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Battle of Carthage The first major land engagement of Lincolns War

Union Col. Franz Sigel

1,100 regular forces

Confederate Claiborne Jackson, Governor of Missouri

4,000 armed irregular forces

2.000 unarmed recruits

The Battle of Carthage took place eleven days before Bull Run. It was a small mobile affair that spread

over a ten mile area of maneuver. The Battle of Carthage State Park is sited on the final battlefield position.

This site was the Union camp the night before the battle and the Confederate camp the night after.

The Confederate forces were on the retreat from a series of skirmishes with a larger Union force under

Brig Gen Nathanial Lyon. Troops under Col. Sigel were able to move much faster than the bulk of the

forces under Gen. Lyon and arrived at Carthage ahead of the rest of the union army. The Confederates

learned that the smaller Union was force was separated and camped along a creek outside Carthage and

moved to attack before the rest of the Union forces could arrive on scene.

Alerted by pickets of the Confederate advance, Col. Sigel moved out to meet them on ground of his

choosing. Jackson sent his unarmed recruits on a flanking maneuver round the union position. Seeing the

flanking movement, and not realizing that the forces were unarmed, Sigel conducted a fighting withdrawal

and successfully fell back to their original camp site where they made their stand until nightfall, and then

completed their disengagement in good order.

The union suffered 44 casualties and the Confederates 77.

The Southern forces immediately declared victory because they

held the field but they failed to destroy or significantly damage

the Union force which had been their objective. The battle did

succeed in giving the Confederates some time to train and equip

their forces in Missouri.

B.G. Albert Pike Camp #1439 Gen Lewis A Armistead Camp # 1846 Cols Lewis & Harrison Camp # 1854 Gen William Steele Camp # 1857 Major Thomas J. Key Camp # 1920 South Kansas Camp # 2064

Volume XIV. Issue 7

July 1011

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

1. Battle of Carthage

2,3, Commander‟s Corner

4. Around the Division

5. Division Calendar

6. Div officers & Com chairs

7 Battle of Carthage/ Recruiting

8. Last Roll Call Convention

Photos

9. 2011 National Renuion

Camp Info

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Delivered in Emporia, Kansas,

Saturday Last by His Son,

Compatriot Sterling T. Price

My Fellow Compatriots,

My father, Maj. R. Scott Price USAR (Ret.) of rural Abilene, would like to thank each and every member of

the SCV's Kansas Division for the honor of being chosen to lead the 150st anniversary of the War Between the

States or as our Yankee cousins refer to it, the Civil War.

Dad has been in the hospital since Valentine's Day and was released to go home late Thursday afternoon. He is

sad to report that while he grows stronger each and every day, he is not yet strong enough to join us here today. I

am however, happy to report that is expected to make a full recovery.

In 1861, like most Southerners my great, great grandfather Joseph H. Price wanted to be left alone to raise his

family. He, like his father before him, was a barrel maker in the city of Baltimore when in early 1861 during the

so-called secession crisis, he witnessed the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry Regiment fire several volleys in to an

angry crowd of citizens killing men women and children.

The next morning the city's mayor and chief of police were arrested by the Yankees and he learned that scores

of state legislators were being detained by Federal authorities to prevent them for voting on the question of

Maryland‟s proposed secession. ordinance.

It was also announced that the sacred corner stone of our Constitution and the Bill of Rights‟, the writ of habeas

corpus had been suspended indefinitely by the newly elected Yankee president.

The bottom line Abraham Lincoln had already begun to shred our nation‟s beloved Constitution and its system

of laws. It would get much worse especially out here near the Kansas-Missouri border. So, Uncle Joe borrowed a

southern friend‟s horse, rode into northern Virginia and joined Col. Lige White's 35th Virginia Cavalry Battalion.

This until was commonly referred to by both friends and foes alike as the Comanches; a famous outfit that boasted

three companies of exiled Marylanders.

Now in 2011, we are now standing on the threshold of the greatest challenge the South has faced since 1861.

