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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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Graves Registration
The South East Arkansas Civil War Graves Registration Project sponsored by the Patrick R. Cleburne Camp #1433 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, will assist the Arkansas Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in their search for all known Confederate graves across the state of Arkansas by providing all known documented Confederate graves throughout South East Arkansas.
The South East Arkansas Civil War Graves Registration Project will include all known Civil War grave sites, including both Confederate and Union. If you know of any Civil War graves in your area, please help us catalogue these hallowed plots by taking a picture of the headstone, provide any content or history on the soldier (if known), GPS coordinates, name of cemetery (if stone is in a cemetery) or directions to get to marker. If you have any diaries, pictures, letters, or any additional information on any of these soldiers in our directory, please send it to us so we can all remember these brave men.
This project will span the course of many years. We need everyone’s help in locating and documenting these graves…we simply have to! Again, we do not want JUST Confederate grave info, but Union as well. The Confederacy fought the Union as bitter enemies, but both sides now play an active role in preserving each. Decendants of Union veterans have done a great deal in helping preserve Confederate history and heritage.
This project was launched on a very symbolic day: April 15, 2008. This date marks the merging of cultures - on the 144 anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln. It was this date that Dr. Davis, Chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, was officially recgonized with an Arkansas Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans high award for his efforts in helping Edgar Colvin and the Patrick R. Cleburne Camp #1433 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans preserve a section of a slave cemetery and Confederate graves. It was this date that the largest graves registration of its kind was launched in the effort of preserving our honored soldiers on both sides: gray and blue!
