To quote Shelby Foote:
"Early on in the war, a Union squad closed in on a single ragged Confederate. He didn't own any slaves, and he obviously didn't have much interest in the Constitution or anything else. And they asked him, “What are you fighting for?” And he said,'I'm fighting because you're down here.' "
Showing posts with label Confederate flag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Confederate flag. Show all posts
Monday, July 9, 2012
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
It's not that Complicated !
It's a matter of Respect, and Honor !
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
RE Lee Camp #1
ARTILLERY PIECES - Cover the landscape and grounds of the Soldiers' Home, and in many photos of the soldiers on the grounds, there's an artillery piece close by. The Charleston Cannon, looks to be a Rodman Naval cannon, and once at the front door several paces away was moved a few years ago to the front and side area of the Confederate Memorial Chapel
The historical marker on the Charleston Cannon is the "R. E. Lee Camp Confederate Memorial Park", and as it was located in front of the Soldiers' Home (Robinson House) - that was a very clear statement that the "R. E. Lee Camp Confederate Memorial Park" was located all the way down to the grounds of the Virginia Historical Society. The project of restoration of this Charleston cannon should be undertaken by the Museum and the Commonweal...th, as it is a historic treasure that needs to be preserved.
The artillery pieces in front of the UDC and in back have recently been restored, and in my opinion, the grounds of the R. E. Lee Camp Confederate Memorial Park need some artillery pieces laid out for the children and adults to come take a look at, and they need an understanding of what these grounds were about. An artillery piece, so loved by those Confederate Veterans, would be a perfect item to have placed and identified, for interpretation by all visitors to the grounds. It would then be part of the wishes and thoughts of those Confederate Veterans of the R. E. Lee Camp No. 1 C.V., who provided a Grant Deed to the Virginia Arts Association in exchange for a "Contractual Promise".
(My Great Grand Dad, had need of the services rendered at the Home in his final years. He was a member of The Richmond Howitzers 1st Company).
Special thanks to Bobby Edwards for allowing me to use this post !
Monday, October 24, 2011
Is Mississippi Still Burning ?
Well I watched “Is Mississippi Still Burning”
Joseph Goebbels would be happy with the production were he around to see it!
The producer had four shots of the Mississippi State flag that includes the Battle flag in its design.And a couple of shots of a Confederate monument. Both were mentioned in the segment.
But what wasn’t mentioned was neither had a damn thing to do with the crime! The man (PUNK), who is accused of the murder, and by all accounts it is a hate crime and should be dealt with as such, had no Confederate connections.
It was mentioned that he hung out at a gas station, I guess by the same logic used to tie in the Confederate part of the story you could have tied in the Company that owned the gas station.Was it Shell, or Texaco?
And what brand of beer did he drink? It would have made just as much sense to tie in the gas company or the beer brand as it did The “Confederate Connection” which is NONE!
It was just another inflammatory piece of Yankee journalism, designed to vilify Southern Heritage!
I hope the guilty person gets the death penalty!
And you can be sure my flag won’t be at half staff when they throw the switch!
David Tatum Jr.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Rolling Cotton on the Tatum
Rolling Cotton on the Tatum
It wus inna munfa May inna 1863
Five months had passed since we done learned Pesident Linklon done set us free....
I members like it wuz yesterday Oh Dem proud Yankees at the gate
At dat Worthington plantation Its near sundown / getting late
Me and Tod, and ol Big Joe Knew that we wus free
And decided dat we would go To thank Mr Lincoln, in Washington DC
Yes we would go out de gate of Worthington plantation.
We wuz free men Mr Linkon said so In his mansupation proclamation.
At the gate and headed north Glory in our faces a showin.
Dat Yankee guard point his gun at us an said Where you boys think you Going?
Why wes a going to Washington, Washington DC
To Thanks Mr President Linkon cause he done set us free.
Dat Guard he laughed an said turn around, cause you boys got work to do!
He stand there wif dat shiney gun, in his pretty suit of blue.
Wells I guess old Massa Linklon lied, and to this day I hate em.
Cause me an Tod an Ol Big Joe, we still rolling cotton on the Tatum.
By David Tatum
I wrote the poem THEN I found the Story
I wrote the poem THEN I found the Story
CONFISCATION OF ANGLO- REBEL COTTON.
THE design on page 273, from a sketch by Mr. Theodore R. Davis,
illustrates the SEIZURE AND HANDLING OF COTTON IN THE SOUTHWEST. With the sketch Mr. Davis sends us the following letter:
"AMERICAN BEND,
WASHINGTON CO., MISS., 120 MILES ABOVE VICKSBURG,
Monday Night, March 30, 1863. "General T. E. G. Ransom, one of the youngest Brigadiers in the army, and an excellent and a gallant officer, who has been severely wounded several times, having learned some weeks ago that a large amount of cotton, pledged to the British Government at seven cents per pound, by the soidisant Confederacy, was hidden near the American Bend, determined to make an effort to rescue it, and at once set about forming an expedition for the purpose. "Rapid as were the General's movements, he did not succeed in reaching the place before more than half of the staple was burned by the guerrillas; but the remainder, something over three thousand bales, he has secured to our Government, and has been engaged for some days past in hauling it in, and putting it on board of the transports, as is seen in the sketch.
