FUTURE MEETINGS The April meeting will continue in the Southern Heritage Complex beginning at 7:00. If you have any questions about the meeting time or location, call Commander Sam Price (638-2676) or any other camp officer. Warren Grabau, our April speaker, is the author of Ninety-Eight Days, A Geographer's View of the Vicksburg Campaign. Visitors lead to new members and are always welcome. Place our monthly camp meetings, first Thursday of each month, on your schedule.

FUTURE PLANS Do not forget we have about 25 headstones on the way to set in the ground. Past Commander McMaster has located four Confederate VA headstones at the Marble Works that need to be set. It appears they were ordered by someone, delivered and never picked up for setting.
Jeff Gambrione has found the name in an old diary of a Georgia soldier who fell in defense of Vicksburg at Chickasaw Bayou. The camp is working with Jeff to order a stone.

SUMMER CONVENTIONS The 2005 Mississippi Division Convention hosted by Sam Davis Camp 596 will be held the first weekend in June (3 and 4). Registration fee is $28 per member. The hotel is the Holiday inn Airport on Hwy 49 in Gulfport. The telephone number for motel reservations is 1/800/327-0200 (ask for SCV rate $65 per night). For information go to http://www.mississippiscv.org/. The 2005 SCV General Convention will be held July 20-23, 2005 at the Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. For information go to http://www.scv2005.com/
For more information about conventions contact Eddy Cresap at 638-5973

WORKSHOP REPORT
The annual Billy Ray Hankins workshop was held in Jackson on March 5 in the War Memorial Building. Sam Price and Wayne McMaster represented our camp. Thanks to Sam and Wayne for spending a Saturday representing our camp.

WAR BETWEEN STATES SHOW
A War Between the States show is in Vicksburg on April 16 at the Battlefield Inn from 7:00-5:00. Past Commander Armstrong is organizing an SCV recruiting booth. Please contact him at 636-9465 for information and to volunteer to man the booth.

LEE, A MAN TO EMULATE
"I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity".
"No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance." Robert E. Lee

BEAUVOIR ACTIVITIES
Beauvoir is owned by the Mississippi Division Sons of Confederate Veterans. Membership in the Division should support the Last home of Jefferson Davis by attending events that are sponsored (admission for members is free), by joining "Friends of Beauvoir" and donating to the Capital campaign (see article later in newsletter). Below is a list of activities scheduled for 2005.

• March 5 at 7:00 PM the Beauvoir Lecture series presents Dr Chris Leahy of Southeastern Louisiana University who will be discussing John Tyler, United States President and Confederate Congressman.
• March 27 at 7:00 AM Beauvoir and the Sam Davis Camp will co-sponsor a non-denominational Easter sunrise service on the grounds
• April 4, 2005 from 1:00 - 4:00 PM Beauvoir House will be decorated for Spring Pilgrimage and open for special tours
• April 23, 2005 the Division will have its Confederate Memorial day service. The activities will begin with a old fashion Pot Luck meal at 12:00
• June 4 from 12:00 to 3:00 PM there will be a birthday party commemorating the 197th Birthday of President Davis
• Oct 15 an 16 2005 Will be the 19th annual Fall Muster. This event is a reenactment weekend
• Davis Will on display through June 2005
• Ship Island Display through April 2005

NEWSLETTER
The only resolution presented to date to our economic problem of the newsletter is to provide a request for an e mail copy. Several members will begin an E mail subscription this issue. This would save postage and copy cost of those emailed news letters. If you desire this option please contact Eddy Cresap at cresap@canufly.net. If other solutions are not implemented (donations to support newsletter cost), we are nearing the end of our newsletter as we have known it for several years. I would like to thank those who have shown appreciation for the newsletter and would like everyone to know that this has been a labor of love for all these years. I serve at the pleasure of the camp and its leadership and will abide by their desires and needs.

RIGHTS NOT SURRENDERED
There were some things NOT surrendered at Appomattox. We (I) did not surrender our (my) rights and history, nor was it one of those conditions of surrender that unfriendly lips should be suffered to tell the story of that war or that unfriendly hands should write the epitaphs of our Confederate dead. We (I) have the right to teach our (my) children (and grandchildren) the true history of that war, the causes that led up to it and the principles involved." Sen. E.W. Carmack, 1903

GENERAL LEE AND THE BLACK MAN
Story from "CONFEDERATE VETERAN", (AUGUST 1905): "Col. T. L. Broun, of Charleston, W. Va., writes of having been present at St. Paul's Church, Richmond, Va., just after the war when a negro marched to the communion table ahead of the congregation. His account of the event is as follows:
'Two months after the evacuation of Richmond business called me to Richmond for a few days, and on a Sunday morning in June, 1865, I attended St. Paul's Church. Dr. Minnegerode [sic] preached. It was communion day; and when the minister was ready to administer the Holy Communion, a negro in the church arose and advanced to the communion table. He was tall, well-dressed, and black. This was a great surprise and shock to the communicants and others present. Its effect upon the communicants was startling, and for several moments they retained their seats in solemn silence and did not move, being deeply chagrined at this attempt to inaugurate the "new regime" to offend and humiliate them during their most devoted Church services. Dr. Minnegerode [sic] was evidently embarrassed.
General Robert E. Lee was present, and, ignoring the action and presence of the negro, arose in his usual dignified and self-possessed manner, walked up the aisle to the chancel rail, and reverently knelt down to partake of the communion, and not far from the negro. This lofty conception of duty by Gen. Lee under such provoking and irritating circumstances had a magic effect upon the other communicants (including the writer), who went forward to the communion table.
By this action of Gen. Lee the services were conducted as if the negro had not been present. It was a grand exhibition of superiority shown by a true Christian and great soldier under the most trying and offensive circumstances."

BOOKS FOR SALE
For those who have attended activities at the home of Bobbie Armstrong, they will remember the books that he has in his home about Navy History and the War For Southern Independence. He is offering some of his library for sale at half off the retail price. A portion of the money will be returned to the camp treasury. Contact Bobbie Armstrong at 636-9465 for information.

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI HOLIDAYS
The following are State of Mississippi Holidays. We members of the Son's of Confederate Veterans should ensure that we use these state holidays to their best advantage in meeting our charge given to us By General S. D. Lee.

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."

What will you do on the last Monday of April?

Robert E. Lee's Birthday	Third Monday in January
Confederate Memorial Day	Last Monday in April
Jefferson Davis Birthday	Last Monday in May

HOW DO YOU PRESENT YOURSELF?
"Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance."
Jefferson Davis