Welcome to the Home Page of the
Brigadier General T.
R. R. Cobb
Camp #97
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb
April 10, 1823-December 13, 1862
For more on General Cobb, click HERE!
Camp #97 of the Sons of
Confederate Veterans was organized and chartered in the spring of 1985 by a
small group of local men from the
Officers for 2010-2011
click HERE!
Special Activities:
Meetings and Activities:
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Feb 4, 2010: Camp
meeting, 7:30 PM: Rev.
Dan Maxey will be the speaker. He will talk bout opportunities in collecting
and investing in Civil War books.
Rev. Maxey is a local collector and dealer in rare books, and he will
bring lots of books with him to the meeting.
The public is welcome. |
Mar 4, 2010: Camp
meeting, 7:30 PM: Presentation:
Billy Galt of Athens will speak on "Ben T. Epps,
Georgia's First Aviator". Ben Epps, a
descendant of Confederate soldiers, was born in Oconee County.
He was just a teenager when he built the first airplane to fly in
Georgia at his shop on Washington St. in Athens in 1907, and he flew the
plane in an open field near Athens. A
historic marker has been placed at the site of his shop and a bust and replica
of his plane can be seen at the Ben Epps Airport. A
life-sized bronze statue is planned for downtown. Galt
is a grandson of Epps and a member of the Cobb Camp.
April 1, 2010: Camp
meeting, 7:30 PM: Dr. Mark Waters of Washington, Ga. will
be the speaker. His talk, titled
"His Name is Still Mudd, will be about the role that Dr. Samuel A. Mudd of
Beantown, Maryland, played in the assassination of President Lincoln. Dr. Mudd set John Wilkes Booth's broken leg
in the early morning hours of April 15, 1865, shortly after Lincoln's
assassination. He was tried and
convicted as a conspirator and later pardoned by President Andrew Johnson. Debate continues about whether Mudd was
guilty. Dr. Waters, a retired physical
scientist with the National Weather Service, is a member of the Georgia
Historical Society's Speakers Bureau and the Civil War Roundtables in
Washington and Augusta, Ga.
April 11, 2010: Camp
Cobb 25th Anniversary Observance and Reception: Held at the TRR Cobb House at 175 Hill
St. from 3:00 to 5:00 pm.
April 26, 2010: Confederate
Memorial Day: Volunteers
are needed to place flags at 438 identified grave sites. Please meet at the water trough at 7:30 am.
At 4:00 pm all members and their families and friends are invited to gather at
the grave site of General Cobb near the bridge that separates the old and new
sections of the cemetery. The guest
speaker for this event will be Mr. Sam Thomas, Director of The T. R. R. Cobb
house on Hill St. After the ceremonies and program, members will recover the
flags that were placed there that morning.
May 6, 2010: Camp
meeting, 7:30 PM: Andrew
Clyde, owner of Clyde Armory will be the speaker. He will be speaking on the
Cook Armory on the Atlanta Highway.
June 3, 2010: Camp
meeting, 7:30 PM: Our
speaker will be Ms. Volene Cox, a registered nurse from Gwinnett County. She is a member of the Civil War Surgeons and
her talk will be “History of Medical and Surgical Procedures during the Civil
War” She will bring some of her
collection of medical instruments from the period to show.
July 10, 2010:
In
lieu of our regular meeting we will be having a Camp Picnic on the second
Saturday in July. Members and families are invited. It will be held at Harris
Shoals Park off highway 53, just below the camp meeting site at Watkinsville’s
City Hall. Hamburgers and hotdogs will be provided. Please bring tea or soft
drinks, salads, baked beans, hot dog chili, desserts or other side dishes.
Contact Robert Hale at
sonsofdixie@bellsouth.net
no later than Thursday, July 8 so he will know how much food to buy.
August 5, 2010: Camp meeting, 7:30 PM: Jack Marlar of Fountain Inn, S.C., will be the speaker for the night. His topic will be "How Europeans viewed the War Between the States." Marlar is Field Representative for the National Headquarters of the SCV. He will bring books and other Confederate items for sale.
Sept 2, 2010: Camp meeting, 7:30 PM: Our speaker will be Ed Jackson, a former member of the Cobb Camp. His topic will be the Georgia connections of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Jackson is retired Senior Public Service Associate with the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia. He is well known for his contributions to Georgia history, including a high school textbook, and for his work with the state legislature.
Sons of Confederate Veterans Links:
Sons of Confederate Veterans General Headquarters go to: http://www.scv.org/
Army of Tennessee go to: http://www.scvaot.org/
Georgia Division go to: http://www.georgiascv.com/
Military Order of Stars and Bars; Robert Toombs Chapter # 176: http://roberttoombs.angelfire.com/
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