Compatriots,

I am declaring Saturday, March 7, 2020, as National Confederate Flag Day. This is your opportunity to SHOW OUR COLORS!!! I encourage EVERY Division to plan whatever activity works best for your area. We will not be managing a website this year like what has been done in the past.....but that is no excuse for you to not do anything. This event, in my humble opinion, is a no-brainer.

I am depending on each Division, as they have in the past four years, to make this special day a huge success. Also, please take pictures of your event and share with the rest of the Confederation.

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Compatriots,

This is to advise of the passing of the last known "Real Son" of a Confederate veteran.

Compatriot Calvin Robertson Crane
Real Son of James Antony Crane
Ringgold Battery, Company B, Virginia Light Artillery

Calvin R. Crane died Sunday, September 15, 2019, at the age of 102. He was the son of James Antony Crane and was living at the Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Salem, Virginia. Calvin's father fought in the War Between the States. He was only a year old when his father died. Because he really never got to know his dad, Calvin Crane said most of his memory of his dad was just what he had been told by other family members. He recalled they mostly talked about how he loved to hunt. Calvin was very pleased that he inherited his daddy's shotgun.

Calvin was the youngest of the five children of James and Annie Crane, who married around the turn of the 20th century when James was in his 50s and Annie was about 18. James was a widower who served during the war with the Ringgold Battery, Company B, 13th Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery. He had 16 children by his first marriage. Annie was an orphan who was taken in by a farm family outside Danville. She and James eloped across the North Carolina line to marry.

The Crane family lived on a farm near White Oak Mountain outside Danville, but after James Crane's death, the family had to move into the city in order for Calvin's mother to take a job working at the Dan River Mills. She would leave for work before dawn, leaving her youngest son in the care of his oldest sister, and often return home after dark when she would tend her garden to put food on the table. Despite her hard work, times were difficult for the family before and during the Great Depression.

Crane served in World War II, spending part of his time in North Africa. Back home, he scrambled to find work, moving to Roanoke to take a job with an uncle in the dry-cleaning business. He eventually worked in roofing, the sheet metal business, and at a foundry before landing the job from which he would retire in the maintenance department of the Roanoke post office. He was a member of the Fincastle Rifles Camp #1326, SCV.

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Compatriots,

As most of you have seen, there has been an increase of SCV activity on social media such as Make Dixie Great Again and the current video series, The Face of the SCV Today. With the rise in our presence on the internet, it brings with it the negative actions of our adversaries.

In order to counter these negative attacks, we ask all managers of Sons of Confederate Veterans Facebook pages/groups, Twitter accounts, Instagram and all other social media platforms to immediately ban the user. No discussions, no messaging, no debating, just hit them with the ban hammer. Also all SCV sites should check their Profanity Filter and check set to "strong" if not already.

Social media is not an arena for debate. There is no winning arguments on social media. When you take to arguing or debating, you "feed the trolls." These adversaries thrive on conflict and confrontation. Do not allow them to take you down that path. There are no winners on social media platforms.

For those members who like/subscribe to various Sons of Confederate Veterans social media platforms, report negative activity to the administrators & moderators of pages. With so much interaction over the internet, it is difficult for those running the page to catch every infraction.

As we push forward to take back the narrative, we need to reorganize into social media teams. Some of these internet platforms are only managed by one person. Every division, brigade & camp that has a page, should put together a group of people that can watch & monitor activity. Only by working as a team can we effectively fight our adversaries on the digital front-lines.

A soldier in the Cause,

Brian McClure
National SCV Deputy
of Communication & Networking

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General Order 2019 - 1

Whereas, with the current vicious and despicable attacks being
waged against the law enforcement officers around the country
today, and

Whereas, law enforcement officers are the domestic protectors of
our citizens, our society and our way of life, and

Whereas, responsible citizens have a moral duty to support the
institutions and citizens who place their lives in peril every
day so that our society can enjoy the rights, privileges and
freedoms of citizens of a great republic which our forefathers
and God provided us,

Now therefore, the following proclamations is hereby published to
the Confederation:

Thursday, August the 15th of 2019 shall be proclaimed as National Law
Enforcement Appreciation Day by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Camps, Brigades and Divisions are hereby highly encouraged to
show their support to their local law enforcement officials on
this day by any and all means appropriate on this day.  We offer
our most sincere thanks and appreciation to those who place their
lives in the Almighty's favor on a daily basis protecting and
serving the public.

By order of the Commander - in - Chief,

Paul C. Gramling, Jr.

Greetings Compatriots!

SCV Awards Committee Chairman Randy Burbage released the following list of award winners from the Awards Luncheon and Banquet held at last week's Annual Reunion in Mobile, Alabama. Congratulations to all award recipients!

Adam Southern
Executive Director

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2019 SCV National Competitive Award Winners

Scrapbook Awards

Dr. B.H. Webster Award- Best Scrapbook for camps < 50 members.
Lt. Alexander Cameron Camp #2226 Greenville, Texas.
James M. Pearce, Commander.

