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Col. E. W. Taylor Camp #1777
NEWSLETTERSONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS
November……………………………2019
This
presentation
is first, last,
and only the
work of Mr.
Kizer.
Thanksgiving!
Take the time and effort you’d have spent getting to our meeting this
month and meet with your family. Tell them again how lucky they are
to be heirs of the Southern tradition. Then pop out West a few miles
and go horse shopping or, better yet, go to D.C. and take a few scalps.
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Our meetings are on the last Thursday of each month, except November and December when we
don’t meet because it would always conflict with the holidays.
Each month’s program announcement is always on the first page of this newsletter.
We meet at the Catfish and Company restaurant in Hurst, Texas, along the north side of the
Airport Freeway and on the access road west of Precinct Line Road.
If you’d like to eat with us we’d suggest you be there at 6 p.m. We start the meeting at 7 p.m.
Our goal is to be finished and out by 8:30 p.m. It would be bad manners for a group as large as
ours to stay ‘til closing time. We appreciate the restaurant’s hospitality to the Sons of
Confederate Veterans.
Who are we? That’s easy to see!!!
Go to our website and start looking at our newsletters, beginning with
the most recent and working back. Contact us at [email protected]
http://www.taylorcampscv.org/
For our website: user name is TaylorCamp and password is SCV1777EWTaylorCamp
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Thanks to our
talented 1st Lt.
Commander,
Rich McCook,
for his program
on Irish Pub
Music at our
October
meeting!
He finished the evening with a short history of
Dixie, performed the way it was originally
written to be sung. Wonderful songs, wonder-
ful friends…a perfect way to end our 2019
season. See you at the Christmas Party!
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Honoring Two Tarrant County Pioneers
Saturday,
Nov. 16, 2019,
10 a. m
Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Terry, Texas State Troops
and his son,
Sgt. Nathaniel Terry, Jr.,Co. K, 7th Texas Cavalry,
Confederate States Army
Pioneer’s Rest Cemetery, 620 Samuels Avenue, Fort Worth
Sponsored by
The Julia Jackson Chapter #141,
United Daughters of the Confederacy
and
The Col. E. W. Taylor Camp #1777
Sons of Confederate Veterans
All are welcome
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Getting to Pioneer’s Rest CemeteryFrom the north: Go west on North Side Drive off I-35W for
1.13 miles (you’ll be crossing the river once) to the Samuels Avenue
Exit. You’ll be taking Samuels Avenue south, but it’s a right exit and
you’ll make a clockwise circle to get on Samuels South. There may
or may not be a Samuels Avenue sign.
Drive south about .9 mile on Samuels Avenue to the cemetery on
your left (east).
From the south: Come into Fort Worth heading west on E.
Belknap Street. About three blocks before you reach the old court
house turn right (north) on Grove Street and go one block north.
Turn right (east) on East Bluff Street. Go about 3 blocks on E.
Bluff St. until it dead ends into North Elm Street. Turn left (north)
onto Elm Street and continue north. It becomes Samuels Avenue
and after about five blocks you’ll see Pioneer’s Rest on your right
(east).
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Several opportunities for public
service coming up soon
Saturday
morning,
November 16,
10 a.m.
Pioneer’s Rest
Cemetery, Ft. WorthWe need you there. Come in uniform and armed to help with the
musket salute if you can, otherwise just come. Dedication of two
Terry markers; Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Terry and his son, Sgt.
Nathaniel Terry, Jr. of the 7th Texas Cavalry, CSA. Shooters a little
early, please.
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The Military Order
of the
World Wars
Sunday, November 10, 2019
2:30 P.M.
Trimble Tech High School
39th Annual Massing of the Colors and
Service of Remembrance in Fort WorthYou can’t imagine a more moving patriotic experience than this
yearly event. The Taylor Camp always takes part…some in
Confederate uniform and some (who are also SAR members) in
Revolutionary uniform.
While only two of us who are in Confederate uniform may enter in
the processional, it’d still be nice to have a uniformed presence there.
Two of our members, Rich McCook and
Terry Theiss, also are there performing as part
of the Frontier Brigade Band. Their concert
begins at 2 p.m.
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Staging area for the Nov. 11
Veteran’s Day Parade in Fort Worth
The staging area is the huge parking lot around Panther
Island Pavilion. For you grizzled veterans, it used to be the
Leonard’s subway parking lot. Take Belknap Street into
downtown past the court house, cross Henderson Street, turn
right onto West Lexington Street and watch the signs.
