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 "Olde Towne" district of the city of Conyers Georgia, about
30
miles east of Atlanta.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans is a Historical Honor Society. 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 March 15, 2012We are trying to raise $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 few unmarked graves inside the cemetery area as well as a large number of unmarked graves outside the stone wall boundaries of the cemetery. How many, you may ask? The number could reach up to 100 burial sites and while we will never know the who these people are, we can at least acknowledge their presence. All the information that is revealed by the survey will be reported to Newton County for inclusion in their cemetery records.
We are still quite far from our 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, April 30, 2012OK, it's 90 outside and its not even May!!!! Wow!!! I hope everyone got to participate in some Confederate activity in April. It certainly was a very busy month in the Confederacy!
It was great to see everyone that showed up for
our Show & Tell meeting in April. There was a ton of interest in
the regalia and artifacts our members displayed.
That's all for now, Please enjoy the web site.