Ten Islands Camp No. 2678, Sons of Confederate Veterans

04/26/2026

Sunday Morning Message from the SCV’s AoT Chaplain Gary Carlyle:

Jonah 1:1-3
1) Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.”
2) But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
3) He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

When Jonah started running from the Good Lord, the devil furnished transportation for him.
When we run from the Good Lord the devil will have transportation for us. Be it in pleasure, popularity, an affair, a selfish agenda, or whatever: The devil will use that and will carry
us the farthest & fastest from the Good Lord.
But Wait!!!

Jonah 3:1
Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying,

The Good Lord is a God of second changes!

Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.

We all have messed up, but study & seek the Good Lords leadership! God is a God of second chances. May we follow God's calling! May we seek God’s ways!

Psalms 141:3,4
3) Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; Do not incline my heart to any evil thing,
4) To practice wicked works With men who work iniquity; And do not let me eat of their delicacies.

04/23/2026

"The contest is not over; the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena." "The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form." –President Jefferson Davis

04/17/2026

Southern Cross of Honor Markers
by Dr. Charles L. Sullivan
Large iron Southern Cross of Honor grave markers were emplaced on the graves of southern soldiers, especially those who had civilian markers and were not otherwise identified as having fought for the South.
According to United Daughter of the Confederacy [UDC] member Viola Cobb Bivins, in "Echoes of the Confederacy"[Longview, Texas 1950], "The soldiers of the Confederacy are the only defeated soldiers ever known to wear a 'cross of honor'". And it might be added, they are the only soldiers to be accorded the laurel wreath crown.
The UDC felt that Confederate veterans deserved the accolades because in their case defeat was not dishonor. They had stood fast for four years and fought valiantly against an enemy whose combined population outnumbered theirs ten to one and whose industrial might overtopped theirs one hundred to one. As General Robert E. Lee so eloquently put it in General Order Number 9 on April 10, 1865, at Appomattox: "After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources."
All of these sentiments are expressed in a post-war song written by a North Carolina veteran for all Confederate veterans----"The Wearing of the Gray."
The earliest instance of sighting of large iron crosses discovered by this author is found on page 67 of the January 1922 Confederate Veteran Magazine. Confederate veteran Henry P Rauton was buried in Johnston, South Carolina, shortly after his death on January 31, 1921. He was laid to rest in his gray uniform with his small bronze Southern Cross of Honor pinned to his lapel and, according to an eye-witness present at the burial, "Above his grave is seen the Maltese cross."
On page 233 of the June 1921 Confederate Veteran, a note from the Alabama Division of the UDC states that: "Iron crosses have been placed on all of the graves of Anniston and Oxford veterans.
Source: The Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum

04/17/2026

“Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late… It means the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern schoolteachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision… It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties.”
Maj. General Patrick R. Cleburne, CSA, January 1864

04/07/2026

04/01/2026

We will have our meeting Thursday the 9th of April at 6:30. On the morning of the 10th at 8:00 am whoever can will meet at Alexandria Jacks and we will proceed from there to put flags on the graves in the cemeteries that we service.

those are:
Bethel
Cane Creek
Crook
Hebron
Lee Family
Morrisville
Mt. Zion
Oak Bowery
Oak Grove
Ohatchee
Post Oak
Ragan Chapel
Shady Glen
Ten Islands
Weaver Family

03/21/2026

Col. William Hutchinson Norris.
• Political Career: Before the war, he served as a state senator in Alabama and was a prominent lawyer.
• Military Ties: He served as a colonel in the Alabama state militia. Although he was technically too old for active front-line duty during the Civil War,

He is now with his Confederate ancestors in the great beyond.

03/15/2026

Captain Marcellus Jerome Clarke was executed (hung) today on March 15, 1865, in Louisville, Kentucky. A Historic marker marks the ex*****on site.

Captain Clarke was accused of being the renegade "Sue Mundy." Sue Mundy was actually a fictional character created by newspaperman Henry Watterson to insult the Union command in the city. Enlisted in the Confederate Fourth Kentucky Infantry in 1861 at the age of seventeen, Clarke (or Clark) was part of Morgan’s Raiders from 1862 until Morgan’s death in 1864, when he left that group to lead guerilla warfare throughout Kentucky.

According to the Louisville Journal, Clarke said he "was not guilty of one-tenth of the outrages that he had been charged with and that the Louisville Journal had done him a great injustice.” Clarke’s words reflect the belief that the Sue Mundy persona was a creation of the Louisville Journal and meant to embarrass the Union.

He left one final note to a loved one, whom the Journal describes as “a young lady of this state. It read:

“My dear: I have to inform you of the sad fate which awaits your true friend. I am to suffer death this afternoon at 4 o’clock. I send you, from my chains, a message of true love; and, as I stand on the brink of the grave, I tell you I do truly, and fondly, and forever love you.

I am, ever truly, yours.
M. Jerome Clark.”

His reported last words prior to his ex*****on were:

“I am a regular Confederate soldier and have served in the Confederate army four years. I fought under General Buckner at Fort Donelson and belonged to General Morgan’s command when he entered Kentucky. I have assisted, and have taken many prisoners, and have always treated them kindly. I was wounded at Cynthiana and cut from my command. I have been in Kentucky ever since. I could prove that I am a regular Confederate soldier, and I hope to die for the Confederate cause.”

— Marcellus Jerome Clarke (aka Sue Mundy, aka Marcus Clark), convicted of guerrilla activity, hanging, Kentucky.

Executed March 15, 1865

03/10/2026

Remember our meeting this coming Thursday, 03/12/26, at 6:30 pm at Janney Furnace Park. Come and enjoy a meal and fellowship with your compatriots and a short historical presentation.