Rowan Rifles Camp 405, Sons of Confederate Veterans will hold their annual Confederate Memorial Day Service on Saturday, May 7, at 11 a.m. in the Old Lutheran Cemetery on North Lee Street in Salisbury.
Participants will include members of the 63rd North Carolina Regiment Reenactors. Musical performances will be by Sarah Miller, vocalist and Jim Shoemaker, fiddler. Special guest speaker is Ronnie Roach, communications officer of the N.C. Division SCV. The public is invited.
Also, beginning at 8 a.m. on Saturday, members of the Rowan Rifles and the 63rd N.C. Regiment will remember Rowan County Confederate soldiers by reading their names on the steps of the Rowan Museum at 202 N. Main St. in Salisbury.
Confederate Memorial Day in North Carolina is celebrated on May 10. This date was chosen to honor General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson who died on May 10, 1863.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans is the direct heir of the United Confederate Veterans, and the oldest hereditary organization for male descendants of Confederate soldiers. Organized at Richmond, Va., in 1896, the SCV continues to serve as a historical, patriotic and non-political organization dedicated to insuring that a true history of the 1861-1865 period is preserved.