[cowboyway]

"This is a new day. The Confederacy lost, and the majority of the American people will not accept these ideas about a renegade group of folks who decided they would overthrow the U.S. government."

This statement is all the more reason why we need a Confederate History Month.

Here this boy is, a state representative from Georgia, and he thinks the CSA's goal was to 'overthrow' the US federal government!! (Of course, he is a democrat, which means he ain't none too bright..........)

Ya reckon he got his American history education in a PC public school?

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I hear ya..

[Madame Dufarge]

and he thinks the CSA's goal was to 'overthrow' the US federal government!!

Nathan Bedford Forrest would agree, as quoted below.

I think both sides were fighting from principle; they were men of their time.

And yes, it's the liberal Northeast that's been most responsible for the reinstitution of slavery - to the leviathan federal government.

Anyway, here's an excerpt from Nathan Bedford Forrest by Jack Hurst as an illustration of how these men regarded their opponents as honorable men with conflicting principles:

"In a much less private letter three days later, Forrest accepted an invitation from ex-Federals to attend and participate in another Elmwood Cemetery ceremony: decoration of the graves of Union dead.

The invitation came after former Federal soldiers had participated in an Elmwood decoration of Confederate graves, and in the spirit of his surrender address a decade earlier, he responded to this invitation by saying he 'earnestly request(ed) all ex-Confederate soldiers to join me in (the invitation's) acceptance...' The next day he led former Confederates in decorating Elmwood's Federal headstones.

The Appeal that morning carried a public letter signed jointly by him and Gideon Pillow declaring that regardless of their wartime differences with the Federals, 'we must admit that they fought gallantly for the preservation of the government which we fought to destroy, which is now ours, was that of our fathers, and must be that of our children...Our love for free government, justly administered, has not perished..."

[jtill]

I’m hoping that there Georgia state representative - Tyrone Brooks - gets thrown out of office for his egregious definition of the Confederacy.

I’d bet he did get his American history education in a government operated public school, cause he ain’t got no learnin.