"The cotton was marked "C. S. A.," and with the rebel and British flags, as is shown in the upper centre of the picture. The left corner represents a huge pile of the staple covered at the top with boards, to protect it from the inclemency of the weather. The right corner reveals the negroes hauling the "fleecy monarch" from the swamps and cane-brakes where it was concealed; and the main sketch exposes the shipping of the floculent fibre on board the David Tatum and other steamers lying at the shore. "The poor contrabands toiled most energetically to bring in the cotton, and were very instrumental in discovering it, hoping by their fidelity and labor to obtain their freedom, for which they manifest a most ardent longing. "
Alas for their vain hopes! After all the service they had rendered they were not allowed to go aboard of the boats, General Grant having issued a special order prohibiting their removal, because no provision has been made for them at Young's Point. "The disappointment and distress of the negroes were painfully apparent when they made this unwelcome discovery, and as they stood in crowds—men, women, and children—along the levee, with sorrow-stamped faces, their grief was pitiful to witness—all the more so because they did not murmur or complain.
"Seneca was right: Small griefs are loud; great woes are dumb.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Suppress Nothing !
This is a pretty basic rule! I feel that " Suppress nothing that is true"
This is what separates The Confederate or Southern Historian from the Yankee or Northern one!
The Northern historians are always shining a bright light on the South/Slavery !
The Yanks are all too quick to show the admitted faults of the south. In doing so the choose to ignore or conceal the other side of the issue!
They keep the spotlight in your eyes so that you Cant see what they don't want you to see!
All the time they are shining their halos!
It's a tactic that has been used for 150 years!
If the Yankee Bastards would just own up to their part in the mess we could move ahead!
But I guess guilt keeps em from doing so !
All of you Yankee Historians/Bloggers should follow the Suppression part !
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Who Was the Confederate soldier ?
So who was the Confederate soldier?
He was a man of every color, every income range, every religion, a man who was highly educated or had no education at all. A farmer, a lawyer, a politician, a store clerk, a blacksmith, a ship captain, a dock worker, a military man, a civilian, a slave , a slave owner,A free Black man, a native American, A Doctor, He was every man who resisted the despotic Government of Abe Lincoln; and all had one thing in common, they were Southerners!
Men to whom Honor was more than an idea, it was a way of life.
Men of courage, outnumbered, without supplies’, Men who when the enemy had repeating rifles and endless amounts of ammunition , stood their ground and threw rocks at the invaders.
Men who at Appomattox upon General Lee’s return from the surrender told the general,
“Just give us the word general and we’ll charge em again”!
That is who they were, and that is why we honor them.
He was a man of every color, every income range, every religion, a man who was highly educated or had no education at all. A farmer, a lawyer, a politician, a store clerk, a blacksmith, a ship captain, a dock worker, a military man, a civilian, a slave , a slave owner,A free Black man, a native American, A Doctor, He was every man who resisted the despotic Government of Abe Lincoln; and all had one thing in common, they were Southerners!
Men to whom Honor was more than an idea, it was a way of life.
Men of courage, outnumbered, without supplies’, Men who when the enemy had repeating rifles and endless amounts of ammunition , stood their ground and threw rocks at the invaders.
Men who at Appomattox upon General Lee’s return from the surrender told the general,
“Just give us the word general and we’ll charge em again”!
That is who they were, and that is why we honor them.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Drop Kicking, a pimp slapped Mutant!
Drop kicking, a Pimp Slapped Mutant!
Sometimes I actually feel sorry for the folks that have been spoon fed historical comfort food for so long, that they cannot look Truth in the eye. So they blog some opinionated dribble and then close the door to comments. That’s about as cowardly and close minded as you can get!
One such blogger is Monica Roberts at http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/06/pimp-slapping-black-confederate-soldier.html This wonderfully enlightened history twister
States----
“As we get closer to the 150th anniversary of the first land battle of the War To Perpetuate Slavery, the First Battle of Bull Run (or Battle of Manassas as the CSA peeps called it) on July 21-24, one myth that needs to be blown up along with the Big Lie that the Confederates weren't fighting to preserve slavery is the myth of the Black Confederate soldier.”
The first thing wrong is it was not the first land battle!
The first land battle was at Big Bethel. 11 days before Manassas !
(Reports of J. B. Magruder, C.S. Army
Headquarters Bethel Church,
June 10, 1861.
Sir,—I have the honor to inform you that we were attacked by about 3,500 troops of the Federal army, with several pieces of heavy artillery, firing grapeshot, this morning at 10 o'clock, and at 12:30 routed them completely, with considerable loss on their side.
The prisoners report their force to be 5,000. It was certainly 3,500. Ours about 1,200 engaged; 1,400 in all. Mr. George A. Magruder, Jr., a volunteer aide, who is as conspicuous for his gallantry as for his efficiency, will deliver this in person.
Thirty-five hundred men are on my right flank; 10,000 on my left. Please send reinforcements immediately. Yorktown and Williamsburg, in my rear, have troops quite insufficient in numbers to defend them.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. Bankhead Magruder,
Colonel Commanding Hampton Division.)
But when you’re just spouting opinions why let a little thing like the facts get in the way?
Hell that might tend to slow down the rant of misinformation being spewed.
As for part 2 “the Big Lie that the Confederates weren't fighting to preserve slavery”
I guess once your belly is full of the comfort food (history) the winners have spoon fed you for so long, you no longer have to look for the truth, your belly is full and you are happy! Might as well take a nap and wait for the next feeding. After all why think for yourself? Let “The Man” do it for you, and you have one less thing to think about!
