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Cmdr. Joe Willis welcomed all visitors and members. The speaker for the evening was Curator of History: Kristina Dunn, M.A. kdunn@crr.sc.gov SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum http://www.crr.sc.gov/. Ms. Dunn spoke on the South Carolina Memorials and Cemeteries. A donation was made on behalf of the Camp to the Museum and given to Ms. Dunn.

The Camp voted and passed two new member applications, Claude Rowe and Ed Muckenfuss. One new member was inducted and he was Vohn Busby. Ben Bunting and David Mitchell were in charge of the evening meal and Monty Jones the Camp Chaplain said our invocation. Next Camp meeting will be 6:30, April 26^th at the Masonic Lodge.

Thanks to Joe Willis, Walker Wright, William Buddin, Chip Brown, Jack Meadows, Dale Presley, Monty Jones, Rick Andrews, David Mitchell, Ben Bunting, Hubert Haas, Charles Botts, Woody Brown, Larry Jameson, and Robert Miller.

Past Cmdr. Walker Wright was one of three that received the Stonewall Jackson Individual Contribution Award.

Ambrose Gonzales Newsletter Award was given Honorable Mention to Charles Mathisen for the Blue Lantern newsletter.

May 12th - HL Hunley Camp Confederate Memorial Day Services - Boone Hill Cemetery 9:30 - 12 Noon. Uniforms can be worn and permission has been grant for rifle volley. Later that evening we will have a Memorial at St. Paul’s. More discussion 04/26/07.

May 12th - Confederate Memorial Day - Magnolia Cemetery (SCV 4, Confederate Heritage Trust)

Paul Willis’ family / Rick Andrews' son-in-law, Tim Moore / Susan Andrews, Rick’s wife / Adualine Chellis, Steve’s Mother / Allen Link, member / Peter Lack, member / Julie Jones, Monty’s wife / Lola McKenzie, Monty’s Mother / Louise Rogers, Clyde’s wife / Mary Wright, Walker’s wife / Peggy Walker, Eddie’s wife / Bill Youngblood, member / Robert Bussey, Mother died, Walker’s friend.

Subject: Southern Cross of Honor Dedication

Southern Cross Dedication in honor of Compatriot Charlie Hiers' Great-Grandfather: Pvt. John Oliver Jaques, Fishburn Company, 8th Battalion, South Carolina Reserves at the Jordan Cemetery, Cottageville, SC. on April 22, 2007 at 3:00pm.

This is a "rain or shine" event. Please plan to attend and invite your friends, coworkers and neighbors to come with you, as we honor this brave Confederate soldier. This is a copy of email David Rentz sent out to all Compatriots. Permission has been requested of Cottageville City Hall this week to allow the use of rifles & cannons. David is now in process of contacting camps to see who would be available. Nothing final yet, will let you know more as we know.

From Jeffries Hwy (US15) in Walterboro, travel 10 miles East on Cottageville Hwy. (SC17A), Turn left on Reheboth Road (SC 651); travel 1.5 miles to Timber Bay Rd. (SC 243). Turn right and travel .6 mile to Addison Road. Turn left and travel .8 on Addison Road. The cemetery is on the left.

Vohn Busby

Vohn Busby was inducted into the Camp at the March Camp meeting.

Vohn retired from the Navy as a Hospital Corpsman and is now working at Roper Hospital.

Like many of our Compatriots he has a passion for motorcycles and his ride is a Harley Davidson.

Vohn is 1^st cousin to Ben Bunting and is excited about being a part of The HL Hunley Camp. His Great Great-Grandfather William Jasper Busby served in the 3^rd Cal. Mississippi Reg. Co. B.

We welcome Vohn to the SCV and to the HL Hunley Camp.

Flowertown Festival March 30^th – April 1^st 2007. Thanks for all the help.

All members of the Confederate Heritage Trust, Inc. are invited to attend the premier of “America’s Iliad, the Siege of Charleston” at 7:00P.M. on April 14^th at the Sottile Theater. Social hour is 6:00 to 7:00 on this date. Pleases try to be there early so that you may get a seat. All Board members are asked to inform their respective organizations about this event. No admission is to be charged to members of the CHT. If you receive a comment card, please fill it out and return it. We need to have as many members attend this show as we possibly can. It is very important. Thank you.

