Welcome to Our Virtual Encampment!
Major General Joseph Wheeler, Camp #863 is part of the 13th Brigade of
the Georgia Divison of Sons of Confederate Veterans. Our
headquarters is located in the city of Conyers Georgia, about
30
miles east of the "occupied" city of Atlanta.
Our mission is a simple one, to protect and preserve the accurate history of the Confederacy and the legacy of our ancestors that took up the Confederate Cause during the War Between The States.
We invite you to learn more about us by exploring our virtual encampment here on our official web site. We hope you find what we present here to be infomative, educational, and useful to you. We also ask you to consider becoming a member of our encampment, or another SCV encampment if one is closer to where you live. Your help is welcome and most needed! Please consider joining us in our cause!
Middlebrooks Cemetery Project, Phase II
By Hal Doby, Web Master, Updated February 1, 2012We have been attempting to raise funds for the past few months to raise approximately $1,800 in order to perform a survey of the Middlebrooks Family Cemetery in Portdale. After performing the huge task of reclaiming the cemetery from nature, we discovered there are a large number of unmarked graves in and around the cemetery. How many, you may ask? The number could reach to around 80 to 100 burial sites and while we will never know the exact names of those souls that are buried there, we can at least acknowledge their presence.
After four months of fund raising, we are still quite far from our needed goal. We are asking for any contribution that can be made to help us aquire the needed funds to complete our work on the Middlebrooks Cemetery. I have established a revised information page on the Middlebrooks Family Cemetery to report our progress and any news we have to report. You can see that page by visiting the Graves Of Our Ancestors page or by clicking on this link.
Please consider donating to this very worthy project!!!
A Word From The Web Master
By Hal Doby, Web Master, February 22, 2012We are almost into March and it seems like we're towards the
end of that month already outside. Our own General Beauregard Lee predicted an
early arrival of Spring on Groundhog's Day and it looks like that was a sure
bet. In my 53 years here as an
As it most always is for social groups, the first few months
of the year begin slowly but start to get active once the warm weather is
firmly in place. So it is for
This makes visiting our camp website all that more important
in order to be informed about all the goings-on. Please make an effort to check
the
That's all for now, Please enjoy the web site.