Capt. James Iredell Waddell, Camp 1770 - Orange County

The Captain James Iredell Waddell Camp 1770, Orange County, California, Sons of Confederate Veterans, honors the memory of the CSS Shenandoah, her captain and crew. The only Confederate vessel to sail around the world, the Shenandoah captured 38 U.S. ships, mainly Yankee whalers in the North Pacific. During her 13-month voyage, she only dropped anchor twice and visited every ocean except the Antarctic. She surrendered to the British authorities in Liverpool England on November 6, 1865 and lowered the last Confederate Flag.

Captain Waddell wrote: "I claim for her officers and men a triumph over their enemies and over every obstacle, and for myself, I claim having done my duty."

In our lives, most of us have found some things important to us. Furthermore, we have embraced some things of honor to us. The Sons of Confederate Veterans in Orange County want to help you honor and embrace your Confederate heritage. We plan to create a Confederate memorial and burial site in Southern California. The memorial will be a centerpiece for the Confederate pride and services to honor the veterans buried there.

The need for a Confederate memorial in Orange County has been recognized for years. GAR monuments abound, but there is no marker honoring Confederate veterans though many were founding fathers of Orange County. The development of a plan to design, fund and build a suitable Confederate monument has waited for the right time. That time is now.
“For my part, when the time comes to cross the river like the others, I shall be found asking at the gates above: where is the army of Northern Virginia? For there I make my Camp.”
--Brig. Gen. G. Moxley Sorrel, CSA