Camp 1220 May 2014

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Camp 1220 May 2014

Award Winning Publication of the General William Barksdale Camp 1220
Sons of Confederate Veterans, Columbus, Mississippi
Visit our Website at www.genbarksdale.org and the Mississippi Division Website at www.mississippiscv.org
May 2014
Barksdale Camp 1220 Officers
Camp Commander: Jim Strickland Jr.
jmsj@cableone.net / Phone: 662-570-1581
Camp Lt. Commander: Thomas Flynt
camp1220ltcommander@yahoo.com
Camp Adjutant / Newsletter Editor: Shawn Kyzer
camp1220adjutant@yahoo.com
Camp Chaplain: Jerry Franks
Camp Color Sergeant: Jonathan Capps
Correspondence by Regular Mail:
General William Barksdale Camp
PO Box 404, Aberdeen, MS 39730
Inside this edition of the
Barksdale’s Mississippians Newsletter
Just for Fun / Trivia / Words to Remember / Recruits
Upcoming Events / Announcements
Proud Confederate Veterans flanked by US Marines on parade
in Milledgeville, Georgia. It’s these men who we honor.
Key Questions for Causes of the War / Yankee Myths
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2014 MS Division SCV Reunion, Corinth, Mississippi
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2014 Battle of Brice’s Crossroads Reenactment
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NJ student suspended for Confederate themed Flag! / Camp Pics
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Liberal Students and Civil Rights leaders angered
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Texas Student discriminated against based on his Southern Identity 10
Symbol of Southern Identity Blamed For Tension in Blue Springs
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Reenactment of the Battle of Mobile Bay and Battle of Iuka
The Ten Costliest Battles of the Civil War
Aberdeen, Mississippi Southern Heritage Festival a success!
What about them Yankees?
Many nationalities represented in the Confederacy / 1st Bailout
You May Be A Redneck Pilot If….
Volunteers excavate Ohio Civil War island prison
Rally to help defend Memphis’ Parks!
In honor of our Ancestors / Sam Davis Youth Camp
VA Gov. No plans to recognize Confederate History Month
Government–run school attacks Southern-minded Students
Confed. Memorial Service at Ole Miss / Rebels go down in TX
Confederate night attack on the Union fleet
Trail of Honor, Jackson, Mississippi
Long Island New York High School Students Suspended
W&L University Law Students make DEMANDS
Thaddeus Stevens / Advertisements / Reenactor Recipes
Stephen D. Lee Home / Friends of the SCV
Who we are / Answer to Trivia Question
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The next meeting of the
Barksdale Camp will be
Tuesday, 27 May at 6:30 P.M.
At Huck’s Place, 121 5th Street South
Downtown Columbus! Come Join Us!
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“Together we stand united
as the living descendants of the Confederate Army.”
Just For Fun!
War Between the States Trivia:
Saint Peter was standing watch at the Pearly Gates when forty
Yankee Soldiers showed up after being taken-out by a squad of
Confederates.
What Battle was farthest west in the Civil War?
Confused as to why they were there and never having seen
anyone from the Army of the Potomac before at heaven's door;
Saint Peter said he would have to check with God first.
After hearing the news about their unexpected visitors, God
instructed him to admit the ten most virtuous from the group.
Realizing that this would be hard to do, after all, they were
Yankees; he went and did God’s bidding.
A few minutes later, Saint Peter returned to God very excited,
tired and breathless.
He yelled….."They're gone!"
"What?.....All of the Yankees are gone?" God asked.
"No!" replied Saint Peter…….. "The Pearly Gates!"
Once a Thiev’n Yankee……….
Always a Thiev’n Yankee.
(The answer may be found on last page of this newsletter)
Be proud of your state and let others know you're from
Mississippi!
Wear a Mississippi Division pin
Or display a
Mississippi Division decal!
Get either as a thank you gift for
Only a $5.00 contribution to:
The Mississippi Division Heritage
Education and Defense Fund
Words to Remember:
“The further a society drifts from the
truth, the more it will hate those who
speak it.”
—George Orwell
The State of Mississippi
TO ARMS, TO ARMS!!
MEN OF VALOR NEEDED FOR SERVICE WITH
GEN. WILLIAM BARKSDALE CAMP 1220
AVOID CONSCRIPTION!!!
SERVE WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS
The Barksdale Camp desires to raise a
Reunion Committee for the Mississippi Division
Service and for that purpose we call upon the
MEMBERSHIP of the city of Columbus to meet
promptly at their local recruiting
station any day except the Sabbath and
organize a committee of brave dedicated men!
Rally, then, my Countrymen to your Camp and
State’s call!
2015 Mississippi Division SCV Reunion
Columbus, Mississippi
Looking for New Recruits!
When was the last time you tried to recruit a new member for
the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Barksdale Camp?
Do you ever approach anyone and ask if they are interested?
Try it once in a while and you might be surprised to find out
that there are prospective members just waiting to join.
Don't just wait for someone to ask you first.
Lead the Charge!
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Barksdale’s Mississippians Newsletter Is “Made In Dixie” And Needs You!
Our multi-award winning Barksdale Camp newsletter continuously needs your contributions!
Nationwide U.S. mass-communicating has been confirmed and as far away as Germany and The Land Down Under in Australia!
Please send your comments, photos, editorials, or whatever of interest related to the great southern cause to:
camp1220adjutant@yahoo.com. If you wish to be added to the electronic distribution list or need changes to your contact information; please let us know. If you have received this newsletter by electronic distribution, please be sure to hit “forward” to all
your friends and family! The Sons of Confederate Veterans is no longer on the defensive line. We’re taking a positive stance on
preserving our heritage. We’re on the move and we want everyone to know who we are and what we’re about!
Upcoming Events:
04 May 2014
Confederate Memorial Service, Ole Miss Campus, Oxford, Mississippi
2 pm, Sunday, May 4th on Ole Miss Campus. Free Lunch at 1 pm. Confederate Cemetery Behind Tad
Smith Coliseum. Presented by University Greys Camp No. 1803, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Bedford
Forrest Chapter #448, United Daughters of the Confederacy. For more information call (662)832-4908,
www.scv.org. Camp 1803 sponsors a very moving memorial and we encourage all that can to attend.
Also the food is outstanding! Free-Everyone is welcome.
08 May 2014
2015 MS Division SCV Reunion Committee Meeting, Columbus, Mississippi
All Camp Committee Members are encouraged to attend for preparation of the 2015 Mississippi
Division SCV Reunion to be hosted by the Camp in Columbus, Mississippi. Occurs every 2nd Thursday of the month, 6:30 pm at
Super Hibachi Buffet on Hwy 45 in Columbus. Additional volunteers are always needed. Come out and support your
Compatriots, the Camp and the Mississippi Division!
10 May 2014
LT. Gen. N.B. Forrest Chapter 100, Military Order of the Stars and Bars Meeting, Tupelo, Mississippi
The next meeting of the LT. Gen N.B. Forrest Chapter 100 will be May 10, 2014 at the Lee County Library in Tupelo.
18 May 2014
Trail of Honor, Harley Davidson of Jackson, Jackson, Mississippi
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Walk along a ½ mile wooded trail so you can visit with Living Historians demonstrating the uniforms, weapons,
equipment, food and lives of soldiers in every American war from the French and Indian War in 1754 to present day. Sets have
been constructed to bring as much realism to the event as possible. You will witness mock firefights from the American Civil War
and Vietnam which will be held twice daily. Civil War era cannons will be fired every 30 minutes during the weekend. 3509 I-55
South, Jackson, MS 39212. Admission is free!! Barksdale Camp members who are Artillery Reenactors with Turner’s Battery, 1st
Mississippi Light Artillery will be present! Come out and support your Compatriots and all the Veterans!
24-25 May 2014
Turner’s Battery Live-Fire Shooting Event, Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Barksdale Camp Members who are Reenactors with Turner’s Battery, Co. C, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery are invited to
participate in a Live-Fire Shooting Demonstration on a US Army Firing Range at Fort Sill, Oklahoma utilizing a 20-Pound
Parrot Rifle. Photo ID required for Base access. This is a once in a lifetime event that you don’t want to miss!!!!
27 May 2014
Barksdale Camp Muster, Columbus, Mississippi
Boots and Saddles! 4th Tuesday of the month. 6:30 pm at Huck’s Place Restaurant, 121 5th Street South Columbus, Mississippi.
Bring your family and friends. Guests and new recruits are always welcome! If you happen to be an SCV, UDC, OCR member or
just someone who is interested in the cause elsewhere in the country and are travelling through Mississippi; we would love for
you to attend a meeting as our guest. Spread the word!
06-08 June 2014
119th Reunion, Mississippi Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Corinth Mississippi
Hosted by the Colonel William P. Rogers Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp #321. See page 5 of this newsletter for more
Information!
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Get ready as secession is coming soon to a failed union near you.
Key Questions To Causes of the War Between the States
Historians have long debated the causes of the war and the Southern perspective differs greatly from the Northern perspective.
Based upon the study of original documents of the War Between the States era and facts and information published by
Confederate Veterans, Confederate Chaplains, Southern Writers and Southern Historians before, during, and after the war; we
present the facts, opinions, and conclusions stated in the following series.
The only cause of the “war” was that the South was invaded and responded to hostile Northern aggression.
War was inevitable between the North and South due to complex political and cultural differences.
The famous Englishman Winston Churchill stated that the war between the north and South was one of the most unpreventable
wars in history.
All wars are economic and are always between centralists and decentralists. The north would have found an excuse to invade the
South even if slavery had never existed. However it utilized the conditions of slavery to justify their “virtuous” campaign both
morally and financially which untimely led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands from both north and South.
