History of Garland-Rodes SCV-UCV Camp
Lynchburg, Virginia
During the month of June 1887, citizens of Lynchburg began to organise an effort to establish a Confederate veterans' camp associated with the United Confederate Veterans (UCV) in the city. Less than a year later on April 28, 1888, the local living veterans of the War Between The States gathered for the first meeting of the Samuel Garland Camp, United Confederate Veterans. The Lynchburg group was designated as Camp No. 8 Virginia Division and Camp No. 1521 of the United Confederate Veterans. On May 7, 1894, the Samuel Garland Camp was renamed the Garland-Rodes Camp, UCV for the two local men who served as generals in the Confederate States Army.
Garland-Rodes UCV Camp remained active for nearly forty years and met in the Jones Memorial Library's Camp room during part of it's existence. 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. Thus the Garland-Rodes SCV Camp was organised about this time. It's main purpose was to preserve Southern history, support the widows and orphans of Confederate veterans, to erect memorials and monuments in their honour and "to instill into our descendants a devotion to and reverence for the principles represented by the Confederate States of America to the honour, glory and memory of our fathers who fought in that cause."
The Garland-Rodes SCV Camp was re-chartered in 1981 after a period of inactivity and currently meets 6 times per year in the same building as the original UCV Camp. It continues in the same tradition of honouring the memory of the Confederate veterans and the cause for which they sacrificed.
Information used in this history was graciously provided by the:
2311 Memorial Avenue
Lynchburg, Virginia 24501
The Hereditary Register of the United States of America, 1974 (Washington: U.S. Hereditary Register, 1974), pp. 200-201.
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