Heritage Dinner to Feature Pastor Charles Jennings

  

The Coffee Camp is proud to bring you our Guest speaker, Pastor Charles Jennings. Pastor Jennings was raised in south Florida with a rich spiritual legacy of traditional Pentecostal
heritage and ancestry. He has served as Pastor, Evangelist and Bible Teacher. He was married to Marylee in 1966 and they have one son.

He has several ancestors who were Confederate Veterans and one was captured, processed
through Point Lookout and sent to Federal Prison and later died at Elmira, New York. Pastor Jennings has written many articles about the War of Northern Aggression. He has also authored several books. One of them is entitled, “Cultures in Conflict-the Union Desecration of
Southern Churches and Cemeteries.”

The most well known book is “The Book of Revelation from an Israelite and Historicist Interpretation”.

Pastor Jennings is the founder of Truth in History Ministries and Editor of “Truth in History
Magazine”.  He is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and Point Lookout Prisoners of War Organization.

Please come and listen to Pastor Jennings speak on “The Spiritual Revival in the Confederate Army”. This is not a sermon so don’t expect that. This will be a hard hitting program that will set the records straight as to what the Federals felt toward the Southern people and of Missouri citizens.

Col. John T. Coffee Camp, Inc. will offer the following for raffle:
$1.00 per ticket or $5.00 for 6 tickets and so on…

First Prize will be $500.00 Cash
Second Prize will be a framed picture of Elm Springs. It is a signed and numbered printer’s
proof, valued at $250.00.

You do not have to be present for the raffle! We will also have items for silent auction and
maybe a real auction for some items.

As always there will be many door prizes.

Why not plan to make an evening for dinner, fellowship and a great program, and get in
on the chance at $500.00 cash.

To get tickets for the prizes, you can contact John T. Coffee Camp, Inc Officers:

Gary Ayres Jared Lawler Harold Simmons George Eberhardt Willie Lawler
417-754-8397 660-447-3449 417-637-2068 417-646-8907 660-477-3683

Lodging:
Bolivar, MO is located on highway 13 about 45 miles south of Osceola, MO. All the motels are
on Hiway 13.

Comfort Inn
2451 Tower Drive, Bolivar, MO
417-326-6169

www.comfortinn.com

Super 8
1919 Wommack Road, Bolivar, MO
417-777-8888

www.super8.com

Country Inns
1819 S. Killingsworth Ave, Bolivar, MO
417-326-8004

Speedway Inn
4710 S. 128th Rd., Bolivar, MO
417-326-5268

Clinton, MO is located on highway 13 about 20 miles north of Osceola, MO. All motels are on
Hiway 13.

Best Western Colonial Motel, S. Clinton, MO
660-885-2206

www.bestwesternmissouri.com

Hampton Inn, S. Clinton, MO
660-885-4488

www.hamptoninn.com

Parkfield Inn, S. Clinton, MO
660-890-6188

www.parkfieldinn.com

USA Inn, N. Clinton, MO
660-885-2267

www.motelusainn.com

Safari Motel, N. Clinton, MO
660-885-3395

www.safarimotel.net
Sportsman Lodge, N. Clinton, MO
660-885-6901   

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(please be patient as the flyer is in pdf format) 

 

December Newsletter is now up on the server

First of all, many apologies to my compatriots. Our commander has given me the newsletter quite some time, but I have had my plate full lately to say the least. With that being said you can visit the Colonel John T. Coffee Camp #1934 website and click on “Newsletter” from the menu on the left side of the screen to view it. Again, many apologies for not posting this in a more timely manner-Webmaster

Remember Osceola!

Compatriot Martin Northway has been kind enough to pass along the following book review written by Willard Klunder on Bryce D. Benedict’s latest work entitled:

“Jayhawkers: The Civil War Brigade of James Henry Lane”

Seeking the Real Jayhawkers

In the main, however, Benedict provides little critical analysis of the border clashes. Montgomery’s men, for instance, sac

This book recounts the exploits of the Kansas regiments and their eccentric commander, James H. Lane, during the early months of the Civil War. The focus is on the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Volunteers, which made up the core of “Lane’s Brigade.” The author, an army and National Guard veteran, is an attorney for the state of Kansas.

