"Away down South in Dixie"
I am proud my state still honors the heroes of the Cause. Let the commies and race baiters whine. It is sad that purveyors of hate use the battle flag of a nation's army, destroy our historical monuments, and twist history to further their cause while good and honest people honor their Confederate dead and past deeds of valor. I do not know how much longer my state will hold out against "woke"/ politically correct culture, but for the time being the men who fought to maintain the core values of the founders and Constitution are remembered. Deo Vindice
Happy Memorial Day Jefferey, to all of us.
ReplyDeleteI wore my Confederate Flag T-Shirt this weekend. Dare anyone to challenge me.
ReplyDeleteYou would be hard pressed to find an army in all of history more devoted than Lee's ANV.
ReplyDeleteGen'l Lee was the finest man this continent ever produced.
ReplyDeleteHe was one of only a few who were the great Generals in the US. While I am not a Southerner, my family roots are in Virginia. I recognize the sacrifices that the brave Confederate ANV did, and was thrilled when the sailors of the Hunley were buried with full Military Honors when they were exhumed. Brave men, all.
DeleteThe rift is over, we now need to close ranks and fight arm-in-arm against the scourge of Communism/Marxism/Socialism that is evilly enveloping this once great Country!
I respectfully disagree, Sir. The fight has begun again. We are at the beginning of a long and arduous battle.
DeleteI think you miss the point, nony. It's not North vs South, it's Left vs Right. Of course, it was then, too. Half the country just didn't realize they were on the wrong side.
DeleteIn my travels in the South I was impressed by how many Confederated cemeteries are still maintained in good condition. My forefathers were all Union. One was from Wisconsin and fought in the Iron Brigade.
ReplyDeleteSince the victors get to write the history I learned the victor's point of view in school. As an adult, I've learned more. Andrew Johnson, IMO, was the Biden of his time, a puppet. Grant was worse.
The victors may get to write the original history, but the truth comes out. Thank you, Tim Berners-Lee.
DeleteThis damn Yank would have died at Gen. Lee's side, I read history and the South was right!
ReplyDelete..and I next to yours
DeleteDio Vindice. Long live Dixie.
ReplyDeleteFunny how people that trust what the govts says it will do, change their minds after they see what the govt really will do after they have submitted. Lee was a great general but he had too much belief in the principles of the constitution versus mistrust of what the govt was really planning on doing. I'm more of a Stonewall Jackson guy, kill them all and let god sort it out. If he had lived, I believe the chance of the South winning would have been greater. But the South also made the mistake of trusting a central govt for far too long.
ReplyDeleteGreat post. Federalism was buried at Appomattox and it was Lincoln's war to prevent.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/chR2PJMkkpE
ReplyDeleteI'm proud to be a descendant of this man , and if you listen until the end of the interview, he tells why so many fought for the South.
Lincoln was not one of our "best" presidents and RE Lee was one of our most honorable men - of either side. Secession was lawful - it needs to be done again. Too bad the dividing line isn't so clear cut this time.
ReplyDeleteBankers War, used to take control of the USA I am a "dang" Yankee as some of my Southern friends call me I have ancestors that fought for the North They were also lied too via propaganda by the deep state We have all been played I have no answers as we are simply divided by the deep state I am filled with chagrin and weep every time I consider the "Civil War" and the lives lost all because of the deep state bankers BobT
ReplyDeleteHi Jeffery,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Post!!!!
I concur...
skybill
Deo Vindice! Happy Confederate Memorial Day!
ReplyDeleteLincoln's war: Sherman's disgraceful and hateful destruction and a post war revengeful agenda perhaps worse than the war.
ReplyDeleteLong live R.E Lee!
ReplyDeletehindsight is always 20/20. too bad foresight is not prevalent now as when we most needed.
ReplyDeleteThe War of Northern Aggression, there, fixed it. Everything the Confederacy did was Constitutional, legal. Lincoln was a war criminal, got his just deserts from JW Booth.