Judah P. Benjamin Award - Best Scrapbook for camps > 50 members.
R.E. Lee Camp #239 Fort Worth, Texas. Kirk Barnett, Commander.

Historical Project Award

Dr. James B. Butler Award - Best historical project by camp or individual.
Two first place winners this year:
1) Ft. Blakeley Camp #1864 Baldwin County, Alabama. Tommy Rhodes, Commander. For relocation / re-dedication of monument removed from West Palm Beach, Florida cemetery.
2) Secession Camp #4 Charleston, SC. Charles Long, Lt. Commander / Project Director. For Landscaping / Irrigation Project at Soldiers Ground in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, SC.

Website Award

General Samuel Cooper Award - Best Camp, Division or Army website.
Col. Bradford & Rose Camp #1638 Morristown / Mossy Creek, Tenn. Joshua Cameron, Webmaster

Newsletter Awards

Dr. Paul John Miller Award - Best newsletter camps < 50 members.
Confederate Secret Service Camp # 1710, Sierra Vista, Arizona for their newsletter, The Vedette. Curtis Tipton, Editor.
S.A. Cunningham Award - Best newsletter camps > 50 members.
Lt. Richard Taylor Camp # 1308, Shreveport, LA. Bobby Herring, Editor.

Dewitt Smith Jobe Award - Best Division Newsletter.
North Carolina Division for their newsletter, The Carolina Confederate. Byron Brady, Editor.

Stand Watie Award - For the largest donation to the Stand Watie Scholarship Fund. Illinois Division, Bradley A. Taylor, Commander.

Recruiting Awards

Edward L. Darling Award - To the individual SCV member recruiting the most members during the year.
J.C. Hanna, Gen. Richard Taylor Camp # 1308, Shreveport, LA. 75 new members.

Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest Award - Presented to the camp with the greatest net gain in members. There was a three way tie with each camp recruiting 26 new members.
1) Kirby Smith Camp #1209, Jacksonville, FL. Calvin Hart, Commander
2) DeKalb Rifles Camp #1824, Selma, AL. Gary Carlyle, Commander
3) Col. William P. Rogers Camp #321, Corinth, MS.
Dennis M. Brown, Commander

General A.P. Hill Award - Presented to the Division with the greatest net gain in camps. The Tennessee Division, James Paterson, Commander.

Gen. Albert Sydney Johnson Award - Presented to the army with largest net gain in camps for the year. The Army of Trans Mississippi, Darrell Maples, Commander with a net gain of 7 new camps.

General William D. McCain Distinguish Camp Award

Distinguished Camp Award - Presented to the best camp in the SCV.
Admiral Raphael Semmes Camp #11 Mobile, AL. Joe Ringhofer, Commander.

Superior Camp Award - Highest scoring camp in each Army

Army of Northern Virginia - Secession Camp #4 Charleston, SC. Randy Burbage, Commander.
Army of Tennessee - Ft. Blakeley Camp #1864 Baldwin County, AL. Tommy Rhodes, Commander.
Army of Trans Mississippi - Capt. James P. Douglas Camp #124 Tyler, Texas. Johnnie Holley, Commander.

Outstanding Camp Award - Camps scoring well.
Confederate Secret Service Camp #1710 Sierra Vista, AZ.
Donnie Davis, Commander
Lt. F.C. Frasier Camp #668 High Point, NC. Ron Perdue, Commander.
16th South Carolina Regiment Camp #36 Greenville, SC. Frank Tucker, Commander.

Stephen D. Lee Award - Highest award presented to a non-member.
Phillip Nassar - Alabama
Gov. Brian P.Kemp - Georgia

Commander-in-Chief's Ladies Appreciation Award
Ella Hanna - Louisiana
Shirley White - North Carolina

Robert E. Lee Award
Walter Donnie Kennedy - Louisiana
Robert Samuel Jason Boschers - Tennessee
Darrell L. Maples - Missouri

Jefferson Davis Chalice - Highest Award that can be presented to a SCV member.
Douglas Nash - North Carolina

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On June 17, 2019 the Kansas Division, SCV donated a copy of its flag for display in the soon to be completed Confederate Museum being constructed at Elm Springs in Tennessee.

All Kansas Division Camps shared equally in the cost of acquiring this flag. Camps sharing in the cost of acquiring this flag are: Col’s Lewis & Harrison Camp, 1854 of Topeka, Ks., B.G. William Steele Camp, 1857 of Leavenworth, Ks., Major Thomas J. Key Camp, 1920 of Lenexa, Ks., South Kansas Camp, 2064 of Wichita, Ks., B.G.’s Buckner & Chilton Camp, 2227 of Dodge City, Ks. We in the Kansas Division are mighty proud of this flag and have displayed it only one time. We displayed it only one time at our recent Kansas Division Convention in Topeka, Ks. on June 15, 2019.