1. Why was the “Civil War” fought?
As with most wars, there's no single answer. But the predominant cause was taxation. Before his election, Lincoln had promoted
very high tariffs (federal taxes on foreign imports), using the receipts to build railroads, canals, roads, and other federal
pork-barrel projects.
The tariffs protected Northern manufacturers from foreign competition, and were paid mostly by the non-manufacturing South,
while most of the proposed boondoggles were to be built in the North.
Thus, the South was being forced to subsidize Northern corporate welfare.
Yankee Myths!
This series is dedicated to questions and statements that you might hear while doing a program for the public or talking to the
media. Of course there can be more in-depth and complete answers, but you may not have time for that.
So along with the statements, below are some suggested answers that you can use in these types of situations. History books, the
media, the school systems, etc. abound in falsehoods and inaccuracies of Confederate and Southern history and heritage.
These will help to clarify and dispel some of these rampant inaccuracies.
Answer Back When You Hear Lies About Confederate History!
Speak up to honor your veteran ancestors!
MYTH - THE MYTH THE SOUTH STARTED THE WAR
If a burglar is breaking into your house; are you the aggressor if you shoot at him? Lincoln refused to pull US troops from South
Carolina soil. Lincoln was attempting to resupply and reinforce those foreign troops in preparation to invading the former States
of the Deep South. It’s the same reason (s) that the Revolutionary War was a war against the aggression of England.
There was a strong view of the reciprocal rights and responsibilities between the governing and the governed.
Just as the Colonies made appeals through their elected officials to King George, the Southern States appealed.
Just as the Colonies declared their independence after appeals were ignored and not honored, the Southern States did the same.
Just as the Colonies took action only after exhausting magisterial appeal, the Southern States did the same.
This is why the arguments that slavery was the primary issue is complete hogwash.
Lincoln did a 180 degree-turn on the rights of the states to freely govern or to secede when that right was actually exercised.
The federal government ruined the union that they claim to have saved; as the union has NEVER looked, worked or functioned
as it did before Lincoln saved it. It still remains that way today.
The aggression of the north started first as a string of attempted, underhanded legislative actions.
This is what caused the Secession of the Southern States.
The north then prepared for war. But what country would allow such neighbors to reinforce an established beach-head inside
their borders?
The north had title to nothing for no government of the people, by the people, owns anything.
All the things they lay claim to, belongs to the people.
In this case, the property belonged to people South Carolina, now within the bonds of a foreign nation. The CSA.
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OFFICIAL REGISTRATION FORM
119TH REUNION – MISSISSIPPI DIVISION, SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS
AND 20TH REUNION – MISSISSIPPI SOCIETY, ORDER OF CONFEDERATE ROSE
Corinth, Mississippi – June 6-8, 2014
Hosted by the Colonel William P. Rogers Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp #321
SCV MEMBER’S NAME: __________________________________________________________________
TITLE: ________________________________ SCV CAMP & NUMBER ___________________________
ADDRESS: _____________________________________________________________________________
PHONE #: (H) _____________________ (C) _____________________ EMAIL ______________________
SPOUSE’S NAME (for badge): ______________________________________________________________
OCR MEMBER’S NAME: _________________________________________________________________
OCR CHAPTER NAME AND NUMBER _____________________________________________________
GUEST NAME: __________________________________________________________________________
All registered SCV members will receive a name badge, a convention medal, a program,
and a bag of goodies. Those registering at the door will receive the same as long as supplies last.
REGISTRATION AMOUNTS
SCV before May 23, 2014 $30.00 AT THE REUNION $35.00
OCR before May 23, 2014 $10.00 AT THE REUNION $15.00
QTY_____________ $ ________________
QTY _____________ $ ________________
Ancestor Memorial: EACH MEMORIAL IS $10.00
_____________ $ ________________
(Please print or type each memorial on a separate page and submit them with this form.)
Program Ads: $100 for a full page; $50 for half a page; $25 for a quarter page; $15 for a business card size ad
(Please submit ad information on a separate page before May 2.)
Banquet—$30.00 per adult plate
$15.00 per child plate (12 and under)
QTY _____________ $ ________________
QTY _____________ $ ________________
TOTAL AMOUNT $ ________________
Make checks Payable to the Col. William P. Rogers SCV Camp #321
MAIL TO: Larry Mangus - 56 CR 615 - Corinth, MS 38834
HISTORICAL BUS TOURS – NO COST – RESERVATIONS APPRECIATED
Please sign up for those you wish to participate in:
______ Friday Early Bird Tour – June 6th, 1:00 p.m. – Tour of Davis Bridge battlefield
______ Saturday Tour – June 7th, 1:30 p.m. – Tour of Corinth battlefield sites
Sunday on Your Own Tours – June 8th – Shiloh National and/or Brice’s Crossroads National Battlefields
CONTACT INFORMATION
Larry Mangus - lmangus1941@gmail.com or (H) 662-287-0766 (C) 662-872-9180
Hotel Information: Holiday Inn Express is the headquarters hotel.
Holiday Inn Express 2106 Hwy. 72W (662-287-1407) – SCV Rate $89 if booked before May 23
Hampton Inn: 2107 Hwy. 72W (662-286-5949) – SCV Rate $89 if booked before May 23 5
150th Anniversary Reenactment of the Battle of Brice’s Crossroads
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Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary
of the Battle of Mobile Bay and
Siege of Fort Morgan
Naval Battle
Saturday, August 2, 10 a.m.
Artillery Firing
Friday, August 1, 6:30 p.m., Water Battery
Saturday, August 2, Noon – 4 p.m., Siege
Sunday, August 3, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Siege
Civil War Music
Friday, August 1, 7 p.m., Bobby Horton Performs after Artillery
Firing
Siege of Fort Morgan
Saturday, August 2, Noon – 4 p.m., with Infantry and Artillery
Firing
Sunday, August 3, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., with Infantry and Artillery
Firing
Confederate Sortie
Saturday, August 2, during the siege
Grand Bombardment
Saturday, August 2, 8 – 9 p.m., Evening event with artillery
and aerial pyrotechnic explosions!
Surrender Ceremony
Sunday, August 3, 1 – 2 p.m., Ceremony to include a Salute to
the Colors
Naval Exhibits
During all three days – Special Naval Exhibit at Fort Morgan
Museum featuring rarely exhibited artifacts from USS
Tecumseh, USS Philippi and CSS Gaines, three of the ships
that fought during the Battle of Mobile Bay.
152nd Battle of Iuka Reenactment
Civil War Re-Enactment
Farmington-Iuka, Mississippi
September 19-20-21, 2014
The Battle of Farmington and the Battle of Iuka are joining
forces to create a truly spectacular event.
Even years in Iuka and odd years in Farmington.
Join us on the field for the 152nd Civil War Anniversary.
The spectacular Battle Reenactments will take place just
outside the Iuka City limits.
This will be a weekend family event where those dusty old
history books will come alive.
There will be three spectacular Battle Reenactments, Field
Demonstrations, a large Living History Village, Living History
Activities Tents, Guest Speakers, and an extensive Sutler area.
Hundreds of Reenactors from across the nation will be staging
the Battle Reenactment.
Visit the Camps, learn about Civil War Medicine, Music,
Weapons and Daily Life.
Events:
Friday, Sept. 19 Education Day
Saturday, Sept. 20 Ambush at Eastport
Sunday, Sept. 21 Battle of Iuka
For additional information:
Harold Lomenick 662-423-1231 or
Dale Fortenberry 662-603-2148
Visit their Website at: www.battleofiuka.com
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New Jersey student suspended for Confederate themed Flag!
A Steinert High School Senior in Hamilton Township was suspended for flying a Confederate
“themed” Flag from his truck on campus, Superintendent James Parla said.
17-year-old Greg Vied told a local news agency he had been suspended from the school after
refusing to comply with a Vice Principal’s order to take the flag down, drawing the ire of the
American Civil Liberties Union (ALCU).
"Them trying to make me take it down is unconstitutional," Vied said.
In a letter to parents, Parla denied the accusation. “No student at Steinert High School was suspended for displaying a
Confederate Flag, nor any display of anything for that matter,” Parla said.
“We are very well aware of the Constitutional rights of our students, regardless of how unpopular and as divisive certain ideas
may be”.
“It is our intention that this recent event be used as a ‘teachable moment,’ so that our students may benefit from gaining a
deeper understanding of this matter,” Parla said.
According to ACLU President Ed Barocas, Vied was suspended on March 25 after Steinert Vice Principal Duane Robinson told
him to remove the flag the day before and on March 21, 2014.
Vied said he was told his truck would be towed if he continued to fly the flag, which he said represented a connection to his
relatives who come from the South.
“School officials would be hard-pressed to support an argument that they have a ‘well-founded’ belief that the expression at
issue will cause a ‘material disruption’ to the operation of the school,” he wrote.
“Given the clarity of the law, we ask you to provide immediate assurances that neither Greg nor any other student will be
disciplined for displaying a Confederate flag.”
Parla said that while “many view the Confederate Flag as a symbol of oppression ... In no way should this overblown issue be
misinterpreted to be a reflection of the core values and beliefs of the Steinert school community, as well as the district at large.”
The American Civil Liberties Union told the local news station that Vied's Right to Freedom of Expression cannot be limited,
even if there are complaints from students or teachers.
The ACLU responded by sending the school a letter stating that Vied’s right to freedom of expression was being compromised.
They also asked the school to assure “that neither Greg nor any other student will be disciplined for displaying a Confederate
Flag.”
