Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp #78

10/26/2026

"You of the North have had drawn for you with a master's hand the picture of vour returning armies. You have heard how they came back to you marching with proud and victorious tread, reading their glory in a nation's eyes.
"Will you bear with me while I tell you of another army that sought its home at the close of the late war-an army that marched home in defeat and not in victory, in pathos and not in splendor, but in glory that equalled yours, and to hearts as loving as ever welcomed heroes home? Confederate soldier, as buttoning
"Let me picture to you the footsore up in his faded gray jacket the parole which was to bear testimony to his children of his fidelity and faith, he turned his face southward from Appomattox in April, 1865. Think of him as ragged, half starved, heavy hearted, enfeebled by want and wounds; having fought to exhaustion, he surrenders his gun, wrings the hands of his comrades in silence, and, lifting his tear-stained and pallid face for the last time to the graves that dot the old Virginia hills, pulls his gray cap over his brow and begins the slow and painful journey. What does he find-let me ask you, who went to your homes eager to find in the welcome you had justly earned full payment for four years' sacrifice-- what does he (the Confederate soldier) find when, having followed the battle-stained cross against overwhelming odds, dreading death not half so much as surrender, he reaches the home he left so prosperous and beautiful? "He finds his home in ruins , his stock killed, his slaves free, his barns empty, his trade destroved, his money worthless, his comrades slain, and the burdens of others heavy on his shoulders.
"What does he do-this hero in gray with a heart of gold? Does he sit down in sullenness and despair? Not for a day, Surely God, who has stripped him of his prosperity, inspired him in his adversity. As ruin was never before so overwhelming, never was restoration swifter. The soldier stepped from the trenches into the furrow; horses that charged Federa] guns marched before the plow, and fields that ran with blood in April were green with the harvest in June.'

Quote from the historic speech delivered before the England Society in New York City, 12 December, 1886, by Henry W. Grady of Atlanta Ga.:

10/23/2026

10/23/2026

A 27 year old miscreant has been arrested for severely damaging a monument depicting the iconic image of US Marines raising the American flag at Iwo Jima. No motive has been determined according to officials.
We’ve been saying for years that the scourge of destruction of historic monuments would not be limited to those erected to memorialize Confederates. We say give him to the Marines and let them educate him on what Marines do.

Authorities have arrested a 27-year-old man accused of using a sledgehammer to decapitate a soldier on the Iwo Jima statue and cause extensive damage to other parts of the monument at Marine Corps Base Quantico, police said.

10/22/2026

Virginia Democrat Senator’s chickens have come home to roost.

The subject of an eight count Federal drug trafficking and money laundering indictments, Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas (D) played a highly prominent role—both on the ground and inside the legislature—in dismantling the state tax exempt status of several historic preservation organizations with ties to the Confederate South of 1861-65. Apparently while helping destroy historic landmarks and using her political power to financially harm historic groups, she and her family were allegedly operating illegal drug and money laundering operation. Well my oh my!

Here is a quick outline of her past actions against Southern heritage.

1. Removal of Confederate Monuments
Senator Lucas became a central figure in the physical removal of Confederate symbols during the racial justice protests of June 2020.
* The Portsmouth Protest: On June 10, 2020, Lucas joined a crowd of demonstrators gathered at a 35-foot Confederate obelisk in her hometown of Portsmouth, Virginia. Police video showed her telling officers they could not arrest protestors who were planning to paint the monument. Later that evening, demonstrators toppled parts of the monument, which critically injured a man.
* The Legal Battle: Weeks later, just as Lucas was arriving in Richmond for a special legislative session on police reform, the Portsmouth Police Chief filed felony charges against her for conspiracy to commit a felony and injury to a monument. Her political allies criticized the charges as retaliation for her legislative work on police accountability.
* Exoneration & Settlement: In November 2020, a judge dismissed all chargesagainst Lucas. Lucas subsequently filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit and received a $300,000 settlement from the City of Portsmouth, which she distributed to local non-profits and community initiatives. The city ultimately removed the remaining pieces of the monument.

2. Ending Tax-Exempt Status for the UDC
As the Senate President Pro Tempore and Chair of the powerful Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee, Lucas was a crucial driver in rewriting Virginia's tax code to eliminate state-level subsidies for Confederate historic preservation groups.
* Legislative Leadership: For decades, the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) and other nonprofit civic, patriotic organizations with historic ties to the Confederate South had special property and recordation tax exemptions written into the state code during the 1950s
* Passing the Bill: Lucas used her position as the Senate's chief budget and finance leader to guide House Bill 167 through the Senate chamber. Despite partisan pushback and vetoes from the previous administration in 2024 and 2025, the Democratic-led General Assembly successfully passed the bill.
* Enactment: Democrat Governor Abigail Spanberger signed the bill into law in April 2026. Because of the legislative push backed by Lucas, the UDC lost its special tax carve-outs, subjecting its multi-million dollar Richmond headquarters to standard real estate taxes to ensure a fairer state tax policy.
Of course in classic Democrat style she is now playing the racial victim card in response to the Federal indictments.