TICKETS ARE $2.00 EACH OR 3 TICKETS FOR $5.00 ONLY 3,000 TICKETS BEING SOLD. DRAWING TO BE HELD AT CONCLUSION OF TICKET SALES OR AT OUR DECEMBER 2007 MEETING, WHICH EVER COMES FIRST. YOU NEED NOT BE PRESENT TO WIN

Charge to the Sons of Confederate Veterans

"To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we submit 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 he loved and which made him glorious and which you also cherish. Remember, it is your duty to see that the true history of the South is presented to future generations."

Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General,
United Confederate Veterans,
New Orleans, Louisiana, April 25, 1906.

REPORT ON NASCAR HERITAGE DEFENSE
THE ATLANTA 500 NASCAR RACE
Gentlemen and Sons of Confederate Veterans

Grayson Jennings of the Heritage Defense Committee led about 20 men in our attack on NASCAR in Atlanta. We had Battle flags signs we had taken from old Georgia political signs left over from the Georgia flag fight along with a tank of helium and bags of balloons and released hundreds of these balloons with the battle flag attached about every 15 minutes and they were flying all over the stadium. We passed out 800 battle flags with the checkered victory flag on the end. We also put up battle flags all up and down a 20-mile stretch leading into the race. A Yankee with southern sympathies jumped in with our men and helped us with this project. Elijah Coleman of the Georgia Division even took one of the Battle flags attached it to a balloon and tethered it at the entrance to NASCAR. The flags were flying all over the infield and in the stands.

At noon the Confederate Air Force showed up with a 30' X 50' Battle flag with a streamer behind it saying, "NASCAR Don't Forget Your Roots." As it came in view of the stadium a tremendous roar went up from the crowd you could hear for miles.

As our men passed out the flags we were swamped with questions about the SCV and many people were giving us unsolicited donations. The men did what recruiting we could with the work they had to do, however as we progress with this attack in other races we are going to need help in this area as we have not budgeted for recruiting and cannot handle both the defense and recruiting, we just don't have the man power or the funds. We will need help in this respect as we bring our attack to Darlington. Tremendous thanks to the Georgia Division for their response to our call for assistance in this defense and in particular Elijah Coleman and his brother Dan of the Georgia division, their assistance was invaluable.

At this point, NASCAR has not made any statements concerning our attack and the media has ignored our press releases. However, gentleman they can't ignore us for much longer as it is clear from this Atlanta attack we have won the hearts of the NASCAR fans and due to the support of our Commander in Chief Chris Sullivan and the Confederate hearts of the GEC the attacks WILL continue.

We also now have three SCV cars on the small stock car tracks and due to more funds from the Virginia DEC we will soon have a fourth, and I have feelers out for still a fifth in Florida at the Bronson motor speedway near Gainesville, Fla. These cars are very popular on the small tracks. As NASCAR tickets have gotten so expensive a lot of our country boys can't afford them any more, therefore they are returning to the small tracks in droves and the most popular car out there is our SCV car, win or lose gentlemen they ARE the crowd favorite. If NASCAR put an SCV car on it's track IT Would be the favorite hands down, and after all NASCAR is about money. If they want to win back the crowds in the South Land they are going to have change their tune to Dixie.

Gentlemen again I would like to doff my hat to Grayson Jennings for the time, money and perseverance he has expended in leading this attack, truly no man could have done more. The success of this endeavor is directly attributed to Grayson Jennings; the Coleman bothers of Georgia and their Georgia Flaggers.

LETS TAKE NASCAR BACK! We have made Dale Earnhart Jr. shut his mouth, now lets make him eat his words.

Yours in the Bonds of the Southland
Darryl Starnes, Chief, Heritage Defense
Sons of Confederate Veterans

Please help; please see attached bill & legislation below message.

This makes me sick to my stomach. If you live in North Carolina, see if your representative is listed as a sponsor. If you do not live in North Carolina, please call any representative listed in the cosponsor list to express your disappointment. Contact them either way to tell them not to support this ridiculous resolution, S1157.
Be a Southern gentleman or lady when doing so. Jan. 19th, 2007 marked the bicentennial of one of America's greatest men. I did not see our legislatures jumping to honor him. A great father, leader, soldier, & Christian. These seem to be terrible attributes to have in today's society.
of page see bill lookup with text & representative lookup too. Do this for all the ancestors, which came over and served as indentured servants AKA slaves or just plain slaves. We all had it to happen in our families. Will we ever be apologized too?

