Col. E. W. Taylor Camp #1777

NEWSLETTERSONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS

November……………………………2019

This

presentation

is first, last,

and only the

work of Mr.

Kizer.

Thanksgiving!

Take the time and effort you’d have spent getting to our meeting this

month and meet with your family. Tell them again how lucky they are

to be heirs of the Southern tradition. Then pop out West a few miles

and go horse shopping or, better yet, go to D.C. and take a few scalps.

Our meetings are on the last Thursday of each month, except November and December when we

don’t meet because it would always conflict with the holidays.

Each month’s program announcement is always on the first page of this newsletter.

We meet at the Catfish and Company restaurant in Hurst, Texas, along the north side of the

Airport Freeway and on the access road west of Precinct Line Road.

If you’d like to eat with us we’d suggest you be there at 6 p.m. We start the meeting at 7 p.m.

Our goal is to be finished and out by 8:30 p.m. It would be bad manners for a group as large as

ours to stay ‘til closing time. We appreciate the restaurant’s hospitality to the Sons of

Confederate Veterans.

Who are we? That’s easy to see!!!

Go to our website and start looking at our newsletters, beginning with

the most recent and working back. Contact us at mfpchat@yahoo.com

http://www.taylorcampscv.org/

For our website: user name is TaylorCamp and password is SCV1777EWTaylorCamp

Thanks to our

talented 1st Lt.

Commander,

Rich McCook,

for his program

on Irish Pub

Music at our

October

meeting!

He finished the evening with a short history of

Dixie, performed the way it was originally

written to be sung. Wonderful songs, wonder-

ful friends…a perfect way to end our 2019

season. See you at the Christmas Party!

Honoring Two Tarrant County Pioneers

Saturday,

Nov. 16, 2019,

10 a. m

Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Terry, Texas State Troops

and his son,

Sgt. Nathaniel Terry, Jr.,Co. K, 7th Texas Cavalry,

Confederate States Army

Pioneer’s Rest Cemetery, 620 Samuels Avenue, Fort Worth

Sponsored by

The Julia Jackson Chapter #141,

United Daughters of the Confederacy

and

The Col. E. W. Taylor Camp #1777

Sons of Confederate Veterans

All are welcome

Getting to Pioneer’s Rest CemeteryFrom the north: Go west on North Side Drive off I-35W for

1.13 miles (you’ll be crossing the river once) to the Samuels Avenue

Exit. You’ll be taking Samuels Avenue south, but it’s a right exit and

you’ll make a clockwise circle to get on Samuels South. There may

or may not be a Samuels Avenue sign.

Drive south about .9 mile on Samuels Avenue to the cemetery on

your left (east).

From the south: Come into Fort Worth heading west on E.

Belknap Street. About three blocks before you reach the old court

house turn right (north) on Grove Street and go one block north.

Turn right (east) on East Bluff Street. Go about 3 blocks on E.

Bluff St. until it dead ends into North Elm Street. Turn left (north)

onto Elm Street and continue north. It becomes Samuels Avenue

and after about five blocks you’ll see Pioneer’s Rest on your right

(east).

Several opportunities for public

service coming up soon

Saturday

morning,

November 16,

10 a.m.

Pioneer’s Rest

Cemetery, Ft. WorthWe need you there. Come in uniform and armed to help with the

musket salute if you can, otherwise just come. Dedication of two

Terry markers; Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Terry and his son, Sgt.

Nathaniel Terry, Jr. of the 7th Texas Cavalry, CSA. Shooters a little

early, please.

The Military Order

of the

World Wars

Sunday, November 10, 2019

2:30 P.M.

Trimble Tech High School

39th Annual Massing of the Colors and

Service of Remembrance in Fort WorthYou can’t imagine a more moving patriotic experience than this

yearly event. The Taylor Camp always takes part…some in

Confederate uniform and some (who are also SAR members) in

Revolutionary uniform.

While only two of us who are in Confederate uniform may enter in

the processional, it’d still be nice to have a uniformed presence there.

Two of our members, Rich McCook and

Terry Theiss, also are there performing as part

of the Frontier Brigade Band. Their concert

begins at 2 p.m.

Staging area for the Nov. 11

Veteran’s Day Parade in Fort Worth

The staging area is the huge parking lot around Panther

Island Pavilion. For you grizzled veterans, it used to be the

Leonard’s subway parking lot. Take Belknap Street into

downtown past the court house, cross Henderson Street, turn

right onto West Lexington Street and watch the signs.