Lane served as colonel of the Third Indiana Volunteer Regiment during the Mexican-American War, and saw action at Buena Vista. As a Democratic member of the House of Representatives, he supported the Kansas-Nebraska bill. Choosing not to run for re-election, he arrived in Kansas in April 1855, and tried to organize a territorial Democratic Party. Benedict argues that, “Lane’s transformation from conservative Democrat to radical Free State man came about gradually,” but within a matter of months he chaired the Free State Party’s platform committee (17). In late 1857, the legislature elected him major general of the territorial militia.

Following his participation in the bloodless “Wakarusa War,” Lane “returned to a more conventional life” (19). This included remarrying his divorced wife, and killing a neighbor over a dispute involving a well. As the violence in “Bleeding Kansas” reached a crescendo, James Montgomery, Charles R. Jennison, and John E. Stewart (future regimental commanders of the Kansas Brigade) drove pro-slavery men out of the territory. Lane apparently disappeared from the scene, despite commanding the militia. He returned to public life to campaign for Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

Kansas entered the Union in January 1861. Lane and Samuel C. Pomeroy were the state’s original Federal senators. After the surrender of Fort Sumter, Kansas Governor Charles Robinson raised three volunteer regiments, with James Montgomery serving as colonel of the Third Volunteers. Soon thereafter, Lincoln urged Secretary of War Simon Cameron to appoint Lane a brigadier general with the authority to recruit two regiments. According to Benedict, Lincoln “wanted a commander who would act and not spend his time calling for reinforcements and explaining why he could not advance” (34). To demonstrate this point, Benedict recounts Lincoln’s exasperation with General George B. McClellan the following year.

Lane did not accept the military commission because he would have had to resign from the Senate. He did, however, authorize William Weer to begin raising the troops, and serve as colonel for the Fourth Kansas Volunteers. The Fifth was organized independently by Hamilton P. Johnson of Leavenworth, and included many Iowans and Missourians. Jennison’s company of “Southern Kansas Jay-Hawkers” was based in Mound City. On August 10, General John C. Frémont authorized Jennison to raise a regiment of mounted volunteers. “Jennison operated as he saw fit, and he saw fit to raid Missouri” (41).

Meanwhile, Lane assembled “a motley staff” in Washington made up of Lieutenant James M. Pomeroy (a cousin of the senator) and three Italians-Captain Luigi Navoni and Lieutenants Giuseppe Laiguanite and Achille de Vecchi (58). An unidentified Kansas soldier remarked on the foreign volunteers, “they are fine looking men, and if they could speak our language no doubt they would be very efficient officers” (64). In an appendix, Benedict adds a Lieutenant Luigi Marini to the roster, but can find no further evidence of the Italians’ service with the brigade.

In the fall, General Frémont raised forty thousand men to destroy Sterling Price’s army, the only formidable Confederate force in the Kansas-Missouri theater. Lane and Samuel Sturgis led one column out of Kansas City; other commanders included David Hunter, John Pope, and Franz Sigel. Ultimately, the ineffectual Frémont was replaced by General Daniel Hunter who gave up the fruitless pursuit of Price. The southern forces went into camp near Osceola, Missouri, a town previously sacked by Montgomery. Benedict devotes his final chapter to a systematic look at the machinations behind this “great Southern expedition”; rehashing the tale sketched in the previous pages.

Lane’s brigade returned to Fort Scott in the middle of November, and the senator soon thereafter left for Washington. “As events would reveal, Lane’s departure heralded the gradual decline of the brigade, largely due to neglect by the Federal government” (159). Guerilla raids, however, continued beyond early 1862, when the Kansas regiments were reorganized.

Lane was a querulous, exasperating cohort. He quarreled with Sturgis over rank; and argued with the commander of Fort Leavenworth (“the dirty puppy”) and the governor (“that still dirtier creature”) (115). Lane on one occasion addressed his own men as “sneaking thieves” for stealing a widow’s “night-dress, her skillets, and her chickens” (94). In truth, the jayhawkers in the brigade acted with impunity. In his annual message to the legislature in January 1862, Governor Robinson complained that Kansas was “overrun with thieves and highway robbers” (175). Contrastingly, the Cincinnati Gazette viewed the complex Lane as a Robin Hood, who gave confiscated goods “to poor Union families who had been robbed by rebels” (130).

