SCV Camp 1524 Prattville Dragoons Commander's Column – A Calling as a Son of Confederate Veterans

Another recent sermon resonated with me as outlining applicable points to our Cause.  The Sermon was entitled “The Calling” regarding 2 Timothy 1:6-9.  Our pastor said we are called to a person as Christians, he being Jesus Christ.  As Southerners and Sons specifically, we are called by our Confederate ancestors.  The veterans who served their states and the Confederacy in their fight for independence. 

The purpose for which we are called is to honor the Cause for which our Confederate ancestors fought and died.  We remember the sacrifices and deprivations they endured in defending their homes and families from the invasion of an army bent on forcing them into a union which they rejected as unconstitutional , subjugating them and their Southland to servitude to an almighty centralized federal government.

We are called with a passion to defend our Confederate ancestors character and good name as the Charge further implores us, “the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles he loved and which made him glorious and which you also cherish.”   When we sing “Dixie” and exclaim “Hooray” we all surely recognize the stirring in our souls that our ancestors sang the same song and believed in that wonderful Dixieland and the God fearing culture and society they and their forebears created that is the South.

We are called down a path.   General Robert E. Lee said,  “Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.”  We are called as Sons of Confederate Veterans to follow the Charge which Stephen Dill Lee recited first to those United Confederate Veterans in 1906 in New Orleans.  We should serve as Sons of Confederate Veterans to honor their legacy and see that our children and grandchildren continue to recognize and appreciate the truth in their valiant struggle.

Finally, we are called into a position, that being an assignment or role or perhaps leadership position within the SCV to do the work of our camp or perhaps the state or national organization.  You will receive the most blessings and return on the investment in your SCV membership thru engagement in the activities of the camp be it helping with cemetery maintenance, at a booth at a fair or festival, participating in a parade of Christmas season bell ringing for the Salvation Army with your brothers, or simply but importantly renewing your membership and supporting our fundraising to continue the work of the camp, the Charge.  

You should be proud to be able to embrace with a passion the purpose and calling to continue down the path of honoring that noble person, your Confederate ancestor, thru serving the camp and SCV in a position of servitude as they did the Cause of independence to preserve their way of life and protect their homes and families.