PRESS RELEASE for Confederate
History Month
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Contact
information: Calvin E. Johnson, Jr., Chairman of the Confederate History Month
Committee of the Sons of Confederate Veterans
http://www.confederateheritagemonth.com
1064 West Mill Drive,
Kennesaw,
Georgia 30152
Phone: 770 428
0978
Cell Phone: 770
330 9792
Email:
cjohnson1861@bellsouth.net
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
April 1-30th
2011 is Confederate History and Heritage Month throughout the
USA!
The Confederate History Month Committee of the National and Georgia Division
Sons of Confederate Veterans proudly recognizes and appreciates the signing of
proclamations by Southern governors, mayors and county commissioners since 1995
designating the month of April as “Confederate History and Heritage Month.”
In 2009, the
Georgia General Assembly approved Senate Bill No.27 and was signed by Past
Governor Sonny Perdue, officially and permanently designating April as
Confederate History and Heritage Month in
Georgia.
In 1999,
Texas Senate Resolution No. 526 passed
designating April as Confederate History and Heritage Month in the “Yellow Rose”
State of
Texas.
The 150th
Anniversary “Sesquicentennial” of the War Between the States ”1861-1865” is now
underway through 2015 and the Confederate History Month Committee encourages
everyone to make it a family affair and learn more about this important time in
our nation’s past. See Georgia Division SCV Sesquicentennial Committee website
at:
http://www.150wbts.org/
Confederate
History Month commemorates the men and women of the Confederate States of
America who came from all races and religions that include: Irish-born General
Patrick R. Cleburne, Black Confederate drummer Bill Yopp, Mexican born Colonel
Santos Benavides, Cherokee Born General Stand Watie and Jewish born Confederate
Nurse Phoebe Pember who was the first female administrator of Chimboraza
Hospital in Richmond, Virginia where she served until the end of War Between the
States.
The Confederate
History Month Committee salutes the women of Old Dixieland like Sally Tompkins
of Richmond, Virginia who was commissioned a Captain by President Jefferson
Davis and who financed and ran the Robertson Hospital in Richmond, Virginia
during the war and….
Mrs. Charles J.
Williams of
Columbus,
Georgia who was among those
responsible for getting Confederate Memorial Day recognized as a legal holiday
in
Georgia by act of the
Georgia legislature
in 1874. For over 100 year’s members of the Ladies Memorial Association, United
Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans have held annual
Confederate Memorial days on or near April 26th. Other states
celebrate Confederate Memorial Day on May 10th and June 3rd--the
birthday of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Read more about
Confederate History Month at:
http://www.confederateheritagemonth.com
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