Ten members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 1524 Prattville Dragoons helped place new Battle Flags on the graves of Confederate veterans at Prattville's Oak Hill cemetery on Saturday morning March 25th. Dragoons Commander Waldo and his son, Adjutant Sutherland, 1st Lt Rob Schwartz, Color Sgt Dennis and compatriots Larry Spears, Darrell Haywood, Todd Rogers, Louis Turner, and Thomas Griffith participated in this annual event to observe Confederate History and Heritage month of April in Alabama. There was a big rainstorm earlier that morning which softened the ground and made inserting the wooden sticks in the ground much easier. Adjutant Sutherland provided maps of the graveyard with the Confederate veterans highlighted so they could be located easily, old flags removed for disposal and bright new flags placed next to their headstones. PVC pipes were previously installed in the ground to receive the flags at most of the graves. A US flag was placed along with a Confederate flag also at the Monument to Soldiers of All Wars there at Oak Hill cemetery. A number of Dragoons camp members are veterans of the armed forces. The prior day, Brigade Commander Harold Groom singlehandedly placed flags on the 300+ Confederate veteran graves at Confederate Memorial Park in Marbury. Confederate Memorial Park is at the site of the Alabama Confederate Veterans retirement home and is teh site of two graveyards of these veterans as well as a museum, historic period buildings, and the SCV AL Division library. These flags look amazing across the expanse of the cemeteries there at CMP.
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