Commemorate Black History Month With The Sons of Confederate Veterans!
Click on the picture above and donate AT LEAST $5 to the Franklin Monument and receive a free Black Confederates bumper sticker. This offer is only valid throughout the month of February. Happy Black History Month!
Sandra Jackson has been following Arkansas WBTS Reenactors and Living Historians around the state and getting some excellent footage of various events over the past year. Following is a link to the film she created. She features many folks we all know very well, including Northern Brigade Commander Rick Yates and many many many others. She did a great job and she has tons of pictures of many events. You can reach her at: sandrajackson1@mac.com
Click HERE to watch the 13 minute video of Arkansas Living Historians explain the hobby!
Men of the Arkansas Division,
If you would like to donate to the Franklin monument for the Arkansas troops, go to www.arkansastoothpick.com and you can’t miss it. Tell everyone in your camps to spare a dollar or two!
Thanks Everett for taking the lead on this!
During the 150th Anniversary of the War Between the States, there are many preservation projects underway. One such project is the placement of a monument to Arkansas soldiers that were killed at the Battle of Franklin, TN in 1864. One of the many countless Arkansawyers that gave the ultimate sacrifice was Irish-born Arkansas Confederate General Patrick R. Cleburne.
There is no monument to these brave men- even 150 years later! This is a shame and this will be corrected. The Arkansas Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, headed by the efforts of compatriot Everett Burr, is raising money to have a monument constructed and placed on the battlefield on Winstead Hill in Franklin, TN. The Sam Davis Camp in TN is instrumental in making this happen.
These men gave their lives in a suicide charge commanded by General Hood- perhaps one of the greatest military blunders in American history. Please donate $1 or however much you can spare to make sure these men will never be forgotton! The whole project is estimated at $7,000. Over $1500 has been raised thus far.
To donate to the Franklin Monument Fund, go to Arkansastoothpick.com and look for the donate button on the left side of the site. Because of programming syntax issues and difficulties, the programming code for the donate button could not be placed on this website. You can donate using any major credit card through paypal!
Camp Number: 1433
Camp Name: General Patrick R. Cleburne
Camp Location: Pine Bluff, Ar (Jefferson County)
Camp E-Mail: arscv1433@yahoo.com
Camp Website: www.arkansastoothpick.com
Meeting: The Patrick R. Cleburne Camp meets every 3rd Tuesday at 7:00 P.M. at the Watson Chapel Fire Station on Sulphur Springs Road west of Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
Camp Commander: David A. Taylor
Commander’s Phone: 870-879-1488
Commander’s E-mail: sscc116@msn.com
Term of office: November, 2013
Camp Adjutant: Ron Kelley
Adjutant’s Phone: (870) 592-0079
Adjutant’s E-mail: info@arkansastoothpick.com
Term of office: November, 2013
The Sons of Confederate Veterans hosted the 26 annual Patrick R. Cleburne memorial service Saturday, March 12, 2011 at the graveside of the Irish-born Arkansas Confederate General in Helena, Arkansas. With about 100 in attendance, spectators and living historians were witness to a beautiful day atop Crowley’s Ridge as a multitude of Confederate flags waived in the breeze behind the keynote speaker Danny Honnoll.
The 26th annual Patrick R. Cleburne Memorial will be held at the Confederate Cemetery in Helena, Arkansas at noon on March 12, 2011. This year’s key-note speaker will be Commander of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi, Danny Honnoll. The color guard should be on site by 11:00 am.
For driving directions, go to mapquest.com and enter: Mount Holly Cemetery, Helena, Arkansas.
This week’s column features a brief Christmas message from back in 1860 from the Weekly Arkansas Gazette. In this message from 150 years ago, the State of Arkansas is likened metaphorically to a ship which must stay on course, and not be “driven by the storms of fanaticism into the very breakers of destruction”.
The Patrick R. Cleburne Camp #1433 hosts www.arkansastoothpick.com and features a weekly column “150 years ago…”, which relates pertinent educational content regarding the goings-on in Arkansas exactly 150 years ago. This week’s column can be viewed by going to www.arkansastoothpick.com.
Greetings from the desk of the Arkansas Toothpick, the Civil War hub of Arkansas. The past month has seen some amazing opportunities and successes in the realm of historical preservation and public relations.
The Patrick Cleburne Camp hosted a booth last weekend at the 46th Annual White Hall Founder’s Day event. Commander Kalkbrenner and Ron Kelley spoke with more interested passers-by at this year’s Founder’s Day than the previous five years combined. The weather held out and presented a beautiful day to spend the day talking with people about their ancestors and historical preservation. We welcome all of our new friends!
We spoke with individuals that have original letters, photographs and other militaria from Civil War veterans from both the Confederate as well as the Union Armies. We spoke with ROTC high school students about the historical preservation cadet corps, The Jefferson Guard, and several veterans in the armed forces.
The annual Cleburne Camp banquet last month saw the awarding of three national awards to members of the camp from International HQ and an Arkansas Division-level award. Mark Kalkbrenner received the Graves Award and the Distinguished Service Award and Ron Kelley received the Distinguished Service Award as well while Lori Walker was presented with the J.O. Shelby Award for her work with the preservation of history in downtown Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Congrats!
The September edition of The Civil War News included three articles that feature members of the Patrick R. Cleburne SCV Camp, including an article noting the 25 years the Arkansas Toothpick has been inexistence, tracing its original inception as a hand-typed newsletter to an electronic form boasting of over one million visitors from all over the globe.
Another article featured the recent memorial service for the Confederate Roll Of Honor veterans James Graham Wilson from Co. F, 1st Arkansas Infantry, C.S.A. The article features three full color pictures of the service and does a great job showing the world what the Sons of Confederate Veterans are really all about: paying tribute to those who fought for an Independant South. To preserve the history of our ancestors is to guarentee the perpetuation of our heritage.
The third article features members of the Cleburne Camp associated with the preservation of the Reed’s Bridge Battlefield in Jacksonville, Arkansas. During the sweltering days of summer, members of the SCV along with other history buffs from around central Arkansas helped clear fenceline at the original battlefield located on Highway 161 south of Jacksonville, Arkansas. The site is ready for the 147th Anniversary Reenactment on September 11, 2010. The schedule of events for this battle will be posted onto the Arkansas Toothpick seperately.
Another note of importance includes the mention of an orgizational meeting in Stuttgart on September 23, 2010 at the Stuttgart Public Library located at 2002 South Buerkle Street at 6:30p.m. At this meeting will be discussed the interest in starting an SCV camp in Arkansas County.
The David O. Dodd Camp will be hosting a Gun and Relic Show and Living History on September 25 in Benton, Arkansas. More information on this event can be found on the Events page of the Arkansas DIvision website at www.arkansasscv.org. On the same day the Arkansas Division of the SCV will be hosting a GEC meeting at the Jacksonville Museum of Military History in Jacksonville, Arkansas. All Camp Commanders and Adjutants are highly encouraged to make this meeting, as there will be Commander and Adjutant training held during the meeting.
