The Great anti-Southern Psyop! From the Virginia Flaggers: The leftist are going all out to paint our grandfathers who defended their families, home, and States as only being white supremacists who only fought to preserve slavery. They make the same claims about our ancestors who scrimped and saved money to erect monuments in honor of…
Category: History of the Civil War
The Flag Is Still There
The Flag Is Still There I’ve written in the past about the controversy over the huge Confederate battle flag that flies in a prominent place just off the exit from US460 to the east of the Virginia town of Farmville. The flag was erected on private property by a non-profit called Virginia Flaggers in an arrangement…
Lest We Forget
Appomattox: Lest We Forget This afternoon I attended a ceremony marking the 160th anniversary of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (which I often sardonically refer to as “the Confederate Nakba”). It was organized by the Appomattox chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and took place at the Confederate…
The Nature of Guerilla Warfare in the Heart of ‘Mosby’s Confederacy’
The Nature of Guerilla Warfare in the Heart of ‘Mosby’s Confederacy’ I happened upon this 106 page theses paper submitted in 2015 to Clemson University by Brett D. Zeggil while doing research for an upcoming short story. For all you serious students of both Southern History and Guerilla Warfare, I urge you to read…
Happy (Belated) Birthday General Stonewall Jackson!
*Apologies, fully meant to post this yesterday morning but due to extreme weather conditions, it was delayed. I hope Stonewall can forgive me! Stonewall Jackson’s 200th Birthday Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson was born 200 years ago on this day in history, January 21, 1824, in Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia). Fatherless at the…
Happy Birthday General Robert E. Lee!
How Does It Feel?
How Does It Feel? Americans as a whole are now realizing what it’s like to be treated as the South has been treated for a century and a half: Your heritage, culture, and sovereignty mean nothing. You are stupid and backwards and lazy, never mind any history which suggests otherwise—that’s actively being erased and…
On This Day in History: December 20, 1860
South Carolina’s state convention voted 169-0 on this day in favor of “dissolving the union now subsisting between South Carolina and the other states” declaring itself an “Independent Commonwealth.” Five states were to follow South Carolina’s lead within weeks – Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana. Then came the big one of Texas, followed…
Know Your Southern History: Causes of Southern Secession in the Upper South, Part 1
Part 1: Causes of Southern Secession in the Upper South “If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be subverted, and an Empire is to be established in their stead; if that is to be the last scene of the great…
Know Your Southern History: The Battle of Sabine Pass
The Battle of Sabine Pass Less rowdy Irish were found in the Davis Guards, formally known as Co. F, First Texas Heavy Artillery. They were posted at Ft. Griffin at the mouth of the Sabine River, as it empties into the Gulf of Mexico. The site was near Beaumont, Texas, an important railway junction. The…