the SCV has on-going software download at a local, state, & national levels to offer members a wide range of activities. Preservation operate, marking Confederate soldier's graves, historical re-enactments, scholarly publications, & regular meetings to discuss a war machine & political history of a War Between the States come lone two or three of the activities sponsored by local units, known as camps.

When you took a radio locate the Civil War historian James M. McPherson offended many southern heritage organizations when he associated the SCV with the neo-confederate movement and described board members of the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia as "undoubtedly neo-Confederate." He further said that the SCV and their equivalent for female descendants, the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), have "white supremacy" as their "thinly veiled agendas." The incident outraged members of the UDC and the SCV, who accused McPherson of using a slur against them. A bit of SCV & UDC chapters later on urged their members to boycott his books & engaged around letter-writing campaigns.[http://users.erols.com/va-udc/mcpherson.html]