Prattville Dragoons at the Millbrook Revelers' Mardi Gras Festival and Parade

SCV Camp 1524 manned a booth at the Mardi Gras festival in the Millbrook Village Green Park on Saturday February 15th displaying the camp banner, the SCV flag and an informational poster on the Dragoons while handing out free SCV brochures, Alabama Division educational posters, mini-Battle flags and SCV coins.  The booth was set up at 7:30am by Commander Waldo, 2nd Lt Karl Wade and Quartermaster Bill Myrick.  The festival opened at 9am and the booth stayed busy all day with all the mini-Battle flags, over a hundred, handed out throughout the day.  3x5 ft flags including Confederate Battle flags, Confederate First Nationals, Bonnie Blues, Gadsden flags and Betsy Ross U.S. flags were also sold from the camp stores along with Confederate satchels and car tags to raise money for the camp treasury and to provide these heritage items to the general public.  2nd Lt Wade stayed at the booth all day long and was joined throughout the day by Commander Waldo, Quartermaster Myrick with his cousin and family, Color Sgt John Dennis with his family, and compatriots Dale Boyles, Tyrone Crowley, and Andy Bodenheimer.

The Dragoons also fielded an entry in the Mardi Gras parade which is billed as the largest north of Mobile.  It was a great entry which included the truck of Color Sgt Dennis with the camp's Mardi Gras banner strung across the front followed by the appropriately colored purple Dodge Charger of Commander Waldo with Mardi Grad decorations and a couple of Confederate Battle flag car flags, Comms Ofc Beir Butler's golf cart decked with Mardi Gras decorations with a large Battle Flag and Alabama Secession flag off the back and bringing up the rear were Don Owens and Chop Chop with the Mechanized Cavalry joined by Dragoon Bill Hamner on their Harley Davidsons.  Commander Waldo and 1st Lt Harold Grooms and Quartermaster Myrick walked the parade route.  The families of Dennis, Waldo and Myrick rode in the vehicles and enjoyed waving to the spectators and throwing candy and goodies to the crowds also.  Hundreds of mini-Battle flags and SCV coins along with bags of candy were distributed to spectators all along Main Street in Millbrook as the parade route took participants from Mill Creek Park about a mile north to just past the Village Green Park.  The SCV entry is always one of the most popular and it's always a festive time in the Revelers Mardi Grad parade and festival in Millbrook.