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John Pelham's Ambrotype ($41,825):
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An Evening with Edwin C. Bearss
The Rebel Victory at Vicksburg
July 8, 2010
Huntsville, Alabama
Nationally renowned speaker, award winning author (15 books), famous Civil War historian (former National Park Service Chief Historian), television commentator, recognized preservationist and popular battlefield guide, Edwin C. Bearss, will discuss “The Rebel Victory at Vicksburg” at 7:00, Thursday, July 8, 2010 in the Chan Auditorium, Business Administration Building, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama. Admission $10.00. Proceeds donated to the Civil War Preservation Trust. Advance registration suggested. Sponsored by the Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table. (256) 971-6952. P.O. Box 7382, Huntsville, AL, 35807. tvcwrt.tix@gmail.com. Click here for a map of the UAH campus. http://www.uah.edu/map/
Introduction by Paul Bryant, Jr. (Board of Trustees Civil War Preservation Trust -CWPT and trustee for the Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, VA) from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
The event is an evening with Edwin C. Bearss wherein Ed will retell the story richly described in his book “Rebel Victory at Vicksburg.” His talk is about the 1862 Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, or the FIRST Vicksburg Campaign, which predated Grant’s Vicksburg victory by nearly a full year. It is the story of the grim determination of the Confederate soldiers, sailors and marines who broke the siege and unleashed the ironclad gunboat, CSS Arkansas, against the overwhelming but equally determined naval forces of future admirals Farragut and Davis and a detachment of The Army of the Gulf under Major General Benjamin Butler. The Confederate success at Vicksburg in 1862 prolonged the war for the control of the Mississippi River for at least one more year and greatly uplifted hopes for the survival of a new Southern nation.
Mr. Bearss is a nationally known Civil War historian. In fact you may have seen him on TV many times on the History Channel and as one of the featured historians in Ken Burns’ PBS series, The Civil War. He is also perhaps the nation’s most revered Civil War speaker and battlefield tour guide. This is remarkable for another reason... Ed is 86 years old, and he can still completely wear out touring groups as he literally trots around Civil War battlefields waving his swagger stick and showing where many brave men fought for their respective flags. Ed is also a decorated WWII Marine, participating in the invasions of Guadalcanal and New Britain; he was severely wounded by Japanese machine gun fire on the New Guinea island of Cape Gloucester. [You must see this YouTube video in which he describes being wounded and how it affected his life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfqis9SLCUA He has many accomplishments, awards and accolades which are too numerous to list here.
Edwin Cole Bearss was born in Billings, Montana, on June 26, 1923. He grew up on his grandfather's ranch near Hardin, Montana and graduated from Hardin High School. During World War II he served with the 3rd Marine Raider Battalion and 1st Marine Division. After being badly wounded by machine gunfire, he spent 26 months in various hospitals.
Mr. Bearss received a B.S. at Georgetown University in 1949. Later, at Indiana University, he received his M.A. in history, writing his thesis on Pat Cleburne. His National Park Service career began in 1955 at Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he was Park Historian. While Ed Bearss was there, he did the research leading him and two friends to the long lost resting place of the Union gunboat Cairo. He was founder of the Mississippi Civil War Round Table in 1956, which later consolidated with the Jackson Civil War Round Table, a newer group.
In 1966, Ed was transferred to Washington, D.C. He became the Service's Chief Historian in November 1981, a position he held until July 1994. He served as the Director's Special Assistant for Military Sites until his retirement on October 1, 1995. He is a veteran of 50 years of Government Service. Since his retirement, Ed, through lectures, television, writing, and as a renowned battlefield guide, has continued association with our nation's military history.