I have read many letters from the men in the field during the war I have yet to find one from a Confederate soldier that states he was fighting to preserve slavery. Nor have I found one from a Yankee soldier that says he was fighting to end it! Why do you think that is? Oh that’s right you don’t think you have had someone do that for you already, my mistake.
One such soldier wrote
The Cause of Conflict and the Call to Arms
By
WILLIAM MEADE DAME, D. D.
Private, First Company
Richmond Howitzers
In 1861 a ringing call came to the manhood of the South. The world knows how the men of the South answered that call. Dropping everything, they came from mountains, valleys and plains— from Maryland to Texas, they eagerly crowded to the front, and stood to arms. What for? What moved them? What was in their minds?
Shallow-minded writers have tried hard to make it appear that slavery was the cause of that war; that the Southern men fought to keep their slaves. They utterly miss the point, or purposely pervert the truth. In days gone by, the theological schoolmen held hot contention over the question as to the kind of wood the Cross of Calvary was made from. In their zeal over this trivial matter, they lost sight of the great thing that did matter; the mighty transaction, and purpose displayed upon that Cross.
In the causes of that war, slavery was only a detail and an occasion. Back of that lay an immensely greater thing; the defense of their rights—the most sacred cause given men on earth, to maintain at every cost. It is the cause of humanity. Through ages it has been, pre-eminently, the cause of the Anglo-Saxon race, for which countless heroes have died. With those men it was to defend the rights of their States to control their own affairs, without dictation from anybody outside; a right not given, but guaranteed by the Constitution, which those States accepted, most distinctly, under that condition.
It was for that these men came. This was just what they had in their minds; to uphold that Solemnly guaranteed constitutional right, distinctly binding all the parties to that compact. The South pleaded with the other parties to the Constitution to observe their guarantee; when they refused, and talked of force, then the men of the South got their guns and came to see about it. They were Anglo-Saxons. What could you expect? Their fathers had fought and died on exactly this issue—they could do no less. As their noble fathers, so their noble sons pledged their lives, and their sacred honor to uphold the same great cause—peaceably if they could; forcibly if they must.
(So this is it, this is how a combatant who was in the war viewed it. Not an assumption made by a historian some 150 after the fact! We all should take into account that the majority of the white population of both nations, CSA and USA presumed the white race to be superior)
If no Blacks fought for the south why do so many Union battlefield reports say otherwise? OOOOPS once again I am asking you to think
Black Confederates
With all of the Hoo Ha over the existence of Black Confederates being fact or myth is seems pretty apparent that they existed, their status is the subject of the Neo-Yankees. Were they documented? Did they carry a gun? were they slaves? Did they serve willingly? Did they draw a pension? The list of questions as to their status goes on and on.
The advantage of a blog site is you can pretty much say what ya want to. So I’m gonna take advantage of that !
“I don’t care if the Black Men who served the Confederacy were brought down in space ships from Mars (surely the conditions were better than the ones in the Yankee slave ships) they were there, and it don’t make a Rats Bottom if they were cooks, musicians, teamsters, laborers or sharpshooters, If they stood beside their white, and Native American counterparts during the war they were Black Confederates.
Why is that so hard for “some” folks to grasp?
I don’t care if you got 3 PhD’s from Harvard, a BS from Princeton, and a BA from Eureka (Hell you might as well throw in a Blue Ribbon from the FFA for the biggest Bull) Black Men fought for the Confederacy to stop the invading Yankee forces and protect their homes.
It’s the Truth so “Get Over It”
As for the statement about perpetual slavery: have you ever read the Corwin amendment? You know the original 13th amendment?
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution, namely: ART. 13. No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State. --12 United States Statutes at Large, 36th Congress, 2nd Session, 1861, p. 251.
Lincoln and company were willing to sell out the Black race for all time if the states that had seceded would rejoin the union. That fact alone kinda blows a hole in the war was over slavery issue! Lincoln offered perpetual slavery and the offer was refused!
You should thank the Confederate states for not accepting his offer!
As for ludicrous ! ( I don’t think you have read the Emancipation Proclamation)
Don’t Continue to praise Lincoln, no John Wilkes Booth would be better.
After all Mr. Booth shot the Great Emancipator , who was actively planning to deport blacks from American soil. But once again I’m letting facts get in the way!
Well that’s about it from me, but please go back to your corner and let your pimp slap some sense into you before you open your misinformed pie hole again and show the world how ignorant you truly are!
Sometimes I actually feel sorry for the folks that have been spoon fed historical comfort food for so long, that they cannot look Truth in the eye. So they blog some opinionated dribble and then close the door to comments. That’s about as cowardly and close minded as you can get!
One such blogger is Monica Roberts at http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/06/pimp-slapping-black-confederate-soldier.html This wonderfully enlightened history twister
States----
“As we get closer to the 150th anniversary of the first land battle of the War To Perpetuate Slavery, the First Battle of Bull Run (or Battle of Manassas as the CSA peeps called it) on July 21-24, one myth that needs to be blown up along with the Big Lie that the Confederates weren't fighting to preserve slavery is the myth of the Black Confederate soldier.”
The first thing wrong is it was not the first land battle!
The first land battle was at Big Bethel. 11 days before Manassas !
(Reports of J. B. Magruder, C.S. Army
Headquarters Bethel Church,
June 10, 1861.
