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From: "Ernest Everett Blevins" <>
Subject: Re: [SUVCW] Department of Georgia and South Carolina
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 12:05:31 -0400
References: <20080511.081509.3744.0.trightmy@juno.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080511.081509.3744.0.trightmy@juno.com>


It is also Confedreate Memorial Day in South Carolina which was jsut
coincidence when the meeting was set as when Eric set it he did not know
that. Georigia's Confederate Memorial Day is 26 April

Ernie
List Admin

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Thomas Rightmyer <> wrote:

> May 10 is Confederate Memorial Day in North Carolina. It
> commemorates the death of Eneral Stonewall Jackson in 1863 and the
> capture of President Jefferson Davis in Irwinsville, Georgia, in 1865. So
> it is a particularly appropriate date for the establishment of the
> Georgia SUVCW department.
>
> Congratulations from the Department of North Carolina,
> established April 19, 2008, at Bennett Place where the surrender of the
> last Confederate army in the southeast was negotiated in late April,
> 1865.
>
> The Ellis Camp SUVCW joined with the area SCV camp on May 10 to
> remember the Confederate and Union dead at the Buncombe County civil war
> memorial in Asheville.
>
> Tom Rightmyer Asheville, NC
> Department Secretary
>
> On Sun, 11 May 2008 00:10:09 -0400 "Ernest Everett Blevins"
> <> writes:
> > It is my pleasure to announce to the list that the Department of
> > Georgia and
> > South Carolina was established on Saturday, 10 May 2008.
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