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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.
Captain Waddell wrote:
"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."
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.
“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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