Sir,—I have the honor to inform you that we were attacked by about 3,500 troops of the Federal army, with several pieces of heavy artillery, firing grapeshot, this morning at 10 o'clock, and at 12:30 routed them completely, with considerable loss on their side.
The prisoners report their force to be 5,000. It was certainly 3,500. Ours about 1,200 engaged; 1,400 in all. Mr. George A. Magruder, Jr., a volunteer aide, who is as conspicuous for his gallantry as for his efficiency, will deliver this in person.
Thirty-five hundred men are on my right flank; 10,000 on my left. Please send reinforcements immediately. Yorktown and Williamsburg, in my rear, have troops quite insufficient in numbers to defend them.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. Bankhead Magruder,
Colonel Commanding Hampton Division.)
But when you’re just spouting opinions why let a little thing like the facts get in the way?
Hell that might tend to slow down the rant of misinformation being spewed.
As for part 2 “the Big Lie that the Confederates weren't fighting to preserve slavery”
I guess once your belly is full of the comfort food (history) the winners have spoon fed you for so long, you no longer have to look for the truth, your belly is full and you are happy! Might as well take a nap and wait for the next feeding. After all why think for yourself? Let “The Man” do it for you, and you have one less thing to think about!
I have read many letters from the men in the field during the war I have yet to find one from a Confederate soldier that states he was fighting to preserve slavery. Nor have I found one from a Yankee soldier that says he was fighting to end it! Why do you think that is? Oh that’s right you don’t think you have had someone do that for you already, my mistake.
One such soldier wrote
The Cause of Conflict and the Call to Arms
By
WILLIAM MEADE DAME, D. D.
Private, First Company
Richmond Howitzers
In 1861 a ringing call came to the manhood of the South. The world knows how the men of the South answered that call. Dropping everything, they came from mountains, valleys and plains— from Maryland to Texas, they eagerly crowded to the front, and stood to arms. What for? What moved them? What was in their minds?
Shallow-minded writers have tried hard to make it appear that slavery was the cause of that war; that the Southern men fought to keep their slaves. They utterly miss the point, or purposely pervert the truth. In days gone by, the theological schoolmen held hot contention over the question as to the kind of wood the Cross of Calvary was made from. In their zeal over this trivial matter, they lost sight of the great thing that did matter; the mighty transaction, and purpose displayed upon that Cross.
In the causes of that war, slavery was only a detail and an occasion. Back of that lay an immensely greater thing; the defense of their rights—the most sacred cause given men on earth, to maintain at every cost. It is the cause of humanity. Through ages it has been, pre-eminently, the cause of the Anglo-Saxon race, for which countless heroes have died. With those men it was to defend the rights of their States to control their own affairs, without dictation from anybody outside; a right not given, but guaranteed by the Constitution, which those States accepted, most distinctly, under that condition.
It was for that these men came. This was just what they had in their minds; to uphold that Solemnly guaranteed constitutional right, distinctly binding all the parties to that compact. The South pleaded with the other parties to the Constitution to observe their guarantee; when they refused, and talked of force, then the men of the South got their guns and came to see about it. They were Anglo-Saxons. What could you expect? Their fathers had fought and died on exactly this issue—they could do no less. As their noble fathers, so their noble sons pledged their lives, and their sacred honor to uphold the same great cause—peaceably if they could; forcibly if they must.
(So this is it, this is how a combatant who was in the war viewed it. Not an assumption made by a historian some 150 after the fact! We all should take into account that the majority of the white population of both nations, CSA and USA presumed the white race to be superior)
If no Blacks fought for the south why do so many Union battlefield reports say otherwise? OOOOPS once again I am asking you to think
Black Confederates
With all of the Hoo Ha over the existence of Black Confederates being fact or myth is seems pretty apparent that they existed, their status is the subject of the Neo-Yankees. Were they documented? Did they carry a gun? were they slaves? Did they serve willingly? Did they draw a pension? The list of questions as to their status goes on and on.
The advantage of a blog site is you can pretty much say what ya want to. So I’m gonna take advantage of that !
“I don’t care if the Black Men who served the Confederacy were brought down in space ships from Mars (surely the conditions were better than the ones in the Yankee slave ships) they were there, and it don’t make a Rats Bottom if they were cooks, musicians, teamsters, laborers or sharpshooters, If they stood beside their white, and Native American counterparts during the war they were Black Confederates.
Why is that so hard for “some” folks to grasp?
I don’t care if you got 3 PhD’s from Harvard, a BS from Princeton, and a BA from Eureka (Hell you might as well throw in a Blue Ribbon from the FFA for the biggest Bull) Black Men fought for the Confederacy to stop the invading Yankee forces and protect their homes.
It’s the Truth so “Get Over It”
As for the statement about perpetual slavery: have you ever read the Corwin amendment? You know the original 13th amendment?
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution, namely: ART. 13. No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State. --12 United States Statutes at Large, 36th Congress, 2nd Session, 1861, p. 251.
Lincoln and company were willing to sell out the Black race for all time if the states that had seceded would rejoin the union. That fact alone kinda blows a hole in the war was over slavery issue! Lincoln offered perpetual slavery and the offer was refused!
You should thank the Confederate states for not accepting his offer!
As for ludicrous ! ( I don’t think you have read the Emancipation Proclamation)
Don’t Continue to praise Lincoln, no John Wilkes Booth would be better.
