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Volume 3, Issue 3
March 2008
The Bayonet
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Col. Isaac Williams Smith Camp #458
Portland, Oregon
Quote for the Month
Not for fame or reward,
Not for place or for rank,
Not lured by ambition,
Or goaded by necessity,
But simple
Obedience to Duty
As they understood it,
These men suffered all,
Sacrificed all,
Dared all -- and died.
Inscription on Confederate
Memorial at Arlington
National Cemetery
Inside this issue:
Commander Message 2
Jeff Davis Park 3
Confederate Hero 4
Southern Cookin’ 5
Northwest Veteran 6
Confederate History 7
Notices 8
Camp Plants Trees At Jefferson Davis Park
Members of Camp #458 met up at
the new Jefferson Davis Park last
Sunday afternoon to plant 32 small
Douglas Firs along the back fenceline.
The trees were barely a footand-a-half
tall, but at only one dollar
a piece for thirty trees and two trees
for free, it was too good of a deal to
pass up!
Present for the tree planting were
Norm, Erik, and Karl Ernst, Brent
and Bryan Jacobs, and Bryan’s
friend Shawn Waller who is currently
researching his genealogy trying
to find a Confederate ancestor.
The trees are needed to provide a
natural barrier between the park and
the unsightly field behind the park,
as well as the houses in the distance.
The neighbors are very happy about
the trees as well, since a few of them
were a bit upset that we took out the Lt. Commander Ernst plants a little Doug Fir.
ugly array of trees that used to be at
the front edge of the park. The neighbors really just want to feel like they actually
live in the country and liked having Interstate-5 obscured by the trees. Now this
will happen, but unfortunately it will take
4 or 5 years for the trees to be big enough!
In the near future plans are to also put a
magnolia or similar tree on the south-side
of the park with a picnic table or two. As
for the rest of the park, the memorial
bricks should finally be here this week
and the flagpoles were put in on Monday,
March 24th! The main entrance sign for
the park is being made right now, and all
of the main items will be finished! All
just in time for the grand opening! Whew.
Bryan, Shawn, Norm and Erik hard at work.

Volume 3, Issue 3
Commander’s Message
Compatriots:
Another month has flown by. I just don’t know where the time goes. April is
upon us and it’s the busiest month for the entire Camp. Our meeting will be as
usual in “The Wings of Freedom Hall “ at 11:00 AM on Saturday April 5th. This
is a very important meeting, so don’t miss it.
On the 18th,19th and 20th,we will have the recruiting booth for our Camp.
Please let Norm know when you can help out . Doesn’t matter if it’s four hours or
a whole day. Help is needed.
April 26th is our Convention and Ball, the evening of the 25th we’ll be decorating
our area. Come on over it’s fun and help will be needed. We still need items
for our auction. Large or small. We need many items. Help out here if you can.
Also, If you are attending and haven’t paid your fees, please try and do so now,
just so we can be assured of paying all our bills before the event. It would be nice
to have a cushion.
On Sunday morning, April 27th, the dedication of the Jefferson Davis Memorial
Park will take place. Please plan to attend. Great things have happened on that
little plot of ground. Brent can give you the latest.
We thank the Ernst Family for their recent donations and for going out on last
Saturday and hauling plants for the park.
And don’t forget Oregon City, for those who can attend and help out at the
Camp table.
Looking forward to the meeting. Take Care and bring a guest,
Glen Edens - Camp Commander
Camp Announcements
Next Camp Meeting:
When: Saturday, April 5th
Time: 11:00am
Where: Wings of Freedom Hall at “The Bomber”
The third Pacific-Northwest SCV Convention and Ball is right around the
corner. The event will start at 10:00AM on Saturday, April 26, 2008. The
Ball will be held that evening at 7:00PM. We have a great line-up of special
guests: UDC President-General Janice Langston from Texas, Army of Trans-
Mississippi Commander and our next Commander-in-Chief Chuck Norred,
Army of Trans-Mississippi Newsletter Editor and our next ATM Commander
Gary Ayres, Ed Funchess from Mississippi will speak on Beauvoir, and we are
honored to have Ms. Karen Meador of the Pacific-Northwest Historian’s
Guild.
Bill and Carla Coleman of Cold Comfort Productions will present a nationally
acclaimed program entitled The Haunting War, based on period letters
and diaries, and the awesome bluegrass band Knock ‘Em Stiff will be playing
period music for the Ball.
