September - Colonel Hiram Parks Bell Camp #1642

Southern Sentinel
September 2013 Vol. XI #9
www. scv1642.com
Col. Hiram Parks Bell Camp # 1642
Sons of Confederate Veterans
A Southern Heritage and Historical Society
OFFICERS FOR 2013
2013
OUR NEXT MEETING
CMDR: CLIFF ROBERTS
Monday, September 23rd
At 7:00 PM
Social time starts early around
6:30 PM
Bell Research Center
101 School St. Cumming GA
678678-455455-7216
Everyone is Welcome! Call for
Directions
770 656 5585
LT. CMDR: BRANDON
HEMBREE
404-372-3270
ADJ. DAN BENNETT
770 888 2800
CHAPLAIN: JOEL
ANDERSON
770 218 7785
COMMANDER’S TENT
Fellow Compatriots,
Historian Bill Potter gave a gripping lecture at our August meeting. I
appreciate everybody making a quick detour to the Brandon-Heard House. This
month we are back in our traditional “library” room. Our meeting will open with a
presentation to the Bell Center from Gail Adams of the Col. Hiram Parks Bell
Chapter #2641 United Daughters of the Confederacy. She is presenting an American
flag flown this year on board a U.S. Army RC-12X reconnaissance aircraft, tail
number 30699, while engaged in a combat reconnaissance mission in support of
Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan. It is given on behalf of the 1st Military
Intelligence Battalion (Aerial Exploitation) Detachment of TF CONDOR with
sincere gratitude and appreciation.
September is dues renewal month. Dan Bennett reports that 40 or so renewals are
in with about 20 still outstanding. I am looking forward to having historian Dr. Bill
Bragg address our camp at the September meeting.
Deo Vindice!
Cliff Roberts
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UPCOMING EVENTS:
Sept 19-22 – 150th Battle of Chickamauga Re-enactment
Sept 23 – September Camp Meeting – Dr. William H. Bragg is the past recipient
of the Georgia Historical Society’s E. Merton Coulter Award for Excellence in
the Writing of Georgia History. Bill recently retired as director of the Center
for Georgia Studies at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville,
Georgia. He will be speaking on "How Stands the South?", a review of recent
Confederate/Southern heritage wins and losses. Bill Bragg is a prolific writer
and the author of Griswoldville and Joe Brown's Pets: The Georgia Militia,
1861-1865.
Oct 28 – October Camp Meeting – Camp 20th Birthday Party. Robert Jenkins
will be speaking about his new book The Battle of Peach Tree Creek; Hood’s
First Sortie.
Nov 25 – November Camp Meeting – Jack E. Marlar, SCV Field Representative
One, will give a spirited talk on “How Confederates Celebrated Christmas.” Camp elections for 2014.
December - Christmas Dinner
Jan 27 – January 2014 Camp Meeting – Historian Brad Quinlan will
speak about his new book Confederate Hospitals in Georgia.
Brad Quinlan
William Harris (Bill) Bragg, this month’s speaker, is a native of Middle Georgia and taught there for many years
on the secondary and university levels, until his retirement in 2009. His articles and reviews have appeared in
Civil War Times Illustrated, the Journal of Southern History, the Journal of Military History, the Georgia
Historical Quarterly, and the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. His book publications are De Renne:
Three Generations of a Georgia Family; Griswoldville; Joe Brown’s Army; and (with the late William R. Scaife)
Joe Brown’s Pets: The Georgia Militia, 1861-1865.
He has appeared on such television programs as The History Channel's "History's Lost and Found,"
GPTV's "Georgia's Civil War," and NBC's "Who Do You Think You Are?".
From the Georgia Historical Society he has received the E. Merton Coulter Award for Excellence in the Writing
of Georgia History and the Presidential Citation for Distinguished Contributions to the Field of Georgia History.
The General Edward Dorr Tracy Camp, SCV, presented him the Hendley V. Napier Award for Distinguished
Contributions to Southern History. Most recently he received the Jones County History and Heritage
Preservation Award.
This November his chapter essay on Georgia’s Dr. Mildred Thompson will appear in a book from the University
Press of Kentucky on the Reconstruction historians of the early 1900s. His present project is a biography of a
hero of the Seminole and Mexican Wars: An Officer of the Old Guard: The Life and Death of Lewis Stevenson
Craig.