Once again just as 150 years ago we must prepare anew to defend our rights and just as 150 years ago, all that we

ask is to be left alone.

The forces of political correctness as well as our traditional enemies are gathering to fight our efforts to

commemorate our Confederate ancestors and the ideals that they fought and, in so many cases, died for. Even as

we speak, our self-proclaimed foes have released their political minions and their winged attack monkeys in the

national media to continue their harassment of those of us who have the courage and grit to stand up to them.

As for myself and my house, we choose to stand our ground against those who have discovered that it can very

well prove to very rewarding for their careers and/or various agendas to continue to wave the bloody shirt. Let me

stress that our heritage organization has no animosity to any group or individuals. All that we ask is that to be

allowed to exercise the rights guaranteed to all citizens of our nation. Namely, freedom of speech in both words

and symbols, freedom to assemble peacefully, the freedom to redress grievances, and if need be, the right to face

those who accuse us falsely in an open court of law.

Why is it that the very people calling to tolerance and inclusion strive constantly to destroy the things we

cherish and hold to be true? If they take away our right to wave the Stars and Bars on the flimsy legalese

proposition that it is a public nuisance or a provoking gesture, what comes next? What other old freedoms and

beloved traditions will we be forced to sacrificed on the blood-stained altar of political correctness?* It must stop

here and it must stop now.

If the issue is slavery, I would like to remind our northern cousins that several states that remained in the Union

during the war also embraced the South‟s peculiar institution. A roll call of these states include Delaware, West

Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri as well as portions of the five civilized tribes of the Indian Territory, now

Oklahoma. Heck, citizens of New Jersey still held just under 100 blacks in bondage as late as 1861.

Out West, Native American tribes in New Mexico, Arizona and Utah continued to suffer slave raids from

Mexican slavers until the time of Kit Carson. Let us not forget that numerous tribes that populated the West and

the Plains also captured and enslaved their enemies, particularly women and children.

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And what should we think of the wealthy northern factory and mine owners, many of whom opposed slavery

in theory, but who felt no sympathy for the thousands of Irish men, women and children who toiled for slave

wages in the celebrated northern industries until they were maimed or died? Ah yes, I almost forgot, the winners

write the text books don‟t they?

Perhaps all those who wish us ill should consider removing the motes from their own eyes before insisting on

telling others how to live their lives. It seems that every group in our nation basks in and enjoys the rights and

freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution save one, Southerners, be they black, white, Hispanic. Brave men

all who chose to defend their homes. Each and every day we read or watch on television another outrage heaped

upon us, our families and our ancestors. I say enough is enough and that either the words in the Bill of Rights

apply to all citizens or they don't. It is that simple.

Kansas ended up a Federal State during the War Between the States sending its dark minions such as Senator

Jim Lane, Doc Jennison and William Montgomery to wreck havoc among their neighbors in Missouri and the

Indian Territory. But let us also remember that after the war, Kansas became a haven for destitute Confederate

refugees fleeing the so-called "Reconstruction" of the South. The results of our very own Operation Locate testify

to the number of southerners who decided to head West.

President Harry Truman's mother wept as she and her family was driven from their western Missouri home in

1864 as Kansas „red legs‟ looted then burned their farm. When her son became president of the United States in

1945, she refused to stay in the White House's Lincoln Bedroom.

Like our sires before us we are not hoping for or seeking a confrontation of any kind but, if our political foes

come looking for trouble, to quote General Gordon Sullivan, a former commander of Kansas' Big Red One, "They

will soon discover that they have come to the right place."

We members of the Son‟s of Confederate Veterans Kansas Division prove daily that we have the desire, talent

and doggedness to defend ourselves and the things that we hold to be sacred. Like the warning sign posted on the

lion‟s cage in the old Paris Zoo,”The lion is a vicious animal. When attacked it defends itself.”

Once again, our goal in NOT to refight the war. All that we ask is to be left alone and to have our beliefs and

traditions respected. And yes like that famous yellow banner warns now as it did in 1776, "Don't Tread on Me."

