MEMBERSHIP HANDBOOK

FOR

GARLAND & RODES

CAMP #409

SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS

VIRGINIA DIVISION

THIRD BRIGADE

2006 EDITION

APRIL 1903 – DECEMBER 2006

MEMBERSHIP HANDBOOK

FOR

GARLAND & RODES

CAMP #409

SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS

VIRGINIA DIVISION

THIRD BRIGADE

DEO VINDICE

2006 EDITION

APRIL 1903 – DECEMBER 2006

(2003 Edition Revised December 6^th, 2006)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Inside cover--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 1

Table of Contents--------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 2

S.D. Lee’s Address to the “Sons” on July 1, 1986------------------------------------- Page 3

Pledge to the South-------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 3

History of the Camp------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 4

UCV Camp Officers------------------------------------------------------------------ Page 5

What is the SCV?--------------------------------------------------------------------- Pages 6-7

Brig. General Samuel Garland, Jr------------------------------------------------------ Pages 8-9

Major Gen. Robert E. Rodes---------------------------------------------------------- Pages 10-11

Map of Third Brigade----------------------------------------------------------------- Page 12

Camp Officers------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 13

Virginia Division Brigades-------------------------------------------------------------- Page 14

Membership Requirements for Camp-------------------------------------------------- Pages 15-16

Organization of the SCV--------------------------------------------------------------- Page 17

Procedural Guide – Death of a Camp Member---------------------------------------- Page 18

Resolution for deceased member------------------------------------------------------ Page 19

“The Last Roll” Death Notification----------------------------------------------------- Page 20

Flag display, Pledge and Salutes------------------------------------------------------- Page 21

Initiation Ritual For New Members---------------------------------------------------- Page 22

War Service Medal Presentation------------------------------------------------------- Page 23

Application for Transfer of Membership----------------------------------------------- Page 24

Sample Letterhead-------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 25

Confederate Veteran Grave Registration----------------------------------------------- Page 26

Confederate Monument Registration--------------------------------------------------- Page 27

Proposed Camp Constitution---------------------------------------------------------- Appendix

Address to the Sons of Confederate Veterans

"To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we submit the vindication of the Cause for which we fought; to your strength will be given the defence of the Confederate soldier's good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles 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."

- Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General

United Confederate Veterans, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1906

Pledge to the South
From a speech delivered on the floor of the US House of Representatives
by Tennessee Congressman Edward Ward Carmack

The South is a land that has known sorrows; it is a land that has broken the ashen crust and moistened it with tears; a land scarred and riven by the plowshare of war and billowed with the graves of her dead; but a land of legend, a land of song, a land of hallowed and heroic memories.
To that land every drop of my blood, every fibre of my being, every pulsation of my heart, is consecrated forever. I was born of her womb; I was nurtured at her breast; and when my last hour shall come, I pray God that I may be pillowed upon her bosom and rocked to sleep within her tender and encircling arms.

"The Confederate soldiers were our kinfolk and our heroes. We testify to the country our enduring fidelity to their memory. We commemorate their valor and devotion. There were some things that were not surrendered at Appomattox. We did not surrender our rights in history, nor was it one of the 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 the Confederate dead. We have a right to teach our children the true history of that war, the causes that led up to it, and the principles involved."

Senator Edward W. Carmack (TN), 1903

History of the Garland-Rodes Camp #409

Sons of Confederate Veterans

Lynchburg, Virginia

United Confederate Veterans

In June of 1887 work was initiated to establish a Confederate Veterans Camp in Lynchburg, Virginia. After several meetings and months of planning and organizing, on April 28, 1888 the “Samuel Garland” Confederate Veterans Camp was formed. The first Camp Commander was Kirkwood Otey. Six years later on May 7^th, 1894 the Camp was reorganized and renamed the “Garland & Rodes” Camp of the United Confederate Veterans.

