Membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans is open to all male descendants of any veteran who served honorably in the Confederate
armed forces. Membership can be obtained through either direct or collateral family lines and kinship to a veteran must be documented
genealogically. The minimum age for membership is 12 years of age.
Proof of kinship to a Confederate soldier can take many forms. The
easiest method is to contact the archives of the state from which the soldier fought and obtain a copy of the veteran's military service
record. All Southern states' archives have microfilm records of the soldiers who fought from that state, and a copy of the information
can be obtained for a nominal fee.
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 suffering and sacrifice, are being
consciously distorted by some in an attempt 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.
"Everyone should do all in his power to collect and desseinate the truth, in the hope it may find a place in history and decend to prosperity. History is not the relation of compaigns, and battles, and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the south contended and which justified her struggle for those priciples." Gen. Robert E. Lee