[VAcourier] Annual Robert E. Lee Dinner in Linden, VA

[Virginia Division SCV Communication List]

Commander Silek of the John S. Mosby Camp #1237 wanted to announce their 
Annual Dinner honoring General Robert E. Lee on the Virginia Courier and 
sent me the announcement after several attempts to post the invitation.

As information, the Virginia Courier is a one-way announcement system 
used by the Virginia Division officers and only a few have the authority 
to send out an announcement. If your camp has an announcement or event 
that you would like to submit for consideration to be sent on the VA 
Courier, please send it to either myself, or Division Adj. Mike Rose.


John Sawyer, Commander
Virginia Division SCV

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COMPATRIOTS and Friends -
Happy New Year! I tried posting this on Jan 2 but was told it did not go 
out on the list. So a second attempt...

Please find attached below the invitation for the John S. Mosby 
Camp#1237, Annual Dinner honoring General Robert E. Lee. I am sorry I am 
late getting this out to everyone. The speaker is very good and I am 
sure it will be a wonderful evening and hope that you and members of 
your camp can attend. Please print out several copies of the attached 
invitation and pass them around. We must have a headcount by noon on 
January 11 for the Apple House. Please contact mysefl or John Wertz with 
your reservations.  I hope that you are able to join us for this evening.

Deo Vindice!
David W. Silek,
John S. Mosby Camp#1237, Commander

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    THE JOHN S. MOSBY CAMP #1237, SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS

    INVITES YOU TO ITS ANNUAL DINNER HONORING THE

    203^rd ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF

    GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE

    January 16, 2010 at the Apple House Banquet Room, Linden, VA

    Cocktails 6:30 /post meridian/

    Dinner 7:00 /post meridian/

    Keynote Speaker: Mr. Kim Holien

    *Topic: Robert E. Lee -- The General*

    Cost $25.00/person


    Menu: Buffet style with turkey and or roast beef. House salad,
    California blend of vegetables, and potatoes with gravy. Tea or
    water. Cake for dessert. Cash Bar.


    Please RSVP by January 11, 2010 at Noon to Mr. John Wertz

    cjwertz at shentel.net <mailto:cjwertz at shentel.net> or (540) 635-2865

     

    /See reverse for more details concerning the speaker and topic./

     
     
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    *The Speaker:*

    Mr. Holien is the professional military historian for Joint Base
    Myer - Henderson Hall in the Metro Washington area. This command
    encompasses Fort Myer, Virginia (the only Civil War fort from the
    Defenses of Washington still in existence today as a functioning
    fort. It is next to Arlington National Cemetery); Henderson Hall -
    headquarters United States Marine Corps and Ft Lesley J. McNair in
    the District of Columbia (Home to the National Defense University
    and third oldest Army post in the world dating to1791). Holien has
    been a professional military historian for 30 years during which
    time he was the civilian historian for Staff Rides to Civil War
    battlefields for Secretary of the Army John Marsh. He also did the
    radio narration for the 125th Anniversaries of lst Manassas, Balls
    Bluff, Gettysburg, New Market and the Monocacy.  Kim graduated from
    Bethel College in TN with a major in Broad Area of Social Sciences
    and a double minor in History and Psychology. He completed his MA in
    1984 at George Mason University under Prof. Joe Harsh and did
    his thesis on the Battle of Balls Bluff and its Political Aftermath
    which he turned into a book that has gone through three printings. .
    He is also an honors graduate of the Army Management Staff College
    at Ft Belvoir in 1997.  Past president of both the DC and Alexandria
    Civil War Round Tables, Kim is a founder of the Friends of Ft Ward
    in 1981 and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the
    Lincoln at the Crossroads Alliance (www.latcra.org <http:///>) for
    the upcoming Sesquicentennial. Kim was a participant in the Civil
    War Centennial of 1961 - 65 and just recently portrayed LTC Robert
    E. Lee for the 150th anniversary of the capture of John Brown at
    Harpers Ferry.  He is a descendant of Private John Wild of Mosby's
    Rangers and Capt. Gustav Schimmel of the 15th New York Heavy
    Artillery.  Kim is currently finishing his next book on the
    campaign, battle and aftermath of lst Manassas.

     

     *Capsule Talk Summary:*

        Robert E. Lee is one of the world's great battle captains and
    yet he lost the battle of Gettysburg and the South lost its war for
    independence. Could the former be due to his participation in the
    Mexican War and the latter due to the interference of those in
    Richmond? In just eighteen months from now we will be commemorating
    the battle of 1^st Manassas whose victory for the South was due to
    Robert E. Lee but he was not physically there. How could this be?
    You live in the Shenandoah Valley site of Stonewall Jackson's
    immortal Valley Campaign and yet again it is due to Robert E. Lee
    but he was not physically here. How could this be? Lee's critics are
    a legion these days and yet few, if any of them, have ever been in
    uniform much less in command of an entire army with the weight of
    responsibility that it entails. Lee's defeat of McClellan at the
    very gates of Richmond, his masterpiece of maneuver against Pope at
    Second Manassas, his moral victory on the banks of Antietam Creek,
    his thrashing of Burnside at Fredericksburg, the victorious dividing
    of the Army of Northern Virginia four times at Chancellorsville in
    the face of an enemy twice its size, the ambushing of Grant in the
    Wilderness and the crushing defeat of his legions at Cold Harbor,
    the daring raid on Washington in the Summer of 1864 and the true
    meaning of Appomattox will be discussed. For those of you who heard
    the 2008 talk on Robert E. Lee the Man this will be a companion
    bookend talk.  

     
     

    WE HOPE THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO JOIN US FOR THIS EVENT. SHOULD YOU HAVE
    ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CALL

    MR. DAVID SILEK AT 703-296-6758 OR MR. JOHN WERTZ AT 540-635-2865


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