Sons of Confederate Veterans Magruder-Ewell Camp #99

04/11/2024

The April Meeting of the Camp was held tonight. The meeting began with the pledges to the flags and then we had a potluck dinner. Camp officers gave their reports. Our next meeting will be on the second Thursday of May.

03/11/2022

The Magruder-Ewell Camp has a new meeting location. It’s a nice facility in Newport News. We continue to meet on the second Thursday of the month at 6:00 pm. Contact us directly for the specific location.

03/28/2021

Happy Birthday Lt. General Wade Hampton, born on this day March 28, 1818 in Charleston, SC.

03/27/2021

The Magruder-Ewell Camp would like to wish a memorable and enjoyable passover to all its members of Jewish heritage, and all the members of Jewish heritage in the entire SCV and UDC, because celebrating and honoring heritage is what we're all about in the Sons of Confederate Veterans!

03/19/2021

March 15, 2021
Please note below important information provided by our Heritage Defense Coordinator, B. Frank Earnest:

March Heritage Defense Report

A LIE ON TOP OF A LIE AND WRAPPED IN A LIE

General Patrick Cleburne said in 1864 that if we lose this war they will say that it was about nothing but slavery for the next one hundred years. He was wrong only in that it has been more than 150 years and they are still perpetuating that same lie.

Even the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln did not foretell the end of slavery. Lincoln himself, said that he had neither the power nor the desire to interfere in the issue of slavery in anyway.

For Lincoln and the North the only cause was preserving the Union. Not until two years into the war did Lincoln raise the issue of freeing the slaves. Even then, it was only a political maneuver to keep England and France from joining in on the side of the Confederacy.

The lie continues until this very day and still for political reasons. All this crying out about racism and slavery today has more to do with gaining votes than promoting equality among the races.

Sad to say, but indifference has brought us to the brink of disaster. We had better wake up before there is no turning back. We must turn out in mass to out-vote the carpetbaggers and scallywags. Our apathy has caused the results of each occurring election to become worse.

Even in all this, there is some good news. All across the Commonwealth, Confederate Monuments are being moved and saved. I can not say enough praise to the camps and the compatriots who have worked hard to make these miracles work. Every camp in Virginia should be working in this direction. Even if your city or county is not considering moving the Confederate monument, they soon will. These monuments must be moved off public property. They even complained about monuments that are located at non-functioning historical courthouses. If we moved them to just outside the public library they would claim that they were too intimidated to check out a book. That is if there are still any books left after the book burnings.

As I have said before, every compatriot of the Virginia Division SCV is a member of the Heritage Defense committee. If we all step up and pitch in, our Heritage may yet be saved. Let us stand together and "Hold the Line."

Defense Coordinator, B. Frank Earnest
Virginia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans

ABOUT THE VIRGINIA DIVISION
The Virginia Division is defending your American History and Heritage throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. Fighting the narrow minded that are attacking our heritage is a costly endeavor. We need your financial support in countering their hate groups.

Please send donations to:
Heritage defense Fund
P. O. Box 605
Orange, Virginia 22960.

03/18/2021

Just saying...

"Progressives" are proud of their cancel culture accomplishments.

Now is the time to organize and counter their tactics of removing monuments from public eye.

Start a local memorial association and organize to preserve and protect orginal memorials and raise new memorials to veterans.

03/18/2021

We hope everyone is having a happy and safe Saint Patrick's Day! Let us not forget the Valor of the Irish Confederates! 🍀

03/17/2021

Happy Birthday to our own fighting Irishman, Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, born on this day March 17, 1828 in Cork County, Ireland. 🍀

03/17/2021

The Magruder-Ewell Camp would like to wish everyone a happy and safe Saint Patrick's Day! On this day we should remember all the brave Irish men and women who sacrificed and gave all they had to fight against tyranny and to form a new nation.

03/14/2021

It is with a heavy and angered heart that we must report that hateful, misguided and radical communist liberals have vandalized and caused the destruction of plots and gravestones in Hollywood cemetery in Richmond. At this moment it's hard to tell which ones were destroyed. We knew it was only a matter of time before these liberal communist heathens turned their wicked gaze to our honored dead to seek them out to destroy what they could in their continued evil and vile crusade of hateful, ignorant, wanton destruction. But Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord.

03/11/2021

The Confederate capital at Richmond was home to the Montgomery Guard (Co C, 1st Regiment of Virginia Volunteers), organized from the city's Irish immigrant population in 1850. In July 1859, the Montgomery Guard set aside its traditional green dress and adopted the 1st Virginia's new regimental uniform: black dress caps, gray frock coats with black trim, gray pants, white belts and Captain George Horner, 1st Virginia Infantry Battalion ("Irish Battalion"), wears a gray overcoat and a forage cap gray overcoats. The fatigue uniform included gray kepis with black bands and gray nine-button jackets with black trim. The Montgomeries retained the green uniform for special occasions, and wore it when they paraded on St Patrick's Day, 1861. They also displayed their flag, the "stars and stripes, the first in a ground work of green surrounding the harp of Erin." The Montgomery Guard's former Captain Patrick T. Moore, a native of County Galway, commanded the 1st Virginia at First Bull Run, where the company was conspicuous in helping blunt a Federal advance at Blackburn's Ford on July 18, 1861. At this time, the 1st Virginia probably wore a mixture of the regiment's gray frock coats and fatigue jackets, the Montgomeries in black 1858 dress hats ("Jeff Davis" hats). This clothing was soon in need of replacement, and in October the regiment received the familiar gray shell jackets that became so common among Confederate troops.

Like the Emerald Guards (Co. E. 33rd Virginia Infantry), the 1st Virginia Infantry Battalion (Irish Battalion) was another command that had disciplinary problems. Four of the battalion's five companies were Irish, formed in Richmond, Norfolk, Alexandria, Covington and Lynchburg. After Major David B. Bridgford took over of the unit, the discipline improved, and the Irish Battalion discovered its forte - as the Army of Northern Virginia's provost guard, rounding up stragglers and guarding prisoners. The battalion did such a commendable job in its new assignment that it redeemed itself and earned a new reputation - as the "Irish cops" of the Confederacy.

03/11/2021

On March 11,1861, the Confederate Congress adopted the Constitution of the Confederate States of America.

The Preamble: "We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America."