Also the South should be apologized for all the devastation and destruction, murdering, raping, starving caused by the North. We are in a war fighting for our Southern Culture.

It is very simple to phone or write your representative.

God Bless Dixie and long live our spineless PC society.

In the Bonds of the Old South,
Kirk Carter
3364 Marshall Wolf Rd
Kings Mountain, NC 28086
(704) 616-2957

Senate Joint Resolution 1557
2007-2008 Session
Apologize for Slavery.
Text Fiscal Note
Filed [PDF] -
Status: [S] Filed on 04/03/2007
Sponsors
Go to http://www.ncleg.net/homePage.pl then push the link for bill/legislation. Push bill lookup, and then on right side
Primary: Tony Rand;
Co: Charles W. Albertson; Tom Apodaca; Bob Atwater; Marc Basnight; Doug Berger; Philip E. Berger; Stan Bingham; Julia Boseman; Harry Brown; Peter Samuel (Pete) Brunstetter; Daniel G. Clodfelter; Janet Cowell; Walter H. Dalton; Charlie S. Dannelly; Katie G. Dorsett; Tony Foriest; Linda Garrou; Steve Goss; Malcolm Graham; Kay R. Hagan; Clark Jenkins; Ed Jones; John H. Kerr III; Eleanor Kinnaird; V ernon Malone; Martin L. Nesbitt, Jr.; Jean Preston; William R. Purcell; Joe Sam Queen; Larry Shaw; John Snow; R. C. Soles, Jr.; Richard Stevens; A. B Swindell; Jerry W. Tillman; David F. Weinstein;
Attributes: Public;

History
Date Action
04/03/2007 [S] Filed

Note: a bill listed on this website is not law until passed by the House and the Senate, ratified, and, if required, signed by the Governor.

Abbreviations Key
H = House Action
S = Senate Action
R = Ratified
HF = Failed in the House
SF = Failed in the Senate
HA = Adopted in the House
SA = Adopted in the Senate

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA SESSION 2007

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION DRSJR85297-LG-480B (03/22)

Sponsors:
Senator Rand.

Referred to:

A JOINT RESOLUTION expressing the PROFOUND REGRET of the North Carolina general assembly for the history of wrongs inflicted upon black citizens by means of slavery, exploitation, and legalized racial segregation and calling on all citizens to take part in acts of racial reconciliation.

Whereas, Article 1, Section 1, of the Constitution of North Carolina, in concert with the American Declaration of Independence, proclaims, "We hold it to be self evident that all persons are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, the enjoyment of the fruits of their own labor, and the pursuit of happiness"; and

Whereas, involuntary servitude, as practiced within the borders of North Carolina in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, violated the precept that all persons are created equal and denied thousands and thousands of people of liberty, of the pursuit of happiness, of the ability to benefit from their own work, and, in many cases, of life itself; and

Whereas, the practice of slavery was embedded in constitutional provisions and laws enacted by predecessors to this General Assembly and other civil authorities of North Carolina; and

Whereas, the practice of slavery began shortly after the founding of the British Colony of Carolina, with a 1669 constitution that provided land to white colonists according to the level of their holdings in slave s and free black employees, 20 acres per black male and 10 acres per black female; and

Whereas, even though North Carolina did not have as extensive a plantation system as other states in the American South, slavery had become entrenched in the State by the time of the American Revolution, so that at the founding of the United States three out of 10 North Carolina families owned slaves; and

Whereas, North Carolina took legal actions to deny freedom to black people, including an 1826 law that prohibited free blacks from entering the State, an 1830 law that prohibited anyone from teaching a slave to read or write, and a provision of the 1835 Constitution denying free blacks the right to vote; and

Whereas, even as slaves engaged in back breaking physical labor, endured squalid housing, and saw their families broken apart as spouses and children were sold from one owner to another, black men and women cultivated tobacco, cotton, and other crops in a largely agricultural state, built essential public facilities, and contributed to the creation and accumulation of wealth; and