Now I'd like to talk about our beloved Kansas Division and issues that are staring us square in the face in the

here and now. Our ranks have been depleted by death, transfers and a kind of weariness that comes from being the

camp's "go to guy" for too long.

We need to raise a new generation of Neo-Confederate leaders to take up the torch and lead the charge to

protect our heritage into the future. I, like my father, am a member of the Lewis A. Armistead Camp that averages

the youngest overall membership in the division. We must take advantage of the SCV's cadet program and bring

our young men into the fold at an early age. We at the state level will do everything in our power to assist you in

this quest.

My father will be meeting with the outgoing commander and his staff as soon as practical to discuss staffing

positions and possible alternate attendees to the upcoming SCV National Convention in Montgomery.

It is imperative that we not only maintain the number of camps active in our division but that we strive to

expand across our land that was once proudly known as the „Soldier State.‟ Two decades in the military taught me

that nothing stands still. If you are not going forward, you are sliding backwards. I am sad to say that I have seen

too many SCV camps across the South that were ignored by their members until they simply went away...

I expect to attend meetings at each of your camps as the year progresses and other heritage related event.

I intend to discover the fate of Rev. Larkin Skaggs (killed in the raid on Lawrence) body and if he has a grave.

If so, is it marked and if not, to raise a memorial stone to his memory.

I intend to have the issued placed on the 2012 ballot in Dickinson County asking that Mud Creek once again be

called by its original name, Armistead Creek, its discoverer and commander of Fort Riley.

Armistead won undying fame on July 3, 1863, during the Battle of Gettysburg when he led the portion of the

Confederate Army across open terrain to capture the famous stone wall and Alonzo Cushing‟s Federal artillery

battery before he was shot down. However his valor gained the South nothing for behind him lay over 5,000 of

General Pickett‟s brave troops dead or dying. Flesh and blood and valor can only accomplish so much when

confronted with the Industrial Revolution‟s shot and shell To continue to produce an informative and timely news

letter and to secure the talents of a dedicated web master for the division's web page.

Once again thank you honoring me and my family with this opportunity to lead our people in the challenging

days ahead. To quote brother Blutto, “This could the best time of our lives...." So mote it be.

Your Humble Servant

Richard Scott Price Ks Div Cmdr.

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Please help the Division welcome its new elected officers

Division Commander Richard Scott Price

Leutenant Division Commander Kyle E Erickson

Border Brigade Commander Charles W Walthall

Indian Brigade Commander Thomas Westbrook See complete list of

Division officers on page 6

Richard Scott Price is back home from the Hospital and

recuperating just fine. He is already settling in as Commander and

doing his duties as needed.

Denver and Jo Erickson is proud to announce the engagement of

their daughter Samantha Jo Erickson to Zachary Nikkles. No

immediate plans are made at this time.

Confederate Enlistment

New Recruits

B.G. Albert Pike Camp # 1439

None

Lewis A. Armistead Camp # 1847 None

Col’s Lewis & Harrison Camp #1854 Art Anderson

Sgt, Drury Lacy Winfield, H Company 2nd Reg. Mississippi Inf.

William Steele Camp# 1857 None Maj. Thomas J. Key Camp # 1920 None

South Kansas Camp # 2064 None

June Camp Agendas

B.G. Albert Pike Camp # 1439

July 09

No Report

Lewis A. Armistead Camp # 1847 July 09

No Report

Col’s Lewis & Harrison Camp #1854

July 16

Division Commander Scott Price

William Steele Camp# 1857 July 07

No Report

Maj. Thomas J. Key Camp # 1920

July 07 Speaker Paul Petersen will discuss his book

"Quantrill at Lawrence: The Untold Story

South Kansas Camp # 2064

"The Battle of Newtonia"

"Party in the Park" at Swope Park at the Battlefield Museum.

10:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday July 9. Recruiting/Display

table, musket firing demos, cannon firing demos

Maj Thomas J Key Camp has Three members to attend

SCV National Convention at Montgomery, Alabama

Dispatches from the Front

Intelligence from

the Wire… Events

in Kansas Division

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JULY CALANDER

Thomas Jefferson John Hancock

Red Letters Generals Blue Letters Camp Meetings Black Letters Camp Members

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1

Maj. Thomas J. Key

Camp Meets

David Peterie

B-Day Key Camp

2

Wendell Williams

B-Day Key Camp

3

B.G. Richard B.

Garnett

Death 1863 Gettysburg

4 Independence Day

James M Jackson B-Day Col Lewis &

Harrison Camp

B.G. James Pettigrew 1828 Tyrrell Co, North

Carolina

5

B. Gen Lewis A.

Armistead Death 1863 Gettysburg

6

Gen William Steele

Camp Meets

7

8

South Kansas

Camp Meets

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10 B.G. Albert Pike

Camp Meets

Gen Lewis Armistead

Camp Meets

B. G. Henry L Benning

Death 1875 Columbus, GA

BG Paul J Semmes

Death

1863 Martinsburg, W.

Virginia

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Rick Bullock

B-Day Key Camp

12 13

Gen Nathen

Bedford Forest

B-Day 1821 Chapel Hill, TN

14

Larry Wiezorik B-Day Col Lewis &

Harrison Camp

15 16 17

Cols Lewis &

Harrison Camp

Meets

B.G. James Pettigrew

Death 1863

18

Maj William D Pender

Death 1863 Staunton, Virginia

19

Larry McCrary

B-Day Key Camp

20 21

Matt Myers

B-Day Key Camp

22

Warren Stidham

B-Day Pike Camp

23 24

Maj. Gen Lafayette

McLaws Death 1897 Savanna, Georgia

25 26

B.G. John M. Jones

B-Day 1820 Charlottesville, Virginia

27

John Tyson

B-Day Pike Camp

28

B.G. James H. Lane

Death 1833 Mathews Court

House, Virginia

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30 Maj. George E.

Pickett Death 1875

Norfolk, Virginia

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First Battle of Bull Run Seven Days Battle Gettysburg Battle of Carthage Missouri July 21, 1861 June 25, 1862 July 1-3 1863 July 5, 1861

Confederate Victory Confederate Victory Union Victory Missouri State Guard Victory

Battle of Murfreesboro Battle of Blackburns ford Battle of Boonsboro July 13, 1862 July 18, 1861 July 8, 1863

Confederate Victory Confederate Victory Inconclusive

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OFFICERS, COMMITTEES, CAMPS

Division Commander: Lt. Division Commander: Division Adjutant: Past Division Commanders:

Richard Scott Price Kyle E Erickson Paul Honaker John Handley: 1999-2000

2926 Jeep Rd 3285 Munson Av 4109 SW 29th James Spiecher: 2000-2002

Abilene, Kansas 67410 Topeka, Kansas. 66604 Topeka, Kansas. 66614 Jesse Estes: 2002-2003

(785) 234-8313 (785) 273-1253 (785) 286-0214 Jon Jenkins: 2003-2005

scott_price@rocketmail.com southerncalvary@yahoo.com bordereb@cox.net Charles Walthall: 2005-2007

Denver L Erickson: 2007-2011

Division Chief of Staff: Division Judge Advocate: Division Historian: Division Chaplain

Jesse Estes Simon (Chip) Bucknder IV Jesse Estes Tyrone Williams 702 Plum St. 11617 Hemlock Drive 702 Plumb 3708 Rose

Wamego, Kansas. 66547 Overland Park, Kansas 66210 Wamego, Kansas 66547 Leavenworth, Kansas. 66048

(785) 456-2695 (314) 634-7320 (785) 456-2695 (913) 727-2701

ksconfed@wamego.net www.thebucknerhome.com ksconfed@wamego.net

Division Surgon: Division Investigator: Division Quartermaster:

Dr. Robert K. Norton VACANT VACANT

47858 N. Portwest Court Wichita, Kansas 67204

Cols. Lewis & Harrison Camp #1854 BG Lewis Armistead Camp #1847 BG William Steele Camp #1857