For his part, Lane railed against slavery and took every opportunity “to strike the shackles from every limb” to hasten the defeat of the Confederacy (150). He did not, however, endorse racial equality. Lane favored colonization for the freed slaves, perhaps even in South Carolina, because the “races can’t live together without intermarriage,” which he opposed (151). The author repeats this quotation on page 187; one of numerous redundancies throughout the text.

Whatever one thinks of Lane, Benedict rightly notes that the accomplishments of his brigade, “as a military instrument, were relatively insignificant” (249). Kansas was never in serious danger of an invasion by Price; and during the course of their service, only twenty brigade members were killed in combat. Lane, after narrowly escaping death during Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, committed suicide in July 1866.

The author is at his best revealing the bombastic cant of military commanders. Sterling Price, for example, issued a proclamation to Missourians seeking fifty thousand volunteers. Benedict wryly notes that it was “very badly worded” (163). Price rhetorically asked if Missourians were “a timid, time-serving, craven race, fit only for subjection to a despot?” He then noted the extreme hardships his men endured and the deaths they suffered from battle and disease. “If none of this had yet dissuaded a man from volunteering,” Price urged potential recruits to bring their own guns, cooking utensils, rations, blankets, and shoes. The author succinctly concludes: “As a recruiting tool, Price’s proclamation had little to commend it” (164).

ked Morristown and five prisoners were condemned by a “drum-head court-martial” and “executed. The greater part of the town was burned (apparently on orders from Montgomery), and there being no other outrage to commit, the raiders returned to West Point” (89). The fact that ten Southerners were taken into custody, and only five executed, is strong evidence that this was not a capricious act. Although Benedict offers the reader several plausible explanations for the condemnation of those specific prisoners, he never weighs in with his considered judgment.

The narrative lacks historical balance. William Quantrill is off-handedly characterized as a “young ne’er-do-well . . . who hung around the neighborhood looking to make a quick buck” (51). The author spends more time discussing one soldier’s bout with measles than the sacking of three Missouri towns by Jennison’s band. Throughout the text, soldiers in Kansas units are indiscriminately referred to as “jayhawkers,” while those fighting for the South are “secesh, secessionists, or rebels.” This can be confusing, especially when jayhawkers returned “slaves and property taken from secessionists who proved they were Union men” (114).

This rambling book, in short, is essentially a hodge-podge of anecdotes and vignettes that frequently obscure more than they enlighten. Benedict, to cite one example, briefly mentions “a citizen named E. A. Hitchcock” who consulted with Secretary of War Stanton in March 1862 (214). That indistinguishable private citizen, doubtless, was Major General Ethan Allen Hitchcock, grandson of the Revolutionary hero and the unofficial general-in-chief of the Union forces who met regularly with Stanton.

The apparent lack of a rigorous editorial review detracts considerably from this book. The author has a disconcerting habit of stringing incongruent information together in a single paragraph. Benedict retells some of the “more outrageous and unreliable accounts” of the attack on Osceola, Missouri, and dismisses an “apparently exaggerated account” in the New York Times that claims $8,000 was taken from a family named Vaughn. However, he subsequently relates an exchange between Sturgis and Lane in which the latter implicitly admitted to the $8,000 theft. He also repeats the same Times story, in a different context, without questioning its accuracy (101, 102, 130). Similarly, Benedict chides Albert Castel and Thomas Goodrich, among others, for citing second-hand sources; nonetheless, his sole citation regarding Quantrill’s raid on Aubrey, Kansas, is a twentieth-century secondary source (240-41, 212). In summary, Benedict’s pedestrian writing style and lack of historical analysis detract considerably from his efforts.

Willard Carl Klunder is an associate professor of history At Wichita State University. He is the author of Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation (Kent State University Press), and numerous articles and book reviews.

Chuck Baldwin: Is Obama REALLY preparing for Civil War?

