Dear Ms. Lunelle,
On Thursday, November 10, 2022, I would journey to the Great State of Tennessee to the City of Covington where I would be greeted by Dr. Claudia Chapman, President of the Maria Baker Lemmon Tennessee Order of the Confederate Rose, and Board Member of the famous Covington Military and History Museum where I was to speak on Saturday.
Dr. Chapman would take me to the Museum and direct Ms. Cheryl (one of the staff) to give me a personal and private tour of the facility; resulting in one of the many cases of “The Big Head” that I would get before I headed homeward. Later that evening Dr. Chapman would escort me to a meeting of the Sons of Confederate Veterans where I would deliver the Keynote to its members and guests.
First I would speak about the grandfather of my dear friend, the Honorable Nelson Windbush, the Honorable Napoleon Nelson, one of the black men who rode with General Forrest and his rise to Chaplin-In-Chief.
Then the Pole Bearers Association (a Black Civil Rights Organization that sprang up in the latter days of so called Southern Reconstruction), of whom General Forrest would be the first and only White man to deliver the Keynote at its National Re-Union, whose members would declare that they would do everything to regain and retain the loving relations and relationships of the Southern White man. And never again be duped by anyone not of the Southern soil!
This declaration would prompt another Black Civil Rights Organization (Negroes of the Knights Monumental) to write the following caption in the Macon Telegraph and Messenger, December 13, 1874, page 2.
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