Feb. 28

February

Program

NEWSLETTER

Col. E. W. Taylor

Camp #1777

Sons of

Confederate

Veterans

December……..2019

Our meetings are on the last Thursday of each month, except November and December when we

don’t meet because it would always conflict with the holidays.

Each month’s program announcement is always on the first page of this newsletter.

We meet at the Catfish and Company restaurant in Hurst, Texas, along the north side of the

Airport Freeway and on the access road west of Precinct Line Road.

If you’d like to eat with us we’d suggest you be there at 6 p.m. We start the meeting at 7 p.m.

Our goal is to be finished and out by 8:30 p.m. It would be bad manners for a group as large as

ours to stay ‘til closing time. We appreciate the restaurant’s hospitality to the Sons of

Confederate Veterans.

Who are we? That’s easy to see!!!

Go to our website and start looking at our newsletters, beginning with

the most recent and working back. Contact us at mfpchat@yahoo.com

http://www.taylorcampscv.org/

For our website: user name is TaylorCamp and password is SCV1777EWTaylorCamp

Come and join us! Spouses, guests, BFFs, etc. are

always welcome. A nicer bunch of party animals you’ll

never meet !

Bring a white elephant gift if you’d

like to take part in the gift exchange.

Annual E. W. Taylor Camp Christmas Party

Thurs. Dec. 12, 2019, 6 p.m.

Catfish and Company Restaurant in Hurst

$50,000 cash bond filed in Dallas

Pioneer Cemetery Monument caseReturn Lee to Lee Park President, Warren Johnson, filed a $50,000 cash bond donated by citizens of

Dallas and Texas as required by the 5th Court of Appeals to maintain a Temporary Restraining Order

(TRO) ordered back in June.

The TRO prevents the City of Dallas from demolishing or removing the 120-year-old Pioneer

Cemetery Confederate War Memorial.

Return Lee had filed suit in a Dallas County Court to save both the Robert E. Lee Monument & the

Pioneer Cemetery Monument. The case was dismissed last Spring by Judge Eric Moye and appealed

by Return Lee to the 5th Court of Appeals in Dallas, who issued the TRO to protect the Pioneer City

Monument - the Lee Statue had already been sold & moved.

Dallas had insisted on a $500,000 bond to be imposed on Return Lee if the TRO was granted - the

court imposed a much lesser amount, $50,000 and Dallas then asked that it be raised to $150,000.

"The problem for us in getting a bond issued even at the lesser amount of $50,000 was that if we did

not win the appeal, we would have to pay up to

the full $50,000 to Dallas. No one in our

citizen’s group could afford to do that," said

Return Lee President Warren Johnson.

"We had 30 days to raise the bond money,"

said Dallas businessman Chris Carter (plaintiff

in a related Dallas Monument case against the

city) “and the people of Dallas and Texas gener-

ously responded," Carter added. We thought we

wouldn't be able to raise it in time but miracu-

lously a large last-minute donation put us

over the top and we will file the money with

the county court clerk," Carter added.

"THANK YOU, THANK YOU, People of

Dallas and Texas, that you think enough of your

cultural, artistic and historical heritage that you

would help us save this priceless monument to

our veteran war dead!"

Return Lee to Lee Park is a non-profit, tax

deductible (501c3) and charitable Texas Corp-

oration that seeks to preserve and protect the

historical art and monuments of Dallas.

This should protect the Pioneer Cemetery Confederate

War Memorial through the Appeals process. Should we

prevail the money will be returned.

The importance of this money being raised is that, unlike

other bonds that guarantee a court appearance, this bond is

for Dallas' (so-called) "damages" should we not prevail. In

that case up to $50K would be handed over to Dallas.

The Patriots who donated to the bond understood this

risk and they deserve the thanks of the Confederate/Heri-

tage Community and all normal Americans [well-put]

Confederate statue "Silent Sam" to remain

off UNC campus under legal settlement

A torn-down Confederate monument named

“Silent Sam” won't be allowed to return to

the University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill.

and must be surrendered to a group of

Confederate descendants, according to a legal

agreement announced Wednesday. In the

agreement the North Carolina Division of Sons

of Confederate Veterans (SCV) will own all

rights, title and interests in the monument,

CBS Raleigh affiliate WNCN-TV reports.