He has done detailed studies for the National Park Service for many areas: Vicksburg; Pea Ridge; Wilson's Creek; Fort Smith; Stones River; Fort Donelson; The Camden Expedition; Battles around Richmond; Bighorn Canyon; Eisenhower Farm; the gold miner's route over Chilkoot Pass; LBJ Ranch; Fort Moultrie; Fort Point; William Howard Taft House; Fort Hancock; Boston Navy Yard; Herbert Hoover National Historic Site and others. In addition, Ed has authored over fifteen books on Civil War history. In 1990 he was featured as a commentator on the 1990 PBS program, The Civil War. More recently, he has appeared on the Arts & Entertainment Channel's Civil War Journal. Mr. Bryant, Jr. is President of Greene Group, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a privately held holding company; a trustee for The University of Alabama System; a director for the Alabama Heritage Foundation; a trustee for the Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia; Chairman for the Bryant Bank of Tuscaloosa, Alabama and a trustee for the Civil War Preservation Trust. He is strongly rooted in Civil War History and Preservation. |
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"Helping You Connect To Your Past"
This is a special edition of our newsletter to announce our continued sale through the end of June 2010. You can take $50 off any tour on the schedule in the left hand column or check them out in detail at starsandtsripesevents.com. Click on the website and pay the regular price and we will send you the $50.00 rebate check. You need to pay in full this June to get the discount.
We received notice of so much going on in May and early June many of you asked to continue the sale. Well, here it is! Bruce and I hope to see you on the road with us this summer and fall.
Sincerely,
Dave Hinze
Tours at a glance
Drums Along the Mohawk: The Revolutionary War in Upstate New York-Bruce Venter and Dave Hinze-July 21-24-Johnstown, NY.
Custer, Crook and Crazy Horse-Robert F. O'Neill with Bruce Venter. August 4-7-Sheridan, WY
Richmond Redeemed: Grant's Fifth Offensive at Petersburg: New Market Heights, Ft. Harrisson, Poplar Grove Church & more.-Dr. Richard J. Sommers. October 7-10.
The Bristoe Campaign: Lee vs Meade in the fall of 1863. Led by historians J. Michael Miller, Horace Mewborn, & Bruce Venter. October 28-30 Culpeper, VA.
Great Commanders Series- Patrick Cleburne vs. George Thomas: Chattanooga to Chickamauga-Thomas Cartwright and Dave Hinze-November 3-6. Chattanooga, TN. |
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The Civil War: Reality was different
Dear Fellow Conservative:
The politically correct history that dominates our schools and universities today insists that Jefferson Davis was another Hitler, Robert E. Lee was another Rommel, and the Confederate States of America were our own version of the Third Reich -- a blot on American history.
But reality was different: the Old South, as H. W. Crocker III explains in The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Civil War, had slavery, but also immense charm, grace, and merit -- not to mention a very strong Constitutional case.
Now, for a limited time, Human Events is making The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Civil War available to you absolutely FREE.
In your FREE copy of The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Civil War, you'll find among many intriguing items:
That secession was legal
That the Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave
That leading Northern generals -- like McLellan and Sherman -- hated abolitionists
That bombing people "back to the Stone Age" got its start with the Federal siege of Vicksburg
That Stonewall Jackson founded a Sunday school for slaves where he taught them how to read
That General James Longstreet fought the Battle of Sharpsburg in his carpet slippers
That if the South had won, we might be able to enjoy holidays in the sunny Southern state of Cuba
CLICK HERE to get your FREE copy of The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Civil War today.
Sincerely,
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Editor in Chief, Human Events
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The following article is from Stars Stripes Events History Newsletter April 2010
Tours at a glance
Mosby's Confederacy: Fights and Sites of the 43rd Battalion, Partisan Rangers Sunday, April 18, from 8 AM to 5 PM with Horace Mewborn & Bruce Venter.
Daniel Boone: Revolutionary War Hero of Kentucky-Dave Hinze and Bruce Venter-May 12-15-Lexington, KY.
Jesse James Rebel, Outlaw & American Icon. -Dave Hinze and Josh Scott-June 4-6-Liberty, MO.
Drums Along the Mohawk: The Revolutionary War in Upstate New York-Bruce Venter and Dave Hinze-July 21-24-Johnstown, NY.
Custer, Crook and Crazy Horse-Robert F. O'Neill with Bruce Venter. August 4-7-Sheridan, WY.
