Gen. Louis Hebert CSA

Deo Vindice

("If We Do Not Forget")

I salute the Confederate flag, with affection, reverence, and undying devotion to the Cause for which it stands.

Welcome to the Homepage of the

General Louis Hebert Camp 2032

Of The Sons of Confederate Veterans

Lafayette, Louisiana

TIGER AWARD

Louisiana Division Distinguished Camp 2005

Louisiana Division Distinguished Camp 2006

All comments on this page are my personal opinion

Travis J. Callahan SCV

3rd Louisiana Infantry Flag courtesy of Jim's Flags

http://www.history-sites.com/jimsflags/

Meeting Minutes & Camp News

A meeting of The General Louis Hebert, Camp 2032 of the SCV was held at Azul Tequila Restaurant in Abbeville, LA on September 1, 2010.

In Attendance were Camp members:

Sean Gayle, John Francois, Travis Callahan, Allen Dale Belaire, Fred Hebert, Ricky Hebert, Murphy Vincent, Don Boudreaux, Dale Hebert, Rogers Romero, Mike Broussard, Terry Badon, Leon Jardell, and Clarence Bonin.

Guests :

Janis Belaire, Joyce Lane, Diana Callahan, James Gayle, and Joshua LeBlanc, who is a prospective member of the Hebert Camp.

A discussion was held on the procedure to acquire a Government Headstone for CSA soldiers with unmarked graves.

The primary requirement is that there be no other form of marker on that grave.

The application is available on line at this address:

http://www.cem.va.gov/hm_hm.asp

Then click on the PDF File to print the application for a headstone. There is no charge if the application is approved.

Compatriot John Francois gave a talk on the travels of his ancestor, Victor Sittig of F Co., 8^th La. Inf., and the many important battles of the war in which he participated . Scroll down this page to see the pictures of the recent program to honor Sittig and four other soldiers in Eunice.

Joshua LeBlanc was introduced to the group as an applicant for membership by his sponsor, Compatriot Dale Hebert. The Genealogy Committee is presently confirming his eligibility. Welcome Joshua.

Discussion was held in regards to adding the meeting minutes to the activities of the Camp and to publish the minutes, less the financial report, on the Camp web page each month .

Commander Bonin reported on his recent major heart surgery and is well on the road to recovery .

The Fall cleanup of the Adopt- A- Road project at Camp Pratt on Highway 182 near New Iberia will be scheduled at a future date when it is a little cooler.

Meeting was adjourned.

Travis J. Callahan

Secretary.

Editors Note:

In the future I will make an attempt to include information from the early editions of the Confederate Veteran Magazine which is the same magazine which you receive every month. Remember that some of these articles were written by people who had fought in battle and were witnesses to History.

THE JURIST'S OPINION OF THE FALLEN CHIEFTAIN

[Judge Turney]

In a speech at Clarksville, Tenn., Judge Turney said he did not care to make a speech except to keep himself identified with the immortal idea of constitutional government.

This was not altogether an occasion for mourning. The South had much to be thankful for. Her grand leader had lived long enough to see the intense hatred and slander born of the war pass away, and to know that the divisions among his own people were healed, and all believed that he acted upon conscientious and upright judgment.

He spoke of Mr. Davis as a comrade as well as a statesman. He had seen him risk his life on two battlefields. He remembered seeing him at the first Manassas, and he felt outraged that the great guiding brain of the Confederacy, as he considered Mr. Davis, should take such risks, Again, when the noble Hatton fell Mr. Davis was on the field. He saw Hatton's troops go into the fight, and, noting Hatton at its head, Mr. Davis said: "That Brigade moves in handsomely, but it will lose its commander." Mr. Davis thought for others but not for himself.

He thought Mr. Davis the ablest defender of constitutional law in the Union. From his sacrifice he could come to no other conclusion than that Mr. Davis believed in the justice of the South's cause as he believed in the Christian religion. He had absolutely no doubt of the right of a State to go out of the Union when the terms of the Union were violated. His State papers would live as long as Jefferson's. He was the equal of Jefferson, Calhoun, and Webster, and superior to all who lived when he breathed his last. Mr. Davis was immortal. He would live while manhood lasts.

