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The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is an American neo-Confederate [1] nonprofit organization of male descendants of Confederate soldiers [2]: 6–9 that commemorates these ancestors, funds and dedicates monuments to them, and promotes the pseudohistorical Lost Cause ideology and corresponding white supremacy.
Nathan Bedford Forrest II (1871–1931), businessman and activist who served as the 19th Commander-in-Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans [12] MacDonald Gallion (1913–2007), Alabama attorney general [2] R. Michael Givens (born 1958), film director and cinematographer [13] Gordon Gunter (1909–1998), marine biologist and fisheries ...
This is a topic category for the topic Sons of Confederate Veterans The main article for this category is Sons of Confederate Veterans . Please do not include biographical articles with a passing reference to membership or local leadership in the organization unless there is substantial related content.
Pages in category "Members of Sons of Confederate Veterans" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Sons of Confederate Veterans (1 C, 22 P, 1 F) U. United Confederate Veterans (16 P) United Daughters of the Confederacy (2 C, 10 P) Pages in category "American Civil ...
A year later, Texas counted only seven living Confederate veterans, among them Thomas Evans “Uncle Tom” Riddle and Walter W. Williams. They were the last two alive in 1953.
In 1968, the Sons of Confederate Veterans passed a resolution to issue a "medal of honor" and began minting them in 1977. [2] According to past executive director Ben Sewell, "[t]he SCV created their own Confederate Medal of Honor simply because there were some incredible acts of valor that had received little or no recognition during and after the war". [3]
Since 1997, it has belonged to the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). [3] As of 2017, the "caretaker" of the house is Gene Andrews, a resident of Nashville, Tennessee, and a member of the SCV. [3] The house may still be used for "Civil War re-enactments, music and lectures". [3] It was the location of the music video for Josephine by Joey ...