Historical
A Pilgrimage to the Rock
- By Tony Perkins - Family Research Council
It's been chipped and cracked, dropped and completely submerged. For America's Plymouth Rock, the journey has been anything but easy. For more than 120 years, it sat anonymously on the Massachusetts waterfront -- just another boulder, until an elderly man asked to be carried to the beach to say goodbye. Plans for a new wharf were underway, set to bury the exact stretch of sand where Thomas Faunce's father and the rest of the pilgrims had landed. That rock, he said, "had received the footsteps of our fathers on their first arrival." It should be, he urged, "perpetuated to posterity." Thanks to him, the son of a Mayflower survivor, it was.
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H.R.4179 - No Federal Funding for Confederate Symbols Act
- By SCV
The liberal leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives is in the process of initiating an Islamic terrorist genocidal style attack upon all things Confederate. At this time there has been an Anti-Confederate bill proposed in the U.S. House to prohibit any federal funds from being used for anything related to the Confederacy and requiring the Defense Department to change the name of military bases and ships which honor any Confederate military person, place, or thing. I feel certain that if this measure passes, the next phase is the designation of the SCV as a hate group.
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National SCV Commander Honors 16th Regiment
- By Barry Kay
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The Hunley 19 Years Ago
- By Friends of the Hunley
On August 8th, nineteen years ago, a journey of historical and technological discovery began with the raising of the Hunley. The pioneering submarine had been lost at sea for over a century. Since being recovered and delivered to a high-tech lab designed for excavation and preservation, scientists have been in the process of unlocking her secrets and trying to learn why she mysteriously vanished in 1864.
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Hunley Featured on National Geographic Series Drain the Oceans
- By Friends of the Hunley
Drain the Oceans is an ongoing series on National Geographic Television and their upcoming episode will explore the unfolding history of the Hunley. The show’s production team was recently onsite at Clemson University’s Warren Lasch Conservation Center in North Charleston interviewing experts about the latest discoveries emerging from their research on the 19th-century submarine.
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Darlene Dowdy Portrayed the Life and Final Days of Mary Suratt
- By Barry Kay
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"Wade Hampton's Iron Scouts" Presented to Upstate SCV Members
- By Barry Kay
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