It’s best to get there before 9:30 when they start closing
downtown streets. It’ll also help you have time to get parked
and find the rest of the SCV people.
If you’d like to ride with the SCV please
email Patterson at [email protected]
ASAP and he’ll pass the information along.
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Two of the Taylor Camp’s most active
and talented members are also members
of the Frontier Brigade Band.
They are identified above. Although we most often see them in their roles as Civil War-
era musicians, they do other styles, including the Brass Connection including Kliene
Grenze Kapelle (which is “Frontier Brigade Band in German) (German music) in which
style they’ll also be appearing in this area in the near future.
Treat yourself ! You won’t regret it !
Terry
Theiss
Richard
McCook
Sunday, Nov. 10 @ 2pm - Trimble Tech. Massing of the Colors.
Monday, Nov. 11 @ 2pm - Keller Town Center. Field of Honor.
Friday, Dec. 13 @ 7pm - Martin United Methodist Church in Bedford.
Brass Connection Christmas Concert.
Friday, Dec. 20 @ 6pm - Dallas Arboretum. Brass Connection Christmas
music.
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American Patriot, decorated Army Veteran, to
address the SCV in Dallas on November 7
A. H. Belo Camp in Dallas extends an invitation
Allen B. West (above) is an American political commentator, retired
U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, author, and former member of the U. S.
House of Representatives.
He will be the speaker at the November meeting of the A. H. Belo
SCV Camp in Dallas on November 7. The meeting will take place at the
Highland Park Cafeteria at 1200 N. Buckner Road at Garland Road.
They suggest you begin arriving at 5:30-6 to eat, and the meeting begins
at 6. Go through the serving line and then go to the Shakespeare Room.
Col. West is from a distinguished military family. A contributor for
Fox News, he is making a run for the Texas GOP Chairman’s Seat in
2020. If you’re working getting there by 5:30 will be a feat.
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Arlington, Texas to be home for new
National Medal of Honor Museum
There are several good internet sources for this announcement
made on October 4, 2019. Another world-class museum in our own
backyard! This article is a good starting place:https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/arlington/
article235816312.html
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Re-enactment Skirmish and Living History,
Texas Civil War Museum, Fort Worth
Saturday, November 2, 2019
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
FREE
15th Texas Cavalry and Boy/Girl Scouts
Skirmish/Battle at 12:00 and 2:00
Drill and Firing Demos and Fiddle Music
throughout the day.
Lectures on Female Soldiers, Officers,
Flags Medicine and More
We got the Terry
stones installed at
Pioneer’s Rest on
Monday morning,
October 21. This
newsletter was al-
ready so long
we’re going to wait
until next month to
run photos of this
unusual install.
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Come and join us! Spouses, guests, BFFs, etc. are
always welcome. A nicer bunch of party animals you’ll
never meet !
Bring a white elephant gift if you’d
like to take part in the gift exchange.
Annual E. W. Taylor Camp Christmas Party
Thurs. Dec. 12, 2019, 6 p.m.
Catfish and Company Restaurant in Hurst
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https://www.localmemphis.com/news/local-
news/tennessee-supreme-court-denies-petition-to-review-
lower-court-ruling-dismissing-lawsuit-over-confederate-
statues-in-memphis/
Court ruling allows Memphis Greenspace to move
Confederate statues out of Shelby County
The City of Memphis continues to
lead the way in the push to remove
statues of people intellectually superior
to those making the rules there today.
In addition to Jefferson Davis and
Nathan Bedford Forrest, above, a new
man is now slated for removal: Capt.
James Harvey Mathes. He was an
editor, state senator, correspondent,
and published author.
See the Memphis TV spot below:
Thanks to Compatriot Clay Fitzhugh for sharing this news item with us.
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New at the Texas Civil War Museum!
[The]
Please pardon the
glare on the
photo at left.
“This last weekend Ray was able to put out the exhibit of General Longstreet’s camp cap. He
recently received the cap from the conservator and I picked up the plaque from the printer. The case
was moved from the storage to the Infantry gallery. It has been a long wait, but very well worth it.
This is the final follow up from the OSC Grant Application that was made by the Texas Civil War
Museum when Barton was Commander. We appreciate your support of the museum and all the Society
does to recognize Southern history.”
