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Please see more photos on these websites: http://www.scocr.org/photos.htm http://www.csatrust.org/Calendar.htm http://www.csa-scla.org/PhotoAlbum/photo-index.htm 
March 2, 2002, Iron Cross Memorial Service at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, SC, for Captain John Mitchel, an Irishman, 1st Reg., SC Art. CSA, who died on the parapet of Fort Sumter during the bombardment, July 20, 1864.
"I willingly give my life for South Carolina; Oh! that I could have died for Ireland."
Mitchel was the third CSA commander of Fort Sumter. The coping around his grave is in the shape of the parapets at Fort Sumter.(Genealogy note: John Mitchel’s brother, Sgt/Capt James Mitchel, 1st and 2nd SC Infantry, Co., E., enlisted in Edgefield District April 15, 1862. Wounded in Virginia 1864. Paroled Augusta, Georgia May 19, 1865. He went north to NY and went into politics. He is buried in Woodland Cemetery in the Bronx.)
Several members of Mary Yates Snowden Chapter OCR were present as "Black Roses".
January 8, 2000 - Snowden OCR member Denise Woods reads from the Roll of SC Dead during the Southern Heritage Rally. Denise has organized the Reading at several events, and it is now a project of the South Carolina Society OCR.
January 8, 2000, Columbia SC - Roses and friends gather on the SC Statehouse steps.
