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The April 2008
issue of The Vindicator
is available online.
(It's the one at the top) |
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The Vindicator has been moved out of the Members Camp so
everyone can enjoy this fine publication. Our push to encourage you to view the newsletter
here on the website is really an effort to save money. A dollar and twenty cents
doesn't seem like alot until you multiply it by four or five hundred people. Then again by
6 times per year. That's about 3000.00 that can be used to finish the restoration of
a flag, keep a piece of South Carolina history from being sold on the private market, or
another worthwhile project. |
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| 145th Gettysburg. The Battalion will be attending the
145th anniversary Gettysburg event over the long weekend of July 4-6. Gettysburg has
a mystique that entices people like moths to a flame. Is it the great extent of the
battlefields, or the unprecedented number of monuments? Maybe it's the acknowledged
"high water mark" of the Southern effort to gain independance. You'll have
to go to find out for yourself. Allow yourself a couple extra days because you'll
need at least that to see everything, and that might be the quick tour. We have a good
number of people registered already and are pushing to get enough to make our own
battalion on the field. A recent count shows that we have 102 total people going
with the Battalion. Allowing for civilians and officers, that looks like about 75
rifles. It looks like we'll be able to stand as our own battalion. Three 25
man companies is well enough, but three 30 man companies would look marvelous. If
you haven't already registered, come on let's get with it. Call your pards that
haven't been out of the house for a while and convince them to go. It's only 8 or 9
hours up the road without scaring the kids. You can leave the house after roll call
and still have you dog set up before dark. If you stop by JR's to stock up on
cigars, allow another 2 hours.
The registration is now 30.00 and has been extended until April 30th. That may
include an additional 5.00 fee to cover the expense of wagons to be used by our
brigade. They are not allowing walk-ons. There is no mention of whether
they'll allow substitutions. Event information can be found at the Gettysburg Reenactment website.
Information more specific to our Battalion can be found at the Gettysburg topic on our
bulletin board.
Remember, the event is what you make of it. A good group of pards and you're
going to have a good time. That's what we're talkin' about, so round 'em up and
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| 145th Chickamauga. This is a North South Alliance
event and since we're members of the Army Of Tennessee, we have a place at the table.
The event is in September and registration is 10.00 due by May 31st. I see
some hubbub starting to stir about this one. And rightly so. The NSA is known
for associating with quality events and the AoT has their act together. And it's not
real far, with the site about 2 hours beyond Atlanta. We'll have more information
before long. |
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| Writing about the roster makes me think of attendance. It's
possible that you could be a Battalion member and not have attended any events.
Attendance has a bearing on your individual voting status, and your units existance as
well as staff voting status. It's clearly explained in the bylaws. Attendance
problems over the years have been traced back to the conveyance of the necessary
information to the Battalion adjutant. The responsibility for that does
not lie with the adjutant. He is charged with receiving and recording
the information. The responsibility really belongs to your unit rep. The
Battalion has requested that an attendance roster for your unit be
turned in to the adjutant on the Sunday of the event. If not on Sunday, bylaw 5b requires
it to be received within 30 days of the event. This point is very important to
understand. Getting the information to the adjutant also includes the means by which
it was sent. If the envelope containing the info got lost in the U.S. Postal System,
the adjutant did not receive it and consequently is not yet responsible for it. To
be sure that the unit rep has successfully completed his task, he
should check the roster or contact the adjutant to be certain the information was duely
received. During this part of his task he should notice if
something is amiss and take it up with the adjutant then, not the Thursday night before
Boone Hall or Saturday morning before elections.
The morning roll is not the same. It's taken by the first sgt takes and given to
the the sgt. major, who then gives it to the adjutant. That's so the commanders at
the event will know the numbers for whatever scenarios are to take place, not for keeping
up with Battalion membership. |
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| Attendance. In an effort to reduce confusion and facilitate the
adjutants duties before elections, we've added the Attendance Roster to this site.
The Sgt. Major has been bragging on how the 1st Sgts. and unit reps have been so
good about getting the rosters turned in. If you see that you've been omitted from
an event, have your unit rep or 1st Sgt. contact the adjutant with the correction. The
roster is displayed in PDF format. If that's not familiar to you, click here for an explanation of
what it is and directions on how to install the viewer. |
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| Mystery Monument. In the Photo
Album, there's a feature we're calling the Mystery Monument. The Lt. Colonel
must think our monuments aren't challenging enough so he sent one of his own in. See
if you know where it's at. Past mysteries can be seen on the Monuments page in the Photo
Album. While you're traveling around and see a Civil War monument, take a picture
and send it in. We'll use it here and over time we'll have a fine collection in the
album. But it's not fair to guess your own submission! |
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