Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham Camp # 72
The Cheatham News
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AUGUST 2012
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August 28, 2012, 6:00 P.M. Dinner and meeting at Oak Restaurant, Manchester.
Dinner at 6:00 P.M., business meeting and program at 7:00 P.M. The program is
Thomas Flagel, speaking on "What If Lee Had Won at Gettysburg?"
September 22, 2012, 9:00 A.M. Polly Crockett Festival. 101 Cumberland Street East,
Cowan, TN 37398. Members of Camp 72, U.D.C. Chapter 327 and B.F. White's Battery
will participate.
Manchester, TN 37355
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Dates to Remember:
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Aug. 21 , 1864 - Forrest
conducts day-long raid
on Memphis. Gen. A. J.
Smith recalled to protect
city.
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Be sure to visit our website at tennessee-scv.org/camp72/.
Aug. 24 , 1861 - Pres.
Davis appoints James M.
Mason and John Slidell
to be commissioners to
Britain and France and
seek recognition of the
Confederacy.
Commander's Comments...
To All,
Sept. 2 , 1863 Burnsides' troops occupy
Knoxville without a
fight.
Be sure to attend
the next Camp 72
Benjamin F. Cheatham
Major General, CSA
meeting at 7:00
P.M. on August
Born Oct. 20, 1820
28th at the Oak.
Died Sept. 4, 1886
As with each SCV Camp #72 Monthly Newsletter
"Commander's Comments", I would like to wish each of
y'all, along with your families and loved ones, excellent
health, fine spirits and much happiness!
As most of you know, during the month of June 2012
the Murfreesboro SCV Camp #33 hosted the Sons of
Confederate Veterans National Reunion, and, as stated
during last month's Camp #72 meeting, we all enjoyed a
wonderful time due in large part to the excellent care and
assistance provided by the membership of Camp #33. I
would not want to single out any one member without
fear of perhaps forgetting someone. Rather, I once again
will state that Camp #33 performed in a superior manner,
altogether!
(cont. on p. 2)
The Cheatham News
August 2012
p. 2
ARTICLES
(cont. from p. 1)
An issue that I brought back from
the Reunion was a heads up on a
"new buzz word" that we will all be
hearing over the course of the
next few years. Those buzz words
are, "SCV Vision 2016"!
As I write, plans are underway
for a step by step plan to "get" the
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Divisions and Camps to a total
membership strength of 50,000
members. I look forward to
embracing and implementing this
"top to bottom" plan as soon as it
arrives, however. With that sign of
support stated, coupled with the
fact that my background has
trained me to "act, rather than
react," I would like to get Camp
#72's plan to reach a Camp
strength of "100 members" up and
running as soon as possible.
I am calling upon those Camp
#72 members who, as I, want to
see our great Camp and our great
organization, the Sons of
Confederate Veterans grow, and
grow as quickly as possible.
I would like each of you to think
of various ways in which we may
approach adding new members to
our rolls, while maintaining and
caring for the members that are
currently on our rolls.
Once you have collected your
thoughts on this grave matter, I
would like to call to order a
standing committee to compile our
avenues, to success.
I only call upon those who "want
to serve" and to "lead the way" for
perhaps other camps who have
difficulty in focusing on "The
Vision".
Please share your excellent
talents and energies, in this great
endeavor by volunteering to serve!
As stated so well by William
Arthur Wood, "lose yourself in
generous service and every day
can be a most unusual day, a
triumphant day, an abundantly
rewarding day".
I look forward to seeing each of
y'all, along with your loved ones
and/or a guest at our next Camp
#72 monthly meeting on Tuesday,
28 August 2012 at the Oak
Restaurant in beautiful
Manchester, Tennessee.
Best regards, always and with
great respect I remain;
Sgt. Maj. Larry E. Williams
US Army/Retired
Commander
CIVIL WAR ODDITIES
by Jay Schroeder
The bloodiest single-day battle of
the Civil War occurred on June 3,
1864 at Cold Harbor, Virginia. The
opposing generals were Lee and
Grant.
Over 7,000 Federal soldiers fell,
while the Confederate losses
numbered less than 1,500--an
approximate total of 8,500
casualties in less than twenty
minutes of fighting.
The highest rank attained by a
private on either side during the
Civil War was that of lieutenant
general.
Having enlisted in the Seventh
Tennessee Cavalry, Private Nathan
Bedford Forrest rose rapidly
through the Confederate ranks
until he was promoted to
lieutenant general. He had only six
years of formal schooling and no
prior military training.
