Earlier Newsletters & History Articles

 Peace River News                

 Our meeting is April, 24, 2007 6:30 PM

At the Pavilion Building in Pioneer Park in Zolfo

Corner of 64 & US 17 (The Pavilion Bldg is where the old swimming pool was).

Some of us are still meeting about 5 PM at the Pioneer Restaurant, to have a bite to eat.

You are welcome to come and join us.

 

            Quote for April

        (A little food for thought)  J

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better.  This is a most valuable; most sacred right- a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. 

 Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize and make their own, of so much territory as they inhabit.  

(1848) -- Abraham Lincoln

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This is Confederate Heritage Month: also Confederate Memorial Day is April 26^th.

 Every one needs to do something this month to Honor our Ancestors.

We will have a report on the dedication of Brant Stanfords marker at the meeting.

 

If you can’t go to a cemetery and place a small flag on a Soldiers Grave.

You could fly your Flag at home,

Tell someone about the importance of this month, Take time and tell a child (or adult) some history of the Confederacy.

 If you have a computer, send out email, letting people know about this.

This is a good site to go to, they have e-cards

And other info (and its free)

 

     http://dixierising,com

Just type that in and you will get there .

If you just can’t get out, how about reading a book with history in it, to refresh your memory..

 Just Do Something!

 We don’t hear enough of the good things anymore, seems like all we do hear anymore is just bad or controversial. So, anything we do no matter how small will matter to someone.

 I am including the origin of Memorial Day again this year for those who asked for it.

 

Our May meetings (UDC & SCV)

       Will be our UDC Picnic

Saturday June 2^nd, 5 PM at the Arthur’s Home

Both groups will have a meeting before we eat that evening.  This will be a covered dish picnic, we will have our usual wiener & sausage roast, and I understand there is a chance we will have a barbecued pig. So mark your calendars and bring your families or a good friend and let’s have a time of fellowship.

 

This will be the last UDC meeting until September.

 

The SCV will continue to meet during the summer.

 Cut this out &Stick it on your fridge

Tues. April 24, 2007

May meeting at the picnic at the Arthur’s

 Saturday,  May 2nd

Tues.   June 26, 2007

Tues.   July 24, 2007

Tues.   August 28, 2007

Tues.   Sept 25, 2007

Tues.   Oct.23, 2007

Tues.    Nov 27, 2007 (combined Nov & Dec)

Tues.    Jan.22, 2008

Tues.     Feb. 26, 2008

Tues.     March 25, 2008

Tues.     April 22, 2008

 

Saturday May 26^th is Confederate Nite at the racetrack in Charlotte Co. Get in Free by wearing Period Clothing ( lots of cannon fire that nite) go & Support The SCV & UDC

 

 Lest They Be Forgotten ...

From the May, 1893 issue of "Confederate Veteran,"

The Origin of Memorial Day

  It is a matter of history that Mrs. Chas. J. Williams, of Columbus, Ga., instituted the beautiful custom of decorating soldiers' graves with flowers, a custom which has been adopted throughout the United States. Mrs. Williams was the daughter of Maj. John Howard, of Milledgeville, Ga., and was a superior woman. She married Maj. C. J. Williams on his return from the Mexican War. As colonel of the First Georgia Regulars, of the Army in Virginia, he contracted disease, from which he died in 1862, and was buried in Columbus, Ga.    Mrs. Williams and her little girl visited his grave every day, and often comforted themselves by wreathing it with flowers. While the mother sat abstractly thinking of the loved and lost one, the little one would pluck the weeds from the unmarked soldiers' graves near her father's and cover them with flowers, calling them her soldiers' graves.  After a short time while the dear little girl was summoned by the angels to join her father. The sorely bereaved mother then took charge of these unknown graves for the child's sake, and as she cared for them thought of the thousands of patriot graves throughout the South, far away from home and kindred, and in this way the plan was suggested to her of setting apart one day in each year, that love might pay tribute to valor throughout the Southern States. In March, 1868, she addressed a communication to the Columbus Times, an extract of which I give:

 "We beg the assistance of the press and the ladies throughout the South to aid us in the effort to set apart a certain day to be observed from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, and to be handed down through time as a religious custom of the South, to wreathe the graves of our martyred dead with flowers, and we propose the 26th day of April as the day."

 She then wrote to the Soldiers' Aid Societies in every Southern State, and they readily responded and reorganized under the name of Memorial Associations. She lived long enough to see her plan adopted all over the South, and in 1868 throughout the United States. Mrs. Williams died April 15, 1874, and was buried with military honors. On each returning Memorial Day the Columbus military march around her grave, and each deposits a floral offering.

 The Legislature of Georgia, in 1866, set apart the 26th day of April as a legal holiday in obedience to her request. Would be that every Southern State observed the same day.

            Poem;     author unknown

The marching armies of the past
Along our Southern plains,
Are sleeping now in quiet rest
Beneath the Southern rains.

The bugle call is now in vain
To rouse them from their bed;
To arms they'll never march again--
They are sleeping with the dead.

No more will Shiloh's plains be stained
With blood our heroes shed,
Nor Chancellorsville resound again
To our noble warriors' tread.

For them no more shall reveille
Sound at the break of dawn,
But may their sleep peaceful be
Till God's great judgment morn.

We bow our heads in solemn prayer
For those who wore the gray,
And clasp again their unseen hands
On our Memorial Day.

 

 

 

 

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