COL. E. W. TAYLORSONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS #1777

NEWSLETTERNEWSLETTERBedford, Texas.....................September 2011

SEPTEMBER MEETING-Sept. 29, 2011Catfish and Company

900 Airport Freeway #110Hurst, Texas 817-581-3912Eat at 6:15 Meeting at 7:00

We had an excellent turnout for our August meeting, which included an updateon the Northeast Tarrant County Civil War Veterans Memorial, still growing inBedford. Take a look at the project online at:http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txtarran/military/civil_war_vets.htm

Don’t forget to proudly fly the flag on September 11!!We Will NEVER Forget Why.

September 13, 2011 – “TheIncomparable George Horatio Derbyof the West Point Class of 1846”

THE FORT WORTHCIVIL WAR

ROUND TABLEPRESENTS

Presented by Jack Waugh, Author andHistorian

Location: Ol' South Pancake House (OnUniversity Drive) just south of I-30

Dinner: 6 PM Program begins at 7 PM

ContactJimrosenthal5757@aol.com for

more details on membership, etc.

Wilson’s CreekReenactment

Compatriot James Madewell, above and thirdfrom left in the photo at left, shared with usthese photos of the Wilson Creek Reenactmentin Missouri this past August 12-14. Plannersexpected about three thousand reenactors(civilian and military) and about sixty thousandvisitors to take part.

TARRANT HAS ATARRANT HAS AREAL SON OF THEREAL SON OF THECONFEDERACY!CONFEDERACY!

…not Tarrant…not Tarrant CountyCounty, but Tarrant,, but Tarrant,Alabama. But Tyus K. Denney, 90, isAlabama. But Tyus K. Denney, 90, isstill a neat guy even if he’s not a Texan!still a neat guy even if he’s not a Texan!His father, Thomas Jefferson Denney,His father, Thomas Jefferson Denney,was eighty years old when Tyus waswas eighty years old when Tyus wasborn. The elder Denney was a veteranborn. The elder Denney was a veteranborn. The elder Denney was a veteranborn. The elder Denney was a veteranof Co. H, 31of Co. H, 31stst Alabama Infantry, andAlabama Infantry, andsurvived until 1934.survived until 1934.

Tyus’s sister, Vivian Smith, 88, ofTyus’s sister, Vivian Smith, 88, ofCullman, Alabama, is one of the fewCullman, Alabama, is one of the fewremaining “real daughters” of theremaining “real daughters” of theConfederacy.Confederacy.

You can read more of the story at:You can read more of the story at:http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/05/real_son_of_confederate_vetera.html

Kevin Chapman, an archeology student at GeorgiaSouthern University has located the site of CampLawton, a POW camp operated briefly by theConfederacy about fifty miles south of Augusta.Chapman made the discovery on publicly-ownedland while working on his master’s thesis. He hasmade some exciting finds. You can read the story atseveral places on the internet, includinghttp://news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-comb-newly-found-civil-war-pow-camp-164121276.html

GEORGIAGEORGIAPOW CAMPPOW CAMPLOCATED BYLOCATED BYGRADUATEGRADUATESTUDENTSTUDENT

AARGH!!!HOW DID THEY

STAND IT?

If you’ve taken part in anyevents this summer, congratula-tions! This summer is like most,only more so. There were morearticles written about the heat atthe First Manassas Reenactmentthan about any other topic.

Amazingly, there are recordsof only 313 deaths by heatstroke during the WBTS. It wouldbe interesting to know the truth.

Hood’s Texas Brigade Association, Re-Activated is a non-profit corporationchartered under the laws of the State ofTexas; it has a 501(c)(3) non-profitstatus by the Internal Revenue Service.

http://www.hoodstexasbrigade

Please visit their site at:

http://www.hoodstexasbrigade.org/index.html

Annual Seminar: November 11-12, 2011: Please put November 11-12 on yourcalendars. That is the weekend for the Annual Hood’s Texas BrigadeAssociation, Re-Activated Historical Seminar. This year marks the first in ourSesquicentennial Series. Thanks to the hospitality of The University of NorthTexas History Department, it will be in Denton and it will follow the eventstaking place in Texas during 1861.

Say goodbye to

Hands down the best internet source for original source records ofour Confederate ancestors, including every page of everyConfederate soldier’s compiled military service records from everystate. http://www.fold3.com/

GETTING TOGETTING TOKNOW OURKNOW OUR

LOCAL VETERANSLOCAL VETERANSSince our local veterans

memorial honors soldiers fromboth armies in the WBTS, wethought we’d introduce you to aman from the other side. Meetman from the other side. MeetFelix Grundy Cavins (1836-1908),a veteran of Co. C, 25th IndianaInfantry.

