It’s already November and the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays seem to be upon us once again. With all the political campaigns and the election finally over, maybe things will return to normal. For those of you that kept track of the election results of our Georgia legislators on the state level, a good number of anti-Southern politicians got voted out of office during this election cycle. These were politicians that denied us a fair flag vote on our ’56 flag in the non-binding referendum held in March of this year. Even locally, one of our enemies, a state senator, was knocked off in this election. It couldn’t have happened to a more well deserving, overconfident, smug politician that thought he would easily coast through the election to a second term. How wrong he was! However, the battle doesn’t end for us with this election. We will always be in a constant struggle to defend our heritage and protect our precious symbols from immoral and corrupt politicians. They will gladly sell our Southern heritage for political power and financial rewards, or in the name of political correctness. Maybe this new slate of politicians will be Southern heritage friendly for a change. We can only hope so.

This is the year that the camp will nominate and elect new officers for a two-year term for 2005 - 2006. During the upcoming meeting on the 11^th, camp officers will be nominated. The Nominating Committee has selected one candidate for each officer position. This is done to ensure that there is at least one candidate to fill each officer position. After the Nominating Committee names these selected candidates, nominations will be taken from the floor. We’ll also be voting on which area Christmas parades the camp will participate in this year. We should also decide on the date at this meeting for our Lee-Jackson Banquet in January. Do we want to have it on our regular meeting night January 13^th, 2005, or do we want to have it on another date? There will probably be other items to discuss during the meeting. We will not have a program speaker at this meeting due to officer nominations and the amount of camp business to be discussed. Officers will be elected at the December 9^th meeting. In order to be eligible to be elected as a camp officer or to be eligible to vote in the camp election, your 2005 dues must be paid up by or before the December meeting. I’m looking forward to seeing all of you this Thursday at Sconyers.

We welcome new member Jerry Grigsby. He petitioned the camp for membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans and was accepted at the October 14^th meeting. We extend a special welcome to Jerry and want him to know that we’re delighted to have him as a member of Brig. General E. Porter Alexander Camp #158.

Frank Dennis was presented his SCV Membership Certificates and was administered the New SCV Member Initiation Pledge by Adjutant Tommy Miller, Jr., at the October 14^th meeting.

B/G E. Porter Alexander Camp #158 website: http://www.eporteralexander.homestead.com/Index.html

Georgia Division SCV Homepage: www.georgiascv.com

SCV International Head Quarters website: www.scv.org

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. - Revelation 3:20

Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD. - Psalm 25:6,7

But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. - Matthew 9:13

Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.... Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
Psalm 27:7,9-10

Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. - Proverbs 3:7-8

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. - Matthew 7:24-25

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. - 1 John 3:18

"Those very people who basely submit to a despotism so unrelenting and cruel invade our soil without a shadow of right, and declare it to be their purpose to force us back into the union which they have destroyed, under a Constitution which they have rendered a mockery and made a nullity."

(Taken from the book Valor in Gray, by Gregg S. Clemmer, page 23)

Saturday, November 13^th – Warren County Family Sportsman’s Festival, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The festival will be held in downtown Warrenton, Georgia, and Camp #158 will have a booth setup to sell our camp store items.

Sunday, November 14^th - Edgefield UDC Chapter 1018 will have a reception at Oakley Park in downtown Edgefield, SC, at 4:00 p.m. to display the newly restored Edgefield Hussars flag. Members of Camp #158 are invited in appreciation for their generous donation that went towards the restoration of this historic flag.

Saturday, November 20^th - SCV Camp #158’s next Adopt-A-Highway Litter Pickup: Meet at 9:00 a.m. in the parking lot across the street from the Miyabi Kyoto Japanese Steakhouse Restaurant on Augusta West Parkway. It’ll take less than an hour to cleanup the litter along this roadway.

Ancestor Memorials for the program are $5.00.

For more information log on to www.battleofwaynesborough.com

Thursday, December 9^th - SCV Camp #158 Meeting at Sconyers Bar-B-Que Restaurant, 7:00 p.m.

Monday, January 24^th, 2005 - Ogeechee Rifles Camp #941 in Statesboro, Georgia, will hold its annual Lee-Jackson Banquet. The social hour begins at 6:00 p.m. and supper will be served at 7:00 p.m. The program speaker will be H.K. Edgerton, a black Southern heritage activist and past president of the NAACP chapter in Asheville, NC. Tickets are $20.00 per person. The meal will be a steak & seafood buffet and seating will be limited to 250 persons. Drawings will be held for door prizes. The Lee-Jackson Banquet will be held at the Statesboro First United Methodist Church on South Main Street (US Highway 301 South). For more information contact Ed Wolfe at 912-857-4870 (home), 912-665-2584 (Cell) or email address ewolfe1970@aol.com

-- President Jefferson Davis

Wig Wag - November 2004 Edition

Augusta, Georgia