As many of you are aware, there was an increase in membership dues passed at the SCV National Reunion on Friday, July 27th, in Mobile, Alabama. Our SCV National dues will increase $10.00 per year beginning August 1st, 2008. Dues will not increase this membership year. Annual membership dues are currently due. This membership year runs from August 1st, 2007 through July 31st, 2008. Dues can be paid at the next three meetings, or mailed to camp’s mailing address. SCV National Headquarters must receive members’ dues before November 1st.

We’ll be returning to Sconyers Bar-B-Que Restaurant this Thursday night. Our program speaker will be SCV Field Representative Jack Marlar from Fountain Inn, SC. He’s a member and past commander of the 16th Regiment South Carolina Volunteers in Greenville, SC. He will speak on "Great Artillery Actions of the War Between the States." Jack is an expert on the various types of artillery used during the WBTS period. He founded the Palmetto Light Artillery Reenacting Society, and he is currently the Chief Technical Advisor to the Hunley Commission. This should be a very interesting and informative presentation on artillery.

I look forward to seeing all of you at Sconyers this Thursday. Bring a guest and join us for an evening of Southern fellowship and Confederate heritage!

Camp #158 welcomes its newest member, Frank L. Hall, who transferred from the Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble Camp #1836 in Ellicott City, Maryland. Frank is a Past Commander of Camp #1836.

Camp #158 also welcomes its two newest Cadet members, brothers Ryan David Duffie & Jonathan Thomas Duffie, accepted for membership at the July 12th meeting held at the North Leg Family Restaurant. They were eligible for membership through their Confederate ancestor and 4th Great Grandfather Sergeant W.G. Williams, who served in Company I, 28th Georgia Volunteer Infantry. Ryan & Jonathan are the Grandsons of member Roy Williams.

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SCV National Website: http://www.scv.org/

■ Thursday, August 9th – Brigadier General E. Porter Alexander Camp #158 will meet at Sconyers Bar-B-Que Restaurant at 7:00 p.m. The program speaker will be SCV Field Representative Jack Marlar from Fountain Inn, South Carolina. He will speak on "Great Artillery Actions of the War Between the States."

■ Saturday, August 25th – Camp #158 members will setup a booth at the Barnyard Flea Market of Augusta to sell camp store items and raffle tickets.

■ Saturday, August 25th – The movie FIRETRAIL will premiere at 7:00 p.m., at the Imperial Theater in Augusta on 745 Broad Street. Filming for the movie began at the Battle For Columbia in May 2006, and the finale-filming event was done at the Battle of Aiken in February 2007. Reenactors and ladies & children in period dress are needed for a parade that will take place at 6:00 p.m. before the showing of the movie. Line-up for the parade will be at 5:30 on 6th Street adjacent to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on 605 Reynolds Street.

■ Thursday, September 13th – Brigadier General E. Porter Alexander Camp #158 will meet at Sconyers Bar-B-Que Restaurant at 7:00 p.m. The program speaker will be Mr. Hu Daughtry, who will speak on "Confederate Tales of Candler and Connected Counties."

■ Saturday, September 22nd & Sunday, September 23rd – "Battle for the Market" at the Barnyard Flea Market: Camp #158 will participate in this weekend event of living history and re-enactments with the 32nd Georgia Artillery and 5th Georgia Infantry.

■ Saturday, September 29th – Hephzibah’s September Fest: Camp #158 will march in the parade at 10:00 a.m. The camp will have a booth set up from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.

■ Saturday, October 6th – The Annual Oliver Hardy Festival is to be held in downtown Harlem. The camp will reserve a booth to sell camp store merchandise and raffle tickets. Festival hours are from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.

■ Thursday, October 11th – Brigadier General E. Porter Alexander Camp #158 will meet at Sconyers Bar-B-Que Restaurant at 7:00 p.m. The program speaker will be Mr. Brian Cisco from Orangeburg, South Carolina. He will speak on his new book "War Crimes Against Southern Civilians."

■ Saturday, October 20th – River’s Bridge Camp #842 in Fairfax, SC, will have their annual "Children’s Southern Heritage Day," a full day of Southern heritage and history for young people. Camp #158 re-enactors will participate in this living history program.

■ Saturday, November 3rd – Living History Presentation at Augusta Canal Interpretive Center located at Enterprise Mill on 1450 Greene Street in Augusta. Confederate Re-enactors from Brigadier General E. Porter Alexander Camp #158 and the 32nd Georgia Artillery will give living history presentations from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.

■ Thursday, November 8th – Brigadier General E. Porter Alexander Camp #158 will meet at Sconyers Bar-B-Que Restaurant at 7:00 p.m. The program speaker will be Dr. C.L. Bragg, who will speak on the newly published book he co-authored, "Never For Want of Powder," the definitive history of the Confederate Powder Works complex in Augusta that produced almost 3 million pounds of gunpowder for the Confederacy from April 1862 through April 1865. Dr. Bragg co-authored the book with four other authors, which included Gordon Blaker.

Camp #158 dues are $41.00 per year ($20.00 SCV National + $12.00 GA Division + $9.00 Camp #158 = $41.00)

■ If you are a Life Member of SCV National your annual dues are $21.00 ($12.00 GA Division + $9.00 Camp #158 = $21.00)

■ If you are a Life Member of the GA Division your annual dues are $29.00 ($20 SCV National + $9.00 Camp #158 = $29.00)

■ If you are a Life Member of SCV National & the GA Division your annual dues are $9.00 (Camp #158 dues = $9.00)

Make checks payable to SCV Camp #158. Your dues can be paid at one of the next three camp meetings, or mailed to the Camp’s Post Office Box at this address:

1) A motion was made, seconded and passed to reimburse Fred Bussey for the annual Calling Post fee of $75.00 that he recently paid.

2) A motion was made, seconded and passed to reimburse Terry Bowers for the Website annual renewal fee of $99.00, and also to reimburse Fred Bussey for the Calling Post annual fee of $75.00 every year when these bill come due.

3) A motion was made, seconded and passed to reimburse Arnold Huskins' Reunion Registration fee of $70.00 for the SCV National Reunion in Mobile, Alabama that he will attend as the camp’s representative from July 25th through 28th.

Isaiah 55: [8] For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. [9] For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. [10] For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: [11] So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

John 14: [1] Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. [2] In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [3] And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

John 14: [6] Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." - Thomas Jefferson

"Captain, the secret treachery that caused the war will come to light, and justify the South. Truth is deathless!" - Admiral Raphael Semmes, C.S.N.

Lincoln's war implied, and the Gettysburg Address set to words, a firm message to the States of the Union - "I love you all, and if you leave me, I'll hunt you down and kill you." The Address was not the sagely comments of a wise statesman, rather the vain, obsessive rantings of a power-hungry demon engaging in a blood-thirsty mission of self-aggrandizement, no matter the volume of corpses required to attain it. - Lewis Goldburg

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