Please register for the Convention and Ball now! Registration is $40.00 per
person, which includes the full day’s activities and a luncheon. Ball tickets
are $15.00 per person or $25.00 per couple. The following day, please remember
to join us at the new Jefferson Davis Park for the dedication ceremonies
and official opening of the park.
Please send Convention and Ball registrations to: NW SCV Convention
11918 SE Division St. #193, Portland, OR 97266. Contact: Brent Jacobs at
brent.a.jacobs@gmail.com or 971-340-9127.
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Camp Officers
Commander Glen L. Edens
grayghst145@yahoo.com
Lt. Commander Norm Ernst
schnitzellover@yahoo.com
Adjutant Bryan Jacobs
jubileetwist@gmail.com
Treasurer Gary D. Johnson
wrbranhamv@aol.com
Chaplain Swede Workentine
sworkentine@yahoo.com
Secretary Karl Ernst
impala_ss_lover@yahoo.com
Historian & Newsletter
Editor Brent A. Jacobs
brent.a.jacobs@gmail.com
Aide-de-Camp Thom Faller
doc.faller@yahoo.com
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Northwest News: Jefferson Davis Park Update
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View from across Interstate-5.
The new flagpoles and base for the large granite historical plaque.
The flagpoles are in! This amazing project is really coming together and the end is in sight! Now we just
need to run up the flags! Marjorie-Ann Reeves is currently working hard on the park dedication agenda and
program. There will be several special guests and groups represented at the ceremonies, including the UDC
President-General Janice Langford and our own ATM Commander Chuck Norred, but interestingly one of the
groups that will not be there are the Washington Confederate reenactors. They are scared of the possibility
that members of the NAACP might protest our event. With “friends” like these, who needs enemies!
Reflections: One on One With A Local Confederate Hero
Sgt. Major David Emmons Johnston
by Brent A. Jacobs
The other day I was driving from Johnson Creek up to Gateway
for an appointment, and I had some time to kill. I took the scenic
route and found myself sauntering up Mt. Scott Blvd, so decided to
roam around Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery. It was raining
pretty steadily, but I remembered that there was at least one Confederate
veteran buried there and resolved myself to find him. I
drove around for just a few minutes, and though it had been a couple
of years since I had been there I found the Johnston family plot
very easily. As soon as came to a stop the rain stopped. So I decided
to get out of the car and pay my respects. I took a couple of
photos of the family marker and the personal gravestone and then
paused for a minute to reflect…and right then the sun broke out. Wow, what timing. Laying at rest just a
mere few feet from me were the remains of a true Confederate hero. David Emmons Johnston joined the army
at the age of 15 in Virginia. At 17 he was elected Sgt. Major of his regiment and held that rank throughout the
rest of the war. After the war he graduated from law school, had a
law practice, became a State Representative, and was a US Representative
from West Virginia. He later moved his practice to Portland
and penned his memoirs here. I stood there for a minute in total awe
of being in the presence of such a great man. Then I got back in the
car, the sun went away, and I continued on my way. We should all
remember to take the time to stop by and pay our respects to the Confederate
veterans scattered amongst us, and we should all hope to
have that sense of pride and humility. It really felt good and fired me
up to do even more to recognize these men and to honor their cause.
Johnston Family Marker

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A “Traitor” Finds a Measure of Dignity 147 years later…
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by Tom Dalton - The Salem News
SALEM — The visitors from Virginia climbed the stairs of the Hawthorne Hotel and entered a
sanctuary few have seen — the Salem Marine Society. Formed in 1766 by Salem sea captains,
the world's third-oldest marine society still meets inside a replica ship's cabin on the hotel roof.
The visitors undoubtedly cast their eyes on the teak floor, the faux mast encircled by a rack of
wine glasses, portraits of old sea captains and, on the far wall, a painting of navigator Nathaniel
Bowditch, a Salem legend. But its' not likely any of that caught their eye. What they saw, and
may never forget, was the portrait of Virginia native Matthew Fontaine Maury.
It must have been, for them, a horrifying spectacle. Maury's picture was on the wall, but facing
backward and hanging upside down. Next to it was a plaque with the word "traitor."