 

Is Obama Really Preparing For Civil War?

by Chuck Baldwin December 11, 2009 According to an obscure report in the European Union Times EUTimes.net), “Russian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin that US President Barack Obama has issued an order to his Northern Command’s (USNORTHCOM) top leader, US Air Force General Gene Renuart, to ‘begin immediately’ increasing his military forces to 1 million troops by January 30, 2010, in what these reports warn is an expected outbreak of civil war within the United States before the end of winter. “According to these reports, Obama has had over these past weeks ‘numerous’ meetings with his war council abut how best to manage the expected implosion of his Nation’s banking system while at the same time attempting to keep the United States military hegemony over the World in what Russian Military Analysts state is a ‘last ditch gambit’ whose success is ‘far from certain.’” The EU Times article continues by saying, “To the fears of Obama over the United States erupting into civil war once the full extent of the rape and pillaging of these peoples by their banks and government becomes known to them, grim evidence now shows the likelihood of this occurring much sooner than later.” The Times story goes on to say that there are “over 220 million American people armed to the teeth and ready to explode.” The Times article concludes by saying, “Though the coming civil war in the United States is being virtually ignored by their propaganda media, the same cannot be said of Russia, where leading Russian political analyst, Professor Igor Panarin has long warned that the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the US is heading for collapse.” Many of us would be inclined to pooh-pooh such a story, but then there is this column from Bloomberg.com entitled “Arming Goldman With Pistols Against Public,” written by Alice Schroeder. According to Ms Schroeder: “‘I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,’ said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to the local police for a permit to buy a pistol. The banker had told this friend of mine that senior Goldman people have loaded up on firearms and are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank.” There is no doubt that the American people have good reason to despise these international banksters epitomized by Goldman Sachs. Even one of Goldman’s poster-boys, Henry Paulson, US Treasury secretary and former Goldman CEO, admitted that the American people were fed up. Schroeder quotes Paulson as saying, during testimony to Congress last summer, “[People] were unhappy with the big discrepancies in wealth, but they at least believed in the system and in some form of market-driven capitalism. But if we had a complete meltdown, it could lead to people questioning the basis of the system.” Schroeder correctly opines, “There you have it. The bailout was meant to keep the curtain drawn on the way the rich make money, not from the free market, but from the lack of one. Goldman Sachs blew its cover when the firm’s revenue from trading reached a record $27 billion in the first nine months of this year, and a public that was writhing in financial agony caught on that the profits earned on taxpayer capital were going to pay employee bonuses.” Schroeder concludes her column by saying, “And if the proles [proletariat: plebs, working class, peasants] really do appear brandishing pitchforks at the doors of Park Avenue and the gates of Round Hill Road, you can be sure that the Goldman guys and their families will be holed up in their safe rooms with their firearms.” So, do Wall Street and Russian analysts know something that we don’t know? Is this why George W. Bush initiated USNORTHCOM to begin with? Is this why Barack Obama is beefing up USNORTHCOM? This would help explain the reports of all those potential detention camps that have been constructed (including the abandoned military installations that have refurbished security fences, guard towers, etc., around them). Has the American people’s disgust with these crooks and thieves within the federal government and Wall Street reached a boiling point? There is no question that people are angry, and for good reason. The fraudulent financial policies of the Federal Reserve and its lackeys in the White House and Congress have literally bankrupted the country. Real unemployment is most likely over 20%. Taxes (along with costly fees, regulations, restrictions, penalties, mandates, etc.) at every level are going through the ceiling. America’s jobs have been outsourced. Barack Obama continues G.W. Bush’s irresponsibility, digging America deeper and deeper into foreign entanglements, at the cost of trillions of dollars and thousands of lives. The IRS continues to harass and harangue honest citizens, squeezing them like the proverbial turnip. And now, add the insanity of a global climate treaty being hammered out in Copenhagen, and a universal health care bill being rammed through Congress, and the outlook is even gloomier. I feel very comfortable in saying that the usurpations of power, the encroachments upon liberty, and the arrogant tax-and-spend policies emanating from Washington, D.C., and Wall Street these days are far more egregious than what George Washington and the boys were enduring in 1775-76 at the hands of the British Crown. There is no doubt in my mind that if Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and Sam Adams were alive today, they would have given cause for the Goldman Sachs banksters to retreat to their bunkers years ago! The fact is, we do need a revolution! But not a revolution of anarchy and pitchforks. (The history of France should be ample evidence of the futility of this strategy.) We need a revolution of the individual states: to reclaim their sovereignty and fight for the liberties of their sovereigns (We the People). That is exactly what our forefathers did in ‘76…

President Obama Preparing for Civil War?