It’s best to get there before 9:30 when they start closing

downtown streets. It’ll also help you have time to get parked

and find the rest of the SCV people.

If you’d like to ride with the SCV please

email Patterson at mfpchat@yahoo.com

ASAP and he’ll pass the information along.

Two of the Taylor Camp’s most active

and talented members are also members

of the Frontier Brigade Band.

They are identified above. Although we most often see them in their roles as Civil War-

era musicians, they do other styles, including the Brass Connection including Kliene

Grenze Kapelle (which is “Frontier Brigade Band in German) (German music) in which

style they’ll also be appearing in this area in the near future.

Treat yourself ! You won’t regret it !

Terry

Theiss

Richard

McCook

Sunday, Nov. 10 @ 2pm - Trimble Tech. Massing of the Colors.

Monday, Nov. 11 @ 2pm - Keller Town Center. Field of Honor.

Friday, Dec. 13 @ 7pm - Martin United Methodist Church in Bedford.

Brass Connection Christmas Concert.

Friday, Dec. 20 @ 6pm - Dallas Arboretum. Brass Connection Christmas

music.

American Patriot, decorated Army Veteran, to

address the SCV in Dallas on November 7

A. H. Belo Camp in Dallas extends an invitation

Allen B. West (above) is an American political commentator, retired

U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, author, and former member of the U. S.

House of Representatives.

He will be the speaker at the November meeting of the A. H. Belo

SCV Camp in Dallas on November 7. The meeting will take place at the

Highland Park Cafeteria at 1200 N. Buckner Road at Garland Road.

They suggest you begin arriving at 5:30-6 to eat, and the meeting begins

at 6. Go through the serving line and then go to the Shakespeare Room.

Col. West is from a distinguished military family. A contributor for

Fox News, he is making a run for the Texas GOP Chairman’s Seat in

2020. If you’re working getting there by 5:30 will be a feat.

Arlington, Texas to be home for new

National Medal of Honor Museum

There are several good internet sources for this announcement

made on October 4, 2019. Another world-class museum in our own

backyard! This article is a good starting place:https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/arlington/

article235816312.html

Re-enactment Skirmish and Living History,

Texas Civil War Museum, Fort Worth

Saturday, November 2, 2019

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

FREE

15th Texas Cavalry and Boy/Girl Scouts

Skirmish/Battle at 12:00 and 2:00

Drill and Firing Demos and Fiddle Music

throughout the day.

Lectures on Female Soldiers, Officers,

Flags Medicine and More

We got the Terry

stones installed at

Pioneer’s Rest on

Monday morning,

October 21. This

newsletter was al-

ready so long

we’re going to wait

until next month to

run photos of this

unusual install.

Come and join us! Spouses, guests, BFFs, etc. are

always welcome. A nicer bunch of party animals you’ll

never meet !

Bring a white elephant gift if you’d

like to take part in the gift exchange.

Annual E. W. Taylor Camp Christmas Party

Thurs. Dec. 12, 2019, 6 p.m.

Catfish and Company Restaurant in Hurst

https://www.localmemphis.com/news/local-

news/tennessee-supreme-court-denies-petition-to-review-

lower-court-ruling-dismissing-lawsuit-over-confederate-

statues-in-memphis/

Court ruling allows Memphis Greenspace to move

Confederate statues out of Shelby County

The City of Memphis continues to

lead the way in the push to remove

statues of people intellectually superior

to those making the rules there today.

In addition to Jefferson Davis and

Nathan Bedford Forrest, above, a new

man is now slated for removal: Capt.

James Harvey Mathes. He was an

editor, state senator, correspondent,

and published author.

See the Memphis TV spot below:

Thanks to Compatriot Clay Fitzhugh for sharing this news item with us.

New at the Texas Civil War Museum!

[The]

Please pardon the

glare on the

photo at left.

“This last weekend Ray was able to put out the exhibit of General Longstreet’s camp cap. He

recently received the cap from the conservator and I picked up the plaque from the printer. The case

was moved from the storage to the Infantry gallery. It has been a long wait, but very well worth it.

This is the final follow up from the OSC Grant Application that was made by the Texas Civil War

Museum when Barton was Commander. We appreciate your support of the museum and all the Society

does to recognize Southern history.”