"I felt sorry for him," said Rebecca Starling, who organized the trip for members of the Mary
Washington Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, which is
based in Maury's hometown of Fredericksburg, Va. "I felt sorry that after so long he couldn't
have a little bit of respect." That moment in the fall of 2006 was something of an epiphany for
the visitors from Virginia. It triggered a Maury research project by their organization and a
campaign to restore the "pathfinder of the seas" to some degree of dignity in Salem, a city
where he was once revered and later stricken from the records.
Although Maury is an obscure, neglected historical figure, even in his native South, make no
Matthew Fontaine Maury
mistake — he was once a hero of the first rank. There is a monument to him in Richmond, Va.,
a large edifice in a row of monuments to the Confederate pantheon — Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jeb
Stuart. There were a school, street, stadium and Civil War Roundtable named for Maury in Fredericksburg. There is even a Maury
Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy. Fittingly, he is buried between two presidents — James Monroe and James Tyler.
"Arguably, he was one of the best-known Americans in the world," said G. Scott Walker, the research historian on the Maury
project for the Virginia historical group. As far as anyone knows, Maury never visited Salem, but he was as important in this seafaring
city as any ship's captain or owner, maybe even as important as Bowditch. Maury, a mathematical genius, was the first superintendent
of the U.S. Navy Department of Charts, which became the U.S. Naval Observatory. In that role, he studied the dusty
captains' logs that piled up over decades and were largely ignored. From that information, he published his own seminal works on
navigation and sailing directions, along with charts on wind and ocean currents. His "Treatise on Navigation" replaced Bowditch's
book as the U.S. Navy's bible. His work was shared with marine societies around the world. His findings revolutionized ocean
travel, officials said, saving valuable days — and dollars — for merchant ships, along with countless lives. So revered was Maury
that in 1859, the Salem Marine Society voted him its first honorary membership, an honor also bestowed just days earlier by the
East India Marine Society, the forerunner of the Peabody Essex Museum.
At the start of the Civil War, however, Maury fell from grace in the North. When Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861, its
native son resigned his naval commission and joined the Confederacy. He was put in charge of harbor and river defenses, engineered
the mining of Southern waterways, and designed small armed vessels known as "Maury boats." Later he was sent to England,
where he acquired vessels that preyed on Union ships — including Salem vessels. "As much as Maury helped us make an
awful lot of money, the Confederate raiders had a huge (role) in destroying us," said Allan Vaughan, clerk of the Salem Marine
Society. On May 30, 1861, the Marine Society proclaimed Maury a traitor who had "deserted his post" and ordered that his picture
"be reversed & that it be hung in our room head down." The East India Marine Society also revoked his membership and banished
his portrait to "some obscure corner of the building," according to its records. Maury continued in that unflattering pose until the
bicentennial of the Salem Marine Society in 1966. Noting that the Civil War had been over for a century, a member boldly called
for Maury to be pardoned and his picture turned around. The member was shouted down. "The room instantaneously erupted into
an uproar," according to a history of the Salem Marine Society. "Volatile expressions of indignant outrage. Sardonic laughter. Vitriolic
explosions of wrath. Boos. Hisses. Bronx cheers. No! No! No! Never!"
The controversy was laid to rest until now — until visitors from Virginia, staying at the Hawthorne Hotel, ventured to the roof
and found their hero upside down. After months of research and correspondence with the Salem Marine Society, the Mary Washington
Branch of the APVA offered a compromise. Keep Maury as he is, but hang a second portrait and display a small exhibit
detailing his accomplishments in navigation and science. On Jan. 31, the Salem Marine Society approved the proposal, giving
Maury his first measure of dignity here in 147 years. But it was done with the clear understanding that the original action would
not be rescinded.
After all these years, there are still strong feelings. There will be no about-face on Mr. Maury. "If it does come up for a vote, I'm
going to blackball him," Vaughan said. Two ceremonial events are scheduled this year to mark the Maury-torium. In two weeks,
Vaughan and another official from the Salem Marine Society will attend a reception in Fredericksburg. In October, representatives
from the APVA will come to Salem to present the new Maury portrait and exhibit materials at the annual dinner of the Marine Society.
And so, next fall, there will be two portraits of Maury at the Salem Marine Society — one hanging right-side-up and facing
forward, and the other upside-down and backward. As much as the Virginia group wants Maury's good name restored, there appear
to be no hard feelings that "the pathfinder of the seas" will remain upside down. Neither side, it seems, wants to tamper with history.
"Our letter wasn't: 'Turn that damn thing back around, you Yankees!'" said Scott, the APVA's research historian. "It wasn't
anything like that. It was: 'Keep the original turned around because it's a great story. My God, what a story!'"