Camp Commander Camp Commander Camp Commander Pro Temp

Denver L Erickson Richard Scott Price Neal Hanley

190 NW Hawthorn 2926 Jeep Rd. 712 Canyon View Drive

Topeka, Kansas. 66606 Abilene, Kansas 67410 Lansing, Kansas 66043-6721

(785)234-8313 (785) 598-2410 (913) 250-5577

derickson18@cox.net scott_price@rocketmail.com neal_hanley@yahoo.com

Adjutant Paul Honaker Adjutant Jesse Estes Adjutant Jack Stewart

5200 NW Arroyo Dr. 702 Plum St. 131 Willow Dr Topeka, Kansas. 66618 Wamego, Kansas. 66547 Lansing, Kansas. 66403

(785) 272-4912 (785) 456-2695 (816) 330-3316

bordereb@cox.net ksconfed@wamego.net toothjebvol@hotmail.com

BG Albert Pike Camp #1439 Major Thomas J Key Camp#1920 South Kansas Camp #2064

Camp Commander Camp Commander Camp Commander

Richard Dame James Spiecher Kevin Ivey

2207 Horseshoe Circle 7325 Oakview St 1207 N 9TH Street

Derby, Kansas 67037-8657 Shawnee, Kansas. 66216 Garden City, Kansas 67846-4219

(316) 789-1978 (913) 962-9986 (620) 276-9275

raddame@yahoo.com colspike@hotnmail.com k_Ivey@cox.net

Adjutant John Handley Adjutant Heath Roland Adjutant Dick Croft

856 Waddington 2824 Oakview Street 11017 S. 151st West

Wichita, Kansas 67212 (913) 334-9367 (620) 584-2691

(316) 722-3974 Kansas City, Kansas 66109 Clearwater, Kansas. 67206

pjhjr@juno.com hroland67@hotmail.com dc@sktc.net

BRIGADES

Indian Brigade Commander: Border Brigade Commander: Thomas Westbrook Charles W. Walthall

Wichita, KS 76278 Blue Springs, Mo.

(316) 773-6636 (785) 272-6291

whetwestbrook@cox.net walthallcharles@hotmail.com

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Battle of Carthage

The Battle of Carthage, also known as the Battle of

Dry Fork, took place at the beginning of Lincolns War

on July 5, 1861, in Jasper County, Missouri.

The experienced Colonel Franz Sigel commanded

1,100 Federal soldiers intent on keeping Missouri within

the Union. The Missouri State Guard was commanded by

Governor Claiborne F. Jackson himself and numbered

over 4,000 unorganized, inexperienced soldiers, along

with 2,000 unarmed troops who did not participate in the

battle.

The battle was rather meaningless from a tactical or

strategic view, though it was deemed a victory by the

Missouri State Guard. Carthage played a part in

determining Missouri's course during the war, as it

helped spark recruitment for the Southern regiments.

Political views in Missouri were divided before the

War. St. Louis and its surrounding counties generally

sympathized with the Northern states because that region

was connected economically with North. The area also

had few slaves and contained a large German immigrant

population, most of whom opposed slavery.

Missouri Governor Claiborne F. Jackson was pro-

Southern, and the rest of the state was very heavily

divided. Publicly Jackson tried to stay neutral, but he was

suspected by the Union men of secretly preparing the

state militia to seize the Federal Arsenal in St. Louis.

In April 1861, after the firing on Fort Sumter, U.S.

President Abraham Lincoln called for troops from all of

the states to defeat the Confederacy. Missouri was asked

to send four regiments. Governor Jackson refused the

request. Instead, he called up the Missouri State Militia,

possibly to seize the St. Louis Arsenal.

If this was his intention, it was thwarted by the newly

appointed commander of the arsenal, Captain Nathaniel

Lyon of the 2nd U. S. Infantry.

Lyon was an abolitionist and had plans of his own for

the arsenal. He used its weapons to arm a Radical

Republican paramilitary organization called the Wide

Awakes.

