William Clarke Quantrill was a soldier, a leader for a just and honorable cause. He was a hero to the South and a man feared by his enemies. Fellow Ohioian and an enemy of the Confederacy, William Tecumseh Sherman said, "War is Hell".
He ought to know considering the ruthless, destructive nature of his campaign against unprotected Southern families in his infamous "March to the Sea". President Lincoln ordered General Sherman to render the Black Flag on civilians and private property, which he did with zeal, causing millions of dollars in destruction and an untold tally in heart break, death and desolation in the heart of the winter of 1864!
The border war between Kansas and Missouri was wild, savage, ruthless and vindictive - by Federal and Confederate forces alike. This happens in war. The many contributions of William Quantrill and his men made in defense of the citizens of Missouri and the Confederate States of America are numerous. Ohio has many native heroes and Col. William Clarke Quantrill is one.
Following the bitter years of 1861 to 1865, the surviving Confederates came together to form a Confederate veterans organization, which became known as the United Confederate Veterans (UCV).
The UCV held its first convention at New Orleans on June 10, 1889. The first reunion was held at Chattanooga during July 3 to July 5, 1890. To this reunion invitations were extended "to veterans of both armies and citizens of the Republic". It's purpose was to cherish the memories and recall the past, to strengthen character, and to endeavor to unite in a general federation of all associations of the Confederate veterans, now alive and hereafter formed.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) was born from the United Confederate Veterans (UCV). The SCV was organized at Richmond in 1896 at the Convention of the UCV. Initially the SCV were charged with two duties. These were (1) assisting the UCV and its elderly members at their conventions and other activities and (2) ensuring that the true history of the Confederacy and its struggles be accurately documented.
Each member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans is a decendent of a Confederate patriot (soldier, sailor, marine or civilian) of the War for Southern Independence. If you have a Confederate ancestor and are interested in becoming a member, we invite you to go to our "Join Us!" webpage. Let us help you get started.
The SCV continues to exist and grow as a historical, patriotic, and non-political organization dedicated to insuring that a true history of the 1861-1865 period is preserved. The SCV is driven by the Charge given to the Sons by Lt. General Stephen D. Lee, CSA. The Charge is as relevant today as it was 115 years ago.
Charge to the Sons of Confederate Veterans
"To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought. To your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier's good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which he loved and which you love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish."
Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General,
United Confederate Veterans,
New Orleans, Louisiana, April 25, 1906.
We pay tribute, honor, and thank all United States Military Veterans who served and are serving our country today.
God Bless you!
U.S. Military Veterans of
Quantrill's Raiders Camp #2087
Scott Morris, United States Coast Guard (Retired)
Edward F. James, United States Army
Jesse Ward, United States Army
Derek Morris, United States Navy
Henry Stobbs, United States Army (Retired)
Gary Ayres, United States Marines
Michael Martin, United States Army (Retired)
Max Basford, United States Army
Tom Dunne, United States Marines
Honoring native Ohioan
Col. William Clarke Quantrill
Confederate States of America
"But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's men two or three times. All they were trying to do was protect the property on the Missouri side of the line."
"The Confederate flag is not a symbol of racism...the flag does not offend me personally. I grew up in the South - in Texas. That flag doesn't represent anything other than regional pride. It's a time of our history that we just can't erase."
-- Laura Bush, former First Lady of the United States
General Thomas Jackson from the movie 'Gods and Generals':
"Colonel Stuart, if I had my way we would show no quarter to the enemy. No more than the redskin showed your troopers. The black flag,sir. If the North triumphs, it is not alone the destruction of our property, it is the prelude to anarchy, infidelity and the ultimate loss of free and responsible government on this continent. It is the triumph of commerce, banks and the factory. We should meet the Federal invaders on the outer verge of just and right defence, and raise at once the black flag. No quarter to the violaters of our homes and firesides. Our political leadership in Richmond is too timid to face the reality of the coming war. They should look to the Bible. It is full of such wars. Only the black flag will bring the North quickly to their senses and rapidly end the war.' Give them the bayonet, indeed."
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"The West is the hope of the world and America is the hope of the West, and the South is the hope of America."
-- Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
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"If the Union was formed by the accession of States, then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States."
--- Daniel Webster, U. S. Senate, February 15, 1833
"The Constitution is not an instrument for government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government, lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
-- Patrick Henry, American Patriot, Virginia House of Burgesses, Continental Congress,
Governor of Virginia, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
"The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states."
"Any reasonable creature may know, if willing, that the North hates the negro, and that until it was convenient to make the pretence that sympathy with him was the cause of the war, it hated the abolitionists and derided them up hill and down dale...As to Secession and being Rebellion, it is distinctly possible by state papers that Washington considered it no such thing - that Massachusetts, now loudest against it, has itself asserted its right to secede, again and again."
-- Sir Charles Dickens, British author and journalist
"There are at the present moment, many colored men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants, and laborers, but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government and build up that of the traitors and rebels."
-- Frederick Douglas, (1818 - 1895) former slave, abolitionist, writer
"The world has never seen better soldiers than those who followed Lee; and their leader will undoubtedly rank as without exception, the very greatest of all the great captains that the English-speaking peoples have brought forth."
--- Theodore Roosevelt, U. S. President
"The sole object of this war is to restore the union. Should I become convinced it has any other object, or that the Government designs using its soldiers to execute the wishes of the Abolitionist, I pledge you my honor as a man and a soldier I would resign my commission and carry my sword to the other side."
-- General Ulysses S. Grant
"There is a class of people [in the South], men, women and children who must be killed or banished before you can hope for peace and order."
"Until we can repopulate Georgia, it is useless to occupy it, but the utter destruction of it's roads, houses, and people will cripple their military resources...I can make the march, and make Georgia howl!"
--- Union General William T. Sherman
London Times (Nov. 7, 1861)
"The contest is really for empire on the side of the North and for independence on that of the South."
"The war between the North and South is a tariff war. The war is further, not for any principle, does not touch the question of slavery, and in fact turns on the Northern lust for sovereignty.
--- Karl Marx, 1861
"I figure a man is only good for one oath at a time, I took mine to the Confederate States of America."
~ John Wayne as Ethan Edwards in The Searchers
"The Framers had a deathly fear of federal government abuse. They saw state sovereignty as a protection. That's why they gave us the 9th and 10th Amendments. They saw secession as the ultimate protection against Washington tyranny."
--- Walter E. Williams, American scholar
Our Republic Died at Appomattox
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A Few More Not-So-Well-Known (But should be) Quotes....
"I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats." ~ Howard Dean, U.S. Bureaucrat
"The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes." ~ Alan Keyes, U.S. Presidential candidate, black American
"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at [his] pleasure."
~ Abraham Lincoln, an apostate.
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
~ Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president and commander in chief who inaugurated war on a sovereign people, which resulted in more than 600,000 deaths.
"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties." ~ Abraham Lincoln, who illegally inprisoned some 10,000 U.S. citizens, including attorneys, newspaper owners, politicians and judges after suspending Writ of Habeaus Corpus (one of our basic human rights guarenteed under the Constitution) to maintain absolute power and wage political war despite being told by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney that his doing so was unconstitutional! These are facts. Consider this, if the actions of the South were illegal, as some today claim, or were acts of treason, why then, were none tried for treason? Simply because it was not treason according to the U.S. Constituion and U.S. law.
"The education of a man is never completed until he dies." ~ Robert E. Lee, American Patriot
Governor of Ohio recognizes CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY with an official proclamation. CLICK HERE TO SEE IT!
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