Walter P. Lane Camp 1745

Walter Paye Lane

Welcome Compatriots!
to the web home of
Walter P. Lane #1745
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Orange, Texas
in beautiful Southeast Texas
We got roughed up by Hurricane Ike but we're still here!

3rd Texas Artillery
(see the Memorial Day poem)

Monthly meetings of Camp 1745 are held at 7:00pm on the first Monday of the month at the Oak Leaf Park meeting room, next to Flying J Travel Plaza at
I-10 and Hwy 62.

We may be reached at
beaner1219@yahoo.com

website: chevelle@flatfenders.com

Charge to the Sons of Confederate Veterans
"To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit 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 you love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish. Are you also ready to die for your country? Is your life worthy to be remembered along with theirs? Do you choose for yourself this greatness of soul?
“Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves are triumph and defeat."
Lt. General Steven Dill Lee, New Orleans, La. April 1906, as reported in Confederate Veteran Magazine

Our Links Page

Membership info

Texas Division SCV Calendar of Events

Thank you and come again.

Salute to the Confederate Flag
(Stand erect, remove your hat and stretch out your right hand, palm up)
"I salute the Confederate Flag with affection, reverence and undying devotion
to the Cause for which it stands."
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Pledge to the Texas Flag
(Stand erect, remove your hat, place your right hand over your heart)
"Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance
to thee, Texas, one state under God,
one and indivisible."

Camp Roster

Camp Maneuvers

Orange Order of Confederate Rose

Charge to the Sons of Confederate Veterans

"To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit 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 you love also, and those ideals 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."

Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General,
United Confederate Veterans,
New Orleans, Louisiana, April 25, 1906.

Camp Calendar

July

Sorry, no meeting this month. Fly the CBF and 'Stars and Bars' and the 'Betsy Ross' flags!

July 4 -- First American Revolution Independence Day
13 July 1821 General Nathan Bedford Forrest’s birthday
14 July 1862 The Confederate ironclad Arkansas attacks and damages three yankee ships at Vicksburg, MS
15 July 1864 An Erie Railroad train jammed with Confederate prisoners collides with a freight train. More than 100 injured CSA prisoners were dumped into the Elmira, NY prison compound untreated and most died within a few days.
21 July 1861 First Battle of Manassas, VA . Damyank army gets its collective butts beat.
22 July 1864 Battle of Atlanta, GA begins
23 July 1865 Major Henry Wirz's trial began. He was charged with 13 murders, one of which happened before which before Wirz even arrived at Andersonville. Of the other 12 charges of murder, each and every one of the "victims'" names were unknown. Evidence exonerating him was suppressed at trial.
25 July 1864 Skirmish at Benton, AR and Pleasant Hill, MO
26 July 1861 Confederate forces capture Fort Fillmore, Mesilla, NM Territory
27 July 1864 Insane damyank war criminal Sherman, may he continue to rot in h*ll, orders railroad lines south of Atlanta to be destroyed
July 25, 1861 -- Both Houses of Congress pass a resolution stating that the war is being fought to maintain the Union, not to end slavery.
July 22, 1975 -- The US House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

August

August 2 -- Camp Meeting

September

Sept. 6 -- Labor Day

Sept. 11-12 -- Dick Dowling Days at Sabine Pass Battleground State Park
                                            Living history, artillery, fun!
                                  Reprint of Sept. 1963 Port Arthur News article

Sept. 13 -- Camp Meeting

October

Oct. 4 -- Camp Meeting

Oct. 12, 1870 -- Gen. Robert E. Lee passes      story by Calvin E. Johnson Jr.

Oct. ? -- Heritage Village Days, Woodville

I Am Their Flag

April is Confederate History Month
mash here

" Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history and denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of its own destruction."
-- Sir William Wallace, 1281 A.D.

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"Does the propriety of discussing the causes of the War Between the States belong exclusively to Northern writers and speakers? Did the South, when she laid down her arms, surrender the right to state in self-justification her reasons for taking them up? If not, I fail to see how it can be improper, when perpetuating the memory of the Confederate dead, at least to attempt to correct false and injurious representations of their aims and deeds and to hand down their achievements to posterity as worthy of honorable remembrance."

