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General Nathan Bedford Forrest SCV Camp 469
Rome, Georgia

Camp News and Updates:

Next Meeting: Thursday, May 3

Our next meeting will be held at 7 pm on Thursday, May 3, 2012 at the Rome-Floyd Library.  This meeting will be held in the upstairs conference room; take the elevator to the second floor.  Our guest speaker will be Pat Millican, Director of Special Collections at Sara Hightower Regional Library.  Pat is an expert in genealogy and can assist in finding our ancestors or finding out more about them.

May 17 - Original Noble Brothers cannon at the Civic Center

Our compatriots from South Carolina’s MacBeth Light Artillery will be coming with an original Confederate bronze cannon which was made right here in Rome at the Noble Brothers Foundry. “Miss Annie Lee” (named in honor of Robert E. Lee’s daughter), will be on display at the Rome Civic Center, 402 Civic Center Drive, and will ring out loud and clear with four firing demonstrations – 9:30 AM, 12:30 PM, 5:30 PM, and 7:00 PM. There will also be a mini-concert by the renowned 8th Regiment Band, and a reunion of the famed Cherokee Artillery.  All current and former members are invited.

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
Sons of Confederate Veterans?

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.