Major Jesse M Cooper SCV Camp 1665

Please Join Jesse M. Cooper Camp 1665

Membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans is open to all male descendants of any veteran who served honorably in the Confederate armed forces. Membership can be obtained through either direct or collateral family lines and kinship to a veteran and must be documented genealogically. The minimum age for membership is 12.

Camp Members can help with finding and documenting your Confederate ancestor. Dues are $35 per year and that includes a subscription to the "Confederate Veteran". We are a small Camp and would like to increase our numbers. Not all our members are active due to heavy work loads and other commitments. However, they want to be counted as someone who cares about their ancestry and participate when time allows. $35 is a small price to pay to keep your heritage alive. To look at it another way, the dues are less than 10 cents per day. That is a very small price to pay to save your heritage and an important piece of American History

For more information on how to join the SCVor invite us to an event:

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Serving Beauregard and Allen Parish Since 1994

Meetings are the first Monday of each month unless the first Monday falls on a holiday. Meetings are at 7pm at the War Memorial Civic Center in Deridder, La.

Everyone is welcome at our meetings

Our purpose is to honor the many brave men who were willing to face any hardship, up to and including death, in the defense of their Constitution, Government, and homes. Let us remind everyone that they were not the invaders. We strive to honor those who lost their lives, homes, property, and way of life during one of the darkest periods in American History. We try to educate everyone to the fact that the war was not fought to preserve slavery. We know that slavery

Charge to the Sons of Confederate Veterans:

"To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we submit the vindication of the Cause for which we fought; to your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier's good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles he loved and which made him glorious and which you also cherish. Remember, it is your duty to see that the true history of the South is presented to future generations."

- Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General, United Confederate Veterans, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1906

was an issue, but challenge anyone to prove that slavery was the cause of the War Between the States.

As a Camp we have many activities during the year. Some of these activities are tedious, hard work. Most are pure fun. Activities include:

Lee - Jackson Banquet: This is a formal Banquet held each year to honor the January Birthdays of Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. Jackson.
Battle of Hickory Creek: This is the camp's pride and joy. We sponsor this reenactment to educate people about the soldier's lives during the war. It starts off on Friday with a "School of the Student". Each year 1100 school kids arrive at the reenactment site for the "school". We have six stations set up and the students rotate through each one. Stations include flag history, infantry, cavalry, artillery, and camp life. We encourage spectators to visit the camps and ask questions. The reenactment is held on a 120 acre farm on the outskirts of DeRidder, La. The reenactment is held the last full weekend each February.
Monthly meetings. Good camaraderie and educational programs.
Marking and cleaning Veteran's graves. We are in the process of cataloging all the Confederate Veteran's graves in Allen, Beauregard, and Vernon Parishes of Louisiana. This is a slow process so please continue checking the site for changes.
Reenacting. Many of our members are also members of Semme's Battery, 19th La. Infantry or Spaights' Battalion. You do not have to belong to the SCV to reenact with us and you do not have to reenact to belong to the SCV.
Memorials: We regularly participate and sponsor memorials for Confederate veterans.
Living Histories, fairs, etc.
School presentations: Members go to schools and do Show and Tell. Teachers in Allen and Beauregard Parishes of Louisiana encouraged to contact us for info on school presentations.
Participate in Heritage Defense.