Whereas, by the time of the American Civil War, North Carolina was home to 330,000 slaves, one third of the State's population, and North Carolina joined the forces that fought to preserve a region and a society that had slavery as a defining characteristic; and

Whereas, in the aftermath of the Emancipation Proclamation and during the period know as Reconstruction, black residents of North Carolina not only gained legal freedom but also participated more directly in the public life of the State, to the extent that 20 black legislators were elected in 1868 to the General Assembly, and blacks continued to serve in State and local offices through the remainder of the 19th century; and

Whereas, at the outset of the 20th Century, North Carolina enacted laws that prevented black citizens from participating fully in a democratic society, including a 1900 amendment that denied black citizens the right to vote and the segregation of black and white citizens into separate and unequal public schools; and

Whereas, as a result of dire economic and social conditions, black North Carolinians joined the "Great Migration" from the South to the North in the first half of the 20th Century, so that more than 270,000 people left the State between 1910 and 1950; and

Whereas, despite the legacies of slavery and the imposition of laws that segregated blacks and whites in schools, public facilities, and in civic life, black North Carolinians persisted in faith and in hope for a better life, in their yearnings to participate fully in the economic and democratic life of their State and country; an d

Whereas, North Carolina should celebrate the entrepreneurship of black citizens in building nationally recognized businesses; the founding and sustaining of colleges and universities that historically served black students; the many black North Carolinians who have provided leadership in law, civil rights, and governance to the State and nation; Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring:

SECTION 1. The General Assembly issues its apology for the practice of slavery in North Carolina and expresses its profound contrition for the official acts that sanctioned and perpetuated the denial of basic human rights and dignity to fellow humans.

SECTION 2. The General Assembly urges schools, colleges, and universities, religious and civic institutions, businesses and professional associations to do all within their power to acknowledge the transgressions of North Carolina's journey from a colony to a leading State, to learn the lessons of history in order to avoid repeating mistakes of the past, and to promote racial reconciliation.

SECTION 3. The General Assembly calls on all North Carolinians to recommit their State, their communities, and themselves to the proclamation of their nation's Declaration of Independence and their State Constitution that "all persons are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights" - to work daily to treat all persons with abiding respect for their humanity and to eliminate racial prejudices, injustices, and discrimination from our society.

SECTION 4. This resolution is effective upon ratification.

America’s Iliad: The Siege of Charleston, a full length documentary film by Mike Kirk is set to premier on Saturday April 14^th, 2007 at 7pm at the Sottile Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina. An epic historical account, America’s Iliad depicts the social and political upheaval that occurred during the pivotal Civil War campaigns directed against Charleston, South Carolina. Narrated by actor Tom Berenger (The Big Chill) the film uses period images, first-hand accounts, surviving structures, battle sites and commentary by national experts to tell Charleston’s story. Composer and master musician Eric Lewis’s kaleidoscopic soundtrack creates a profound and breathtaking tone to America’s Iliad. (www.americasiliad.com)

To honor this historical weekend in Charleston’s history and to celebrate the opening of this epic film a weekend full of activities and events has been planned.

Thursday April 12^th at 7pm -- There will be a gathering at Fort Johnson for a four cannon salute by a Battery of Light Artillery.

Friday April 13^th at 6pm – Gilded Age Films will launch a three-hour tour on the Spirit of Charleston, landing at Fort Sumter for a Civil War Living History event

Saturday April 14^th at 7pm -- Senator Glenn McConnell and State Superintendent of Education Jim Rex will speak at the first screening of America’s Iliad: The Siege of Charleston at Sottile Theatre.

America’s Iliad: The Siege of Charleston will make its television debut on South Carolina’s PBS affiliate ETV on Thursday May 10^th from 9-11pm. National PBS affiliates will air the film in mid-July.

All members of the Confederate Heritage Trust, Inc. are invited to attend the premier of “America’s Iliad, the Siege of Charleston” at 7:00P.M. on April 14^th at the Sottile Theater. Social hour is 6:00 to 7:00 on this date. Pleases try to be there early so that you may get a seat. All Board members are asked to inform their respective organizations about this event. No admission is to be charged to members of the CHT. If you receive a comment card, please fill it out and return it. We need to have as many members attend this show as we possibly can. It is very important. Thank you.