December/January News
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- Gentlemen
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Please include this info in your news
letters.
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- Mail payment to:
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- Pete Giddens
- 115 wisteria Rd
- Ocilla, Ga 31774
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- MERRY CHRISTMAS
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- The AH Stephens camp has a new website,
visit them at
www.ahstephenscamp78.org
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Very few of our brigade members were
there and this needs to improve. I promise you will be impressed!
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- I have been asked several times over
the past few weeks about area re-enactments. Here are a few:
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- In Closing, I wish each and every
member and their families a Merry Christmas
- Remember
the Reason for this season
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- And
- “BUCKLE UP”
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- Pete Giddens, Cmd 9th Brigade
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pgiddens@windstream.net
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