History of the Arizona Division
The Arizona Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans held provisional status until the chartering of the Confederate Secret Service Camp 1710 on 6 April 1995. Camp 1710 joined the Colonel Sherod Hunter Camp 1525, the Confederates of La Paz Camp 1572, the Captain Robert Rodes Nelson Camp 1647 and the Captain Granville Henderson Oury Camp 1708 to make a full five Camp division. The first Division Convention and Reunion was held in Phoenix in June, 1995. Reunions have since been held in Tucson, Sierra Vista, Tombstone, Payson and Prescott as well as returning to Phoenix.
In 1997, members of the Confederate Secret Service Camp 1710 who lived in Tucson rechartered Arizona's original SCV Camp, Captain Hunter's Arizona Rangers Camp 1202. Camp 1202 had been organized in the 1940s but became inactive in the 1970s. In an effort led by Compatriots Bobby Morris and James Gooden, Camp 1202 became the Division's sixth Camp.
In 1998, Division Commander Robert Perkins led an effort to reorganize the division. It was decided that the division would consist of two brigades, the boundary between them being the Gila River. Camps north of the Gila (1525, 1647, 1708) would make up the Salt River Brigade and those to the south (1202, 1572, 1710) would make up the Gadsden Brigade. Unfortunately, Camp 1572 became inactive this same year. The following year, members of the Salt River Brigade voted to change the brigade's name to the Jefferson Davis Brigade.
In the fall of 2004, led by Past Arizona Division Commander Glenn Meek, Past Camp 1710 Commander John Mangum and Camp 1710 members Tim Payne, Steve Morris and Dave Hawkins, a sixth Camp, the Texas John H. Slaughter Camp 2074, was organized and chartered. Headquarted in Tombstone, the "Town Too Tough to Die," Camp 2074 adds to the stature and strength of the Arizona Division.
On 27 August, 2005, members of Camp 1710 and 1647 living in the Gila Valley (Graham and Greenlee Counties) met in Safford to organize the Pvt. Nathan Terry Wanslee Camp 2096, bringing the total of Arizona Camps to seven. Recruiting additional new members, Commander Clyde England and Adjutant Dick Prina applied for an SCV Charter and brought the new Camp into the ranks of the Arizona Division.
In its short existence, the Arizona Division has grown from a single Camp of 20 some members to seven Camps with more than 150 full, associate and corporate members.
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