Richmond Redeemed: Grant's Fifth Offensive at Petersburg: New Market Heights, Ft. Harrisson, Poplar Grove Church & more.-Dr. Richard J. Sommers. October 7-10.
The Bristoe Campaign: Lee vs Meade in the fall of 1863. Led by historians J. Michael Miller, Horace Mewborn, & Bruce Venter. October 28-30 Culpeper, VA.
Great Commanders Series-
Patrick Cleburne vs. George Thomas: Chattanooga to Chickamauga-Thomas Cartwright and Dave Hinze-November 3-6. Chattanooga, TN.
Tour Basics
1. All tours go rain or shine.
2. Bus departs on time. We cannot wait for late boarders.
3. Itineraries are subject to change.
4. Call 888-399-7874 to determine the accessibility of specific tours for people w/ limited mobility to make advanced accommodations if
5. Special dietary restrictions should call 888-399-7874 beforehand to arrange accommodation.
6. Seats near front of the bus can be saved for those with special needs. The two front seats behind the driver will be reserved for historians.
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Speaking Engagements
Bruce & Dave accept offers for speaking enagements on a variety of topics from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War. Bruce does a superb job of inpersonating a variety of British officers who served in America. Dave has speeches ready on the Revolutionary War & the Civil War.
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Bruce Venter's next presentation
At the April 27th 2010 meeting of the Williamsburg, VA Civil War Roundtable, Dr. Bruce M. Venter will present "Myths, Misconceptions and Mistakes of the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond." Over the years, myths and legends have grown up around one of the most controversial cavalry raids of the Civil War: the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond in 1864. The meeting is at 7 PM at the Williamsburg Regional Library Theatre located at 515 Scotland St. in Williamsburg.
Dave Hinze's next presentation
Dave will be in Keokuk, Iowa on Friday, April 23. The symposium is on the war in the Trans-Mississippi Region. Dave's topic is the how technology, invented in the upper Mississippi region, tipped the scales in favor of the north during the Civil War.
The Conference will be held at Meyers Courtyard on 629 Blondeau Street from 9:00 A.M. until 3:30 P.M. The costs is $30.00 & you can mail as reservation to the Keokuk Area Convention &Tourism, at 329 Main St., Keokuk IA 52632.
Our goal is to get the newsletter to you earlier than the first three issues which barely made the end of the month. Our plan is to send out the newsletter between the 15th & 20th of each month beginning with this issue. We are featuring just one story this month due to the length of the article. The focus this month is a soldier from the Mexican War with a surprising twist to the tale. Information on this period is challenging to find. We hope you enjoy the article.
We have aslo included a book review on a side story to the American Revolution concerning the great Pox Americana which raged during the Revolutionary War. The book paints a different picture of Washington and the struggle with disease in the mid-1700's.
Tour Season
With the arrival of April we start our tour season. It is still not too late to sign up for Daniel Boone: Revolutionary War Hero, May 12-15 in Lexington, KY. Give us a call or sign up on line!
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5 Questions About Daniel Boone
1. Why is Boone considered a western exploer when he is actually a hero of the Revolutionary period?
2. Why did Boone have a rich, complex relationship with the Shawnee Indians and such a small relationship with the Cherokee?
3. Why did Boone desert his country in favor of the Spanish settlements in the west?
4. How did the French legacy in North America cause friction between the Americans and the Shawnee?
5. What role did the Revolutionary War in Kentucky & Ohio have on the war in the original 13 colonies?
These are the thought provoking type of questions you hear on a Stars & Stripes tour. If you want to test your answers or discuss a question send us an e-mail at info@starsandstripesevents.com
Mexican War Traitor, Hero, and Irishman: The Three Faces of John Riley
By Peter F. Stevens
Peter F. Stevens is the news and features editor of The Boston Irish Reporter, an historian, and the award-winning author of The Voyage of the Catalpa - A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels' Escape to Freedom (Carroll & Graf, hardcover 2002, paperback 2003; Orion Books, UK, 2003). He is also the author of The Rogue's March: John Riley and the St. Patrick's Battalion, 1846-48 (Potomac Books - hardcover, 1999; paperback, 2001-2010). Editor's note: We usually feature two full articles each month, but due to the length of the story this solo article will fill out our lineup.