"As the U.S. Supreme Court has made clear, students' rights don't end at the school house gates," ACLU Legal Director Ed
Barocas said. "It also doesn't end in the school parking lot."
Scenes from the April 2014 Camp Meeting
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Liberal Students and Civil Rights leaders angered by naming a Confederate
Reenactor and Southern Heritage supporter to run school
The College of Charleston’s (a liberal arts college) board of trustees has unanimously approved
South Carolina Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell as the college’s next President. McConnell
graduated from the College of Charleston in 1969. McConnell is one of the most successful and
well-known politicians in the state, having served 30 years in the State Senate, 11 of them as
Senate Leader, before becoming Lieutenant Governor in 2012.
In addition to his political successes, McConnell also happens to be a huge proponent of flying
the Confederate Battle Flag at the South Carolina State Capitol grounds.
File photo shows Lt. Gov. Glenn
McConnell in the CSA Galleries
store in Northwoods Mall.
Additionally, he’s an avid Civil War Reenactor and for 20 years he owned a store that sold
Confederate artifacts and memorabilia. His involvement in Civil War Reenactments is about
bringing history to life, he said, noting the Reenactment unit he belongs to galvanizes as both
Union and Confederate.
This is no new information on the table. He has been a Southern Heritage Supporter for decades!
When then-Gov. David Beasley in 1996 called for the Confederate Battle Flag to be removed from the Capitol Dome after flying
for nearly 40 years, McConnell said taking it down would amount to “cultural genocide.” Subsequently, the flag stayed.
A few years later, when the NAACP called for a tourism boycott of the state because of the Confederate Flag, McConnell was out
front once again fighting to keep the flag in place.
Eventually, he was part of a compromise that moved the flag from the Capitol Dome to another spot in front of the Capitol,
where it still flies today adjacent to a Confederate Soldier’s Memorial Statue honoring the Brave Confederate Soldiers who
fought in defense of South Carolina during the plundering Yankee invasion.
McConnell stands-up and makes no apologies for promoting the Confederacy. He calls Civil War Reenacting a hobby that’s a
way of teaching and bringing history to life. “We shouldn’t forget about the ills of slavery, the mistakes of the past,” he said in a
recent interview. He dismisses his critics as folks “who never met me, they’ve never worked with me, they don’t even know me.”
"If you criticize me for loving history, that's a criticism I'll have to bear," he said in a telephone interview.
"To know where you're going, you have to know where you've been."
In a radio interview, McConnell responded to the controversy by saying, “In government, so many times people take advantage
of disagreements to try pull people apart and get headlines.” McConnell's term would begin this summer.
But the NAACP and others are deeply critical. The NAACP said and claims that McConnell’s hiring would discourage black
students from attending the College of Charleston.
Joe Kelly, an English Professor who is co-director of the current college President’s Diversity Commission, said he wonders what
signal McConnell’s affiliations send to prospective students. “I’m worried about what is going on in the mind of that student
when we see someone of the Confederate Battle Flag is now president,” Kelly said.
“There are a lot of subtleties to how you commemorate the Old
South, and a lot of those subtleties can be lost when you’re
deciding what college you’re going to.” If students are turned
away, that could hamper both diversity efforts and mess with the
college’s business model, which depends on money from
out-of-state students who pay significantly higher tuition.
“Out-of-state students of course pay higher tuition, so if we lose a
significant number of out-of-state students, that will affect the
financial model,” said the head of the Faculty Senate and Faculty
Senate Speaker Lynn Cherry.
Point blank...It’s all about the money.
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In a world where the norm is to promote diversity and acceptance of everyone;
pictured above are the protesters who HATE you, HATE your Southern Heritage and HATE your Southern Identity!
Texas Student discriminated against based on his Southern Identity
NO FLAG INVOLVED!!!!
A Texas father says he wants an apology from his son's school.
The 18 year old walked out of his San Antonio, Texas High School because of
a dispute over his t-shirt.
Mason Deering told a local news agency, "I created the shirt because I'm
proud of my heritage, I'm proud to be from the South."
Mason, a MacArthur High School Senior was singled-out because of his
Southern Identity barely making it past first period before being sent to the
Principal's office.
A teacher viewed his shirt as “controversial” and NEISD police states that
anything distracting or disruptive to learning is prohibited at the Principal's
discretion.
Aubrey Chancellor said, "It's not up to us to decide what's wrong with the shirt, per se, we just know from past experience that
this is the type of shirt, the slogan that was on it, that can certainly cause controversy."
While waiting for the Principal, the Assistant Principal demanded Mason to change his shirt.
Mason claims the Assistant Principal told him the shirt was racist. Apparently the AP is an expert on race relations and Southern
Identity. Subsequently, the Pro-Southern Student refused to change his shirt and left the Government-run public school.
Mason's father, Robert Deering, said, "He chose to leave, which I think was the right decision because he wasn't doing anything
wrong." Robert Deering stands by his son and says neither the shirt nor his son is racist.
He went on to say, "We have family, Stonewall Jackson is in our family, that was in the Confederate army and we're proud of
that. That's part of our heritage and that's all he's doing right now and he believes in it and I'm fine with that."
The High School Principal apparently never met with Mason but told district administrators he wouldn't have made Mason
change his shirt and that he can wear the shirt in the future as long as it's not a distraction.
Mason says he's planning on continuing to wear the shirt.
The Barksdale Camp Is On Facebook!
In an effort to continue our cause in defense of our Southern
Heritage, the General William Barksdale Camp is partaking in
Online Social Networking Media to get the word out on who
we are and what we are about. Join us on Facebook!
The “like” button is a social networking feature allowing users
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Visit our Facebook page to see what’s going on with the Camp!
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How Yankees Lied when they returned home from the war.
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Symbol of Southern Identity Blamed For Tension in Blue Springs, MO.
In Blue Springs, Missouri parents and students at Blue Springs High School are “outraged” over students Freedom of Speech
while wearing or displaying the Confederate Flag on public school property.
A parent complained to a local news agency and then a reporter, who then spoke to a district spokesperson, said they took
immediate action against the Southern-minded students. Still, some whining parents and students argue it's not enough.
It’s a symbol with more than 150 years of history and honors the memory and sacrifices of those who went before us that fought
gallantly in the support of their communities and Southern Independence.
However, some individuals who side with Political Correctness don’t see it that way.
"The meaning of the flag isn't about being a rebel anymore it's more towards racism now," said a female student who is a
junior at Blue Springs High School and apparently is an expert on what the Confederate Battle Flag means .
Students say they've seen the Confederate Flag at least twice this week outside and inside of the school.
"This boy was in the lunch room and put the Confederate Flag on his back as if he was Superman or something," said another
female junior at the school. She says an assistant principal confronted the teen and removed him from the cafeteria.
"He took the flag from him and when he walked away, the kid said an inappropriate word and he said I still have it on my
hat."
The next day, students showed the news agency a picture with the same flag over a balcony, which lead to a confrontation.
"They said that it doesn't represent racism to them but you know the controversy over the flag. It's okay for you to put it on
your truck or whatever, but keep it at home for you to show it and bring it to school is inappropriate,” one student said.
The School District wouldn't go on camera but released the following statement:
"We are aware of the incident and it was addressed immediately. We strive to maintain a positive school environment for all
of our students, and we take the necessary steps to continue to provide it. Blue Springs High School has a very positive school
climate and this situation has provided some teachable moments for the young people in our care."
Apparently with the above statement proclaiming that they maintain a positive environment, have absolutely no problem
denying ones’ Constitutional Right to Free Speech. We suppose it would be different if it were a flag of a different color.
How about the school worry more about the kids bringing drugs and guns to school and focus their time on a real problem
instead of singling out young students for proclaiming their Southern Heritage and Identity.
The school sent a letter out to parents about extra patrols at the school a day after some students carried the Flag around
campus. The student originally involved, stated he received threats on social media and said he has been suspended for 10 days.
There is more to this story. It appears that modern journalism is out to Create ‘Outrage’ Over the Confederate Battle Flag.
They want to make it look like there is a Racism problem here. That’s what gets ratings!
So, does the news affiliates have any examples of racial problems at the school?
Have there been any gang troubles? Any fights between the races at the school? Any problems with outside groups gaining
influence in the school? Has even one kid been disciplined for racist taunts to other kids?
Apparently not as this would have been reported upon. Instead, the News agency relies on some kids who self-righteously think
that their opinion is both important and correct–you know, despite that whole “freedom” thingie we are supposed to enjoy in the
US of A.
Instead of having any actual proof that the flag represented some sort of serious racial strife in the school, the news agency
decided to get two halfwit high school girls and present their opinions as some sort of factual evidence that there was a problem
at the school.
Finally, did you see the word “OUTRAGED” in this story?
This was the result of only two, self-righteous girls ,who think they know better than everyone else expressing a prosaic opinion.
This is called Agenda Journalism.
The news agency wanted this to be about “RACISM” so they manufactured a story to further that claim
despite any actual proof.
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The Ten Costliest Battles of the Civil War
Based on total casualties (killed, wounded, missing, and captured)
The Official Records of the War Of The Rebellion
THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A COMPILATION OF THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE
UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR,
BY BVT. LIEUT. COL. ROBERT N. SCOTT, THIRD U.S. ARTILLERY AND PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO
ACT OF CONGRESS APPROVED JUNE 16, 1880.
WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1880
#1 Battle of Gettysburg
Date: July 1-3, 1863 Location: Pennsylvania
Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee
Union Commander: George G. Meade
Confederate Forces Engaged: 75,000
Union Forces Engaged: 82,289
Winner: Union
Casualties: 51,112 (23,049 Union and 28,063 Confederate)
#6 Battle of The Wilderness
Date: May 5-7, 1864 Location: Virginia
Union Commander: Ulysses S. Grant
Winner: Inconclusive
#2 Battle of Chickamauga
Date: September 19-20, 1863 Location: Georgia
Confederate Commander: Braxton Bragg
Union Commander: William Rosecrans
Winner: Confederacy
#7 Battle of Second Manassas
Date: August 29-30, 1862 Location: Virginia
Union Commander: John Pope
Winner: Confederacy
#3 Battle of Chancellorsville
Union Commander: Joseph Hooker
Winner: Confederacy
#8 Battle of Stone's River (Murfreesboro)
Date: December 31, 1862 Location: Tennessee
Confederate Commander: Braxton Bragg
Union Commander: William S. Rosecrans
Winner: Union
#4 Battle of Spotsylvania
Winner: Confederacy
Casualties: 27,399 (18,399 Union and 9000 Confederate)
#9 Battle of Shiloh
Date: April 6-7, 1862 Location: Tennessee
Confederate Commander: Albert Sidney Johnston/ P. G. T.
Beauregard
Winner: Union
#5 Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg)
Date: September 17, 1862 Location: Maryland
Union Commander: George B. McClellan
Winner: Inconclusive (Strategic Union Victory)
#10 Battle of Fort Donelson
Date: February 13-16, 1862 Location: Tennessee
Confederate Commander: John B. Floyd/ Simon B. Buckner
Winner: Union
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“The fear of not being politically correct has turned us into a nation of cowards.”
Aberdeen, Mississippi Southern Heritage Festival a Success!
Turner’s Battery, Co. C, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery was requested to provide a Living History encampment at Aberdeen’s
Southern Heritage Festival April 4th and 5th. Pilgrimage goers from all over the country (Yankees too) were able to see the
period encampment and learn a bit about the role of Artillery during the war and had a chance to hear and experience period
music. Barksdale SCV Camp members in attendance as Reenactors were Lt. Commander Thomas Flynt, Adjutant Shawn Kyzer,
Color Sergeant Jonathan Capps and Compatriots Darren Seago and Kenny Tallant.
Pat Arinder from the Captain Francis Marion Rodgers Camp 873 in Amory, Mississippi provided his musical talents at several of
the events held during the pilgrimage. Along with many other events that took place during the pilgrimage; the camp had an
opportunity to speak-on and promote our unique Southern Heritage and History. Additionally, a Confederate “Ghost March” by
candle-lit lanterns was performed in formation at Odd fellows Cemetery on Saturday Night.
We express our apologies as we may have “spooked” a few people who were not aware of what was going on….Oops.
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What about them Yankees?
If you go back and look, most negative talk about Yankees refers to Northerners living during the times leading up to,
during, and after Lincoln’s War. When Yankees, or Northerners are mentioned, it is mostly from a cultural standpoint.
Culture played a large part in the differences between North & South back then, as well as today.
That's not derogatory. It’s just a fact. We’re different.
From a historical standpoint, most Northerners today have no idea that slavery existed up North, at the same time it did here in
the South, i.e., BEFORE AND DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR!!
And when you tell them or try to show them proof, they don't want to believe it because the history books have assigned virtue to
the North, and vice to the South. It goes against everything they’ve been taught since they were children.
The South asked to go in peace. They just asked to be left alone. 80% of Lincoln's cabinet favored letting them go.
Then someone realized if the South went and if free trade was enacted (which was in the Confederate Constitution), this would
be the end of Lincoln's Imperial Reign of Power. This appeared in newspapers, and subsequently at the time, Lincoln was
already unpopular amongst northerners.
If the South enacted free trade, then all European imports would come via Southern ports at a 47% lower price than in the north
because of the Morill Tariff. This would kill the northern industrialist elite (they could presently jack up their prices at the
expense of the South), which was Lincoln's power base. One week later, he called another cabinet meeting in which all but one
was for taking preventive measures (aggression). This is why they devised the "make them fire the first shot" plan.
Most northerners don't know that the top 5 generals in the Confederacy DID NOT own slaves, but Union General Ulysses S.
Grant actually owned slaves and this man would later become a US President!
The busiest slave market in North America during the war was in Washington, D.C., less than 400 yards from the White House!
For all of those Intellectually Disabled northerners, Washington, D.C. is in the NORTH!!
Most northerners have no idea that the Emancipation Proclamation actually EXCLUDED Northern slaves from freedom.
It actually spells out the areas where those slaves were to remain slaves "as if this proclamation were never issued."
And probably one of the biggest reasons for the antagonistic tone toward northerners is the fact that the Southern States were
literally invaded by the Northern army and that this action was forbidden by the U.S. Constitution. The South legally seceded
from the Union as being a legal right of any people to throw off any government they felt was infringing upon its rights.
Ask any northerner today why the Civil War was fought, and 100% of them will tell you it was fought “to free the slaves”.
Well if it was, why didn't it free Northern slaves too? Southern slavery ended in 1865, while it remained in the North until 1868.
The state of Rhode Island, whose official name is “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”, is actually trying to
remove the "and Providence Plantations" from their official name because they want to wipe out any notion that slavery existed
up North!! By the way, in 2010, the people overwhelmingly (78% to 22%) voted to keep the original name.
It happened people. Admit it and you'll be better off for seeing the truth. People up North have preconceived ideas about
Southerners because the history books teach that the South was evil for having slavery. Sooo, the North was not?
Every facet of Southern culture has been slowly eroded out of existence by the north, bit by bit, piece by piece.
Do you realize that in 1860 (according to the 1860 Census), Georgia had the world's THIRD Largest Gross Domestic Product,
and because of the North's invasion of the South, and Sherman's destruction of Georgia, that Georgia's economy didn't return to
prewar levels until 1968?
That means that through northern oppression (Reconstruction and Scalawag pillaging of the state), it took 108 YEARS for
Georgia's economy to get back to square one!!! And that's just ONE state!! Some countries don't last that long!
The scorched earth policy of the federals meant that all means of production were destroyed. Grain mills, Cotton Mills, Iron
Works, Foundries, etc. ALL DESTROYED! Tracks torn up. Ships burned. Draft animals taken by the army or killed.
In some cases, such as Roswell GA, the entire remaining population 'disappeared' by hand of the federals.
Huge losses of Southern manpower were killed or maimed during the war, or just moved on afterwards as they
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had nothing left. Homes burned and families killed or disappeared.
Federal plunder of the wealth of the Southern States…...during and after the war.
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What about them Yankees? (Continued)
You can't have a discussion about the War without someone pulling it out like a talisman that somehow proves that the South
was inhabited by nothing but vicious barbarians.
We don't hear about the Federal Paradises on Earth like Camp Douglas, Point Lookout, Elmira, Camp Chase - where in the land
of plenty, prisoners were purposely starved and brutalized as a matter of policy, rather than lack of resources as in
Andersonville.
Likely if Honest Abe hadn't stopped the prisoner exchanges many would not have died there.
Oh? You didn't know that Abe stopped the exchanges to 1.) Place more pressure on the Confederate supply line and
2.) Cause outrage in the north over the starvation and brutal treatment of the Federals held in Southern POW camps?
Or, maybe it was because their rations were stolen by the Andersonville Raiders (all good, respectable northern men).
Check out "80 Acres of Hell." The big difference between Camp Douglas and Andersonville is that the conditions at Camp
Douglas were due to Federal Policy whereas the conditions at Andersonville were (mostly) circumstance.
This ties back to the Federal Policy bordering on genocide-by-starvation of the Southern population.
The reason it took so long for the South's economy to get back to prewar levels (not show an increase, just get back to square
one) was because the Union Army destroyed the South's ability to produce even the most basic necessities such as plows and
farming implements. Remember, the South's economy was based on agrarian farming interests and had no parts for wagons and
buggies, or tools of any kind.
When the Great Depression hit in the 1930's, the South never knew it because they had been in a depression for some 75 years!!
The state of Mississippi was literally raped of its natural resources. Tens of Thousands of acres of old growth pine forests were
simply stolen by Northerners who just came down and took what they wanted; regardless of whose land it was. They just cut the
trees and the land owners never got compensated for their losses. Those trees were well over 100 years old at that time.
The Southern States were not allowed to have their own elected representatives in Congress until the 1930's so Southerners had
no say so in their own states as to the paths they would take over the next several decades.
They couldn't make their own laws or enforce the laws they already had.
Proof for all of this is in the form of actual official documents, letters, newspaper articles, etc., from that period.
The Official Record of the War of the Rebellion, the official record of the war, as compiled by the Federal Government from
BOTH sides, is another source used quite often.
There is lots of frustration in trying to get northerners to see the TRUTH of what actually happened and why it happened.
Southerners are still scorned and ridiculed to this day for a lot of things that northerners, and sadly most young Southerners
now, have no earthly idea about in reality.
We just want them to look at it from a Southern viewpoint, as it was documented, as it happened, and not how the Federal
Government wants you to see it.
We believe with every fiber of our being that the South was Right in its actions, and that those actions (Secession) were carried
out to the letter of the law through their respective State Legislatures.
History has wrongfully portrayed the South and Southerners, as being evil and trying to destroy the United States.
As being in the wrong in every aspect of the War while portraying the north as some virtuous, glorious, spotless, freedom-loving
demigod, when in reality, they were just as guilty (if not more so) of the very things they still chastise the South for to this day.
We hope this begins to help you understand that, even after 150 years, NO, we will Not just "let it go," as we so often hear from
our friends from across the Mason-Dixon Line.
This was done to us. In OUR homes. In OUR fields. To OUR businesses. To OUR thriving economy. To OUR families.
