Membership is open to all male descendants regardless of ethnic ancestry, political, or religious background. Membership can be obtained through either direct or collateral (such as an uncle or cousin relationship) family lines to a veteran who served honorably in the Confederate armed forces. Kinship must be documented genealogically.

 The S.C.V. has a network of genealogists to assist you in tracing your ancestor's Confederate service. For those with Southern sympathies who cannot document an ancestor or are currently researching for ancestors, we have an associate membership available.

The SCV works in conjunction with other historical groups to preserve Confederate history. However, it is not affiliated with any other group other than the Military Order of the Stars and Bars, composed of male descendants of the Southern Officers Corps. The Sons of Confederate Veterans reject any group whose actions tarnish or distort the image of the Confederate soldier or his reasons for fighting.

"Everybody, almost the entire population of Jackson, Vernon, Cass, and Bates counties, all of them depopulated, and the people had to stay at 'posts'...They called them 'posts', but what they were, they were concentration camps. Then the Federal soldiers came in and took everything that was left and set fire to the houses. That didn't go down very well with the people in these parts; putting people in concentration camps in particular..."

---President Harry S. Truman, 
describing some of the "unwritten history" Southerners in Missouri 
experienced during the war.

If you are interested in perpetuating the ideals that motivated your Confederate ancestor, the SCV needs you. The memory and reputation of the Confederate soldier as well as the motives for his suffering and sacrifice are being consciously distorted by some in attempts to alter history. Unless the descendants of Southern soldiers resist those efforts, a unique part of our nation's cultural heritage will cease to exist.

 

 

Applicants MUST include a street address with request's by mail so an application can be sent!

All members receive the excellent bi-monthly Confederate Veteran Magazine, the quarterly Missouri division newsletter.