By the end of the Mexican-American War, 1846-48, John Riley wore three labels - American traitor, Mexican hero, and Irish nationalist. Which of these three best fits the tough, charismatic Galway man? The answer is that they all do.
No U.S. Army has ever encountered the problems of desertion that plagued Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott during the Mexican-American War. Of the nearly 40,000 regulars who saw duty during the conflict, a stunning 5,331 - nearly 13 percent of the ranks - deserted. Of that figure, nearly 1,000 were Irishmen, 445 Germans, and 457 other Europeans.
Approximately 5,000 Irish enlisted in the regular army, and nearly 20 percent went over the hill. Many were apprehended; many more simply disappeared. Many others fought in the St. Patrick's Battalion alongside John Riley.
Born in County Galway sometime between 1812 and 1818, Riley cut his martial teeth in the British Army, earning a sergeant's stripes and a deep knowledge of artillery. In 1843, Riley's route led mysteriously to Mackinac, Michigan. His detractors claim that he deserted the 66th Foot in Canada in the early 1840s, enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Mackinac, again earned his sergeant's stripes, served as a recruiter, and trained West Point cadets how to service artillery.
The truth is that he never saw duty in a recruiting office or at West Point, and he never wore a sergeant's stripes in the U.S. Army. He did wear stripes in the British Army, he was an expert gunner, but he never deserted. In 1843, Riley was mustered out with little more than his noncommissioned officer's kit bag and his memories of duty done well. Leaving his family behind in Galway, he crossed to Canada or the United States to start over, with the likely intent of sending for them when he was settled. He turned up at the "Golden Door of America" in Mackinac, Michigan.
Riley and other immigrants soon learned that in America of the 1840s an anti-Catholic, anti-foreigner movement called "Nativism" raged. Nowhere did it thrive more harshly than in the U.S. Army, in which Irish immigrants fleeing famine and political oppression in their homeland enlisted "to soldier" out of desperation for employment of any sort. With the combination of many Nativist officers and thousands of Irish-born and German recruits, trouble beckoned.
In Mackinac, Riley chafed as a laborer, his boss contending that the immigrant "was increasingly at variance with those he came into contact with." On September 4, 1845, he enlisted in the 5th U.S. Infantry Regiment at Fort Holmes in Mackinac. The muster rolls described him as twenty-eight years old, six foot one and three-quarter inches tall, blue eyed, and dark haired. He vowed "to attain my former rank or die" and would rise far beyond his previous rank - but in the uniform of the Mexicans.
Riley and other immigrant soldiers quickly found that Nativism, which filled publications with simian-like caricatures of "Paddy and Bridget" and had ignited the bloody anti-Irish Philadelphia Riots in 1844, infected many U.S. Army officers.
They applied iron-fisted discipline throughout the ranks, but "the foreign-born soldier, especially if he happened to be Irish or German, automatically received a harsher sentence than a native American would for the same offense." A dreaded punishment was "bucking and gagging," in which a soldier was trussed and gagged for hours of joint-searing agony.
Of those brutal practices, an immigrant soldier wrote: "The various degrading modes of punishment often inflicted by young, headstrong, and inconsiderate officers...for the most unimportant offenses, were exceeding galling to...the sons of the Green Isle." An Irish Catholic artilleryman lamented: "If a poor devil wants to be ever so religious, it's no use of trying it here [in the Army]. I suppose that's what you call liberty of conscience in this blessed free republic of ours."
As war with Mexico loomed in the spring of 1846, other factors besides hard discipline simmered among would-be deserters of all backgrounds. Rough weather, boredom, rancid rations, dysentery, and other timeless trials of military life drove desertions.
For some soldiers, the impetus was love for Mexican women, and for Irish Catholics in the U.S. Army, echoes of church bells from the town of Matamoros across the Rio Grande and scenes of Mexican priests splashing holy water upon their soldiers' gun emplacements may have led some Catholics to wonder if they were serving in the wrong army.
