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Camp Officers:
Camp Cmdr: John L. Maxey
1st Lt. Cmdr: Jerry New
2nd. Lt. Cmdr: Mark Camp
2nd_Lt. [email protected]
Camp Adjutant: Steve Camp
Editor: J. H. Underwood
Volume 11, Issue 10
Gen. Joe’s Dispatch
Maj . Gen. Joseph Wheeler Camp #863, Conyers , Ga.
“Our Commanders Comments” By: Commander John Maxey
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“Lutz House New DVD” News Brief from Civil War News
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“28th Annual Lee-Jackson Dinner” By: J. H. Underwood, Editor
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“Voices from the Past, Audio of Corporal Julius Howell” From: Post on SCV.org
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“Battle of Fort Pulaski, 1st battle of the WBTS in Georgia” Battle Summery by the National Parks Service
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“Voices from the Past, Audio of Corporal Julius Howell” From: Post on SCV.org (Continued from page 3.)
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Inside this issue: The 28th Annual Lee-Jackson
Dinner held on January 16,
2016 was a great success. 54
members and guest attending
were entertained by our guest
speaker, Mr. Bob Collins, pro-
gram director for the Major
William E. Simmons Camp 96
in Lawrenceville Georgia.
Mr. Collins’
speech on
the military
career of
Lieutenant
General
Thomas
Jonathan
“Stonewall”
February 2016
Coming Events
February 9, 2016 - Regular
meeting of Maj. Gen. Joseph
Wheeler Camp #863 - Masonic
Lodge, Conyers, Georgia
March 8, 2016 - Regular
meeting of Maj. Gen. Joseph
Wheeler Camp #863 - Masonic
Lodge, Conyers, Georgia
(from left to right); Mr. Jack
Wilson, Jr., Mr. Morgan
Reeves and Mr. Anthony
Ford.
Jack joins us through his
Confederate ancestor Private
James W. Darby, Company
D, 42nd Georgia Infantry
Regiment, the Dekalb Rang-
ers. Morgan’s Confederate
ancestor is Private John
James Reaves of Company F,
30th Alabama Infantry Regi-
ment and Anthony’s is Pri-
vate Oliver Perry Ford, Com-
pany I, 42nd Georgia Infantry
Regiment. Please join Com-
mander Maxey and all the
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28th Annual Lee-Jackson Dinner
Jackson was most entertaining
and informative. It highlight-
ed General Jackson’s ability
to choose the right man for
the job when picking his staff
of officers to carry out his
objectives. Thank you Mr.
Collins for one of the best
Lee-Jackson programs we
have ever had.
Three new members were
inducted into our ranks at this
years Lee-Jackson (pictured
above) in a ceremony con-
ducted by 1st Lt. Commander
Jerry New, Commander John
Maxey and Camp Chaplin
Larry Cornwell. They are
By: J. H. Underwood, Editor
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anything to do with the Confederacy.
At our February 9th meeting Compatriot
Don Meyers has some good ideas to share
with us about saving our Heritage. Don has
his heart and his head in the right place. I
know you’ll enjoy hearing him.
As you know the Georgia Div. Convention
is only a few months away. Please make
plans to attend and send in your paperwork.
I’m looking forward to seeing each of you at
the Feb. 9th meeting.
Until them have a “Dixie” day,
John L. Maxey. Camp Cmdr.
make them feel welcome.
We all give a tip of the hat to 13th Bri-
gade Cmdr. Steve Camp, who was able to
get Mr. Bob Collins of Maj. William E.
Simmons Camp #96, Lawrenceville,
Georgia as our speaker. Bob is certainly
an expert on Gen. “Stonewall Jackson”.
We all enjoyed it very much. Mr. Collins
is also a University of South Carolina
History major.
Cmdr. Steve Camp also warned us about
the continued assault on our Southern
Heritage by the loons of political correct-
ness. Please call your congressman and
tell them to vote “NO” on House Bill
#670. They are trying to forever change
the Stone Mountain Park from having
Southern Ladies
and Gentlemen,
I believe that eve-
ryone at the Lee-
Jackson dinner
had a very nice
evening. Every-
thing went very
smooth. The food
was good and you
could not beat the nice people to share an
evening with. It’s evident that Maj. Gen.
Joseph Wheeler is a growing and active
Camp.
We had the honor of swearing in three
new members that evening. They were
Compatriots Tony Ford, Jack Wilson, Jr.
and Morgan Reeves. Let’s all be sure we
Our Commanders’ Comments
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By: Commander John Maxey
moving documentary of how so many
Franklin organizations came together to
remember the battle that took place in
our community 150 years prior.”
For information visit
www.lotzhouse.com.
Sesquicentennial events.
Lotz House
Executive
Director
J.T.
Thompson
said, “It’s a
FRANKLIN, Tenn. — The Lotz House
has produced its 10th sesquicentennial
DVD, “The Battle of Franklin March-
ing Forward 150th Anniversary.”
The three-hour two DVD set features
graphics, period music and highlights
of the Battle of Franklin’s Civil War
officers of Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler
Camp 863 in welcoming these new
compatriots to our ranks.
