The 110th National SCV Reunion will be July 20th thru July 23rd in Nashville, Tennessee. The camp needs to select a delegate. One delegate can cast all eight votes for the camp. We’ll discuss this issue at our next meeting. If you’re interested in attending, please contact me.

As you’ll see in the Camp News & Events section, it was a busy month for the camp last month. Something was going on every weekend and I want to thank all of those members who participated in those events, especially the handful of members that have worked so diligently to maintain our Confederate sections in Magnolia Cemetery. These men are doing an excellent job, but could really use some more help. Please consider giving a couple hours a month to assist with this very worthy effort.

Saturday, June 4th – Grave Marker Dedication Service held in Girard, Georgia, for Confederate Private William R. Oglesbee who served in the 48th Regiment, Georgia Infantry.

Saturday, June 11th – Eight Delegates from Camp #158 attended the Georgia Division SCV 108th Annual Reunion in Savannah. The following members attended as delegates:

Lt Commander Ron Udell

Treasurer Lee Herron

Adjutant Perry Herron

Judge Advocate Stan Scritchfield

Phil Miller

Past Commander Woody Highsmith

Camp Historian Ben Creech

Commander Nick Posey

Saturday, June 18th - SCV Camp #158’s Adopt-A-Highway Litter Pickup: Members met at 9:00 a.m. in the parking lot across the street from the Miyabi Kyoto Japanese Steakhouse Restaurant on Augusta West Parkway for the litter cleanup, which took about one hour.

Monday, June 20th – Cemetery Workday in Confederate the sections of Magnolia Cemetery.

Tuesday, June 21st – Georgia’s Scalawag Governor Sonny Perdue was "flagged" by over a dozen members and friends of Camp #158 when he attended a Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy forum at the Savannah Rapids Pavilion in Columbia County.

Saturday, June 25th – Members of Camp #158 participated as Confederate Re-enactors in the annual Watermelon Festival & Parade in Hampton, SC.

Saturday, June 25th – Camp #158 Confederate Re-enactors took part in a Grave Marker Dedication Service held at City Cemetery in Hampton, SC. The marker dedication was in honor of Confederate Corporal Shadrack Fitts who served in the 3rd Regiment, South Carolina Cavalry. River’s Bridge SCV Camp #842 in Fairfax, SC, hosted the service.

Monday, June 27th – Members of Camp #158 attended the Brigadier General John Carpenter Carter Camp #207 meeting in Waynesboro, Georgia.

Saturday, July 2nd – Camp #158 members set up a booth at the Barnyard Flea Market to sell Confederate memorabilia and recruit new members.

Friday, July 8th & Saturday, July 9th - Cemetery Workdays in the Confederate sections of Magnolia Cemetery.

Thursday, July 14^th – Camp #158 Meeting at the Warren Road Community Center at 7:00 p.m. Warren Road Community Center is located on 300 Warren Road across from Warren Road Elementary School. Our regular meeting place, Sconyers Bar-B-Que Restaurant, closed after July 4^th for a couple weeks. This is their annual vacation time. This will be a business meeting. We will NOT have a program speaker at this month’s meeting.

Saturday, July 30th – FLAGGING: Governor Sonny Perdue, who denied us a fair flag vote, will again visit Columbia County. This event will be a fund raising breakfast at the Savannah Rapids Pavilion and is being sponsored by the Columbia County Republican Party. The breakfast starts at 9:00 a.m. Flaggers need to be in position near the entrance of Savannah Rapids Pavilion at around 8:00 – 8:15 a.m.

Thursday, August 11th – SCV Camp #158 Meeting will be back at our regular meeting place, Sconyers Bar-B-Que Restaurant, at 7:00 p.m.

This is official notification for reconsideration of a motion previously passed by the camp membership. The motion will be reconsidered and voted on at the July 14th camp meeting. During a meeting at Enterprise Mill, in the 2002, when Woody Highsmith was commander, a motion was passed to pay for a security light to illuminate the three Confederate flags placed at the Jefferson Davis monument located in Clearwater, SC. The monument is at Belvedere-Clearwater Road and Jefferson Davis Highway (US Highway No. 1). Several of our members have noticed recently when passing by these flags at night that the security light, because of its location and height in respect to the flags, it is providing negligible or next to no illumination for these flags. At our last camp officers’ meeting on June 28th, the officers decided to recommend to the membership that we no longer pay the monthly cost and discontinue the use of the light. We are billed monthly by SCE&G. This would save the camp over $100 a year.

