When: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 Time: 7:00pm Where: Central Independent Baptist Church in Pearl, MS. Speaker: TBA Program: TBA

***We look forward to seeing you all at our next meeting. If any of you have any ideas for future programs or know some speakers you would like to hear please contact me at my email: ms_scv_1740@yahoo.com or call me at: 601-672-3117. (Fellowship time is at 6:30pm come join us and let’s celebrate our Confederate heritage!)

Thanks! Marc S. Allen - Program Chairman

 

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CAMP NEWS

Lowry Rifles Prayer List

Adjutant’s Report

Happy twenty twelve! I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Twenty eleven was not one of the best years of my life or my family’s life. Lisa’s step father Frank from Pearl passed away in May her grandmother Adella from Indiana passed away in mid-November, my cousins Bunky from Louisiana passed away a week before Christmas. Mine and Glenn’s father, Randy has been very sick and has been battling his sickness more than ever this year. So things were not the best. I pray for twenty twelve to be a better year. Please keep the sick in your prayers and pray each day for good health and happiness always remember for without good health there is no happiness. I hope to see you all at out meeting. God Bless! Adjutant Bill Hinson

 

It is finished!

Jesus Christ is the Lord of our lives and souls. Jesus Christ is the Judge of the quick and the dead. Jesus Christ is the Savior of all mankind and there is no other. Brethren, God has not appointed us to rule, to judge or to save. There is but one Ruler, one Judge and one Savior. Brethren, it is our task to serve, to forgive and to declare the good news of the work of salvation wrought on the cross of Calvary by Jesus Christ. Let Jesus Christ rule in your life and the lives of all others. Let Jesus Christ do the acts of judgment and judge not but forgive everybody everything. Accept the work of Salvation by Jesus Christ as a completely finished work sealed by His blood on the cross. It is finished! By: Jim Welch. We all fall on hard times and need a friend at times. So again please call on me when you need me. Your Chaplain, Roy Atkins 601- 939-6248

 

Spotted

Dec. 23^rd: Jerry Flynn at Kroger in Richland

Dec 24^th: Alexander Allen at Walmart in Richland

Dec 25^th: Charlie Ross at United Artist Theater in Flowood

 

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Letter From Mississippi Division Commander

Gentlemen, As most of you know Bertram Hayes Davis was elected by the Combined Boards of Beauvoir to become the new permanent Director of Beauvoir beginning at the end of Rick Fortes term as acting Director. Rick will see us through the completion of the Library project and I cannot begin to tell you what obstacles he has overcome or the amount of hours he has invested in getting Beauvoir rebuilt since Katrina. We really do owe him our thanks for his dedication to the restoration of one of our most sacred symbols. Bertram H. Davis due to his upcoming position as Director of Beauvoir has tendered his resignation from the Board of Directors. As per the bylaws of the Mississippi Division SCV the Executive Council has appointed Dr. Christopher J M Cummins from Ripley Mississippi to replace Bertram H. Davis on the Board until such time as the division meets in convention to elect a permanent replacement.

God bless our beloved south-land Alan Palmer Cmndr Ms Div SCV

 

MDAH Award - Community Heritage Grant

At a special meeting on December 2, the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History elected five new members to the Mississippi Hall of Fame and awarded over two million dollars in preservation grants to nineteen projects across the state through the Community Heritage Grant Program, authorized and funded by the Mississippi Legislature."

 

Stephen D. Lee House, Columbus, Lowndes County —$30,400

For the restoration of wood windows, replacement of missing or rotted wood elements, replacement of failing or missing glazing, repainting and installation of wheel chair lift to comply with ADA standards.

Word of the Month: Twelve

 

The 46^th Mississippi Flag is Back on Mississippi Soil!