Their goal was total domination of the South at all costs. No matter what the Constitution said.
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Many nationalities represented in the Confederacy
April was designated Confederate History Month by proclamation of Governors and State School Boards across the South.
The Confederate States Army and Navy included in their ranks a remarkable range of nationalities, who were not born in
America, but immigrated and fought voluntarily in support of the Confederate States of America.
Among them were Germans, Scots, English, Irish, Italians, French, Poles, Spanish, Mexicans, Cubans, Belgians, Hungarians,
Russians, Swiss, Swedes, Danes, and Chinese.
The European Brigade of Louisiana had 2,500 Frenchmen, 800 Spaniards, 500 Italians, 400 Germans, Dutch and
Scandinavians and 500 Swiss, Belgians, English and Slovenians.
The Foreign Legion of Virginia was mostly English-born soldiers. The Foreign Legion of Louisiana included a company of
Belgians and one of Swiss.
There were several Irish Regiments in the Confederate States Army and entire companies of Germans, Scots, Frenchmen, Poles,
Italians and Spaniards.
The Louisiana Polish Brigade consisted of two Regiments, and the 1st Louisiana Regiment offered men of 37 different
nationalities for Southern Independence.
Five Confederate Generals were born in Ireland, two in England, two in France, two in Germany and one in Scotland.
Those who served the Confederacy came from many races and religions. There was Irish born General Patrick R. Cleburne,
Black Southerner Amos Rucker, Jewish born Judah P. Benjamin, Mexican born Colonel Santos Benavides, American Indian
General Stand Watie who was born in Rome, Georgia and Scottish born Confederate nurse Kate Cumming.
WE ARE ALL…….CONFEDERATE.
Was the Civil War America’s First Corporate Bailout?
You know, the War Between the States could very well be considered America's first bailout.
With the South free of the union control; they could trade goods as they saw fit with anyone they wished to do so.
After all, Europe was eager to purchase goods from the South.
However, northern money movers pushed for legislative actions to block this trading by the Southern States.
Tariffs and Taxes were used to make such trading less attractive, and all the while the north controlled prices for the
South's goods.
Northern Textile and Manufacturing would have suffered badly without many of the raw materials from the South.
After Secession, these Northern Elite Industrialists and their Paid-for, Hip-pocket Politicians, in order to regain their
captive producers of raw materials and keep their power, pushed both independent countries into war.
After all, the north had just lost a large part of its agriculture infrastructure.
It could not afford to have losses in its industrial sectors also!
They couldn't let them fail. So what's a bunch of greedy materialistic Yankees to do? Push for war.
So the US Federal Government, in affect, bailed the industrialists out. At the cost of over 600,000 lives.
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You May Be A Redneck Pilot If….
 Your stall warning plays "Dixie."
 Your cross-country flight plan uses flea markets as check points.
 You think sectionals charts should show trailer parks.
 You've ever used moonshine as avgas.
 You have mud flaps on your wheel pants.
 You think GPS stands for going perfectly straight.
 Your toothpick keeps poking your mike.
 You constantly confuse Beechcraft with Beechnut.
 Just before impact, you are heard saying, "Hey y'all, watch this!"
 You have a black airplane with a big #3 on the side.
 You've ever just taxied around the airport drinking beer.
 You use a Purina feed bag for a windsock.
 You fuel your wizzbang 140 from a Mason jar.
 You wouldn't be caught dead flyin' a Grumman "Yankee."
 You refer to flying in formation as "We got ourselves a convoy!"
 There is a sign on the side of your aircraft advertising your septic tank service.
 The set of "matched luggage" you take on your long cross-country flights is three grocery sacks from the same Piggly Wiggly!
 When you are the owner of Red Neck Airlines and pilot of Redneck One.
 You subscribe to The Southern Aviator because of the soft paper! P.S. If you don't believe me, try cleaning yourself with one
of those slick magazines.
 You have more than one roll of duct tape holding your cowl together
 You factor in mud and manure into your weight and balance.
 You steal gas from your tractor so you can go flying
 You've never actually landed at a real airport even though you've been flying for twenty years
 You've had to ground-loop to avoid a cow
 Anything above 500 feet AGL is considered high altitude
 You have parts on your aircraft labeled "John Deere"
 You've never had to buy a sectional because "you have every dang Texaco road map for your area"
 You have brown streaks on both sides of your aircraft, one from exhaust, the other from tobacco.
 Somewhere on your plane, there's a bumper sticker that reads "I'd rather be fishing."
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Volunteers Excavate Yankee Civil War Island Prison
History hides under a grassy field tucked amid barren trees on Johnson Island, a patch of land in Sandusky Bay where captured
Confederate prisoners were confined 150 years ago.
From 1862 to 1865, more than 10,000 Confederate inmates were held in the Johnson Island Civil War Prison. Some never left:
about 250 white stones -- a few with the stark engraving "unknown" -- mark the nearby cemetery where men from Mississippi,
Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee and other Southern States found their final resting place.
Save for a modest plaque designating the National Historic Landmark, there are few obvious traces of the nearly 17-acre former
prison on the island's eastern side. But when the weather warms, schoolchildren, college students and researchers restart the
painstaking archaeological excavation begun more than two decades ago.
First, volunteers are needed to clear branches felled during the harsh Yankee winter and start work on a trail along the property.
Saturday marks the ninth year the prison site has participated in the Civil War Trust's Park Day, an event that draws thousands
of volunteers to help maintain about 100 war sites across the country.
"A lot of these places have fairly small staff, and coming out of a winter, especially one like this past one, you have really
major needs for upkeep and capital-improvement projects," said Mary Koik, spokesman for the Civil War Trust in Washington.
"Something like this really gives you the bodies to be able to do a new walking trail or repair your fences."
The island-work bee attracts about 80 volunteers from northern Ohio and even some surrounding states, and the military prison
site is the only Ohio location participating in this year's Park Day.
Under the watchful eye of David Bush, Chairman of the nonprofit historic preservation organization, Friends and Descendants
of Johnson Island Civil War Prison, and director of Heidelberg University's Center for Historic and Military Archaeology, work
has progressed slowly to dig-up and identify objects buried there. Bits and pieces pulled from the ground tell parts of the
Civil War story: Nails, medicine bottles, ceramic plates and mugs, chimney bricks, chamber pots, and pieces of hard rubber
carved by prisoners.
This season, archaeological work will continue at Block 8, a former housing block where about 250 prisoners were held.
A two-story wooden building measured about 125 feet by 29 feet, and through its wooden-floorboard gaps fell debris researchers
now try so carefully to collect.
After the war, the prison site was farmed until about 1950, then abandoned. Trees took root and the prison's precise spot faded
from memory until Bush began his research.
A white tent stretches over the site where archaeological digging will take place this season, beginning next week with a program
for middle and high school students and, in the summer, a five-week field school.
Seeing youngsters learn about archaeology is a highlight for Felicia Konrad, a Heidelberg senior from North Baltimore majoring
in history and archaeology. "I've seen so many little kids find something and be like, 'Oh, this is really cool,' even if it's just a
piece of window glass," she said. For Bush, the site's allure traces its rich history, preserved in both written accounts and in the
dirt to be scraped away and examined. "It's just that every year we discover more interesting things," he said. "It's got a great
historical record; it's got a great archaeological record."
The Union located the prison there because the island was easier to defend than a mainland site and it was close to Sandusky for
access to supplies. Originally intended to house Confederate enlisted men, it soon held only officers.
Prisoners captured in battles such as Gettysburg and Vicksburg were brought to Johnson Island by train and boat.
The prison's population peaked at more than 3,200 men during the latter stages of the war.
Preserving the history and educating people about the site's importance is the aim of the Friends and Descendants group, which
will be recognized during the Park Day event with a Heritage Award from the Ohio Civil War 150 Advisory Committee.
The committee, formed to recognize the war's milestone anniversary, will give out three such awards this year.
The site's role in Civil War history intrigues Bob Minton of Fostoria, an advisory committee member and trustee for the Friends
and Descendants group. He will present the award Saturday.
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"It's fascinating to me because, first of all, we know that in that area, for several years, several thousand
Confederate officers were there; and a lot of these guys were the cream of southern society," he said. "They were walking that
very ground every single day, and to me that makes it very unique."
Call to Arms! Rally to help defend Memphis’ Parks!
Don’t be just a Civil War Supper-Club.
Take-up donations at your next Camp Meeting!!!
The city of Memphis has rich and storied Confederate heritage.
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The city provided more soldiers to the cause than any other Southern city per capita. 37 regiments formed in Memphis.
The state capital moved to Memphis after the fall of Nashville.
The keel of the C.S.S. Arkansas was laid in Memphis.
The largest inland naval battle in history was fought below the bluffs of Memphis.
The city was the sight of many Confederate Veteran Reunions.
The citizens of Memphis erected one of the largest bronze monuments in America, dedicated to General Nathan Bedford
Forrest, in the center of Bedford Forrest Park.
Confederate Park rests on the bluff overlooking the site of the Battle of Memphis, which later became the site of several
Confederate Veteran Reunions.
Below this park is Jefferson Davis Park, the scene of one of the most benevolent acts of any occupied city. After the war the
steamer Sultana exploded north of Memphis. The citizens of Memphis went down to the river and helped save hundreds of
injured survivors of the explosion. THE SURVIVORS ALL WERE UNION SOLIDERS!
All this brings us to the pitiful irony of present-day Memphis.
In 2013 the city council of Memphis passed resolutions to attempt to rename all these parks.
There was no public outcry, just a power play by tyrannical self-absorbed officials who are out-of-touch with the realities of
managing a modern city.
