"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.”

Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, UCV Commander

General

In this edition…

Jake Donelson: The

Confederate Rooster

Updates from the Camp

Jefferson Davis Statue Rededication

Volume XXVII, Issue X “Wherever you are across the Confederacy, Southern Heritage is there for you!” October 2020

3x (2018, 2019, 2020) Tod Carter Award Best TN Division Newsletter

Colonel William M. Bradford & Colonel James G. Rose

Sons of Confederate Veterans, Camp 1638 - Morristown/Mossy Creek, TN

“Forwarding the Colors and Keeping the Charge since 1993”

Left to right standing: General James Connor, General Martin W. Gary, General John Bankhead

Magruder, General Robert D. Lilley, General P.G.T. Beauregard, General A.R. Lawton, General Henry A. Wise, General Joseph L. Brent

Left to right seated: Blacque Bey, Turkish Minister to the United States, General Robert E.

Lee, Philanthropist George Peabody, Philanthropist W. W. Corcoran, Lawyer James

Lyons

Reports From Leadership…

I hope this newsletter finds everyone safe and healthy. This past weekend we set up at the Hazzard Fest in Bulls Gap and the crowd was tremendous. The camp did great in sales and had very good PR. Thank you to everyone who came and participated. Our next meeting will be on October 31 at noon and we will be meeting at Bethesda for our program. We look forward to seeing everyone then and please stay safe.

Sincerely  Roy S Lovin Jr Camp Commander  Bradford Rose Camp 1638

Commander Roy Lovin, Jr.

Camp Officers Commander: Roy Lovin, Jr.

Lt. Commander: Jordy Barnette

Adjutant & Editor: Joshua Cameron

Judge Advocate: Mike Beck

Quartermaster: Kevin Witherell

Surgeon: Bobby Turley

Sergeant at Arms: Bill Henderson

Color Sergeant: Bryan Green

Historians: Chaplains: David Cornell Matthew Brown Joe Gibson Roy Lovin, Jr. Joshua Cameron Jordy Barnette

Camp Website: www.bradfordrose1638.com

Headquarters

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Legends of the South

Camp Calendar

October 31, 2020 Camp meeting at 12 pm (noon) at Bethesda Cemetery.

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Dispatch from the Front: Bradford-Rose Camp

Bradford-Rose Members Receive Awards

Members of the Bradford-Rose Camp received Division and National Honors at the September meeting. Terry Lynn Harrell was awarded the SCV Meritorious Service Award, Roy Lovin, Jr. was awarded the SCV Leadership Award, and Mike Beck was

awarded the SCV Distinguished Service Award and the Tennessee Division Icon Award.

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The Confederate Flag by W. Earl Douglas

An article written by a black newspaper writer in Charleston, SC in the 1970s regarding the Confederate Flag. Here’s a man who “got it”. By W. Earl Douglas

Alas, it has also brought heartburn to this black writer, who cannot buy the socialist philosophy of the Garrisons and Sumners of yesterday or today, and would rather wave a Confederate battle flag as a symbol of striving for independence than a food stamp or welfare check, which symbolize the hell of defeat more pronounced than that received in any war. I cannot be convinced that Southern independence meant only the perpetuation of slavery, because history of the truthful kind tells me otherwise. The Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederacy forbade the importation of slaves. How then was slavery the motivating force behind the thrust for Southern independence? How did black and white slave owners exist side by side in this region, which was painted by abolitionists as one of black and white hostility? Why were there always more free Negroes in the slave South than in the so-called free North of the abolitionists? Such questions remain unanswered . . . Whites and blacks were partners in the destiny of the South and not (as the Uncle Tom’s Cabin mentality of the abolitionists would have had us believe) only as master and slave. Today over a century since that much heralded emancipation, it is here in the land of the unfurled Confederate battle flag where Negro progress stands above that achieved in any other region of the country. For it is here, in the heartland of the old Confederacy, where over 70 percent of all black-owned housing is to be found and where this nation’s only viable black economic middle class exists—the Southern black farmer.

. . . The real tragedy of the Confederate battle flag is that Southerners, white and black, have permitted it to be driven between them like a wedge, separating them from a common goal. The racism so evident in this controversy is not the flying of the flag but that we’ve permitted it to be designated as pro-white and anti-black. I am reminded that it was my grandfather and grandmother who kept the home fires burning while the Confederacy waged its war. Which is why I cannot view loyalty to the South or the desire for independence as being monopolized by either race.

. . . If hate had been the prevailing emotion between the races, then it is a safe bet that the Confederacy never would have been born. Fortunately, there was love, understanding and compassion. And the two greatest lies ever perpetrated by history [are] that the South instigated the war and that it was fought by the North for the purpose of freeing slaves. The Negro was merely used as the excuse for that war, while the real reason for it is reflected in every area of our lives, where the tentacles of government form the bars of a new slavery. No! Don’t furl that Confederate battle flag. Let it wave all across the South to remind Americans that there exists here a yearning for liberty, freedom and independence that will not be denied. Let it fly as a testimonial to real men and real women who would rather work and fight than shed tears and beg for government charity. Finally, let it act as a cohesive force, drawing all Southerners together in the cause of freedom.”