Other highlights of the evening includ-
ed, of course, the food (fried chicken
with all the fixings from Folks Restau-
rant), the announcement of our 2015
Compatriot of the Year, Compatriot
Brent Boling and our Person of the
Year, former tomb guard at the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldiers, Mr. Herb
Smith.
Thank you Commander Maxey, Adju-
tant Steve Camp and all the officers and
members who contributed their time
and work to make this, the 28th Annual
Lee-Jackson Dinner, a great success.
28th Annual Lee-Jackson Dinner
Lutz House New DVD News Brief from Civil War News
By: J. H. Underwood, Editor (Continued from page 1)
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Voices from the Past, Audio of Corporal Julius Howell
http://www.scv.org/research/JuliusHowel
l.php , to hear a recording of Confederate
soldier Julius Howell talking about his
capture and imprisonment at the Union
prison camp at Point Lookout, Md.
Howell was born in 1846 near the Holy
Neck section of Suffolk, in the Holland
area. He was the youngest of 16 children,
the son of a prominent Baptist minister.
His daddy wouldn’t allow him to join the
army until he was 16½, he says in his
account.
He saw action guarding the Blackwater
River against Yankees until his regiment
was called to help defend Richmond in
1864. By then, he was a corporal and
courier for two generals. Copy and paste this website in your
browser;
Other Names: None
Location: Chatham County
Campaign: Operations against For t
Pulaski (1862)
Date(s): Apr il 10-11, 1862
Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen.
David Hunter and Capt. Quincy A.
Gillmore [US]; Col. Charles H.
Olmstead [CS]
Forces Engaged: The Por t Royal Ex-
peditionary Force’s Fort Pulaski invest-
ment troops [US]; Fort Pulaski Garri-
son [CS]
Estimated Casualties: 365 total (US
1; CS 364)
Description: For t Pulaski, built by
the U.S. Army before the war, is located
near the mouth of the Savannah River,
blocking upriver access to Savannah.
Fortifications such as Pulaski, called
third system forts, were considered in-
vincible, but the new technology of ri-
fled artillery changed that. On February
19, 1862, Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Sher-
man ordered Captain Quincy A. Gill-
more, an engineer officer, to take charge
of the investment force and begin the
bombardment and capture of the fort.
Gillmore emplaced artillery on the
mainland southeast of the fort and began
the bombardment on April 10 after
Colonel Charles H. Olmstead refused to
surrender the fort. Within hours, Gill-
more’s rifled artillery had breached the
southeast scarp of the fort, and he con-
tinued to exploit it. Some of his shells
began to damage the traverse shielding
the magazine in the northwest bastion.
Realizing that if the magazine exploded
the fort would be seriously damaged and
the garrison would suffer severe casual-
ties, Olmstead surrendered after 2:00 pm
on April 11.
Result(s): Union victory
CWSAC Reference #: GA001
Preservation Priority: III.2 (Class B)
National Park Unit: Fort Pulaski NM
Battle of Fort Pulaski, 1st Battle of the WBTS in Georgia
In April 1865, Howell was taken prison-
er at the battle of Sailor’s Creek and was
transported to Point Lookout, MD., a
notorious Union prison. He was there
when he heard about the assassination of
President Abraham Lincoln.
"I arose pretty early," he says. "There
were 20,000 of us there. I saw a flag
pole, and a flag stopped halfway."
The youth, a slightly built man with
bright red hair, knew what it meant.
"I stuck my head in a tent and said,
'Boys, there must be some big Yankee
dead.' "
A guard told the men later that the presi-
dent had been shot.
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uniform. Because legislators wanted to
hear more from the Confederate veter-
an, Howell addressed the combined
Congress of the United States in Wash-
ington in 1944, when he was 98, and
that is when it is believed this tape was
made.
Four years later, in February 1948, on
his 102nd birthday, the city of Bristol
threw a party. His old friend, actress
Mary Pickford, and her family attend-
ed.
Howell, who had never been sick a day
in his life, died the following June.
by David Markiewicz / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Howell says
he felt no
hatred to-
ward Lin-
coln, only
kindness.
"We didn’t
fight for the
preservation
or extension
of slavery,"
he says. "It
was a great
curse on this
country that
we had slavery. We fought for states'
rights, for states' rights."
After the war, Howell taught at Reyn-
oldson Institute in Gates County, N.C.
He soon left teaching and went to the
University of Pennsylvania, graduating
with a history degree. From there, he
went on to Harvard and got a doctorate in
history.
Howell was a history professor at the
University of Arkansas. He eventually
headed the department. In 1901, he was
named president of Virginia Intermont
College in Bristol, where he served for
50 years.
Howell was forever loyal to the South.
He became state commander of the Ten-
nessee Confederate Veterans and, in
1940, was named commander-in-chief of
the national United Confederate Veter-
ans.
In 1942, Life magazine did a spread on
Howell. Several photos of the old gentle-
man show him dressed in his Confederate
Voices from the Past, Audio of Corporal Julius
Howell (Continued from Page 3.)
Confederate Monument at
Point Lookout, Maryland
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