They knew, or should have known, that an ordinance passed in 2000 states that the council relinquished their control over the
parks to the mayor’s office.
But breaking the law never stopped a politician (War Between the States).
This had been attempted many times before.
A group known as Citizens To Save Our Parks was founded years ago when the city tried to do this in the past.
In that cause, we again dusted off our battle gear and once more, prepared to “chase the elephant”.
We sued the city to force them to restore the names of the parks. This was a year ago February.
We have raised over $67,000 to pay legal fees, but the fight is far from over.
We still owe $60,000 as of today and we are still maneuvering prior to a court date, which is April 25.
I write today to ask you to reach out to friends of the Confederate Soldier and those students of history, to help us preserve
history in Memphis.
Please send whatever you can to citizenstosaveourparks.org and use the PayPal link.
No donation is too small!
If you would rather, you may mail a donation to: Citizens To Save Our Parks P.O. Box 241875 Memphis, TN 38124
“Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols has
sown the seeds of their own destruction.”
Deo Vindice,
Mark Buchanan
President-Citizens To Save Our Parks Memphis
Brigade Commander, Tennessee Division SCV
2ND Lt Commander R.E. Lee Camp SCV Germantown, TN.
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In Honor of our Ancestors
Lewallen Decatur "LD" Strickland
Enlisted in Company B, 23rd Georgia Infantry Regiment at Camp McDonald, Big Shanty,
Georgia, on 31 August 1861.
The Regiment moved to Tennessee, and then was sent to Virginia and assigned to the
Department of the Peninsula.
He participated in the Campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from Williamsburg to
Chancellorsville.
In June of 1862, he was wounded at the Battle of Gaines' Mill (AKA as First Cold Harbor).
The 23rd then was ordered to Charleston, South Carolina, where he was again wounded at
James Island, South Carolina and later Florida.
After fighting at Olustee, the unit returned to Virginia and took part in the conflicts at
Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor, and endured the battles and hardships of the Petersburg
Siege, where he was captured at Deep Bottom on August 19, 1864 and imprisoned at Point
Lookout, Maryland until exchanged on February 13, 1865.
He was then granted furlough and was on furlough at the close of the war.
Sam Davis Youth Camp
Texas Camp: Sunday Jul 27th to Saturday Aug 1st at Three Mountain Retreat, 1648 FM 182, Clifton, TX 76634.
The deadline for applications is Monday July 21, 2014.
In a survey conducted by the Center for Survey Research and Analysis in 2000, 65% of college seniors failed to pass a high school
equivalent American history test:
* Only 23% correctly identified James Madison as the "Father of the Constitution." Yet, 98% knew that "Snoop Dog" is a rapper.
* Just over half, 52% knew that George Washington's Farewell Address warned against establishing permanent alliances with
foreign governments. Yet, 99% correctly identified Beavis & Butthead.
Today, General Cleburne's words, ring all too true. There is no question that the youth of today must run a terrible gauntlet, and
that many are struck down along the way by one or more of the politically correct influences which flourish in our schools.
“If the South should lose, it means that the history of the heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, that our youth will be
trained by Northern school teachers, will be impressed by all of the influences of history and education to regard our gallant
dead as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision”. -- Major General Patrick Cleburne
“Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living to the dead”.-- Aristotle
Go to samdavis.scv.org and download an application! The Camp is available for boys and girls ages 12 - 18.
1-(866)-686-1105
Bruce Cunningham
Director SDYC
P. O. Box 131
Decatur, TX 76234
bvcunningham@gmail.com
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Virginia Governor McAuliffe:
No plans to recognize Confederate History Month during his tenure
Gov. Terry McAuliffe will not commit to the Heritage and History of Virginia as his
predecessors did when proclaiming April Confederate History Month in Virginia
because McAuliffe doesn't plan to grant that recognition during his entire four year
tenure. So says McAuliffe spokesman Brian Coy, who, when asked about such a
designation blurted: "We ain't doing that."
Reflecting on the question a moment more, Coy said the Governor has no plans to
recognize Confederate History Month as some past Virginia Governors have.
What is really so disturbing about this, is that we are still within the Sesquicentennial
observances of the war and that 150 years ago, many brave soldiers fought and died
defending the state of Virginia from an invading Yankee Army.
These brave men fought and died in vain as Virginia is denying them, as a result of
political correctness!
Former Governor Bob McDonnell, stepped into controversy and was ridiculed early in
his term when in April 2010, he resumed the practice embraced by past Governors
and present Governors of other states, and issued a Confederate History Month
Proclamation.
What drove this ridicule was McDonnell failed to do, as past Governor Jim Gilmore did, acknowledge the degradation of slavery
or its role in the conflict that pitted the North attacking the South and saw Virginia secede from the union on April 17, 1861
as the War for Southern Independence erupted.
An almost immediate outcry prompted McDonnell to swiftly bend over to the Liberal Agenda and apologize for the omission and
amend the original proclamation to include a passage on the ills of slavery regardless of the fact that Slavery was in existence in
the north and had been legal trade in the United States under the US flag for over 80 years!
Virginia Confederate History Month proclamations date to the term of former Governor George Allen in 1997.
That tradition continued under Gilmore, who then made reference to slavery in his version to appease political correctness.
The two Democrats who followed them in office, former Governors Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, didn't follow suit for obvious
reasons. It’s not in your best political interests to bite the hand that feeds you.
McAuliffe took the oath of office on January 11, 2014. Following the ceremony, McAuliffe immediately signed four executive
orders, including one instituting a one-year ban on gifts over $100 to members of the administration, and an order prohibiting
discrimination against state employees for sexual orientation and gender identity. The other executive orders deal with
government continuity. McAuliffe supports universal gun background checks, an assault weapons ban, and limiting gun
purchases to one a month.
Additionally, McAuliffe supports same-sex marriage, and supported the U.S. Supreme Court rulings in June 2013, which
deemed the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional.
He’ll support just about anything as long as it does not involve acknowledging Southern Heritage and History and the honoring
of brave Virginians who fought in service to their state.
Tennessee Senator Edward Ward Carmack said it best in 1903;
“The Confederate Soldiers were our kinfolk and our heroes. We testify to the country our enduring fidelity to their memory.
We commemorate their valor and devotion. There were some things that were not surrendered at Appomattox.
We did not surrender our rights and history; nor was it one of the conditions of surrender that unfriendly lips should be
suffered to tell the story of that war or that unfriendly hands should write the epitaphs of the Confederate dead.
We have the right to teach our children the true history of the war, the causes that led up to it and the principles involved.
Besides Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and several other Southern States all have successfully recognized
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Confederate Heritage and History during April with no problem.
To these brave States and their Governors….We Salute!
Public, government–run school attacks Southern-minded Students
and forces them to take down their Confederate Flags!
In Waldron, Arkansas, some of the High School students love to fly
Confederate Flags from their trucks, a tradition they state signifies they’re
proud of their heritage and where they live. Subsequently, three Waldron High
School students were threatened with suspensions violating their 1st
Amendment Constitutional Rights and forced against their will, to remove
their personal property, being Confederate Flags, from their personally-owned
pickup trucks.
Supt. Gary Wayman met with three students to threaten them about
impending punishments they could endure if they continued to fly the
Confederate Flag. Wayman said the boys flew the flags from poles sticking-up
from their pickup trucks.
The superintendent singled these students out based on their Southern Identity and unconstitutionally told the students to take
the flags down before entering the High School’s parking lot.
Images posted to social media showed disciplinary referrals from the school district threatening to give the boys in-school
suspension for the display of the Confederate Flag denying their right to proclaim their Southern Identity.
The referrals state the students “came to school with flag flying from truck–not following directions.”
A student involved in the situation, told a local news agency that administrators also threatened to rescind their credits for
Graduation!
“What they are trying to do is take all our Rights away,” the student said. “We are just showing that (we) are proud to be
where we live.”
In response to this attack, students and other town residents rallied twice near the school — with many Confederate Flags
rippling in the wind — in support of the Students and their Heritage!
As for demonstrations, the first occurred outside the High School in the morning, with a handful of students flying Confederate
Flags on their trucks. Later that day, a band of students and parents gathered near the High School to support the boys and let
their opinions on the matter be heard.
Wayman said the Confederate Flag “could be” offensive to some students, and he did not want to allow potentially offensive
material on school grounds. Yeah, you just got a zero on your exam for what the Confederate Flag means to a Southerner!
The superintendent added he did not believe the students were being prejudiced, but were instead expressing their Southern
pride. “It’s been blown way out of proportion,” he said. “I expect it to die down pretty soon.”
Where is denying ones’ 1st Amendment Rights to Freedom of Speech mean “blown out of proportion”?
Why is it acceptable to some and not others? This right is protected by the Constitution for all. That includes if you’re Southern!
Burn an American flag and its Freedom of Speech. Fly a Confederate Flag and its not! There's something wrong with you people.
This is an expression of Free Speech of which the 1st Amendment in the Bill of Rights clearly supports.
Regardless if they were “offensive” or “inaccurate”, they must be protected. Do not relent.
Do you want students to be subservient to “the state”?
Does your Freedom of Speech end the minute you step on school grounds?
Does it end when you step outside of your house?
We recommend everyone to support these students’ rights to display the
Confederate Banner of their ancestors. Their Southern Ancestors are smiling
and thanking them from the heavens above. Never allow anyone to erase your
Southern Heritage and History. Be Proud and stay strong Folks!
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School parking lots are public and attendance is mandatory.
Do not retreat from the public square. These administrators do not have the
right to ban Constitutional Freedoms on public property….Period!