[Signed]

Cynthia Harriman

Executive Director,

Texas Civil War

Museum

Three Confederates honored at

Oakwood Cemetery on October 9K. M. Van Zandt, Thomas N. Waul, and John Peter Smith

We were honored to be asked by the Julia Jackson UDC chapter to provide the musket squad for this

event. Van Zandt, Waul, and Smith received replacement Southern Iron Crosses of Honor at this cere-

mony,. Many of the ones originally in the cemetery disappeared during metal drives during World War

II. The squad was made up of (l-r) Bobby Gresham, Rich McCook, Mike Patterson, and James

Alderman. Taylor Camper Clay Fitzhugh also represented us that day. More than thirty folks attended

the gathering.

Bedford cavalryman dead 150

years gets new stone October 15Four years after he came home Peter K. Matthews was shot dead while

plowing his field in Bedford.

Peter Kuykendall Matthews

was a Texas cavalryman who

was shot to death in northeast

Tarrant County only four years

after the War ended. He lies

buried in the abandoned Spring

Garden Cemetery along the

south side of Cheek-Sparger

Road in Bedford.

Peter K. Matthews was born

in Howard County, Missouri.

His headstone records his date

of birth as March 8, 1824.

Matthews served the

Confederacy as a soldier in Co.

A, 29 Texas (DeMorse’s)

Cavalry. He enlisted for a term

of three years on April 24, 1862

in Denton, Texas in Captain E.

B. Kearby’s Company of

DeMorse’s Regiment of Cavalry.

This company subsequently

became Co. A of the 29th Texas

Cavalry. He was mustered into

the Confederate service on May

3, 1862 at Camp Cooper. He

presented himself for service

riding a horse worth one

hundred dollars and with

equipment worth forty

dollars.

His name appears on a

muster roll for May and June

1863. His military records file

in the National Archives

contains two copies of his

medical discharge, complete

with all the proper

endorsements up the chain of

command.

His discharge says he was five feet, seven

inches tall, and had a fair complexion, blue

eyes, and light hair. It was dated June 3, 1864

at Bonham, Texas. A surgeon made the

following statement about Mr. Matthews’

condition at the time: “…chronic hepatitis

and splinitis to such a degree as to render

him entirely unfit for the most ordinary

duties of life. His recovery is extremely

doubtful and far distant and therefore I

earnestly recommend his discharge from the

service…

Bedford Cavalryman, cont.

The 29th Texas took part in the Battle of

Fort Gibson, and the Battle near Honey

Springs (July 17, 1863), both in present-day

Oklahoma, In February of 1864, it took part

in the Camden Expedition which ended in

May 1864. In April 1864 the 29th Texas

became part of Gano's Brigade, Maxey's

Cavalry Division, District of Arkansas,

Trans-Mississippi Department. It took part in

the Battle at Poison Spring on April 18,

1864, and at Camden on April 23, 1864. The

regiment went through several other

organizational changes and fought in other

engagements after Mr. Matthews left it.

The fact that Mr. Matthews was buried at

Spring Garden, rather than in Bedford

Cemetery, is another circumstantial argument

to suggest that Bedford Cemetery was not

established until about 1872, as some

researchers have already suggested. On

August 10, 1867, P. K. Matthews registered

to vote in Tarrant County. He indicated he

had come to Texas about 1853, to Tarrant

County about 1857, and to his present

precinct (2) in the county about 1865.

Matthews’ old headstone says he

died on February 12, 1869. His

descendants said he was shot by

bushwhackers while working in a

field. They took the team of animals

with which he was working. His name

does not appear in the 1870 Tarrant

County Mortality Schedules compiled

by the U. S. census bureau.

In the early 1980’s when the

Spring Garden area was being

developed, this researcher carefully

monitored the digging in the cemetery

area.

Bedford cavalryman, cont.

He found Mr. Matthews’ headstone in the back of one of the workmen's pickups; the

workman was hesitant to part with it and wanted to know what I’d give him for it. He

didn’t make the sale. Like in Poltergeist, they left the bodies but moved the stones. We

put all the readable stones from Spring Garden in Bedford Cemetery, except the one in

the photo below.

There were lots of graves in the Spring

Garden Cemetery, shown here about 1940.

This gravestone belongs to another

Confederate, Richard M. Wade, who died in

1870. His daughter and her son are posing

here. We put Mr. Wade’s stone in Mt. Gilead

Cemetery, beside his remarried wife’s.

