Commander
Paul M. Houser
Lt. Commander
Editor TCR
Webmaster
John Moody
Adjutant
Andrew Seamons Jr.
Treasurer
William P. Jervey Jr.
Chaplain
Dr. Ronald W. Toney
Surgeon
Malcolm Campbell Jr.
Color Sergeant
Vacant
Aide-De-Camp
Stuart Townes
Quartermaster
Vacant
Camp Historian
Gordon Drumheller
Judge Advocate
DEO VINDICE
The Powhatan Troop, Camp 1382
"The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves."
Jefferson Davis
February 24, 2008 will be a very important meeting since we must amend our By-Laws to reflect language reached between the IRS and SCV Headquarters concerning our blanket Tax Exempt status. In addition we will also have an excellent presentation by Ray Ryan on, “Tracing your War Between the States Ancestors”
Certain changes are required by the IRS to allow the International SCV to file a blanket IRS tax Exemption report for all camps. The required changes and suggested locations are as follows:
1. Adopt a fiscal year which extends from August 1, to July 31, (location to be determined)(probably Article V as a new section)
2. Add a section under Article II-OBJECT to note compliance with IRS 501 (c) 3 requirements,
3. Add a section under Article XI -PROBITIONS noting limitations on distribution of funds to officers, members, etc.
4. Add a new Article XV - “DISSOLUTION” to note distribution of funds in the event Camp 1382 is dissolved,
5. Move Present Article XV – “GOVERNING DOCUMENTS” to Article XVI
Camp 1382 By-Laws require a 10 day advanced notice by mail when amendments are to be made. This is your official notification.
Billy H Kornegay
Commander
Concerning the current state of well being of your Lt. Commander, me. Some how SCV HQ was notified in December that I had been summoned to the immortal legions by the Almighty God. Camp Adjutant John Moody and I have yet to figure this one out, but I can assure you that I am at this moment very much alive and have been reinstated back on to the rolls of the living by SCV HQ. I wanted to inform my fellow compatriots of this due to the fact it might not have been corrected in time for the next issue of the Confederate Veteran publication, which may list my name in "The Last Roll." I look forward to seeing each of you for several years to come, if the Almighty God so blesses me.
Please, keep those email address coming, email me so I can send you your monthly report by email and please, if your email address doesn’t relate to your name, please identify yourself in the body of the email. I can send you a blind copy if you wish. This saves the Camp 51 cents monthly. I have started sending the report as a PDF file, so you should not have any trouble opening it. Software to read the PDF file is available on the net for free, if you do not already have it. To date, I have 17 email addresses. You can email me at scvcamp1382@yahoo.com .
Paul M. Houser
The Cannon Report Editor
The Year of Davis
With this standing among the counselors of the government, Jefferson Davis. Currently a Senator from the state of Mississippi endeavored in the beginning of 1860 to lay the foundation for a policy which would prevent sectional agitation and unite inseparably all the States in friendly union. This policy was defined in a series of seven resolutions introduced by him in the Senate February 2, 1860, which were debated three months and adopted in May by a majority of that body as the sense of the Senate of the United States upon the relation of the general government to the States and territories. He is to be fairly viewed after secession as the same man who had justly earned fame in the service of the United States, but whose relations to that country were changed by the act of the State to which he owed allegiance. Surveying him at this crisis in his life we take account of his hereditary virtues, his pride of patriotic ancestry, his training in the Southern school of thought, feeling and manner, his systematic education to graduation from West Point academy, his associations from childhood to manhood with men of culture and women of refinement. We observe his physical advantages--a fine figure, erect and strong--in bearing, graceful when moving and pleasing in repose; his features clearly classic and betokening firmness, fearlessness and intelligence. Far he was from any hauteur of bearing, and free from the supposed superciliousness of the misunderstood Southern aristocracy. We see his mind cultivated and fruitful by reason of native power, early education, extensive reading and long communion with great thoughts on affairs of vast importance. He had self command, gained by the discipline of a soldier, which fitted him to command others; certainly also a strong willed nature to that degree where his maturely considered opinion was not lightly deserted, nor his. well-formed purpose easily abandoned. He was not the man to desert a cause which he once espoused. He was liable to err by excess of devotion. Such men make mistakes, and the Confederate President was not exempt. The insight of his general character reveals him a conservative patriot, opposing all tendencies to anarchy or monarchy, faithful to constitutional agreements and supporter of popular liberties; in his public and private life above reproach; in religion a devout believer in the Christian faith and living in the communion of his church. Such is the man who had vacated his place as senator from the State of Mississippi.
(Source: Confederate Military History)