The Europian Union Times is reporting that:

Russian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin that US President Barack Obama has issued orders to his Northern Command’s (USNORTHCOM) top leader, US Air Force General Gene Renuart, to “begin immediately” increasing his military forces to 1 million troops by January 30, 2010, in what these reports warn is an expected outbreak of civil war within the United States before the end of winter.

According to these reports, Obama has had over these past weeks “numerous” meetings with his war council about how best to manage the expected implosion of his Nations banking system while at the same time attempting to keep the United States military hegemony over the World in what Russian Military Analysts state is a “last ditch gambit” whose success is “far from certain”.

And to Obama’s “last ditch gambit”, these reports continue, he is to announce in a nationwide address to his people this coming week that he is going to expand the level of US Military Forces in Afghanistan by tens of thousands of troops, while at the same time using the deployment of these soldiers as a “cover” for returning to the United States over 200,000 additional American soldiers from the over 800 bases in over 39 countries they have stationed around the Globe bringing the level of these forces in America to over 1 million, a number the US Military believes will be able to contain the “explosion of violence” expected to roil these peoples when they learn their economy has been bankrupted.  CLICK HERE to read more.

From England: Apologies are in Order…

 

Mr. Pierluigi Rossi of Scarborough-Yorks England writes:

On Behalf of our camp 2161 Capt.John Low, and of our soccer team THE REBELS, competing in the local 10 years old junior champioship, apologies are due from the MO state assembly for the wanton murder of Mollie, Janie & Josephine Anderson,the former 16 and the latter 10 years old,and Susan Vandiver,Armenie Whitsett Gilvey,Christie Mc Corkle Kerr, in August 1863 by the provoked crash of the building at 1409 Grand Ave. in Kansas City MO.Crash provocked by MO state militia.

Since the escalation of the political Correct epidemic with the tended apologies of the assembly of Va and Alabama for the commercial price of slavery, we also feel that apologies for the above crimes are overdue.

Please relay in your blog,also because your camp is located in MO and could easily address the MO state assembly.

Peter Rossi SCV camp 2161 Capt. John Low in Scarborough – Yorks- England

Merry Christmas to all your members and since Mr Hussein B.Obama got the Nobel peaceprice the least you can expect should be a very peaceful new year. 

Mr. Rossi,

Thank You for your correspondence. You are absolutely right, apologies are in order (at the very least), however; it was not the Missouri Militia that undermined the Kansas City structure that killed and maimed the young girls, it was members of the Kansas Militia  acting under the authority of the Federal government.  Perhaps we should demand the Feds’ apologize and own up to THEIR  attrocities and war crimes committed in Missouri.-webmaster.

Kinship in the Ranks:

The following is a Letter submitted by Compatriot Jerry Wells of the Clyde River Blockade Runners Camp #2168 Richmond, Virginia / Glascow, Scottland.  Mr. wells submission signifies the bonds of friends , relatives and neighbors and is a sterling example of the true reason that Southerners took up arms from 1861-65.  They answered a call to defend their homes from invasion, and when they fell in battle often friends and neighbors would fill the empty ranks.

 

Thank You Compatriot Wells for sharing this wonderful piece of history with us.

-Webmaster

Thanks for your offer on CV magazine articles.

 

I have had a problem getting things published especially chartering two British SCV Camps in June 2008 and November 2009.

 

www.theclydeblockaderunners.com

 

I head this up while I was instrumental in forming in Scarborough the Captain John Low, CSN Camp 2161.

 

I also had a letter from my GGgrandfather Booker Shorter who wrote a letter to his sons which I have tried to have published over the years  to show the close knit unit the Co. I of the 21st Virginia Infantry was, neighbors and kin, one and all.

 

I guess my ancestors, grunts, one and all, aren’t the mold of the colorful Stuart, etc…

Bokker Shorter is my Great Great Grandfather, and Matt and John are my Great Granddad and uncle, respectively, and my Ggrand Matt’s father in law.

