For our Thursday, February 14th meeting at Sconyers, camp member Philip Weaver will be our program speaker. Philip will give a PowerPoint Presentation on "The History of Waynesboro’s Confederate Memorial Cemetery." He’ll present facts about the family of Brigadier General John C. Carter in Burke County, the relocation of Waynesboro’s Confederate monument, and Heman Perry, who is buried in the Waynesboro Confederate Memorial Cemetery. Heman Perry designed Georgia’s first official state flag after the War Between the States. This will be an interesting and informative presentation some of our local area history.

■ Saturday, February 16th – Sherman’s Attack on Columbia - The Greater Columbia Civil War Alliance is going to commemorate General William Tecumseh Sherman's cannons firing on Columbia from the West Columbia side of the Congaree River. The cannons will commence firing at 8:45 am. Confederate re-enactors are needed in the woods on the east side of the river at 8:30 a.m. to ambush the Yankees.

■ Saturday, February 23rd & Sunday, February 24th - Battle of Aiken: The gate opens at 9:00 a.m., and the battle re-enactment will start each day at 2:00 p.m. near the site of the original battle at Confederate Park just North of Aiken, SC. The site for this event is located in Aiken County off of Interstate 20 (Exit 18) on SC Highway 19 South. Barnard E. Bee Camp #1575, Sons of Confederate Veterans, sponsors the Battle of Aiken.

■ Saturday, March 1st & Sunday, March 2nd: Seventh annual commemoration and re-enactment of the Battle for Broxton Bridge. This year's event will be held at the original earthen fort battle site on the Salkehatchie River built by Confederate forces in 1865. This is the 143rd anniversary of the battle. Camps are open Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Battle re-enactments are 1:30 p.m. daily. One-day admission prices: 18 years and older—$6.00; 10 to 17 years—$3.00; 9 years and under are free.

[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.

"Under Federal Legislation, the exports of the South have been the basis of the Federal Revenue. Virginia, the two Carolinas and Georgia may be said to defray three fourths of the annual expense of supporting the Federal Government; and of this great sum, annually furnished by them, nothing or next to nothing is returned to them, in the shape of Government expenditures. That expenditure flows in an opposite direction, it flows north, in one uniform, uninterrupted and perennial stream. This is the reason why wealth disappears from the south and rises up in the north. Federal Legislation does this." - Thomas Hart Benton - U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1821-1851

Brigadier General E. Porter Alexander Camp #158

P. O. Box 3694, Hill Station

Augusta, Georgia 30904

Monthly Newsletter of Brigadier General E. Porter Alexander Camp #158

Augusta, Georgia