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The Captain James Iredell
Waddell Camp 1770, Orange County,
California, Sons of
Confederate Veterans, honors the memory of the CSS Shenandoah, her captain
and crew. The only Confederate vessel to sail around the world, the
Shenandoah captured 38 U.S.
ships, mainly Yankee whalers in the North Pacific. During her 13-month
voyage, she only dropped anchor twice and visited every ocean except the
Antarctic. She surrendered to the British authorities in Liverpool
England
on November 6, 1865
and lowered the last Confederate Flag.
"I claim for her officers and men a
triumph over their enemies and over every obstacle, and for myself, I claim having done my duty."
Captain J. I. Waddell
In our lives, most of us have found some
things important to us. Furthermore, we have embraced some things of honor to
us. The Sons of Confederate Veterans in Orange
County want to help
you honor and embrace your Confederate heritage. We plan to create a
Confederate memorial and burial site in Southern California.
The memorial will be a centerpiece for the Confederate pride and services to
honor the veterans buried there.
The need for a Confederate memorial in Orange
County has been
recognized for years. GAR monuments abound, but there is no marker honoring
Confederate veterans though many were founding fathers of Orange
County. The
development of a plan to design, fund and build a suitable Confederate
monument has waited for the right time.
That Time Is Now
Working with the Orange County Cemetery
District and their Santa Ana
Cemetery (a
magnificent pioneer cemetery in the heart of Orange
County), the Orange County
SCV plans to create
this Confederate memorial. Using a recently opened part of the cemetery which
is surrounded by towering trees and emerald lawns, several graves will be set
apart for SCV and UDC members, their families or any other individual who
wants to be buried in Southern soil. Special pricing and terms have been
arranged.
The Cemetery District will donate several
gravesites for the creation of a Confederate monument. The monument will be
made from Georgia
granite and placed on the north side of the area reserved for you and yours,
whose lives have been devoted to preserving your Confederate heritage. On
Confederate holidays, the graves of all in the Confederate heritage plot will
be decorated with flowers and flags by the Orange
County SCV Camp
along with the Confederates buried in Santa Ana
and Fairhaven
cemeteries.
The Captain James Iredell
Waddell Camp 1770, Orange
County California,
Sons of Confederate Veterans, is in the final planning stages for creating a
Confederate memorial and cemetery in Orange County
California. This
beautiful and unique project will honor the Confederate veterans buried in Orange
County and those
who honor their memory. anyone who is proud of their
Confederate heritage is encouraged to reserve a site.
Arrangements can be made by calling the Rev.
Louis V. Carlson, in the evening at (714) 997-4113. The actual purchase of
plots is made with the cemetery authority. Payment can be made by cash, or
credit card. A payment plan may be worked out with Camp 1770. Multiple sites
are available and all sites can be specified for two burials per site.
If you presently own burial property, you
may want to consider selling it and using the funds to purchase spaces in the
Southern Heritage area. The cash price for Orange
County residents is
currently $850. This compares favorably with any cemetery in Southern
California. Non-Orange
County residents rates are slightly higher.
For my part, when
the time comes to cross the river like the others, I shall be found asking at
the gates above: where is the army of Northern Virginia?
For there I make my Camp.
Brig. Gen. G. Moxley
Sorrel, CSA
Orange
County Camp
1770
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