place of our loved ones. Program time should be around 45 minutes in length.
Looking forward to seeing you at 2:00 P.M. on October 8th, 2005.
Oct 14-15th Battle for Janney Furnace/Ten Islands in Ohatchee Alabama. Saturday Night Dance next to the original iron furnace. Sunday church service. Alabama Division of re-enactors rules applies.
October 14-15th Stone Mountain Georgia. Stone Mountain Highland Games and Scottish Festival. Highland Games (Caber Toss, Stone of Strength, Sheaf Toss, Hammer Throw) Highland Dance, Pipe Bands from all over the Country. All Clans in attendance, come research you’re heritage.
October 22-23 Alabama Cotton Picking Celebration and Skirmish, at Old Bakers Farm, Harpersville, Alabama. This is Alabama’s oldest working farm.
November 4-6 Battle for Atlanta 140th anniversary. Conyers Georgia. Cancelled last year because of Hurricanes, Battles to include, Pickett Mills on Friday, Battle for Atlanta on Saturday and last day’s action at Jonesborough on Sunday.
November 5-6th Alabama 21st Ladies Aid Society Ladies Encampment at the historic Magee Farm, Kushla Alabama. This is near Bay Minnette Alabama.
REPORT FROM THE STORM AREA
This morning I received the great news we have all been waiting for. Dr. Glen Cangelosi, president of the Confederate Memorial Hall Museum Foundation of New Orleans, entered the museum yesterday, made a detailed inspection of the building and artifacts, and reported that everything is fine. He stated that there was some minor wind damage to the roof, but there was no flooding, and no vandalism or looting. This is confirmation of the positive preliminary report we received last week.
Dr. Cangelosi mentioned that by chance, a reporter from the Camp Chase Gazette was outside the building when he arrived, and joined him during the inspection. I suppose there will be a nice article in a forthcoming issue of the CCG.
The museum must now contend with a complete absence of revenue over the next months, but our primary concern for the welfare of the priceless historical artifacts has now been laid to rest.
The staff and directors of Confederate Memorial Hall Museum wishes to express our deepest gratitude to Civil War Interactive and its readers for their concerns.
Sincerely, Sam Hood
Rebel flag opposed for Camp Butler During dedication of memorial to Confederates
By JOHN REYNOLDS
STAFF WRITER
The State Journal-Register
Springfield, Ill.
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Debate over the Confederate flag, usually associated with Southern states, has reached the heart of the Land of Lincoln.
Ken Page, president of the Springfield branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, says the group opposes display of the Confederate flag when the time comes to dedicate a proposed memorial to honor Confederate war dead.
The memorial is to be built at Camp Butler National Cemetery near Riverton, the site of a prison camp for Confederate soldiers.
"The Confederate flag represents the same thing to blacks as the Nazi flag represents to Jews," Page said.
Both of Illinois' U.S. senators, Barack Obama and Dick Durbin, have signed a letter asking federal officials to bar display of the Confederate flag during the dedication.
"We, along with the NAACP and many Americans, believe that the Confederate flag has become more than an historic battle standard; for millions of Americans it is a symbol of slavery and segregation," the Democratic senators said in a letter to the director of the National Cemetery Administration.
Camp Butler is the final resting place of 866 Confederate soldiers.
Ron Casteel of Jefferson City, Mo., national chief of staff for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, one of the groups behind the memorial, said the NAACP "has officially declared war against all Confederate symbols." The two senators are pandering to the NAACP, he said.
"The NAACP, as a matter of policy, has been against any recognition of Southern heritage. This is just noise on their part that amounts to nothing. ... They can call it a racist symbol, but that doesn't mean it is," Casteel said.
"This all involves political correctness and the hateful agenda of the NAACP," he said.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Military Order of the Stars and Bars, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Order of the Southern Cross have raised $6,000 for the memorial.
Bill Rhoades, director of Camp Butler, said the memorial is an obelisk that will stand about 71/2 feet tall. It will be inscribed with the words, "In memory of the Confederate veterans who died at the Camp Butler Confederate prison camp, may they never be forgotten."
The monument will not have any Confederate insignia, nor will a Confederate flag be permanently flown over the memorial.