California High School students scolded for
Confederate Flag yearbook photo
The scenario is familiar: 600 high school seniors posing for
their center page photo for the yearbook and a lone
photographer on a scissor lift trying to get them all to sit still
for the one second it took to snap a photo.
Only this time, the photographer noticed something strange.
Amidst the small signs and banners that some students held,
a handful of them were holding a Confederate Flag below
their waist.
“A few upset and offended students notified the
administrators,” reads an email from Brett O’Connor,
Principal of Claremont High School.
“On Thursday morning, more students came to the
administration expressing their anger over the students
displaying the Confederate Flag on campus.”
According to Mike Bateman, Assistant Superintendent of
Student Services, an investigation was conducted, parents
were notified and the students involved were counseled and
“given appropriate consequences for their actions,”
according to the email.
“They got punished,” Bateman said in response to social
media claims that the administration wasn’t responding to
the situation. “There were consequences given to the students
involved.”
Six Southern-Minded Senior boys were involved in the
photo and reprogramed in the name of “counseling” that was
provided by school staff regarding the photo event.
Rebels go down in a Texas town
The Houston Independent School District announced plans to
spend an estimated $250,000 to replace four "inflammatory"
mascots relating to Native Americans and the Confederacy.
The politically correct progressive action is moving forward
without much opposition from the folks down in Texas.
“I’ve been in this district a long time, and I’ve never heard
about the Confederate Flag being part of the culture there,”
Bateman said. “It’s not a pervasive belief.”
The final picture in the yearbook does not have the Flag in it.
The Principal also had a student forum during student’s
lunchtime to express their concerns regarding the issue.
HISD unveiled the new politically correct mascots:
The Lamar High Redskins will become the Texans
The Hamilton Middle School Indians will become the Huskies
The Welch Middle School Warriors will become the Wolf Pack
The Westbury High Rebels will also become the Huskies
Most students had heard of the incident, and some say that
the photographer
encouraged the students
to “hold up the Flag
higher.”
The first three former mascots all feature Native American
imagery, and the taxpayer dollars will be used to offset the cost
of replacing uniforms and school property bearing the mascot.
The Rebels was a common mascot for Confederate-themed
schools. Schools using a Warriors mascot with no affiliation to
Native American imagery may reportedly continue to do so.
HISD superintendent Dr. Terry Grier wrote an opinion piece
depicting Houston as "the most vibrantly diverse school
district in the nation" and announcing a new district policy
aimed at banning “offensive” mascots.
Superintendent Terry Grier's new policy to ban mascots
deemed “culturally insensitive” deprives some of their
Southern Identity, Southern Heritage and Southern Culture.
According to students, the
Principal also went on the
school’s Wolfcast school
television network to talk
about the event and
reiterate that the school
was not racist.
The principal and
assistant principal were
unavailable for comment.
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A daring Confederate night attack on the Union fleet off Newport News Point
Most of the sailors in the Union’s oppressing North Atlantic Blockading
Squadron were sound asleep when a small, nearly silent craft slipped
through the early morning darkness of April 9, 1864 toward the flagship
USS Minnesota off Newport News Point.
But moments later, the giant steam frigate was lifted from the waters of
the James by a thunderous explosion, emptying all hands from their
hammocks and berths as the stunned fleet awoke to find itself enveloped
in fear and confusion.
Six months earlier, the USS New Ironsides had been attacked by the
diminutive and stealthy torpedo boat CSS David outside Charleston,
sustaining considerable damage and the death of a Seaman.
That pioneering assault had been followed by the Feb. 17, 1864
destruction of the USS Housatanic, which sank to the bottom of
Charleston harbor with the loss of five men just 5 minutes after a
devastating blast from a 90-pound torpedo planted by the submarine
CSS Hunley, ripped through its hull.
Now the enterprising Confederates had struck again, this time under the
command of Lt. Hunter Davidson — a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and
prominent veteran of the CSS Virginia’s historic March 9, 1862 battle
with the USS Monitor — who attacked his immense opponent with the
armored steam launch CSS Squib.
A U.S. Naval Academy graduate and veteran of the CSS
Virginia's historic March 1862 clash with the USS
Monitor, Lt. Hunter Davidson commanded the CSS Squib
during its dramatic April 9, 1864 night attack on the USS
The explosion from his 53-pound torpedo rocked the ship, breaking
Minnesota off Newport News Point.
frames, planking and gun carriages while dousing both vessels with a
huge column of water. And as panicked Union sailors scrambled in the darkness to defend themselves, blindly peppering
Davidson’s hat and coat with musket balls, a new era in naval warfare was unfolding.
“The Confederates wanted to get the Minnesota in the worst way. It was the flagship of the blockading squadron, it was the
sole survivor of the Battle of Hampton Roads, it was a big ship. And this new weapon was an equalizer,” says Gordon Calhoun
of the Hampton Roads Naval Museum.
“If it hadn’t exploded early, it might have done the kind of damage they’d hoped for. But it was still a very dramatic attack,
and the attention it drew, helped lead to the development of the self-propelled torpedo after the war.”
This pair of drawings from the official naval records of the
"War of the Rebellion" was based on sketches that North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron Fleet Capt. John S. Barnes
made after seeing the CSS Squib steaming on the
James River not long after its April 9, 1864 attack on the
USS Minnesota
This post-war photograph shows the steam frigate
USS Minnesota, a 4,900-ton warship that was attacked by the
armored steam launch CSS Squib off Newport News Point on
April 9, 1864.
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If you want an opportunity to meet some of America’s heroes, plan to attend the Trail of Honor. Located at the Harley-Davidson
Dealership of Jackson, this event has been named in the Top 20 events 5 years in a row by the Southeastern Tourism Society.
You will be in the company of Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, Pearl Harbor survivors, Tuskegee Airmen, Navajo Code
Talkers and Ex-POW’s. Also, on hand will be veterans from World War 2, Korea, Vietnam, the First Gulf War and the current
conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as Reenactors representing the War for Southern Independence.
Vietnam era helicopters, Hueys and a Cobra Gunships will be on display. Rides on these historic aircraft can be purchased
throughout the weekend.
As you walk along a ½ mile wooded trail (if unable to walk, golf carts will be provided) you can visit with Living Historians
demonstrating the uniforms, weapons, equipment, food and lives of soldiers in every American war from the French and Indian
War in 1754 to present day.
Sets have been constructed to bring as much realism to the event as possible. You will witness mock firefights from the American
Civil War and Vietnam which will be held twice daily.
Civil War era cannons will be fired every 30 minutes during the week-end.
Restored antique and present-day military vehicles will be on display.
You can visit the moving Vietnam Memorial Wall and enter a mockup of a cell at the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” prison. There is
much more! You have to see it to believe it!!
In just one day you can experience 260 years of American History. Admission is free!!
It began in 2003 as a way to welcome the RUN FOR THE WALL riders and to honor our Veterans. What began with a single Civil
War cannon has turned into an event with more that 300 Living Historians and Volunteers and attracted more than 30,000
visitors in 2013.
Plan to bring the entire family, bring your chairs and spend the day surrounded in history.
It will be an experience you will never forget!! For more information please call (601)372-5770 or go to the web site at:
www.trailofhonor.org.
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Long Island New York High School Students Suspended
For Displaying Confederate Flag!
Two Long Island High School students were immediately suspended for bringing a Confederate Flag
to school after normal school hours.
Brother Gary Cregan, Principal of St. Anthony’s Catholic High School in South Huntington, said two
Seniors walked-in with a Confederate Flag draped around their shoulders during a handball
tournament at the school Wednesday night, April 9th.
The liberal left rhetoric went on as Cregan actually said:
“The African American students who immediately saw it really exercised heroic restraint and
fortunately a teacher immediately confiscated the flag and took the students out of the gym.”
Really? This is a classic representation of the close-minded attitude of those opposed to the
Constitution. “The black students exhibited heroic restraint”. That is, you mean by not violating the
other students Constitutionally protected Freedom of Speech?
The Principal in this institute of lower learning himself is being discriminating and racist with his statements automatically
assuming that the nature of blacks is to become violent when they see something they don't like.
Tolerance is not a two-way street for the Liberal Left. You have to be tolerant of them, but they don't have to be tolerant of you.
Just because someone doesn't like something, doesn't make it something that can be squelched.
Cregan wrote a letter to parents saying the use of any symbols “designed to revive past injustices or to inflame discrimination or
racial intolerance, is completely unacceptable and profoundly offensive,” the news agency reported.
Based on his personal views, personal interpretations and supposed “expert” opinion, Cregan said he sees the Flag as a symbol of
hate. “I find it just very hard to even imagine why any student in 2014 would even consider or think that a Confederate Flag
would be anything other than a symbol of hate,” Cregan said.
Well, Brother Cregan, you just failed Southern History 101.
When you go onto St. Anthony’s Catholic High School website, they’re all about promoting Irish Heritage with Celtic Themed
Events with Celtic Music, Pipe bands, and Irish sing-alongs.
Oh, and don’t forget the St. Patrick’s Day Celtic Friars Bagpipe Band St. Patrick’s Day Parade .
They obviously don’t know how many brave Irish fought and died in support of the Confederacy!.........It’s outright disgraceful!
In response to those who said the students were exercising their Right to Free Speech, Cregan said there are “limits”.
Thanks for sharing that. We did not know the First Amendment Rights involved “limits”.
“I certainly think this particular symbol of hate falls in the category of something that should be excised from our culture,”
Cregan said. Excised from who’s culture? Yours or ours? You actually want an exorcism of the Confederate Flag?
Cregan originally imposed a total of 10 days' suspension but decided later they won’t be allowed back.