-- Robert Catlett Cave 1911

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"We feel that our cause is just and holy; we protest solemnly in the face of mankind that we desire peace at any sacrifice save that of honor and independence; we ask no conquest, no aggrandizement, no concession of any kind from the States with which we were lately confederated; all we ask is to be let alone; that those who never held power over us shall not now attempt our subjugation by arms.”

-- President Jefferson Davis, 29 April 1861

"I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize the musket and fight our battle, unless you acknowledge our right to self government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence, and that, or extermination."

-- President Jefferson Davis, CSA

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Lee Defends His Actions

“…General Robert E. Lee, now president of Washington College…was writing a letter to R.S. McCulloch which showed that Lee too was in the same unrepentant state. ”Every brave people who considered their rights attacked and their constitutional liberties invaded,” it ran, “would have done as we did. Our conduct was not caused by any insurrectional spirit, nor can it be termed a rebellion; for our construction of the Constitution under which we lived and acted was the same from its adoption, and for eighty years we had been taught and educated by the founders of the Republic, and their written declarations, which controlled our consciences and actions. The epithets that have been heaped upon us of “rebels” and “traitors” have no just meaning, nor are they believed in by those who understand the subject, even at the North…”

(Jefferson Davis, Joseph McElroy, Smithmark Books, 1995 (original 1937), pp. 614-615)

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Quote from John W. Flinthaw, Sgt. CL 8 VA. Cav. 2 BrigG 2 Div. Cav. Corps:

To Horse To Horse The Sabers Gleam High,
Sounds our bugle call combined by honor sacred tie.
Our word is Land and Liberty,
March Forward One and All.

FROM WALLIN BCORWS WAR BARG. APRIL 1 1864 RICHMOND,VA
(inscription found in a Bible)
More on this quote: mash here

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"I say we cannot know your suffering, but this we do know; We love and honor you, veterans, and are justly proud of the heritage you have given us. Just so long as warm blood flows in the veins of man, so long will the words 'Confederate Veteran' cause that blood to tingle with glorious pride, and, if there be one among us, born in our glorious Southland who is not so thrilled, every drop of stagnant blood proclaims him bastard to the South - a coward to all the world."

-- Joseph Powell Pippen, Esq.
(Brock Townsend's Grandfather)
Excerpt from his speech on August 10th, 1911 to a Confederate Veteran gathering on Confederate Memorial Day at "Mosby Hall," Littleton, NC, the plantation of Brock's great-Grandfather, Private, "Captain" Lt. Colonel John Pelopidas Leach.

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"Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less."
-- General Robert E. Lee

The Sons of Confederate Veterans is the oldest and largest organization of descendants of Confederate fighting men from the War for Southern Independence.
The citizen-soldiers who fought for the Confederacy personified the best qualities of America. The preservation of liberty and freedom was the motivating factor in the South's decision to fight the Second American Revolution, and it was not actually fought about slavery. The tenacity with which Confederate soldiers fought underscored their belief in the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. These attributes are the underpinning of our democratic society and represent the foundation on which this nation was built.

Today, the Sons of Confederate Veterans is preserving the history and legacy of these heroes, so future generations can understand the motives that animated the Southern Cause.

The SCV is the direct heir of the United Confederate Veterans, and is the largest and oldest hereditary organization for male descendants of Confederate soldiers from the War for Southern Independence. Organized at Richmond, Virginia in 1896, the SCV continues to serve as a historical, patriotic, and non-political organization dedicated to insuring that a true history of the 1861-1865 period is preserved.

A member must be over the age of 12 and be the descendant of a Confederate soldier. If you are interested in joining, please click on the Membership Info link at left, or contact us at the email address at the bottom of this page.

SCV Hurricane Relief Fund
A fund has been established to aid compatriots whose homes and livelihoods have been devastated by Hurricanes such as 2005's Katrina and Rita.
Send your contribution to:
SCV RELIEF FUND
P.O. BOX 59
COLUMBIA, TN 38402-0059
On the memo line insert "Hurricane Relief"

Link to:

Niblett's Bluff Info

Our Ancestors

In Memorium: Charles Heath will be missed ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNahT3o1fl4