The Mexicans, aware that Catholic immigrants filled nearly half of Taylor's companies, circulated pamphlets urging foreigners to desert, join the Mexican Army, and receive free land, cash bonuses, and citizenship. Similar pamphlets would appear throughout the war. Riley and many other immigrant recruits had not lived in America long enough for naturalized citizenship. They could not vote in America, but could die for it.
Among the first soldiers to "go over the hill" to the Mexicans was Riley, who deserted "on the advice of my conscience" on April 12, 1846. Having obtained a pass to attend a Catholic mass near the American camp, Riley plunged into the Rio Grande and swam over to the Mexicans - and into notoriety.
Riley soon parlayed his military experience into an officer's commission in the Mexican Army, organizing fellow deserters and foreign nationals into a crack artillery company. His so-called Legion of Strangers would become the St. Patrick's Battalion, or San Patricios. At the Battles of Monterrey, Buena Vista, and Cerro Gordo, he and his men pounded their former officers and their old tent-mates. An American soldier wrote: "Reily [sic] was the greatest artillerist of his day, and we suffered greatly on his account."
By mid-August 1847, General Winfield Scott's U.S. regiments stood only ten miles from Mexico City, poised for the final savage steps "to the Halls of Montezuma." Riley, now a major, helped draft a circular appealing to "my countrymen, Irishmen," to desert the American army and to join Mexico's ranks on "common bonds of religion and Ireland's long kinship with Spanish-speaking Catholic nations."
The pamphlet never made it to the American camp. On August 20, 1847, Riley and 204-220 San Patricios - including 142 Irishmen - defended a fortified monastery at Churubusco. They knew that capture by the Americans meant the gallows.
The St. Patrick's Battalion fought furiously "with the malignity of private revenge against their old army." Three times a white flag went up - and three times a deserter tore it down.
Finally, Scott's regiments overwhelmed the defenders in a bloody hand-to-hand melee when they ran out of ammunition, and only the intervention of an American officer stopped the battered victors from killing eighty-five captured San Patricios, who included the wounded Riley.
Seventy-two would face court-martial; after Scott's review of every case, fifty deserters were sentenced to the noose. There was no doubt whose execution U.S. Army officers craved most: "From his high intelligence and his influence, Riley was believed by our officers to have been the principal cause of the desertion of the others."
To the shock of the U.S. Army, Scott reduced Riley's sentence from hanging to "whipping and branding." The American commander stated that because Riley had deserted before the conflict's actual declaration, the Articles of War dictated that he could receive only the lesser sentence.
Scott's verdict sparked outrage in the American ranks. Captain George Davis wrote: "It was urged upon General Scott that it would be far preferable that every one of the rest of the deserters should be pardoned rather than that Riley should escape death, more especially as we were in possession of the knowledge of the high estimate placed upon him as an officer by the enemy." Scott, however, would not listen to dissenters.
On September 10, 1847, Riley and six other prisoners were stripped to their waists and bound to trees in the plaza of San Jacinto. Then, rawhide lashes delivered 50 blows - 59 for Riley when the officer in charge of the punishments "lost count." Captain Davis recalled: "Why those thus punished did not die under such punishment was a marvel to me. Their backs had the appearance of a pounded piece of raw beef, the blood oozing from stripe as given."
"Each in his turn was then branded," the smoldering irons burning a two-inch-high "D" - for deserter - into each prisoner's cheekbone near the eyes but without jeopardizing the sight." Riley's brander applied the "D" upside down and seared the Irishman's face a second time.
The whippings and brandings done, sixteen San Patricios were hanged on a forty-foot-long gallows. "After digging the graves of those...hung," Riley and the others were off to imprisonment as a military band piped the taunting strains of "The Rogue's March."
Four more San Patricios were hanged from a tree at Mixcoac on September 13, 1847. The executions of the last thirty condemned deserters would prove to be tragic drama of the highest order.
