The fight to preserve Slavery !

Ya know what shaves my goat?
Yankees that claim that the South was primarily fighting for the right to continue slavery !
OK just for the sake of argument let’s say it’s true, That by a  soldier joining the armed forces he was fighting to maintain slavery . But if we accept this we must also look at what the North was fighting for.
Now the Yankee’s will tell ya it was to preserve the Union and later the focus changed to freeing the slaves. Then they will throw in Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

OOOOO-K, I’ve heard it all before. But lets look at it from the Yankees perspective and apply the logic evenly.
If the Confederates were fighting to preserve slavery, so were the Yankees!

The Yanks were fighting to preserve a Union that by law included slavery. So by fighting to save the union they were at the same time fighting to save slavery which was a part of the Union.

Even after the Emancipation Proclamation the yanks were fighting to preserve a Union that included slavery ! Lincoln stated- “Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth[)], and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.
So slavery was still an accepted practice in the Union even after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. 

So the Yankees were still fighting to preserve a Union that included slavery.
As long as we all play by the same rules ya gotta accept the facts !

I almost forgot !

I'm accumulating information regarding problems with Confederate Heritage.

Here is one I almost forgot about !

It's kinda hard to read !

But I did the best I could !

Heck my monument wont even finished and folks were cryin about it !

 "WELL HOW DO YA LIKE ME NOW" ?

It's a Family Thang !!

With all of the Hoo Haw going on at the VMFA over the Confederate Flag ( or any flag ) I just wanted to step back and look at the reason for my interest !

My Geat Grand Father was a member of the First Company Richmond Howitzers, as well as a Member of The Robert E Lee camp # 1 .

                                                         J C Tatum's original pardon !

His older Brother was a Howitzer also !

This is a reproduction of W H Tatum's "Walkin Paper"

My Great Grand Dad left a few reminders!

So I'm just keeping the Family Tradition Alive !

J C Tatum

W H Tatum

David Tatum Jr.

Thanks to ALL The VA Flaggers !

Feb 10 1862

Many of the letters I'm posting are used as a reference in this book by 

Lee Wallace Jr.

Including the second paragraph in this letter.

States Rights !

Good old Kevin Levin (The Master of spin ) Posted at his blog -------

"This video was taken yesterday outside of an establishment created to foster understanding, creativity and yes…expression. However type of expression has many negative and absolutely hateful associations and should not be tolerated. Young people don’t forget why this should not be tolerated! As for the black woman in the video…yes, the one who is proudly waving the flag…..of all examples to set….why this one?? The choice to do something in public is a choice that only you can make….but please, help me understand why you needed to wave THAT flag in public"!!??

Kevin, I have walked the front lines with Karen Cooper (The black woman waving the battle flag)

I am proud to have her as a friend !

It was asked “ As for the black woman in the video…yes, the one who is proudly waving the flag…..of all examples to set….why this one?? “

Karen is an advocate of States Rights and The Constitution.

That seems like a fine Example to set for the next Generation !  Do you have a problem with that ?

Why don't you pose the question to her directly? I am sure she will set you straight !

Emma LeConte

• “Emma LeConte was a very young woman, only seventeen, when total war came to Columbia, South Carolina. However, she witnessed and recorded one of the most controversial examples of total war. She was the oldest of a family of daughters and her father Joseph LeConte was a science professor at the South Carolina College in Columbia. During the war he served as a chemist in the Confederate States Nitre and Mining Bureau.
  
  She did not lose immediate family members in the war, but as her diary begins on December 31, 1864, she writes, "Oh my country! Will I live to see thee subjugated and enslaved by those Yankees-surely every man and woman will die first. . . A sea rolls between them and us-a sea of blood. Smoking houses, outraged women, murdered fathers, brothers, and husbands forbid such a union. Reunion! Great Heavens! How we hate them with the whole strength and depth of our souls." Sherman's troops had not yet reached the Carolinas. During the second week of January 1865, Columbia held a Soldiers' Bazaar. Emma had expected to take interest in it, but writes instead. "It seems like the dance of death, and who can tell that Sherman may not get the money that was made instead of our sick soldiers. How long before our beautiful little city may be sacked and laid in ashes." She did not have long to wait. On February 174' she writes, "Well, they are here. I was sitting in the back parlor when I heard the shouting of the troops .... Iran upstairs to my bedroom windows just in time to see the U. S. flag run up over the State House.
  
  Oh, what a horrid sight! What a degradation! After four long bitter years of bloodshed and hatred, now to float there at last! That hateful symbol of despotism! I do not think I could possibly describe my feelings. I know I could not look at it." Later that day she records, "Gen. Sherman has assured the mayor `that he and all the citizens may sleep as securely and quietly tonight as if under Confederate rule. Private property shall be carefully respected." The next day, she records, "Strange as it may seem, we were actually idiotic enough to believe Sherman would keep his word! A Yankee-and Sherman! It does seem incredible, such credulity, but I suppose we were anxious to believe him-the lying fiend! I hope retributive justice will find him out one day."
  
  She describes the fires, "The fire on Main Street was now raging, and we anxiously watched its progress from the upper front windows. In a little while, however, the flames broke forth in every direction. The drunken devils roamed about, setting fire to every house the flames seemed likely to spare. They were fully equipped for the noble work they had in hand. Each soldier was furnished with combustibles compactly put up. They would enter houses in the presence of helpless women and children, pour turpentine on the beds and set them on fire. Guards were rarely of any assistance-most generally they assisted in pillaging and firing." Later, she adds, "I suppose we owe our final escape to the presence of the Yankee wounded in the hospital. When all seemed in vain, Dr Thompson went to an officer and asked if he would see his own soldiers burnt alive."
  
  Later, she adds, "This is civilized warfare. This is the way in which the `cultured' Yankee nation wars upon women and children! Failing with our men in the field, this is the way they must conquer!" On the 25th, still determined, she writes, "The more we suffer, the more we should be willing to undergo rather than submit." By this time, the destruction of the food is evident and she writes, "I hope relief will come before famine actually threatens. " Throughout this time, her father had been gone, removing government records, but on the 26, she reports, "At last I have something joyful to chronicle Father is returned!" Her last entry on August 6th explains why she has written so little, "As to the condition of the country and our unhappy state as a people, it would seem better not to think of that, still less to write of it. It makes me miserable and intensifies the wicked feelings I have too much anyway."

It's not that Complicated !

It's not about being a "Lost Causer" or being a "Neo Confederate"

It's a matter of Respect, and Honor !

Hurry hurry step right up !

I Think I will Pass on this product!
( I know what it smells and taste like, and it ain't good)
But I can't wait for the Infomercial!

Wack A Yank !

(Disclaimer ! This is a parody and in no way promotes physical Violence! )

Ya Know, Yankee bloggers Are a real pain!
It’s like playing Wack-A-Mole !
Just as soon as one shuts up,
Another one pops up with the same old Stuff!

Which way is the wind blowing?

I have interesting news,

One of the revisionist blogger always downing the South and adamant that “Black Confederates” was another neo-Confederate plot has changed his mind.

Never matter that the “Corwin Amendment” resolved why we fought, he has long claimed “we” (The Confederate Taliban) were pushing Black Confederates to justify that the war was not over slavery!

Now he has admitted there black Confederates fought for the Confederacy".

So whats his stance on the subject?

Kinka like a hurricane forecast, it shows you a general direction but there is a wide path for variance!

I wish he would make up his mind!!!!