The cemetery is in the yard of the house at

2500 Cheek-Sparger Road in Bedford, and

probably on the property of one or more houses

just east of the house there.

Bedford Cavalryman, cont.We picked a cool,

overcast morning to

install Matthews’

new stone next to his

old one at Bedford.

The installers, all

members of the E. W.

Taylor Camp, were,

l-r below, James

Alderman, Clay

Fitzhugh, and Mike

Edwards, all veteran

headstone installers.

Mike Patterson

tagged along and

took the pictures.

Bedford Cavalryman, cont.

By the time we first saw it,

Matthews’ stone had been

down and broken for decades.After he died, his widow,

Martha Missouri Lile

Matthews remarried. Husband

number two was another local

Confederate veteran and

certifiable character named

Rufus Bolivar Sigler.

Sigler was born in 1826 and

came to Texas with his parents

when it was still a part of

Mexico. He practiced law

before the War at several

places, including Birdville.

He and Martha were

divorced in 1886 because he

said she abandoned him.

When the 1880 census was taken, Sigler was a resident of the

Wise County jail in Decatur. His wife and children were not shown

in the county listing.

Go to our website and look at an article entitled

“Politically Incorrect” on page 16 in our June 2013

issue. The attitude Sigler had about women (as shown

in his appeal trial on a horse theft conviction) may have

been the reason Martha left him.

We photoshopped a

derelict old sign out

of the photo here.

October 11, 2019:

Third Confederate Roadside Battle

Flag Raised in Pittsboro, N.C.

After Liberals Vote to Tear Down

Confederate Monument at Court

House there.

http://vaflaggers.

blogspot.com/

This afternoon a THIRD roadside Memorial Battle Flag was raised on a 50’ pole on

Highway 421 in Chatham County, North Carolina in response to the August 19 vote by

the Chatham County Board of Commissioners to force the removal of the Confederate

Monument there.

This project, like the first two, was a joint effort by the Virginia Flaggers, ACTBAC

NC, Old North State Flaggers, and a group of determined Chatham County residents.

Land is already being cleared for Flag Site #4.

Check their site often and consider being a regular contributor.

Go to their site. Read the stories

and see all the other photos.

This is a schoolbook used by your editor’s maternal grandmother, who

lived from 1892 until 1972. She went to school at the Pleasant Glade

School, about a twenty-minute walk from where she lived and I live. It’s

one of the many country schools merged to make today’s Grapevine-

Colleyville I. S. D. It’s

interesting to read the

statement of the book’s

author (above), and his

explanation of the War’s

causes (next page).

Imagine all the people

who lived through the

War (and fought in it)

who read about the War

in this book.

History

as taught here

in 1895

Cause of the War, ala 1895

Both my grandmother’s grandfathers were Confederate soldiers, and both

lived within walking distance of the Pleasant Glade School where she attended

about 1898-1908. This was the single paragraph in a book of several hundred

pages which discussed the causes of the War.

I can’t imagine that both of them didn’t hold this book in their hands and read

this section, as well as the accounts of where they fought during the WBTS.

Nat Terry got much of the credit

and much of the blame for both

Two of the biggest

news stories in Fort

Worth just before the War

involved the hangings

of two known abolition-

ists, William H. Crawford

and Rev. Anthony Bewley,

both in 1860, both from

the same pecan tree less

than a mile outside Fort

Worth and days apart.

As we mentioned last

month, Bewley’s case is more

remembered because of what

happened to his body later.

We’ll talk about that in one of

the next pages.

We don’t normally run

text-only pages is this

newsletter, but we’re going to

this month because we want you to get the

flavor of the public dialog here in the

months before the WBTS.

Rev. Anthony Bewley remembered most

for what happened to his body after he

crossed over the river Bewley was hanged in Fort Worth on the night of September 13, 1860.

Details of what happened next may have been embellished, or maybe not.

The Handbook of Texas ends

Bewley’s story thus: “On

September 3, 1860, a Texas

posse caught up with him near

Cassville, Missouri. His captors

returned him to Fort Worth on

September 13. Late that night

vigilantes seized Bewley and

delivered him into the hands of

a waiting lynch mob. His body

was allowed to hang until the

next day, when he was buried

in a shallow grave. Three

weeks later his bones were

unearthed, stripped of their

remaining flesh, and placed on

top of Ephraim Daggett's

storehouse, where children

made a habit of playing with

them. After Bewley's death the

Northern Methodists ended

their activities in Texas.”

