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Border Patrol Volume 4, Issue 2
February 22, 2016
Lee-Bourland Camp 1848
Newsletter
Commander’s Note:
Our camp’s Sweet Heart Soiree was our high-
light. It is always good to get together with SCV,
UDC and OCR friends around the 8th, 3rd, and 4th
Brigades. There is nothing like relaxing , having
some good food, good music and only concen-
trating on not peeing while you laugh. We almost
took a moment in time that “assaults to our
Southern Heritage” were not happening, to enjoy
ourselves. But when anyone started to have a
conversation, you could tell what was on our
minds. Take a look around the room and dance
floor, we were representing a very distinct period
in America’s history. An outsider might call it
“one sided”, but there is the distinction within
our very organizations’ names “Confederate”.
NO, we were not portraying any Northern Ball.
We were the sons and daughters of Confederate
Veterans having a soiree in Southern Hospitality
stile, which I would hope that our ancestors
would have enjoyed also.
The rest of the month has been taken up with
Mardi Gras parties , Ash Wednesday, birthdays,
valentines, Federal Holidays (thank you Northern-
ers, any holiday is a good holiday), anniversaries,
meeting registration dead lines, Lenten season
and lunches, bird houses, cat hairballs and any
thing else you can think of that makes this life in-
teresting with good health.
Last week I had three members in the hospital.
This week they are all out of the hospital. But one
is still surrounded with more nurses than you can
shake a stick at. Let’s keep Lloyd Epperson and
his wife Elida in our prayers.
Coming Events:
Mar 4—6 Irish Festival Fair Park Dallas
Mar 5 Confederate Battle Flag convoy around Ft. Worth to Denton
to McKinney to Dallas to Ft. Worth
Apl 2 Living History Day Camp Ford, Tyler, TX 9 am to 4 pm
Apl 9 Medal of Honor Parade, Gainesville, TX 10 AM
Apl 16 CV Memorial, Fairview Cemetery, Gainesville, TX 2 PM
APl 30 Doc Holiday Saints & Sinners downtown Denison
Apl ?? Confederate Memorial Day by UDC Dallas 6 Greenwood
Cemetery, Dallas, TX 2 PM (pending verification)
Apl 29-May 1 Jefferson Civil War Days, Jefferson, TX
May 7 Bonham Heritage Days, Bonham, TX 10 AM- 4 PM
May 13-14 Forts Muster, Ft. Worth Stockyards
May 28 Decatur-Maxwell-Murphy Cemetery Memorial Day,
opn 9am strt 10am (pending verification)
May 29 Rose Hill Cemetery Ardmore, OK 2 PM
Jun 3-5 SCV TX Division Reunion Kerrville, TX
Jun 25 Gilliland Grave Dedication Rosston, TX
Jul 4 Patriotic Songfest, First Presbyterian Church,
Gainesville, TX 6 PM hotdogs, 7 PM Singing
Jul 7-10 SCV National Reunion Richardson, TX
I’m going to put this article in this newsletter knowing full well
the print is at least 2 years old. But it is good information and
thanks to The Marshal News Messenger and Daylina Miller the
article here should stir up some current information about the
old gunpowder magazine. I could not find any other up to
date information. Waiting to hear from anyone.
Jefferson gunpowder magazine tours offered during candlelight homes event By Daylina Miller [email protected] Dec. 4, 2014 at 10 p.m.
In 1863, the Confederacy built three structures in Jefferson to store gunpowder that was manufactured 15 miles away in Marshall. The powder was loaded onto steamboats and shipped downstream to Confederate troops. On April 14, 1865, federal troops took over the little buildings and used them for troop encampment. Now in 2014, the Jefferson ordnance magazine, which sits on the bank of the Big Cypress Bayou bordering "Diamond Don" Rainey's property and train depot, is the only one left in Texas and one of few still stand-ing in the United States. A rare opportunity to see the magazine is being offered free by the Jefferson Historic Foundation during the 32nd Annual Candlelight Tour of Homes. Only small groups can be taken to the magazine so people interested in seeing the building must show up at candlelight headquarters at the Murphy Building, 116 W. Austin St., 30 minutes before each candlelight tour. Tour hours are 5 to 9 p.m. today, Saturday and Dec. 12-13, and 3 to 7 p.m. Dec. 11. In 2009, a flood of the bayou caused the bank in front of the powder magazine to erode within a few feet of the foundation. The threat of losing the structure in the next flood or heavy rain is looming. The JHF is submitting grants and collecting donations for $350,000 to build a re-tainer wall to prevent the building from being encroached by the river. In Au-gust, the United Daughters of the Confederacy gave the JHF a $12,000 grant to help preserve the site, but more is needed. "It will look like a wharf, a little bit," said Skip Torrans, vice president of the JHF. "We hope to have access off the water to do some tours but it won't be uni-versal access." Another issue, Torrans said, is the magazine is on private property so there is no regular public access. Polly and Frank Moren Jr. are the landowners, and JHF members said they hope to work out a deal with them to make the area more accessible for tours. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is conducting a fresh study of the river ban erosion issues. Torran said this is the first phase of a larger initiative. "We have a huge responsibility to save this thing," said Miriam Blair, JHF board member. "We have members all over East Texas and Louisiana who are trying to keep it from falling into the river." The building was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, and this past summer was listed in Preservation Texas' Most Endangered Historic Sites 2014 list.