On September 13, 1847, on a hill outside Mixcoac, Dragoon Colonel William S. Harney, a sadistic disciplinarian, brought the condemned to a gallows within view of the battle raging around Chapultepec Castle. He would not hang the condemned until the American flag flew above the ancient fortress. When the American troops finally planted the Stars and Stripes above Chapultpec, the thirty San Patricios were swung off "in a fearful dance of death."
The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war, and Riley and the remaining San Patricio prisoners were freed. Riley returned to the Mexican Army and a subsequent promotion to colonel. Later, he was briefly arrested on suspicion of taking part in an abortive revolt against the Mexican government, false rumors of the Irishman's execution by a firing squad nearly fueling a revolt by the reorganized St. Patrick's Battalion. Although an American dragoon claimed that soon after Riley's most recent turmoils, the Galway man married a wealthy, beautiful Mexican woman and raised a family, although there is no proof of the marriage exists.
Riley's path in Mexico ended at the Atlantic port of Vera Cruz after his honorable discharge with full back pay from the Mexican Army. He likely intended to board a ship bound for Ireland, where he had a son. In 2000, the late historian Robert Ryal Miller discovered the August 31, 1850, death certificate of "Juan Reley...a native of Ireland." He was buried in the "general cemetery of Vera Cruz." He soon disappeared from history's stage.
An indisputable fact about John Riley was his pride in his desertion from the American Army: "I have had the honor of fighting in all the battles that Mexico has had with the United States and by my good conduct and hard fighting, I have attained the rank of Colonel."
An American traitor, a cynical mercenary, or a Mexican hero - one can make a case that Riley was any of these.
Of his affinity for the Mexicans, he testified: "Be not obscured by the prejudice of a nation, America, which is at war with Mexico...for a more hospitable or friendlier people...than the Mexicans there exists not on the face of the earth to a foriner [sic] and especially to an Irishman and a Catholic."
Above all, Riley did hold fast to his true roots, Irish ones. "I forgot to tell you under what banner we fought so bravely," he wrote. "It was the glorious Emblem of native rights, that bring the banner which should have floated over our native Soil so many years ago, it was St. Patrick, the Harp of Erin, the Shamrock upon a green field."
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82. Elizabeth Ann Fenn. Hill & Wang, 2001.
Editor: Although this book was published in 2001 it provides insight to an important part of the Revolutionary period in North America. This text explains the role of sickness and the terror the pox brought to everyone in North America.
Fenn addresses an understudied aspect of the
American Revolution: the intimate connection between smallpox and the war. Closed-in soldiers' quarters and jails, as well as the travel demands of fighting, led to the outbreak of smallpox in 1775. George Washington ended an outbreak in the north by inoculating American soldiers (the colonists had a weaker immune system against smallpox than the British). Indeed, Fenn makes a plausible case that without Washington's efforts, the colonists might have lost the war.
Despite the future president's sucees at outflanking the enmey of smallpox, however, the disease spread on the Southern front, where there was chaos connections and steady strem of vistims Even as the war ended
contact between populations spread the disease as far as Mexico and the Pacific Northwest. The outbreak eventually killed an estimated 125,000 North Americans more than five times the number of colonial soldiers who died (to her credit, Fenn admits that these numbers are inexact).
Along the way, Fenn, who teaches history at George Washington University, recounts the fate of many blacks freed under a British "emancipation proclamation" of sorts; promised their freedom if they fought for the British, several thousand ex-slaves perished from smallpox. She also traces the disease's effect on the North American balance of power by devastating some Native American tribes in the 1780s. Long after the war, whites kept Native
Americans passive with explicit threats of infection. Fenn has placed smallpox on the historical map and shown how intercultural contact can have dire bacterial consequences.
A continued thank you to those who signed on for our tours. We appreciate your business.
Sincerely,
David Hinze
Bruce Venter
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Here's an article on the Shelby Springs Confederate Cemetery. Planting the headstones was a major project for the Camp William Houston Shelby camp #1537 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, as each headstone weighed 210 lbs.
http://www.shelbycountyreporter.com/news/2010/mar/29/resting-place-confederate-soldiers/ |
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