[Signed]
Cynthia Harriman
Executive Director,
Texas Civil War
Museum
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Three Confederates honored at
Oakwood Cemetery on October 9K. M. Van Zandt, Thomas N. Waul, and John Peter Smith
We were honored to be asked by the Julia Jackson UDC chapter to provide the musket squad for this
event. Van Zandt, Waul, and Smith received replacement Southern Iron Crosses of Honor at this cere-
mony,. Many of the ones originally in the cemetery disappeared during metal drives during World War
II. The squad was made up of (l-r) Bobby Gresham, Rich McCook, Mike Patterson, and James
Alderman. Taylor Camper Clay Fitzhugh also represented us that day. More than thirty folks attended
the gathering.
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Bedford cavalryman dead 150
years gets new stone October 15Four years after he came home Peter K. Matthews was shot dead while
plowing his field in Bedford.
Peter Kuykendall Matthews
was a Texas cavalryman who
was shot to death in northeast
Tarrant County only four years
after the War ended. He lies
buried in the abandoned Spring
Garden Cemetery along the
south side of Cheek-Sparger
Road in Bedford.
Peter K. Matthews was born
in Howard County, Missouri.
His headstone records his date
of birth as March 8, 1824.
Matthews served the
Confederacy as a soldier in Co.
A, 29 Texas (DeMorse’s)
Cavalry. He enlisted for a term
of three years on April 24, 1862
in Denton, Texas in Captain E.
B. Kearby’s Company of
DeMorse’s Regiment of Cavalry.
This company subsequently
became Co. A of the 29th Texas
Cavalry. He was mustered into
the Confederate service on May
3, 1862 at Camp Cooper. He
presented himself for service
riding a horse worth one
hundred dollars and with
equipment worth forty
dollars.
His name appears on a
muster roll for May and June
1863. His military records file
in the National Archives
contains two copies of his
medical discharge, complete
with all the proper
endorsements up the chain of
command.
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His discharge says he was five feet, seven
inches tall, and had a fair complexion, blue
eyes, and light hair. It was dated June 3, 1864
at Bonham, Texas. A surgeon made the
following statement about Mr. Matthews’
condition at the time: “…chronic hepatitis
and splinitis to such a degree as to render
him entirely unfit for the most ordinary
duties of life. His recovery is extremely
doubtful and far distant and therefore I
earnestly recommend his discharge from the
service…
Bedford Cavalryman, cont.
The 29th Texas took part in the Battle of
Fort Gibson, and the Battle near Honey
Springs (July 17, 1863), both in present-day
Oklahoma, In February of 1864, it took part
in the Camden Expedition which ended in
May 1864. In April 1864 the 29th Texas
became part of Gano's Brigade, Maxey's
Cavalry Division, District of Arkansas,
Trans-Mississippi Department. It took part in
the Battle at Poison Spring on April 18,
1864, and at Camden on April 23, 1864. The
regiment went through several other
organizational changes and fought in other
engagements after Mr. Matthews left it.
The fact that Mr. Matthews was buried at
Spring Garden, rather than in Bedford
Cemetery, is another circumstantial argument
to suggest that Bedford Cemetery was not
established until about 1872, as some
researchers have already suggested. On
August 10, 1867, P. K. Matthews registered
to vote in Tarrant County. He indicated he
had come to Texas about 1853, to Tarrant
County about 1857, and to his present
precinct (2) in the county about 1865.
Matthews’ old headstone says he
died on February 12, 1869. His
descendants said he was shot by
bushwhackers while working in a
field. They took the team of animals
with which he was working. His name
does not appear in the 1870 Tarrant
County Mortality Schedules compiled
by the U. S. census bureau.
In the early 1980’s when the
Spring Garden area was being
developed, this researcher carefully
monitored the digging in the cemetery
area.
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Bedford cavalryman, cont.
He found Mr. Matthews’ headstone in the back of one of the workmen's pickups; the
workman was hesitant to part with it and wanted to know what I’d give him for it. He
didn’t make the sale. Like in Poltergeist, they left the bodies but moved the stones. We
put all the readable stones from Spring Garden in Bedford Cemetery, except the one in
the photo below.
There were lots of graves in the Spring
Garden Cemetery, shown here about 1940.
This gravestone belongs to another
Confederate, Richard M. Wade, who died in
1870. His daughter and her son are posing
here. We put Mr. Wade’s stone in Mt. Gilead
Cemetery, beside his remarried wife’s.
