In spite of the scorching Southern summer the camp was fairly active during the month of August. Since the last camp meeting members have participated in two Magnolia Cemetery workdays to maintain the Confederate sections and the seven generals’ gravesites. On the morning of Saturday, August 25th, members set up a booth at the Barnyard Flea Market to sell camp store items and raffle tickets. That same afternoon Camp #158 re-enactors, along with some of their wives and children in period dress, supported a pre-movie event before the premiere showing of the movie Firetrail at the Imperial Theater on Broad Street.

With autumn around the corner, beginning on September 23rd, the camp is scheduled to participate in a number of activities during the next couple months. Those events are listed in the announcements section.

Our annual membership dues are due. This membership year runs from August 1st, 2007 through July 31st, 2008. Dues can be paid at the September and October meetings, or mailed to the camp’s mailing address. SCV National Headquarters must receive membership dues before November 1st.

We’ll be at Sconyers Bar-B-Que Restaurant this Thursday night. Our program speaker will be Mr. Hu Daughtry, who will speak on "Confederate Tales of Candler and Connected Counties."

I hope to see all of you at Sconyers on Thursday. Bring a guest and join us for a pleasant evening of Southern fellowship and Confederate heritage.

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Georgia Division SCV Website: http://www.georgiascv.com/

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

■ 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, Mr. Hu Daughtry, 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 will be held in downtown Harlem. The camp will have 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’ll speak on his newly published 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 nearly 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)

A motion was made, seconded and passed to make a donation of $200.00 to SCV National Headquarters to help defray the costs associated with the recent lawsuit involving the attempted hostile takeover of the SCV by a rogue faction within the organization.

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:18

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. Proverbs 25:28

"To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. James 5:16

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Psalm 90:12

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Matthew 16:26

"We have excellent leaders and our troops are in excellent condition. But even if the reorganized Union army under General McClellan puts up a stiffer fight than the Yanks did at Manassas, I’m sure we’ll eventually win. After all, our cause is just." John Pelham, 1838 - 1863

"Yes, this is a relationship you Northern people can’t understand and will soon destroy." Frances Butler Leigh (1838 – 1910) made this remark to a Northern lady who expressed surprise over the loyalty of her family’s slaves. This is recorded in Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation, published in 1883.

"Those were the years of the domination of the carpetbagger, the scalawag, and the Negro, and they were years of the most brutal despotism. The carpetbagger was the Northern adventurer who came South for office and for spoils; the scalawag was the native of the South who joined the radical party for spoils and from hatred of his neighbors." James H. McNeilly (1838 - 1922) recalling the days of Radical Republican Reconstruction in the South, which lasted from 1865 until 1877, penned these words in September 1920.

"If the peace of this country can only be preserved by forgetting the Confederate soldier’s deeds and his claims upon the South, the blessing is too dearly bought." From Reminiscences of a Private, published in 1882 by Carlton McCarthy (1847 –1936).

At Appomattox Court House in 1865, two Generals met. One had three slaves, the other none. General Lee had no slaves. General Grant owned three. The truth is that most of the teachers who teach our children about the "Great Emancipator" have never read the proclamation! If they did, they would find out that it was a self-styled war measure. Its purpose was to drape the invasion of the Southern nation in the robes of morality. It was an effective propaganda ploy to influence England and France not to recognize the Southern nation and was also an attempt to encourage slave insurrection in the South. The truth is that Lincoln's so-called Emancipation Proclamation was not designed to free slaves. A reading of the proclamation will show that Lincoln declared free those slaves who were held "within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States." In other words, he declared free those slave over whom he had no control. Ulysses S. Grant, the Northern general, did not free his own slaves until forced to do so by the Thirteenth Amendment after the War, and even declared that if he thought the War was being fought with the goal of freeing the slaves, he would promptly turn his sword "over to the other side." (Author unknown)

Juliet Opie Hopkins (1818 – 1890)

Nurse – Battle of Seven Pines, Virginia

June 1st, 1862

"Untiring in her efforts to minister to the wounded and ignoring warnings for her own safety, Mrs. Hopkins proceeded onto the battlefield to aid the injured. While lifting a desperately wounded officer, Mrs. Hopkins was herself seriously wounded in the left leg and in the days that followed, her extraordinary record of selfless courage and devotion to duty during the battle brought her to the grateful notice of the commanding general." – From the book Valor in Gray by Gregg S. Clemmer (page 277).

Augusta, Georgia