Compatriots: I just wanted you all to know that the flag of the 46th MS Infantry -- conserved by the MS Division -- is now back on MS soil and is safely secured in the conservatory at the Camp Shelby NG Museum, where it will remain until unveiled to the Confederate public on Confederate Memorial Day at Beauvoir! My (black tricorn) hat is off to the STBF Committee, the MS Division EC, Beauvoir Director Rick Forte, and, of course, MS NG Museum Director Chad Daniels, without whom this incredible accomplishment would not have been possible! Make your plans NOW to be at Beauvoir on Confederate Memorial Day in April! Heck, wear a uniform and bring your shooting iron or cannon and let's welcome this grand old flag back to MS with the largest rifle and cannon salute we possibly can! I would also ask that we all refrain from trying to get a "sneak peek" at the flag until it officially unveiled on Confederate Memorial Day at Beauvoir. This will save Director Chad Daniels a lot of extra work in making allowances for individual viewing of the flag, including unpacking and re-packing this precious banner! See YOU at Beauvoir on Confederate Memorial Day! --

Jim Huffman, Chair, MS Division/SCV, "Save the Battle flags" Comm.

Information for Combined Federal Campaign

SCV General Headquarters is preparing the 2012 CFC application, and a major requirement of this effort is to document that human health/welfare services have been provided in 15 or more states during calendar year 2011. GHQ would like to request that camps and divisions send information to Ben Sewell at exedir@scv.org to assist him in preparing the narrative of the SCV's good deeds during 2011.

The documentation should include the following elements:

WHO received the service, benefit, or assistance

WHAT the service, benefit, or assistance is

WHEN it was delivered

WHERE it was delivered

A couple of examples of qualifying service would be the following:

Illinois - Calendar Year 2011 Scholarship

The Illinois Division Sons of Confederate Veterans in May 2011 presented a $1000 college scholarship to high school senior Pierce W. Mackie of Glenview IL.

Alabama - Calendar Year 2011 Donation

Thomas Goode Jones Camp 259 in Montgomery Alabama made a $750 donation in August 2011 to the Alabama State Archives flag restoration fund in Montgomery AL. Camp 259 also made a $250 donation in June 2011 to Anne Tidmore, Regent, to benefit the First White House of the Confederacy which was established in the spring of 1861 and is currently is on the National Historic Registry.

 

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Board Meeting of the Combined Boards of Beauvoir: The next quarterly Board meeting of the Combined Boards of Beauvoir will be Saturday, February 11, 2012 @ 10am at Beauvoir

 

Tenth Annual Abbeville Institute Scholars’ Conference

“The War Between the States: Other Voices, Other Views”

TOPIC: Nationalist historians for 150 years have protected Americans from confronting the stark immorality of prosecuting what French philosopher Bertrand de Jouvenel called, "a war such as Europe had never yet seen" to force eleven States into a federation from which their people had voted to secede. Should eleven American States secede today and form a federation of their own, such a war would be judged criminal. Northern opposition to the war was more extensive, complex and had more respectable adherents than the mainline account allows, e.g., Governor Seymour of New York, 1861: "Indeed, Can we so entirely forget the past history of our country, that we can stand upon the point of pride against states whose citizens battled with our fathers and poured out their blood upon the soil of our state. Upon whom are we to wage war? Our own countrymen...." Lincoln and his party often acted as an embattled minority in the North. The Sesquicentennial offers an opportunity to explore the view point of the most neglected and misrepresented segment of American opinion on the great conflict at the center of our history. Learn about the resistance of President Franklin Pierce and New York Governor Horatio Seymour. Midwestern "Copperheads." Christian reaction to the bloodthirsty rhetoric of pro-war Republican preachers. Pro-Union opposition to the Republican Party. Resistance in the border States. Gradations and conflicts in Northern opinion, especially among ethnic groups. Treatment of black soldiers by the Union army during and after the war. And much more. SPEAKERS. Douglas Bostick, Kent Masterson Brown , Richard Gamble, Marshall Derosa, Donald Livingston, Brion McClanahan, Allen Mendenhall, Joseph Stromberg, Richard Valentine, Jonathan White, Clyde Wilson, PLACE. Beautiful Stone Mountain Park, built to commemorate the Confederacy. Visit the memorial to Lee, Jackson, and Davis which is the largest stone carving in the world. Much to see and do, so bring the family. COST. Rooms: very special rate of $106 a day, single or double (rate ends February 1). Conference fee is $225 for Abbeville members and $275 for others. Make checks payable to Abbeville Institute, P.O.Box 10, McClellanville, S.C. 2945 (fee includes tuition, park entrance fee, reception, breakfast, continuous snacks and refreshments). Make room reservations at Evergreen Marriott Conference Resort 770-879-9900. SCHOLARSHIPS. A few scholarships are available for college and graduate students who are encouraged to apply. INQUIRIES: contactus@abbevilleinstitute.org or 843-323-0690. For lecture titles and schedule see abbevilleinstitute.org.

