Because Now It’s Personal: Causes That Produce The Guerrilla Most of the men who fought with William Quantrill didn’t own slaves. They were just Missouri farm boys who wanted to be left alone, raise families and run farms of their own. What caused them to turn into the so called “bloodthirsty savages” they later…
Category: History of the Civil War
REBEL YELL: ‘Confederados’, The South Shall Rise Again….In Brazil
Know Your History!
The Lee Statue and the Rebellion to Come
The Lee Statue and the Rebellion to Come “Most importantly, don’t despair. Accept the challenge of history. “Every time I look at Atlanta, I see what a quarter million Confederate soldiers died to prevent,” wrote John Shelton Reed. Today, that statement applies not just to Atlanta or Richmond but to the entire country. Once…
The Anti-Confederate Jihad: Gray Lives Matter
The Anti-Confederate Jihad: Gray Lives Matter Another good article on the subject of the Destruction of American History via Statue Replacement. Here is a piece I wrote back in 2015 when this Communist trend started titled Damnatio Memoriae.
Calhoun’s Prophecy
This scene from Amistad with Calhoun always stands out in my memory as superbly written. John C. Calhoun was a man ahead of his time, a true Southern Loyalist and militant proponent of states rights. His words ring as True Today as they did in 1839 do they not?
John Singleton Mosby
One of my personal heroes. The quinessential Southern Loyalist and Guerilla, fighting a Civil War that never ended right up until his death in 1916.
The Evolution of French Counter-Insurgency Doctrine
France’s War in the Sahel and the Evolution of Counter-Insurgency Doctrine Know your COIN History, it could come in handy one day. Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
Some Civil War History You Were Not Taught in School
Lincoln’s Kind of “Soldier” The American History You’re Not Supposed to Know I have been a huge fan of Mr. DiLorenzo’s work ever since I read The Real Lincoln over a decade ago. I urge all of you to dive into all of Mr. DiLorenzo’s books and articles and get a fresh,…