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The Yadkin Gray Eagles were chartered on January the 29th, 1997, with 20 members present. Their goal was to create awareness and educate the people of Yadkin County, North Carolina in their proud Confederate heritage. Since their inception, the Yadkin Gray Eagles have cleaned many cemeteries, repaired and straightened many headstones, placed several grave markers, and held several memorial services for Yadkin County's Confederate veterans. The Yadkin Gray Eagles are proud to have financially supported the placement of several Civil War Trail Markers in Yadkin County.
Many of the members of the Yadkin Gray Eagles SCV Camp are active War Between the States reenactors. At their monthly meetings, the Yadkin Gray Eagles share a meal, listen and participate in an educational and entertaining program, and share a camaraderie that harkens back to that shared by their ancestors during the war to win independence for the Confederacy and maintain the republic that their fathers and grandfathers fought and died to establish.
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"Any Society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history, and denies them their symbols, has sewn the seed of its own destruction." ~ Sir William Wallace, 1281 ~ "Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can may revolutionize and make their own of so many of the territory as they inhabit." ~ Abraham Lincoln, January 12, 1848 ~ "We could have pursued no other course without dishonor. And sad as the results have been, if it had all to be done again, we should be compelled to act in precisely the same manner." ~ General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A. ~ "The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert it's self, though it may be at another time and in another form." ~ President Jefferson Davis, C.S.A. ~ "Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again." ~ President Jefferson Davis, C.S.A. ~ "Those who ignore history are destined to repeat it." ~ George Santana ~ "That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute New Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." ~ Thomas Jefferson ~ "Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is a force, like fire: a dangerous servant and a terrible master." ~ George Washington ~ "It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. We want our side of the war so fully and exactly stated, that the men who come after us may compare and do [us] justice." ~ President Jefferson Davis, C.S.A. ~ "A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today..." ~ General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A. ~ "The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel." ~ President Jefferson Davis, C.S.A., February 16, 1861 ~ |
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