He came to Texas about 1882,and had settled at Keller by1890. Mr. Cavins and his wife(who died in 1892) lie buried inthe old Mount Gilead Cemeteryin Keller.

INTERESTED IN ARTILLERY? TAKE A LOOK AThttp://www.civilwarartillery.com/

CONFEDERATE WOODENCRUISERS THE GRID ON THE

FOLLOWINGPAGE CONTAINSTHE NAMES OFSIXTEEN OF THECONFEDERATENAVY’S WOODENNAVY’S WOODENCRUISERS.

SEE HOW MANY YOU CAN DISCOVER WITHOUTLOOKING AT THE LIST ON PAGE 14 OF THISNEWSLETTER.

Nearly all our ancestors who lived in the South werethe victims of yankee foraging parties who tooklivestock, crops, fence rails, and anything else theywanted. In the 1870’s Congress, realizing there werea few loyalists in the South who had suffered lossesand deserved repayment, set up the Southern ClaimsCommission.

Residents of Southern states were allowed to applyto the SCC in 1871-1873, making affidavits to provetheir losses and getting witnesses to support them.The SCC created a mountain of paperwork which stillexists and can be easily searched online at fold3.com.

Most applications were denied, many of them forvirtually no reason except lingering hatred for theSouth. A few, however, were accepted and damageswere paid. Accepted or not, they offer a unique

Do You KnowAbout theSouthern

ClaimsCommission?

were paid. Accepted or not, they offer a uniquewindow into our ancestors’ wartime experiences.

Applicants had to prove not only their losses buttheir loyalty as well. Some are entertaining…like thelady who later settled with her Confederate-vethusband at Bedford, Texas. She had a hard timeexplaining how she was able to maintain her loyaltywhen her first husband was a Confederate soldierwho had been killed at Antietam, six of her brotherswere in the Confederate Army, and her second (andcurrent) husband had been a Georgia infantryman.

Needless to say, the SC Commissioners didn’t buyit. More than 22,000 residents of the ConfederateStates applied, and there’s a good chance some ofyour family members were among them. Check itout!

http://www.acwbullets.com/http://www.acwbullets.com/

Ships in the WordSearch: Alabama, Chickamauga, Georgia, Nashville,Sumter, Tuscaloosa, Alexandria, Clarence, Georgiana, Rappahannock,Tacony, Archer, Florida, Lapwing, Shenandoah, Tallahassee

“I am a Republican,a black, dyed in the

wool Republican,and I never intend to

belong to any otherbelong to any otherparty than the party

of freedom andprogress.”

Frederick Douglas (1817-1895), Americanabolitionist, author, lecturer, and slave

THE SESQUICENTENNIAL:THE SESQUICENTENNIAL:SEPTEMBER 1861SEPTEMBER 1861

September 3: In response to a federal build-up in the West,Leonidas Polk orders Gideon Pillow to take Columbus, Kentucky onthe Mississippi River. It was done the next day.

September 6: Grant took Paducah, Kentucky unopposedSeptember 6: Grant took Paducah, Kentucky unopposed

September 10: Jefferson Davis places Albert Sidney Johnston incommand of the Confederate West ("Department Number Two").

September 11: President Lincoln orders John C. Fremont to rescindhis order freeing some slaves in Missouri and issue a new orderconforming to the Confiscation Act passed by Congress

THE SESQUICENTENNIAL:THE SESQUICENTENNIAL:SEPTEMBER 1861SEPTEMBER 1861

September 12: Sterling Price, with 18,000 men, lays siege toLexington, Missouri, with a federal force of 3,600 under Colonel

September 11: Abraham Lincoln has Secretary of War SimonCameron order the arrest of Maryland legislators who are openlypro-South.

Lexington, Missouri, with a federal force of 3,600 under ColonelJames Mulligan. After fighting intensified on September 19,Mulligan surrendered on the 20th.

September 13: Entering Confederate-controlled Pensacola harbor,Lt. John Henry Russell destroys the privateer Judah, marking thefirst naval action of the Civil WarSeptember 19: Crossing into Kentucky through the CumberlandPass, Brigadier General Felix Zollicoffer disperses a small federalgarrison at Barboursville

“To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans,we will commit the vindication of the

Cause for which we fought. To yourstrength will be given the defense of

the Confederate soldier's good name,the guardianship of his history, the

emulation of his virtues, theperpetuation of those principles whichhe loved and which you love also, andthose ideals which made him glorious

and which you also cherish.

Joel W. Chivers, Co. A, 34th Texas Cavalry, a Southlake soldier whodied in 1862. Photo just “discovered” by us in August 2011.

and which you also cherish.Remember, it is your duty to see that

the true history of the South ispresented to future generations.”

Lt. Gen. Stephen D. LeeCommander-General

United Confederate VeteransNew Orleans, April 25, 1906