After all Mr. Booth shot the Great Emancipator , who was actively planning to deport blacks from American soil. But once again I’m letting facts get in the way!
Well that’s about it from me, but please go back to your corner and let your pimp slap some sense into you before you open your misinformed pie hole again and show the world how ignorant you truly are!
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Saturday, April 30, 2011
A good read !
Just a good story! I thought I'd share!
Yea I can hear the yankee bloggers now, "Cut and Paste" Bla Bla Bla -----
TOUGH CRUNCHIES!
Deal with the subject matter! Not how it is presented!
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Shackling Slavery to the South, One size Fits All
Shackling Slavery to the South !
Supporters of the Northern Claim that the war was over slavery, really have the blinders on tight. Add to the blinders, selective amnesia, with deftness and you have the perfect self righteous, we were (and are) morally superior to the South, Confederate basher! The selective amnesia / deftness come in when you mention the Slave Shipping Industry and who made huge sums of money off of it! They never mention it and don’t want to hear about it.
Supporters of the Northern Claim that the war was over slavery, really have the blinders on tight. Add to the blinders, selective amnesia, with deftness and you have the perfect self righteous, we were (and are) morally superior to the South, Confederate basher! The selective amnesia / deftness come in when you mention the Slave Shipping Industry and who made huge sums of money off of it! They never mention it and don’t want to hear about it.
I guess Pilate is still washing his hands so to speak.
The inhumane conditions of the voyage from Africa seem to fade into the fog of time and all you hear about is the “Uncle Toms Cabin” Southern Slavery rhetoric !
Then add to that “The North had abolished Slavery”
Well to an extent that is true, but I think they just renamed it and kept it going to a lesser degree. You could still have an “indentured” servant! And that servant being black could be kept as an indenture / males till they were 21 yo and females 18 yo/ and at anytime before they were of age to be free they could “transfer” the indenture as they pleased ( Sell them to the South)
Oh yes the wonderful moral north,
The inhumane conditions of the voyage from Africa seem to fade into the fog of time and all you hear about is the “Uncle Toms Cabin” Southern Slavery rhetoric !
Then add to that “The North had abolished Slavery”
Well to an extent that is true, but I think they just renamed it and kept it going to a lesser degree. You could still have an “indentured” servant! And that servant being black could be kept as an indenture / males till they were 21 yo and females 18 yo/ and at anytime before they were of age to be free they could “transfer” the indenture as they pleased ( Sell them to the South)
Oh yes the wonderful moral north,
Have they ever said why the underground rail road went to Canada?
Not because of the fugitive slave act, no, no, no! It was the “Black Codes” that prohibited free blacks or run away slaves from living amongst their white saviors.
Yes a few free blacks did live in the states with Black Exclusionary laws. Very few.
What about “The Great Emancipator” didn’t he have a plan to “Colonize” the newly freed black man? Did he not favor the Superior title be assigned to the White man?His Emancipation Proclamation, left slavery intact in areas controlled by the North!You can’t get any more moral than that, can you?
What about the original 13th amendment,Offered up by the North, that would guarantee the right to own slaves "forever", and could not be revoked? Seems like somebody was selling out the black mans freedom for money! You know the deal ( just rejoin the union, pay the tariff and taxes, and we promise you the right to own slaves forever)!
What about “The Great Emancipator” didn’t he have a plan to “Colonize” the newly freed black man? Did he not favor the Superior title be assigned to the White man?His Emancipation Proclamation, left slavery intact in areas controlled by the North!You can’t get any more moral than that, can you?
What about the original 13th amendment,Offered up by the North, that would guarantee the right to own slaves "forever", and could not be revoked? Seems like somebody was selling out the black mans freedom for money! You know the deal ( just rejoin the union, pay the tariff and taxes, and we promise you the right to own slaves forever)!
If it were a case of “lets make a deal” with Abe Lincoln taking the place of Monty Hall, the south took what was behind Door # 2 !!!! They seceded !
They did not try to overthrow the union but left it as provided for in the Constitution, But the Yankee propagandist of today call them traitors!
While I’m on my soap box.
The NAACP is constantly crying about all things Confederate.
They did not try to overthrow the union but left it as provided for in the Constitution, But the Yankee propagandist of today call them traitors!
While I’m on my soap box.
The NAACP is constantly crying about all things Confederate.
A typical newspaper article will say “a flag used to honor Confederate Veterans is being protested by” -------
Then a spokesperson for the NAACP will connect the Battle Flag to hate groups / slavery --------
Well if the newspaper had said “ A flag used to honor the Neo-Nazis’ and KKK is being protested by the NAACP”, I would be right there with them!
Then a spokesperson for the NAACP will connect the Battle Flag to hate groups / slavery --------
Well if the newspaper had said “ A flag used to honor the Neo-Nazis’ and KKK is being protested by the NAACP”, I would be right there with them!
But that is not what the flag is about!
The Battle Flag is NOT being put beside a statue of a hooded Klansman, or Skin Head!
It’s put beside a monument to Confederate soldiers, who by law are entitled to the same rights as all American Veterans!
Why can’t they see the difference? I guess they just don’t want to!
When it comes to Confederate bashing-
The Battle Flag is NOT being put beside a statue of a hooded Klansman, or Skin Head!
It’s put beside a monument to Confederate soldiers, who by law are entitled to the same rights as all American Veterans!
Why can’t they see the difference? I guess they just don’t want to!