The cemetery is in the yard of the house at
2500 Cheek-Sparger Road in Bedford, and
probably on the property of one or more houses
just east of the house there.
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Bedford Cavalryman, cont.We picked a cool,
overcast morning to
install Matthews’
new stone next to his
old one at Bedford.
The installers, all
members of the E. W.
Taylor Camp, were,
l-r below, James
Alderman, Clay
Fitzhugh, and Mike
Edwards, all veteran
headstone installers.
Mike Patterson
tagged along and
took the pictures.
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Bedford Cavalryman, cont.
By the time we first saw it,
Matthews’ stone had been
down and broken for decades.After he died, his widow,
Martha Missouri Lile
Matthews remarried. Husband
number two was another local
Confederate veteran and
certifiable character named
Rufus Bolivar Sigler.
Sigler was born in 1826 and
came to Texas with his parents
when it was still a part of
Mexico. He practiced law
before the War at several
places, including Birdville.
He and Martha were
divorced in 1886 because he
said she abandoned him.
When the 1880 census was taken, Sigler was a resident of the
Wise County jail in Decatur. His wife and children were not shown
in the county listing.
Go to our website and look at an article entitled
“Politically Incorrect” on page 16 in our June 2013
issue. The attitude Sigler had about women (as shown
in his appeal trial on a horse theft conviction) may have
been the reason Martha left him.
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We photoshopped a
derelict old sign out
of the photo here.
October 11, 2019:
Third Confederate Roadside Battle
Flag Raised in Pittsboro, N.C.
After Liberals Vote to Tear Down
Confederate Monument at Court
House there.
http://vaflaggers.
blogspot.com/
This afternoon a THIRD roadside Memorial Battle Flag was raised on a 50’ pole on
Highway 421 in Chatham County, North Carolina in response to the August 19 vote by
the Chatham County Board of Commissioners to force the removal of the Confederate
Monument there.
This project, like the first two, was a joint effort by the Virginia Flaggers, ACTBAC
NC, Old North State Flaggers, and a group of determined Chatham County residents.
Land is already being cleared for Flag Site #4.
Check their site often and consider being a regular contributor.
Go to their site. Read the stories
and see all the other photos.
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This is a schoolbook used by your editor’s maternal grandmother, who
lived from 1892 until 1972. She went to school at the Pleasant Glade
School, about a twenty-minute walk from where she lived and I live. It’s
one of the many country schools merged to make today’s Grapevine-
Colleyville I. S. D. It’s
interesting to read the
statement of the book’s
author (above), and his
explanation of the War’s
causes (next page).
Imagine all the people
who lived through the
War (and fought in it)
who read about the War
in this book.
History
as taught here
in 1895
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Cause of the War, ala 1895
Both my grandmother’s grandfathers were Confederate soldiers, and both
lived within walking distance of the Pleasant Glade School where she attended
about 1898-1908. This was the single paragraph in a book of several hundred
pages which discussed the causes of the War.
I can’t imagine that both of them didn’t hold this book in their hands and read
this section, as well as the accounts of where they fought during the WBTS.
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Nat Terry got much of the credit
and much of the blame for both
Two of the biggest
news stories in Fort
Worth just before the War
involved the hangings
of two known abolition-
ists, William H. Crawford
and Rev. Anthony Bewley,
both in 1860, both from
the same pecan tree less
than a mile outside Fort
Worth and days apart.
As we mentioned last
month, Bewley’s case is more
remembered because of what
happened to his body later.
We’ll talk about that in one of
the next pages.
We don’t normally run
text-only pages is this
newsletter, but we’re going to
this month because we want you to get the
flavor of the public dialog here in the
months before the WBTS.
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Rev. Anthony Bewley remembered most
for what happened to his body after he
crossed over the river Bewley was hanged in Fort Worth on the night of September 13, 1860.
Details of what happened next may have been embellished, or maybe not.
The Handbook of Texas ends
Bewley’s story thus: “On
September 3, 1860, a Texas
posse caught up with him near
Cassville, Missouri. His captors
returned him to Fort Worth on
September 13. Late that night
vigilantes seized Bewley and
delivered him into the hands of
a waiting lynch mob. His body
was allowed to hang until the
next day, when he was buried
in a shallow grave. Three
weeks later his bones were
unearthed, stripped of their
remaining flesh, and placed on
top of Ephraim Daggett's
storehouse, where children
made a habit of playing with
them. After Bewley's death the
Northern Methodists ended
their activities in Texas.”
