Black confederates: 
Indian Confederates:
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Posted on 04/26/2011 2:28:41 PM PDT by BigReb555
Black, White, Jewish, American-Indian and Hispanic Americans who served the Confederacy during the War Between the States.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Black, White, Jewish, American-Indian and Hispanic Americans who served the Confederacy during the War Between the States are indeed worthy of our emulation.
The original Constitution of the Confederate States of America will be on display, Tuesday, April 26, 2011, Confederate Memorial Day, in the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library {on the 3rd floor of the Main Library} at the University of Georgia, in Athens. See details at: http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/index.shtml
The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Ladies Memorial Association and Sons of Confederate Veterans still remember the Confederate soldier and proudly fly his blood stained flag of many hard fought battles.
The first Memorial Day took place in the South where Northern and Southern soldiers were remembered.
Ideal Memorial Day for Atlanta Confederates. Thin lines of Gray-Clad soldiers of the sixties were met with enthusiastic applause all along the route of the parade.—April 27, 1909, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
The State of Georgia has officially recognized April 26th as Confederate Memorial Day since 1874....And proclamations have been signed by Southern governors, commemorating April as Confederate History and Heritage Month since 1995. For additional information see: http://confederateheritagemonth.com
Southern newspapers once reported Confederate soldiers marching in Confederate Memorial Day parades and sounding off with a husky Rebel Yell of "Yip, yip, yip, which turned the tides of many battles.
Businesses and schools once closed on Confederate Memorial Day as thousands of people congregated at the Confederate cemetery for the day’s events that included: a parade, memorial speeches, military salute and children laying flowers on the soldiers' graves.
Efforts to mark Confederate graves, erect monuments and hold memorial services were the idea of Mrs. Charles J. Williams. She was an educated and kind lady. Her husband served as Colonel of the 1st Georgia Regiment during the War Between the States. He died of disease in 1862, and was buried in his home town of Columbus, Georgia.
Mrs. Williams and her daughter visited his grave often and cleared the weeds, leaves and twigs from it, then placed flowers on it. Her daughter also pulled the weeds from other Confederate graves near her Father.
It saddened the little girl that their graves were unmarked. With tears of pride she said to her Mother, "These are my soldiers' graves." The daughter soon became ill and passed away in her childhood.
On a visit to the graves of her husband and daughter, Mrs. Williams looked at the unkept soldiers' graves and remembered her daughter as she cleaned the graves and what the little girl had said.
Mrs. Williams wrote a letter that was published in Southern newspapers asking the women of the South for their help. She asked that memorial organizations be established to take care of the thousands of Confederate graves from the Potomac River to the Rio Grande. She also asked the state legislatures to set aside a day in April to remember the men who wore the gray. With her leadership April 26 was officially adopted in many states. She died in 1874, but not before her native state of Georgia adopted it as a legal holiday.
The Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans joins the nation in commemorating the Sesquicentennial--150th Anniversary of the War Between the States now through 2015. See additional information at: http://www.150wbts.org/
Yes people of the south should be taught about the cause of the Civil War and the lesson is very short.
The cause of the Civil War was slavery and we know the cause was slavery as that is what the Confederates told us in their Declarations of Session and in their Constitution.
These were Americans too. Their sacrifices should never be forgotten. They fought and died for their idea of what America should be. They, and their descendants, should remain proud.
And I speak as a Northern born Yankee.
Flame on...
“The cause of the Civil War was slavery and we know the cause was slavery as that is what the Confederates told us in their Declarations of Session and in their Constitution.”
There was no need for war really. The North could have just respected the right of the South to secede and pursue its own interests. In that regard, joining a union (or any entity fot that matter) should not mean that you can never leave under any circumstances.
Note to Calvin:
Don't begin articles by citing crazy, bigoted f#@%s.
Check these things out first.
Carmack really wasn't to trust to say what rights people should and shouldn't have.
No flame here. Born and raised in NYC and I agree with you. Living in NC now or as they say “Northern by birth, Southern by choice”.
bigreb is someone’s sockpuppet. His modus operandi is to post~n~run red-meat for the Lost Causers.
The flight of the Jewish Confederate Secretary of State, Judah Benjamin, through Florida then onto Cuba at the end of the war is a good read.
Correction, he escaped to Bermuda, not Cuba.
“Living in NC now or as they say “Northern by birth, Southern by choice”.”
Wife and I were in NC over the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed the visit and healthy change of scenery. We’re one step closer to leaving the socialist crime ridden state we currently live in.
I know of very few people who hold that view. But casually upending the entire nation out of a fit of pique is a more fitting description of what the southern fire-eaters did.
The cause of the Civil War was slavery
This is absolutely correct. The revisionists try to tell us that it was about States Rights, or high tariffs. They tried, and still do to this day, tell us that slavery was a minor factor in the War Between the States. They are wrong.
BUT, those were the people in power. Those were the people who OWNED other human beings. They KNEW in their hearts, that this was wrong. But THEY didn’t have to wield a musket or sword. The “little guy” always does the grunt work.
I speak for the guy who never owned slaves. He fought for his home and county and State. He fought because his neighbors and kin and friends fought. He fought, because he had a problem with the Federal government telling him how he should live his life.
Sometimes, the Federal government assumes too much authority over our lives.
Think about, say, ObamaCare...
Sometimes, enough, is enough.
“I know of very few people who hold that view. But casually upending the entire nation out of a fit of pique is a more fitting description of what the southern fire-eaters did.”
So are you then suggesting that the colonies and their “fire eaters” should never have parted ways with the English crown?
SCV 2140 DV !
Yankee born, Southern reared and a rebel by the grace of God.
Black confederates:
Indian Confederates:
Jewish confederates:
Oh everyone knows that that is different, because, well.....it just is!
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