By: Ernest Herndon, Enterprise-Journal Posted: Thursday, December 15, 2011

A “grave dowser” from Natchez said he verified the presence of an old cemetery in the path of the Highway 24 four-landing project Monday. Don Estes used pieces of bent coat-hanger wire held in copper tubing to locate what he said are 18 graves in a field at the southeast corner of Highway 24 and Middle Glading Road. Now the owner of the property hopes the Mississippi Department of Transportation will adjust the four-lane route to avoid the unmarked graveyard. “It looks like that they would need to shift the road to the north, or another possible solution would be to reduce the width of the median,” said David Ogwyn of Baton Rouge, attorney for landowner Buddy Dupuy.

The cemetery came up when Greg Barron reported it to the MDOT at a public hearing in 2005, Barron said. Barron is president of the Amite County Historical and Genealogical Society. His father Billy Barron, in his 80s, remembers the cemetery from his childhood before a landowner reportedly bulldozed the markers decades ago. Greg Barron talked to an MDOT official again about the cemetery several months ago, as well as what’s left of two old possible Indian mounds farther south from the roadway. Last week Dupuy and Ogwyn met with the official as well. Ogwyn said the official, whom he did not name, told him he was unaware of the cemetery. “The indication that we’re getting from the highway department with respect to the Indian mounds and the cemetery is they really don’t want to find anything,” Ogwyn said. “That really reduced our confidence in the highway department” Ogwyn said. He noted laws protecting sites of cultural and historical significance, Native American remains and cemeteries. Ogwyn said MDOT plans to use ground-penetrating radar to determine if there are graves, but he said Dupuy wanted Estes to dowse for graves first. MDOT district engineer Albert White said employees plan to check the site with radar soon. “They’re fixing to go out there and do some tests to see if there’s anything down there,” he said. If there’s just one or two graves, the highway department may be able to work around them. “If it’s several, we’ll have to look at other options to see what the law requires us to do, whether move over a little bit or relocate the alignment of the road,” White said. As to Ogwyn’s suggestion that MDOT is trying to avoid finding graves, White — who became district engineer this past February —said, “I can’t speak to anything past this year. This year is the first I heard of it.” Dan Smith, MDOT’s right-of-way director, said, “We’ve got a study that we’re going to do, and as we gather all the information we’ll be able to make a determination as to whether or not we’re going make a change in the roadway.” On Monday morning, Estes brought his dowsing rods to the field. With Ogwyn, Dupuy and the Barrons watching, he walked back and forth until the rods swiveled inward suddenly. They swung back as soon as he passed what he said was a grave. Surprisingly, the graves were positioned north to south instead of the traditional east to west, he said. He found 12 together and six farther away. “They’re all buried uniformly in this line, with a few scattered out that were (likely) slaves or animals,” Estes said. Using a probe, he struck what he believed to be a casket under one of the spots. “I’m challenging them (MDOT) to dig that one up right there, because there’s a casket there,” Estes declared. Estes, retired director of Natchez City Cemetery and author of “Legends of the Natchez City Cemetery,” said he first heard about grave dowsing 15 years ago from a visitor to the cemetery. He tried it and became a believer. Dowsing works on the principle of magnetic polarity, Estes said. The rods move when the polarity of the remains line up with that of the dowser. A dowser can use any kind of metal rod that is able to swing freely. The trick is holding them motionless at the right height so they swing when they come over a grave. “You’ve got to find your sweet spot,” Estes said. By walking lengthwise down the grave, he can tell the height of the deceased, he said. The rod in the right hand swings to the right if the remains belonged to a male and left if female, he said. A person born in the Southern Hemisphere has reversed polarity, Estes added. Dowsing works on animals as well as people. Estes said he found the graves in what is now called the French Fort Cemetery at Rosalie Plantation in Natchez, among many others. When he found a grave at Longwood Plantation in Natchez, University of Southern Mississippi researchers confirmed it with radar, Estes said. Having worked as director at a cemetery also helps him be able to look at the lay of the land and detect the faint outline of a grave. “You can see it,” he said at the property Monday. “See how that grass doesn’t line up just right?”

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