Author: gpthelastrebel

From my Dad’s service files. You are welcome to use either of these poems. Please give credit as “Found on the SHAPE Message Forum” GP

Ladies, Gentleman…. and the rest of ya. I’d like to take a little of your time because I’m not sure if everyone realizes what has happened. Some of you will agree….. maybe just in part and some of you might disagree with what I’m going to point out. I’d like you to think about everything…

From my Dad’s service file. Author unknown. I had to reduce this to the point where it is almost blurry, it may look better if it is saved and viewd in your photo editor. Pat if you can re-adjust this image for a better view, please do so. GP

I am sure we will here from EVERY state in the Confederacy, as they step-up to help in this effort !!! JWB Gentlemen, After a very long battle, permission has finally been granted to the SCV to mark the graves of over 17,000 Confederate soldiers. A large portion of these men are Tarheels. This will…

I am sure we will here from EVERY state in the Confederacy, as they step-up to help in this effort !!! JWB Gentlemen, After a very long battle, permission has finally been granted to the SCV to mark the graves of over 17,000 Confederate soldiers. A large portion of these men are Tarheels. This will…

Compatriots and Gentlemen, This is indeed wonderful news. Please keep in mind that the Memorandum of Understanding (MOA) has not officially been signed by myself or Richmond City Officials. The paperwork is in the city’s legal department for review and we are currently waiting hour by hour for a phone call to sign the agreement.…

Added about 10 photos to the Lodoga cemetery gallery beginning the 1st photo after the scanned doc. These are photos of new headstone dedications by the Indiana SCV. Thanks to Mr. William Booone and Steve Ritchie for their efforts . Many thanks to Mark Raines for his dedication and efforts to provide headstone to Southern…

SHAPE HELPED OBTAIN THIS MARKER HTTP://www.thepaper24-7.com/main.asp?SectionID=23&subsectionID=22&articleID=20552 Reenactment group to dedicate memorial stone The Liberty Hall Volunteers, a Civil War reenactment group based in Indianapolis, will dedicate a memorial stone for one of their own at Oak Hill Cemetery North on Saturday at noon. The Liberty Hall Volunteers was an infantry unit made up of college…

Due to technical problems our friends up in Indiana had some difficulties posting this so they asked me to do it for them, so here it is: Mark, I have spent the last few minutes on SHAPE’s web-site. It was really exciting to see pictures of things happening here in Montgomery County. The Dixie Grays…

In Memory of Navy Pilot Michael Scott Speicher Lost during the Gulf War in 1991 over Iraq Returned to the USA August 2009 for burial Navy Pilot Michael Scott Speicher Your name was one I have not heard for awhile… But when I heard the news that you were found today, It brought tears to…