Volume 3, Issue 3
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Southern Cookin’: Hoppin’ John
In different parts of the South different beans will predominate the kitchen table. In many parts of the South blackeyed
peas are a staple, though in some areas they’re just an annual tradition eaten on New Year’s Day. This same dish is
commonly known as “Skippin’ Jenny” the day after New Years Day.
Hoppin’ John
• 1 pound dried black-eyed peas
• 2 small smoked ham hocks or meaty ham bone
• 2 medium onions, divided
• 3 large cloves garlic, halved
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 cup long-grain white rice
• 1 can (10 to 14.5 ounces) diced tomatoes with
chili peppers, juices reserved
• 1 medium red bell pepper, chopped
• 1/2 green bell pepper, chopped
• 3 ribs celery, chopped
• 1 jalapeno or serrano pepper, minced
• 2 teaspoons Cajun or Creole seasoning
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cumin
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 4 Sliced green onions
PREPARATION:
In a large Dutch oven or kettle, combine the black-eyed peas, ham bone or ham hocks, and 6 cups water. Cut 1 of the onions in
half and add it to the pot along with the garlic and bay leaf. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat to medium-low, and simmer gently
until the beans are tender but not mushy, 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Remove the ham bone or hocks, cut off the meat; dice and set aside.
Drain the peas and set aside. Remove and discard the bay leaf, onion pieces, and garlic.
Add 2 1/2 cups of water to the pot and bring to a boil. Add the rice, cover, and simmer until the rice is almost tender, about 10 to
12 minutes.
Mince the remaining onion then add to the rice along with the peas, tomatoes, and their juices, red and green bell pepper, celery,
jalapeno pepper, Creole seasoning, thyme, cumin, and salt. Cook until the rice is tender, 5 to 8 minutes. Stir in the sliced green
onions and the reserved diced ham. Serve with hot sauce and freshly baked cornbread.
Hoppin' John is the Southern United States' version of the rice and beans dish traditional throughout the Caribbean. It consists
of field peas or Crowder peas (black-eyed peas) and rice, with chopped onion and sliced bacon, seasoned with a bit of
salt. Some people substitute ham hock or fatback for the conventional bacon; a few use green peppers or vinegar and
spices. Smaller than black-eyed peas, field peas are used in the Low Country of South Carolina and Georgia; black-eyed
peas are the norm elsewhere. Throughout the coastal South, eating Hoppin' John on New Year's Day is thought to bring a
year filled with luck, and it's eaten by everyone. The peas, or beans with little black “eyes,” signify coins. Fill your plate
with them and your proverbial cup will runneth over. Collard greens along with this dish is suppose to also add to the wealth
since they are the color of money.
Variations of this dish are seen throughout the American South and the Caribbean, and the dish is believed to have been
typical slave food in early colonial times. The origins of the name are uncertain, one possibility is that the name is a corruption
of the French Creole term for black-eyed peas: pois pigeons. Another explanation has it that a Georgia land owner's
one-legged slave, John, hopped around the table as he served a meal of rice and black-eyed peas. The meal was so well
liked that it was named after him. The OED's first reference to the dish is from Frederick Law Olmsted's 19th Century
travelogue, A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States. "The greatest luxury with which they are acquainted is a stew of bacon
and peas, with red pepper, which they call ‘Hopping John’." There is also a recipe for Hopping John in The Carolina Housewife
by Sarah Rutledge, which was published in 1847.

Volume 3, Issue 3
Northwest Confederate Veteran Profile: William Robert Inge Dalton
Born in Livingston, Alabama, December 6, 1841, William
Robert Inge Dalton grew up in Mississippi. His family were
friends with both the Davis and Lincoln families. In 1859 young
Dalton received an appointment to the US Navy Academy and
trained on the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides). On March 8,
1861, Dalton resigned from the Naval Academy, and enlisted in
the Confederate Navy as a Midshipman on June 12.
Midshipman Dalton was assigned to the CSS Florida before
spending most of 1862 on the CSS Nashville. He also served on
the CSS Tennessee and was captured on the CSS Atlanta on June
17, 1863, at Port Royal, South Carolina. After he was paroled,
and after the blockades, he joined Lee’s army as a dispatch bearer
taking messages back and forward to the Confederate ministers
in London and Paris. He was promoted to Lieutenant June 2,
1864. Towards the end of the war Dalton served with the James
River batteries defending Richmond, and ended the war at Appomattox.
