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Anyone know an active member of SCV
Posted on 3/1/21 at 11:55 pm
Posted on 3/1/21 at 11:55 pm
I can't imagine Sons of Confederate Veterans is doing too well these days. I went down the rabbit hole of IG and found some of their chapters pages. It looked like they all had between 5-10 members at their events.The members also didn't look like the type of people you'd want defending that heritage. I did see a few members at Gettysburg while I was visiting, they were decked out in their rebel shirts.
This post was edited on 3/2/21 at 12:48 am
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Posted on 3/1/21 at 11:56 pm to West Palm Tiger561
I know several.
Most guys who are into reenacting are SCV.
Most guys who are into reenacting are SCV.
Posted on 3/1/21 at 11:56 pm to West Palm Tiger561
I hardly know myself, but I'm making an effort.
Posted on 3/1/21 at 11:58 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Vice did a story on them a year or 2 ago while they were at the national convention in St.Augustine. Pretty sure they were considered a hate group. This year their national convention is in New Orleans I believe.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 12:00 am to West Palm Tiger561
The real parties are at the tOSaB meetings. It's like a KA Old South, but with old men and escorts.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 12:02 am to West Palm Tiger561
No self respecting member of the Baton Rouge Assembly can’t trace their heritage to the confederacy and beyond.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 12:26 am to West Palm Tiger561
Not the SCV but my grandmother is majorly involved in the UDC (The United Daughters of the Confederacy). She’s also crazy interested in genealogy
Posted on 3/2/21 at 12:31 am to HoboDickCheese
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Not the SCV but my grandmother is majorly involved in the UDC (The United Daughters of the Confederacy). She’s also crazy interested in genealogy
Everyone should be so lucky as to have a family matron involved in DAR or UDC. You might think it's stupid as a kid, but you'll be thankful for their efforts one day.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 12:33 am to HoboDickCheese
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Not the SCV but my grandmother is majorly involved in the UDC (The United Daughters of the Confederacy). She’s also crazy interested in genealogy
The women's organizations are generally bigger than the men's. The DAR is a big deal. The SAR, pretty much an afterthought.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 12:41 am to HempHead
quote:I’ve never thought it was stupid, she’s taught me a lot about my genealogy and ancestors
You might think it's stupid as a kid, but you'll be thankful for their efforts one day.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 12:41 am to Jim Rockford
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The women's organizations are generally bigger than the men's. The DAR is a big deal. The SAR, pretty much an afterthought.
When I was in Charleston visiting revolutionary sites, I only heard about DAR and their projects. Not a word on SAR.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 12:43 am to Jim Rockford
quote:She regularly speaks at scholarship presentations and whatnot
The women's organizations are generally bigger than the men's
Posted on 3/2/21 at 12:48 am to West Palm Tiger561
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When I was in Charleston visiting revolutionary sites, I only heard about DAR and their projects. Not a word on SAR.
Women, generally, give a lot more fricks about social webs/familial relations than men. It makes sense.
SCV, at least, imparts a sense of shared identity - and, let's be honest, a certain political tribe. SAR ends up just being some shite you get signed up for as a kid and you never hear anything from them other than a request for dues.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 12:57 am to HoboDickCheese
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She’s also crazy interested in genealogy
An older fella I used to know from SE Texas showed me the genealogy book he put together to prove his eligibility to join the SCV. Looked like a lot of work; you'd have to be really into genealogy to join if you didn't have a dad or grandfather who was active.
His house was all decked out in flags and statues of various types .
This post was edited on 3/2/21 at 12:59 am
Posted on 3/2/21 at 1:02 am to PowerTool
My mother has a huge folder she used to get in the DAR. It took her a long time, probably over a year. It's a lot easier now with sites like ancestry.com. Most likely some distant relative you never heard of has done most of the work already. You just have to go back a generation or two and connect your line to theirs.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 1:05 am to Jim Rockford
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You just have to go back a generation or two and connect your line to theirs.
I've got a few thick arse books that go back from the late 1400s to early 1600s. It's pretty damn crazy to comprehend the amount of ancestors you have when you go back that far. That anyone kept records when they weren't rich is what surprised me the most.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 1:06 am to Jim Rockford
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It's a lot easier now with sites like ancestry.com. Most likely some distant relative you never heard of has done most of the work already
This. I made a few clicks and followed my great grandparents back to the early 1600s. It's easy when your family is from louisiana and they lived their since the early 1700s.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 1:12 am to PowerTool
quote:it’s a running joke in my family but according to my grandmother we had a family member that joined the war in the south then got caught and turned sides to the north, apparently that happened a few more times from both directions according to her. We joke he was the first American spy
PowerTool
Posted on 3/2/21 at 1:45 am to HoboDickCheese
Southern POWs were often recruited into the Union army to fight Indians in the west.
Fun fact: the Union naval commander at Vicksburg was from Tennessee. The Confederate general in command was from Pennsylvania.
Fun fact: the Union naval commander at Vicksburg was from Tennessee. The Confederate general in command was from Pennsylvania.
This post was edited on 3/2/21 at 1:51 am
Posted on 3/2/21 at 5:51 am to West Palm Tiger561
I'm an active member of both SCV and MOS&B.
My SCV Camp is probably 25-30 members, and being in my mid 40s I am probably the youngest one.
SCV in Georgia has been spearheading the monument defense - when counties/cities try to remove Confederate monuments from courthouse squares, Georgia division is the one filing the lawsuits in state court because there is a state law that forbids removal of the monuments.
SCV also works in the state to preserve and maintain Confederate cemeteries like the one in Marietta. My camp several years ago worked with a contractor to clean the headstones and memorials in the Confederate section at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta as well as repair the walkways in that section.
The national SCV has multiple programs about southern heritage and programs that fill in the gaps in history about the south and Civil War that modern textbooks leave out. SCV National has just built a new headquarters in Tennessee, and the rumor is that with Memphis disinterring Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife from their graves in Forrest Park, the SCV is working with Forrest family descendants to have the couple buried at the new Elm Springs HQ.
My SCV Camp is probably 25-30 members, and being in my mid 40s I am probably the youngest one.
SCV in Georgia has been spearheading the monument defense - when counties/cities try to remove Confederate monuments from courthouse squares, Georgia division is the one filing the lawsuits in state court because there is a state law that forbids removal of the monuments.
SCV also works in the state to preserve and maintain Confederate cemeteries like the one in Marietta. My camp several years ago worked with a contractor to clean the headstones and memorials in the Confederate section at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta as well as repair the walkways in that section.
The national SCV has multiple programs about southern heritage and programs that fill in the gaps in history about the south and Civil War that modern textbooks leave out. SCV National has just built a new headquarters in Tennessee, and the rumor is that with Memphis disinterring Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife from their graves in Forrest Park, the SCV is working with Forrest family descendants to have the couple buried at the new Elm Springs HQ.
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