Wreaths Across America 2 for 1 Sale Ends January 16th. Buy 1 Wreath and Get 2 to Put on the Grave of a Veteran at Wilmington National Cemetery

Congratulations Members of 1812

Only 6 members together have purchased  20 wreaths which became 40 wreaths already for the 2-for-1 Sale. Just think if all of our members and friends would buy wreaths in the next 5 days. We will have over 200 wreaths for 2024. If you haven't bought a wreath yet please go to our website. There is lots of information on the blog and on the blog tab to order wreaths. If you aren't a member of our chapter please feel free to click on the website and buy a wreath or 2 or more for our Veterans buried at Wilmington National Cemetery. You have until midnight on January 16th to purchase wreaths. Then they go back to buying 1 wreath for $17. 

https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/18330/Overview/?relatedId=14908

Click on the above site and buy some wreaths. Just be sure to be careful when filling out the form. Be sure you are in the Commissioner Charles Gause form for Wilmington National Cemetery. (NCWNCE) 

If you need any assistance when purchasing wreaths contact Phyllis at par4wilson@gmail.com. 

Photos and Information from The Battle of New Orleans January 8, 2024

1812 President Carol Jutte and Vice-President Pat Tucker at the anniversary of the  Battle of New Orleans in Southport, NC on January 8, 2024.

The newly refurbished marker is adorned with flowers that each attendee placed with the help of Kathy Miller.

Left upper back to front: Jaqueline La Mar, Caron Myers, Pat Gooding, Kathy Miller, Diane Price, Rebecca Chipman, Vice-President Pat Tucker, President Carol Jutte, Bettie Lettieri, Joan Hall, Linda Lashley, Cindy Sellers, Phyllis Wilson, Cheri Lambert, Waydell Bicking, and Carol Hart

Diane Price provided information about The Battle of  New Orleans:

During the War of 1812, more than 5,000 Americans were imprisoned at Dartmoor Prison between 1813 and 1815. The majority were seamen and most were crews of privateers. On April 7, 1815, months after the war officially ended, an altercation between some of them who were outside the buildings and the guards, an alarm was sounded.  Shots were fired and seven prisoners were fatally shot.

It was the end of July before all the prisoners returned to the United States.  More than 200 Americans are known to be buried in the prison yard.  Records list at least 14 privateer seamen from North Carolina died at that desolate prison in Devon England.

1812 member Bettie Lettieri announced her patriot as she handed Kathy Miller her flower to place on the marker in memory of her patriot. Below others did the same.