What does the SCV stand for

[larry_cockerham]

I'm not aware of any SCV publishing as such though they certainly promote and assist such activity. Hundreds of SCV members are authors and publishers. The concensus of information I've gleaned from the SCV is that there is a genuine desire for the truth to blanket history and a general feeling that if there are warps in history they are not coming from the SCV. To the student I suggest a subscription to the Confederate Veteran or obtaining copies from a library. We can always use and welcome another member as can the SUV. A little research and $35 bucks a year.

[Buffalo-Guard]

Originally Posted by unionblue

If the SCV was only about preserving the memory of the Confederate soldier, I doubt if there would be many protests or debates on the subject. Many of the projects the SCV engages in, recognizing and restoring memorials and monuments and caretaking of Confederate graves is a worthy project......

....This will be the real shame and heartbreak of those trying to honor their ancestors. The fight will be remembered but the brave men of that time will be obscured and forgotten over the present-day tactics used to press a modern-day political agenda.

Unionblue

How true. I can only speak for myself and not for everyone in the SCV. It does not matter want group you belong or what you walk in life may be. There is allways someone who is full of "it". They have thier own agenda and are afraid of the truth. You must be willing to accept it for what it is. When involved in a group such as the SCV or SUV, you have the responsibility to tell both sides and the truth. How can you honor you ancestors by lying?

[gary]

SUV = Sons of Union Veterans
SCV = Sons of Confederate Veterans
SOB = Sons of both
SON = Sons of nobody (or are we only a bunch o' b_stards?). That's where I fit in. No ancestors on either side fought for anyone. Too much immigrant blood in this native born citizen. I belong to too many organizations including the MoC, VA Hist. Soc., Company of Military Hysterians, INRO, etc.

BTW, Buffalo_Guard is right in that every organization has its extremists. I'm interested in published works from both sides and the UDC in SC & GA have done a tremendous service to the Sybil Wa-oh community. Thank you ladies.

[FSPowers]

As someone who can now be qualified to memberships in the SCV and the SUV, I would say that we need to honor those ancestors and not tarnish their honor with a rehashing of the cause of the war. Besides, that is being discussed on another thread.

As I have said in the past, the issue was settled in April 1865.

[nbforrest]

I can only speak about the members of my camp, but the great majority of my camp is there to honor ancestors; politics are not part of the reason they joined. Like a lot of things, I'm afraid that the loud-mouthed radicals will tarnish the image of the whole SCV body.

The SCV is starting to have an identity crisis...I hope things turn out the right way.

Respectfully

[ole]

The SCV is starting to have an identity crisis...I hope things turn out the right way.

AMEN.

Respectfully, Ole

[olerebel]

The location has a lot to do with it. My camp tends the local Confederate Cemeteries, works at identifing unnamed graves. We have little time to complain during warm weather months. We attempt to pass on local history to anyone willing to learn. In the winter months, the trend turns toward things political. We have a mission, a reason to exist, beyond meeting and asking the 'forty questions' of WBTS trivia. I suspect that things would be quite different were we in a location isolated from historical fact.