men in Hancock on January 6, but Jackson thought it would be impossible to attack the entrenched Yankees. Instead, Jackson turned south towards Romney. By now though, winter weather set in and Jackson's army slowed to a crawl. Old Ben Kelley, most famous for overrunning the Confederate camp at Philippi to begin the war in the East, made a diversionary attack on Winchester 40 miles east of Romney. Although he defeated the 700 militia left by Stonewall Jackson to guard the Confederate base, Kelley's men were forced to withdraw from Virginia when Jackson continued south towards Romney. Kelley withdrew and Jackson entered Romney on January 14. Jackson made a month-long winter camp in Romney. During this encampment men under the command of W. W. Loring became disenchanted with just about everything to do with Jackson. They signed a petition protesting the conditions, which Loring forwarded to Jackson. Loring also permitted an officer to take the Brigadier General Stonewall petition to Richmond, Virginia. As a result, Judah Benjamin (then Jackson Secretary of War) ordered Jackson to withdraw Loring's men from Romney, which he did. Jackson then resigned from the army because a civilian had given him an order. In his resignation Jackson said, "Your order requiring me to direct General Loring to return with his command to Winchester immediately has been received and promptly complied with. With such interference in my command I cannot expect to be of much service in the field."

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With the upheaval, Jefferson Davis became involved, reassigning Loring and calming Jackson. Nothing ever came of Jackson's resignation. Source: http://tinyurl.com/201401SCV02

THE BATTLE OF LOGANS CROSSROADS (MILL SPRINGS; FISHING CREEK )

Early on a cool Kentucky morning in January, 1862, two similar-sized contingents of Confederate and Union soldiers (roughly 4,000 effectives each) met on a battlefield in south-central Kentucky, west of Somerset. The story of this January engagement, however, began months earlier as Albert Sidney Johnston took command of the Western Theater. General Felix Zollicoffer [CS], a political appointee who was holding East Tennessee with a force estimated at between 8,000 and 10,000 irregulars, moved 6 brigades from Tennessee into Kentucky via the Cumberland Gap. Opposing these men were a small group of home guard in Camp Dick Robinson in Perryville and some widespread groups of militia in southeastern Kentucky. Two skirmishes, one in Rockcastle County (Camp Wildcat) and one in Pike County (Pikeville), Kentucky resulted in two Union victories. Zollicoffer withdrew to Knoxville following the losses and Union forces advanced to keep a watchful eye on the Gap in case he reappeared. With the approach of these Federal forces East Tennessee Unionists began burning railroad bridges, a situation that led the Confederate general to hang 5 suspected Unionists from railroad bridges. A second, similar uprising in Chattanooga also required Zollicoffer's attention. There he arrested Parson Brownlow, a known Unionist, but was forced to release him on lack of evidence connecting him to the pro-Union uprising. About the time of the Chattanooga uprising, Zollicoffer was given the job of protecting Johnston's right flank. This time Zollicoffer decided not to travel through Cumberland Gap, instead travelling west of the Union troops. By the end of November, 1861 Zollicoffer had moved out of the mountains to the rolling hills of of the central plateau in Kentucky. Zollicoffer thought he could secure both banks of the Cumberland and be resupplied by boat from Nashville. He made two mistakes. Entrenching with his back to the river was a major tactical error and assuming he could be resupplied by boat at the navigable end of a river in winter was his second error. His troops were forced to scavenge the hills for food. On Christmas Day, 1862, Johnston wrote "The position of General Zollicoffer on the Cumberland holds in check the meditated invasion and hoped-for revolt in East Tennessee; but I can neither order Zollicoffer to join me here nor withdraw any more force from Columbus without imperiling our communications toward Richmond or endangering Tennessee and the Mississippi Valley." When Zollicoffer's commanding officer, General George Crittenden [CS], arrived on January 2, 1862 he realized Zollicoffer's mistake [placing his men on the wrong side of the Cumberland] but by that time Crittenden felt that moving 4,000 men across the cold water and ice floes of the river would have been difficult. The Confederates prepared for the approaching Union Army. To the east of Somerset, Ohio Colonel James Garfield secured the extreme right of Johnston's Line at

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the Battle of Middle Creek, a key Union victory. Aware of the Confederate contingent that had stationed itself along the Cumberland River, newly-appointed division commander General George Thomas advanced under orders to attack Zollicoffer on the banks of the Cumberland. It took Thomas 18 days to move his army from Lebanon, Kentucky to Logan's Crossroad, about 8 miles east of Zollicoffer's position and 8 miles west of a sizable Union contingent in Somerset. The Virginia-born Thomas then waited for General Albin Schoepf [US] to arrive from Somerset. After leaving their fortified position and marching most of the night, Crittenden and Zollicoffer encountered sharp resistance near Timmy's Branch where they ran into an encampment of Thomas's Union cavalry (the 1st Kentucky). The cavalry and two partial regiments of nearby infantry formed a weak line and began an orderly withdrawal towards the main Union force. At the top of a hill, additional units of infantry joined the fray and, for a brief time the picket line held its place, but the Rebel onslaught was too much and the line once again continued its orderly withdrawal.

