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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, March 25, 1971—PAGE 3
Calvin Crazier has program on Louisiana
The Calvin Crozier Chapter,
UDC, met with Mrs James
Werts in her lovely old ances
tral home, near Silverstreet,
for the March meeting Delight
ful refreshments were served
by Mrs Werts and the asso
ciate hostesses, Mrs F Scott
Elliott, Mrs 0 0 Copeland,
Mrs Ray Nobles, and Mrs E
R Baker
Mrs F Scott Elliott presided
at the business session and
Mrs W H Tedford conducted
the ritual A beautiful memo
rial service for Mrs Mamie
Hawkins was conducted by Mrs
Tedford
The chapter laid plans for a
joint meeting in May with the
Drayton Rutherford Chapter
and the Eloise Welch Wright
Chapter This meeting. will be
held in the Educational Build
ing of the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian Church, where the
Confederate Memorial Day will
be observed Plans were also
made for the three chapters
to meet jointly in January 1972,
in observance of Lee—Jackson—
Maury Day Reports were made
on the historical work of the
chapter Included were reports
of the patriotic activities done
by the chapter at the Veteran’s
Hospital in Columbia and on
both the home and foreign
fields A book report was given
on the number of books pre
sented to school and public li
braries The treasurer, Mrs A
C Garlington, reported on the
scholarship fund, and announc
ed that she had met the chap
ter’s obligations in both the
South Carolina and General Di
visions A check had also been
forwarded to the Eloise Welch
Wright Chapter to assist in the
work of the children’s chapter,
which is sponsored by both
Drayton Rutherford and Calvin
Crozier Chapters A report was
given on the Confederate ge
nealogy file This has been the
project of the chapter this year
at the request of the Historian
of the South Carolina Division
Mrs 0 0 Copeland announc
ed that the following crosses of
military service would be a-
warded at the June meeting:
Henry Baker Summer, son of
Mr and Mrs C Walter Sum
mer; Dr Elbert J Dickert and
his son Neal Workman Dickert
son and grandson of the late
Elbert and Geneva Thornton
Dickert; Robert Hawkins, son
of Mr George Hawkins and the
late Mamie Boozer Hawkins;
Virginia Anderson Fulp, daugh
ter of Mr and Mrs W Roy
Anderson; Robert E Hanna,
Jr, son of Mr and Mrs R
E Hanna; and there will be an
award made posthumously to
Jesse R Baker, son of Mr
and Mrs E R Baker of Whit
mire; William Shannon, son of
the late Mr and MVs Wm
Henry Shannon; John Felix San
ders and Charles Timothy San
ders, sons of Rev and Mrs
John Sanders Mrs Elliott vo
lunteered to assist in filling out
the Confederate ancestor re
cords on the above application
forms
In keeping with the program
outlines of the General Divi
sion, the chapter heard an in-
sion, the chapter heard an in
teresting and informative pro
gram on “Louisianna” For the
past two years Calvin Crozier
Chapter has received awards
for complying to the specific
program outlines
The birthdays of Wade Hamp
ton and John C Calhoun were
observed
Miss Juanita Hitt, historian,
gave some highlights of the
Confederate history of Louisia
na The Battle of Mansfield was
fought on Louisiana soil, in the
spring of 1864 Gen Dick Tay
lor, Gen Mouton and Gen Po-
lignac led a brilliant attack a-
gainst the Federal General
Banks The Confederate victory
at Mansville turned Gen Banks
Red River Valley campaign in
to a complete failure. New
Orleans was occupied by Fe
deral troops but there was no
battle there during the War Be
tween the States Interesting
facts were related about New
Orleans, Louisiana State Uni
versity, the artists of Louisiana
and the influence of the oldest
School of Art of Sophie New
comb College A short sketch
was given of Judah P Benja
min, who was often called “The
Brains of the Confederacy”
Without question Louisiana’s
greatest contribution to the Con-
fedjaracy was Gen P G T
Beauregard The great Creole
was born May 28, 1818, at the
parish of St. Bernard, twenty
miles below New Orleans in
Louisiana’s deep delta country
The parish of St Bernard was
