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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 ...
Unidentified Civil War veteran in United Confederate Veterans uniform with Southern Cross of Honor medal. From the Library of Congress Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs. The United Confederate Veterans (UCV, or simply Confederate Veterans) was an American Civil War veterans' organization headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Sons of Veterans was a general term used in the United States at the turn of the 20th century for fraternal organizations of men whose fathers fought in the United States Civil War. It may refer to: Sons of Confederate Veterans
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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]
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