The Camp remained active for four decades before the war with time depleted their ranks. In those forty years these veterans worked assisting other veterans with obtaining their pensions, helping widows of veterans and some wrote books and articles of factual accounts of the war. Mr. Adam Plecker, local photographer and member of the Boutetourt Artillery, wrote an account on the actions leading up to the Battle of Lynchburg in the Confederate Veteran magazine entitled “Who Saved Lynchburg”. Another was Charles M. Blackford who gave us “Campaign and Battle of Lynchburg”. These veterans met in different places over the years, including the Lynchburg Courthouse, the Lynchburg Armory and finally they were allowed to meet in what became known as “the camp room” at Jones Memorial Library. The members of the Camp were closely associated with the ladies of the Kirkwood Otey chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Lynchburg. These two organizations worked as a very close unit in seeing to the welfare of the veterans and their families for many years.

The larger portion of the history of the Garland & Rodes Camp was maintained in the “Meeting Minute Books” dated from 1904 to 1928. These ledger type books are in the care of the Jones Memorial Library and provide records of the monthly meeting, rosters, some photographs and listings of dates of deaths of the camp members.

As the number of living veterans began to dwindle and the size of the UCV Camp shrank, the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) was formed in 1896 to carry on the UCV tradition. The Garland-Rodes SCV Camp was organized several years later and received its charter on April 13^th 1903. It's main purpose was to preserve Southern history, support the widows and orphans of Confederate veterans, to erect memorials and monuments in their honor and "to instill into our descendants a devotion to and reverence for the principles represented by the Confederate States of America to the honor, glory and memory of our fathers who fought in that cause."

At the Veterans Camp meeting of April 23^rd 1903, a report was made to the members that the Sons of Confederate Veterans camp had been established. This camp recorded that it was honored that the sons had chosen the same name and approved this new camp.

The Garland-Rodes SCV Camp records have been lost over the years, but some of the camp’s history can be gleaned from the Lynchburg Newspaper. It was still meeting between 1959 and 1962 during the nation’s preparation for the War Between the States centennial commemoration and this can be seen in a newspaper photograph we have on display. The camp stopped meeting for a time, but has been active continuously since it was re-chartered in 1981. We still meet monthly as did the original UCV Camp and continue in the same tradition of honouring the memory of the Confederate veterans and the cause for which they sacrificed.

Sam’l Garland UCV Camp & Garland-Rodes UCV Camp Officers

1887-1894 1918

Commander Col. Kirkwood Otey Commander J. W. Wray

Adjutant James I. Lee Adjutant C. K. Nelson

1894-1897 1919

Commander Col. Kirkwood Otey Commander John D. Tanner

(Died 5/31/1897) Adjutant John T. Campbell

Brig. Gen. John Holmes Smith

(Assumed Command) 1920

Adjutant Tipton D. Jennings Commander C. K. Nelson

Adjutant John T. Campbell

1897-1898 1921-1923

Commander Brig. Gen. John Holmes Smith Commander John T. Campbell

Adjutant Tipton D. Jennings Adjutant T. C. Miller

1899 1924-1925

Commander Gen. Thomas T. Munford Commander John T. Campbell

Adjutant Tipton D. Jennings Adjutant R.G. Wood

1900-1905 1926-1927

Commander C. B. Fleet Commander R.G. Wood

Adjutant Tipton D. Jennings Adjutant John T. Campbell

1905-1907 1928 (Last record of UCV Camp)

Commander Tipton D. Jennings Commander R.G. Wood

Adjutant M. Marion Seay Adjutant W. H. Dulaney

1908-1909

Commander John H. Kinnier

Adjutant W. Marion Seay

1910

Commander Charles H. Almond (Died 2/12/1910)

Richard B. Goode (Assumed Command)

Adjutant W. Marion Seay

1911

Commander James I. Lee

Adjutant T. C. Miller

1912

Commander James L. Thompson

Adjutant T. C. Miller

1913-1914

Commander Major Stephen P. Halsey

Adjutant T. C. Miller

1915

Commander William L. Gregory

Adjutant T. C. Miller

1916-1917

Commander T. C. Miller

Adjutant C. K. Nelson

WHAT IS THE SCV?

The Sons of Confederate Veterans, more widely known as the SCV, is a voluntary association of male descendants of those who served the Confederate States of America in the Army, Navy, or in Civil Government capacity during the War for Southern Independence.

