Sons of Confederate Veterans

 The SCV is a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-racial, non-sectarian veterans advocacy and educational corporation containing members descended from Confederate Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines. The veterans of the United Confederate Veterans formed the SCV in 1896 and Confederate General Stephen Dill Lee gave this “charge” or mission statement in 1906: “To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought. To your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier’s good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which he loved and which you love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish.”