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Next Meeting:
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.
Below is a link to a map that will show where we meet at:
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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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Videos
Below is the link to download our recruitment video. The video is in Windows Media format and consists of images from past events, including our "Civil Wargasm" in Virginia and other Eastern Theater sites, including Harpers Ferry, Manassas, Cedar Creek, Sharpsburg, and others. This video will give the viewer a realistic view of what we do and the fun we have doing it!
And below THAT is a must-see biography that I came across on youtube.com on Patrick R. Cleburne! If you are not familiar with this Irish General from Helena, AR, this biography/slideshow will surely educate those who want to learn more about the "Stonewall of the West": Patrick R. Cleburne. Did you know this Confederate General wrote his own version of an emancipation to free slaves in the Confederacy in return for service in the Confederate Army? This very act, as controversial as it was during the 1860’s, very well may have been a factor that lead him to his death on that fateful hill in Franklin, TN in 1864.