R. Kevin Stone, commander of the SCV's

North Carolina division, issued a statement to

The Associated Press that said the group was

happy to secure ownership of the statue.

"We have been involved in ongoing

negotiations and collaboration to achieve this

outcome and we believe it is a fair result," he

said.

Thanks to Compatriot Clay Fitzhugh for

sharing this link with us. You may read the

entire article at

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/silent-

sam-statue-unc-chapel-hill-university-

of-north-carolina-legal-settlement-sons-

of-confederate-vets-2019-11-27/

“What need of question now, whether

he was wrong or right? He wields no

warlike weapons now, returns no foeman’s

thrust. Who but a coward would revile an

honest soldier’s dust?” From a mother’s elegy in “A Georgia Volunteer,”

by Mary Ashley Townsend.

“The Alabama Supreme Court

upheld a state law protecting Confed-

erate monuments on Wednesday, or-

dering the city of Birmingham to re-

move panels it had placed in front of

one.

The all-Republican court ruled in

favor of the state, which had sued the

majority-black city council for

placing plywood panels that blocked

the inscriptions on a 52-foot tall

obelisk for its Confederate

veterans, ABC News reported.

The justices reversed a circuit

judge’s ruling striking down the law

and ordered the judge to fine the city

$25,000…”

Alabama Supreme Court upholds law

protecting Confederate monuments

https://thehill.com/regulation/court

-battles/472393-alabama-supreme-

court-upholds-law-protecting-

confederate-monuments

Thanks to Compatriot Clay Fitzhugh

for sharing this welcome news with us!

Go to the link below to read the entire

article.

A court victory in Virginia

In Virginia, a Louisa County judge denied a motion in a murder case to remove a portrait

of Robert E. Lee from the Louisa County Circuit Court House. Attorneys for Darcel

Murphy, who faces the possibility of the death penalty if he is convicted for the murder of

Kevin Robinson in March 2016, had argued that the portrait of the Confederate general in

the courtroom could influence jurors during Murphy’s trial.

Murphy is African American, as was Robinson. The display of Confederate symbols

“violate the defendant’s right to equal protection under the law,” lead attorney Douglas

Ramseur wrote in his 2018 motion to remove the portrait. “There is no greater offense to the

Equal Protection Clause [of the Constitution] than government favoritism of one race over

another.”

[Judge] Sanner agreed that the Lee portrait is much larger than any other portrait in the

courtroom. But he described the image of Lee in his uniform, standing in front of a tree, as

“benign.”

“The concern of the defendant in this case is really not what this portrait depicts, but who

it depicts,” he wrote. “Setting aside its subject, the portrait does not compromise the fair

administration of justice.” [Timothy K. Sanner is a circuit court judge for the 16th Circuit

in Virginia].

The judge said, referring to slavery, that “those who played an active role in defending

the indefensible face substantial difficulty in escaping the harsh judgment of history.”

But he also noted that many people admire “the real or perceived qualities of General Lee.”

He noted that Lee is one of the few individuals to have a state holiday observed in their

honor.

“It is difficult for the Court to accept that nothing other than the implied original and

continuing racism of the Virginia General Assembly supports that distinction,” Sanner

wrote.

Thanks to the Virginia Flaggers for letting us know about this important decision in favor

of reason and common sense.

Judge Sanner

Veterans Day participants got to experience a true

Texas historical happening…a Blue Norther

Just as the weatherman

promised, a no-kiddin’ cold front

swept across Fort Worth as we

waited for the parade to begin.

Four Taylor SCV men were

there…James Alderman and Mike

Patterson standing in the trailer at

left, Ron Turner in the trailer at

right and Bob Gresham standing

on the ground at right. Ron and

Bob were in their Revolutionary

uniforms. Compatriot Steve

Parnell of the SCV camp at

Midland joined us, as did his

granddaughter, Carmyn Parnell.

Carmyn, shown above with her grandpa, took

the weather like a real trooper. The wind whistling

through the skyscraper canyons downtown was

hard to believe. Parade participants outnumbered

spectators.

