Prattville Dragoons’ Adjutant Doug Butler along with Reenactment Brigade Commander Jeremy Booth and Trace Johnson of the Tuscaloosa Ploughboys SCV Camp 2312 provided a color guard for the UDC Historical Banquet which was a part of the annual Alabama Division UDC Convention at the Prattville Marriott Sept 11-13th. The color guard posed with UDC banquet attendees before the program and then posted colors as part of the processional which started the evening’s agenda. SCV SWC Brigade Commander Waldo’s daughter also brought greetings from the Children of the Confederacy during the recognition of guests. Alabama Division Commander Jimmy Hill was in attendance representing the SCV and former Commander Carl Jones brought greetings from the SCV and was the recipient of a UDC award recognizing US Armed Forces service members. Brion McClanahan of the Abbeville Institute gave the keynote speech presenting on modern progressive activist historians contrasting them to historians of the early 20th century who recognized the legitimate contrasting perspectives and positions of those who fought that War.
