Today's St. Louis Post Dispatch article reports that a scientific poll was done on the Confederate flag issue in Missouri. 45% strongly disagreed with the State's action of removing the Confederate flag. 21% somewhat disagreed. Only 30% supported the Governor. Even in liberal St. Louis over half those polled supported the flag. In out-State Missouri (wherever that is ?) almost three persons in four support flying the flag. Poll's margin of error 4.1 % Now that Gephardt, Holden, Talent, and Bond made their stand against the flag, either its time for them to apologize or its time to vote them rascals out of office! Scott K. Williams

>Subject: MO-CW-D Digest V03 #31 > > #3 Re: [MO-CW] Fact ? >["Scott K. Williams" <[email protected]] > > >Are these sites being run by the Democratic Revisionists? What does >"because it shows the Confederate flag flying and no longer accurately >represents the site" really mean? No one told me that history had >changed. Did I miss something in my 1940's American history classes?...RFS

To add to Chris' message. Please e-mail De Soto Public Library at [email protected] if you plan to come to hear Paulette Jiles. We are expecting a large crowd and need to know how many people we might have. Betty Olson Desoto Joe/The Record Man

My G grandfather (James Conklin) served with several different outfits over 4 years while serving the Union. He started in Dade Co Missouri in 1861 with a group called Fremont Battalion Mo.Cav. Capt Switzler's Company. He was discharged 1865 from Company A 6th Reg'mt Mo Cav. Does anyone know how I would locate pictures that might have been taken during those 4 years. Thanks Donna Hawthorne Ca...Oh.. he fought at Pilot Knob and I am very sorry to see what Rep. Gebhardt is doing to the history of our Confederate ancestors. It is all very sad. All of you in Missouri need to set him out to pasture.

My Great Uncle was killed in a skirmish with the 9th Kansas Calvary near Westport, Missouri on either 16 or 17 June 1863. Can anyone tell me where I might find the report filed by the Commander of the 9th Kansas Calvary regarding this incident. In this incident they incountered Todd's men, with him were Fletcher Taylor, Al Wyatt, Ferdenand Scott, Frank and Jessie James. They were part of Quantrill's Regiment. My Great Uncles name was Daniel Boone Scholl. I have read about this incident in several books, but was wondering about the official report. Thanks, Claiborne Scholl Nappier

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This may be to long for you to read, it is a letter written by my ggrandfather while he was in the civil war. He did not serve from Missouri but I believe from ILL. Camp near Roseville, Georgia March 21, 1864 Dear Brother, I embrace the present opportunity of writing to you to let you know that I am still in good health for which I thank God for his goodness towards me and hope that these lines may find you enjoying the same blessing. I am in the 3rd Division of the 14th Corps in a camp near Roseville, Georgia. I could not tell how long we will stay here. Some think we will leave before long and give the Rebels fight and some think that we will stay here for several months. This is a healthy country and the best of water, but it is a miserable poor country for farming. We are about 29 miles from the North Carolina line. I am as yet well satisfied with the service as I had any reason to expect. We have plenty to eat and not much to do but enough to keep us healthy. The boys exercise themselves in playing ball and other amusements. For my part I employ my time in reading, writing and walking around the camp and country as we have full privilege of walking every where we please inside of our picket lines; which is from 1 to 3 miles from camp. We were out on the old Chickamauga battle field yesterday. We saw many causalities there, the graves of the dead, and the scars on the trees of both cannons and muskets, which in places has literally mowed the underbrush while the ground is strown with bullets, pieces of shells, grape and canister shot. It is very cold here today. Please pay a little attention to my folks if you please and see that they do not get out of wood before the cold weather. Please give my respects to all the friends. Write as often as convenient and let me know how you are all doing. Give my compliments to my old mother. I would say to her to be faithful in the Christian cause, pray to God and trust to his goodness in all things. He is our strength and shield and our exceeding great reward, although fate may scatter you and your children far over this wide world if we are faithful we will all meet again never to part again and there Mother, those wrinkled cheeks of thine will bloom in immortal youth and those fond eyes that often weeps over your children will never shed a tear if we should never meet again on earth let us all try to meet in heaven. So fair well for the present. Francis P. Speck Note: Francis P. Speck was a Union soldier fighting for the North during the Civil War. He died at Lookout Mountain Hospital, Chattanooga, TN in Aug 1864. I do not know if he died in battle or from disease. In fact I know next to nothing about him. Diane

This morning I have received word that only the brochures from the Confederate Memorial Site at Higginsville are being removed "because it shows the Confederate flag flying and no longer accurately represents the site." Scott Williams