An account of Bewley’s case

printed in the Houston Union on

Feb. 14, 1871 says his bones were

left atop Daggett’s store until the end

of the War. Then they were taken

down and used as a skeleton in the

offices of Drs. Burts and Peak, with

a sign on the skull which said “Thus

be it ever with abolitionists.”

Nat Terry may have been the

most vilified man in Tarrant

County during Reconstruction

Terry may have been the most prominent

member of the Democratic party here, and when

he was named President of the Texas Democratic

Convention in Austin in 1871 the newspaper

sniping began with a vengeance. The entire article

at left was an attack on his character.

The editor made a few factual errors, and

probably a few errors of judgement, too. However,

then as now, political posturing leaves no room for

the decent and fair-minded among our elected

officials.

Terry had never been elected governor of

Alabama, but they never let facts stand in the way.

Nearly every account mentioning Bewley adds

some interesting detail to the story.

This one adds the detail that two prominent

Confederates here, Dr. Burts (also the first mayor

of Fort Worth) and Dr. Carroll M. Peak, added

emphasis to the local feelings. We made Burts

(below) a new Confederate headstone back in

2016.

If it’s true as the article says, it’s interesting

that Burts and Peak would have done such

a thing when abolition was no longer an

issue in this country.

https://www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com/browse.html

The Essential Civil War Curriculum

A Sesquicentennial Project of The Virginia Center for Civil War

Studies at Virginia Tech

Thanks to our adjutant, James Alderman, for sharing this site with us!

This is a good introductory

article in the series to read.

You can find it online at:

It’s good to see objective scholarship is still alive at some Southern universities. The

introduction says, “Our site is fast becoming a valuable source of current scholarship

about the Civil War with improved search functionality and accessible, rich content.

We now offer over 200 peer-reviewed articles written by today’s foremost Civil War

historians. Each article, which is easy to view and download, has a précis for a quick

overview of the content. I invite you to search the topic of your choice. And, please

forward our site to your contacts who might be interested.”

JLD (Laurie) Woodruff, Executive Director and Editor

If you’ve always wanted to present a program to our

camp but couldn’t decide on a topic, here are hundreds

to choose from, already written by pros. We’ll help you

with pictures to make a power-point.

https://www.essentialci

vilwarcurriculum.com/t

he-hampton-roads-

peace-conference.html

The Hampton Roads

Peace Conference

The Hampton Roads Peace Conference, cont.

https://www.youtube.

com/watch?v=ZSS5SscrLoU

https://www.youtube.com/watc

h?v=IgEsUhHN3iQ&t=48s

Here are two interesting clips from the recent Lincoln

movie depicting the Hampton Road Peace Conference. In

the first, Grant is meeting with the commissioners and

addressing Alexander Stephens before they see Lincoln. In

the second, Lincoln is speaking to the commissioners after

one of them has just walked out.

Lincoln tells a funny story about George Washington

This is another clip from the recent Daniel Day Lewis Lincoln movie.

Our continued thanks to Stephen Parker, the son

of our late Compatriot Ron Parker, for his service to

the camp of maintaining our web page and putting

our newsletters online.

We salute him for his computer expertise and

tireless efforts on our behalf. Have you

noticed that when there’s a computer link in

our newsletter, you don’t have to copy and

past it into your browser? You only have to

click on the link and it takes you to the site!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRBmwljrHWw

The facts in the case of the hanging of Abolitionist

William Crawford in Fort Worth on August 14, 1860

The Dallas Herald pub-

lished a multi-part article

on is front page on May 15,

1861 in which most of the

details of the Crawford

hanging are covered.

Interestingly, it is filled

with details given by

residents, but none of them

were there and they state

that specific others were

not there. This begs the

question, “How did they

know the others weren’t

there?”

The author of the first part of the article was

Fort Worth pioneer Charles Turner, at right.

He was a friend and supporter of Nat Terry.

Hanging of Crawford, part 2.

Mrs. Crawford’s use of

hyperbole in describing

pre-WBTS Fort Worth

reminds us of the daily

exaggerations we hear from

our elected officials in

Washington D. C. She’d

have had people all over

the country think these

photos could have easily

been taken in Fort Worth.

Hanging of Crawford, part 3.