When it comes to Confederate bashing-
One Size Fits All !
Saturday, April 23, 2011
A Slavers Flag ?
Anyone notice a similarity between the NY State flag and the composit picture below it?
Now then if somebody wants to protest a flag, why not protest one that has 2 slave ships, a A Nazi emblem, and The Rising sun ?
Oh I can hear it now " It's not the same flag, the Nazis and Rising Sun came after the flag wasadopted, and how do you know they are slave ships"? "You can't compare the two"
Ok! Fair enough! But the radical KKK, White Neo Nazis, and other hate groups who use the battle flag as a hate tool came long after the Confederate soldier, who was defending his home from an invading army! So how can "You" connect the two?
Media story's state in essence--------
"A flag used to honor Confederate Veterans is being protested by some who say it is a flag of hate"
So why not protest the NY State flag for the same reason?
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Give Up ?
Sometimes I just feel like giving up. No matter how hard I try, regardless of how much effort I put in to defending my heritage my one voice is drown out by ten others.
It seems sometimes that the truth is secondary to political correctness.
Constantly being battered and refuted by scholars with all kinds of diplomas of higher education, researchers, historians, people that sit on advisory commissions and do TV and radio interviews, constantly bombarding the public with the results of their research. Their expertise, unwilling, unbending, unwavering, steadfast in the notion that only they are correct, and I am just a radical faction who doesn’t matter. I and many like me are painted as lost causers, neo-confederates who keep their Friday Night Sheets in the back of the closet. We are racist, Confederate Taliban, Flying the flag of the KKK.
I get so frustrated and overwhelmed I want to say “The Hell with it let somebody else carry the colors, let someone else fight the battle, I’m sick of it”!
And then I read a story like the one about, Mr. Perry Thrasher, A Korean War Veteran who is in the VA hospital in Memphis Tennessee. Mr. Thrasher had a small confederate flag displayed in his room. His Grand Father was a Confederate Veteran. One of the staff was offended by his flag and he was forced to remove it!
Now I am offended! Here we have a man with a spinal injury who has been a long term resident at the hospital. He served his country with honor! And now one of the little pleasures he has in life has been taken away! Why? Because someone who has listened to the Historians is offended!
I’m asking for everyone’s help with this. I am sending him a post card with Robert E Lee on it and some confederate money. I am not sending anything with the battle flag. Rules are rules and the only flag allowed in the hospital is Old Glory. (So they say)
PLEASE everyone send Mr. Thrasher something Confederate, a card, a picture, anything you can think of. A picture of Lee, Jackson, President Davis, a confederate soldier or sailor. A picture of the CSS Virginia, anything you can think of. But NO FLAGS, lets play by the rules.
Don’t let Joe do it! You do it! Quit waiting for someone else to do the job. It won’t take much. A picture, an envelope and a stamp.
Mr Perry Thrasher
C/O VA Medical Center
1030 Jefferson Ave
Memphis TN. 38104.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
A Badge of Honor !
The Pardon was not a disgrace! It was a badge of honor!When the Yankees had repeating rifles and endless supply of ammunition,
and the Confederates were throwing rocks, Great Grand Dad was there throwing rocks!
Saturday, April 9, 2011
The Surrender, 04/09/1865
THE SURRENDER—APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE,
SUNDAY, APRIL 9TH,1865
By Wm. S. White, Third Richmond Howitzers
We started early and moved in the direction of Appomattox Courthouse. When reaching that place it was evident we could go no farther, for the enemy, cavalry, infantry and artillery, in countless thousands, were on every side. A shell comes hurtlingdown our line—another and another follow fast, and follow faster.
Just as cheerfully and just as defiantly as at Bethel, four years ago, when our hopes were big with the fate and fame of a newborn nation, do our boys go forth to meet them and our guns hurl back their shot and shell. We were but a little band standing there in the soft spring light of that Sabbath morn they were as the sands upon the seashore,or as the leaves upon the forest trees.The flag of the Army of Northern Virginia [under whose silken folds so many a gallant comrade, friend, and brother fell,] all tattered and torn but never dishonored; around staff so many happy memories cluster, is floating above us for the very last time.
The fighting ceased, and soldiers wept!
" O now forever.Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content! Farewell the plumed troop, and the just wars.That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife. The Southern banner, and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of bloody war! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamors counterfeit.Farewell— Othello's occupation's gone!" "Then rode adown our lines that peerless General, Robert Edward Lee—his head all bared,and his noble face all clouded with a sorrow deeper than tongue can tell or pen can paint.Is it a wonder then that strong men—men "grown old in wars"—weep like children, and tearfully turning from the, to them, saddest sight on earth, silently prepare to go back to their desolated homes ? Ah ! Neither time, or sorrow, can erase from memory's page the bitterness of that day.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Who Was The Confederate Soldier ?
*The Cause of Conflict and the Call to Arms
In 1861 a ringing call came to the manhood of the South. The world knows how the men of the South answered that call. Dropping everything, they came from mountains, valleys and plains— from Maryland to Texas, they eagerly crowded to the front, and stood to arms. What for? What moved them? What was in their minds?
Shallow-minded writers have tried hard to make it appear that slavery was the cause of that war; that the Southern men fought to keep their slaves. They utterly miss the point, or purposely pervert the truth. In days gone by, the theological schoolmen held hot contention over the question as to the kind of wood the Cross of Calvary was made from. In their zeal over this trivial matter, they lost sight of the great thing that did matter; the mighty transaction, and purpose displayed upon that Cross.
