Saturday, June 19^th - Perry Herron and Ron Udell worked for three hours at Magnolia Cemetery cleaning up the Confederate Dead section. We appreciate the efforts of these two dedicated camp members to help in maintaining our Confederate sections at Magnolia.

Saturday, June 5^th – Camp #158 members set up a booth at the Barnyard Flea Market on Highway 56 to sell items from the camp store in order to raise funds for the camp. Members that worked at the booth were Ron Udell, Henry Gilmer, Vince Gilmer and Ben Creech.

Saturday, June 12^th – Four Camp #158 members attended the business session of the Georgia Division SCV 107^th Reunion in Dalton as delegates. Members in attendance at the reunion were Woody Highsmith, Ron Udell, Perry Herron and Nick Posey. Woody Highsmith served as this years Elections Qualifications Verification Officer.

Sunday, June 13^th – From 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. there was a Living History program at the Augusta Museum of History. Two ladies in period dress and about a dozen Confederate re-enactors participated, two of which were members of Camp #158 – Ben Creech and Ron Udell.

Saturday, June 26^th – Ten Camp #158 members worked at Magnolia Cemetery to give the Confederate sections a much needed cleanup. The grass was cut and twenty bags of magnolia leaves were raked and picked up. The group of members worked for about 1½ hours to complete the cleanup. If we have a good turnout of members participating in the cemetery cleanup, a lot can be done in a short period of time. The members that participated in the cleanup were Stan Scritchfield, Terry Bowers, William McAlhany, Gary Hattaway, Ron Udell, John McCauley, Tom Stafford, Keith Neal, Perry Herron and Nick Posey.

Monday, June 28^th, 2004 – Camp #158 members Ben Creech and Ron Udell attended the monthly meeting of Brigadier General John C. Carter Camp #207 in Waynesboro. Camp #207’s 2^nd Lieutenant Commander, Steve Burke, spoke on the life of William Tecumseh Sherman, one the North’s most notorious and degenerate generals.

Thursday, July 8^th – Our next SCV Camp #158 Meeting will be held at the Warren Road Community Center at 7:00 p.m. Our program speaker will be Mr. Jack Marlar. His topic of discussion will be "Southern Heritage Today." Mr. Marlar is a full time SCV Field Representative.

Saturday, July 17^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 will take about an hour to cleanup the litter along this roadway.

Wednesday, July 28^th, through Saturday, July 31^st – Sons of Confederate Veterans 2004 National Reunion will be held at the Northwest Georgia Trade and Convention Center in Dalton, Georgia.

Thursday, August 12^th - SCV Camp #158 Meeting at Sconyers Bar-B-Que Restaurant, at 7:00 p.m.

Please do not hold money and tickets from raffle ticket sales until the September and October meetings. Camp members are asked to please turn in money to Lieutenant Commander Ron Udell from the sale of raffle tickets at each camp meeting. This makes it easier to track the number of tickets being sold from month to month and lets us know how well we’re progressing with ticket sales as the "drawing date" approaches. The drawing for the raffle will be on Saturday, November 6^th, which is only four months away.

"Rebel prisoners in our hands are to be subjected to a treatment finding its parallels only in the conduct of savage tribes and resulting in the death of multitudes by the slow but designed process of starvation and by mortal diseases occasioned by insufficient and unhealthy food and wanton exposure of their persons to the inclemency of the weather."

The Southern Confederacy will not employ our ships or buy our goods.  What is our shipping without it?  Literally nothing...It is very clear that the South gains by this process, and we lose.  No---we MUST NOT "let the South go." ----Union Democrat, Manchester, NH, February 19, 1861

That either revenue from duties must be collected in the ports of the rebel states, or the ports must be closed to importations from abroad...If neither of these things be done, our revenue laws are substantially repealed; the sources which supply our treasury will be dried up; we shall have no money to carry on the government; the nation will become bankrupt before the next crop of corn is ripe...Allow railroad iron to be entered at Savannah with the low duty of ten per cent, which is all that the Southern Confederacy think of laying on imported goods, and not an ounce more would be imported at New York; the railroads would be supplied from the southern ports. ---New York Evening Post March 12, 1861

"What a glorious world God Almighty has given us. How thankless and
ungrateful we are, and how we labour to mar His gifts."
- General Robert E. Lee, CSA

...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it...it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security… --The Declaration of Independence

"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."--Abraham Lincoln. March 4, 1861 Inaugural address

"I must not forget our old flag — though torn & tattered & faded. In the three days of fighting, although about 18 inches was torn off the end & lost — there is fifteen bullet holes through the flag & three through the staff — and besides this a large rent made by a piece of a bomb. Three color bearers were shot down & the fourth now carries it. If I should live through the war I would want no brighter monument than this faded flag to decorate my parlor walls — (Provided I ever have a parlor)." James C. Bates CSA

"It is highly probable that had a popular election been held at any time during the year following the 4th of July, 1862, on the question of continuing the war, or arresting it on the best attainable terms, a majority would have voted for peace; while it is highly probable that a still larger majority would have voted against emancipation." Horace Greeley, Yankee Reporter

1) If ye, then, be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2) Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3) For ye are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4) When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

17) And whatever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

15) Unto the pure all things are pure, but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. 16) They profess that they know God, but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

9) Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee wherever thou goest.

1) My son, forget not my law, but let thine heart keep my commandments; 2) For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. 3) Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart; 4) So shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man. 5) Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.

July 1^st, 1863 – Battle of Gettysburg begins.

July 2^nd, 1863 – At Gettysburg on the second day of battle there’s fighting at Little Round Top and Big Round Top, the Devil’s Den, The Wheatfield, the Peach Orchard, Cemetery Hill and Culp’s Hill.

July 3^rd, 1863 – The Battle of Gettysburg ends with the Pickett – Pettigrew charge, the "high tide of the Confederacy."

July 4^th, 1863 – General Robert E. Lee begins to withdraw from Gettysburg.

July 22^nd, 1864 – In the Atlanta Campaign for the Battle of Atlanta the Confederates still hold Atlanta after suffering up to 10,000 casualties of the nearly 40,00 engaged.

July 28^th, 1864 – In the Atlanta Campaign during the Battle of Ezra Church, Confederates suffer 5,000 casualties after repeated attacks against entrenched Federals.

Adjutant Claudius Virginius Hughes Davis

"While accompanying his regiment at the forefront of the assault and despite seeing three regimental color bearers shot down, Adjutant Davis, with total disregard for his own safety, picked up the fallen standard and conspicuously carried it to the top of the enemy entrenchments. Despite a heavy fire, he led his men forward beyond the breastworks, and while still well in advance of the regiment and shouting words of encouragement to his comrades, he fell fatally wounded."

(Taken from the book Valor in Gray, by Gregg S. Clemmer, page 219)

The Wig Wag is published monthly and is the official publication of Brigadier General E. Porter Alexander Camp #158, Sons of Confederate Veterans, located in Augusta, Georgia. All members are encouraged to submit articles of interest, announcements, and information about events or activities in which camp members have participated or any other general information. Please submit information to Editor Nick Posey at nicholasposey@comcast.net or if you would like to submit an item to the newsletter and do not have Internet access, call Nick Posey at 706-855-1895.

-- President Jefferson Davis

Wig Wag - July 2004 Edition