Oddly, in this account

Charles Turner says his father-

in-law was Ephraim M. Dag-

gett, above and below. No other

records can be found indicating

he was ever married to one of

Daggett’s daughters.

Several records say Turner

and Daggett were partners in a

store here.

Hanging of Crawford, part 4.On the swelter-

ing afternoon of

July 8, 1860 the

temperature in

Dallas reached 105

degrees. A fire

broke out on the

square and every

building but one

was completely

destroyed. Stories

began to circulate

about other towns

catching fire on

the same day.

Abolitionists

and slaves were

immediately

blamed and sever-

al paid with their

lives.

The leaders of

Fort Worth knew

about the Dallas

fire immediately

and were on guard

for similar

trouble. All

northerners and

Unionists were

suspect.

Hanging of Crawford, part 5

This account suggests

that it might not have been

common knowledge

among the slaves to be

able to find north by

looking at the night sky.

Here we have the

concept appearing in print

in 1861. The old song

“Follow the Drinkin’

Gourd” is generally

believed to have been sung

by slaves trying to make

their ways north. Modern

research is tending to

disprove that idea. The

song was not written down

until a folklorist recorded

it around 1915. It was first

published in 1928 by the

Texas Folklore Society.

Hanging of Crawford, part6

Charles Turner,

above, owned the slave

who was being encour-

aged to steal two of his

best horses and escape

north with Crawford.

“…As to who did the

hanging, nobody

here knows or wants

to know. But all are

as one man and my-

self among them en-

dorse most heartily

their act.”

Charles Turner

Hanging of Crawford, part 7

Robert Watt Tannahill,

above, was in the employ of

Turner and Daggett, and

furnished an alibi for him-

self and Turner.

It’s interesting to note

that Nathaniel Terry and Mr.

Denton swore they knew

Turner had nothing to do

with the hanging. If

charges had been brought

against anyone for the

hanging, it would be

interesting to know how

they knew what they knew.

How could anyone not at

the hanging swear someone

else wasn’t there?

Hanging of Crawford, part 8

And then there

was that late-night

eaves-dropping

visit to Crawford’s

place. We don’t

know anything

about A.M.

Denton, who was

one of the men

who accompanied

Charles Turner and

A. Y. Fowler on

the secret trip to

Crawford’s.

Ditto for the

Notary Public, J. P.

Oliver. He was

apparently dead or

gone away by

1870. If Tarrant

County’s 1860

census had

survived, it would

answer lots of

questions for us.

Hanging of Crawford, Part 9

Two of the men who

listened with Charles

Turner to Crawford’s

conversation are familiar

figures here.

Later that year A. Y.

Fowler, a Dallas attorney,

was one of the two men in

the gun-fight in Fort Worth

on August 14, 1861.

Neither he, nor the other

shooter, John B. York,

survived.

The town became

further polarized since both

Fowler and York had their

supporters.

In the Spring of 2016 we

made and set a headstone

for York in the Mitchell

Cemetery.Fowler is buried near

Dallas City Hall in the

Pioneer Cemetery where

they want to get rid of all

the Confederate statues.

Hanging of Crawford, part 10

Dan Parker (above)

(1831-1907) was another

witness to Crawford urging

the slave to steal two

horses and run away.

Parker would serve in

Co. F, 19th Texas Cavalry

and later in Co. F, 10th

Texas Cavalry. He was

apparently no relation to

the large Isaac Parker fam-

ily here at the same time.

Dan Parker was a char-

ter member of the Robert

E. Lee Camp of United

Confederate Veterans

established in Fort Worth

in 1890. He lies buried in

Oakwood.

Dr. Benjamin Franklin Barkley (1822-1882) (above)

of Birdville wrote this letter to a kinsman in Kentucky

and fixes the date of Crawford’s hanging on August 14.

1860. Barkley was one of Terry’s staunchest enemies

here.

Barkley freed his slaves in Kentucky and came to

Birdville in 1855. One of them came voluntarily with

the family.

He held several offices here during Reconstruction

including that of County Judge. He was relentless in

tracking down the KKK-like groups here, but was

tolerated because of his skills as a doctor and lawyer.

Also, he was widely known to have aided the families of

men away in the Confederate service.

As Terry again became politically active after the

War, Barkley did what he could to hold him accountable

for his alleged actions here against Abolitionists and

Union men.

