Col. E. W. Taylor Camp #1777

NEWSLETTERSONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS

September……………………………2019

From this admirable and classic book

written by Gene Kizer, Jr., this program is

a verbatim condensation written by him for

the March/April 2017 issue of the

Confederate Veteran.

When first presented to this camp in 2017, we

heard nothing but compliments and requests it

be presented to other camps. Last year after we

repeated it, members said no topic is more

timely and more necessary for SCV members to

know and to be able to convey to others.

Members have said we should repeat it

every year, so here it is. We have

taken the liberty of reviewing and

refining some of the illustrations, all of

which we supplied in the first place.

This

presentation

is first, last,

and only the

work of Mr.

Kizer.

The Irrefutable Argument

SlaveryWas Not the Cause of the

War Between the States

September program, cont.

Any time you get a chance to read anything written by Gene Kizer, Jr. take

advantage of it. He’s one of a shrinking company of scholars who write articulate,

unbiased history.

During his late-in-life college career, he also came to appreciate other teachers

and writers of the past who tried to do the same. Kizer has put together and edited a

number of the shorter works of Charles W. Ramsdell (1877-1942), (lower right) a

long-time professor at the University of Texas in Austin. His essays are refreshing

and interesting, and untainted by the PC slant we’ve come to expect.

One of Ramsdell’s best essays is entitled “Lincoln and Fort

Sumpter.” It would make a terrific abridged article in the

Confederate Veteran as Kizer’s Slavery… did. Getting it down

to a single program’s length would be a job, but it would be a

memorable SCV presentation.

Ramsdell convincingly shows that one of the most relieved

men in the country on the morning of the firing on Fort Sumpter

was Abraham Lincoln, who needed a war and couldn't’ figure

out how to start one without looking like the aggressor.

Abridged by Mr. Kizer in:

Thanks to:…all the Camp members who

got their dues in to the adjutant.

…Rich McCook who took us

down to Rendon to cut Darling’s

and McCook’s stone on Aug. 15.

….to Lois and Rich McCook,

and Marvin and Suzy McCook

for taking us down to Wood

County on August 24 to set

Samuel Hamilton McCook’s

first-ever marker. Thanks, too, to

Suzy McCook who bought us all

lunch afterwards.

…to all the Camp members who

came to our August meeting.

…to Marilyn Patterson for proof-

reading our newsletter and for

hauling your editor around on

lots of SCV-related trips.

We apologize for not including

many of the things we were sent this

month. Our self-imposed deadline

came and went, and we finally gave

up and just sent the newsletter in.

Even for Dallas, this is a stretch

On August 30, 2019, this surprisingly-balanced editorial appeared in The

Dallas Morning News. The writer says: “In a city that takes little care of

its past and treats South Dallas like something to be avoided, weshould have seen this coming.” Don’t look for the city of dallas’ help.

Things we’ve always taken for granted dealing with basic humandignity are grinding to a halt in this country. To the list includingSeattle, Detroit, Baltimore, most of California, and lots of otherplaces, add Dallas. But some of us have known that for a good while.

No comment on what all these places have in common. This 55-acre Dallas landmark has many spots paid for by families who haven’teven used them yet. Read it at:

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2019/08/30/why-

oakland-cemetery-where-127-years-of-dallas-history-is-buried-has-

suddenly-been-abandoned/

“At least part of the problem is one

only the boldest of historians and city

leaders will straightforwardly address:

location, location, location.”

More perspective on Oakland

Cemetery and its problems

A very insightful and

balanced article on this

historic place was published

in the Dallas Observer way

back in 2001. It is still online

at:

Dallas Observer, 2001

https://www.dallasobserver

.com/news/grave-matters-

6391681

In the old John Wayne classic, “McClintock,” from 1963, McClintock’s

wife (Maureen O’Hara) and McClintock’s daughter (Stephanie Powers) had a

memorable exchange. They watched as a dignified bunch of old “pacified”

Comanches were “managed” by in inept Indian agent. Mrs. McClintock,

remembering times past when people were free to be honest in their actions

and words, observed, “It’s sad, these changing

times.” Her daughter replied, “It isn’t the times that

are changin’ mama.”