REF: Confederate Veteran, Vol. I, No. 1, Nashville, Tenn., January, 1893.

The Next Camp meeting will be held on Wednesday

October 6 , 2010 at a place soon to be announced.

Social hour is 6:00 with Meeting time at 7:00.

Click here to view our Camp Honor Roll

Camp Calendar of Events

Saturday 19 June 2010

On Saturday 19 June 2010 at 1030 a.m., John Francois, SCV member of the Gen. Louis Hebert Camp 2032 held a SCV commemoration ceremony for his great grandfather, Victor Sittig, Pvt., CSA. and the four other soldiers buried in the Carron Cemetery near Eunice.

At least five Confederate veterans are buried at Carron: Victor Sittig of F Co., 8^th La. Inf.; Martin Carron of Co. H, Consolidated Crescent Reg’t, La Inf.; George Richard of Co. A, Crescent Reg’t, La. Inf. (Also 7^th La. Cavalry, Co. D); and Rosamond Lejeune of Co. A, 28^th (Thomas’s) La. Inf., and Constance A. Pierrotti of Co. D 7th La. Cavalry. All were friends or knew each other.

The program for the impressive ceremony is shown below.

Camp 2032 SCV Member Compatriot John Francois welcomes the crowd to the ceremony

Camp 2032 SCV member Father Kenneth J. Domingue gives the invocation

A soldier and the Commemoration Wreath

Commander, Louisiana Division of the SCV, Charles Lauret, calls for a salute from the rifle squad

And a salute from the Artillery

In Memory

We regret having to announce the recent loss of Joseph Melvin Domingue a new inductee of Camp 2032, and father of Compatriots Father Ken Domingue, David Bryan Domingue, and Melvin Wayne Domingue.

Members Sick Call

The Lee/Jackson Banquet January 2010

Compatriot Al Bethard swears in the new Camp 2032 Adjutant Mike Broussard

Meeting March 3, 2010

Harold Schoeffler speaks on his research and experiences at Fort Butte Larose

Chaplain Murphy Vincent inducts our two newest members Dale Hebert and Fred Hebert

Welcome !

Compatriot Dale Hebert with a picture of the tombstone of his ancestor CSA soldier Edward Hebert

Meeting of April 07, 2010

Compatriot Scotty Hall, of the JEFFERSON DAVIS Camp # 474 , speaks of his long research into the Hall family and the many battles , in several states, they fought in as members of the 17th Texas Cavalry, CSA

Member Fr. Kenneth Domingue, standing in for his father Joseph Melvin Domingue , who is ill , and his two brothers, David Bryan Domingue, and Melvin Wayne Domingue as the three become

new members of Camp 2032.

Welcome Gentlemen!

May 2010 Meeting

L to R Camp Chaplain Murphy Vincent and Commander Bonin induct our newest members

Father Wilson Brown and David Langlois

June 2010 Meeting

Jessica McChesney speaks to Camp 2032 about her tour of the Mansfield Battlefield and The Mansfield Women's College.

Members with Jessica McChesney, our speaker.

all meeting pictures courtesy of Allen Dale Belaire

Visit The Young Sanders Center for the study of the War Between The States.

The following are directions on how the get there compliments of Compatriot Don Boudreaux.

When you exit Highway 90 (exit 3211) at Franklin, you go left under Highway 90
underpass and just a few blocks on the left is Charlie's, you go about a mile and you will come to a dead end intersection at old Hwy 90 which is Franklin's Main Street. At that intersection you take a right and go on into town a couple miles until you get to the intersection of Main and Iberia Street (a stop light). You go on and the next intersection is Adams Street, the next street is Jackson Street, take a left there and go one block and that dead ends at the Bayou Teche. Take a right and that is Teche Street. On the right after Scelfo Cleaners is the Young-Sanders Center. There is parking in front on the left side next to the Bayou.

Click on the link below to visit the beautiful Young- Sanders Center for Research on the War Between The States located in Franklin, Louisiana. Please consider becoming a "Friend Of The Center".