An account of Bewley’s case
printed in the Houston Union on
Feb. 14, 1871 says his bones were
left atop Daggett’s store until the end
of the War. Then they were taken
down and used as a skeleton in the
offices of Drs. Burts and Peak, with
a sign on the skull which said “Thus
be it ever with abolitionists.”
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Nat Terry may have been the
most vilified man in Tarrant
County during Reconstruction
Terry may have been the most prominent
member of the Democratic party here, and when
he was named President of the Texas Democratic
Convention in Austin in 1871 the newspaper
sniping began with a vengeance. The entire article
at left was an attack on his character.
The editor made a few factual errors, and
probably a few errors of judgement, too. However,
then as now, political posturing leaves no room for
the decent and fair-minded among our elected
officials.
Terry had never been elected governor of
Alabama, but they never let facts stand in the way.
Nearly every account mentioning Bewley adds
some interesting detail to the story.
This one adds the detail that two prominent
Confederates here, Dr. Burts (also the first mayor
of Fort Worth) and Dr. Carroll M. Peak, added
emphasis to the local feelings. We made Burts
(below) a new Confederate headstone back in
2016.
If it’s true as the article says, it’s interesting
that Burts and Peak would have done such
a thing when abolition was no longer an
issue in this country.
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https://www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com/browse.html
The Essential Civil War Curriculum
A Sesquicentennial Project of The Virginia Center for Civil War
Studies at Virginia Tech
Thanks to our adjutant, James Alderman, for sharing this site with us!
This is a good introductory
article in the series to read.
You can find it online at:
It’s good to see objective scholarship is still alive at some Southern universities. The
introduction says, “Our site is fast becoming a valuable source of current scholarship
about the Civil War with improved search functionality and accessible, rich content.
We now offer over 200 peer-reviewed articles written by today’s foremost Civil War
historians. Each article, which is easy to view and download, has a précis for a quick
overview of the content. I invite you to search the topic of your choice. And, please
forward our site to your contacts who might be interested.”
JLD (Laurie) Woodruff, Executive Director and Editor
If you’ve always wanted to present a program to our
camp but couldn’t decide on a topic, here are hundreds
to choose from, already written by pros. We’ll help you
with pictures to make a power-point.
https://www.essentialci
vilwarcurriculum.com/t
he-hampton-roads-
peace-conference.html
The Hampton Roads
Peace Conference
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The Hampton Roads Peace Conference, cont.
https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=ZSS5SscrLoU
https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=IgEsUhHN3iQ&t=48s
Here are two interesting clips from the recent Lincoln
movie depicting the Hampton Road Peace Conference. In
the first, Grant is meeting with the commissioners and
addressing Alexander Stephens before they see Lincoln. In
the second, Lincoln is speaking to the commissioners after
one of them has just walked out.
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Lincoln tells a funny story about George Washington
This is another clip from the recent Daniel Day Lewis Lincoln movie.
Our continued thanks to Stephen Parker, the son
of our late Compatriot Ron Parker, for his service to
the camp of maintaining our web page and putting
our newsletters online.
We salute him for his computer expertise and
tireless efforts on our behalf. Have you
noticed that when there’s a computer link in
our newsletter, you don’t have to copy and
past it into your browser? You only have to
click on the link and it takes you to the site!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRBmwljrHWw
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The facts in the case of the hanging of Abolitionist
William Crawford in Fort Worth on August 14, 1860
The Dallas Herald pub-
lished a multi-part article
on is front page on May 15,
1861 in which most of the
details of the Crawford
hanging are covered.
Interestingly, it is filled
with details given by
residents, but none of them
were there and they state
that specific others were
not there. This begs the
question, “How did they
know the others weren’t
there?”
The author of the first part of the article was
Fort Worth pioneer Charles Turner, at right.
He was a friend and supporter of Nat Terry.
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Hanging of Crawford, part 2.
Mrs. Crawford’s use of
hyperbole in describing
pre-WBTS Fort Worth
reminds us of the daily
exaggerations we hear from
our elected officials in
Washington D. C. She’d
have had people all over
the country think these
photos could have easily
been taken in Fort Worth.
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Hanging of Crawford, part 3.
