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NOVEMBER is Battle Flag Month. In November of 1861 the first official battle flags were issued to General Beauregards troops. This flag is referred to as the "Southern Cross".
Meeting Tuesday November 5th -Past Commander John Henry Taylor will be speaking on "The Sons of
Confederate Veterans - Who We Are, What We Do, and Why".

Monday, November 11, 2013, 2:00 PM, Chesterfield County Veterans Day Ceremony, at the Chesterfield County Historical Courthouse green within the Veteran's Wall. A wreath will be lain on behalf of the camp. Please make plans to attend this meaningful Ceremony for "all of our Veterans. Sat/Sun Nov 16-17, 2013 annual 'Capitol Of The Confederacy' show, Richmond Raceway Complex Our Camp will have a recruitment table, Volunteers needed!. Flagging VMFA 2nd,9th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th. Noon til 4pm

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Commander's Corner
Greetings Compatriots and Friends,

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November is now upon us, which means, Beautiful Colors, Hunting Season, Football and Thanksgiving. The time of year we give, Thanks, for the Blessings, we have received over the past year. But, November is also the month that we Honor and say Thank You to the Veterans that have served this country in time of war and peace. We are fortunate to have many Veterans among our membership. I/we cant say enough, Thank You, for all that you have done for us. The camp once again this year will take part in the annual Chesterfield County Veterans Day Observance, taking place November 11th at 2:00 pm, at the Courthouse Complex. The camp wreath will be laid in honor of our Confederate Veterans and their ancestors and decedents. We had a great turnout at last month's meeting! Thank You All! Its great when we can fill the room. We had a great speaker, Lisa Denton, from Henrico County, giving her presentation on the Dabbs House. The camp once again awarded the SCV Ladies Appreciation Medal to Ms. Ruby Pugh. We have done this several times over the past few years and its a real honor and pleasure to do so to these deserving Ladies. Our Camp membership is increasing! We reinstated and welcomed back into our membership, Ernest Cosby and Marion Humphreys. Its great to have you both, Home Again! Also, Paul Coleman and Layton Humphreys submitted their applications for membership and approved. And last but least, Barry Isenhour and George Wilson, have transferred into the camp. Its great to have you all with us. Let's try and have this many new members every month. Last minute news, the camp will set-up a membership and information table at the upcoming,

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33rd Annual Capital of the Confederacy Civil War Show November 16-17, 2013 Richmond Raceway Complex 600 E Laburnum Avenue Richmond, VA 23222

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Please, if you can attend and help out please contact, 2nd Lt. Commander Tommy Clinger. The slate of Officers for 2014-15 has been prepared and will be presented at our November meeting for voting. Remember, nominations from the floor will be accepted. The new officers will be sworn in at our December meeting and will take office January 1, 2014. The following is the slate of candidates, Commander Bill Brown Adjutant/Treasurer Blair Perrow 1st Lt. Commander Tommy Clinger 2nd Lt. Commander Barry Isenhour Chaplain Don Price Color Sergeant John Henry Taylor We are on the lookout for someone to take over the duties of the Camps Newsletter and Website. Tommy Clinger has done an outstanding job with both of these tasks for the camp over the years. He would like for someone new with maybe some fresh ideas to step up and give it a try. If you would be interested in either one of these please contact Tommy or me. If I dont see you on November 5th, have A Safe and Happy Thanksgiving! Best Regards, Bill Brown, Commander

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Adjutant/Treasurer Report
Attendance at the August meeting was 14 members and 14 visitors.

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Last call for dues, after October 31st, the member must pay a $5 additional reinstatement fee to VA Division and National. Please call me with any questions. The camp awarded the SCV Ladies Appreciation Medal to Ms. Ruby Pugh. New compatriot Gary Riffle was sworn in. Votes were taken to admit to membership Mr. Paul Coleman and Mr. Layton Humphreys. Both passed with no nays. Mr. Barry Isenhour has submitted his request to transfer to the camp. It has been sent to National HQ. A camp officers meeting was held on October 9th at Dolce Vita restaurant. The slate of officers for the next two years has been prepared for voting at the next meeting, November 5th. Camp members, John Henry Taylor, Bill Brown, Tommy Clinger, Will Adams, and Blair Perrow attended the VA Division Leadership Training and the Division Executive Council meeting on October 13 th John Henry Taylor and Tommy Clinger helped with the VA Division booth at the State Fair. The camp has applied for a table at the Capital of Confederacy Civil War Show on November 16 th and 17th. John Henry Taylor has donated the $85 fee for this plus an additional $15 for a future Ladies Appreciation Medal. The camp wreath will be presented at the Chesterfield County Veterans Day Observance. Please attend if possible. Respectfully submitted, Blair Perrow Adjutant/Treasurer 10/21/2013

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The Robert E Lee camp # 1589 resolution to Expel Waite Rawls form The SCV has been forwarded to National Division. The Virginia Division believes they must have their blessing or they are spinning our wheels. Waite has made a lot of people irritated, Personal feelings don't count, only facts. We must call and email The SCV General Executive Council to keep the resolution in motion and have it gain support. It is important that we keep pressure on this issue , so that those that dishonor the Confederate Soldiers good name cannot use our organizations as cover, while they commit atrocities against our ancestors. Please Contact them today.