The S.C.V. is not affiliated with, nor in any way linked to, any other organization. It is not political, nor is it sectional. It strives to give the world, and especially to its own fellow Southerners, an understanding and appreciation of the Southern people and their brave history; of the awesome sacrifice their ancestors made in defence of their conscientious convictions; of the high regard in which those ancestors held the rights as opposed to an over-riding Central Government; and of the continuing need to stand up for the immutable values of honor, justice and Christian virtue.

History of the Sons of Confederate Veterans

Within months following the cessation of hostilities between the North & South in 1865, groups of male descendants of those who had served in the Confederate Army and Navy were formed throughout the South. The main objective of the “Sons” was the welfare and comfort of the men who had “worn the gray.”

After a time, these young men realized that their efforts would be more effective if all of them joined together in some kind of federation. In this way, they could render whatever assistance might be needed to support the United Confederate Veterans, which had been organized in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 19, 1889.

The federation was to be realized on July 1, 1896, during the annual meeting of the United Confederate Veterans in Richmond, Virginia. It was on this day that twenty-four “Camps”, as they were called, from five Southern States, approved the formation of the “United Sons of Confederate Veterans.” J.E.B. Stuart, Jr. was elected the first USCV Commander.

The United Sons of Confederate Veterans declared their objectives to be several in number. Because they had initially formed camps to assist the veterans, it was only natural that they were committed “to comfort, succour, and assist needy Confederate veterans, their wives, widows and orphans.” Their annual meetings would be at the same site and dates of that of the United Confederate Veterans.

However, these farsighted young men who realized that the day would come when there would be no more veterans, widows, or orphans left to assist. But, there would always be a need to see”…that the events of the War Between the States are authentically and clearly written…” remembered and defended.

In 1912 the name of the organization was shortened to “Sons of Confederate Veterans”.

Today the Sons of Confederate Veterans is growing, not only in the South, but throughout the nation. It is a voluntary organization of both direct and collateral descendants of those who served honourably in the Confederate Army, Navy or Civil Government of the Confederate States of America. It is a patriotic, historical, educational, benevolent, non-political and sectarian organization that is not affiliated with any other organization.

The Garland & Rodes Camp #409 continues to uphold the traditions of our parent organization. Our goals remain those found in the commission to us by Lt. Gen. Stephen Dill Lee:

A Brief History of Garland & Rodes Camp’s Namesakes

Sons of Confederate Veterans

Lynchburg, Virginia

Brigadier-General Samuel Garland, Jr. was born at Lynchburg, Va., December 30, 1830, of an old Virginia family, his great-grandmother having been a sister of President Madison. His father, Samuel Garland, Sr. was a well-known junior partner in the law firm S & M.H. Garland, a leading law firm for many years in Virginia. Samuel Garland, Sr. died when his son was five years old. By this time, young Sam was able to read and write it was said that he wrote his first letter in the same year. With this background he entered a classical school in Nelson County at the age of seven years. At age 14 he attended Randolph-Macon College, at Ashland. He remained there for one year before entering Virginia Military Institute.

Later he was graduated at the Virginia Military Institute ranked third in his class, where he was the founder and president of the first literary society of that institution. In 1851 he was graduated in law at the university of Virginia, and he at once entered upon the practice of the profession at Lynchburg. His career during the period before the war was one of worthy prominence, and he became widely esteemed as a skillful lawyer, a successful member of the Lynchburg Bar and polished gentleman. In 1856 he married Elizabeth Campbell Meem, the youngest daughter of John G. Meem, a prominent citizen of Lynchburg.

In 1859, after the affair at Harper's Ferry, he organized the Lynchburg Home Guard, of which he was the first captain. He was not by inclination a military man, entering the service both in 1859 and 1861 as a matter of duty; but when enlisted in the fight, no labor was too fatiguing and no peril too hazardous for his devoted and intrepid spirit. On April 23, 1861, he left home with his well-drilled and disciplined company, and proceeded to Richmond, where his men were mustered into the service of Virginia, as Company G of the Eleventh Virginia infantry, on the following day.

