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JULY-AUGUST 2008
Remember these
important dates:
July 4-6, 2008
145th Anniversary Gettysburg
July 23rd,
2008 Joint Meeting
August 16-17,
2008 Saltville
FROM THE CAPTAIN
Both May and
June produced a number of memorial events that members of the company attended
beginning with the May 4th Confederate Memorial Day, May 8th
Ann Klein Memorial Service and the May 26th Memorial Day service at
Hopewell United Methodist Church near Polkton. The Old Fort event was a
surprisingly good event with good weather.
Our Federal Flag was flown on the forts flag post as the garrison flag
and never looked better. The company that was assembled at Old Fort consisted
of the 30th, the 21st and the 27th and we came
away that weekend with the “best drilled” company award.
For those that
are unaware, the website is now being managed by your Capt and Lt
Honeycutt. We’ve changed a number of
features of the site, but at the same time, kept a large majority of what work
Sgt Flagg had done to it, and to him we are grateful for his work on the
site. If there are any issues with the
site, or would like to see a page dedicated to a specific topic, please let us
know, or, we’ll even help you design a page that reflects your desired topic.
The schedule
for the fall is challenging as always.
Please, support the unit at max effort events if at all possible. .
Doug Wright
Captain, Commanding
30th NCT Co K
2008
Events
July 4, 5,
& 6 2008 Gettysburg, PA: (ANV Division Event) The Gettysburg event for 2008 is now online. There will be no walk-ons
allowed. The rumor mill is
rampant and word has it that the attendance will be capped at 19,000. The 145th event will be held at the Redding
Farm three miles north of Gettysburg. The CA has decided to do a fundraiser during the
event by washing hair. http://www.gettysburgreenactment.com/
for more information. Civil War News
newspaper reports that over 10,000 have
registered for this event including 400 cavalry, and artillery is limited to
100 pieces. A 210 yard long rock wall
has been erected for Pickett’s charge.
Amenities for reeanactors include a shuttle service and available 20-lb bags
of ice and off site showers.
*Note that the map
is oriented with East at the top and North on the left. *No Fire Pits.
*Battle times are 6pm Friday, 5pm Saturday and
Pickets Charge will be 3pm Sunday. Battalion may only
participate in the Sat and Sun battles. *Several members are planning on stopping at a hotel
on Sunday evening on the way home. *Website has additional directions to the
site. *
Check Site registration hours. No one allowed in camp during after
dark.
July 19-20, 2008 Ft. Defiance, Lenoir,
NC (optional) A living history event
Hosted by the 38th NCT No registration fee. Web site: www.38thnct.net/ftdefiance An original 12 lb’r, Satan, will be on
display that was recovered from the Cape Fear River that once defended Ft. Fisher. Directions on the Ft Defiance website: http://www.fortdefiancenc.org/
July 23, 2008 Joint Meeting Stickey Fingers,
Concord Mills Blvd. Concord, NC.
As always, we will have the meal
at 6pm and meeting will start promptly at 7pm.
August 16-17, 2008 Battle of Saltville, VA (Optional) http://www.virginia.org/site/description.asp?attrID=18074
September 10th, 2008 Joint
Meeting Stickey Fingers,
Concord Mills Blvd. Concord, NC We’ll have the meal at 6pm and meeting will
start promptly at 7pm. We will begin
our fall election process with Company Commander nominations, unless, the
election process is changed by this meeting.
September 19-21, 2008 Chickamauga,
Walker County GA. (30th NCT MAX Effort) 145th
Anniversary. Held on the
actual ground where the troops mustered for the legendary battle. The property is less than 10 minutes from
the Chickamauga National Battlefield Park.
You can wade in the Chickamauga Creek, fight on Lookout Mountain and
experience the battle that still stands as one of the bloodiest in U.S. history
on one of the last undisturbed battlefields in the nation. This event will feature Saturday and Sunday
battles and a tactical. Contact info,
1-800-624-0821 ext 326 Web site: www.battleofchickamauga.net Late registration is $20 online. Major Oneal has mentioned that the 4th
Regt may have more numbers at this event than at Gettysburg. A number of event passes have been received
as of this edition on the newsletter and will be passed out at the joint
meeting prior to this event on Sept. 10th. Please advise if you are not going to be at the meeting in order
to obtain your pass.
October 4-5, 2008 JEB Stuart, Laurel
Hill, Ararat ,VA (30th MAX Effort) Hosted by
Longstreet’s Corp. http://www.jebstuart.com Registration is $8 by August 1st. $10 afterward. Registration will be take at Gettysburg for those going. Federals register free.
