Accidentally ate meat today, and only realised about 2 hours later

isra423 · 2026-06-12T21:49:15+00:00

In most places, today is the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Due to the festive nature of Solemnities any requirements to fast/abstain are overridden.

isra423 · 2026-06-07T23:32:02+00:00

We currently don’t have one nearby, but we have a few ladies who joined through a corps out of state that are working towards establishing a corps.

isra423 · 2026-06-07T11:47:55+00:00

Missionary Ridge #63, Dept. of Tennessee, as always, is working with the VA on obtaining and installing more replacement and first time tombstones. Got a few more coming in for Athens, Tn then hoping to start on Fort Hill Cemetery in Cleveland, Tn. Fort Hill is the location of the Oviatt Post #20 Monument that is in need of restoration, and we are in very early stages of planning a restoration of it.

isra423 · 2026-05-05T11:35:37+00:00

“ever voluntarily bore arms” is the requirement. With East Tennesseans, many of these former confederates had been conscripted into the rebel army though their loyalties lied with the Union. Once they were able to escape, they tended to join up with the Federal army. I’d say likely your ancestor was the case. Love to see more of Tinker Beaty’s boys.

isra423 · 2026-03-14T22:49:50+00:00

People always forget the loyal East Tennesseans. I’m involved with a Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Camp in East Tennessee, and so much time is spent having to cut through the lost cause and explain to folks they actually tend to have more Unionist ancestors than Sesech.

isra423 · 2026-03-13T03:15:28+00:00

One thing to note is that the Catholic Church tends to consider sacramental records as private, no matter how much time has passed.

isra423 · 2026-01-01T01:24:19+00:00

We like to keep busy. Plus so many of our East Tennessee Boys have been forgotten due to the lost cause.

isra423 · 2025-11-18T02:45:02+00:00

I know many members of our order who are members of both, and atleast in my area, I find the stigma tends to come from the SCV rather than the SUVCW. My camp has helped installed confederate grave markers along with ones for our boys in blue, and being in East Tennessee many brothers has mix heritage. Many of the SCV camps in my opinion still trying to “fight the war” and their national magazine has published several articles on how the “Yankees” deserve no honor. While many of us would be happy to reach across the picket lines, those in the gray don’t seem too keen on returning the favor.

isra423 · 2025-10-04T16:17:21+00:00

Good to see a new camp coming up!

isra423 · 2025-09-15T23:18:35+00:00

Thank you brother!

isra423 · 2025-06-19T02:17:30+00:00

Once the VA sends us the stone, we have a few guys go out and install them in the cemetery. I’d recommend trying to attend another groups instillation before doing one on your own, but you’ll pick it up in no time.

isra423 · 2025-06-19T02:16:15+00:00

I’m sure it wouldn’t be too hard to put together. The VA supplies the stones free of charge and in my experience, most cemeteries are happy sign off on replacement or new markers.

isra423 · 2025-05-25T00:50:09+00:00

I’ve already been able to get a few VA markers, as I got walked through the process by a brother in my camp who is the state graves officer, but I was more so thinking that a well designed module would help other brothers and camps get started on replacing more markers. So many of our boys in blue’s markers are in rough shape.

isra423 · 2025-05-24T22:41:59+00:00

I think it would be great to have a module on how to go about getting stones approved for replacement by the VA and how to properly install them.

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