Ozarks Civil War Sesquicentennial Newsletter #71

Highlights Include: Farragut Captures New Orleans; Civil War Stamp; Silas Turnbo – Yellville in the Dark Days of Civil War;  Confederate Flag Prom Dress.

Ozarks Civil War Sesquicentennial Newsletter #73

Highlights Include:  Battle of Williamsburg; Civil War shipwreck gorernment hurdle; Shells found in Fairhope, Alabama; Civil War trivia; Silas Turnbo – A Sad Scene at a Burial in the Dusk of the Evening; Quantrill Reunion; Stonewall Comes Out of Hiding.

Ozarks Civil War Sesquicentennial Newsletter #72

Highlights Include:  Union march toward Corinth, Virginia; Dodge House; Silas Turnbo – Death of Two Federal Soldiers Who Were Supposed to Be Spies; Fall of New Orleans.

Adopt a Confederate soldier at historic
Mount Holly Cemetery

FACT: Mount Holly Cemetery is the final resting place of 189 Confederate Veterans. More than a dozen tombstones are being ordered through the Veterans Affairs Memorial Office in an effort to ensure that each Veteran has a marker. However, while conducting a recent census of the graves of these soldiers, it was discovered that only a few of the grave sites have the benefit of an iron Southern Cross of Honor placed upon their grave.

PURPOSE: We have an immediate need for 166 iron Southern Crosses of Honor to be placed on the graves of the Confederate dead.

VISION: The General T. J. Churchill Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy has initiated an ADOPT A COFEDERATE SOLDIER AT MOUNT HOLLY program in an effort to purchase and install the Southern Cross of Honor on the graves of identified Confederate soldiers.

HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS: Your 100% tax deductible donation in the amount of $100.00 will enable you to adopt a Confederate Soldier who is buried beneath the soil of historic Mount Holly Cemetery.

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE FOR YOUR $100.00:

• Tax deductible letter for your generous donation of $100.00
• Installation of the Southern Cross of Honor at gravesite
• Certificate, suitable for framing, with the name of your adopted Confederate soldier
• Fact sheet of personal information to include birth, death dates, Confederate service information, and copy of the printed obituary (when available)
• Exact address of the grave site, providing donor with a sense of ownership for this soldier.
• Invitation to dedication service at Mount Holly Cemetery, by Churchill Chapter UDC

To adopt a soldier, make checks payable to Gen. T. J. Churchill Chapter, UDC in the amount of $100.00 per adoption. Please mail to:

Kay Tatum, President                                                                   For more information:

1010 So. Scott Street                                                                      kay.tatum@yahoo.com

Little Rock, AR  72202-3824

Don has sent us photographs of the David O. Dodd memorial for 1998. Sid McMath (34th Governor of Arkansas) was in attendance. I also noticed Mark Kalkbrenner.

The Bayou Fourche Monument was dedicated March 1998.

Brownsville Monument

April 26, 2012

The Brownsville Civil War Monument was installed March 1998.

Ozarks Civil War Sesquicentennial Newsletter #70

Highlights Include: Lincoln’s Early Emancipation Move; Glow in the Dark Civil War Soldiers; Battle of Montevallo Monument; Authenticity of Lincoln’s Stovepipe Hat; Silas Turnbo – Shocking Scenes Enacted at Yellville.

Ozarks Civil War Sesquicentennial Newsletter #69

Highlights Include:  Shiloh’s Fallout, War’s First Anniversary; General Grant Expells Jews; Henry Scott’s Escape to Freedom; Emancipation Day.

Ozarks Civil War Sesquicentennial Newsletter #68

Highlights Include:  Battle of Shiloh, McClellan Moves; Silas Turnbo – They Detested the Cowardice of the One and Admired The Bravery of the Other; Slave Narratives; Iowa and the Civil War; Civil War Trivia; National Park System Launches Civil War Website; Port Hudson Siege.