Please note a new policy has been announced by Hollier's Cajun Kitchen. The management said that in order to assure adequate compensation for the waitresses, a minimum of $1.50 service charge will be added to each bill.
To see the latest news and pictures about the Hunley restoration, go to www.hunley.org
The 139th anniversary reenactment of the "Battle of Fort Jackson" will be March 9-11 at Fort Jackson near Buras. There will be battles both Saturday and Sunday. The event is sponsored by the Plaquemine Parish Economic Development and Tourism Department and hosted by the 5th Company, Washington Artillery of New Orleans.
For more details contact the PPEDD, P.O. Box 937, Belle Chasse, La. 70037-0937; (888) 745-0642, (504) 394-0052 (fax), and email, [email protected].
The 137th anniversary of the "Battle of Ft. DeRussy" will be held March 17, 18 on part of the original battlegrounds of the Red River Campaign near Marksville. It is sponsored by the Cenla Historical Reenactors Group, Inc. and the City of Marksville.
For more information contact: Red Holsomback (318) 793-9942, e-mail: [email protected]; Claudine Wilkerson (318) 8773; John Lawson (318) 473-8773, e-mail: [email protected]; Carolyn Elliott (318) 487-0324, e-mail: [email protected] .
The annual reenactment of the "Siege of Port Hudson," at Port Hudson State Historic Site will be March 24, 25.
For more details contact Port Hudson State Historic site at 756 W. Plains/P.H. Road, Zachary, La. 70791-8701, (888) 677-3400.
In addition to those events listed in Camp Chase Gazette, a reenactment is scheduled March 31-April 1 at Niblett's Bluff Park as part of the Third Annual Spring Festival.
For more information contact Niblett's Bluff Park at 3409 Niblett's Bluff Road (I-10 Exit 4) Vinton, LA 70668 or call (337) 589-7117.
Also the 21st annual "Battle of Pleasant Hill" reenactment will be April 7, 8 at Pleasant Hill. Battles will be fought at 2 p.m. each day. For more information call (318) 796-2777 or email [email protected].
Division Convention in Metairie, Louisiana May 18 through 20.
Accommodations: The convention hotel will be the Four Points Sheraton at 6401 Veteran�s Blvd. at 1-10, Metairie, LA. A block of rooms has been reserved for SCV members at a rate of $82 a night. Please advise the hotel that you are making a reservation to attend the SCV convention to obtain this rate.
Reservations may be made by calling 504-885-5700.
--- Registration: The registration fee for members is $10 for registrations postmarked before April 2, 2000. The registration fee after April 2 will be $20 per member.
-- MOSB luncheon: The cost for the MOSB luncheon will be $18 per person. A new dynamic form of entertainment will be provided.
-- Banquet: The cost of the banquet on Saturday is $28 per person.
--- Confederate Ball: Attendance at the ball is limited to 300 people. The ball will be held in the hotel Grand Ballroom from- 9 PM until --. The cost is $15 for one ticket or 2 tickets for $25. Music will be provided by the Twelfth Louisiana String Band. Many choices of attire are acceptable: period clothing, both civilian and military, modern evening, or coat and ties for men are all welcome.
---- Memorial Service: A memorial service will be held at Metairie Cemetery at the tombs of the Army of Tennessee and Army of Northern Virginia on Sunday, May 20, 2001 at 11 AM.
--- Payment instructions: Make checks payable to the SCV Convention Corporation, PO Box 6035; Metairie, LA 70009-6035. Please indicate which activities you are attending when sending payment. Hotel, 6401 Veteran's Blvd at the I-10 and Veteran's exit.- Schedule for the Convention is as follows
Friday May 18 Registration in Lobby 1PM to 6PM Division Executive Council Meeting 7PM tentative
Saturday May 19 Registration 7:30-10:30AM Convention Opening Ceremonies 8:30AM Recess 9AM First Business Session 9:15AM-12Noon MOSB Business Session 12Noon-12:30 Joint MOSB-UDC Luncheon 12:30-2PM Second Business Session 2PM-4:30PM Awards Supper 6PM-8PM Period Ball 9PM-Midnight
Sunday 20 May Memorial Service in Metairie Cemetery at Army of Tennessee and Army of Northern Virginia Tombs- 11AM-12Noon
She said the records are in alphabetical order, from A to Z, and very easy to use. The State of Louisiana paid pensions to its Confederate veterans from 1898 until the last veterans died in the 1950s, and the widows of veterans even longer.
Union veterans are not included in the microfilms because they received their pensions from the federal government . Those records can be obtained from the National Archives and Records Service in Washington.
It was up to each former Confederate state to pass legislation to take care of its own elderly and disabled veterans and their widows. Each Southern state has the records of those pensioners from that state. Pension records from other Confederate states can usually be obtained by writing the state archives in the state capital.
Burwell said the Louisiana records contain such information as date of birth, record of military service and other family information.
She noted that researchers can look for both the names of the actual veterans as well as the widows of veterans.
The microfilms were donated by numerous individuals and organizations, including the Southwest Louisiana Genealogical Society, Robert E. Lee Chapter 305, United Daughters of the Confederacy and Captain James W. Bryan Camp 1390, Sons of Confederate Veterans.
The library has microfilm readers to read the microfilms, which may also be printed out. The genealogy library is open from 9:3 For more informat
Approximately 70,000 men served in the Confederate armed forces and state militia from Louisiana during the War Between the States. Of that number about 12,000 died in service and many thousands of others were wounded or disabled.
For more information call 437-3490.