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Beyond the Confederate cemetery in Zollicoffer Park, this hill was the site where Union pickets were reinforced and briefly held a line near the start of the battle. As the Rebels withdrew, Gen. Crittenden formed his rear

The noise of this engagement sent an alarm to the Union forces. By the guard here. time the picket line had withdrawn to the split rail fence, nearly an hour after the initial engagement, forward Union forces had just begun to fall into the main line near the top of the rise south of the encampment. From the end of the rail fence the line formed a salient and extended a little further along a ridge in front of a historic road. As Confederates approached the main line from a deep ravine, Thomas arrived from his headquarters west of the crossroads. He personally started directing his troops, placing newly arriving regiments into the battle line. He had two goals in mind: protecting his encampment and supplies, and keeping a line of advancement open for Schoepf's forces, some of whom had already arrived following a difficult crossing of Fishing Creek to the east of Thomas's position. General Zollicoffer led the first attack, driving Thomas's forces back, almost to the top of the ridge. Because they were using outdated flintlocks, the Rebel's gains must be considered impressive. As company battled company the line became confusing, resulting in a couple of gaps in both the Union and Confederate lines. A steady rain contributed to the confusion, as did the men's lack of experience. Zollicoffer tried to rally his men, but accidentally rode into a gap. As the General mistakenly addressed a Union Colonel Speed S. Fry, (4th Kentucky [US]), Zollicoffer's aide realized the mistake and opened fire as he warned the general. Speed's first shot wounded Zollicoffer's aid and his second shot penetrated Zollicoffer's heart, killing the general. On the far side of the salient as the Rebels reached the rail fence they engaged the Union forces in brutal hand-to-hand fighting. As news of Zollicoffer's death spread to the enlisted men they began to withdraw. General Crittenden managed to keep his troops in the battle, reorganizing and firming the center of his line. From his vantage near the center of line, Thomas realized there was a problem and moved the 9th Ohio Regiment to his right, where they fixed bayonets and charged, managing to exploit the turmoil and turn the Rebel left. In the commotion caused by this setback Union forces managed to turn the right flank. Suddenly,

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there was little for Crittenden to do but establish a rear guard and join his men in a hasty 10-mile retreat to their own fortifications with Thomas's men on their heels. Arriving at the Cumberland, Crittenden organized a second rear guard to defend the position while the rest of his troops prepared to steam across the river on a rear-wheeler. Union troops established a line on Moulden's Hill overlooking the Confederate camp and began a cannonade. Thomas never demanded surrender. He later told Fry that he never even thought of it.

Leaving cannon, horses, mules and small arms, the Confederates crossed the Cumberland on a rear-wheel steamboat and flatboats. Looking into the Confederate Thomas's artillery quickly ranged the steamboat, which the Rebels set position in the ravine from the Union position along a split rail fence at the on fire, but did not have much luck with the flatboats. As supplies top of a ridge reached the Union troops, who had not eaten all day, Thomas ordered them to bivouac where they stood. Before a planned dawn attack, the Confederate's rear guard withdrew, leaving empty entrenchments. Thomas prepared to cross the river, but there was no rush. Crittenden's force had withdrawn and a significant number of his men had simply left the unit. With Johnston's right flank destroyed, Ulysses S. Grant could now concentrate on his center. Source: http://tinyurl.com/201401SCV03

THE MARCH TO MERIDIAN

After the 1863 Vicksburg Campaign, in which the Union army of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant succeeded in capturing Vicksburg and burning the state capital of Jackson, Union forces under Sherman turned eastward toward Meridian. Meridian was an important railroad center and was home to a Confederate arsenal, military hospital, and prisoner-of-war stockade, as well as the headquarters for a number of state offices. Sherman planned to take Meridian and, if the situation was favorable, push on to Selma, Alabama, and possibly even threaten Mobile. Sherman ordered Brig. Gen. William Sooy Smith to lead a cavalry force of 7,000 men from Memphis, Tennessee, south through Okolona, Mississippi, along the Mobile and Ohio Railroad to meet the rest of the Union force at Meridian. Smith never reached Meridian; he and his troops met Confederate resistance on January 25th, 1864 led by Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest at West Point, Mississippi. Forrest and his army forced Smith to begin to retreat to Tennessee. When Forrest saw Smith's army retreating, he ordered his troops to chase the army down. Forrest caught Smith and his troops in Okolona, Mississippi, and forced them to retreat more rapidly after a defeat in the Battle of Okolona on February 22, 1864, which ultimately resulted in General Sherman's entire left flank being eliminated during the campaign. Source: http://tinyurl.com/201401SCV04