In the causes of that war, slavery was only a detail and an occasion. Back of that lay an immensely greater thing; the defense of their rights—the most sacred cause given men on earth, to maintain at every cost. It is the cause of humanity. Through ages it has been, pre-eminently, the cause of the Anglo-Saxon race, for which countless heroes have died. With those men it was to defend the rights of their States to control their own affairs, without dictation from anybody outside; a right not given, but guaranteed by the Constitution, which those States accepted, most distinctly, under that condition.
It was for that these men came. This was just what they had in their minds; to uphold that Solemnly guaranteed constitutional right, distinctly binding all the parties to that compact. The South pleaded with the other parties to the Constitution to observe their guarantee; when they refused, and talked of force, then the men of the South got their guns and came to see about it. They were Anglo-Saxons. What could you expect? Their fathers had fought and died on exactly this issue—they could do no less. As their noble fathers, so their noble sons pledged their lives, and their sacred honor to uphold the same great cause—peaceably if they could; forcibly if they must.
*Those Who Answered the Call
So the men of the South came together. They came from every rank and calling of life— clergymen, bishops, doctors, lawyers, statesmen, governors of states, judges, editors, merchants, mechanics, farmers. One bishop became a lieutenant general; one clergyman, chief of artillery, Army of Northern Virginia. In one artillery battalion three clergymen were Cannoneers at the guns. All the students of one Theological Seminary volunteered, and three fell in battle, and all but one were wounded. They came of every age. I personally know of six men over sixty years who volunteered, and served in the ranks, throughout the war; and in the Army of Northern Virginia, more than ten thousand men were under eighteen years of age, many of them sixteen years.They came of every social condition of life: some of them were the most prominent men in the professional, social, and political life of their States; owners of great estates, employing many slaves; and thousands of them, horny-handed sons of toil, earning their daily bread by their daily labor, who never owned a slave and never would.
There came men of every degree of intellectual equipment—some of them could hardly read, and per contra, in my battery, at the mock burial of a pet crow, there were delivered an original Greek ode, an original Latin oration, and two brilliant eulogies in English—all in honor of that crow; very high obsequies had that bird.
Men who served as Cannoneers of that same battery, in after life came to fill the highest positions of trust and influence—from governors and professors of universities, downward; and one became Speaker of the House of Representatives in the United States Congress. Also, it is to be noted that twenty-one men who served in the ranks of the Confederate Army became Bishops of the Episcopal Church after the war.
Of the men who thus gathered from all the Southern land, the first raised regiments were drawn to Virginia, and there organized into an army whose duty it was to cover Richmond, the Capital of the Confederacy—just one hundred miles from Washington, which would naturally be the center of military activities of the hostile armies.
*FROM THE RAPIDAN TO RICHMOND AND THE SPOTTSYLVANIA CAMPAIGNA Sketch in Personal Narrative of the Scenes a Soldier SawByWILLIAM MEADE DAME, D. D.Private, First Company Richmond Howitzers
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I guess that this is as true of an account as you could find anyplace! Not from a politician of the era, not from a historian – 150 years after the fact! But from the man who signed or made his mark on the dotted line. The man who faced cold winters, little or no provisions, nonexistent pay, an overwhelming number of enemy soldiers; who were better armed, fed, and clothed !
It was every man of the south who simply wanted the right to choose his own Government, and set the levels of the politician’s power at an acceptable level. I noticed a passage in the book /
“When rations got short and were getting shorter, it became necessary to dismiss the darkey servants. Some, however, became company servants, instead of private institutions, and held out faithfully to the end, cooking the rations away in the rear, and at the risk of life carrying them to the line of battle to their young massahs”
Also from a different book titled -
Reminiscences of the Richmond HowitzersBy Carlton McCarthy
“A few of our negro cooks, who were with our wagon train when it was captured by the enemy, escaped and returned to camp today. Certainly they were the happiest fellows I ever saw and were greeted with loud cheers by our men. A chance at freedom they had, but they preferred life and slavery in Dixie to liberty in the North.”
With all of the conflicting views on Black Soldiers in the Confederacy, an argument that will continue as long as the sun rises and sets, somehow the efforts of the loyal black servant gets lost in the shuffle.
Ok this group of black men were not rifle carrying soldiers, but their dedication is deserving of recognition. Their courage and dedication shows where their loyalty was at.No matter how you slice it they were “Black Confederates”. No one held them at gunpoint, all they had to do was walk away, but they didn’t. So were these men slaves when they could have walked away and didn’t? I guess they were, but something other than the Massahs whip kept them in camp! Loyalty! Honor! Courage! The same attributes we give to the confederate soldier who signed on the line and defended his country.
So It was not only the free man but the servants themselves who opposed the onslaught of the north.
I have a letter from another member of the Richmond Howitzers
William Henry Tatum, my Great Uncle, it says in part------
"When I volunteered I really did not know how a long a time it was for, and in fact did not care. I am, with the other 12 month volunteers . Called upon to reenlist in accordance with an act of congress Dec 11 1861, and I am called on to decide what I shall do, before we are mustered out of service.
I think that with everybody else, that the period will be the most critical one in our history, our enemy are perfectly aware of the straight in which we are placed and will certainly endeavor to take advantage of it.