Past Commander Richard Smith contributed the following commentary about a recent adventure. On July 4th weekend he rode with the SCV Mechanized Cavalry.

"Any government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take away everything you have."

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. - Galatians 5:16-17

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. - Hebrews 4:12

Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. – Psalm 143:10

The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil. - Proverbs 19:23

Camp Commander Nick Posey called the monthly meeting of Brigadier General E. Porter Alexander Camp #158 to order at 7:00 PM. Chaplain Tony Carr gave the invocation and led everyone in the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States Flag. Commander Posey then led the Pledge of Allegiance to the "Real" Georgia State Flag and the salute to the Confederate Flag; he then recited the "SCV Charge."

Commander Posey introduced over twenty-five guests in attendance. Included were representatives from Berry Benson UDC Chapter 2584 in North Augusta, Margaret Jones UDC Chapter 27 in Waynesboro, and several SCV Camps (Confederate Memorial Camp 1432 of Stone Mountain, GA; Brigadier General William Steele Camp 1857 of Leavenworth, KS; Brigadier General John Carpenter Carter Camp 207 of Waynesboro, GA; General Joseph Wheeler Camp 1245 of Aiken, SC; Major Morgan/Harts Battery Camp 1674, Springfield, SC; and Wilson Tigers-Company I, 48th Georgia Camp 245 of Hephzibah, GA).

There being no additions or corrections, the minutes of the May meeting were approved as published in the June Wigwag.

In appreciation of his presentation, Commander Posey presented a framed photograph to Commander Kennedy of the Confederate Powder Works Chimney taken on its 140^th Anniversary in 2002.

Lieutenant Commander Ron Udell reminded camp members of the Adopt-A-Highway Litter Pickup on Saturday, 18 June, the Flea Market on 2 July, and to donate to the Lee-Jackson Banquet Fund. Ron thanked several camp members for attending a new headstone dedication and Memorial Service for CSA Private William Oglesbee on June 4th, in Girard, GA. He also thanked those who represented the camp at the CSRA Memorial Day Observance on May 30th in downtown Augusta at the All Wars Monument located at 4^th and Broad Streets.

Commander Nick Posey reported on the following upcoming events:

• The camp is authorized to send 8 delegates to the Georgia Division Reunion this Friday through Sunday. There is a $25 registration fee. Camp members were encouraged to attend this 108th Georgia Division Reunion in Savannah, June 10^th – 12^th.
• The city of Augusta had 10 days from May 20^th to restore the 2^nd National Flag of the Confederacy to its rightful place on the Augusta Riverwalk or litigation proceedings would begin. Funds are needed to support this lawsuit.
• Governor Perdue is scheduled to visit Columbia County on June 21^st at the Savannah Rapids Pavilion and again Saturday July 30^th. "Flaggings" are planned on those dates in protest of not allowing the citizens of Georgia to have a fair flag vote to select their state flag.
• The next camp meeting is at Warren Road Community Center as Sconyers is closed for a couple of weeks after July4th for vacation.
• Camp T-shirts are still available.

New Business - None

• Friday, June 10th thru Sunday, June 12th – Georgia Division SCV 108th Annual Reunion in Savannah; Registration Fee is $25.00. See Commander Nick Posey or Adjutant Perry Herron to obtain a "Delegates Form." The "Delegates Form" is also on the last page of "The Georgia Confederate."
• Saturday, June 18^th - SCV Camp #158 Adopt -A-Highway Litter Pickup: Meet at 9:00 a.m. in the parking lot across the street from Miyabi Kyoto Japanese Steakhouse on Augusta West Parkway. It will take less than an hour to cleanup the litter along this roadway.
• Thursday, July 14^th - Next Camp Meeting at Warren Road Community Center at 7:00 p.m. This is located at 300 Warren Road across from Warren Road Elementary School.

Commander Posey announced for Bill Quattlebaum an upcoming League of the South meeting on June 23rd.

Tom Stafford encouraged everyone to become involved in cleaning and maintaining Confederate veteran gravesites. In Bellevue Cemetery in Grovetown he places 8 Confederate Battle Flags on special occasions on the graves of family and friends and encourages others to do the same. Also, go flagging!

Stan Scritchfield stated that he could have the camp logo embroidered on jackets for $60 and shirts for $8. Videos of the Battle of Aiken Reenactment and other local reenactments are available.

Respectfully submitted,

Conscripted Secretary