Young-Sanders Center Foundation ( Franklin Museum)

The General Louis Hebert Camp has several members in other states. One of these is Compatriot Chris Langlois. Chris is a native of Jeanerette, Louisiana and presently works as a Firefighter in Omaha, Nebraska. His CSA ancestor is Private Joseph L. Rivet Co. E 18th Infantry Regiment.

Chris has presented programs at many Nebraska schools in the last few years on the life of the Confederate soldier. He educates the school children on the reasons for the war, and life during that period of history.

Chris also has a large display that he uses with his presentations at the schools. He reports that he has always been well received at the Nebraska schools.

He regularly sends reports to Camp 2032 complete with pictures. He also has made contact with the Nebraska Sons of Union Veterans which has located 19,000 gravesites of Veterans of the war with at least 150 of these being Confederate Soldiers. He has asked the SUV to allow him to take part in their active grave marker restoration and maintenance program so that he can work with the Confederate gravesites. He is one of only two SCV members in Nebraska.

Chris is introduced to his one of his school audiences

The General Louis Hebert Camp 2032 thanks our member, Chris Langlois, for his never ending program to educate Northern school children on the Life Of The Confederate Soldier.

The purpose of our Camp is to honor our ancestors who fought against overwhelming odds when their home states seceded from the union. They responded to their Country's call much like our current soldiers who now fight in Iraq. Many did not want to fight, much less die. But soldiers across history have responded to a call to service. I am proud of my ancestors service to their country and I am proud of my own service to my country. God Bless our soldiers who are now in harms way and fighting for our freedom.

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

HERITAGE, NOT HATE!
The SCV does not condone or have any connection to any group which misuses Confederate Flags or symbols, or defames the name of the Confederate Soldier in the name of hatred or racism

The flag of General Hebert and his 3rd Louisiana Infantry and The General Louis Hebert Camp 2032 of the SCV

Click on this link to read the truth about the War of 1861

A lesson in History ( The War of 1861 )

Photo by Heathe Courville

This bust of General Louis Hebert was dedicated in 1910 and is located in the Vicksburg, Mississippi Battlefield Park. Click on the link below to get to the Vicksburg Park Service Commanders page, then select General Louis Hebert from the list.

Note: Everything is considered in the public domain on the Vicksburg Site including the bust of the General. It may be distributed or copied as is permitted by the law.

http://www.nps.gov/vick/state/cmmdrs.htm

General Louis Hebert CSA

Click here to read General Hebert's Official Reports on the Vicksburg, Mississippi siege

Click here to see the Louisiana Civil War Map of Battles

The Dedication of the Confederate Memorial in Franklin, LA February 28, 1914 From the St. Mary Banner Newspaper. Picture submitted by Larry D. Bodin

For those who think that our ancestors fought to preserve slavery I submit the following :

In all their motley array there was hardly a uniform to be seen, and then, and throughout all the brilliant campaign on which they were about to enter there was nothing to distinguish their officers, even a general, from the men in the ranks, save a bit of red flannel, or a piece of cotton cloth, fastened to the shoulder, or to the arm, of the former. But for all that they were the truest and best of soldiers. Many of them, when just emerging from endured to the dangers and privations of the wilderness; and many had engaged in the hot strife which had ensanguined the prairies of Kansas.

Among them there was hardly a man who could not read and write, and who was not more intelligent than the great mass of American citizens; not one who had not voluntarily abandoned his home with all its tender ties, and thrown away all his possessions, and left father and mother, or wife and children, within the enemy's lines, that he might himself stand by the South in her hour of great peril, and help her to defend her fields and her firesides. And among them all there was not a man who had come forth to fight for slavery.
Thomas L. Snead, on the Missouri State Guard in his book, Fight For Missouri.

