SCV Camps are located throughout the world. More than 30,000 active members participate in various forms of community service. Among them is the preservation of historic battlefields, cemeteries where care is taken for both Union and Confederate veterans.

The SCV is highly regarded as a major historical resource for the War Between the States. Its main publication, Confederate Veteran, is rated as a leading literary source for Confederate history.

Contrary to the claims of the poverty profiteers, the Constitution and Standing Orders of the SCV prohibit membership by any known racist, white supremacist, or member of a known hate organization. When identified, some have been expelled.

The bogus claim that the SCV has camps named after John Wilkes Booth and Jesse James can easily be refuted by checking the SCV Camp Roster. Where are they? This is a well known SPLC tactic, allege, accuse, smear. Where is the evidence?

Another of the SPLC myths is that SCV members support slavery. This is absurd on its face. None, meaning zero members hold that view.

The Poverty Profiteers conveniently fail to recognize the black membership in the SCV. The SCV has long recognized and honored black members who are representative of thousands of both free men of color and slaves who served honorably in the Confederate military.

Recently I worked with Henry Louis Gates who accepted our SCV invitation to bring his PBS production crew for "Looking For Lincoln" to a SCV Reunion. During the course of events he met and interviewed several black Confederate descendants, including a black archivist for the state of North Carolina who ascertained the long list of black Confederate pensioners in that state.
Review of Looking for Lincoln - J.A. Davis
Looking for Lincoln...Through Southern Conservative Eyes – A Critique of the PBS Program - Frank Conner
Looking for Lincoln...Through Southern Conservative Eyes – - Why and How the War of Northern Aggression Began - Frank Conner

Dr. Gates stated on the program his amazement that so many of us have been misled from childhood about the war and Lincoln by certain historians.

Descendants of other ethnic and religious groups are also found throughout the SCV, including Jews, American Indians and immigrants from many lands. Many furnished leadership in both the Confederate government and military.
Rebuttal of Boteach's South-Bashing - Lewis Regenstein
America's Worst Anti-Jewish Action - Lewis Regenstein
Rebels with a Cause - Lewis Regenstein
The Last Meeting of the Confederate Government - Lewis Regenstein
Julian Bond's Hate-Filled Rhetoric - Lewis Regenstein
Union Army Code of Conduct - Lewis Regenstein
Monument to Murderers at Fort Blakely? - Lewis Regenstein
Stand Watie, Brigadier General CSA - wiki
Gen. Patrick Cleburne, Irish Native - civilwarhome.com
Colonel Santos Benavides and Hispanic Confederates - Calvin Johnson

The SPLC claims the SCV supports secession. This is also untrue. There is no movement within the organization to actively secede. SCV members do recognize the Constitutional authority which brought about the secessions in 1861. These are the same tenants that New York and New England states claimed as authority to secede in the three Hartford Conventions in the earlier 1800's.

The SPLC fully immersed itself with some disgruntled members of the SCV several years ago. The obvious intention was to incite discontent and division within the membership ultimately leading to what they hoped would be a leadership coup.

It didn't work as the camps of the entire Confederation were given the opportunity to vote at a convention in Concord, NC. The dissident faction backed by the SPLC fared poorly getting only around 6 or 7 percent of the votes on various issues.

Their defeat was so dramatic that one is quoted as saying "We should sue for non support."

Contrary to the reports by the SPLC there was no wholesale expulsion of members. Some few who were involved in the attempted coup who departed were terminated and a few more left of their own volition, some out of embarrassment.

The membership of the SCV has remained pretty constant in the low thirty thousands, both before and after the inept attempts to take over the organization.

The results of the SPLC to infiltrate and influence the control of the SCV was so pitifully handled little or nothing is heard from them currently. The rump organization they tried to develop called "Save the SCV" never really got off the ground and and is classed in SCV terms as among the missing. That might be termed another case of non support.

The poppycock about the SCV doing little to support the restoration of Beauvoir following the severity of the damage by Katrina is another evident and intentional distortion. Beauvoir is owned by an SCV camp. The restoration has been almost miraculous in both speed of the work and the universal support of camps throughout the worldwide organization.

The pouters from the poverty center have alleged the SCV is anti-American by refusing to recognize the U. S. flag. Anyone who has ever attended a national SCV event will note the U. S. flag is prominently displayed throughout.

Over the years the Southern Poverty Law Center has attempted to create other total fabrications about the SCV. Space won't permit addressing every one of them. In fact, some are so off the wall they don't deserve the time of day.

We do note that most of what we hear or read denigrating the SCV from the SPLC is pretty old hat, conveniently picked up by sloppy "journalists" who haven't a clue about the truth. If that is the case, let them spew their hatred at the what appears to be the most current SPLC targets or opportunities to raise some cash. These include banning the Ten Commandments from public property, promoting gay marriage laws, advocating open borders and amnesty for all illegal immigrants, developing domestic terrorist lists for the Department of Homeland Security that include every responsible citizen who disagrees with their considerably leftist agenda.

To all those good patriots they are now harassing and defaming, we say welcome to the party! Now maybe you can get some idea of what we have been trying to tell you for a long time.

Stay tuned, our stable of respected journalists and creative thinkers have more to come.

"From deep conviction I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee's caliber would be unconquerable in spirit and soul. Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities, including his devotion to this land as revealed in his painstaking efforts to help heal the nation's wounds once the bitter struggle was over, we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained.

"Such are the reasons that I proudly display the picture of this great American on my office wall."
---President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a reply letter to Leon Scott, Aug. 9. 1960 (Scott questioned Ike's respect for Gen. Robert E. Lee and his painting on Ike's office wall)