St. Johns Rangers Legionnaires

When it comes time to join our Confederate Ancestors, what will you say?

☠️ I was too busy.
☠️ There's nothing I can do.
☠️They will do what they want anyway.

That is a big pile of 💩‼️

Our Confederate Ancestors marched 14 miles , some barefoot, and without any food to go right into battle at Antietam Creek and you can't attend a meeting once a month?

🎯Meetings Matter! 🎯Your attendance matters🎯Solidarity matters! 🎯
Live the Charge!

AI image of what Captain Winston Stephens, Co. B, 2nd Fla. Calvary, would have looked like leading his men at the Battle of Olustee on February 20, 1864.

The Battle of Olustee, fought on February 20, 1864, in Baker County, Florida, was the largest and deadliest Civil War conflict in the state. A 5,500-man Union force under Brig. Gen. Truman Seymour, attempting to secure Florida, was decisively defeated by 5,000 Confederates led by Brig. Gen. Joseph Finegan, preserving interior Florida for the South.

The battle halted the Union's attempt to disrupt Confederate supply lines, recruit black soldiers, and reintegrate Florida into the Union. The fight was extremely bloody, with 1,861 Union casualties (roughly 34% of their force) and 946 Confederate casualties.

Union forces, advancing from Jacksonville, were pushed into a narrow, unfavourable position between Ocean Pond and swamps, allowing the Confederates to hold their ground and force a retreat.
The Confederate victory secured the region for the remainder of the war, and made Tallahassee the only Southern State capital to not fall to the Union. The charge of the 2nd Florida Cavalry during the battle and their bravery on the battlefield has been recounted with both admiration and terror by Yankee soldiers who witnessed in their letters home.

🌺The Ladies of the Confederacy💐

Pictured is Octavia Bryant-Stephens (1841-1908). She was the wife of Captain Winston Stephens, Co. B, 2nd FLA. Cav, CSA. She was one of 100's of thousands of Confederate widows who made sure their loved one's memory were preserved. Octavia Stephens saved her letters from the war and told his story to her children and at reunions. Later on those letters would be published in to the "Rose Cottage Chronicles" that told the struggles of Confederate families during the war through firsthand primary source information.

In just about every single edition of the UCV's Confederate Veteran Magazine they have 3 or more articles about Confederate widows or wives. Those Ladies of the Confederacy helped plan and fundraise for UCV reunions, and not all were members of the UDC. These brave women were the ones who endlessly petitioned congress to allow them to decorate their loved one's graves. They wrote articles to local newspapers to ensure accurate accounts of the Confederate soldiers deeds were printed.

Even today, some of the loudest voices about Northern hypocrisy are our women of the South. Confederate Roses, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and all the ladies of the South who keep up the fight to ensure the TRUE history of the South is told, SCV Camp 1360, The St. Johns Rangers thanks you.