Of this regiment, composed of four Lynchburg companies and commands from other Virginia towns, he was placed in command as colonel, a few days later. He took his regiment to camp at Manassas, where it joined the brigade of General Longstreet. In the fight at Blackburn's ford the regiment was distinguished, and Colonel Garland was mentioned by General Longstreet, with others, as having "displayed more coolness and energy than is usual amongst veterans of the old service." In the famous battle of the 21st, the regiment was intended to take an active part, but the Federal flank movement caused the fight to open in another quarter. After the engagement Colonel Garland was detailed to collect the spoil of battle on the field.

In the fight at Dranesville, in December, he was reported as behaving with great coolness. In the absence of orders he held his line until the rest of the Confederate force was entirely withdrawn from the field. In February 1862, he was commended by General Johnston as fully competent to command a brigade. In March he moved with his regiment to the Peninsula, where the brigade came under the command of A. P. Hill. In the battle of Williamsburg, the most severe loss was sustained by the Eleventh regiment, and Hill reported that "Colonel Garland, though wounded early in the action, refused to leave the field, and continued to lead his regiment until the battle was over, and his example had a most happy effect in showing his men how to win the battle."

Immediately after this Garland was promoted brigadier-general, and was assigned to the command of a brigade of D. H. Hill's division, which after Seven Pines was composed of the Fifth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-third North Carolina regiments. He was distinguished for gallant conduct in the heat of the fight at Seven Pines; at Gaines' Mill, asked permission and made a flank attack at an opportune juncture, which decided the fate of the day, his men cheering and charging and driving the enemy; and he was in the attacking columns at Malvern Hill.

During the Second Manassas campaign he was with Hill's division, holding McDowell in check at Fredericksburg, after which he joined the army in the Maryland campaign. At Fox's gap, on South mountain, his North Carolinians, scarce 1,000 in all, sustained the first attack of Cox's corps of McClellan's army on September 14th. They held their ground with wonderful heroism in the face of a furious attack. With them, where the fight was hottest, stood General Garland, notwithstanding the remonstrance’s of Colonel Ruffin. It was to him the post of duty.

On one side lay McClellan with 30,000 men; on the other was the short road to Harper's Ferry, beleaguered by Jackson. The enemy must be held back a day, or the Federals, under an active commander, could overwhelm the divided Confederates. In this position, early in the fight, he received a mortal wound, from which he died on the field. "Had he lived," wrote Gen. D. H. Hill, "his talents, pluck, energy and purity of character must have put him in the front rank of his profession, whether in civil or military life."

General Garland was buried in his home city of Lynchburg in the Presbyterian Cemetery after a funeral service was held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

Major-General Robert Emmet Rodes was born at Lynchburg, Va., on the 29th of March, 1829. His father was Gen. David Rodes of Albemarle County who became a prominent citizen of Lynchburg, and his mother was the daughter of William Tudor Yancey. Robert Rodes spent his boyhood in his native city, where he attended private schooling. On July 4, 1848, he was graduated at the age of 19 at the Virginia military institute, at Lexington, well named the West Point of the South, the alma mater of so many distinguished men. Rodes served as an assistant professor at VMI until 1851. At this time, he acted as assistant engineer of the Southside railroad until 1854, then going to Marshall, Tenn., and engaging in railroad construction. His next employment, as assistant, and later, chief engineer of the Alabama & Chattanooga railroad, brought him to Tuscaloosa, where he made his home, becoming a citizen of Alabama. He was then recalled to his Alma Mater as a professor of applied mechanics, taking over part of the classwork previously performed by Thomas J. Jackson.

