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                                                          December/January News
 
Gentlemen
 
The 9th Brigade Lee /Jackson dinner will be hosted by the Major John Pelham Camp, Camilla. Jan. 30th, 7 P.M. at Debbies Main Street restaurant in Camilla.  Speaking will be Georgia Division chief of staff Ray McBerry and Georgia Division commander Jack Bridwell. Ray also has the distinction of being a candidate for governor the next term. This will not be a political presentation though. Ray is very knowledgeable about the WBTS and an articulate speaker.
 
The cost is $19.00 per person in advance and $23.00 at the door. The whole restaurant is ours that night. The extra charge at the door is per the owners request. Look forward to seeing y'all there.
 
Please include this info in your news letters.
 
Mail payment to:
 
Pete Giddens
115 wisteria Rd
Ocilla, Ga 31774
 
MERRY CHRISTMAS
 
  
The AH Stephens camp has a new website, visit them at www.ahstephenscamp78.org
 
Flags across Georgia: As of 15 December the poles for I 75 South and Webster County have not arrived yet but supposedly are in transit. So hopefully by the next issue we will have good news on these projects.
 
The last issue did not have our area genealogist phone number displayed due to a printer error.
Our area contact is:
Mike Ricks
229 891 3093
Mike will try to find your membership prospects confederate ancestor for them. This was voted in place at our last EC meeting and hopefully this will be an easy to use tool to increase membership.
 
New 4x8 cora-plast recruitment signs are in. The cost to the camps is only 5.00 per sign. The new signs also have a statement saying we will find your ancestor for you! Please let me know if you want some of these and I will pick them up at the next EC meeting.
You may contact me at  229 831 1081 or email me at pgiddens@windstream.net
 
Several re-enactors from the 9th Brigade participated in the annual Jeff Davis Park reenactment this year. This is an event that needs as much support as we can give it since it is no longer owned or funded by the state park system.
 
We will be having a 9th Brigade meeting after the next EC meeting which has yet to be announced. I will let you know the time and place, via email list.
If you are a member of the 9th Brigade and wish to be included on our email list, send me your name, camp name and email address.
Please go to www.gascvbrigade9.org and click on camp contacts. Once this is opened check your camps meeting date, time and location to see that they are correct. If they need changing please let me know.
 
Elections for a lot of camps are forthcoming and I need to know the contact information for newly elected officers so that I can keep my records current along with the website contact info.
 
Please inform me if anyone in our brigade is having trouble receiving their Georgia Confederate. Tim Pilgrim is doing an excellent job as the new editor but that does not mean a glitch or two cannot occur in the transfer of 3000 + addresses. Let me know ASAP and we will get it corrected. Remember that the submission deadlines excluding holiday months is on the 20th of each month. The deadline for the next issue will be February 20th.
 
I would like to thank the Calhoun Rifles, Edison for the work they perform in cemetery upkeep. Hopefully they will submit an article soon. This is part of what we are supposed to be about.
 
I wish to encourage our members to participate in the Lee Birthday celebration on January the 23rd. From now on our Lee celebration will be held in war time capitol of Georgia. Milledgeville. You may visit the very room in which the Georgia Articles of Succession were signed. Last year we had a hundred or so participants on a wet, cold day.
The welcome from local and state area politicians and agencies more than made up for the weather conditions. As we passed each intersection in the march, the police saluted smartly as our flags passed in review and the salute was held until the last flag passed.
 
Very few of our brigade members were there and this needs to improve. I promise you will be impressed!
 
I have been asked several times over the past few weeks about area re-enactments. Here are a few:
 
Brooksville Raid, now the largest re-enactment in Florida. January16-17th
Olustee-Feb. 12-14 Lake City Fl.
Manassas in Georgia- sometime in March usually the 2nd weekend. Reidsville Georgia
 
We recently attended the first re-enactment at Suwannee River Park just across the state line on I 75. This event is a keeper and very close to SW Georgia. It will be in November in 2010.
Please get your delegates for state reunion and National reunion together now. You need one delegate per 10 members at state which will be held on the 2nd weekend in June. It is imperitave that we get our brigade delegates there. Location of the will be in Milledgeville.
 
National Reunion only requires 1 person from each camp to vote all the Camps delegate votes. This year it will be in Anderson South Carolina at the Anderson Sports Center. July 23-24. I will try to see that they are voting on officers on Saturday. We do not need any more Thursday shenanigans. I will be providing transportation there, so let’s get one person from each camp to commit.
 
In Closing, I wish each and every member and their families a Merry Christmas
Remember the Reason for this season
 
                              And
                       “BUCKLE UP”
                     
Pete Giddens, Cmd 9th Brigade
pgiddens@windstream.net
 

 

9th "Stonewall" Brigade to host the 2012 Reunion
Decatur Grays SCV Camp #1689 of Bainbridge, sponsoring Camp
 
Plans are underway for the Stonewall Brigade to host the Georgia Division Reunion to be held in Bainbridge Georgia on June 8, 9, 10, 2012.  We will be providing links to tentative agendas, registrations forms, maps, sites of interests in the near future.
 
For further information contact:
 
John Fisher, Commander Camp #1689  fisherirrg@wildblue.net  (229) 246-9739
Terry Lambert, Sgt. at Arms Camp #1689  tohtahrv@hotmail.com   (229) 246-6871
Lt. Commander South Gary Ursrey  rebel_yell65@yahoo.com   (229) 921-7543
 
 
Thank You and God Bless You and your families
Pete Giddens
Commander, 9th Brigade Georgia SCV
115 Wisteria Rd
Irwinville, Ga. 31774

 

 

 

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