Welcome to the Home Page of the
Brigadier General T. R. R. Cobb
Camp #97
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Athens, Georgia
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 Athens,
Georgia area
interested in their Confederate heritage. The camp is named for the highest
ranking Athenian killed during the war, Brigadier General T. R. R Cobb. Camp
meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, except July and
December, at 7:30 pm at the Watkinsville
Community Center on VFW Drive. For more
information contact the camp
Adjutant, Robert N. Hale:
sonsofdixie@bellsouth.net. For
more Cobb Camp history and information, click HERE.
Meet
Our New Commander
Officers for 2008-2009
click HERE!
Meetings and Activities:
November 1, 2007: Camp Meeting, 7:30 PM: Rev. Jim Cabaniss
of Lawrenceville will speak on “Christianiy and the
Common Confederate Soldier”.
December 6,
2007: Camp Christmas
party, 6:00 PM: Watkinsville
Community Center; catered
by Chonell’s; special entertainment provided. Spouses
welcome.
January 3,
2008: Camp Meeting,
7:30 PM: Dr. David Wiggins will present a program on Confederate images.
His new book “Georgia’s
Confederate Sons – Vol. 1” is a compilation of images of approximately 300
Georgia Confederate soldiers, most never before published. Each image has a
mini-biography of the subject, giving the pertinent details of his life and
Confederate service. Cobb Camp members Goodlow Erwin, Bucky Redwine, and George
Smith loaned several of these images. Dr. Wiggins will have copies of all of
his books for sale at the meeting.
February 7,
2008: Camp Meeting,
7:30 PM: Muriel Jolsyn will present a program.
March 6, 2008: Camp Meeting, 7:30 PM: Presentation
By Joe Warnke of Dawsonville. He will speak on The
Constitutionality of Secession. Warnke is Adjutant to
the SCV Army of Tennessee and a member of the Col.
Hiram Parks Bell Camp 1642 in Cumming,
GA.
April 3, 2008: Camp Meeting, 7:30 PM: John Latty will present a program on his new book the 11th
Calvary. Books for sale.
June 5, 2008: Camp Meeting, 7:30 PM: Milton Leathers
of Athens will speak on the life of Jefferson Davis. This year marks the 200th
anniversary of the birth of President Davis, which is being
commemorated throughout the South. Davis
was born June 3, 1808 in Kentucky.
July 12, 2008: Camp Meeting, 7:30 PM: Camp Picnic,
Harris Shoals Park,
Watkinsville, Hwy 53 just beyond VFW Drive (location of regular meeting
place of camp). cmp will
provide hamburgers, hot dogs, and buns. Members, wives, girl friends, children
invited.
August 7, 2008: Camp Meeting, 7:30 PM: Former commander
Jason Mergele will share a program on the 1864 Red
River Campaign in Louisiana– a look at ware on
the other side of the Mississippi River.
September 4, 2008: Camp Meeting, 7:30 PM: Dr. Mark Waters III of Washington, GA
will present a program on the Confederate Treasury’s gold. The gold was transported from Richmond,
Va. with evacuating Confederate
leaders, including President Jefferson Davis. Much of it was
taken in a nighttime raid outside Washington,
Ga. What happened to the gold has
been the subject of many legends. Dr. Waters worked as a physical scientist
with the National Weather Service. Now retired, he is a member of the Georgia
Historical Society Speakers’ Bureau, and the Civil War Round Tables in
Washington and Augusta, Ga.
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/
Comments concerning this web page should
be
directed to the Camp Webmaster
at billyg@uga.edu
