Meetings are currently held the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 1730 (5:30pm) at the IHOP, 401 E. California Ave., Bricktown, Oklahoma City, OK north of Reno Ave. and Joe Carter Drive, adjacent to and east of Bricktown Ball Park. (Map of Location)

If you are needing to search for a veterans records, whether Confederate or Union, you can go to the "National Park Service" website "Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.htm, there is other information that is available also, this is a good site, I highly recommend it.

Form NATF 86 is required to order copies of service records. These forms are obtained by submitting a request via email link on the website. Confederate pension records are obtained from the State Archives where filed.

Saturday 27 March, place flags on graves at 0830(8:30am)

Monday 29 March, Confederate Veterans Memorial Service at Rose Hill Cemetery at 1400(2:00pm)

       The Mint Julep, a distinctive Southern drink, popular in the ante bellum South right up through modern times, is a mixture of water, sugar, mint leaves and, above all, bourbon whiskey. While it can be purchased today in modern drinking establishments in the South, those served there bear little resemblance to those served in the home. The serving of this elixir to family and guests on a hot summer afternoon was, and is, accomplished with the greatest fanfare and flourish to show respect for those receiving it.  It is as much of a ceremony as it is a drink.
        The following is a copy of a letter from Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., USA [(VMI-1906, West Point-1908) killed on Okinawa June 18, 1945] to Major General William D. Connor, [Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point] dated March 30, 1937. Buckner Jr. was the son of General Simon Bolivar Buckner of the Confederate army who surrendered Fort Donelson to General Grant, thus giving Grant his nickname of "Unconditional Surrender" Grant. This letter clearly demonstrates the esteem in which a "Mint Julep" is held.

The following letter is from [The Dispatch] Jefferson Davis' Funeral Train by Calvin Johnson

Dear Friends,
Axactly 113 years ago today, Saturday May, 28, the remains
of the South's cheftain was removed and taken to Confederate
Memorial Day in New Orleans. The next day a funeral train would
take Davis for final in Rchmond, Virginia. Here is the story.
Please repost if you like.
God Bless Jefferson Davis

By: Calvin E. Johnson, Jr.
Chattahoochee Guards 1639
Mableton, Georgia
1064 West Mill Drive
Kennesaw, Georgia 30152
Phone: 770 428 0978

An American president was laid to rest on Memorial Day!

If you're tired of the sex, violence and bad language, on TV
and in movies, may I offer you a true story that the whole family
can enjoy? There was a time when the history of our nation was 
taught to our children and there was pride in who we were.

If you listen closely, and the wind blows in the right direction, 
you may hear a train whistle in the distance.

My Mother remembers that day in April 1945, when the funeral
train for Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Roosevelt High school
in Atlanta, Georgia, shortly before stopping at Atlanta's Terminal
Station.

Many songs have been written about the passenger train.
On Saturday and Sunday, May 27th and 28th, 1893, a news
story took place in the crescent city of New Orleans that 
overshadowed all other events throughout the South.

No business was held on Saturday, May 27, 1893, when the
remains of Jefferson Davis, former president of the Confederacy,
was removed from Metairie Cemetery and taken to Confederate
Memorial Hall in New Orleans where his casket was placed on
a huge oak catafalque. 

It had been nearly four years since Jefferson Davis died in New Orleans
and was buried temporarily at Metairie Cemetery. Varina Davis, wife of the
Southern leader, worked to secure an honor guard and funeral train to
take her husband to Richmond, Virginia for final burial. 

At 4:30PM on Sunday May 28th, a memorial service was held for Mr.
Davis and it was reported that a moving memorial address was
delivered by Louisiana's Governor Murphy J. Foster. 

The casket of Jefferson Davis was then delivered to a committee
of veterans from Virginia who had been sent to receive it. A
procession was formed for the long, slow march to New Orlean's
"Louisville and Nashville" Railroad Station on Canal Street. 

Locomotive No. 69, with Engineer Frank Coffin, waited patiently
as the casket was taken up a platform and passed through
an open observation car widow to a catafalque. The cars wall
could not be seen due to the many flowers.