True in 1963, 1863, 1763…. Every day brings

some new idiocy from American activists’ and

politicians’ mouths.

“I find it offensive that the flag of our great state is flown at the same height as the Confederate battle flag, which is frequently displayed together with the Nazi swastika by white supremacist groups, like the KKK, as a symbol of hate and racial intolerance,” the Dover Democrat said in a statement. ”

“I will not play any role in supporting organizations that continue to celebrate the Confederacy and the traitors who fought for its failed racist ideology of hate and enslavement. To recommend a grant in any amount would be a betrayal to my constituents and every friend of mine who descended from African slaves. ”

Delaware museum may lose is funding because

it has a Confederate memorial and flag

Del. State Sen. Trey Paradee (D)

https://whyy.org/articles/delaware-museum-group-loses-taxpayer-

funding-over-confederate-monument/

Sen. Trey Paradee,

who represents the

Dover area well

north of George-

town, killed the

society’s taxpayer

funding this sum-

mer, saying the

government should

not support a mon-

ument that flies

what he calls a

symbol of hate.

One of many articles on this event may be seen at:

[Well, okay…it took less than five minutes of research to determine the early Kent County Paradee’s were slave owners. Don’t use the excuse that lots of people back then were… No one else gets to use that one.]

Historical

Society

Loses State

Funding

After

Refusing to

Remove

Confederate

Memorial

and Flag

http://vaflaggers.blogspot.com/

Used by permission.

Fort Worth Civil War

Roundtable

September 10, 2019

The Civil War for

the Common

Soldier

Presentation by Dr. Peter Carmichael, Director Civil War Institute,

Gettysburg, PA

UNT Health Science Center, MET Building, Room 124,

1000 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107

Dinner: 6 PM Program Starts at: 7 PM

Menu: Chicken Parmesan, Penne Pasta, Garden Salad, Dessert: Cost - $13 per person, RSVP

to jimrosenthal5757@aol.com or by calling or texting 817-307-9263

So often we look at the battles and leaders of the Civil War and feel that this gives us a good picture

of the conflict. But we are missing a critical element. How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and

unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S.

Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war - The Civil War for the Common Soldier and will be the

focus of his presentation.

Peter Carmichael is the Director of the Civil War Institute and a Professor of History at Gettysburg

College. He received his PhD from Penn State University and is also the author of The Last Generation:

Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (UNC, 2005) and Lee's Young Artillerist: William R. J.

Pegram (Virginia, 1995). In addition to his books, he has also published a number of articles for both

scholarly and popular journals, and he speaks frequently to general and scholarly audiences. His latest

book will be available for purchase and autographing at the meeting. This should be an excellent

presentation on a seldom explored but very important topic. See you there!

Making sure a Confederate

great-grandfather isn’t forgotten

Early one morning in August, we got an early start and Compatr-

iot Rich McCook made his great-grandpa his fist-ever memorial.

Rich picked the letters out of the mask, watched as the

sandblaster did its work, then skinned the mask off the stone.8/15/19

Installing Mr. McCook’s stone in Alba, Texas

We picked August 24, an

unusually cool August day. It

was in the 70’s when we left,

and only 85 when we were

finished.

The gate was locked, but

that didn’t stop a bunch of

tool-using primates on a

mission. We just took it off

its hinges.

The grave is in Old Salem

Cemetery, which was moved

to its present location in

Wood County to make way

for Lake Fork Reservoir.

The family members there

were (bottom left, l-r,) all

McCooks: Lois, Richard,

Marvin (Rich’s brother) and

Suzy (Marvin’s wife).

Samuel H. McCook’s wife

has a stone, and we put his on

the next space to the south,

where he probably was in the

old cemetery before the

move.

Sometimes you have to

For many months now your editor has been gathering records about Nathaniel Terry,

who was prominent here from the early 1850’s until his death in 1872. The more we

look the more we find. Your editor just can’t keep up.

