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SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS-MECHANIZED CAVALRY

April—May 2015

Picture 1. April 11, 2015 the National Confederate Memorial Service at Stone Mountain Park Georgia. Hosted by the Georgia Society Military Order of the Stars & Bars and supported by the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), the SCV Mechanized Cavalry, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Order of the Confederate Rose, Virginia Flaggers, and Southerners from everywhere. Col. Kevin Stone wants to make this event the premier Memorial Service for the Mechanized Cavalry and will be encouraging every Company to support the annual event at Stone Mountain. But since it’s location is just north of Atlanta it’s usually a short ride from just about anywhere unless you live in Texas or Miami like I do.

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Picture 2. This was a group shot at the cemetery next to the hotel that is the resting place for several Con-federate soldiers. We held a ceremony for them and Steve Alan ‘Taz’ Cook played taps.

Picture 3. After the ceremony at the cemetery we lined up for our trip to Stone Mountain.

Picture 4. The column of Mechanized Cavalry to Stone Mountain contained 68 motorcycles from all over the South.


Picture 5. The col-umn stopped at the Stone Mountain Park entrance and we pre-sented our entrance papers for free admis-sion. Usually, it would cost $10.00 for each bike or car but the Georgia SCV Divi-sion arranged that anyone attending the Confederate Memori-al Service would be admitted without charge.

Picture 6. Before the ceremony began gun crews were coordinated by the event coordinator for canons. He’s the gentleman in the circle with the Confederate Battle Flag over his right shoulder and facing the camera.


Picture 7. The wel-come words were pre-sented by O. David Denard, DCS Com-mander Georgia Soci-ety Military Order of the Stars & Bars

Picture 8. The Invo-cation was delivered by William Winn, Chaplain of Major William E. Simmons Camp 96.


Picture 8. Meeting started to break up.

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Picture 9. The color guard was brought in and the pledge to the United States Flag, pledge to the Georgia State Flag, and the salute to the Confederate Flag was given by Col. Rick Daniel.

Picture 10. Suzanne Sam-mons presented greetings as the president of the Atlanta Chapter #18 United Daugh-ters of the Confederacy.

Picture 11. Miss Haley Miller of the Julia Jackson 1 Children of the Con-federacy presented her greetings on behalf of the Children of the Confed-eracy.


Picture 12. Michael Mull, Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans Com-mander.

Picture 13. Col. Kevin Stone commanding the Sons of Confederate Veterans Mecha-nized Cavalry delivered his address and represented more than 75% of the attendees.


Picture 14. Col. Robert Powers, Comman-dant Old Guard of the Gate City Guard. The Old Guard Battalion of the Gate City Guard traces heritage back to 1854 when a group of private citizens of Atlanta met to form a pri-vate militia for the sole purpose of assisting the City of Atlanta to keep law and order. The organization was chartered in 1857 as The Gate City Guard of Atlanta Georgia. One of the founding members was William L. Ezzard, the Mayor of Atlanta.

When armed conflict broke out between the Confederate States and the Union States, the Gate City Guard was one of the first units to respond to President Davis's request for troops. At the end of the war, with the South being disarmed, the Gate City Guard was dis-banded. At the end of reconstruction, private militias again began to spring up. Under Gov-ernor William J. Northern, the Georgia Legis-lature placed all private militias under the con-trol of the Governor, thus began what is known today as the Georgia National Guard.

Picture 15. The main speaker was Michael K. Shaffer, Historian, Newspaper Columnist and Author.

Picture 16. The director of canon fire barks out his orders to the two batteries.


Picture 17. The batteries of canon explode with noise and smoke. I think there were five artillery pieces on the left and four on the right.

Picture 18. (below) The right battery fired at two second intervals from the left. The singing of Dixie closed out the ceremony for the day.


Picture 19. There were more than eighty members of the SCV Mechanized Cavalry present at the Memo-rial Ceremony at Stone Mountain, not all were able to ride their bikes but the ones that could, did.