To prevent the secession favoring governor and his

supporters from seizing the arms, Lyon secretly had most

of the arsenal's weapons moved across the Mississippi

River to Illinois. He then surrounded the state militia's

camp, forced them to surrender, and unwisely started

from there and marched them as prisoners through St.

Louis, inadvertently inciting a deadly riot (the Camp

Jackson Affair.)

The action drew great protests from Missourians, and

even representatives of the City of St. Louis petitioned

Lincoln for Lyon's dismissal. Lyon, however, was

politically connected to Postmaster General Montgomery

Blair. Blair arranged for Lyon's promotion to brigadier

general and saw that he was given command of the Army

of the West in place of Gen. William S. Harney, a

moderate.

Creek coming out of the ground The rocks contain caves. The Battle Paralleled the creek in Carthage, MO.

These caves were Explored by

the soldiers before the battle but

otherwise didn't play any real part

in the events.

On June 10, 1861, Lyon personally met with Governor Jackson in an attempt to resolve their differences in a

"gentlemanly" manner. The conference proved futile, with Lyon storming out of the room and declaring that the war was

on. Lyon moved his Army of the West up the Missouri River to capture the state capital at Jefferson City, leaving

General Thomas Sweeny to take steps to move his troops out of St. Louis.

Sweeny was delayed due to logistical problems, so Col. Franz Sigel took command of the Federal advance. On June

12 he started to move his First and Second Battalions, along with 5 infantry companies, 2 rifle companies, and an

artillery battery towards Springfield.

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The Missouri State Guard retreated to Boonville, where a

pivotal skirmish took place on June 17. Lyon quickly

took the town and chased the Missouri State Guard south.

Again due to logistics, Lyon could not keep up with the

retreating Guardsmen. Another group of State

Guardsmen in Lexington also moved south under

Sterling Price, after learning of the defeat in Boonsville.

Sigel‟s troops arrived in Springfield and quickly took the

town. They prepared to march to Carthage, hoping to

catch up with the retreating State Guardsmen. Jackson‟s

and Prices‟s units met in Lamar on July 3 and started to

organize. Jackson‟s army grew to 6,000 men, a large

number of whom joined along the march south.

However, the force in Lamar was for the most part armed

only with hunting rifles, shotguns, knives, or nothing at

all. The next day, July 4, Sigel arrived at Carthage with

his 1,100 men.

Learning that Sigel had encamped at Carthage, Governor

Jackson took command and made plans to attack the

smaller but better armed Union force. On the morning of

July 5, Jackson marched his green soldiers south. The

rival armies met 10 miles north of Carthage, and the

State Guard raised two Confederate stars and bars flags

on either side of their line, which stretched over half a

mile. Sigel‟s men provided an impressive display as they

formed a line of battle and moved within 800 yards of the

State Guard troops.

Opening the action with his artillery, Sigel closed to the

attack. Jackson replied his own artillery. Both sides then

engaged in some skirmishing. However, spotting a large

Confederate force—actually all unarmed recruits—

moving into the woods on his left, he feared they would

turn his flank. He ordered a retreat. The Confederates

pursued, but Sigel conducted a successful rearguard

action. By evening, Sigel was back in Carthage. Under

the cover of darkness, he retreated further to Sarcoxie.

The Battle of Carthage had little strategic meaning, but

pro-Southern elements in Missouri, anxious for any good

news, celebrated their first victory.

The battle also marks the only time a sitting U.S. State

governor has led troops in the field, and then, against the

Union

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Kansas Division Color/Honor Guard Available

Compatriot Gerald V. Spaur of the BG Albert Pike Camp #1439 is suited and ready for the occasion.

Gerald is prepared for the opportunity to be present as a Color Guard for your event, or to take on the

responsibility of Honor Guard for the passing of a family member, friend or compatriot where an honor

Guard is needed.