Now what is my duty, to go home and leave our defense to undisciplined militia who will make a sorry fight at best, leaving it in the range of probability that the Northern hessians will overrun our state before the summer is over and bringing ruin on all of us? Or stay in the field, determined to see the end of this business before we give it up.
I might say to myself I am only one, I will not be missed, but ought we allow such selfish considerations to govern us, our whole army is made up of individuals, and suppose each was to say the same thing"?
a powerful statement! It says a lot about my ancestor and about the Confederate soldier as well.
Again from William Meade Dane
The Confederate Heart
" The heart is greater than the mind. No man can exactly define the cause for which the Confederate soldier fought. He was above human reason and above human law, secure in his own rectitude of purpose, accountable to God only, having assumed for himself a nationality which he was minded to defend with his life and his property, andthere to pledged his sacred honor. In the honesty and simplicity of his heart, the Confederate soldier had neglected his own interests and rights, until his accumulated wrongs and indignities forced him to one grand, prolonged effort to free himself from the pain of them. He dared not refuse to hear the call to arms, so plain was the duty and so urgent the call. His brethren and friends were answering the bugle-call and the roll of the drum. To stay was dishonor and shame"!
So who was the Confederate soldier
He was a man of every color, every income range, every religion, a man who was highly educated or had no education at all. A farmer, a lawyer, a politician, a store clerk, a blacksmith, a ship captain, a dock worker, a military man, a civilian, a slave , a slave owner, a native American, A Doctor, He was every man who resisted the despotic Government of Abe Lincoln; and all had one thing in common, they were Southerners! Men to whom Honor was more than an idea, it was a way of life.Men of courage, outnumbered, without supplies’, Men who when the enemy had repeating rifles and endless amounts of ammunition , stood their ground and threw rocks at the invaders. Men who at Appomattox upon General Lee’s return from the surrender told the general,
“Just give us the word General and we’ll charge em again”!
That is who they were, and that is why we honor them.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
A Kodak Moment 1860s style
A Kodak Moment / 1860s style
During the war for Southern Independence depending on which side of the mason Dixon line you lived, or which side you aligned yourself with you had differing views.
The status of the Battle Flag will remain exactly as it stands TODAY
Divided opinions, differing interpretations.
I have my opinion. It was formed by my great uncle W.H. Tatum
During the war he wrote home. I have transcripts of his letters that are in the Virginia Historical Society archives.
I shall present a few lines from his letters home.
July 22nd 1861 At Bull Run Creek
“We have cause to thank our Heavenly Father for thus giving us the victory--
Many poor fellows have bitten the dust since yesterday morning & one of our men are worth 20 of Lincolns minions.”
July 29th 1861 Centerville VA.
“ I heard of one of our men whose company was behind the trenches, standing out when the enemy made a charge, his Captain told him to get behind the embankment. His reply was “ No sir, they come up to us far and squar and I am going to stand here far and squar” He did stand fare and square, and was not hurt !
Leesburg VA Nov 1st 1861
“ I understand that in case the enemy attacks again, Gen Evans has orders to retire.
This is a beautiful country and I would hate to see it in position of Lincoln’s hordes.”
Culpepper Court House VA Oct 9th 1862.
“The country looks like a commons from the battlefield to the court house.
The people all have the same tale to tell, they took whatever they could lay their hands on & not content with that they would break up costly furniture, tear down banisters, & kick the panels out of doors.”
The letters continue in the same fashion until Appomattox . But this is my personal reason !
I was never the target of hate or intimidation by use of the Battle Flag, and I won’t deny this happened in the past and is happening today. To those who see the Battle flag as a hate tool I understand. I ask for your understanding of what it means to me.
Respectfully Submitted
David Tatum Jr
During the war for Southern Independence depending on which side of the mason Dixon line you lived, or which side you aligned yourself with you had differing views.
The status of the Battle Flag will remain exactly as it stands TODAY
Divided opinions, differing interpretations.
I have my opinion. It was formed by my great uncle W.H. Tatum
During the war he wrote home. I have transcripts of his letters that are in the Virginia Historical Society archives.
I shall present a few lines from his letters home.
July 22nd 1861 At Bull Run Creek
“We have cause to thank our Heavenly Father for thus giving us the victory--
Many poor fellows have bitten the dust since yesterday morning & one of our men are worth 20 of Lincolns minions.”
July 29th 1861 Centerville VA.
“ I heard of one of our men whose company was behind the trenches, standing out when the enemy made a charge, his Captain told him to get behind the embankment. His reply was “ No sir, they come up to us far and squar and I am going to stand here far and squar” He did stand fare and square, and was not hurt !
Leesburg VA Nov 1st 1861
“ I understand that in case the enemy attacks again, Gen Evans has orders to retire.
This is a beautiful country and I would hate to see it in position of Lincoln’s hordes.”
Culpepper Court House VA Oct 9th 1862.
“The country looks like a commons from the battlefield to the court house.
The people all have the same tale to tell, they took whatever they could lay their hands on & not content with that they would break up costly furniture, tear down banisters, & kick the panels out of doors.”
The letters continue in the same fashion until Appomattox . But this is my personal reason !
I was never the target of hate or intimidation by use of the Battle Flag, and I won’t deny this happened in the past and is happening today. To those who see the Battle flag as a hate tool I understand. I ask for your understanding of what it means to me.
Respectfully Submitted
David Tatum Jr
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