The Sons of Confederate Veterans were founded in 1896. The first camp
in Arkansas was formed in the inaugural year at Clarksville and named
the Hall S. McConnell Camp #111. The initial roster of Arkansas camps
included Jefferson Camp #134 in Pine Bluff, William E. Moore Camp #194
in Helena, David O. Dodd Camp #147 of Austin, W.W. Meriweather Camp
#188 of Paragould, J. R. Norfleet Camp #194 of Forrest City, and Robert
C. Newton Camp #197 in the capitol city, which is the only remaining
original camp.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy was the
outgrowth of consolidating benevolent organizations and auxiliaries of United
Confederate Veterans Camps, which were formed after the Civil War. On September
10, 1894, Anna Davenport Raines of Georgia and Caroline Meriwether Goodlet of
Tennessee met in Nashville, Tennessee, to draw together these groups under the
name the National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy, with Goodlet
as president. At a second meeting in 1895, the name was changed to the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, and Mrs. John C. Brown became the first
president-general of the modern organization. Many of the Arkansas Civil
War memorials are due to the women of the UDC.
For
all his courage, his sterling character, and
selfless commitment
to his cause, Patrick Cleburne has not received the commemoration his
career
and personal bravery deserve. The
Patrick Cleburne Society was founded
in 1998 to perpetuate his memory through events and seminars
commemorating
his life and accomplishments. Arguably the best Confederate general in
the Army of Tennessee, Cleburne remains virtually unknown to most
Americans
and many Southerners. Through the Patrick Cleburne Society, we hope to
rectify this oversight, and preserve for future generations not only
the
battlefields where Cleburne’s Division won
immortality, but the story
of
the man who led it.
General Robert C. Newton Camp #197 of Little Rock
Founded in
October,
1901, the General Robert C. Newton Camp # 197 of Little Rock, Arkansas,
is the oldest continually active camp of the Arkansas Division, Sons of
Confederate Veterans, as well as the oldest continually active camp
west
of the Mississippi River.
Union
veterans of the Civil War organized into the Grand Army
of
the Republic and became a social and political force that would control
the destiny of the nation for more than six decades. Membership was
restricted
to men who had actually served in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps or
Revenue
Cutter Service during the Civil War, thereby limiting the life span of
the G.A.R.
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