 

GGGrand was a school teacher  and a Chaplain for Company I, 21st Virginia Infantry. Of course I would find it interesting as the other Confederates mentioned are alot of kin folk.

 

Four Shorter boys, my Uncles served, some died some survived, glad to say Matt and John came through that War as well.

 

Thanks ever so much

 

Thanks

 

Jerry Wells

The Clyde River Blockade Runners Camp 2168

Glasgow, Scotland

Richmond, Virginia

August 10, 1861

 

These lines are composed by B. R. Shorter, which you will keep and bring home with you;

 

To my dear John who has not gone to war, the dearest of all John that I ever saw; May God be your guide through the perilous ways, and prolong your life through millions of days.

 

If in contact with the enemy you should happen to meet, pray the Lord to help you stand on your feet; and use your weapons with the most acute skill, and the wishes of your father completely fulfill. Strew the enemy before you as you may have to go; with the help of Asa Wyat and Mr. Livermore;

 

If they are not enough call up Billy Core, for some say he is a good hand to bore.  If his fists give out let him apply to the racks, and call in his brother Lieutenant John Core;

 

If that will not do lead again with the beams, and hand to your friend James Arthor Eanes.

 

And if Mat is standing by let him call on his brother John, and prostrate the enemy like they have old Mahon; then if you should say, “Upon my soul”,  we must call upon our friend William B. Cole. Then if you should want to make a double file, remember in your company you have Mr. Lyle;

 

When if you should wish to gain a tree reason, call for Thompson , Allen , Morgan , Young and Camson; For Camson is the man many years ago, who slew the Philistines by thousands, you know, for God was on his side because he was right, and that makes me think he will help you to tight.

 

If you should lack weapons, make you a maul, and hand to your friend, Crispin N. Hall; if you should not then be in good plight , hand to your friend Lewis  A. Wright.

 

If you desire to make the enemy slip, call for George Galloway and his brother Tip. Then if you should be so lucky to regain Kit Bell , I think you can drown them all in a well. There is Joseph Hankins and his brother Dan, would be good hands to make lead the van;

 

There is Vincent Swanson and Bone Allens Dump. Could take a Yankee by the heels and slap him against a stump.

 

I think your Captain William A. Witcher, is skillful enough to make a good fisher; if he has the skill to catch and kill men, I hope he will take them ten thousand times ten.

 

There is Oliver Smith I will not leave out, for I think he would be most useful out in the route; and along with the rest take Henry and Joe, then if you still lack there are a few more.

 

When this you read son do remember me, for now I am trying to be in a glee;

 

But trouble has already so weighted me down, that my body is ready almost for the ground but I pray for you to return to your Nancy, which seems to be all of the greatest of your fancy, and if I new that would certainly be, I would try to return to merriment and glee.

 

But I trust and I pray to my God above, to save the life of him that I dearly love;

 

And if you return to your wife and children three. Which would animate and liven your mother and me.

 

So farewell my dear son, farewell for a while, I hope the Lord will bless you with a sweet smile; and lead you home again through perilous ways, and with your beloved for millions of days.

 

With these lines of poetry I must shortly close; by saying your aquaintance everyone knows, that your dear hands have done so much for me, that it causes my soul to love and pity thee.

 

Remember your Father and poor old Mother dear, who hath cherished and nourish you for many a year; but your years that have past seem as minutes to me, I pray for your future happiness which I hope you will see.

 

(Transcribed from a Xeroxed copy sent from Dolly Vick, granddaughter of Martha Ema Shorter, who is daughter of Robert Walker Shorter and granddaughter of Booker R. Shorter)

 

Grave Desecration at Small Pox Island?

Just received this email from a reader named David who states:

“Noticed that the army corp of engineers is doing some demolition work around the Small Pox Island grave sites. They have a big framed in tent enclosure wrapped around the demo structure of the old dam site across the river from Alton, Ill. I presume it’s got something to do with the small pox contaminated bones that may resurface during removal! I’ve heard that during the initial dam construction during the 1930’s 3 workers died of small pox, serves em right for desecrating the graves of Southern American Veterans I suppose. Just thought someone of your demeanor should be informed of this possible ongoing grave desecration! From what I  know of you, you seem to be a man with determination!”

