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Confederate History Month 2011 brochure update
Dear Friends,
Are you ready, its getting close to April—Confederate History Month? Please repost this letter to everyone you know.
The Confederate History Month committee is on Face book thanks to Co-Chairman Mike Crane and has had 800+plus visitors and 226 who “like” us during the first week. Sign up and be a fan of the Georgia Division Confederate Heritage Month page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/ConfederateHeritageMonth
Also please sign up for updates at Confederate History and Heritage Month web pages at: http://www.confederateheritagemonth.com and http://www.confederatehistorymonth.com
In my recent Confederate History and Heritage Month 2011 report, I asked everyone to serve your Confederate History Month committee as Ambassador of good will to spread the good word about the April’s Month of Southern Remembrance. One way you can help is by downloading the Confederate History Month brochure attachment here or you can purchase to distribute to schools, libraries, organizations, churches and pass out wherever you go.
You can purchase brochures as below:
The brochure after folding and stapling is 5
and one half by 8 and one half inches--eight total pages. The cover page
highlights the Thomas Legion of Cherokee Confederate Veterans at the 1903
Convention in
The Confederate History Month Committee of the Sons of Confederate Veterans offers you the brochure on attachment here or you can order through me as below.
Order in bundles of 25 brochures at $19.00 a
bundle, break even price, which includes postage and make check made
payable to Calvin E. Johnson, Jr. and send to:
Also you can order Confederate History Month stickers at below:
http://confederateheritagemonth.com/heritage/2009/stickers.php
I will get a price on the CHHM poster this week. What a great educational chance we have with the Sesquicentennial 150th Anniversary of the War Between the States beginning this year and Confederate History and Heritage Month in April. Deo Vindice!
See a copy of our Confederate History Month 2011 report in the January-February Issue of the Georgia Confederate a great read newspaper with Tim Pilgrim, Editor on line at:
http://georgiaconfederate.org/gc/Jan-Feb11.pdf
Two weeks until Confederate History Month. God
bless our Noble Ancestors who we will never forget. Have a
Calvin E. Johnson, Jr., Chairman of the National and Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans Confederate History and Heritage Month committee
Phone: 770 428 0978
Cell phone: 770 330 9792
Mike Crane, Co-Chairman
Members: John Black, Billy Bearden, Jeff Davis and Fred Wilhite
If you would like to receive a weekly
update on Proclamations, events and Memorial Services posted on the
www.ConfederateHeritageMonth.com website, just enter your eMail
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Calvin Johnson.
Updates
2012 Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Day Service
THE 11TH NATIONAL CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL SERVICE at STONE MOUNTAIN PARK. Saturday April 14, 2012 1:00 PM in front of the Carving Reflection Pool |
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Day - 7 Confederate Heritage Month Minute
Like the American soldier who is doing his duty, today, in Iraq and around the world, so did the legendary Sam Davis. Sam Davis, born on 1845 in Smyrna, Tennessee, is called the boy Hero of the Confederacy. He served as a private in the 1st Tennessee Infantry under Captain Coleman. Coleman s scouts gathered information about Union Forces moving from middle Tennessee toward Chattanooga. |
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Day - 8 Confederate Heritage Month Minute
Confederate Brigadier General Augustus Kirk Zollicoffer of Kentucky (1812-1862) was a descendant of a family from Altinklingen in Switzerland (Castle Maerstetten in Kanton Thargau.) General Zollicoffer was killed at the Battle of Mill Springs in 1862 during the War Between the States. |
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Day - 6 Confederate Heritage Month Minute
By age 21 Belle Boyd had been arrested 7 times and imprisoned twice by the federals. Even when she was serving time in Washington, D.C. at Old Capitol Prison she still found a way to get messages of vital information to the Confederates. She was sent twice back to her lines and told to stay away, however, in 1863 she accepted a mission to take diplomatic dispatches to England for President Jefferson Davis. |
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SCV plans memorial service - April 9
ALBANY, Ga. — In observance of Confederate History and Heritage Month in the state of Georgia, the Albany-based Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 141 will hold a memorial service at the Confederate Memorial Park on Philema Road Saturday. |
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Day - 3 Confederate Heritage Month Minute
As Chaplain of the 10th Tennessee Regiment he courageously and unselfishly ministered to the spiritual needs of his Confederate comrades, both under fire and behind the lines. He died while giving the Last Rites to his Commanding Officer, Colonel William Grace. He also ministered to the men of the 4th Kentucky Regiment (the Orphan Brigade) CSA. |
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Day - 4 Confederate Heritage Month Minute
n Richmond, Virginia there is a cemetery to the brave war dead. It is called the only Jewish military cemetery in the world outside the state of Israel. The cemetery is located at Richmond s Shockroe Hill. Here lies the remains of Jewish soldiers who fought for the Confederacy. |
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Day - 5 Confederate Heritage Month Minute
General Stand Watie was the highest ranking Native American serving on either side of the War Between the States. Watie was born at Oothcaloga in the Cherokee Nation of Georgia, near Rome, Georgia, on December 12, 1806. His Cherokee name was De-ga-ta-ga, which means, "He Stands." |
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Day - 2 Confederate Heritage Month Minute
In Mississippi on February 1, 1890, an appropriation for a monument to the Confederate dead was being considered. A delegate had just spoken against the bill, when John F. Harris, a Black Republican delegate from Washington, county, rose to speak |
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Confederate History Month in Dixie
April is a time to remember the men and women of the Confederacy and those who kept their memory eternal; like Ms. Mildred Lewis Rutherford who almost a century ago served as Historian-General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She was a respected teacher, writer, speaker and defender of the true history of the War Between the States. Ms. Rutherford also wrote a monthly newsletter from 1923 to 1926 entitled “Miss Rutherford’s scrapbook” and in 1920 wrote the book “Truths of History.” |
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