Peace River News
Peace River UDC Chapter # 2516 * Editor: Evelyn Arthur Vol. # 5, Issue # 02 February 2008
Peace River UDC Website <http://ladyreb.flaconfederados.org/>
Gen. David E. Twiggs SCV Camp # 1462 Twiggs Website http://flaconfederados.bravehost.com/
Our Newsletter Site http://ournewsletter.bravehost.com/index.html
Quote for this month;
"A Jolt" for Wendell By A Negro Waiter”
(Confederate Veteran Magazine, March 1912, page 123)
A long time ago Wendell Phillips, the abolitionist, went to Charleston
"You must 'scuse me," said the Negro.
"I is 'bliged to stay here 'cause Ise 'sponsible for de silverware”
Our Meeting for this month is Tuesday
Feb.26, 2008 at 6:30 PM at the Pavilion Building
Join us if you can for fellowship before the meeting!
Meeting dates for 2008
Tuesdays at 6:30 PM
February 26th
March 25th
April 22nd
May( to be announced)
June 24th
July 22nd
August 26th
September 23rd
October 28th
November-December Meeting
December 2nd
Please save this list, just in case you don’t get a reminder from me about the meeting.
Important note!!!
Saturday Feb 23rd is the Parade in Labelle
Swamp Cabbage festival.
We need to be there by 8am; Please let Leon know ASAP if you can participate and for directions, the SCV needs as many of us that can help( got 1200 flags to hand out this time!!)
Gentlemen; Let’s make it a great year. Hope to see you all at this meeting! We Have members to swear in at this meeting
UDC Ladies,
Lets Build up our membership this year.
At this meeting ,we will work on our pocket dolls for Pioneer Days!
Both groups need to discuss Pioneer Days,
We need to know who is going to be there.
We are setting up for Friday & Saturday
( Feb.29 & March 1st)
You are an important part of these groups..
If for some reason you can’t make our meeting it, let us know
863-494-7725, we miss you when you aren’t there.
David Poteat; Cmdr of Capt.F.A.Hendry camp in Sebring is in charge of the history lesson this month
UDC, keep in mind, we need to start collecting for our Veterans again,
We again have someone to deliver for us.
SCV, You are welcome to help us.
Fly a Confederate flag every day,
Important dates in February
1 1861 Texas
3 1807 General Joseph E. Johnston’s birthday
4 1861 First session of the Provisional Confederate Congress in Montgomery , AL
5-7 1865 Battle
5 1861 Resolution for formation of the Confederate States of America
6 1833 General J. E. B. Stuart’s birthday.
7 1861 Choctaw Indian Nation declares alliance with the CSA.
8 1817 General Richard Ewell’s birthday.
9 1861 Jefferson Davis elected by the Provisional government as President and Alexander Stephens as Vice President of the Confederate States of America
11 1812 Birthday of Alexander H. Stephens
14 1862 Confederate shore batteries of Fort Donelson
15 1861 CSA Provisional Congress provides for a Peace Commission to the US
16 1861 Texas troops occupy Arsenal and Barracks at San Antonio , TX
17 1864 Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to sink and enemy ship (USS Housatonic) in combat off Charleston SC
18 1817 General Lewis A. Armistead’s birthday
18 1861 Inauguration of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America US military posts in Texas
19 1865 Sherman ’s invading army burns most of Columbia , SC
20-21 1864 Battle of Olustee , FL
20 1861 Confederate States Navy founded
22 1862 Official date adopted by the second and permanent Confederate Congress for formation of the CSA to honor the 130th anniversary of General and President George Washington’s birthday. (who is featured on the Great Seal of the Confederate States)
22 1865 Fall of Wilmington , NC
25 1862 Occupation of Nashville , TN
27 1863 President Davis calls for a national day of fasting and prayer
28 1863 CSS Nashville is destroyed by the US Montauk near Fort McAllisster , GA.
The six acres of Fort Delaware held nearly 13,000 Confederate prisoners captured mostly at the Battle of Gettysburg
From the booklet, "Prison-Pens of the North," by Michael Dann Hayes
Col. George H. Moffett continues his description of life as a Confederate prisoner in the Union prison camp, Fort Delaware :
"I have said the discipline at Camp Chase Fort Delaware
"A common form of punishment was to 'buck and gag' the victim. This was done by placing a gag in his mouth, then pinioning his arms behind him and running a stick between the elbows and back. In this helpless condition the prisoner was thrown to the ground and left to lie there a whole day exposed to the broiling sun or the chill of the winter atmosphere, according to the season. But their most popular penal system was to hang up the victim by the thumbs, or 'thumb hangings,' as it was technically known, in the pass way between the mess hall and the kitchen with a number of swings in it.