Oddly, in this account
Charles Turner says his father-
in-law was Ephraim M. Dag-
gett, above and below. No other
records can be found indicating
he was ever married to one of
Daggett’s daughters.
Several records say Turner
and Daggett were partners in a
store here.
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Hanging of Crawford, part 4.On the swelter-
ing afternoon of
July 8, 1860 the
temperature in
Dallas reached 105
degrees. A fire
broke out on the
square and every
building but one
was completely
destroyed. Stories
began to circulate
about other towns
catching fire on
the same day.
Abolitionists
and slaves were
immediately
blamed and sever-
al paid with their
lives.
The leaders of
Fort Worth knew
about the Dallas
fire immediately
and were on guard
for similar
trouble. All
northerners and
Unionists were
suspect.
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Hanging of Crawford, part 5
This account suggests
that it might not have been
common knowledge
among the slaves to be
able to find north by
looking at the night sky.
Here we have the
concept appearing in print
in 1861. The old song
“Follow the Drinkin’
Gourd” is generally
believed to have been sung
by slaves trying to make
their ways north. Modern
research is tending to
disprove that idea. The
song was not written down
until a folklorist recorded
it around 1915. It was first
published in 1928 by the
Texas Folklore Society.
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Hanging of Crawford, part6
Charles Turner,
above, owned the slave
who was being encour-
aged to steal two of his
best horses and escape
north with Crawford.
“…As to who did the
hanging, nobody
here knows or wants
to know. But all are
as one man and my-
self among them en-
dorse most heartily
their act.”
Charles Turner
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Hanging of Crawford, part 7
Robert Watt Tannahill,
above, was in the employ of
Turner and Daggett, and
furnished an alibi for him-
self and Turner.
It’s interesting to note
that Nathaniel Terry and Mr.
Denton swore they knew
Turner had nothing to do
with the hanging. If
charges had been brought
against anyone for the
hanging, it would be
interesting to know how
they knew what they knew.
How could anyone not at
the hanging swear someone
else wasn’t there?
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Hanging of Crawford, part 8
And then there
was that late-night
eaves-dropping
visit to Crawford’s
place. We don’t
know anything
about A.M.
Denton, who was
one of the men
who accompanied
Charles Turner and
A. Y. Fowler on
the secret trip to
Crawford’s.
Ditto for the
Notary Public, J. P.
Oliver. He was
apparently dead or
gone away by
1870. If Tarrant
County’s 1860
census had
survived, it would
answer lots of
questions for us.
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Hanging of Crawford, Part 9
Two of the men who
listened with Charles
Turner to Crawford’s
conversation are familiar
figures here.
Later that year A. Y.
Fowler, a Dallas attorney,
was one of the two men in
the gun-fight in Fort Worth
on August 14, 1861.
Neither he, nor the other
shooter, John B. York,
survived.
The town became
further polarized since both
Fowler and York had their
supporters.
In the Spring of 2016 we
made and set a headstone
for York in the Mitchell
Cemetery.Fowler is buried near
Dallas City Hall in the
Pioneer Cemetery where
they want to get rid of all
the Confederate statues.
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Hanging of Crawford, part 10
Dan Parker (above)
(1831-1907) was another
witness to Crawford urging
the slave to steal two
horses and run away.
Parker would serve in
Co. F, 19th Texas Cavalry
and later in Co. F, 10th
Texas Cavalry. He was
apparently no relation to
the large Isaac Parker fam-
ily here at the same time.
Dan Parker was a char-
ter member of the Robert
E. Lee Camp of United
Confederate Veterans
established in Fort Worth
in 1890. He lies buried in
Oakwood.
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Dr. Benjamin Franklin Barkley (1822-1882) (above)
of Birdville wrote this letter to a kinsman in Kentucky
and fixes the date of Crawford’s hanging on August 14.
1860. Barkley was one of Terry’s staunchest enemies
here.
Barkley freed his slaves in Kentucky and came to
Birdville in 1855. One of them came voluntarily with
the family.
He held several offices here during Reconstruction
including that of County Judge. He was relentless in
tracking down the KKK-like groups here, but was
tolerated because of his skills as a doctor and lawyer.
Also, he was widely known to have aided the families of
men away in the Confederate service.
As Terry again became politically active after the
War, Barkley did what he could to hold him accountable
for his alleged actions here against Abolitionists and
Union men.