For Emails Click the Officers name after clicking this link http://www.scv.org/about/directories/gec.php Commander-in-Chief Robert Michael Givens 11 Park Square South Beaufort, SC 29907 931-442-1831 Lt. Commander-in-Chief Charles Kelly Barrow 621 Forrest Ave Griffin, GA 30224 770-412-1646 Chief of Staff Charles L. Rand III 507 Rochelle Ave Monroe, LA 71201 318-387-3791 Adjutant-in-Chief Stephen Lee Ritchie 5905 N Cr 500 W Muncie, IN 47304 765-759-8038

Judge Advocate-in-Chief Roy Burl McCoy 5910 Winchester Rd Lexington, KY 40509 859-294-0300 Chaplain-in-Chief Mark W. Evans 20 Sharon Dr Greenville, SC 29607 864-235-6471 Chief of Heritage Defense Eugene G Hogan II 1962 Trimbleston Pl Mt Pleasant, SC 29464 843-971-9114

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When contacting the GEC, you can refer to any or all of the following charges.... Rawls was invited to the DEC meeting in Lexington, Virginia in March 2007. The purpose was to ask him point blank if he had ever made a statement that he was willing to change the name of the Museum of the Confederacy and to delete the word, "Confederacy" from the name. At first Rawls tried to change the subject but was instructed to answer the question - yes or no - Rawls responded that he had never made that statement. He was then shown the morning Lexington newspaper that quoted a member of the Lexington City Council as saying that Rawls had offered to change the name of the museum and to delete the word, "Confederacy" from the name if the City Council would allow him to put a pilot museum in Lexington. This act would constitute "dishonesty" and conduct unbecoming a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The next incident would be the placement of a life size photograph of a female impersonator dressed in a Confederate Battle Flag in the doorway of the new museum at Appomattox. This was removed only after it was discovered and photographed by a Virginia Flaggers and put on the internet. This would constitute conduct unbecoming a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans by showing gross disrespect for the Confederate Soldier's Flag. The next incident involved S. Waite Rawls III refusal to fly the National Flag of the Confederate States of America in a superior position in front of the Appomattox museum. The Museum of the Confederacy should enjoy the honor of being a Memorial to the people of the Confederacy - Many of the old veterans and their families have donated their precious family relics to the museum to act as a memorial to their service to our country. The next incident involved Rawls' statement that he was placing the union occupation flag in a superior position over the State Flag array in front of the Appomattox museum and calling it the "Reunification Promenade". Thus suggesting that our ancestors voluntarily and willingly reunited with the very same vile and corrupt government that they had lawfully seceded from - the same government that had committed numerous war crimes against the southern people and had oppressed the southern people long after the war had ended. This insulting and false statement is not consistent with the Charge of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and constitutes dishonesty and contempt for the southern people. Another incident involves Rawls refusal to fly the 2nd National, 3rd National, or Battle Flag from the exterior of the Richmond museum or the Appomattox museum.

Please take a few minutes and give the resolution your support. We must stay on this, our Confederate ancestor's artifacts, and the Confederate White House are still in the hands of some that do not care if they cease to exist.

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SCV Press Release on Plan by Museum of the Confederacy to Break-Up Historic Collection
Museum of the Confederacy's future threatened by de-consolidation plans

The Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond holds the world's finest collection of Confederate art and artifacts; it's future is in serious doubt. If rumored changes come to pass the MOC's collection as well as the historic White House of the Confederacy which it owns and manages, may simply cease to exist. Right now, some in the MOC leadership have cooked up a plan to distribute the MOC's incredible collection among several different Richmond-area groups. Included in that list are the Virginia Historical Society and the historic site at Tredegar Iron Works. Neither of these can be considered Confederate-friendly. The Museum of the Confederacy holds an important trust as the repository of the world's finest collection of Confederate memorabilia. Recent reports from well-informed sources indicate that the museum's leadership is rapidly moving forward with a plan which, in addition to dispersing the collection, will also sell its building in downtown Richmond. Once the collection is relocated and the building sold, the now-nearby White House of the Confederacy will be isolated in an urban canyon surrounded by the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and virtually lost to tourist traffic. To think that it will be bale to sustain itself financially in that condition is difficult to imagine. I'm writing to you because we need to act quickly. The SCV strongly opposes this plan and is actively urging the Museum of the Confederacy board to reconsider. While no doubt well-intentioned, this course of action will seriously jeopardize the integrity of this collection which is so important to our Southern heritage. Generations of Southerners, including many of the veterans themselves, contributed a king's ransom to the Museum of the Confederacy in the form of priceless antiques, family heirlooms, and relics of the Confederate cause of incalculable value. They made these