With all the bad news State and National, there is something for us to look forward to: A Louisiana Division SCV member has previewed the upcoming "Gods and Generals" movie, set to release Friday Feb. 21st. Although his review was not released to the general public, his concluding statement could be considered a thumbs up. "...In a nutshell, I can, and do, pronounce the motion picture as well worth the anticipation those... have for it. It is somewhat more even-handed, though not completely so, as "Gettysburg." In addition, The Missouri Civil War Museum will be promoted at local St. Louis area movie theatres on the weekend of Feb. 21-23. http://www.missouricivilwarmuseum.org/ ------------------------ Production Company: Turner Pictures (Gettysburg, Fallen, Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet) Cast: Bruce Boxleitner (Lt. General James Longstreet), Billy Campbell, Jeff Daniels (Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain), Robert DuVall (General Robert E. Lee), C. Thomas Howell (Tom Chamberlain), Stephen Lang (General Stonewall Jackson), Malachy McCourt, Mira Sorvino (Fanny Chamberlain), Royce D. Applegate (Brig. General James L. Kemper), Bo Brinkman (Major Walter H. Taylor), Mac Butler (Joseph Hooker), Senator Robert Byrd, John Castle (Old Penn), Chris Connor (John Wilkes Booth), Kevin Conway (Sgt. Buster Kilrain), Miles Fisher (John Beale), David Foster (Captain Ricketts), Patrick Gorman (Brig. General John Bell Hood), Senator Phil Gramm, Bo Gray (Poague), Fred Griffith (General Robert Rodes), Karen Hochstetter (Roberta Corbin), Con Horgan (Dooley), Rosemary Knower (Mary Lincoln), Cooper Kuckabee (Harrison), Charles Lester Kinsolving (Brig. General William Barksdale), Jeremy London, Brian Mallon (Brig. General Winfield Scott Hancock), Tim Ruddy (Major Charles Marshall), William Sanderson (Hill), William Morgan Sheppard (Brig. General Isaac R. Trimble), Stephen Spacek, James Patrick Stuart (Col. E. Porter Alexander), Dechen Thurman, Trent Walker (McClintock), Alex Hyde White (General Ambrose Burnside); there are 157 speaking roles (!) Based Upon: The book of the same title by Jeff Shaara. http://www.godsandgenerals.com/ --Scott Williams

This was reported to Gene Dressel, Commander of the Missouri Division SCV on Feb 5th: "I was just contacted by a state employee who told me that all CW parks and sites today received instructions to pull all pamphlets, indeed all printed material offered to the public that has a depiction of the battle flag!" Pretty troubling if this is true. Scott Williams

History of Black Confederate Soldiers Now Being Told http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=1114196 Desoto Joe/The Record Man

Thomas Taylor's Civil War role examined http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/stories/20030204/localnews/912599.html Desoto Joe/The Record Man

CIVIL WAR COMING TO NYC By LOU LUMENICK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 5, 2003 -- THE South will rise again - as more than 100 Civil War re-enactors battle in Central Park on Feb. 19 in one of the most elaborate publicity stunts staged for a movie in recent memory. Fully uniformed and armed units representing the North and South will re-enact a charge in the park to promote "Gods and Generals," a 3-hour- and-45-minute Civil War epic opening on Feb. 21. Jeff Daniels and other cast members will be on hand for the 10-minute re-enactment, for which pup tents, camp fires and TV cameras will be set up on the East Meadow. "Gods and Generals," which also stars Robert Duvall, was personally funded by media mogul Ted Turner, a Civil War buff who reportedly put up $56 million of his own money. The film is being released by Warner Bros., a unit of AOL Time Warner - where Turner resigned as vice-chairman last week, though the billionaire remains the conglomerate's single largest stockholder and retains a seat on the board of directors. A Warner Bros. spokeswoman claimed the re-enactors were mostly paying their own way, with any incidental expenses coming out of the film's publicity budget. A press junket and the film's premiere will be held this weekend in Washington, D.C. - but no battles are scheduled there. http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/68418.htm Desoto Joe/The Record Man

Hello, The statewide reading program "ReadMOre" has selected Enemy Women as its 2003 book selection. It is a work of fiction, but deals with the Civil War in Missouri. The author, Paulette Jiles will speak at the De Soto Public Library on March 22 at 3:00 p.m. Chris Merseal Jefferson County Library Desoto Joe/The Record Man

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Civil War letters turned into book By Kate Peabody -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Gainesville man has published a book of letters that his great-grandfather wrote home during the Civil War. Nat Turner is the editor of "A Southern Soldier's Letters Home -- the Civil War Letters of Samuel Burney, Army of Northern Virginia." Burney graduated from Mercer University in 1860, then served in the Army of Northern Virginia both in Virginia and Tennessee for four years. He was wounded at Chancellorsville in May 1863. After the war, Burney returned to Mercer's theology school and was ordained into the Baptist ministry. He served several churches in Morgan County and was pastor of Madison Baptist Church until shortly before his death in 1896. His letters were written to his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Shepherd, and described battles, camp life, theology and the day-to-day dreariness of life in the army. Turner is a native of Covington and a graduate of Georgia Tech. He was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy and retired as a textile engineer from Milliken Inc. The book is published by Mercer University Press in Macon. Desoto Joe/The Record Man