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Every 3rd Tuesday
We all meet the 3rd Tuesday of each month (except December) at the Watson Chapel Fire Station in Sulphur Springs at 7:00pm.
We are one of the ONLY historical preservation groups in the Trans-Mississippi that not only ALLOWS women and children, but rather ENCOURAGES their participation in meetings and events.
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Patrick Ronayne Cleburne (1828-1864)
"I am with the South in death, in victory or defeat. I never owned a Negro and care nothing for them, but these people have been my friends and have stood up to me on all occasions.
In addition to this, I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy war on a people who have done them no wrong, in violation of the constitution and the fundamental principles of the government. They no longer acknowledge that all government derives its validity from the consent of the governed."
"If this cause that is so dear to my heart is doomed to fail, then I pray heaven may let me fall with it, while my face is turned toward the enemy and my right arm battling for that which I know to be right."
Charge to the Sons of Confederate Veterans
"To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought. To your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier's good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which he loved and which you love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish."
Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General,
United Confederate Veterans,
New Orleans, Louisiana, April 25, 1906.
On the history of war...
Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
~Mark Twain
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Poison Springs
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
No. 52. Reports of Brigadier General William L. Cabell, C. S. Army, commanding brigade, of engagement at Poison Spring and action at Marks’ Mills.
HEADQUARTERS CABELL’S BRIGADE, April 20, 1864.
MAJOR:I have the honor to state that on the evening of the 17th, I was detached from Fagan’s division and ordered to report to General [...]
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
After the loss of his forage train at Poison Springs, union commander General Frederick Steele, was faced with an extreme shortage of food for his fourteen thousand soldiers and feed for thousands of horses and mules. Realizing that he would be unable to feed his army by foraging, Steele ordered LT. Colonel Francis Drake to [...]
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
The following is a little information on the Yankee artillery at the Battle of Poison Springs: On April 18, 1864, a combined southern force of Infantry, Cavalry and Artillery captured two units of federal artillery. The action took place on the Washington road twelve miles west of Camden, Arkansas in an area known as Poison [...]
