- Welcome - Camp News and Updates: Next Meeting: Saturday January 21 January's meeting will be held at the Lee-Jackson Supper on Saturday, January 21 at the new Community Center in Cave Spring. 2012 Officers will be installed at this meeting and all members should plan to attend. Saturday, January 21, 2012 - Lee-Jackson Supper We will pay homage to these two great leaders and Christian Soldiers in January. Camp 469 of Rome, camp 669 of Cave Spring, and camp 77 of Cedartown will meet to assure this will be a special evening. The Dinner will be held at Cave Spring Community Center, directly behind City Hall, at 7 pm on January 21. In 1824 Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson was born on this date. This should prove to be a very special evening and we hope all Camp members and their families will be in attendance.
Our regular meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month at 7:00 PM in the Oostanaula Room of the Rome-Floyd County Library at 205 Riverside Parkway in Rome, Georgia. Members are expected, and visitors are always welcome. About Our Camp The General Nathan Bedford Forrest Camp 469 of Sons of Confederate Veterans was chartered in 1989 in Rome, Georgia. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the memory and heritage of the Confederacy and our Confederate ancestors through memorial, historical, and educational activities. Camp 469 is named in honor of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who saved the city of Rome, Georgia from an approaching Yankee brigade under the command of Union Col. Abel Streight in 1863. On May 3 of that year, Forrest’s cavalry of less than 500 men caught and captured Streight’s “lightning mule” brigade of nearly 1700 men just before they reached Rome, and Forrest was hailed as a local hero. |
What is the The Sons of Confederate Veterans was founded in 1896, and today it is the oldest hereditary organization for male descendants of Confederate soldiers. The SCV is a historical, patriotic, and non-political organization dedicated to insuring that the true history of the 1861-1865 period is preserved. Today, The SCV serves as a means for a gentleman to honor his Southern ancestry and works to preserve and defend the history, heritage, and principles of the Old South. Membership in the SCV is open to male descendants of any veteran who served honorably in the Confederate armed forces. The SCV rejects any person or group whose actions tarnish or bring dishonor upon the Confederate soldier or his reason for fighting. This particularly applies to those groups and persons using the confederate flag as a symbol of hatred or for their own dishonorable purposes. |
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