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Membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans is open to all male descendants of any veteran who served honorably in the Confederate armed forces. Membership can be obtained through either direct or collateral lines. Kinship to a veteran must be documented genealogically. The minimum age for membership is 12.

Individuals unable to find a Confederate ancestor may join the Sons of Confederate Veterans as a Confederate Legionnaire. If you would like more information about Theophilus West, M.D. SCV Camp No. 1346, please contact Commander Robert Daffin, Past Commander Max Basford, or Adjutant Larry Clere

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Finding You Ancestor

If you would like to join the Theophilus West, M.D. SCV Camp # 1346, but you do not know who your ancestor was or which unit he was in, let me help you. Contact Ashley Pollette at P.O. Box 810 Sneads, Florida, or e-mail me at apollette@hotmail.com. Please place Confederate ancestor in the subject line of your e-mail.

I will need the following information (if known):

Name of ancestor
State served
Date born
Date and placed died.
Where your ancestor lived and where he is buried.

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A Note From History
Jubilation

When Brigadier General Alexander Asboth, a former Hungarian freedom fighter then serving in the Union army, decided to attack Marianna in September of 1864, one of his stated objectives was to secure black recruits. As a demonstration of what this meant, he included two companies of men from the 82^nd and 86^th U.S. Colored Infantries in his force. These men had been liberated from slavery in Mississippi and Louisiana by the Union army.

The Union troops left Pensacola on September 18, 1864, arriving in Jackson County eight days later. As they advanced, first to Campbellton and then to Marianna, they stopped at the plantations and farms, confiscating livestock, destroying supplies and informing the laborers living in slavery that they were free to leave with them if they so desired.

As the soldiers pushed forward, hundreds of African American men, women and children fell in behind them. Carrying their possessions in small bundles, they walked along behind the Union troops. General Asboth later wrote that they were filled with “utmost jubilation.”

From: "The Day of Jubilation" by Dale Cox