settled by Frenchmen of solid
old world backgrounds who
could proudly trace their French
lineage back to the thirteenth
century The Beauregards rank
ed high and was a name of
distinction in the Bayou coun
try Creoles they were called,
a name properly used in Loui- Anderson It was Major Robert
siana to designate the pure- Anderson who refused to sur-
blooded descendants of the ori- render Fort Sumter to his for-
ginal French stock Pierre Gus- mer pupil
tave Toutnt-Beauregard’s back
ground was one of wealth, cul
ture and refinement He attend
ed private schools in New Or
leans and later attended the ex
clusive boys’ school in New
York which was operated by
the Peugnet brothers, who had
been French officers under the
great Napoleon Boneparte Pier
re Beauregard’s dominant trait,
even at this early age, was a
passion for all that pertained
to military life He was to pat
tern himself after the great
Corsican. At sixteen, he enter
ed as a cadet at West Point
He was graduated second in
his class in 1838 Among his
classmates was Irvin McDowell,
the Federal, whom Beauregard
would defeat at Manassas Al
so, his classmates and several
men in preceding classes were
to serve under him in the War
Between the States They were
Jubal Early, Wm J Hardee,
Jeremy Gilmer, Richard Ewell
and Braxton Bragg On the
Union side, Beauregard knew
Joseph Hooker, Henry Halleck,
and Wm T Sherman One of
Beauregard’s favorite instruc
tors at West Point was Robert
Three Newberry College students have been selected by
the College’s Board of Publications to edit the student
publications for the 1971-72 school year. The new editors
are, from left, Edmond Skinner, Greenville junior, editor
of “The Kinnikinnick,” student literary magazine; David
Rimer, Great Falls junior, editor of “The Newberrian,”
student yearbook; and Ellen Williamson, Newberry jun
ior, editor of “The Indian,” student newspaper.
Miss Williamson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. K.
Williamson, 1734 Boundary St., Newberry.
Beauregard distinguished him
self during the Mexican War
Following his military services
in Mexico, he was appointed
Superintendent of the Military
Academy at West Point on Jan
23, 1861 Because the fat had
begun to fry in the heated pot
of secession P G T Beaure
gard relinguished the com
mand of his newly acquired
job on Jan 28, 1861 This ended
the shortest superintendency in
the Academy’s history Beaure
gard went back to his native
state and offered his services
to Louisiana and the Confede
racy
President Jefferson Davis sent
Beauregard to Charleston as
the Confederacy’s first briga
dier general The first volun
teer South Carolina troops serv
ed under the dashing and ex
citing Beauregard at Fort Sum
ter The capture of Fort Tum-
ter made Beauregard a Con
federate hero overnight Beau
regard was sent to Virginia
where he took charge of the
troops at Manassas on June 2,
1861 When news spread around
the camp of his presence, the
South Carolina troops who had
served under him at Charles
ton shouted jubilantly—“Old
Bory’s come! Old Bory’s come!”
At Manassas, or Bull Run, the
first major battle of the War
Between the Sates was fought
Beauregard’s horse was killed
under him and during the course
of the day he rode four horses,
one of which was captured Yan
kee steed. Confederate officers
who shared the victory at Ma
nassas with Beauregard were
Joseph E Johnston, Thomas
Jonathan Jackson, who that day
was christened “Stonewall”, Ri
chard Ewell, Barnard Bee,
James Longstreet, D R Jones,
Jubal Early, Milledge Bonham,
and Earl Van Dorn The victory
at Manassas earned the rank
of full general in the Confe
derate Army for Beauregard
Gen Beauregard will always
be remembered for designing
the beautiful Confederate bat
tle flag The three Cary sis
ters contributed the materials
from their dresses and hand
made the original flags which
they presented to Generals
Beauregard, Johnston and Van
Dorn When Gen Beauregard
died in 1893, the flag which
Miss Hettie Cary had made for
him from her own dress some
32 years before, stood at the
head of his casket
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