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Update: the Memphismayoral race is over
Last month we reported that
this woman, Memphis city
councilperson Tami Sawyer,
was running for mayor. She
was one of the ones who’d
spoken out against Confederate
statues. Her opponents got
hold of some homophobic and
racist tweets she’d made earlier,
and they came back to haunt
her. She did her best damage
control, but it didn’t work.
During the mayoral race, Memphis
magazine printed the issue at left. Maybe
RACE wasn’t a good word for what was
going on, because the incumbent was
white and his two nearest challengers
were black. English is just like that…it
has so many words with multiple
meanings. Enough (meaning one,
possibly even more) people found the
cover of the magazine offensive that it
was taken off the shelves and the unsold
copies destroyed.
The election was held on October 3.
The white incumbent, Jim Strickland,
won with 62.1% of the vote. The man
nearest him was W. W. Herenton with
28.7%. Herenton is black, has served six
terms as Memphis’ mayor, and was the
first black ever to serve in that office.
Tami Sawyer polled 6.9%.
Just goes to show, in politics there’s no
future in saying what you think. This was
the cover after several revisions, and it
was approved by the editor.
The magazine was pulled after a complaint by
the NAACP that the cover showed, among other
things, “blatant racism, sexism, body shaming
and an overall abysmal disrespect…”
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If you don’t know Trey Gowdy of South
Carolina, you need to…
Harold Watson "Trey" Gowdy III (born August 22, 1964) is
an American attorney, television news personality, politician, and
former federal prosecutor who served as the U.S. Representative
for South Carolina's 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2019.
He was born in Greenville,
South Carolina, and had a
distinguished career as both a
federal prosecutor and a U. S.
Representative. He voluntarily
left the House after two terms to
go back into private law practice.
As a prosecutor, he never lost a
case.
He is the implacable foe of any-
one in Congress who misuses the
power given to him in the
Constitution, and to anyone
anywhere who breaks the law.
He’s the reason you should
never go to court or to a
Congressional hearing unpre-
pared. He’s one part of the
system which works as it
should. He’s a crook’s worst
nightmare, especially if that
bad guy is in elected office.
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Trey Gowdy, cont.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=giWe565hhHQ
Here’s an interesting announcement made on October 9, 2019
To see him in action just
go to https://www.youtube.com/
channel/UCBR8-60-B28hp2BmD
PdntcQ?gl=FR&hl=fr and type his
name in the search box.
There’s lots to see.
Trey is the great-great
grandson of Pvt. Benjamin
Lawrence Gowdy of Co. G,
Infantry Regiment, Wade
Hampton’s South Carolina
Legion. Trey has other
Confederate ancestors as
well.
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Thanks to:…all our members and visitors who
came to the October meeting.
….Rich McCook who presented one of
the best programs we’ve had in years.
…all the Taylor Camp members who attended the
UDC event at Oakwood on October 12: James
Alderman, Clay Fitzhugh, Bob Gresham, Rich
McCook, and Mike Patterson.
…Clay Fitzhugh, James Alderman, Mike
Edwards, and Mike Patterson for getting Mr.
Matthews’ stone installed at Bedford on Oct. 15.
…..to David Stewart, Mike Edwards, Andrew
Hull, Rich McCook, Marilyn Patterson, Mike
Patterson, Sheila Randolph, and James Myrick
who got Nathaniel Terry Sr.’s and Jr.’s stones set
Oct. 21 in Pioneer’s Rest.
…to Steve Michelis who has paid for two more
stones.
…Marilyn Patterson for taxi service for your
editor and for her input and help in proofreading
this newsletter.
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November puzzle
Thanks to Dan and
Gage of Worthington
Monuments for
engraving and
delivering Terry’s 700-
pound rock to us.
The puzzle is at the
link below, in the
shape the last person
there left it. Email
your editor if you
have problems
working it.
https://www.jigsawplanet
.com/?rc=play&pid=
25053358f2c6
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To you, Sons of Confederate
Veterans, we submit the
vindication of the cause for
which we fought. To your
strength will be given the defense
of the Confederate soldier's good
name, the guardianship of his
history, the emulation of his
virtues, the perpetuation of those
principles which he loved and
which made him glorious, and
which you also cherish.
Remember it is your duty to see
that the true history of the
South is presented to
future Generations."General Stephen Dill Lee
Commander in Chief
United Confederate Veterans
April 24, 1906