| Sons of Confederate Veterans Col. Jeffery Forrest Camp #323 |
| Camp Officers Brigade Commander Tony Hensley 2340 Parks Well Rd. Gleason, TN 38229 731-648-0213 Commander Gregory (Greg) Nail 400 Darnell Rd. Dresden, TN 38225 731-364-5659 gnail@utm.edu Lt. Commander, Historian & Webmaster Joe W. Stout 410 Fairlane Dr. Greenfield, TN 38230 731-235-3562 jwstout@charter.net Adjutant James M. (Mickey) Stout 408 Bel-Air St. Greenfield, TN 38230 731-235-2393 coljefferyforrest323@charter.net Chaplain Keith Pence P.O. Box 703 Gleason, TN 38229 731-648-2288 kpence@peoplepc.com |
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| "To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will 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 |
| Jeffery Forrest Camp #323 meets the third Tuesday each month at Wimpy's Corner Cafe on Front St. in Greenfield, TN at 7p.m. Those that wish to eat come early. |
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| Haunted Fields Come with me in search of ghosts; Our country's long lost spectral hosts, They wore the blue, they wore the gray.... Their generation's toll to pay. Upon these fields that I have trod, With names once only known to God I've heard mothers softly weeping, Seen the widows lonely sleeping, Felt the Nation's heart blood seeping.... And known that I was not alone. Morris Island, and Crampton's Gap, The Wilderness homestead of Widow Tapp, Appomattox, death knell of a Nation, Brice's Crossroads, and Brandy Station, Fort Pulaski's battered walls, Beauvior's haunted, holy halls, Okolona where Jeffrey Forrest fell.... Brother's grief and fury no tongue can tell. Author Unknown |
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| West Tennessee is commonly called Forrest Country. Col. Jeffery Forrest was the youngest brother of General Nathan Bedford Forrest who was killed in the Battle of Okolona, MS. Another brother Lt. Col. Aaron Forrest died in 1864 at Dresden, TN as a result of pnuemonia while on the Paducah, KY raid. |
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| Col. Jeffery E. Forrest pre-war photo |