Rodes had not left Alabama to assume his duties at the very opening of the great war and he led a company named the “Warrior Guard” to Fort Morgan, which became a part of the Fifth Alabama infantry. This regiment was organized and he was elected its colonel on May 5, 1861. The regiment was ordered to Virginia and was present at the battle of First Manassas, in a brigade commanded by R. S. Ewell of Van Dorn’s Division, but was not actively engaged. On the 21st of October 1861, Rodes was promoted to brigadier-general, and assigned to command the First Alabama brigade in the Virginia army, composed of the Fifth, Sixth, Twelfth and Sixty-first Alabama and Twelfth Mississippi regiments. In the following spring the Twelfth Mississippi was detached from the brigade, and the Third and Twenty-sixth Alabama were added to it. The brigade was attached to D. H. Hill's division and Stonewall Jackson's corps of the army of Northern Virginia. An artillery battery under Rodes was commanded by Capt. Thomas C. Carter, a fellow classmate of General Rodes at VMI.

General Rodes participated in the battles of Williamsburg and Seven Pines, in the last of which he was disabled by a severe wound in the arm. During this battle, Rodes’ Brigade assaulted a redoubt defended by a battery of nine Napoleon cannon. His brigade captured the works, cannon and General Casey’s headquarters. He was able to rejoin his command, over a month later, in time for Mechanicsville (Cold Harbor) at which he led his brigade and again repeated their previous performance with the capture of the Union works. This effort was costly for Rodes, as the exertion forced open the wound he received at Seven Pines. He was forced back to recover at a hospital for two months, before returning for the battles of Boonsboro and Sharpsburg. His brigade was engaged at the battle of Fox’s Gap (Boonsboro), at which General Garland was killed. On 17 September 1862 at the Battle of Sharpsburg, Rodes received another, less serious wound.

At Chancellorsville he commanded the leading division of Jackson's corps which, urged on by his shout of "Forward, men, over friend or foe!" swept everything before it, piercing the lines of Howard's routed corps, breaking up every effort of the enemy to stem the tide, desisting only with the close of day. That evening Jackson and A. P. Hill were both wounded, and the command of the corps devolved upon him. He prepared to renew the movement at dawn, but General Stuart coming upon the field, Rodes yielded to him the command, and during the next day commanded his division. For his conduct in this battle, Rodes was promoted to major-general, to date from May 2d. Henceforth he led D. H. Hill's old division, consisting of the brigades of Doles, Daniel and Ramseur.

At Gettysburg General Lee witnessed his great charge, on July 1st, and sent an officer to express his thanks. In the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania and the second Cold Harbor, General Rodes so handled his troops as to increase his reputation for skill as a leader, and so conducted himself as to add fresh laurels to his fame as a soldier of undaunted courage. Rodes was with Early on the march into Maryland and, bringing up the rear on the return to Virginia, inflicted on the Federals bloody repulses at Castleman's Ferry and Kernstown. General Jubal Early said that on the 19^th of September 1864 at Winchester, Rodes arrived on the field at a most critical moment, and that his men saved the Army of the Valley on the field that day. Just after inflicting a severe repulse upon the foe, "in the very moment of triumph and while conducting the attack with great gallantry and skill," as General Early said, he was struck behind the ear by a fragment of shell and died within a few hours. In Early's book, "Memoirs of the Last-Year of the War," that general wrote that General Rodes "was a most accomplished, skillful and gallant officer, upon whom I placed great reliance."

Major General Robert Emmett Rodes returned to Lynchburg after his death and was buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery. He has eternal rest approximately fifty feet from the grave of Brigadier General Samuel Garland Jr.

The information provided in the “Camp Handbook” is a brief biographical sketch of these Lynchburg natives and heroes of the War Between the States. Please take the time to learn more about “Garland & Rodes” and, by all means, go visit them at Presbyterian Cemetery and pay your respects.

Camp Officers

Commander

Timothy B. Roach

1564 Pine Bluff Drive

Lynchburg, Virginia 24503

(434)385-8455

garlandrodes@hotmail.com

Adjutant

Malcolm Perrow

2078 Old Rustburg Road

Lynchburg, VA 24501

(434) 847-8117

scvcamp409@aol.com

1st Lt. Commander David Smith

2nd Lt. Commander David Ponton

Adjutant Malcolm Perrow

Treasurer Ed McIvor

Chaplain Billy Coleman

Historian Bill Hildebrandt

Judge Advocate James Keen

Heritage Officer TBA

Quartermaster TBA

Surgeon TBA

Sergeant at Arms Brian Hillsman