Taylor Campers at Massing of the

Colors in Fort Worth on Nov. 10Once again this year our camp

had a presence at the annual Massing

of the Colors, sponsored by the local

group of the Military Order of the

World Wars.

This impressive ceremony

highlights the patriotism and sacrifice

Americans have given to our country

across the years.

Two of our members at left were

dressed in Revolutionary uniforms, in

recognition of their membership in

the Sons of the American Revolution:

Bobby Gresham and Ron Turner. A

third SCV member there who’s also

in both organizations is our adjutant,

James Alderman, who took the

photos. He is not shown here.

We had two men

in Confederate uni-

form…your editor at

lower left with the

deer-in-the-headlights

stare; and the normal-

looking person at

right is Compatriot

Steve Parnell, a friend

of ours who is a

member of the Dunn-

Holt - Midkiff SCV

#1441 Camp, based at

Midland.

Final Score: Installers 7, Casualties 0

The installers were Rich McCook (hand on rock), David Stewart

(checked shirt), Mike Edwards (red jacket), Mike Patterson (on the

ground) and our friend from church Andrew Hull (red toboggan).

Marilyn Patterson drove the rock to town and took the pictures. James

Myrick, president of the cemetery association, came to unlock the

gate and verify the grave site. By far the biggest rock we’ve ever set.

At right, Compatriot Mike Andrews and our church friend,

Andrew Hull, getting ready to set the marker for Nat Terry, Jr.

Andrew got the 125-pound stone out of the pickup and walked it to

the grave with no problems.

We did some careful calculations on the bigger stone and our best

guess is it weighs about 614 pounds.

As always, our thanks to Matt and Ryan Worthington and their

staff for making our marker program possible.

Nat Terry install, cont.

Neither Brig. Gen.

Nathaniel Terry (died in

1872) nor any of his

immediate family members

buried in Pioneer’s Rest

had ever gotten grave

markers.

At the same time we

also installed a marker

for Nat Terry Jr., who

was dead by 1870. He

served in the Confed-

erate Army in the 7th

Texas Cavalry.

Nathaniel Terry Sr. and Jr. stones dedicated

at Pioneer’s Rest on November 16Perfect weather and a nice crowd of interested folks.

Above: At left is James Myrick, President of the Pioneer’s Rest Cemetery Association.

The Color Guard for the day was made up of four men: Daniel Nation of the Lee

Camp holding the U. S. flag; Ryan Crain of the Lee Camp holding the First National

Confederate flag, David Hawkins of the Lee Camp holding the Texas flag, and Bill

Carrell of the Griffin Camp holding the Confederate Battle flag.

The three-man musket squad was made up of Mike Patterson (center of tree trunk),

Steve Parnell to his left, and Rich McCook, on the right end in this photo. Compatriot

Parnell is a member of the Dunn-Holt-Midkiff

SCV Camp 1441 of Midland, Texas. McCook

and Patterson are members of the Taylor Camp.

Diane Dyess (right) of the Julia Jackson United

Daughters of the Confederacy #141 placed a red

rose on each of the two graves we marked that

day. Diane is also a member of the Parson’s

Rose Chapter #9 of the Order of the Confederate

Rose.

Photos by

Ervin

Hauk

Terry marker dedications, cont.

Photos by Ervin Hauk

Terry marker dedications, cont.

Our thanks to Ervin Hauk of the Tarrant County Historical

Commission for the many excellent photos he sent us of this

occasion. He is also a member of the Pioneer’s Rest Cemetery

Association. He is at the extreme right in the photo below. We

regret that we could not run more of them.

We’re running the group photo in two parts, because we want to be

able to recognize everyone who made the effort to be there. The

gentleman on the left end is James Myrick, and the lady in the large

purple skirt is Debra Lochtrog. Kelly Miller is beside the tree,

beside Mike Patterson. Next is Steve Parnell. The three ladies in

front of the two men with flags are Nancy Hood, Keri-Dawn

Powers, and Diane Dyess. The two gentlemen with the flags are

Daniel Nation and Ryan Crain. All the ladies are UDC members.

Terry Dedications,

cont...

Terry Dedications,

cont.