Loyalty to a cause can sometimes
direct the conscience of a man to
change from one uniform to
another.
Leonidas Polk's transformation
was more extreme than most. A
graduate of West Point in 1827, he
later became an ordained minister
and then a bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal Church. But
he felt allegiance to the
Confederate cause, and having
been educated as a soldier,
changed his Episcopal robes to the
uniform of a lieutenant general of
the Confederate army.
As a corps commander, he fought
at the battles of Belmont, Shiloh,
Perrysville and Murfreesboro. He
was killed in the fighting at Pine
Mountain in June 1864.
Manning M. Kimmel was a young
Union cavalry lieutenant who
fought at the opening Battle of Bull
Run. Later, he resigned his Union
commission and joined the
Confederate army to become an
assistant adjutant general.
Eighty years later the scene was
set for another opening battle.
This time the commander was
Admiral Husband F. Kimmel, who
was in charge of the American
naval base at Pearl Harbor on
December 7, 1941.
Admiral Kimmel was the son of
Confederate General Manning M.
Kimmel.
Source: Levitt, Stan, The Crackerbarrel
Papers, pp.64, 69-70, 72.
The Cheatham News
August 2012
p. 3
A LOOK AHEAD
DATE
TIME
25 SEP 12
6:00 P.M.
19-20 OCT 12
23 OCT 12
6:00 P.M.
27 NOV 12
6:00 P.M.
EVENT
Dinner and meeting at Oak Restaurant, Manchester. Dinner at 6:00 P.M., business
meeting and program at 7:00 P.M. Program to be determined.
Forrest Seminar. Parker's Crossroads, TN.
Dinner and meeting at Oak Restaurant, Manchester. Dinner at 6:00 P.M., business
meeting and program at 7:00 P.M. Program to be determined.
Dinner and meeting at Oak Restaurant, Manchester. Dinner at 6:00 P.M., business
meeting and program at 7:00 P.M. Program to be determined.
Starnes Brigade SCV Camp meeting dates & places
#72 – Cheatham Camp 4th Tuesday at Oak Restaurant, Manchester at 7:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. dinner).
#152 – John Massey Camp 2nd Thursday at Fayetteville Municipal Auditorium at 7:00 p.m.
#155 – J.B. Cowan 2nd Tuesday at Harton House, So. Jackson Tullahoma at 7:00 p.m.
#297 – Marshall Rangers 3rd Thursday at Old Hardison School in Lewisburg at ??.
#386 – Cumberland Mountain Rifles 3rd Tuesday, Old County Building in Tracy City at 6:30 p.m.
#1411 – A.P. Stewart 4th Tuesday, Western Sirloin in Decherd at 6:00 p.m.
#1615 – McMinnville 3rd Tuesday, Magness Memorial Library at 7:00 p.m.
#1620 – S.A. Cunningham 2nd Thursday, Farm Bureau in Shelbyville at 6:00 p.m.
#2094 – Capt Abner S. Boone 1st Sunday Old House Hqtrs Hwy 231 N. Fayetteville in Belleville at 1:00 p.m.
When you can, please visit your brothers' camp meetings. They will be glad to see you.
The Cheatham News
August 2012
p. 4
QUOTATIONS
From time to time, in my reading, I encounter quotations that I feel are so meaningful that they must be shared.
I am going to try that today. These thoughts were chosen not for the prestige of the author, but for their being apropos
to the epoch in which they were conceived, as well as during the War for Southern Independence. To a lesser extent,
they are apropos to the struggle in which we are engaged today. They all deal with freedom and the effort to gain and
retain it.
Your feedback would be very useful. If you enjoy these, let me know. If you would rather I use the space for
something else, please let me know that. This is your newsletter, and it needs to serve your interests. Ed.
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous
that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are
promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be
to-morrow." -- Federalist No. 62
"It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his
conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive
with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn."
George Washington, letter to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, 1789
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will
preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." -- Patrick Henry
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the
business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his
principles unto death." -- Thomas Paine, The Crisis, No 1, 1776
“That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.” -- Goethe: Faust
"We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious
companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral." -- Margaret Thatcher
"Do not interfere with anything in the Constitution. It must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties." -Abraham Lincoln
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you
are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of
action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes
brave men and women to win them." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so
pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third
time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him.
This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition." -- Thomas
Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, 1785
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