"The cruelty in all this was it should have never occurred in a land teeming with abundance. As we looked out through our little pigeonhole windows across the bay to the Delaware side we could see golden fields of wheat waving in the sunlight, the corn in the ear, orchards laden with fruit, and cattle grazing in the green pastures. We knew all the markets in the world were open to these people. Yet in the midst of plenty they denied to these helpless prisoners sufficient food to appease the pangs of hunger, and thus we reasoned that their cruelty was willful and deliberate.
"The mortality was excessive. Two of my bunkmates had been brought to the hospital just the day before, all of us stricken with the same malady, yet before the end of the week both of them had died. In reply to an inquiry as to the death rate in the hospital, the steward told me that for the months of June and July it averaged over seventy deaths per day. I believed him, for I had the ocular demonstration. Each morning at an early hour carts would rattle up to the 'dead house' just underneath our ward and would haul the dead to the wharf, where they were placed on a little steamer and ferried over to the Jersey shore for burial. Lest we forget.
"Before I had fully recovered, but sufficiently convalesced to walk without assistance, I went back into the barracks, in order to make room in the hospital for some poor sufferer who needed medical attention more than I did. Upon my return to the barracks I found, to my inexpressibly joy, that my appetite was gone. God had been good to me. It is a singular fact that the walls of the stomach seemed to have contracted to fit the 'one-fourth' ration. It is true that I continued to be weak and debilitated.
I had shriveled and shrunken into a walking skeleton, yet the hunger pains were gone. Nor did they return in the excruciating form I have hitherto described.
"The summer ripened into autumn, the autumn passed into another winter - so cold, cheerless and desolate - the spring time came again, and with it the tidings of the fall of the Confederacy. But it was not until the early summer an order came for the release of all prisoners of war.
"On the morning of the 20th of June, l865, I was called out to the provost's office to subscribe to my 'amnesty,' and when this was performed I was told that I was again a free man. Strange as it may seem to the reader, the announcement of our release excited no enthusiasm among the freed prisoners. Possibly our long and miserable confinement had made us callous to events. All the buoyancy of youth was gone. At sixteen years of age I had quit college to go into the war, and had just recently passed my twentieth birthday when released from Fort Delaware
"Back again in Dixie Land
As Col. Moffett and others have been allowed to so explicitly describe in this series, the only difference between Andersonville prison in Georgia
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These southwest Florida
Capt.F.A. Hendry# 1284; Sebring..2nd Tuesday of each month at 6:30 PM at the Southern Gun Shop US 17 South in Sebring
Lt.F.C.M.Boggess # 2150; Everglades City 2nd Thursday of each month at 7:00 PM at the Seafood Depot Restaurant , SR 29 South in Everglades City
Gen.David E. Twiggs # 1462, Wauchula, 4th Tuesday of each month at 6:30 PM at the Pavilion Building, Pioneer Park, Zolfo Springs, Corner of US 17 & SR 64
Maj. Wm M. Footman # 1950, Ft.Myers, 4th Saturday of each month at 12 noon at the Smoke N Pit Barbeque US 41 North, N.Ft.Myers meet at 11 AM to eat first
Peace River UDC Website <http://ladyreb.flaconfederados.org/> Gen. David E. Twiggs SCV Camp # 1462 Twiggs Website http://flaconfederados.bravehost.com/ Our Newsletter Site http://ournewsletter.bravehost.com/index.html
Quote for this month;
"A Jolt" for Wendell By A Negro Waiter”
(Confederate Veteran Magazine, March 1912, page 123)
A long time ago Wendell Phillips, the abolitionist, went to
"You must 'scuse me," said the Negro.
"I is 'bliged to stay here 'cause Ise 'sponsible for de silverware”
Our Meeting for this month is Tuesday
Feb.26, 2008 at 6:30 PM at the
Join us if you can for fellowship before the meeting!
Meeting dates for 2008
Tuesdays at 6:30 PM
February 26th
March 25th
April 22nd
May( to be announced)
June 24th
July 22nd
August 26th
September 23rd
October 28th
November-December Meeting
December 2nd
Please save this list, just in case you don’t get a reminder from me about the meeting.