The two gentlemen with the flags are David Hawkins and Bill Carrell.

The next two gentlemen are a father (Rocco) and his son who were just

walking by and stopped to see what was happening. They liked us enough

they stayed to have their photo taken with us. The lady in the brown suit is

Cecelia Van Doselaar (UDC), and behind and to the right of her is Rick

McCook. Beside Cecelia in the purple dress are Sheila Randolph (UDC) and

Stephanie Lane. Behind and between Sheila and Stephanie is Sonja Starnes

(UDC). The gentleman on the end is our talented photographer, Ervin Hauk.

Our apologies for not recognizing the oldest

We failed to recognize this important “guest” who was there at the founding of Fort

Worth, and who stood tall only a few feet away when Nat Terry was buried in 1872.

In 1922 Howard Peak (1856-1939), himself a

native son of one of Fort Worth’s pre-eminent

Confederate founders, wrote a valuable series of

articles published in the Fort Worth Star-

Telegram. The last one, which appeared on

October 15, mentions not only Nat Terry but this

particular post oak, too.

Howard W. Peak

“attendee” at Terry dedication service Nov. 16

Another hat being retired

Back at the October 2018 camp

meeting, I announced that I’d continue to

edit the newsletter through the December

2019 issue. Then it would be time to let

someone else take it.

In late 2010 I volunteered to take this

job because I wanted our camp to have

the best newsletter in the SCV. We may

not have attained that goal, but now we

to the ol’ hatrack

do have the different-est. I read many years ago that casual readers often

skip pages of only-text, so I stayed away from those when possible.

In the last year my part-time job has morphed into a full-time monster,

including many hours each week off the clock as well. I can’t see it

thunder, and I’m as deaf as a bat, and that doesn’t help. Happily, there

may be some help for the eyes coming up in mid-December.

I will still do what I can to be active in our camp, and I urge you to do

the same. Find something you like to do and can be depended upon to do.

I’ll continue to be the chaplain if that’s what y’all want, and I’ll continue to

keep us an active marker campaign

going as far as I can arrange help and

transportation.

I’ll also pledge to get one or two

items with pictures each month to the

lucky guy who takes over the job. No

one expects the next man to develop

adult-onset OCD to keep it going like

it's been.

Thanks for all your help and words

of support all these years. And now, to

borrow a phrase from Gen. Douglas

MacArthur, “Old editors never die,

they just…fade…away.”

…and another hat being put on an

already-busy head.

Our current SCV Camp

Commander, Ron Turner,

has been named President-

Elect of the Major K. M.

Van Zandt Chapter #6 of

the Sons of the American

Revolution, headquartered

in Fort Worth. Ron is

pictured at right holding

the flags at the Massing of

the Colors held November

10 in Fort Worth. That’s

our man Bob Gresham

beside him.

We met Ron several years ago at the historic Bear Creek

Cemetery in Euless when we did a program for their

association. The program dealt with the Confederates buried

in their cemetery. Ron was interested and intrigued and in

short order had joined our SCV camp. He’s also a member

of the cemetery association and of the General Society of the

War of 1812. Photo above left by James Alderman.

Two of the Taylor Camp’s most active

and talented members are also members

of the Frontier Brigade Band.

They are identified above. Although we most often see them in their roles as Civil War-

era musicians, they do other styles, including the Brass Connection including Kliene

Grenze Kapelle (which is “Frontier Brigade Band in German) (German music) in which

style they’ll also be appearing in this area in the near future.

Treat yourself ! You won’t regret it !

Terry

Theiss

Richard

McCook

Friday, Dec. 13 @ 7pm - Martin United Methodist Church

in Bedford. Brass Connection Christmas Concert.

Friday, Dec. 20 @ 6pm - Dallas Arboretum.

Brass Connection Christmas music.

