Prattville Dragoon Officers Harold Grooms and
Karl Wade attended the Lee-Jackson Dinner hosted by the Henry C Semple Camp on
Friday evening 20 January at GracePointe Church of Christ in Montgomery. Also
attending were Dragoons Dave Thompson, with his wife, and Tyrone Crowley, who
as he has done for several years now, read the poem, “Lee At Jacksonville” to
those attending. The poem is always read in memory of its author,
Compatriot Joseph Cecil Wingard , an SCV member who wrote the poem in
2007 for the Robert E. Lee Bicentennial. Compatriot Wingard is
buried at Coosa River Primitive Baptist Church just north of Holtville,
Alabama.
The speaker for the
evening was none other than SCV National Lt. Commander-in-Chief Larry Allen
McCluney, Jr., who did an impressive impersonation of General P. G. T.
Beauregard, launching his talk in French with “Bon soir mesdames et messieurs!”
and going on to give a brief overview of his life, and of all he and his men
experienced during the War Between the States. Commander McCluney wore a
handsome military uniform, complete with handsome riding boots. His
presentation was well-received, and when the Dragoons left afterwards people
were still in line to speak with him and ask him questions.
A delicious dinner was
provided, as always, by the Semple Camp, so everyone went home well-fed and
pleased with the evening. In these troubling times, events such as this
are uplifting and encouraging to us all.
(Contribution by Dragoon Tyrone Crowley)
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