October
17-19, 2008 Battle of Cedar Creek, Middleton, VA (ANV Division Event, 30th NCT) Lt Honeycutt is taking the registration for
this event.
October 25th, 2008
Mecklenburg County Boy Scout Camporee Invitations have been extended to the 13th
NCT and the 43rd NCT to assist with this event. This will be a one day event.
October 2008 Latta Plantation Ghost Walk , Huntersville, NC
November 7-8, 2008 Secessionville,
Mt Pleasant, SC Boone Hall Plantation (30th NCT
MAX Effort) A quality event hosted by the Palmetto Battalion www.csatrust.org/secessionville.htm As of this newsletter, no registration has
been posted yet for the 2008 event.
November 7, 2008, ANV Divisional
Meeting, Fredericksburg, MD
December 6th, 2008 Christmas Party. Plans to be
announced.
December 12-14, 2008 Ft Moultrie. This is a
militia event and the 30th has been invited to participate through
our militia sister company, the 86th Militia. Walt Hilderman has offered his home at
Numertia plantation as a campsite for the event since Ft Moultrie is a National
Park and does not allow camping.
Registration is limited to 75 military and 50 civilian. Web site: http://www.trampbrigade.com/Events/Moutlrie1858.htm Register online immediately if you plan to
attend and advise Capt Wright.
KINDRED SPIRITS
The Robert E Lee Heritage Association meets the 2nd
Thursday of each month. Contact person
for the group is John Ellis, Phone: H 704-847-4812, W 704-839-6576
The Civil War Roundtable meets the 3rd
Thursday of each month at the Providence Baptist Church, 4921 Randolph Rd.
Charlotte, NC at 7:30pm. The meeting
is on the 2nd floor near the white portico entrance. Contact person is Bill Quinn,
704-362-0165. The CWRT often has
interesting speakers on various topics of the civil war.
LOST &
FOUND
From time to
time items are found in camp after we break down and leave the site. If you have found something that needs to be
listed please contact the Captain, or place it on the forum under the lost and
found topic.
Free
Confederate Grave Markers
At our winter encampment, 30th NCT member Dave Harrill showed
the unit a bronze marker for Confederate soldiers' graves, which are currently
unmarked. It is a fine looking
in-ground plaque that is free from the government. Dave has successfully
applied for and received several of these and knows how to fill-out the
application so as to ensure acceptance by the government. Walt Hilderman
also has a supply of the forms. Dave and Walt will assist any member who wants
to apply for one of these. Please contact Dave at 704-477-1713 or
Walt at numertia@bigfoot.com or
803-492-4029.
Period Images
Anyone who has
had the opportunity to have a period image made at an event, please provide a
copy of the image to Capt Wright or Lt Honeycutt and we will post it on a page
on the web site.
Daniel Harvey Hill
(1821-1889)
Criticism of his
army commander, Braxton Bragg, to Jefferson Davis cost South Carolinian West
Pointer (1842) Daniel H. Hill his corps command and his promotion to lieutenant
general in the Confederate army. Posted to the artillery, he had won two
brevets in the Mexican War before resigning as a first lieutenant in the 4th
Artillery in 1849. Active in education until the outbreak of the Civil War, he
was superintendent of the North Carolina Military Institute in 1861.
His Southern assignments included:
colonel, lst North Carolina Volunteers (May 1 1, 1861); commanding Department
of the Peninsula (May 31 - June 1861); brigadier general, CSA July 10, 1861);
commanding Department of Fredericksburg July 17 - July 1861); commanding
District of the Pamlico, Department of North Carolina (ca. October 4 - November
16, 186 1); commanding lst Brigade, 3rd (Longstreet's) Division, Potomac
District, Department of Northern Virginia (November 16, 1861 - January 1862);
commanding Forces at Leesburg, Potomac District, Department of Northern
Virginia (January - March 1862); major general, CSA (March 26, 1862);
commanding 4th (Van Dorn's old) Division, Department of Northern Virginia
(March - July 17, 1862); commanding Department of North Carolina (July 17 -
August 1862 and April 1 - July 1, 1863); commanding division, Jackson's Corps,
Army of Northern Virginia (August 1862 - April 1, 1863); temporarily commanding
Valley District, Army of Northern Virginia (September 6, 1862); lieutenant
general, CSA (July 11, 1863); commanding 2nd (Hardee's old) Corps, Army of
Tennessee (July 24 - November 8, 1863); volunteer aide-de-camp, Department of
North Carolina and Southern Virginia (May 5-18 and May 21-ca. June 1864);
commanding division, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia (May 18-2
1, 1864); commanding District of Georgia, Department of South Carolina, Georgia
and Florida January 21-ca. March 1865); commanding division, Lee's Corps, Army
of Tennessee (ca. March and late March-April 26, 1865); and commanding the
corps (late March 1865).
