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Texas Division Essay Topics

2006-2007 Essay Topics

1. $15.00 offered by Bernice Dowden Elgar, Texas Division President, 2002-2004 in honor of Texas Division 2002-2004 Executive Board. SUBJECT: "Ships of the Confederate States Navy." (2002)

2. $15.00 offered by Bernice Dowden Elgar, Texas Division President, 2002-2004 in honor of her mother, Jewell Green Dowden, granddaughter of Private Joseph Holt Green, Tennessee Cavalry, CSA. SUBJECT: "Cavalrymen and their Horses." (2002)

3. $15.00 offered by Bernice Dowden Elgar, Texas Division President, 2002-2004 in honor of Texas Division's Real Granddaughters. SUBJECT: "The Big Guns: Heavy Artillery of the Confederacy." (2002)

4. $15.00 offered by Mary Looney, Dallas Chapter 6, Dallas in honor of Selma Sonendriker Goswick 2nd Vice President Texas Division 2000- 2002. SUBJECT: "Robert E. Lee as President of Washington College." (2001)

5. $15.00 offered by Kerry Mader honoring her mother, Sherry Davis, Texas Division President 1992-1994. SUBJECT: "Effects of the War Between the States on Today's Government." (1998)

6. $15.00 offered by Jackie Dodge, Magnolia Rangers Chapter 2544 Humble, honoring Sharron Martin, Historian General 1998-2000. SUBJECT: "Children of the Confederate Generals." (1996)

7. $15.00 offered by Anna Palm Shepeard, Magnolia Rangers Chapter 2544, Humble in honor of the members of the Magnolia Rangers Chapter for their dedication to UDC.  SUBJECT: "To Relieve the Stress of Battle, What does the Common Soldier do for Entertainment?" (2003)

8. $20.00 offered by Winnie McNamara, Magnolia Rangers Chapter 2544, Humble, in memory of her maternal great-grandfathers, Pvt Wilhelm Geldmacher, 1st Texas Heavy Artillery and Pvt. Friedrich Pankonin, Waul's Legion. SUBJECT: "Feelings of the German Texans in the CSA Army as to slavery, politics, and motivation for joining the Confederacy." (2005)

9. $15.00 offered by Carolyn Dowden Jamail, Texas Division Historian 2004-2006 in honor of Lillian Louise Grimm, Texas Division Historian, CofC and Editor General CofC, 2004-2005.  SUBJECT: "The Battle of Murfreesboro." (2005)

10. $15.00 offered by Carolyn Dowden Jamail, Texas Division Historian 2004-2006 in honor of Bernice Dowden Elgar, Texas Division President 2002-2004. SUBJECT: "Europeans in the Service of the Confederacy." (2005)

11. $15.00 offered by Ana Palm Shepeard in honor of her grandchildren, Taylor Shepeard, Chaplian, Texas Division Children of the Confederacy, T. J. and Zander Shepeard. SUBJECT: "Hiram Bronson Granbury" (2005)

12. $15.00 offered by Anna Palm Shepeard in honor of Mrs. Dawn Fendley for her support and dedication to the Major George W. Durant Chapter Children of the Confederacy. SUBJECT: "Waul's Texas Legion" (2005)

13. $25.00 offered by Varina Howell Davis Chapter 2143 in honor of Janice Langford, Texas Division President 2004-2006. SUBJECT: "Varina Howell Davis: Her Life After the War". (2005)

14. $15.00 offered by Jamie Davis, District I Chairman 2004-2006 in honor of District I Chapter Presidents 2004-2006. SUBJECT: "Texans at the Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864". (2005)

15. $15.00 offered by Jamie Davis, President 2004-2006 Varina Howell Davis Chapter 2143, Houston in honor of the members of Varina Howell Davis Chapter 2143 for their dedication to UDC. SUBJECT: "Prison Life of Jefferson Davis". (2005)

16. $15.00 offered by Betty Murphree Crosby, Texas Division Registrar 2004-2006 in honor of all the Daughters of District V. SUBJECT: "The Role of Texas Trails During the War Between the States:. (2005)

17. $20.00 offered by Paula Warren, Mollie Moore Davis Chpater 217, Tyler in honor of her granddaughter, Sabrina Warren, President, Texas Division Children of the Confederacy. SUBJECT: "Weddings During the War Between the States". (2005)

18. $20.00 offered by Ginny Robinson, Gen. Ben McCulloch Chapter 2435, Dripping Springs, in honor of our member Mrs. Eva Long, Texas Division Vice President 2004-2006.  SUBJECT: "Religion and the Confederate Soldier". (2005)

19. $15.00 offered by Lyn Knapp, Texas Division Grave Marker Chairman 2004-2006, in honor of her sister Carlyle Brown, Fredericksburg Chapter 163, Fredericksburg, Virginia. SUBJECT: "General Robert E. Lee and the Battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864". (2005)

20. $15.00 offered by Lyn Knapp, Texas Division Grave Marker Chairman 2004-2006, in honor of her son, SCV member Chris Knapp. SUBJECT: "The Gray Ghost: Col. John Singleton Mosby, Partisan Ranger 1861-1865". (2005)

21. $15.00 offered by Shirley Woodlock, Mary West Chapter 26, Waco, in honor of Master Masons Robert G. Langford and James Q. Woodlock. SUBJECT: "Contributions of Members of the Masonic Order to the Confederacy". (2005)

22. $15.00 offered by Shirley Woodlock, Mary West Chapter 26, Waco, in honor of Esther Sims, Becka Sheehan, Betty Mann, Margaret Charlesworth, and Sherry Davis. SUBJECT: "A Texan in Search of a Fight: John Camden West and the War Between the States". (2005)

23. $25.00 offered by Karry Mader, The Southern Cross Chapter 2502, Houston, honor Sherry Davis, President, The Southern Cross Chapter 2502, Houston. SUBJECT: "The Battle of Galveston, Her Leaders, North and South". (2005)

24. $25.00 offered by Sherry Davis, ex President Texas Division honoring Betty Mann, Jefferson Davis Chapter 1637. SUBJECT: "Confederate Museums in the South and Their Importance". (2005)
 

POETRY

25. $15.00 offered by Bernice Dowden Elgar, Texas Division President, 2002-2004 in honor of Casey Long Texas Division CofC President 2004-2005, for the best historical poem on: "Beauvoir, Last Home of Jefferson Davis." (2004)

26. $15.00 offered by Bernice Dowden Elgar, Texas Division President, 2002-2004 in memory of her mother, Jewell Green Dowden 1908-2004, for the best historical poem on: "Flags of the Confederacy." (2004)