SCV Camp 46

MOSB Chapter 88

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Camp 46 meets the 2nd Monday of each month except July and August. The meeting location is Mary Mac's Tea Room on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta.

Scheduled meetings:
September 14, 2009 - SCV Field Representative Jack Marlar will give a presentation on "Great Artillery Actions of the WBTS."

October 12, 2009 - John Todd, Commander of the 11th Brigade Georgia SCV will discuss "Masonic Brothers in the WBTS."

November 9, 2009 - Our guest speaker will be college professor and author John Latty. Mr. Latty will give a power point presentation on two of his books which deal with the 7th and 11th Georgia Cavalry Regiments. These books will be on sale at the meeting. Mr. Latty’s ancestors served in both of these units.

December 14, 2009 - Annual Christmas Party. Celebrate the season with your SCV Compatriots. There will be no guest speaker at this meeting, and we will have a special dinner featuring turkey, dressing, sweet potato souffle, corn, green beans and pumpkin pie. We will also be holding camp elections for the 2010 year.

January 11, 2010 - Our guest speaker will be Bruce Stewart who is the current president of the Civil War Round Table of Atlanta. Bruce has authored a book on Patrick Cleburne and will speak to us on Cleburne’s military career.

February 8, 2010 - Charlie Crawford, president of Georgia Battlefields Association, will speak to us on battlefield preservation in our state. This is a program no one will want to miss.

March 8, 2010 - David Vaughn is a past president of the Civil War Roundtable of Atlanta. He will do a power point presentation on "Confederate Faces in Color." Mr. Vaughn’s work has appeared in many prestigious publications, and we are honored to have him as our guest speaker.

April 12, 2010 - H.T. Maclin, a veteran of World War 2 (US Navy, retired), will speak to us on the Battle of Leyte Gulf and Halsey's typhoon.

May 10, 2010 - Lee Weinstein, past president of the Atlanta Civil War Roundtable will speak about the third day at Gettysburg.

June 14, 2010 - Please note new meeting schedule. May's guest speaker will be honorary Camp 46 member Dr. Rob Zaworski. His topic will be the restoration at Oakland Cemetery. Dr. Zaworski is the author of a book on the Confederate dead in Oakland. This is the last meeting before summer break. New meeting schedule is as follows: Social is from 6:00PM until 6:30PM. Dinner will be ordered at 6:30PM. Meeting will come to order at 6:45PM.

Previous guests/subjects at Camp meetings have included:
Frederick R. Adolphus - Dueling in the Old South
LTC Keith Bilyeu, USAF(Ret) - briefing on the F/A-22 Raptor Program
Jack Bridwell - The Georgia SCV Division's Vision for the Future
Valerie Cox - WBTS medicine
Mr. Greg Dillard - Cook & Brother Armory, Athens, GA
Mr. David Evans, author of Sherman's Horsemen
Timothy Frilingos - Georgia State Capitol flag collection
Dr. Robert Latham - Wade Hampton
Mr. John E. McCay - To The Banks of the Chattahoochee: The Fighting Around Dallas and Kennesaw during the Atlanta Campaign
Don Newman - Thomas L. Hernandez, pilot of the CSS Atlanta
Gordon Ponsford - Conservation of the John B. Gordon statue
Thomas A. Scott, PhD - Why Georgia seceded from the Union
David W. Vaughan - Southern Photography and Civil War Faces, a presentation of Confederate Images highlighting Georgia Confederates