Dalton graduated from St. Louis College of Physicians
and Surgeons in Missouri in 1884. He practiced in New York
City until 1903 and wrote many articles on immunization and the
use of vaccine virus, whereupon he moved to Seattle, Washington.
His specialty was actually dermatology.
Dr. Dalton was an active member of the John B. Gordon United
Confederate Veterans Camp #1456 of Seattle, and in 1916 the
Camp sent a letter to President Wilson offering their services to
the country during WWI. William Robert Inge Dalton became
the only officer of the War of Rebellion who also served in
World War I. After the war Dalton wrote his memoirs, primarily
concerning his time in the Confederate Navy. They are now only
available in archives. He died in Seattle on May 25, 1931.
Featured Flags: CSS Navy Ensigns That Survived The War
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William R. I. Dalton in the Confederate Navy
uniform of a Passed Midshipman.
The CSS Alabama is one of the most famous ships in naval history. She
sank 62 Yankee vessels in her short but very successful career! The ensign
pictured below left is housed at the Maritime Museum of South Africa.
The flag and a revolver were given
to a local resident when the Alabama
visited the western cape of South
Africa in 1863. Both artifacts are
currently on loan to the State of Alabama
Archives. The flag pictured at
the top right is another “Stainless
Banner” pattern ensign, this one
belonging to the CSS Atlanta, one
of the most well known ironclads
of the War. It measures 16-feet by 24-feet. The flag in the middle belonged
to the CSS Tennessee, and under this ensign defiantly faced an
entire US Navy fleet practically alone at the Battle of Mobile Bay. Both
the Atlanta and the Tennessee were captured and used by the US Navy.

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Confederate History: Confederate Privateer Jefferson Davis
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When the townspeople of St. Augustine awoke on August 17,
1861, they saw "a black painted brig with dark canvas sails beating
towards the harbor entrance". The ship was the Jefferson
Davis, a Confederate privateer seeking food and water stores.
This 187-ton brig was built in Baltimore in 1845 as a merchant
vessel and was being illicitly operated as a slaver when she was
captured off Cuba in 1858 by USS Dolphin. The U.S. Government
sold her to a Charleston shipping merchant in January 1859
but with the outbreak of the Civil War she was soon granted a
letter of marque by the Confederate government, designating her
a privateer in the war on Union commerce. Despite her brief career,
cut short by the shallow bars of St. Augustine's inlet, she
Sketch of CSS Jeff Davis
remained the most successful privateer of the Civil War.
Built in Baltimore as the 187-ton merchant brig Putnam in 1845, she was renamed Echo, and was illegally
used as a slaver. She was captured by USS
Dolphin off of Cuba in 1858; her cargo of
271 enslaved people was returned to Africa.
The U.S. Government sold her to a Charleston
shipping merchant in January 1859. At
the outbreak of the War Between the States,
the brig was granted a letter of marque
signed by Jefferson Davis himself, designating
her a privateer or privately operated
commerce raider.
Under Captain Coxetter of Jacksonville,
Jefferson Davis' first raiding cruise, described
as "the last truly classic cruise in the
history of private-armed sea power," succeeded
in capturing nine northern merchant
vessels in just seven weeks off the coast of
New England, making her the most successful
Confederate privateer of the war. Needing
water and supplies, she attempted to enter
St. Augustine's inlet on August 17, 1861
where she ran aground and was abandoned.
Though she has never been located, her
compliment of iron cannons will register as
a distinctive target during planned magnetometer
surveys of the old channel CSS Jefferson Davis, 1861
entrance.
Confederate Factoid: Lt. Simeon Cummings
If you’re standing on the front steps of Elm Springs and look 90-degrees to the right you will see a very
small cemetery. Immediately noticeable is the white marble Confederate headstone and iron Cross of Honor
facing the old manor. For 131 years Confederate Navy Lieutenant Simeon W. Cummings held the distinction
of being the only Confederate killed during the war and buried outside of the United States. On August 3,
1863, a hunting party consisting of three officers was returning to the CSS Alabama from Saldanha Bay in
South Africa. When re-boarding the Alabama that evening, Lt. Cummings’ loaded rifle caught on something
and discharged, killing him. He was disinterred in 1994 and reburied with full military honors at Elm Springs.

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