Albany Sons of Confederate Veterans will host their 31st annual memorial service Saturday
Confederate memorial service in Albany set for Saturday
By Jon Gosa
ALBANY — The Albany Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 141 will host its 31st annual Southwest Georgia Confederate Memorial Service on Saturday at the Confederate States of America Memorial Park on Philema Road in Albany to honor the lives, service and heritage of those southerners who fought in the Civil War.
“Over the years, a lot of good things have taken place in our nation,” event organizer and SCV member James King told The Albany Herald during the 2017 memorial service. “But there has been a decline in the type of patriotism that our founding fathers had and the patriotism that this nation was founded on. The principles that the Confederate flag represents is the same as the original Betsy Ross flag — limited constitutional federal government, states’ rights, resistance to tyranny and Christian values.”
The event on Saturday will feature live Confederate period and gospel music from the group Southern Sounds beginning at 9 a.m., comments from guest speaker Henry Crain, a constitutional historian who writes a weekly column in the Lee County Ledger offering his take on the U.S. Constitution and reenactors in period uniforms firing traditional weapons.
During the ceremony, the names of the Confederate states will be called in order of the date they declared secession from the United States beginning with South Carolina and ending with Tennessee. Border states and western territories that supported the Confederacy will also be recognized, as well as soldiers of Northern states who fought for the Confederacy.
As the name of each state is called, those attending the event who are descendants of soldiers from that state will stand to be recognized and a carnation flower honoring those soldiers will be placed at the base of the Confederate monument.
A final flower and wreath will be placed to honor and remember the unknown CSA soldiers, meant to recognize the forgotten men who fought and died under the flag of the Confederacy, which at one time, waved across the South.
“Most of America’s original founding fathers were Southern gentlemen from Virginia,” King said in 2017. “The Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence, all came from Southerners primarily. The South and the Southern states have not been given enough credit in the development of America, but history is written by the winners of war.”
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