Past & Continuing Activities
*Key Camp Speakers Bureau: The Key Camp can provide public speakers on a variety of historical topics. Contact
Commander Speicher for more information.
Featured Topics:
- Sailors Under the Stadium
- What Was It Like to be a Civil War Soldier
- The Sumter Flying Artillery
- A Personal Side of Robert E. Lee
- Robert E. Lee: His First Month in Command
- The H. L. Hunley: The Confederate Submarine That Changed Naval Warfare Forever
- A Tale of Two Soldiers
*Each spring and fall we have a
work day (2009) at the
Mine Creek Battlefield and Museum to perform maintenance on the battlefield's
Confederate Monument. In addition, we participate in living history demonstrations during Confederate Memorial Day, and candlelight tours at the battlefield.
Fall Work Day 2011:
Spring Work Day 2010:
*In 2007 and 2008, Key Camp members have held a Kansas Confederate Memorial Day service at
Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery
*Several members are active in
grave marker placement and monument restoration.
Photographs of headstone dedication ceremony for Pvt Columbus A. Turpin by Compatriot Greg Miller [01 May 2010 Mount Vernon Cemetery, Atchison, KS]
Photographs of headstone dedication ceremony for Pvt Elias Cook by Compatriot Cameron Weir [27 June 2010 Maple Grove Cemetery, Kansas City, KS]
*Key Camp has done volunteer work in helping to maintain the
John Wornall House Museum.
*The Key Camp arranged for the placement of a grave marker at the final resting place of our namesake Thomas J.Key
*The Key Camp and
Steele Camp work on a joint service project to maintain the
Pleasant Grove Cemetery and
Confederate monument at Camden Point, MO.
*The camp proudly represents the SCV each year at the
De Soto, KS Fall Parade; Ottawa, KS Veterans Day Parade;
and Leavenworth, KS Veterans Day Parade (2011 Photos by Compatriot Neal Hanley of the Steele Camp ->)
. Our entries have won top prizes at these events!
*We take part in living history demonstrations at Quantrill's Raid in Lawrence, and Zimmerman's Kill Creek Farm in DeSoto.
*The Key Camp also takes an active part in War for Southern Independence monument and memorial dedication ceremonies.
*The Key Camp color guard participated in the
2007 Missouri Confederate Memorial Day ceremony.
Photographs of Higginsville, MO 2007 Confederate Memorial Day service by Compatriot John Weir
*For 2009 Kansas Confederate Memorial Day, the Major Thomas J. Key Camp #1920 performed headstone dedication ceremonies
for two Confederate veterans buried in Kansas City, Kansas.
Photographs of Kansas City, KS 2009 Confederate Memorial Day service by Compatriot Cameron Weir
*Key Camp members attended the 2009 SCV National Reunion in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Photos by Compatriot John Weir
*A Civil War re-enactment unit, the Third Missouri Light Artillery, composed of members of the Key Camp, participates in many living history demonstrations including the cannon firing during the playing of the 1812 Overture by the Kansas City Symphony at Union Station Memorial Day weekend.
*Several members participate in historical discussions and demonstrations at local schools.
There are many great opportunities to be involved in the Major Thomas J. Key Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Come on! Join the fun!
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