"Ten feet square and nearly 15 feet tall, this brick building was con-structed with walls one foot thick at its lower level," Preservation Texas writes of the magazine on its website. "The walls include air spaces that formed a ventilation system to keep the interior brick dry and inside temperature stable." "More than 90 percent of the structure is original, with careful repairs undertaken in 1992. Serving a supply network linking Shreveport, Marshall and Tyler, the ordnance magazine in Jefferson was once part of a complex of buildings on the edge of town that have all but van-ished."
This is a good photo by T. Poriot. I do hope someone can tell me that
the gunpowder magazine is not at the bottom of that creek.
Members and Their Confederate Ancestor
Ansley, Reynolds: Pvt David Andrew Johnson Co K 39th
Inf AL
Armstrong, Chad & Charles: Col Jms G Bourland TX Border Rgt 8th Cv Red River of TX
Britain, Blaine B: Pvt Ambrose Sevier Latham Capt. Collins Co A Frontier Cv TX
Britain, Clint D: Pvt Ambrose Sevier Latham Capt. Collins Co A Frontier Cv TX
Cassidy, Bill: (Fthr side) Pvt Hugh Cassidy Co F 26th Inf SC
(Mthr side) Jerimiah Hurst 8th Cv GA
Davis, Brian: Pvt Josiah Davis Brannen’s Co 12th Wrght’s Cv State GDS GA
Dillard, Robert: Pvt Wm Reece Bourland Co H 9th Cv TX
Dunbar, Thomas: Pvt Thomas Goodrich Dunbar Co B 14th Inf TN
Epperson, Lloyd: Pvt Leander Molinton Epperson Co D 2nd
Mntd Rifles AK
Fenner, Farrell & Jameson: Pvt Houston Warren Roberts Co F 16th Inf AL
Hamilton, Gary: Pvt Jms Thomas Victory Co D 1st WP Lane’s Partisan’s Rangers TX
Herman, James: Sgt Wm M Hermann Co G 6th Inf AL
Mann, Jerry P: Pvt Alfred Mann Co A Fitzhugh Rgt 16th CV TX
Montgomery, Ronnie: 2nd
Lt. John Calvin Montgomery, SR. 1st Mntd Rifles TX
Newton, Norman: Pvt Charles Samuel Newton, Capt Jms P Douglas’ Co Art TX
Tyler SCV Camp’s namesake is Jms P Douglas who is from Tyler, TX
Peek, James: Pvt Jms W Peak Co F 8th
Dibrell’s Cv TN
Reed, David: Pvt Rueben Blankenship Co D 18th Inf AL
Reed, Hunter: Pvt Michael Lorance 2nd
Co Cv TN
Riley, Bill: Pvt Wm Chisum Co A 38th
Inf TN consolidated to 22nd
Batt
Roundtree, Bob: Pvt Jesse Ballard Roundtree Co E Morgan’s Rgt Cv TX
Scott, Timothy: 2nd
Lt Joseph B Scott Co E 10th Cv MO
Scott, Tyler Alec: 2nd
Lt. Joseph B Scott Co E 10th Cv MO
Scott, Truman Lee, Cadet: 2nd
Lt. Joseph B Scott Co E 10th Cv MO
Scott, Tucker Dwayne, Cadet: 2nd
Lt. Joseph B Scott Co E 10th Cv MO
Scott, Trevor Ray, Cadet: 2nd
Lt. Joseph B Scott Co E 10th Cv MO
Thompson, Johnny: Pvt Wm Rufus Sypert Co E 2nd
Inf TX
Tisdale, William: Sgt Augustus William Atwood Co G 8th Inf MS
Waters, Charles: (Fthr side) Pvt Jms M Waters Co G 47th Inf GA
(Mthr side) 5th Sgt George M Aston Co C 9
th Inf TX
White, Christopher John: Capt Ambrose B White Co D Bourland’s Frontier Cv Rgt TX
White, Joe: Capt Mack Wilson Loyd Co H 5th
Cv AL
Williams, George: Pvt Shelton Linzey Rutherford Co C Terry’s Reg 1st Cv TX
Gainesville, TX Cooke Lee-Bourland Camp #1848 Cmdr. Charlie Waters 940-665-8502 [email protected] 1
st Lt – Lloyd Epperson
2nd
Lt – Norman Newton Adj. Joe White 940-902-1393 Meets the 3
rd Thursday of the month at 7 PM
The Woolf Den Family Restaurant 1901 W California St / Hwy 51 Gainesville, Texas 940-665-9653
Border Patrol is the official newsletter for the Sons of Confederate Veterans
Lee-Bourland Camp 1848 and is intended for the sole purpose of keeping the
camp members and friends of the camp informed to the activities and news of
Camp 1848. Statements in this newsletter are those of the author and may not
reflect the opinions of the Lee-Bourland Camp, Texas Division, National Sons
of Confederate Veterans or the editor. Within articles or quotes written by
outside authors mistakes in spelling, grammar or sentence structure are strictly
those of the author and may be left as is.
SEE YA’LL IN THE FIELD
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