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EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
A PROCLAMATION AGAINST THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA: Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863 by the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation
Whereas, on the twenty second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty two (September 22, 1862), a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, (January 1, 1863) all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be, in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States. Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. Johns, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New-Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomack, Northampton, Elizabeth-City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk & Portsmouth); and which excepted parts are, for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities

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And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the eighty-seventh. By the President: Abraham Lincoln Soruce: http://tinyurl.com/201401SCV06 William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

APRIL ROTH BRINGS YOU,

COMING SOON TO AUBURNDALE, FLORIDA!

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MINI PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKES

Preparation: Bake time: 10-15 minutes Pre-Heat Oven: 350 degrees Cake Ingredients: 2 eggs 2/3 C white sugar 4 Tbsp. pineapple juice 2/3 C all-purpose flour 1 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt Topping: 1/4 cup butter (1/2 stick or 4 Tbsp.) 2/3 C brown sugar 1-can pineapple rings 6-maraschino cherries Directions: Spray your muffin tins with non-stick cooking spray. In a mixing bowl, add eggs, white sugar, and pineapple juice. Beat for 2 minutes. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Add to the wet ingredients and turn mixer back on for 2 minutes. In a small sauce pan, melt the butter and add the brown sugar. Stir on low heat for one minute. Spoon a layer of the warm brown sugar mixture into the bottom of each muffin tin, then place a pineapple ring on top. Add a cherry in the middle of each pineapple. Pour cake mixture over to fill muffin tin 3/4 of the way full. If you are using regular muffin tins, you will need to cut down the rings to fit or just use pineapple tidbits. Source: http://tinyurl.com/201401SCV07

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tonymyers.scv123@gmail.com I want to thank everyone for all the prayers for my sister Crystal who resides in Kentucky. She went through her cancer surgery without any complications. She was so fortunate that they caught it at Stage 1A and only had to remove the upper lobe of her left lung. After further testing, the doctors stated that there were no cancer cells on the outside of the lung or on any of the lymph nodes. They advised there would be no need for radiation or chemo therapy but would continue regular follow ups. I continue to pray every day, and this just proves how great the power of prayer can be. Thank you all again SO MUCH, Compatriot Tony Myers.

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Open Invitation to our Southern Communities! Ladies and Gentlemen, we, the members of Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp #1323 which is located in Lakeland, Florida are attempting to maintain some form of a recognition system in place to honor all of our fallen veterans. Currently in place, we have a working registry system of various local cemeteries within Polk County; listing the identities of over 300 Confederate Veterans buried here just in Polk County. We currently maintain a Soldiers Memorial Wall of Confederate Veterans, belonging to all of our registered Camp #1323 camp members, both direct and collateral family members. You will find our direct ancestor upon which we joined the SCV, highlighted in blue. Our Camp #1323 is now inviting you, the community to join and become a member of your own Soldiers Memorial Wall. Have your Confederate Veteran(s) listed on the Communities of our Fallen Soldiers Memorial Wall for the low price of only $5 for a 2 year period. Your listing will be posted on our Camp Website located at (http://www.lawsbrigade.org/registry/honorwall) as well as being listed in our monthly newsletter (shown after this invitation). If you would like to honor YOUR Confederate Veteran for the next two years, simply complete the form and mail it along with a $5 check or money order for each veteran; made out to SCV Camp #1323, 2807 Hardin Combee Road, Lakeland, Florida 33801.
Submitters Information Your Name: __________________________________ Your Address: _________________________________ Rank: ______________________ ____________________________________________ Birth Year: __________________ Your Phone: __________________________________ City or County & State where Born: Example of Veteran Information Combee, Hampton (Pvt) 1837 Edgefield, South Carolina 1902 Lakeland, Florida Co K, 1st Florida Cavalry POW [X] KIA [ ] H/C [X] Please let us know if your vet was a POW, was Killed in Action during conflict or because of wounds received during battle, and if he has a Southern Cross of Honor/Iron Cross at his gravesite. Also, if you are aware of the cemetery name and location, could you provide that information also? ____________________________________________ Death Year: ________ City or County & State where Died: ____________________________________________ Company and Unit Assigned: ____________________________________________ Cemetery/Location Buried: ____________________________________________ Former POW [ ] KIA [ ] H/C [ ] Your Veteran Information Vets Name:_______________________________________

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