Posted on 03/10/2010 3:31:30 PM PST by Idabilly
Another project that the Patrick Cleburne Camp is heavily engaged is the annual memorial to the great General himself: Patrick R. Cleburne. This 25th annual memorial service for the Irish-born Confederate General will be held on March 13 in the Helena, Arkansas Confederate Cemetery. The memorial will begin at noon with key-note speaker Glen Dedmondt, author of The Flags of Civil War Arkansas, which Mr. Dedmondt dedicated to General Cleburne. Many spectators will meet at 10am at the McDonald’s in Helena prior to the memorial for breakfast. The public is invited to attend and all living historians are invited to participate.
Another reminder regarding the Annual Arkansas Division SCV Reunion in Hot Springs: The Annual Reunion will be held at the Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas on April 30-May 1. If anyone wishes to attend this event, please contact the Keller Camp (www.arkansasscv.org) for more information on regisration.
(Excerpt) Read more at arkansastoothpick.com ...
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I am with the South in life or in death, in victory or defeat. I never owned a negro and care nothing for them, but these people have been my friends and have stood up to me on all occasions. In addition to this, I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy war on a people who have done them no wrong, in violation of the Constitution and the fundamental principles of the government...We propose no invasion of the North, no attack on them, and only ask to be let alone. Patrick R. Cleburne
"Patrick Ronayne Cleburne "Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late... It means the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern schoolteachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision... It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties."
--- Maj. General Patrick R. Cleburne, CSA, January 1864, writing on what would happen if the Confederacy were to be defeated.
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My great-great grandfather fought for the Confederacy in the Missouri 10th. Records show his uint participated in the Battle of Helena, AR on July 1863. My great-great grandfather survived the battle and went on to survive the war being paroled in LA after Lee’ surrender.
I think the Tennessee campaign in 1864 would have turned out a lot different had this political general (a good friend of Jeff Davis) not been in charge. Cleburne lost his life because of the tactical and strategic incompetence of CSA General JB Hood.
-- Patrick R. Cleburne
That's the one thing these socialist bastards can never do.
We can do the next one peacefully or in a desperate struggle to the death, I'm good either way.
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General Cleburne bump
You're oh-and-one in that area.
Yadda, yadda, yadda. You're like the five year old, pissed at his parents. He's going to runaway from home and they'll never see him again...he really means it...here he goes...he's going...never coming back...he really means it this time...
So go already. Seceded, rebel, whatever it is you're going to do. Just shut up and do it.
Tell me how are the actions of Putin/Russia against Georgia, and the actions of Lincoln/US against the CSA any different?
In Georgia, Putin invaded a sovereign nation. Lincoln suppressed a rebellion.
Declaring independence from a Federal government is not rebellion, it's a seperatist action.
You are sounding more shrill by the day, maybe you should double the dose. You are starting to sound "Mussolini-ish".
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