ReplyDeleteNathan Bedford Forrest was an outstanding Confederate general. Kicked Union ass to the max. Never went to any military schools, was a hunter, Union couldn't figure him out.
NBF was a genius for war and as you said without the benefit of formal education. He possessed a straight forward common sense approach that produced premium results. Forrest fought a series of small battles near where I was raised (Days Gap, Crooked Creek, Hog Mountain, Blountsville, ) where he eventually caught up with Col. Abel Streight who led a raid through north Alabama. Streight's goal was to destroy the Western and Atlantic railroad supplying Braxton Bragg's army and/or anything of value to the Confederate war effort. Streight had approximately 1,500 men and NFB had a force of 500-600. Many accounts claim that Streight was hindered by the local residents. This isn't true. Much of north Alabama was loyal to the union and if anything stayed out of the way. Streight's advance guard was two companies of men from the 1st. Ala. Cav (U.S. who were from the very counties Streight was raiding). Nearly all of these men rode their trademark mules. If anything, the raid was a cakewalk except for Forrest getting in the way. NBF pursued the union Col. and his men across the northern parts of Alabama (Streight was burning every bridge behind him to slow Forrest). Outside of Cedar Bluff, Alabama and near Rome, Georgia, NFB found Streight bivouacked. Remember that Forrest was outnumbered nearly 3:1. He had his cavalry force to ride the crest of a nearby ridge in a circle so the the horses and men would be skylighted at the crest. Streight fell for the ruse and believed NFB had a much larger force than he actually did. He sent an emissary into the yankee camp under a white flag to ask for Streight's surrender which he agreed too. When NFB and his men rode into camp, Streight presented him with his sword and pistol. After realizing what had happened, he said to Forrest, "you sonofabitch, you have tricked me. I want my sword and pistol back." Forrest replied, "alright, you can have them, but I will have to kill you first". The boys in blue were captured, but later exchanged and re-entered the war. As a note, NFB had had three horses shot from underneath during the battle (much of it at night and hand to hand). NFB had 26 horses shot from under him during the course of the war. Just saying.
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I have tried to say ever since I was taught in grade school that Lincoln was not the greatest president in history, because he went against the U.S Constitution. Later on, I learned even more of the atrocities he did, from imprisoning civilians and newspaper men to shutting down papers all together, to rigging elections, etc. Not to mention the fact that he sent Union Troops into the south, illegally, to kill American Citizens with no legal reason for doing so.
ReplyDeleteAll done over financial reasons, not because of the stated reason of freeing of the slaves, which the trotted out as the primary reason. The day of the slaves was coming to an end, dying under it's own weight due to the invention of the cotton gin and other factors that made the entire notion of slavery financially unsound and impractical. I think that I have studied it enough that I can predict that without the civil war, slavery would have mostly ended as a means of general labor within 20 years or less. There may have been some slavery left for domestic help, but that would have continued to falter and end in a short time as well, as plantation owners became pariahs for owning slaves while more Christian attitudes prevailed among the other plantation owners who had gotten rid of slavery on their own land also freed their slaves who worked inside their homes, giving them land to farm and a small token of pay.
I am not saying that life would become easy for slaves, overnight, but at that time, life was not easy for any working person, no matter the color of their skin. The life of a working class man was that of hardship and sun up to sun down toil, and a life ruled by mother nature. That is why the south was so angry with the north. The south depended on agriculture for their living, which was a fickle way of making money, while the north was industrialized, and made money from producing goods which the traded across the Atlantic and up and down North America. And they took advantage of the South by charging them large amounts of money or trade goods, knowing that the South had no choice but to trade for the goods with them. And the North used their leverage to their advantage in politics as well. War was inevitable, it was just a matter of who and when. It is just unfortunate that it ended up how it did. Now we are seeing the coming of a second civil war, if it has not started already. That will be for the historians to decide a generation from now. My thoughts are that if we stand with God, we will stand on the proper side of history.