THE SIZEMORE LINK TO THE WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE
 Charge to the Sons of Confederate
Veterans:
"To you, Sons of Confederate
Veterans, we submit 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 he loved and
which made him glorious and which you also cherish. Remember, it is your duty to see that
the true history of the South is presented to future generations."
***PHILLIP LARUE SIZEMORE***
MEMBER OF SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS, W.A. HANDLEY CAMP #913
WYNER S. PHILLIPS, COMMANDER
ROANOKE, ALABAMA
This page is dedicated to my children's father and his four great-great grandfathers who fought for "Southern Independence".
PVT J.O. ABRAMS, 6TH & 7TH ALABAMA CAVALRY, COMPANY D. PICTURED ABOVE IS THE FLAG USED BY THE 6TH ALABAMA CAVALRY. J.O. ABRAMS WAS PAROLED AT COLUMBUS MISSISSIPPI.
PVT THOMAS WELCH, 5TH ALABAMA CAVALRY, COMPANY D. PICTURED ABOVE IS CAMP CHASE IN OHIO WHERE THOMAS WELCH WAS HELD AFTER BEING CAPTURED IN GEORGIA.
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Left, the McLean House; right, the Courthouse
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PVT JOHN H. GRISSOM, 31ST GEORGIA INFANTRY, COMPANY G. JOHN GRISSOM WAS PAROLED AT APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE. PICTURED ABOVE ARE THE MCLEAN HOUSE AND THE APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE.
PVT L.D. ELROD, 19TH ALABAMA INFANTRY, COMPANY A. ENLISTED SEPTEMBER 28TH, 1861 IN CARROLTON, ALABAMA. WOUNDED IN THE BATTLE OF JONESBORO, GEORGIA IN AUGUST OF 1864.
The Southern Dead
The Southern Dead
By Benjamin R. Gormley
The Southern dead are sleeping
In a thousand Southern glens. . .
The moss and willows beckon
With the breath of Southern winds.
Though the blood-stained cross of St. Andrew
Is tattered now and furled. . .
They bore it high on every field
And o'er every ocean of the world.
It wasn't through their failing
That the gleaming turned to rust. . .
And the dreaming of a Nation
Is enshrined within their dust.
Some would have their deeds forgot,
Their monuments swept away. . .
But while Southern blood flows in our veins,
Those knaves shall never see the day.
Teach your children of their story,
Of battles, lost and won. . .
They must keep memory's light a-burning
Till Southern rivers cease to run.
The Southern dead are sleeping.
Haunted Fields, 1985
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