The powerful Democratic lawmaker and members of her family are accused of orchestrating a scheme linked to Lucas' stake in a cannabis shop in Portsmouth, Va.

10/16/2026

Join us on Nov 14th for our Annual Capt Henry Wirz Memorial.

10/14/2026

GUARD

Augustus W. Curothers was born about 1817. He married Miss Claracy Evans on March 24, 1842. The couple raised at least nine children.
Augustus enlisted as a Private on May 1st, 1864 in Co C, 4th Georgia Reserves in Atlanta, Ga. The 47 year old farmer, stood 5’8”, had a dark complexion, black hair and hazel eyes. Pvt Curothers served as a guard at Camp Sumter Military Prison in Andersonville, Ga. The Company Muster Roll dated Aug 31 to Dec 31, 1864 shows he “died at home in Madison Co. Ga. Oct 14, 1864.” On her 1891 pension application his widow Clara reported; “while in Confederate service at Andersonville Ga. was taken sick with chronic dysentery, was sent home on sick furlough and died of said disease three days after his arrival at home...on the 14th day of October, 1864.”
Unfortunately no burial site has been located in Madison County for Augustus or Clara.

If you have any information on this soldier or others who served as guards at Andersonville please contact us at [email protected]

10/13/2026

October 12, 1870, Upon Robert E. Lee’s death, the New York Herald wrote an obituary. It reads as follows:

THE ROBERT E. LEE OBITUARY

On a quiet autumn morning, in the land which he loved so well and served so faithfully, the spirit of Robert Edward Lee left the clay which it had so much ennobled and traveled out of this world into the great and mysterious land. Here in the North, forgetting that the time was when the sword of Robert Edward Lee was drawn against us—forgetting and forgiving all the years of bloodshed and agony—we have long since ceased to look upon him as the Confederate leader, but have claimed him as one of ourselves; have cherished and felt proud of his military genius; have recounted and recorded his triumphs as our own; have extolled his virtue as reflecting upon us—for Robert Edward Lee was an American, and the great nation which gave him birth would be today unworthy of such a son if she regarded him lightly.

“Never had mother a nobler son. In him the military genius of America was developed to a greater extent than ever before. In him all that was pure and lofty in mind and purpose found lodgment. Dignified without presumption, affable without familiarity, he united all those charms of manners which made him the idol of his friends and of his soldiers and won for him the respect and admiration of the world. Even as in the days of triumph, glory did not intoxicate, so, when the dark clouds swept over him, adversity did not depress.

Deo Vindice.

10/10/2026

More woke white guilt virtue signaling insanity right here in middle Georgia. Isn’t it time to end this foolishness of censoring history.

https://www.perry-ga.gov/government/city-council/city-officials

The date is set for the movement of the Confederate monument in front of city hall, which is anticipated to take three days. A plan to mitigate heavy commercial trucks in downtown was also discussed during Tuesday night's meeting.

Read more by clicking the link in the comments.

10/01/2026

Remember this first: the Orwellian Mao-Marxists are not just coming for Confederate memorials. They are coming for everything—our history, our Founders, our identity, our culture, our country, our heritage, even our music. If you sit still, America is lost. Push back against this communism or watch them finish the job.

Here on April 26, 2018, Pittsburgh hauled down the bronze of Stephen C Foster—the Pittsburgh-born songwriter called the father of American music—from Schenley Plaza.

Crews strapped the century-old Giuseppe Moretti sculpture to a backhoe, lifted it off its granite base, and rolled it away on a flatbed.

Foster wrote “Oh! Susanna,” “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Camptown Races,” and “Old Folks at Home.” The statue showed him with notebook in hand and a banjo player at his feet, a figure long identified with “Uncle Ned.” The city’s Art Commission labeled it as racist.

The same Orwellian, woke Marxist cancel machine that topples Confederate memorials will not stop there. They are ripping out anything remotely associated with the old America—Southern, European, traditional, or merely greatness. 

This is not only about Dixie. The same leftists scrub Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and George Mason off school buildings, smear the signers of the Declaration, and attack the character of the Founding Fathers. They take a page from Chairman Mao: rename the parks, purge the books, change the signs, empty the pedestals.

Foster was no Confederate, yet his monument went the same way because his songs belonged to a civilization they hate.

Mao-leftists want the nuclear family, the old hymns, the memory of who built the country, and the visible proof of Western achievement replaced with DEI nothingness—ugliness where there was inspirational beauty.

Everywhere this movement lands, it leaves ruin. They can’t make the world better so they ruin it for everyone. They want you to be just as morally void, dark, and depressed as they are.

That is why this fight is not “just Confederate history.” It is American history and Western identity. If they can remove a century old memorial to the father of American music and ship him to storage, they can come for Mt Rushmore, Washington Monument, and the rest.

Take a Stand! Support the Flaggers, SCV, UDC, SAR, and the various other unreconstructed heritage groups that haven’t been infected by the destructive woke virus.

Donate. Show up. Participate. Get involved. The leftists want you gone. Do not give them the courtesy of disappearing quietly. -RJ

09/30/2026