Presentation by Dr. Jennifer Murray, Historian - Oklahoma State University

UNT Health Science Center, MET Building, Room 124, 1000 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth, TX

76107 Dinner: 6PM Program Starts at: 7PM

(Menu: Chicken Piccata with Julienne Vegetables, Roasted New Potatoes, Garden Salad and Desserts,

Cost: $13, RSVP to jimrosenthal5757@aol.com or by calling or texting 817-307-9263)

The Fort Worth Civil War Roundtable to feature

Presentation on General Meade

Dec. 10,

2019

General

George

Gordon

Meade

George Gordon Meade - great general? Grant's puppet? Was the Union victory at Gettysburg

because of his tactical genius or was he just lucky? Did he miss the opportunity to destroy Lee's

Army by not pursuing his foe after the battle or did he make the right decision to rest and regroup his

exhausted army? Why has Meade never received the recognition for heading the Army of the

Potomac from Gettysburg to the end at Appomattox? Bad PR? Sheridan? Personality? These and

many more questions will be answered by Dr. Jennifer Murray in her presentation.

Dr. Murray is an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University. She is the author of numerous

articles and the book On a Great Battlefield: The Making, Management, and Memory of Gettysburg

National Military Park, 1933-2013 This book on the Crown Jewel of the NPS is based on her

extensive research and her experience serving nine summers at the Park. It will be available for

purchase and signing at the meeting.

Two more

new road-

side flags in

Virginia

Read all about

them and more

at

http://vaflaggers.

blogspot.com/

Our sincerest thanks to:…Compatriot Steve Parnell of the Dunn-Holt-Midkiff SCV Camp 1441 of

Midland, Texas for helping in several of our activities this month. Thanks, too, to his

granddaughter, Carmyn Parnell.

… Ervin Hauk of the Tarrant County Historical Commission who took

and shared several photos of the Terry marker dedications in Pioneer’s Rest.

…James Myrick, President of the Pioneer’s Rest Cemetery Association,

who opened the gate for us on two Saturdays in connection with the Terry markers.

…the members of the Taylor Camp who took part in the Massing of the

Colors: Ron Turner, James Alderman, Bob Gresham, Mike Patterson…and Steve

Parnell, too. Dana Gresham lent her moral support.

….the same Taylor men as above who rode in the 2019 Fort Worth

Veterans Day Parade. Steve and Carmyn Parnell, too. Dana Gresham was there to

soak up some of the cold, too. Ron Turner’s wife, Jan, drove the truck pulling the trailer.

…the Taylor men who helped us install the Terry stones at Pioneer’s Rest

in October: Mike Edwards, Rich McCook, David Stewart, and Mike Patterson.

Marilyn Patterson drove the rocks and tools to town and took the photos. Andrew

Hull, a friend from the Bedford Church of Christ, went along to help with the heavy

lifting.

…Terry Theiss and Rich McCook who continue to represent us so well as

members of the Frontier Brigade Band.

…the SCV men who formed the color guard at Pioneer’s Rest: Daniel

Nation, Ryan Crain, and David Hawkins of the Lee Camp; and Bill Carrell of the

Griffin Camp.

…the SCV men who formed the musket squad at Pioneer’s Rest: Rich

McCook and Mike Patterson of the Taylor Camp and Steve Parnell of the Dunn-Holt-

Midkiff Camp.

…all the ladies of the UDC who helped us at Pioneer’s Rest. They are

identified in the photographs. Thanks especially to Diane Dyess and Sheila Randolph

who did lots of the legwork and politicking.

December’s Puzzle

Go to the URL shown above. You’ll find the puzzle in the shape the last

person there left it.

Click on “Play As” near the top of the page , then move the slider down to

180.

Click on “Start a New Game.” It seems to help this puzzler to change the

background color from time to time. Taking a break helps, too.

If you have any trouble getting these puzzles to work please email

mfpchat@yahoo.com

When you’re there, click on the icon at lower right and take it to full-

screen. It’ll give you more room to work and will make the pieces bigger.

https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=3f09ffa347a1&pieces=180

The Angel of Marye’s Heights,

by Don Stivers (1926-2009)

"To you, Sons of Confederate

Veterans, we will commit the

vindication of the cause for which

we fought. To your strength will be

given the defense of the

Confederate soldier's good name,

the guardianship of his history,

the emulation of his virtues, the

perpetuation of those principles

which he loved and which you

love also, and those ideals which

made him glorious and which you

also cherish. Remember, it is your

duty to see that the true history of

the South is presented to future

generations.”

CSA General Stephen Dill Lee