Gerald will go anywhere in Kansas and be available for any and all Military services for compatriots, family

members, and friends. Feel free to contact Gerald at 2947 Walnut Wichita Kansas 67217-3128

Phone: 316-524-2555

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LAST ROLL CALL

PAUL BRUCE GRAVES

Graves, Paul Bruce, 85, loving husband, brother, father, grandfather, great grandfather, passed away June 6, 2011,

Wichita. Retired City of Wichita Traffic Engineer (1957-1985); Private Consultant Forensic Traffic and Transportation

Engineer (1985-1997). Born Nov. 5, 1925, Oklahoma City to Willie M. (Froneberger) and Daniel M. Graves; youngest

of 3 brothers. Graduated Norman H.S. 1943. Married sweetheart Billie Jane Hacker 1947. Honorably served his

country enlisting US Navy 1943 during WW II; re-enlisted 1946 US Naval Reserve including active duty Korean War

1950-1951, Aircraft Carrier CVE 115 U.S.S. Bairoko, US Navy Seabees; honorably discharged 1954. Recipient of

numerous US military medals. Earned BS of Civil Engineering OU 1955. Life Member VFW (Commander Post 112),

DAV, American Legion, Sons of Confederate Veterans. Past-President of MOVITE. Paul was a great leader, teacher,

husband, father and friend, very proud to be an American, honored to serve his country, family and ensuring the

roadways of Wichita were safe. He loved family, laughter, friends, was an outstanding bowler and ruthless at cards! He

thrived on OU football, proud to be an OU alum. Preceded in death by his parents, beloved wife Billie, and loving

brother Daniel Graves. Survived by three daughters, Linda, Catherine, Paula; brother Aaron; cousin Merritt; 5

grandchildren; 5 great grandchildren. Services will be held, Sat., June 18, 2011, 3:00pm, Resthaven Chapel. Tributes

may be sent to the family via www.resthavenmortuary-cemetery.com.

Norman Joy Doug McGovern aka Sterling Price (son of Richard

aka Gen Robert E Lee Alexander Garner & Matthew Brady Scott Price) receives his fathers

Commanders Ribbon from out going

Commander Denver L Erickson

This years convention was a compete success. Thanks to all who assisted in setting this up. Friday night was

a big success with the showing of “Song of the South”. And Oratory Contest with the two participants

Commander Mark Otey of the Gen Lewis A Armistead Camp and Denver Erickson Past Division

Commander.

Both men did an excellent Job portraying John Wilkes Booth

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CAMP MEETINGS GEN. ALBERT PIKE CAMP #1439 MAJOR THOMAS J. KEY CAMP #1920

LOCATION: Ryan‟s Steak House LOCATION: Zarda Bar-B-Q

3323 North Rock Road. Wichita, Kansas 11931 W 87th

St. Lenexa, Kansas.

DATE: Second (2ND

) Saturday each month DATE: First (1st) Thursday each month

TIME: 11:30 am fellowship 12:30 Meeting TIME: 6:30 pm. fellowship, 7:00pm. Meeting

COLONELS LEWIS & HARRISON CAMP #1854 SOUTH KANSAS CAMP #2064

LOCATION: Westside Christian Church, LOCATION: Rockwell Branch Library Meeting

432 SW Lindenwood, Topeka, Kansas. 5939 E 9th

Street, Wichita, Kansas.

DATE: Third (3rd

) Saturday each Month DATE: Second 2nd

Thursday each Month

TIME: 10:00am. TIME: 6:00 pm.

GEN. LEWIS A. ARMISTEAD CAMP #1847 GEN. WILLIAM STEELE CAMP #1857

LOCATION: Public Library Technical Conference Ctr. Rm. LOCATION: Bann Thai Restaurant

301 East Elm, Salina, Ks. 301 S. 4th St., Leavenworth, KS 66048.

DATE: Second (2nd

) Saturday each Month DATE: Second (2nd

) Thursday each Month

TIME 1:00-1:30 fellowship, 1:00-2:30 Meeting TIME: 6:00 pm. Fellowship 7:00 pm. Meeting

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The Kansas Division

Sons of Confederate Veterans

190 NW Hawthorn St.

Topeka, Kansas. 66606

COMPATRIOT