For this month, we’re just going to have to let it go at letting you see a few of the neat

things we’ve found and giving you a first look at the grave marker we’re planning for

him. See it on the next page. It’s a flat 28 x 48 and 4 inches thick, all 700 pounds of it.

Last year we also announced that at the end of this year, we’re also going to have to

let someone else take over the newsletter. We absolutely love gathering the material and

working on the photos, but each month it seems a little harder to balance our monument-

job responsibilities with the time it takes to finish the newsletter. We began doing the

newsletter in January 2011, and of course we’ll be happy to keep contributing material to

it. It just needs to be someone else’s responsibility to put it together and get it out.

admit you bit off more thanyou can chew.

As we get older and

have to come face to face

with the lifestyles we’ve

chosen and the

personality quirks we’ve

developed, it becomes

harder and harder to

“keep all our plates

spinning in the air.

We begin to have trouble remembering things like names and words, and we make

up a clinical term for the condition: “dysverbia.” We look at our lifestyles and the

things we want to do versus the things we need to do, and we tell ourselves we have

“adult-onset OCD” when it’s really a lack of self-discipline. Your editor freely admits

that throughout his life he’d lots rather have learned new stuff than gotten new stuff, and

the result was that working for a living never held much appeal for him. But his OCD

kept him always working diligently toward whatever he’d told his employers he’d do.

It’s good to have a friend in

Governor Runnels may have been paying Terry back for his

support during the 1857 Democratic convention.

the governor’s office

Notice again that the only man named from this part of Texas was Nat Terry. This may have been

the occasion he went back to Alabama which was mentioned years later in the 1907 Fort Worth

newspaper article. We wonder if the State of Texas paid the expenses of the men who made the trip.

Texas State Gazette, Austin,Texas, April 24, 1858.

Being in the newspapers is

better than not being in ’em

P. T. Barnum, the famous showman, is often credited with being the first

one to say “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.” Terry got lots of both

kinds and was also ready to give product endorsements. Pretty presumpt-

uous of Rogers to challenge of World of Mankind after having devoted two

whole years to the study of pharmacy. Our 19th century ancestors were

certainly given to hyperbole, in politics as well as adverting. Printed in the

Dallas newspaper on July 20, 1859.

For our readers who (like your editor) don’t know anything about horses, Morgans are one of

the first horse breeds developed in the United States. The first stallion in the line is considered to

be a horse named Figure (1789-1821), foaled in Massachusetts but spent most of his time in

Vermont before he died as a result of an accident at the age of 32.

Black Hawk (1833-1856) was a nationally-famous stallion in the breed, reportedly strong

enough to pull a carriage fifty miles in a single day.

These three horses advertised for sale in the Dallas Herald on December 19, 1860 were all

carrying foals sired by Col. Nat Terry’s stallion named Ringgold.

Terry’s friend-admirer-biographer Judge J. C. Terrill remembered the horse well enough that he

mentioned Ringgold several times after 1900 in his writings. He said Terry took Ringgold into

the East and Northeast to enter him in races, once at Saratoga, New York.

Col. Nat Terry and his

stallion, “Ringgold”

The notice above was printed in The White Man at Weatherford,

Texas on September 13, 1860. This is one of the few issues of the paper

which have survived. Nat Terry was the Fort Worth agent for his paper

on the same date. J. J. Inge was a doctor and physician at Weatherford

and also Nat Terry’s son-in-law.

The White Man was printed primarily in Jacksboro and Weatherford

for a few months in 1860 and 1861, primarily to push for the removal of

all Indians from north-central Texas. It seems possible that the horse

involved may have been taken by Indians.

The paper was run by men who were primarily secessionists and anti-

abolitionists, so its name may have had a double meaning. Area

abolitionists got the blame for a fire in July 1860 which temporarily

closed the paper, but it reappeared in Weatherford. It ceased publication

when its primary supporters and contributors joined the Confederate

army.

