EDMUND RUFFIN FIRE-EATERS CAMP 3000
Sons of Confederate Veterans,
Hanover, Virginia
FIRST SHOT GAZETTE
2007 Volume 1 Issue 3 Editor: G. Ashleigh Moody III 28 May 2007
COMMANDERS'S CORNER
As we approach "Dixie Days" be aware that this is the largest "War Between the States" event in middle Virginia; that the "Fire Eaters" camp is unique in it's approach to Heritage Defense as we take the offense in defense by presenting a positive approach in our presentation of "Dixie Days." We have now united the SCV camps of Hanover in this endeavor and look forward to a bigger and better "Dixie Days" in 2007 than ever before, however we indeed need every hand on deck. If you don't have a job see me I will give you one. Unfurl the flags and beat the drums "Dixie Days" is here to stay.
Darryl Starnes
Commander
Edmund Ruffin Camp # 3000
MEETING
Joe’s Inn
6 June 2007
*Featuring
Dixie Days Update
4th Annual Dixie Days
The Battle of Gaines' Mill
June 9-10, 2007
Note:
Dixie Days 2007 is right around the corner and I am taking some time to update information on our website
so that everyone can have the information they need. -- Andy Smith
Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg containes the graves of veterans of six wars, including 30,000 Confederates killed in the Siege of Petersburg (1864-65) during the American War of Northern Aggression.
While visiting the cemetery after the war, Mrs. Mary Logan, the wife Union General John A. Logan viewed the flowers and flags which adorned the soldiers' graves.
From: BRAVEST SURRENDER, A Petersburg Patchwork, Catherine Copeland, 1961, A clip from Memorial Day (National Memorial Day Origin) Chapter:
"Well, Mrs. Logan was in the back and when she saw the flags fluttering over the hillside, she asked John (John Dixie was the Negro driver) what the ladies were doing. When John told her they were decorating the 'sojers', Mr. Logan said she would get out and speak to the ladies. But a member of the party demurred -- he thought the Southern ladies might not welcome another Yankee invasion -- however, Mrs. Logan only smiled as she stepped out of the carriage and said: 'A lady is a lady, no matter where you find her!'"
We’ll Always Remember You!
-- by Ashleigh Moody
THE INSPIRATION & ORIGIN
OF
NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY
A Sketch of the Story is found by clicking on our Edmund Ruffin Camp flag above and another 1912 sketch by clicking on the Edison recording to the right.
Upon Mary Logan's return to Washington and meeting her husband General Logan at the railroad station, she related the story of her visit to Petersburg and how she was "moved" by what she witness there. Upon hearing her story, General Logan, now the first Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, replied to her that he would establish the custom of the ancients across the land. He thus issued an GAR order, establishing a National Decoration Day which was later passed by Congress. Today it is our National Memorial Day.
From BRAVEST SURRENDER: "Miss Lillie," we asked one of Petersburg's great ladies of yesterday, " just where did the idea of Memorial day begin?" She replied "It began right here in Petersburg -- in a woman's heart."
Darlington Success as reported in US News below:
"POLITICAL DRIVE: There was no shortage of politics at Darlington Raceway. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee toured the Nextel Cup garage with ex-South Carolina chief executive David Beasley. Huckabee is contending for the Republican Party's 2008 presidential nomination.
Politics wasn't limited to the ground. Overhead, a plane towed a banner with the Confederate and checkered flags, and the words, "Don't Forget Your Roots." The Sons of Confederate Veterans had planned the display."
Virginia, Guide to The Old Dominion, WPA Writers' Program, Oxford University Press, NY, 1940, p. 378
"In 1650 there were only 300 Negroes in Virginia, about one percent of the population. They weren't slaves any more than the approximately 4,000 white indentured servants working out their loans for passage money to Virginia, and who were granted 50 acres each when freed from their indentures, so they could raise their own tobacco.
Slavery was established in 1654 when Anthony Johnson, Northampton County, convinced the court that he was entitled to the lifetime services of John Casor, a Negro. This was the first judicial approval of life servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
But who was Anthony Johnson, winner of this epoch-making decision? Anthony Johnson was a Negro himself, one of the original 20 brought to Jamestown (1619) and 'sold' to the colonists. By 1623 he had earned his freedom and by 1651, was prosperous enough to import five 'servants' of his own, for which he received a grant of 250 acres as 'headrights.'"
"Anthony Johnson ought to be in a 'Book of Firsts.' As the most ambitious of the first 20 Africans in America, he could have been the first Negro to set foot on Virginia soil. He was Virginia's first free Negro and first to establish a Negro community, first Negro landowner, first Negro slave owner and as the first, white or black, to secure slave status for a servant, he was actually the founder of slavery in Virginia."
Godspeed at Rockets Landing Richmond Virginia May 2007
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