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Dispatch from the Front: SCV National

https://www.scv.org/

https://www.scv-bcamp130.org/2021-national-scv-reunion

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Hours of Operation Open to the public April - December

Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Sunday By Appointment

Address: 4950 Wayne Johnson Rd, Morristown, TN 37814

Area: 5 acres (contains several Confederate graves)

Opened: 1835

Added to NRHP: April 11, 1973

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Jake Donelson, Fighting Rooster of the Confederacy Location: 118 South Main Street, Cornersville, TN 37047

Jake Donelson, a feisty game rooster and the mascot of Co. H, 3rd Tennessee Infantry (CSA), was one of the more colorful participants in the Civil War. Sgt. Jerome B. “Joe” McCanless of Cornersville purchased Jake for a silver dime from a farmer who was selling chickens to the soldiers. After realizing Jake’s martial potential, McCanless spared him from the stewpot, clipped his red comb, and soon had him fighting against other companies’ roosters. Jake

prowled the breastworks at Fort Donelson, crowing at the enemy and encouraging his companions. He alerted the soldiers to incoming shells by sounding low guttural warnings

about the dangerous missiles. The Confederates surrendered the fort to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in February 1862. McCanless, a prisoner of war, took Jake with him to confinement at Camp Douglas near Chicago. After seven months, the regiment was exchanged for Federal prisoners of war at Vicksburg. While still in Mississippi, McCanless paid an itinerant artist to

paint Jake’s portrait from a tintype he had made earlier. When Jake died in 1864, he was placed in a handsome casket and given a “military burial” by his old friends in Cornersville.

His final resting place in Cornersville is unknown.

Historic Tennessee Places to visit that played a part in the

War for Southern Independence Information from tnvacation.com

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General Wade Hampton

Wade Hampton was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 28, 1818. He grew up in a wealthy family, receiving private instruction and was known in his youth for being an avid bear hunter, killing as many as 80 bears. In 1836 he graduated from South Carolina College and was trained for the law, although he never practiced. Hampton's father died in 1858 and the son inherited a vast fortune, the plantations, and one of the largest collections of slaves in the South.

Hampton first enlisted as a private in the South Carolina Militia; however, the governor of South Carolina insisted that Hampton accept a colonel's commission, even though he had no military experience at all. Hampton organized and partially financed the unit known as "Hampton's Legion.” They first saw combat in July 1861, at the First Battle of Bull Run, where he deployed his Legion at a decisive moment, giving the brigade of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson time to reach the field.

Hampton was promoted to brigadier general on May 23, 1862, while commanding a brigade in Stonewall Jackson's division. At the Battle of Seven Pines on May 31, 1862, he was severely wounded in the foot, but remained on his horse while it was being treated, still under fire. Hampton returned to duty in time to lead a brigade at the end of the Seven Days Battles. During the

winter of 1862, around the Battle of Fredericksburg, Hampton led a series of cavalry raids behind enemy lines, earning a commendation from General Robert E. Lee.

In the Gettysburg Campaign, Hampton’s brigade participated in Stuart's wild adventure to the northeast, swinging around the Union army and losing contact with Lee. Stuart and Hampton reached the vicinity of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, late on July 2, 1863. In the remainder of the battle, Hampton was wounded three separate times, twice by saber and the final a piece of shrapnel to the hip which left him recuperating until November of that year. 

During the Overland Campaign of 1864, Stuart was killed at the Battle of Yellow Tavern and Hampton was given command of the Cavalry Corps on August 11, 1864. He distinguished himself in his new role at the bloody Battle of Trevilian Station, defeating Philip Sheridan's cavalry, and in fact, lost no cavalry battles for the remainder of the war. In September, Hampton conducted what became known as the "Beefsteak Raid", in which his troopers captured over 2,400 head of cattle and over 300 prisoners behind enemy lines.

Hampton was promoted to lieutenant general on February 14, 1865, but eventually surrendered to the Union along with General Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee at Bennett Place in Durham, North Carolina.  He returned to his estate to find it had been burned and ransacked in Sherman’s march, and his slaves freed.  After the war, Hampton served as the Governor of South Carolina and then as a two term Senator, before dying in April of 1902. 

Confederate Profiles

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Compatriots, Greetings friends and Compatriots! I hope your October is off to a good start! The chill in the

air is enough to get me excited and ready for what the Fall has in store for us! I am sorry I could not attend the Hazzardfest this year, but I was glad to hear of its success!

Saturday had me laid up with a massive toothache and no hope in sight for relief. I am glad there are still events out there that are welcoming to us and our cause! Perhaps the winds of change will begin to blow more in our favor and we can bring more members to our cause. Hopefully we can also begin to move on and pick up living as normal like we did before the coronavirus was unleashed upon us. I for one would appreciate getting back to doing things like we used to and having events that we set up at!

Lastly, I am still hoping one of you good Camp members out there will want to pick up the banner and take over as editor of this publication. If you are interested, I’d be glad to assist you and let another run with this newsletter and take it to new heights!

Your Servant to the Cause,

EditorJOSHUA F. CAMERON

Email: joshuacameronscv@gmail.com

Phone:

865-804-2605

Address:

1090 Rocktown Road

Talbott, TN 37877

Newsletter Website:

www.bradfordrose1638.com/southern-heritage-newsletter.html

“Speaking of the Devil” Musings from the Adjutant/Editor