Just dealing with day-to-day life here in

the days before fences

Abo-litionists and Abo-rigines seen as

the two major threats here in 1860

1862 Springfield for sale

In mid-August we were contacted by a gentleman from

Parker County who has this Springfield rifle and an Enfield

bayonet for sale. He sent lots of excellent photos, which I’ll

forward to you if you’re interested, along with his contact

information. He believes the hammer is a replacement,

owing to its better appearance in relation to the rest of the

weapon. He says his $1500 asking price is firm.

Anyone who’d like more information and the photo set

please email your editor at mfpchat@yahoo.com and put

Springfield in the subject line. Thanks.

Photo by the owner

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 Kliene Grenze Kapelle (German music) in

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

dates:

Friday, Sept.13 - Brass Connection oldies music @ Martin United Methodist Church in

Bedford 7 pm.

Sunday, Sept. 29 - Church Service (Brass Connection) 8:30 & 11:00 am Martin United

Methodist Church in Bedford.

Treat yourself ! We’ll have their October dates in the next issue.

Terry

Theiss

Richard

McCook

https://www.prageru.com/video/dont-follow-your-passion

Worth Your Five Minutes

https://www.dailysignal.com/2016/10/14/watch-

the-21-prageru-videos-that-youtube-is-censoring/

Dennis Prager (left), is an American radio

talk-show host and writer. He is the founder

of PragerU, an American non-profit organiz-

ation which creates videos on various political,

economic, and philosophical topics.

He is currently involved in a lawsuit against

Google and You /Tube claiming in his suit they

are regulating free speech and expression on

the internet “because Defendants are private

entities who own and operate YouTube for

their own profit and commercial gain.”

For some time 21 of Prager U’s 5-minute

videos have been censored. If you have time

to look at the titles (link below) you may find

some of them of interest.

Some Interesting Facts about

CaliforniaInteresting that the Los Angeles Times did this. All the others are staying away from it.

This is only one state... If this doesn't open your eyes, nothing will!

From the LA. Times:

1. 40% of all workers in LA County (10.2 million people) are working for cash; and not

paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a

green card.

2. 95 %of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.

3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.

4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal,

whose births are paid for by taxpayers.

5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals; they are

here illegally.

6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.

7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens

from south of the border.

8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.

9. 21 radio stations in LA are Spanish-speaking.

10. In LA County, 5.1 million people speak English; 3.9 million, speak Spanish. (There

are 10.2 million people, in LA County.)

(All 10 of the above facts were published in the Los Angeles Times)

Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare.

Over 70% of the United States' annual population growth, (and over 90% of California,

Florida, and New York), results from immigration.

Also, 29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.

September puzzle

Compatriot Richard McCook gets up close and

personal in making his Confederate great-grand-

father’s first-ever headstone. For directions on

doing these puzzles, look in our May 2019 issue.

The puzzle’s at the URL shown below, in the

condition the last person there left it.

https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=349229d84d52

Down the road a piece…

Some morning in October we're going to need some help

installing Terry’s 700-pound rock in Pioneers Rest Cemetery.

We have the lifting figured out already. We mainly need

diggers and dirt carriers.

On the morning of Veterans Day, Monday, Nov. 11, some of us

will be in uniform and riding in the Veterans’ Day Parade in Fort

Worth. We’ll be riding with the M. T. Johnson Camp. Some

Taylor Camp members will be in Revolutionary uniform riding

with their Sons of the American Revolution group.

On the morning of Saturday, November 9, we’ll be dedicating

the new memorial for Col. Nathaniel Terry in Pioneers Rest

Cemetery in Fort Worth. We’ll invite other camps and UDC

chapters. We need men in inform with muskets.

On Thursday evening, December 12, we’ll meet at Catfish and

Company for our annual E. W. Taylor Camp Christmas Party.

More details nearer the event.

On Sunday afternoon, November 10, we’ll be taking part in the

39th Annual Military Order of the World Wars Massing of the

Colors at Trimble Tech High School in Fort Worth. Details

later.

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