Commanding a regiment of six-months
volunteers, he played a leading role in the Confederate victory at Big Bethel.
Promoted to brigadier general, he served for a time in northern Virginia and
then returned to the Peninsula as a division leader with the rank of major
general. He saw action at Yorktown, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, and during the
Seven Days. Left in southeastern Virginia during the 2nd Bull Run Campaign, he
rejoined Lee's army for the Maryland Campaign,
performing well at both South Mountain and Antietam. His last battle with the
Army of Northern Virginia came at Fredericksburg. He then returned to command
the Department of North Carolina until named a lieutenant general and ordered
to Bragg's army. He took over Hardee's old corps, leading it at Chickamauga.
Disgusted with Bragg's failure to reap the benefits of the victory he made his
view known to the president, who still supported his friend. Hill was relieved
of corps command and Davis refused to submit his nomination as lieutenant
general to the Senate. Thus he reverted to a major generalcy on October 15,
1863.
His next action came as a volunteer
on Beauregard's staff at Drewry's Bluff and Petersburg. He was in command of a
provisional division for a couple of days. Ordered to the Atlantic coast he
finished out the war with Joseph E. Johnston's army in the Carolinas as a
division commander. After the surrender he returned to education and engaged in
literary and historical writing. (Bridges, Leonard Hal, Lee's Maverick General,Daniel
HatM Hill)
Source: "Who Was Who In The Civil
War" by Stewart Sifakis
Post Script: General D.H. Hill
is buried in Davidson, NC near the college where he served as president after
the war. Hill’s grave is adorned most
often with flags of the Confederacy and easy to locate just north of the campus off of Hwy 115, the main street that runs through Davidson.
2008 30th NCT Military Staff
Captain: Doug Wright: Commanding Officer, Venture Squad, Treasurer, and Newsletter .
2nd
Lt. Daniel Honeycutt, Unit Historian, Website, Recruiting
1st
Sgt: Rob Weltner Personnel, Ordinance,
2nd
Sgt. Aaron Lawing: Squad Leader, Quartermaster, Recruiting
Cpl Ryan Kendall: Squad Leader
Cpl Zack
Duell: Squad Leader
2008 Board of
Directors: Chairman: Doug
Wright. Board members: Steve Hall and
Bob Weltner
Colonel Francis
Marion Parker Civilian Alliance 2008 Staff
Chairperson: Cindy King
Treasurer:
AnnaLuree Wright Quarter
Master: Cliff Grimsley
Secretary: Jackie Childers
E -Communications:
Commanding
Officer, Doug Wright………………. dbwright15@email.com
Board of
Directors Chair, Blake Burnett……….….dbwright15@email.com
30th
NCT Website Information……………………. dannyd0279@aol.com
30th
NCT Website…………………………………. www.30thNCT.org
1st
Division Army of Northern Virginia website……www.bonnieblue.net
4th
Regiment ANV (1st NC Battalion)………………www.1stncbattalion.org
9th
Pennsylvania Reserve Corps website……………www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~jw3u/9th.htm
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The 30th NCT/9th PA and the Colonel
Francis Marion Parker Civilian Alliance are the public names for the Living
History Association of North Carolina, Inc, a non-profit organization listed
with the NC Secretary of States Office, Raleigh, NC. All correspondence should be mailed to the 30th NCT,
or CFMPCA, at PO Box 36664, Charlotte NC 28236-6664.
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The 30th NCT is a charter organization of the 1st
NC Battalion, 4th Regiment, 1st Division of the Army of
Northern Virginia..
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Venture Crew #30 is affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America,
Mecklenburg County Council, Etowah District.
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Note: For the purpose of insurance coverage, the "Future
Events" listed in this newsletter constitute the official schedule for the
Living History Association of North Carolina, Inc. (30th N.C.T., Col
F.M. Parker Civ. Alliance and 9th Regt. Co. H Pennsylvania Reserve
Corps). In order to be covered at additional events not listed herein, our
members must contact Jennifer Haines, PO Box 2430, PMB 2893, Pensacola FL 32513
email address: rebels49th@yahoo.com, at least two weeks prior to the event. The appearance of "30th
NCT", "1st NC Btn." and/or "ANV" in parenthesis after
each Future Event indicates that one or more of these organizations has
designated that event to be a maximum effort event for that organization. Registration:
This newsletter will list the sponsor’s or host unit’s registration deadline
date for each event. You must have your registration fees to our EVENT
REGISTRAR prior to his/her deadline; otherwise you must register directly with
the event sponsor.
“It is history that teaches
us to hope”
Robert
E. Lee