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Camp Hardtack
Hardtack
This week is the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga. This short letter from a
Georgia soldier caught my attention on our visit to the Richard B. Russell Library this summer. It was
among their many Civil War letters on display.
Chickamauga, Ga Sept. 23, 1863
Dear Sister,
Harrison is ded, I did not see him. He was shot in the hed, Issac is wounded in the abdomen dangerous.
I went about 3 miles this morning to hunt him but could not find him and our Command was about to
move. The wounded will be sent down the railroad at various points. If you see a chance to get sum
one to nurse him, send them sune, I will pay all damages.
We lost a good many men. The Feds are badly whipped and in full retreat. I will start in five minutes
for Chattanooga. I rec’d a slight wound on the arm.
Your Brother George Eberhart
Our Bell Research Center now has a PayPal donation button. Thank you Dan Bennett for the
first contribution. Local artist Aaron Gutherie has produced some handsome flag prints for our camp
and center. We now also have our own coffee mugs to promote the Bell Research Center.
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Thank you to the following camp members who put together and manned our display table at the
new National Guard Armory on Saturday, September 14th: Clark Rye, Leighton Young, John Adair,
Frank Clark, and Michael & Teresia Dean. Our table was particularly popular with the guardsmen. The
new center will be home to the 560th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade.
Mike Couch from the Gainesville
Camp passed on this great photo of
a Reunion of members of the 27th
Georgia. There may well be
members of the 11th and 43rd
Regiments in the photo as well. Let
me know if you recognize any of
these old soldiers.
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According to the Wall Street Journal, the state of Virginia is in an emotional debate
over a Confederate heritage group’s plan to raise a large rebel battle flag near Richmond,
Virginia, alongside Interstate 95. Virginia Flaggers, a group promoting public display of the
battle flag, said it will raise a 12-foot by 15-foot “Stars and Bars” flag up a 50-foot flagpole
on Sept. 28th and leave it up indefinately. Many Virginia politicians and Civil Rights groups
are urging the state to condemn the CSA battleflag as racist. This latest clash flows from a
movement by advocates of Confederate heritage to
place large battle flags on private land along major
roadways in the South to try to re-establish the
presence of an emblem they argue deserves a
hallowed place in U.S. history. It will follow
similar flags along interstates near Tampa and
South Georgia. The Virginia SCV is not a part of
the Richmond-area flag effort, but Michael Pullen,
commander of the Virginia Division, says that his
group supports the concept of promoting
Confederate heritage. The photo on the right is of
Barry Isenhour of the Virginia Flaggers.
This unusual OBIT was published in the Savannah Morning News on September 14,
2013. William McCullough lived a colorful and full life.
BLOOMINGDALE - The man. The myth. The legend. Men wanted to be
him and women wanted to be with him. William Freddie McCullough died
on September 11, 2013. Freddie loved deep fried Southern food
smothered in Cane Syrup, fishing at Santee Cooper Lake, Little Debbie
Cakes, Two and a Half Men, beautiful women, Reeses Cups and Jim
Beam. Not necessarily in that order. He hated vegetables and hypocrites.
Not necessarily in that order. He was a master craftsman who single -handedly built his
beautiful house from the ground up. Freddie was also great at growing fruit trees, grilling
chicken and ribs, popping wheelies on his Harley at 50 mph, making everyone feel
appreciated and hitting Coke bottles at thirty yards with his 45. When it came to floor
covering, Freddie was one of the best in the business. And he loved doing it. Freddie loved
to tell stories. And you could be sure 50% of every story was true. You just never knew
which 50%. Marshall Matt Dillon, Ben Cartwright and Charlie Harper were his TV heroes.
And he was the hero for his six children: Mark, Shain, Clint, Brandice, Ashley and Thomas.
Freddie adored the ladies. And they adored him. There isn't enough space here to list all of
the women from Freddie's past. There isn't enough space in the Bloomingdale phone book.
He attracted more women than a shoe sale at Macy's. He got married when he was 18, but
it didn't last. Freddie was no quitter, however, so he gave it a shot two more times. It didn't
work out with any of the wives, but he managed to stay friends with them and their
parents. In between his many adventures, Freddie appeared in several films including The
Ordeal of Dr. Mudd, A Time for Miracles, The Conspirator, Double Wide Blues and Pretty
Fishes. Freddie was killed when he rushed into a burning orphanage to save a group of
adorable children. Or maybe not. We all know how he liked to tell stories.
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