Important note!!!
Saturday Feb 23rd is the Parade in Labelle
Swamp Cabbage festival.
We need to be there by 8am; Please let Leon know ASAP if you can participate and for directions, the SCV needs as many of us that can help( got 1200 flags to hand out this time!!)
Gentlemen; Let’s make it a great year. Hope to see you all at this meeting! We Have members to swear in at this meeting
UDC Ladies,
Lets Build up our membership this year.
At this meeting ,we will work on our pocket dolls for Pioneer Days!
Both groups need to discuss Pioneer Days,
We need to know who is going to be there.
We are setting up for Friday & Saturday
( Feb.29 & March 1st)
You are an important part of these groups..
If for some reason you can’t make our meeting it, let us know
863-494-7725, we miss you when you aren’t there.
David Poteat; Cmdr of Capt.F.A.Hendry camp in Sebring is in charge of the history lesson this month
UDC, keep in mind, we need to start collecting for our Veterans again,
We again have someone to deliver for us.
SCV, You are welcome to help us.
Fly a Confederate flag every day,
Important dates in February
1 1861
3 1807 General Joseph E. Johnston’s birthday
4 1861 First session of the Provisional Confederate Congress in
5-7 1865
5 1861 Resolution for formation of the Confederate States of
6 1833 General J. E. B. Stuart’s birthday.
7 1861 Choctaw Indian Nation declares alliance with the CSA.
8 1817 General Richard Ewell’s birthday.
9 1861 Jefferson Davis elected by the Provisional government as President and Alexander Stephens as Vice President of the Confederate States of
11 1812 Birthday of Alexander H. Stephens
14 1862 Confederate shore batteries of
15 1861 CSA Provisional Congress provides for a Peace Commission to the
16 1861
17 1864 Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to sink and enemy ship (USS Housatonic) in combat off
18 1817 General Lewis A. Armistead’s birthday
18 1861 Inauguration of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of
19 1865
20-21 1864
20 1861 Confederate States Navy founded
22 1862 Official date adopted by the second and permanent Confederate Congress for formation of the CSA to honor the 130th anniversary of General and President George Washington’s birthday. (who is featured on the Great Seal of the Confederate States)
22 1865 Fall of
25 1862 Occupation of
27 1863 President Davis calls for a national day of fasting and prayer
28 1863 CSS
The six acres of
From the booklet, "Prison-Pens of the North," by Michael Dann Hayes
Col. George H. Moffett continues his description of life as a Confederate prisoner in the Union prison camp,
"I have said the discipline at
"A common form of punishment was to 'buck and gag' the victim. This was done by placing a gag in his mouth, then pinioning his arms behind him and running a stick between the elbows and back. In this helpless condition the prisoner was thrown to the ground and left to lie there a whole day exposed to the broiling sun or the chill of the winter atmosphere, according to the season. But their most popular penal system was to hang up the victim by the thumbs, or 'thumb hangings,' as it was technically known, in the pass way between the mess hall and the kitchen with a number of swings in it.
"The cruelty in all this was it should have never occurred in a land teeming with abundance. As we looked out through our little pigeonhole windows across the bay to the Delaware side we could see golden fields of wheat waving in the sunlight, the corn in the ear, orchards laden with fruit, and cattle grazing in the green pastures. We knew all the markets in the world were open to these people. Yet in the midst of plenty they denied to these helpless prisoners sufficient food to appease the pangs of hunger, and thus we reasoned that their cruelty was willful and deliberate.
"The mortality was excessive. Two of my bunkmates had been brought to the hospital just the day before, all of us stricken with the same malady, yet before the end of the week both of them had died. In reply to an inquiry as to the death rate in the hospital, the steward told me that for the months of June and July it averaged over seventy deaths per day. I believed him, for I had the ocular demonstration. Each morning at an early hour carts would rattle up to the 'dead house' just underneath our ward and would haul the dead to the wharf, where they were placed on a little steamer and ferried over to the Jersey shore for burial. Lest we forget.
"Before I had fully recovered, but sufficiently convalesced to walk without assistance, I went back into the barracks, in order to make room in the hospital for some poor sufferer who needed medical attention more than I did. Upon my return to the barracks I found, to my inexpressibly joy, that my appetite was gone. God had been good to me. It is a singular fact that the walls of the stomach seemed to have contracted to fit the 'one-fourth' ration. It is true that I continued to be weak and debilitated.