Two historians talking about the War for Southern Independence on Cspan 15 Feb. They went into a long diatribe about the Confederacy. It was nothing but Northern wartime propaganda being perpetuated as "history." They carried on about Vice President Alexander Stephens "cornerstone speech" which has been used as Northern propaganda ever since it was first delivered. The moderator said the speech has been put on Cspan's web site. I would like to recommend to the Heritage Committee that it demand that Cspan also carry on its web site a response from the SCV. I would like to make three quick points on how to respond to this attack, and provide the article on the subject from the "Encyclopedia of the Confederacy," since it is obviously going to be a part of the whole debate about reparations for slavery and attacks on Confederate heritage. The three points are:
1. The Cornerstone Speech was never the official position of the Confederate government.
2. It was immediately repudiated by Jefferson Davis and other Confederate leaders who said the cause of south was "State Sovereignty" and not slavery or racism.
3. Abraham Lincoln shared the exact same views as Alexander Stephens on race relations and Lincoln's famous, or infamous, speech in the Lincoln-Douglas debates in which Lincoln endorsed white supremacy can be cited as proof.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE CONFEDERACY - Vol. 1, Page 415
(For Educational Purposes Only)
CORNERSTONE SPEECH. Delivered by Confederate vice president Alexander H. Stephens on the night of March 21, 1861, at the Athenaeum in Savannah, Georgia, this speech became notorious for its declaration that the Confederate government's "cornerstone" rested on the inequality of the races and the institution of black slavery.
Delivered extemporaneously, the speech began with praise for the "improvements" the Confederate Constitution had made on the older one, such as the banning of a protective tariff and federal financing of internal improvements. The Constitution also set the slavery question to rest forever, Stephens said, and during the long justification of the institution that followed he uttered the phrase that gave the speech its name. He went on to commend the conservative Congress and expressed the belief that the new nation would soon be enlarged by the border states. The prospect of war had diminished, but the South, though desirous of peace with all, had to be ready to fight. He warned against factionalism in the South and praised its policy of free trade. If true to itself and its destiny, he concluded, the South would not fail.
The speech was widely reported. Thoughtful Southerners, including JEFFERSON DAVIS, deplored Stephen's emphasis on slavery rather than the politically advantageous theme of state versus national sovereignty. Northern reaction was uniformly hostile. The abolitionist press used the speech to demand harsh measures from Abraham Lincoln. The speech's value to the Union cause, one Northern paper later judged, was
Letter writer takes exception to Lincoln myth
G. David Meyer
I take exception to the assertion of C. Craig Baker, in his letter to the editor of Feb. 11, that the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln "inspires" us all. The story of "Father Abraham" is strikingly similar to the tale of "The Emperor's New Clothes." Many folks see him in a totally different light once his faults are pointed out.
Mr. Baker starts his letter with the question "What would Abraham Lincoln have done?" regarding the Georgia State Flag issue. Based upon his historical record, Lincoln would have had those members of the Georgia Legislature who supported the old flag arrested and imprisoned without trial. In 1861, when the Maryland Legislature was about to ponder the question of secession, the president had the suspected pro-Southern members of that body locked up and thrown into Fort McHenry without trial.
Within a month of the fall of Fort Sumter, Lincoln and his officials were routinely suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which guarantees citizens the right to a trial by a jury of their peers. It is estimated that the Lincoln government jailed almost 43,000 civilians without specification of charges or a trial. Probably the most famous person he imprisoned was Clement L. Vallandigham, a Democratic congressman from Ohio who had introduced a bill to "imprison" Lincoln if he continued making illegal arrests and imprisonments.
In addition, the "rail splitter" was no friend of the First Amendment. Upon his orders, many newspapers were shut down and often their editors were jailed. The Chicago Daily Times, the Journal of Commerce (New York City), the Philadelphia Evening Journal, the New York World, and the Freeman's Journal (New York City) were just a few of the papers forced to close for not openly supporting the South, but simply questioning the right to invade Dixie and engage in civil war. In addition, on several occasions Lincoln rewarded U.S. Army officers charged with war crimes against the Southern people.
One of the notorious incidents involved a Russian immigrant officer, Col. John Basil Turchin, who had anglicized his name from Turchinoff. Turchin and his men in June 1862 brought a reign of terror to the citizens of Athens, Ala. They broke open the town's stores and looted them, raped a black servant girl, pillaged private homes and wantonly destroyed their contents, and so terrorized a pregnant young lady that she had a miscarriage and died. Turchin's superiors wisely court-martialed him and recommended he be dismissed from the service. However, "Father Abraham" promoted Turchin to brigadier general and he remained in the army two more years.
Further, Lincoln turned a blind eye to the outrages perpetrated by Sherman and his army in Georgia and South Carolina, which included summary executions, wanton destruction of civilian property, mass deportations of captured civilians to the North, the burning of cities such as Atlanta and Columbia and the torching of churches and convents.
Lincoln's dealings with Native Americans also are notorious. When the Sioux in Minnesota went to war against the whites in desperation over the starvation they were experiencing, their revolt was quickly put down and their leaders jailed. The government had promised to provide them with provisions and as usual, had broken its treaty obligations. Lincoln ordered 39 of their leaders executed in the largest mass hanging in American history.
If I were to list all of Lincoln's faults, this letter would quickly become a book. It is one of the great tragedies of American history that we have canonized a man of his character. It seems that it is characteristic of Americans that when one of our leaders is assassinated, we no longer see him as human but tend to deify him.
I think that when he jumped to the stage of Ford's Theater on that April night in 1865, John Wilkes Booth summed it up correctly when he shouted, "Sic semper tyrannis."
G. David Meyer lives in Powder Springs and is active in the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
One way to do it is to have a basket or box sit aside to toss empty cans in when empty. Special recycling bags can be purchased at stores. If you remove the lid poppers and put them in a separate box, they can be redeemed additionally. Also crush the cans before you bag them.
Please cash in your cans at a local recycling center and present the donation to treasurer Bruce Tarver.
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