Welcome to the website of the Col. Gustav Hoffmann Camp
of New Braunfels, Texas.
We are an historical, patriotic, and non-political organisation
with membership open to all male descendants of any
veteran who served honourably in the Confederate States'
armed forces. We assist members and the general public in
genealogical research of their ancestors, preservation work
such as the raising of funds for repair on statues and other
monuments, mark graves, encourage living history
presentations & battle re-enactments and meet monthly to
discuss military, societal, and cultural topics germaine to the
period encompassing the War for Southern Independence,
1861-1865. We are international and organised into
divisions, brigades and camps.
Col.Gustav Hoffmann Camp # 1838 is named in honour of
Confederate Colonel Gustav Hoffmann who was also the first
Mayor of New Braunfels, and a founding member of the First
Protestant Church here.
Our meetings are open to everyone who has a sincere
interest in the South's heritage, history, culture & people.
We meet at the New Braunfels VFW Post 7110, at
600 Peace
Avenue on the last Thursday of each month from
7:00 to 9 PM.
Please join us!
To confirm the place & time of and directions to
our meeting
place and for general camp information please
call Adjutant Wilfred Schlather (830) 606-6376, email whschlather@gmail.com
The Sons of Confederate Veterans is a genealogical-historical organization dedicated to preserving the history and honoring the
memory of our Confederate ancestors. The SCV is the direct heir of the United Confederate Veterans,
and the oldest hereditary organization for male descendants of Confederate soldiers. Organized at Richmond, Virginia, in 1896,
the SCV continues to serve as a historical, patriotic, and non-political organization dedicated to insuring that a true history
of the 1861-65 period is preserved.
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"...governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on
such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."
United States Declaration of Independence
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