I had shriveled and shrunken into a walking skeleton, yet the hunger pains were gone. Nor did they return in the excruciating form I have hitherto described.
"The summer ripened into autumn, the autumn passed into another winter - so cold, cheerless and desolate - the spring time came again, and with it the tidings of the fall of the Confederacy. But it was not until the early summer an order came for the release of all prisoners of war.
"On the morning of the 20th of June, l865, I was called out to the provost's office to subscribe to my 'amnesty,' and when this was performed I was told that I was again a free man. Strange as it may seem to the reader, the announcement of our release excited no enthusiasm among the freed prisoners. Possibly our long and miserable confinement had made us callous to events. All the buoyancy of youth was gone. At sixteen years of age I had quit college to go into the war, and had just recently passed my twentieth birthday when released from
"Back again in
As Col. Moffett and others have been allowed to so explicitly describe in this series, the only difference between Andersonville prison in
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
These southwest
Capt.F.A. Hendry# 1284; Sebring..2nd Tuesday of each month at 6:30 PM at the Southern Gun Shop US 17 South in Sebring
Lt.F.C.M.Boggess # 2150;
Gen.David E. Twiggs # 1462, Wauchula, 4th Tuesday of each month at 6:30 PM at the Pavilion Building, Pioneer Park, Zolfo Springs, Corner of US 17 & SR 64
Maj. Wm M. Footman # 1950, Ft.Myers, 4th Saturday of each month at 12 noon at the Smoke N Pit Barbeque US 41 North, N.Ft.Myers meet at 11 AM to eat first
Recipes for February
| Fish cooked in tomato, onion, caper, and white wine sauce. Great served with rice pilaf." | |
| This would be good with any kind of fish | Prep Time: 20 Minutes | Ready In: 45 Minutes |
INGREDIENTS:
| 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 1 1/2 cups thinly sliced white onions 2 tablespoons minced garlic 4 cups seeded, chopped plum tomatoes 1 1/2 cups dry white wine | 2/3 cup sliced stuffed green olives 1/4 cup drained capers 1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes 4 (6 ounce) fillets sea bass( or any fish you prefer--or can get) 2 tablespoons butter 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro |
DIRECTIONS:
| 1. | Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Saute onions until soft. Stir in garlic, and saute about 1 minute. Add tomatoes, and cook until they begin to soften. Stir in wine, olives, capers, and red pepper flakes. Heat to a simmer. |
| 2. | Place sea bass into sauce. Cover, and gently simmer for 10 to 12 minutes, or until fish flakes easily with a fork. Transfer fish to a serving plate, and keep warm. |
| 3. | Increase the heat, and add butter to sauce. Simmer until the sauce thickens. Stir in cilantro. Serve sauce over fish. |
easy recipe to make that's full of flavor. Boneless chicken thighs are stuffed with spicy Italian sausage, then baked with diced tomatoes, onion, bell pepper, and red pepper flakes. Can be served with rice or pasta.
Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Cook Time: 45 Minutes
Ready In: 1 Hour
Yields: 5 servings
INGREDIENTS
10 boneless, skinless chicken thighs
5 hot Italian sausage links, casings removed
1 green bell pepper, diced
1 onion, diced (optional)
8 ounces canned diced tomatoes, with juices
1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Find the places where the thigh bones have been removed from the chicken, and stuff the spaces with sausage. Place on a 10x13-inch ungreased baking pan. Place bell pepper and onion around the chicken. Pour tomatoes and their juices over the chicken, and season with Italian seasoning and crushed red pepper flakes.
Bake in preheated oven until chicken is thoroughly cooked, about 45 minutes.
CRAZY PIE (Quick & always good)
1 Stick Butter or Margarine, melted in a 9” pie plate or an 8x8x2 pan (you can use less butter, it will be less crispy, but still good)
1 Cup Sugar (or to your taste)
¾ Cup Milk
¾ Cup Self-Rising Flour (or Bisquick) if using plain flour add ¾ tsp baking powder and ¼ tsp. salt.
* 1- 15oz can of Fruit (slightly drained) or Fresh Fruit.
Mix first 4 ingredients together and pour into buttered pan, then lay fruit all over top.
Bake about 1 Hour at 350 ° * You can use any Fruit you like, fresh or canned
Serves 4