At 7:50PM on Sunday May 28, 1893, Engineer Coffin pulled
Locomotive No. 69 slowly out of New Orleans for the 1,200 mile
journey to Richmond, Virginia. Old veterans saluted and women
bowed their heads in prayer. 

Newspaper reporters from New Orleans, Richmond, Boston,
New York and the Southern Associated Press were guests on the
train.

After a brief stop at Bay Saint Louis and slow-down at Pass
Christian, the train stopped at Beauvoir, the Davis' family home
near Biloxi, where Jefferson Davis and family had spent 12 years.
It was there that Davis wrote his book, "The Rise and Fall of the
Confederate Government."

Following a brief stop at Scranton, Mississippi (now Pascagoula)
the train pulled into Mobile, Alabama at midnight with a thousand
people waiting. When the headlight of the train came in full view,
the Alabama Artillery fired a salute. Children were kept up past
their bedtime to witness this a part of our American history.

Locomotive No. 69 was retired and Locomotive No. 25 was
coupled to the train. The new train's Engineer was C.C. Devinney
and the fireman was Warren Robinson.

This special train pulled into Montgomery, Alabama at 6:00AM on
May 29, 1893. A severe rain storm delayed the funeral procession
to about 8:30AM when a funeral cortege started for the state capitol.
Six black horses drew the platform bearing the casket.

The casket was placed in front of the bench of the Alabama Supreme
Court room. Above the right exit of the room was a banner with the
word "Monterrey" and above the left exit was a banner with the words
"Buena Vista." During the War with Mexico, Jefferson Davis was a hero
at Monterrey and was wounded at Buena Vista.

Church bells tolled, cannons roared and people said farewell as the
train pulled out of Montgomery's station at 12:30PM. The train stopped
briefly at West Point, Georgia, under a beautiful floral arch, to pick up
Georgia's Governor WIlliam J. Northen and his staff.

At least 20,000 greeted the train in Atlanta, Georgia as it pulled into
Atlanta's Union Station at 4:30PM on May 29th. A hearse, carrying the
casket, was drawn by six dappled gray horses. The President's
remains were guarded by a detachment of the Old Guard Battalion
of the Gate City Guard, now known as the Old Guard.

The train left Atlanta, Georgia at 7:00PM and traveled through Lula,
Georgia, Greenville, South Carolina and stopped at Raleigh,
North Carolina. Davis' casket was taken to the North Carolina state
capitol.

A brief stop was made in Danville, Virginia where a crowd of
people gathered around the train and sang, "Nearer My God to Thee."

The Jefferson Davis funeral train finally reached Richmond, Virginia
on Wednesday, May 31, 1893, at 3:00 AM. It was Memorial Day. Mrs.
Davis met the train and her husbands casket was taken to the
Virginia state capitol to lie in state.

It was reported that at 3:00PM on May 31, 1893, the Davis casket
was placed on caisson, that was drawn by six white horses, and
taken to Hollywood Cemetery for burial. A newspaper account of the
event reported....." at least 75,000 people were along the streets and
at the cemetery and not since the War Between the States had so
many Confederate soldiers been seen in Richmond." 

The honor guard fired a 21-gun salute, the bugler played taps and
Jefferson Davis, the South's beloved leader, was finally laid to rest.

Jefferson Davis was born on June 3, 1808. He served as United
States Secretary of War and United States Senator from Mississippi.

Lest We Forget all our soldiers on Memorial Day!


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The Dispatch
dispatch@scvmail.net

Did you know that there were 3million horses killed during the "WAR BETWEEN THE STATES."

1. What Confederate naval captain captured and sank fifty-five ships, more than

any other?

2. From what commonplace equipment was the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley built?

3. What Confederate ironclad carried ten guns and a crew of two hundred was burned to avoid capture?

4. Where was the famous CSS Alabama constructed?

5. Why did experience commanders have sand and ashes sprinkled around their guns?

(answers at bottom of last page)

"I salute the Confederate Flag,

With reverence,

Affection,

And undying devotion

to the cause for which

it stands."

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