Update: the Memphismayoral race is over

Last month we reported that

this woman, Memphis city

councilperson Tami Sawyer,

was running for mayor. She

was one of the ones who’d

spoken out against Confederate

statues. Her opponents got

hold of some homophobic and

racist tweets she’d made earlier,

and they came back to haunt

her. She did her best damage

control, but it didn’t work.

During the mayoral race, Memphis

magazine printed the issue at left. Maybe

RACE wasn’t a good word for what was

going on, because the incumbent was

white and his two nearest challengers

were black. English is just like that…it

has so many words with multiple

meanings. Enough (meaning one,

possibly even more) people found the

cover of the magazine offensive that it

was taken off the shelves and the unsold

copies destroyed.

The election was held on October 3.

The white incumbent, Jim Strickland,

won with 62.1% of the vote. The man

nearest him was W. W. Herenton with

28.7%. Herenton is black, has served six

terms as Memphis’ mayor, and was the

first black ever to serve in that office.

Tami Sawyer polled 6.9%.

Just goes to show, in politics there’s no

future in saying what you think. This was

the cover after several revisions, and it

was approved by the editor.

The magazine was pulled after a complaint by

the NAACP that the cover showed, among other

things, “blatant racism, sexism, body shaming

and an overall abysmal disrespect…”

If you don’t know Trey Gowdy of South

Carolina, you need to…

Harold Watson "Trey" Gowdy III (born August 22, 1964) is

an American attorney, television news personality, politician, and

former federal prosecutor who served as the U.S. Representative

for South Carolina's 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2019.

He was born in Greenville,

South Carolina, and had a

distinguished career as both a

federal prosecutor and a U. S.

Representative. He voluntarily

left the House after two terms to

go back into private law practice.

As a prosecutor, he never lost a

case.

He is the implacable foe of any-

one in Congress who misuses the

power given to him in the

Constitution, and to anyone

anywhere who breaks the law.

He’s the reason you should

never go to court or to a

Congressional hearing unpre-

pared. He’s one part of the

system which works as it

should. He’s a crook’s worst

nightmare, especially if that

bad guy is in elected office.

Trey Gowdy, cont.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

=giWe565hhHQ

Here’s an interesting announcement made on October 9, 2019

To see him in action just

go to https://www.youtube.com/

channel/UCBR8-60-B28hp2BmD

PdntcQ?gl=FR&hl=fr and type his

name in the search box.

There’s lots to see.

Trey is the great-great

grandson of Pvt. Benjamin

Lawrence Gowdy of Co. G,

Infantry Regiment, Wade

Hampton’s South Carolina

Legion. Trey has other

Confederate ancestors as

well.

Thanks to:…all our members and visitors who

came to the October meeting.

….Rich McCook who presented one of

the best programs we’ve had in years.

…all the Taylor Camp members who attended the

UDC event at Oakwood on October 12: James

Alderman, Clay Fitzhugh, Bob Gresham, Rich

McCook, and Mike Patterson.

…Clay Fitzhugh, James Alderman, Mike

Edwards, and Mike Patterson for getting Mr.

Matthews’ stone installed at Bedford on Oct. 15.

…..to David Stewart, Mike Edwards, Andrew

Hull, Rich McCook, Marilyn Patterson, Mike

Patterson, Sheila Randolph, and James Myrick

who got Nathaniel Terry Sr.’s and Jr.’s stones set

Oct. 21 in Pioneer’s Rest.

…to Steve Michelis who has paid for two more

stones.

…Marilyn Patterson for taxi service for your

editor and for her input and help in proofreading

this newsletter.

A Busy Month

November puzzle

Thanks to Dan and

Gage of Worthington

Monuments for

engraving and

delivering Terry’s 700-

pound rock to us.

The puzzle is at the

link below, in the

shape the last person

there left it. Email

your editor if you

have problems

working it.

https://www.jigsawplanet

.com/?rc=play&pid=

25053358f2c6

To you, Sons of Confederate

Veterans, we submit the

vindication of the cause for

which we fought. To your

strength will be given the defense

of the Confederate soldier's good

name, the guardianship of his

history, the emulation of his

virtues, the perpetuation of those

principles which he loved and

which made him glorious, and

which you also cherish.

Remember it is your duty to see

that the true history of the

South is presented to

future Generations."General Stephen Dill Lee

Commander in Chief

United Confederate Veterans

April 24, 1906