General Hebert's Life in Brief

Gen Louis Hebert, a first cousin of General Paul O. Hebert, and a
brother-in-law of Gen. Walter H. Stevens, was born in Iberville Parish, La., March 13, 1820. His early education came from private tutors on the family plantation.
Later he attended Jefferson College in La. and graduated third in the class of
1845 at West Point. He resigned two years later to take charge of his father's
sugar interests. During the years before the outbreak of the War for Southern
Independence, he was an officer of militia; a member of the state senate, and
chief engineer of La. Hebert entered the Confederate Army as a colonel of the
3rd La. Infantry. He fought with credit at Wilson's Creek, and was captured
with a large part of his command at the battle of Elkhorn. After being exchanged,
he was promoted to brigadier general on May 26, 1862. He commanded the 2nd
Brigade of Gen. Henry Little's division of Price's army in North Mississippi,
taking a gallant part in the battles of Iuka, Corinth, and in the siege of
Vicksburg. He was subsequently and until the end of the war in charge of the heavy artillery in and around Fort Fisher, North Carolina; and also acted as chief
engineer of the Confederate War Dept in that state. He returned to La. upon the
cessation of hostilities and spent the remaining years of his life editing a
newspaper and teaching in private schools in Iberville and St. Martin Parishes, in the latter of which his death occurred on Jan. 7, 1901. He was buried near Cecilia, La. and later re-buried by the Sons of Confederate Veterans at St.
Joseph's Cemetery in Cecilia, LA.

The following Compatriots are the 2010 & 2011 Officers of The Gen. Louis Hebert Camp 2032 .

Camp Commander Clarence Bonin la7thcav@aol.com

1st. Lt. Commander Perry Vannoy vannoyp@bellsouth.net

2nd Lt. Commander Terry Badon tgbadon@yahoo.com

Camp Adjutant Mike Broussard la26th@yahoo.com

Treasurer Donald J. Boudreaux donboudreaux@earthlink.net

Chaplain Murphy Vincent lavdjv@cox.net

Appointed By The Commander

Judge Advocate Richard Chappuis

Historian Allen Dale Belaire jadabel@hughes.net

Genealogist/Webmaster Travis Callahan teejcee@cox.net

Color Sgt. Position Open

Quartermaster Position open

Newsletter Editor Sean Gayle ssgayle@earthlink.net

Camp Surgeon Murphy Vincent lavdjv@cox.net

Hebert Camp News

The Camp has now joined the Adopt-A-Road project and adopted both sides the road within 1/4 mile of the Camp Pratt Memorial Marker on Highway 182 North of New Iberia, LA. Signs have been installed by the Louisiana State Highway Department. Our mission is to keep the area at and near the marker litter free. Thanks to all our members who participated in the first clean up on April 15, 2006

Brig. General John G. Pratt Memory Honored

A year long project to honor further the memory of General John G. Pratt has finally come to fruition in Portland, Connecticut. Hebert Camp 1st.Lt.Commander , Perry Vannoy, started a search for the gravesite of the General and by library research and electronic communications he was able to contact and establish communications with Hartford, Connecticut Historian and Archivist Robert G. Carroon Mr. Carroon was able to locate the Pratt family burial plot in the town of Portland, Connecticut .There was nothing on the burial markers to indicate that Mr. Pratt had been a CSA General or a resident and sugar cane planter in Opelousas, Louisiana .

In a series of written and phone conversations over the course of a year , Compatriot Perry Vannoy and Mr. Carroon planned a memorial service to be held at the gravesite with local re-enactors of both the Union and Confederate Armies, all descendants of soldiers of the War Between The States in attendance.

The Louis Hebert Camp 2032 commissioned a bronze plaque to be manufactured with the inscription written by local Louisiana resident Mr. Pratt Munsen, great -great grandson of General Pratt.

On Sunday, July 30, 2006, in Portland, Connecticut, the above plaque was placed on the Pratt Tombstone in a reverent ceremony attended by Camp 2032 Commander Clarence Bonin and Compatriot Donald Boudreaux, and Mr. Pratt Munsen and a dozen members of his family all descendants of General Pratt.

General John G. Pratt has been honored and another historical project of the General Louis Hebert Camp 2032 SCV has been completed.

Commander Bonin, on right, is presented an award as the Outstanding Camp member 2005 by 1st Lt. Commander Perry Vannoy at the Young Sanders Center

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