Picture 20 & 21. Philip Cody Duskin was sworn in to the Sons of Confederate Veterans Mechanized Cavalry as the 2,226 member by Col. Kevin Stone.

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Picture 22 & 23. Virginia Flaggers were present as one of the proConfeder-ate groups celebrat-ing the Memorial Day events at Stone Mountain.

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Lt CIC Charles Kelly Barrow

CIC Michael Givens

Picture 24. Tennessee group hav-ing dinner before heading home.

Picture 25. GTwo U.S. Air Force veterans Gregory Kalof (left) and Steven ‘Gunner’ Rutherford (right) at Stone Mountain.

Picture 26. The boys from Maryland that made it to Stone Mountain.


Picture 27. Friday Night bash.

Picture 28 . Friday night bash. Picture 29.. Friday night bash.


Picture 30 . Col. Kevin Stone with the members of Company A at Stone Mountain.

Picture 31 . Friday night bash.


Picture 32 . Capt Bo (left) and Yankee Tom (right) talking things over at the Friday night bash.

Picture 33. (below) Gregory Kalof (right) playing Taps at the Confederate Memorial Services in South Florida with the members the Florida 7th In-fantry Regiment on April 25, 2015. Ceremonies were conducted in three counties: Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach.


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

NOW AND IN THE FUTURE SO PLEASE JOIN ME IN MAKING SURE TO QUASH ANY NEGATIVE ACTIONS YOU MAY ENCOUNTER SUCH AS IMPROPER EMAILS, PICTURES, FACEBOOK POSTS, MEMBER DISAGREEMENTS, ETC. WE DO NOT LIVE IN A VACUUM- THE ACTIONS YOU TAKE TODAY WILL REFLECT ON THE SCVMC AS A WHOLE AND YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL. WITH THE SHOOTING INCIDENT IN WACO THERE ARE CALLS IN THE MEDIA TO WATCH OUT FOR "BIKERS" AND "GANGS". WE ARE NOT ENGAGING IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES BUT I DO NOT WANT AN OVERZEALOUS CRITIC TO HAVE AMMUNITION TO USE AGAINST US WHEN IT COULD EASILY BE AVOIDED. THINK OF ROBERT E LEE AND STONEWALL JACKSON AND IF THEY WOULD APPROVE THEN WE WILL BE FINE. SEE YOU ON THE FRONT LINES... RIDE AS YOU WOULD WITH FORREST!!! KEVIN STONE COLONEL SCV MECHANIZED CAVALRY, COMMANDING

Colonel Kevin Stone, SCV Mecha-nized Cavalry Commanding

Confederate War Horse

Contributions to the newsletter should be addressed to my email address: [email protected].

The content of your report or submission should con-tain the following: the four “w’s” who, where, what,

and when. Please provide pictures because we like to look at pictures and as they say a picture is worth a

thousand words. Be sure to identify the people in the pictures: first and last names, mechanized cavalry

number, and state if possible.

SCV-MC Web site:http://www.csascvmc.org/Sons of Confederate Veterans web site:http://scv.org/ Editor/Writer: Gregory Kalof, Lt Col. HQ, SCV-MC 13953 SW 66 Street,#409 Miami, Florida 33183 Phone: 305-773-2353 Email: [email protected]

Up Coming Events:

1. 18th Annual – Arkansas (1st Battalion, Company F) to be held in Arkan-sas: June 3—June 6, 2015.

2. 2 Dogs - North Carolina: August 27 to August 29, 2015

3. Gator Run, October 2-3, 2015; Lake Bistineau State Park, Site 2, 103 State Park Rd, Doyline, Louisiana 71023

4. 19th Annual – Florida (3rd Battalion, Company D): Probable date . June 15—June 18, 2016.

5. 20th Annual – North Carolina (2nd Battalion, Company B): date to be announced 2017.

6. 21st Annual—South Carolina

7. 22nd Annual—Texas Lt Colonel Gregory Kalof, SCV Mechanized Cavalry, Lt Commander.


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