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contributions with the express intent that these antiquities would be carefully preserved and honorably displayed. That's how the Museum of the Confederacy's collection grew to be the trustee of the single largest collection of the treasures of the late Confederacy. To scatter these precious treasures across several venues and organizations will permanently diminish its importance. The Museum of the Confederacy is technically owned by the Confederate Memorial & Literary Society and is a private organization. They are under no obligation to listen to the SCV or to take advice from anyone. But, we believe they are reasonable people who by and large want to do the best they can under the circumstances . I have been calling everyone connected with the MOC but I would like for them to hear from you as well. Please contact these folks today and POLITELY let them know how important it is that the Museum of the Confederacy's collection remain intact as a permanent tribute to those proud soldiers. Please urge your Compatriots and anyone who shares our view of this important issue to let their voices be heard so that the Museum of the Confederacy can return to being the home of the Confederacy's most important artifacts. Michael Givens Commander in Chief

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VMFA INSULTS AMERICAN VETERANS - CONTINUES TO BAN FLAGS FROM CONFEDERATE WAR MEMORIAL

Twenty years after Gen. Robert E. Lee rode into Appomattox and surrendered his tattered army, ending the War Between the States, a memorial chapel was built in Richmond in memory of the 260,000 Confederate soldiers who died during the conflict. The Pelham Chapel Confederate War Memorial is designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S., and has been granted the status of Confederate Monument by the Commonwealth of Virginia. The organ in the chapel was donated by a group of Union veterans from Lynn, Mass. One of the contributors to the soldiers' home that surrounded the chapel was Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. And a Union private from Massachusetts donated his annual pension to support the home. Confederate flags had flown over the grounds since the opening of the Old Soldiers Home in 1885. Those flags did not trouble the Union soldiers who donated the organ to the chapel; nor did they trouble Ulysses S. Grant. They were placed there by Confederate Veterans, to memorialize the Confederate dead, and honor the living. Fast forward 150 yearson the eve of the Sesquicentennial Commemoration of the War Between the States, June 1st, 2010, Confederate Battle Flags were forcibly removed from the Confederate War Memorial by a restriction in the lease renewal, at the insistence of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. This is in direct violation of Virginia law, which clearly states: it shall be unlawful for the

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authorities of the locality, or any other person or persons, to disturb or interfere with any monuments or memorials so erected, or to prevent its citizens from taking proper measures and exercising proper means for the protection, preservation and care of same. For purposes of this section, "disturb or interfere with" includes removal of, damaging or defacing monuments or memorials, or, in the case of the War Between the States, the placement of Union markings or monuments on previously designated Confederate memorials or the placement of Confederate markings or monuments on previously designated Union memorials. ( 15.2-1812) As citizens of Virginia and descendants of Confederate soldiers who gallantly answered Virginias call to defend her, we demand that the VMFA remove these blatantly prejudicial restrictions and allow the Confederate Battle Flags to once again fly on the Confederate War Memorial. What can you do to help? CONTACT CALL (804) 340-1500 and/or email the director at alex.nyerges@vmfa.museum Tell them to return the flags to the Confederate Memorial Chapel! BOYCOTT Cancel any planned visit to the VMFAand tell them why! Discontinue any donations and supportand tell them why! JOIN US Spread the word. Tell your family, friends, and neighbors that the VMFA has violated the law and dishonored American Veterans.! Become a Flagger and stand with us!

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November Speaker - Past Commander John Henry Taylor will be speaking on "The Sons of Confederate Veterans - Who We Are, What We Do, and Why". December Meeting- Christmas Celebration with George Winn and The Bluegrass Partners / Installation of Officers January- No Speaker/Business Meeting February- Camp Auction/ This has, historically, been one of the most fun meetings

that we have ever had. Besides being a lot of fun, it accounts for a portion of the money our little treasury gets each year. We need a big turnout of members, friends, and families there with money in hand and ready to "do battle" in the bidding process. We ask that you bring items to donate for the auction, please search through your houses, garages, basements, and attics for those items that you no longer use or need and are marketable to our members. Such items as books on the War Between the States, relics, militaria, reenactors equipment, fishing equipment, hunting gear, camping gear, edged weapons, pictures, etc. I have never seen anyone turn down a homemade cake or pie

Next Meeting
Our next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday November. 5th , 2013 dinner at 6 P.M. and to follow with business and Speaker at 7 P.M. at the Dolce Vita Italian Restaurant, 2401 Colony Crossing Place Midlothian, VA 23112

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