If anyone can give us some information about what is going on at this site please leave a message in the comment section.- webmaster.

The Missouri Bushwhackers…

Jewish Confederates…

 

In March 2007 Colonel John T. Coffee Camp #1934, Sons of Confederate Veterans Commander Gary Ayres had the honor of getting an article he had authored about Jewish Confederates published in ‘Jewish Magazine’ (which we have posted on our “Library” page at http://www.coffeecamp.net/jewish_confederates ).

Recently Mr. Ayres received an email from one of the editors at “Jewish Magazine” which stated that one reader had several objections to his article.

The “offended” , one Charles “Chuck” Hirshberg recently complained to Jewish Magazine that:

Dear “Jewish Magazine”:
Some three weeks ago, I wrote to you expressing my deep concern over an article of yours titled  “Jewish Confederates”. I believe that my email  (copied below) demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that the article is both historically ridiculous, and patently racist. At the very least, I would have expected to receive  an email in return acknowledging my communication. But I  have heard nothing at all from you, and the article is still  posted. 
May I please request the courtesy of a  reply?

Very truly yours, 
Charles Hirshberg

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Commander Ayer’s exercised great restraint and exhibited much professionalism in his reply to Mr. Hirshberg, which Jewish Magazine forwarded to him. Below is his response:

Dear Sir,

 

I am glad you read “Jewish Confederates”.  I have received many emails saying thank you for publishing this article.  Many from Israel, which I was pleasantly pleased and surprised.

 

I do my best not to go name calling.  I was raised this was against God’s law.

But to some sort of answer to you I am not a racist or bigot, but that is between me and God and the actions I have demonstrated here on earth.

 

If you will please research the “notes” at the end of my article I believe you will find sufficient information to confirm my research.  Yes there was much more but I just used those few notes for folks to look at.

 

You say that my article is “both historically ridiculous, and patently racist”.  I must disagree with you and the information for my findings (if you research deep enough) show in my favour. 

If you research not only  official records but private letters you should see the sentiments of the Southern people.

 

Please research the two-volume “Abraham Lincoln’s Complete Works” and study the Emancipation Proclamation before you say that my article was an “ignorant, racist article”.

But to bring to light two issues that show your error is that the Union did not pay the black soldiers the same as the white soldiers.  Others were in the same situation but mostly the blacks.  The Confederates paid the blacks the same pay as the whites.  In fact they paid everyone regardless of race or religious beliefs the same. 

 

The Confederate also mixed the races and religious beliefs into the same units.  This is something the Union failed to do also.

 

It was not until well into the 1900’s, namely WW ll that the US put blacks with whites as a whole.

Please read and understand and then go to the notes and do some research before you call someone names of negativism.

 

I want to thank the Jewish Magazine because many people have responded favourably.

Sir, this article was written from reliable research.  If you disagree that is fine but don’t blame me for bringing to light some history that has not been talked about.

 

Thank You,

Gary Ayres

garyayres@centurytel.net

 

I did a little research and this is what I have found out about Mr. Hirshberg , (according to Wikipedia.com):

“Charles “Chuck” Hirshberg is an American journalist and sportswriter. He primarily writes for large-circulation magazines. His articles and columns have appeared in Time, Sports Illustrated, Life, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Men’s Health and other publications. As of 2002, he was an editor of Popular Science. His mother is the astrophysicist Joan Feynman and his late uncle is Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winning Physicist.

He is the author of ESPN 25, a history of sports journalism on television. Hirshberg co-authored Will you miss me when I’m gone?:the Carter Family and their legacy in American music along with Mark Zwonitzer. Recently, he penned an article promoting circumcision entitled Should all males be circumcised?[1] for Men’s Health which was later picked up by MSNBC.[2]“

It seems to this webmaster that Mr. Hirshberg is most famous for writing an article about whether or not men should be circumcised. My advice to him is that it is good to know your subject matter, but bad to act like it. Mr. Hirshberg will probably  be most happy to learn that as of the time of this posting, Jewish Magazine still has Mr. Ayres’ article up on their website.