Quantrill's Raiders SCV Camp #2087

Sons of Confederate Veterans

Quantrill's Raiders

Camp #2087

Mayfield Heights, Ohio

GOD BLESS THE SOUTH

This page was last updated: April 1, 2008

Welcome and thank you for visiting with us,

William Clarke Quantrill was a soldier, a leader for a just and honorable cause. He was a hero to the South and a man feared by his enemies. Fellow Ohioian and enemy of the Confederacy, William Tecumseh Sherman said, "War is Hell". He ought to know considering the ruthless, destructive nature of his campaign against unprotected Southern families in his infamous "March to the sea".

The border war between Kansas and Missouri was wild, savage, ruthless and vindictive - by Federal and Confederate forces alike. This happens in war. The many contributions of William Quantrill and his men made in defense of the citizens of Missouri and the Confederate States of America are numerous. Ohio has many native heroes and Captain William Clarke Quantrill is one.

Following the bitter years of 1861 to 1865, the surviving Confederates came together to form a Confederate veterans organization, which became known as the United Confederate Veterans (UCV).

The UCV held its first convention at New Orleans on June 10, 1889. The first reunion was held at Chattanooga during July 3 to July 5, 1890. To this reunion invitations were extended "to veterans of both armies and citizens of the Republic". It's purpose was to cherish the memories and recall the past, to strengthen character, and to endeavor to unite in a general federation of all associations of the Confederate veterans, now alive and hereafter formed.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) was born from the United Confederate Veterans (UCV). The SCV was organized at Richmond in 1896 at the Convention of the UCV. Initially the SCV were charged with two duties. These were (1) assisting the UCV and its elderly members at their conventions and other activities and (2) ensuring that the true history of the Confederacy and its struggles be accurately documented.

Each member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans is a decendent of a Confederate patriot (soldier, sailor, marine or civilian) of the War for Southern Independence. If you have a Confederate ancestor and are interested in becoming a member, we invite you to go to our "Join Us!" webpage. Let us help you get started.

The SCV continues to exist and grow as a historical, patriotic and non-political organization

dedicated to insuring that a true and accurate history of the 1861-1865 period is preserved.

We are driven by the Charge given to the Sons by Lt. General Stephen D. Lee, CSA

which is as relevant today as it was 110 years ago!

Charge to the Sons of Confederate Veterans

"To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought. To your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier's good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which he loved and which you love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish."

Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General,

United Confederate Veterans,

New Orleans, Louisiana, April 25, 1906.

We pay tribute, honor, and thank all United States Military Veterans who served and are serving our country today.

God Bless you!

U.S. Military Veterans of

Quantrill's Raiders Camp #2087

Scott C. Morris, United States Coast Guard, Retired

Edward F. James, United States Army

Mark A. Hankins, United States Army

Mark A. McClain, United States Army

Derek S. Morris, United States Navy

Gary Ayres, United States Marines

Michael Martin, United States Army Retired

Honoring native Ohioan

William Clarke Quantrill

Captain, C.S.A.

"But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's men two or three times. All they were trying to do was protect the property on the Missouri side of the line."

-- President Harry S. Truman

Member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans

DUTY

HONOR

COUNTRY

PATRIOTISM

STATES RIGHTS

CIVIL DEFENSE

INDEPENDENCE

LIBERTY

"The Confederate flag is not a symbol of racism...the flag does not offend me personally. I grew up in the South - in Texas. That flag doesn't represent anything other than regional pride. It's a time of our history that we just can't erase."

-- Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States

General Thomas Jackson from the movie 'Gods and Generals':

"Colonel Stuart, if I had my way we would show no quarter to the

enemy. No more than the redskin showed your troopers. The black flag,

sir. If the North triumphs, it is not alone the destruction of our

property, it is the prelude to anarchy, infidelity and the ultimate loss

of free and responsible government on this continent. It is the triumph

of commerce, banks and the factory. We should meet the Federal invaders on the outer verge of just and right defence, and raise at once the black flag. No quarter to the violaters of our homes and firesides.

Our political leadership in Richmond is too timid to face the reality of the coming war. They should look to the Bible. It is full of such wars.

Only the black flag will bring the North quickly to their senses and rapidly end the war.' Give them the bayonet, indeed."

Click on the Old Reb to see if your ancestor was a Confederate Veteran

"The West is the hope of the world and America is the hope of the West, and the South is the hope of America."

-- Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister

For those who fight for it,

freedom has a flavor the protected never taste.

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"If the Union was formed by the accession of States, then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States."

--- Daniel Webster, U. S. Senate, February 15, 1833

"The Constitution is not an instrument for government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government, lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."

-- Patrick Henry, American Patriot, Virginia House of Burgesses, Continental Congress,

Governor of Virginia, "Give me liberty or give me death!"

"The world has never seen better soldiers than those who followed Lee; and their leader will undoubtedly rank as without exception, the very greatest of all the great captains that the English-speaking peoples have brought forth."

--- Theodore Roosevelt, U. S. President

"The sole object of this war is to restore the union. Should I become convinced it has any other object, or that the Government designs using its soldiers to execute the wishes of the Abolitionist, I pledge you my honor as a man and a soldier I would resign my commission and carry my sword to the other side."

-- General Ulysses S. Grant

"The war between the North and South is a tariff war. The war is... not for any principle, does not touch the question of slavery, and in fact turns on the Northern lust for sovereignty.

--- Karl Marx, 1861

London Times

Nov. 7, 1861

"The contest is really for empire on the side of the North

and for independence on that of the South."

MYTH BUSTING!

Only the South "hated" black people and owned slaves, right?

Do a Google search for "Black Codes" and see how much the North loved and welcomed free blacks.

Ask yourself this,

"why then, if the north loved black people, did runaway slaves have to go to Canada to live, and not in the northern states?

"Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time; I took mine to the Confederate States of America."

-- John Wayne as "Ethan" in the movie "The Searchers"