Sharpshooters Officers for 2002
{L-R} Commander Dr. Kerry Elliott, Lt. Commander
George Piner, Adjutant Ronny North, Treasurer
Jim Goodrum, Chaplain Tonny Miller
Some Past SHARPSHOOTER Officers
1996 Commander DAVID E. CORLEY
Accepts Camp 1729's
Camp Charter from Georgia Division Commander
SCOTT GILBERT, Jr. L-R ALFORD, JIM GOODRUM, BILL
YEOMAN, Lt. Cmdr. RICHARD REAGAN, MIKE COOK,
ARRON CORLEY, CORLEY, RONNY NORTH, 2nd Lt. Cmdr.
ROBERT PETEET, Chaplain BILL POE, BILL BENNETT,
GILBERT, LEE WEAVER
Commander WILLIAM E. POE
Takes commander 1998
L-R ANN WILLIAMS past OREL SPonsor, Lt.
Commander LEE WEARVER, 1997 Camp Cmdr. BILLY
ALFORD, POE, Adjutant RONNY NORTH, 1996 Camp
Cmdr. DAVID CORLEY
1997 Commander BILLY ALFORD
Holds one
of two citations where the Georgia House of
Representatives is recognizing the camps
accomplishments. L-R-B LANHAM, NORTH, BECK,
THOMAS CALDWELL, Jr., GOODRUM, L-R-F ALFORD,
CORLEY, POE, Lt. Cmdr. BRAD MABBOX
SHARPSHOOTER'S
SCV Camp 1729 Officers
for 2000
L-R Adjutant STEVE TANNER, OREL
Sponsor FELICIA LANHAM, Commander EDWARD JORDAN
LANHAM, Chaplain TONY MILLER, Lt. Commander RONNY
NORTH, Treasurer JIM GOODRUM
(Note: Commander Lanhan was Camp 1729 Cmdr. 1999)
SHARPSHOOTERS AWARDS
"1997 Georgia Division Distinguished
Camp of the Year"
"1997 Honorable Mention for INSCV
Tabor Award"
"1997 "Lt. Commanders Award"
"1997 Dixie Club Award"
"1998 Dixie Club Award"
"Certificate of Appreciation from Army
of Tennessee Department"
"1998 Georgia Division Distinguished Camp"
"2000 Northwest Brigade Distinguished
Camp of the Year"
"1998 Distinguished Confederate"
"1998 Georgia Division Grave Marking Award"
"2000 Georgia Division Grave Marking Award"
"2000 Georgia Division Commanders Award"
"1998 Northwest Brigade Distinguished
Camp of the Year"
"1999 Distinguished Confederate"
"1999 Northwest Brigade Distinguished
Camp of the Year"
"1999 Georgia Division Grave Marking Award"
"In 1997/98/99 the Sharpshooters ordered
and placed over 1500 Confederate Grave Markers"
"A Resolution Commending the Sharpsburh
Sharpshooters Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp
#1729 for it's efforts to preserve the South's
glorious hertitage. H.R. No.599 by Representives
Westmorsland of the 104th, Smith of the 103rd, Brown
of the 130th and Yates of the 106 Districts. Read and
adopted in the house of Representatives
March 25,1997"
House Resolution 1079
"The Sharpshooters are proud to of had
as a member Real Son James W. Preston. James's
father was Chaplain Archibald G. Preston 3rd
Reg. Ala. Rev. James died in March of 1997
shortly after receiving his first Confederate
Veteran Mag. His sister Real Daughter Edith
Preston Britten was a Sharpshooter OREL member."
SHARPSHOOTERS LAST ROLL CALL
JAMES W. PRESTON
1919 - 1997
{REAL SON}
CALVIN F. CRAIG
1921 - 1998
{SHARPSHOOTER}
Dixie Edith Preston Britton
Aug. 10, 1917 - Jan 7, 2002
{OREL, REAL DAUGHTER}
Shirley Anne Reagan
1942 - 2002
CHARTER MEMBER OREL
Gary Lee Cox, Jr.
August 16, 1947 - June 2, 2003
Sharpshooter Charter Member
SHARPSHOOTER PROJECTS
/ACCOMPLISHMENTS
"A Resolution designating the William Thomas
Overby Memorial Parkway;
and for other purposes.
WHEREAS, he was the only Georgian who
received the Confederate Medal of Honor. NOW,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
that members of this body designate that portion
of Georgia Highway 154 from Sharpsburg to the
intersection of Georgia Highway 29 {Jefferson
Davis Highway} as the William Thomas Overby
Memorial Parkway, in honor of William Thomas Overby,
courageous and distinguished Confederate soldier.
Presented July 1998 to the Sharpsburg
Sharpshooters SCV camp #1729
creators and masters of the project.
SENATE RESOLUTION 260
By: Senator Rick Price of District 28
Signed by, Pierre Howard-President of the Senate,
Thomas Murphy-Speaker of the House, Secretary of
the Senate, Cleark of the House.
1996 AN AMAZING YEAR FOR CAMP 1729
With World Wide coverage in December 1996
the Sharpshooters brought back home the remains
of Confederate Soldier and Confederate Medal of
Honor reciepten, Pvt. William Thomas Overby form
Markham Va. to Coweta County, Georgia. On January
5, 1997 Overby was reentered at Oak Hill Cemetery
in Newnan, Georgia. Overby was escourted from the
Rotunda of the Coweta County Court House a mile
away by over 3000 re-enactors, SCV, UDC, OREL and
spectators. For more on Pvt. Overby click on the
"Pvt. Overby Story" link below.
On Saturday, June 22, 1996 the Sharpshooters
orginized and sponsored a ceremony to dedadacate
a Jefferson Davis Highway Sign at the Georgia-
Alabama state line, West Point, Georgia and Lanett,
Alabama. The ceremony assembled SCV Camps from
three Georgia Divisions, SCV Camps for the Alabama
Division, members of the UDC from both states and
members of the Georgia Order of Robert E. Lee were
present as was members of 1st Battn. Co.D. Re-
enactors and the Lt. Gen. Hardee and Lt. Col. Robert
P. Taylor Military Order of the Stars and Bars were
among the participants
August 21 has been declared a day of
"fasting, humiliation and prayer" for the
Confederate States of America by General Lee's
Order No. 83 and CIC Orlebeke's General Order
No. 1. This Order was issued by the request of
Cmdr/Chaplain Bill Poe of the Sharpsburg
Sharpshooters/ William Thomas Overby Memorial
Camp # 1729 August 1997