He’s made the decision that the students involved aren’t coming back at all.
However, the New York Civil Liberties Union said in a statement that it has concerns if the students were suspended for simply
displaying the flag.
As a student of the War for Southern Independence, it was noticed that
April 9th Lee surrendered to Grant, Who knows?
Maybe they expressed their support.
Additionally, another problem for these students is growing-up and living in
a hostile Yankee environment.
So much for tolerance and diversity of the boys expressing heritage and
history.
Celtic Themed Events
“When the wind blows down South...It whistles Dixie!”
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Washington & Lee University Students Demand Removal Of Confederate Flags
Washington & Lee University President Ken Ruscio promised to meet with a group of students who DEMANDED the school
remove all Confederate Flags from campus and begin to cancel classes for undergraduates on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
The president was responding to demands issued by a whopping group of ONLY 12 W&L Law students, collectively known as
The Committee, that were sent to the administration and members of the Board of Trustees.
Ruscio said in a campus wide letter he asked Provost Daniel Wubah to schedule a meeting with the law students who issued the
demands, and to meet with the University Committee on Inclusiveness and Campus Climate, which was designed to address
diversity concerns. "Throughout this year, UCICC and the Office of Student Affairs have been holding focus groups with
students to discuss some of the very issues that the law students are raising," Ruscio said.
Students issued Four DEMANDS, promising to engage in civil disobedience if they were not met by September 2014:
1. We DEMAND that the University fully recognize Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on the undergraduate campus.
2. We DEMAND that the University stop allowing neo-confederates to march on campus with Confederate Flags on LeeJackson Day.
3. We DEMAND that the University immediately remove all Confederate Flags from its property and premises, including those
flags located within Lee Chapel.
4. We DEMAND that the University issue an official apology for the University’s participation in chattel slavery, including a
denunciation of General Robert E. Lee’s participation in slavery.
We EXPECT that from these immediate actions, a long-term, continued commitment to improving the state of racial justice
and honor on campus will develop. We believe the student body is eager to learn about, work toward and directly confront
both the past and current bigotry and racial discrimination found on our campus. We are confident that when these demands
are met, our University will be one step closer to achieving a community that welcomes students of color and frees them from
the psychological shackles that currently exist. We are eager to turn our campus into a shining example—a beacon of
hope—for not only the town of Lexington, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the South, but for the entire nation.
The university was originally named for George Washington, who helped the institution's funding in the early days.
Confederate General Robert E. Lee served as President of the school for five years, until his death in 1870, whereupon the school
was renamed Washington & Lee University.
Holding classes on MLK Day provided controversy in the past, yet, Ruscio noted it is the faculty who approve the academic
calendar, and the Law School has chosen to cancel classes on that day. He also highlighted the university has an institution-wide
MLK Legacy Week.
As far as the Confederate Flags go, Ruscio said those are only at the Lee Chapel:
Lee Chapel displays replicas of eight Battle Flags that represented different armies of the Confederate States of America, at the
back of the chapel's main floor, near the statue called “The Recumbent Lee.”
These replicas are designed for Historical and Educational purposes. I am aware of no similar flags displayed anywhere else
on our campus.
Based on Lee Chapel's policies for the use of the facility by non-University groups, a private group has reserved the chapel for
a lecture on Civil War history as part of Lexington's community-wide events commemorating the Commonwealth of Virginia's
holiday, Lee-Jackson Day. This is not a University-sponsored event, and W&L does not observe Lee-Jackson Day.
NOTE: The only Confederate flags on campus are located in Lee Chapel which is a registered National Historic Landmark and a
public museum. Also, the school does not cancel classes for Federal holidays. You don't hear the many US Veterans at W&L
threatening “civil disobedience” because they don't get a day off for Veteran’s Day.
(and in fact get very little recognition, mention or celebration).
“They are not entitled to not be offended,” said Brandon Dorsey, Commander of Camp 1296 of the Lexington-based Stonewall
Brigade of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, who each year organizes Lee-Jackson Day in Lexington. “Second, it’s an indictment
on the university that they aren’t better educating their students on the values and principles that Lee stood for that they
would consider having these demands met.”
Dorsey said Lee was called the “marble man because he was considered exemplary for his behavior toward others.” He said
Lee only had slaves when he acted as executor of his father-in-law’s estate for a brief period of time and that he released them.
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The students also want W&L to acknowledge that Lee owned slaves and oversaw their beatings.
They seem to forget Washington owned slaves.
Time to raise the white flag...
Did that get your attention? No... I'm not calling for
surrender, far from it. The white flag is raised in auto racing
to signal the last lap of the race. We have entered into the last
year of the four-year Sesquicentennial observance of the War;
now is the time to "make our move."
Frank Connor, on page 189 of his work The South Under
Siege, 1830-2000, quotes US Congressman Thaddeus Stevens,
an abolitionist and Radical Republican from Pennsylvania, in
1866:
The belligerent character of the Southern States was
recognized by the United States…. The Southerners should be
treated as a conquered alien enemy and appropriated to the
payment of the national debt.
This can be done without violence to the established principles
only on the theory that the Southern States were severed from
the Union and were an independence government de facto,
and an alien enemy to be dealt with according to the laws of
war.
Absurd to think of trying the leaders for treason… No reform
can be effected in the Southern States if they never left the
Union…. But by treating them as an outside, conquered
people, they can be refused admission to the Union unless
they voluntarily do what we demand”.
Notice that US Congressman Stevens is very clear that
Southerners are ‘”conquered alien enemy” and “an outside,
conquered people.”
When we bear this in mind, US policy versus the South over
the last century and a half in regards to social and economic
issues make a great deal of sense. Southerners are the enemy
and the South is the USA’s to exploit.
Could there possibly be a stronger argument in favor of
Southern Identity than Steven’s own words?
You've heard it said that "all politics is local"; in similar
manner, "all Confederate Heritage is local."
We win (or lose) our battles community-by-community, stateby-state, all across the Southland. For that reason, the
relationships that our Camps develop in their communities
are of great importance, among these are our relationships
with local and state law enforcement.
You will recall that last year we began a program to allow
local Camps to honor their sheriff and police departments and
Divisions to honor their highway patrol (or whatever the
statewide agency might be). Based on the reports that came
back to us, there was much goodwill and positive PR for the
SCV as a result. However, we need to do more this year.
Here's how it works -- the week of May 11-17 is Law
Enforcement Officer Appreciation Week. We need all
Camps to participate in this -- if you meet in a municipal
setting, honor your police department; if you meet in an
unincorporated area, honor your sheriffs office. You have a
great deal of latitude with this; you can:
--Honor the agency in general
--Honor the Sheriff / Chief
--Ask for the name of an officer to honor
Use your own initiative and pick out an officer based on his /
her performance.
Similarly, the place and time can vary:
--Utilize a camp meeting and invite the honoree.
--Utilize a CMD service if you're in a state that recognizes May
10.
--Call and ask permission to come to their offices.
--Try to hit our target week, May 11 - May 18.
IMPORTANT: Please don't get sidetracked with details; as
Nike says. "Just Do It."
ALSO -- DIVISIONS: make sure that you participate by
honoring your statewide law enforcement agencies; the above
observations work for you, as well.
The certificate is available online. Here is a link -http://www.scv.org/pdf/lawcert.pdf
OK, got it? We need to really hit a home run with this;
let's make sure that every state, every county, every town and
city across Dixie hears from us in this initiative.
Gene Hogan
Chief of Heritage Operations
Sons of Confederate Veterans
(866) 681 - 7314
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Authentic High-Quality uniforms and period-style dresses
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Contact Southern Belle Sewing
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Reenactor Recipes
Blonde Brownies
1 Dutch Oven
1 Zip Lock Plastic Bag
2 Cups Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/4 tsp Baking Soda
3/4 tsp Salt
1 1/4 Sticks Butter
2 Cups Brown Sugar
2 Eggs
2 tsp Vanilla
3/4 Cup Chocolate Chips
3/4 Cup Chopped Pecans
Directions:
 Mix Flour, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, and Salt in a Zip-Lock
Bag.
 In a pot, melt the Butter.
 Mix the Sugar into the Butter.
 Mix in Eggs and Vanilla.
 Slowly add Flour mixture, stirring well.
 When the batter is smooth but thick, pour into Dutch oven.
 Sprinkle Chocolate Chips and Pecans on top.
 Cover and Bake at 350 degrees, checking at about 20 minutes to
see if center is cooked.
 Enjoy…….Now get back to drilling.
In the South….
We honor our Veteran Ancestors.
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Barksdale Camp
Reunion Committee Meeting
The General William Barksdale Camp will be hosting the
2015 Mississippi Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans
Annual Reunion to be held in Columbus, Mississippi.
Committee Members are highly encouraged
to attend the monthly meeting located at:
Super Hibachi Buffet Restaurant
on Hwy 45
in
Columbus, Mississippi
2nd Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm
Next meeting: Thursday, May 8th, 2014
Come out and support
your Compatriots,
the Camp,
and the Mississippi Division!
Ancestor Memorials
ARTILLERY!
The Barksdale’s Mississippians Newsletter wants to honor our
Barksdale Camp membership’s Confederate Ancestors.
GUNS, HORSES, AND ALL NECESSARY EQUIPMENT READY!!
If you wish to participate; when submitted, the publication will
include the information of a camp member’s ancestor in
relation to their war service.
Please e-mail the Adjutant to the address listed on the first
page of this newsletter or provide the information at a camp
meeting with information about your Confederate ancestor and
how they are related to you.
Please include the relation, name, rank, company and regiment
they honorably served, pictures if applicable and any other
information of interest.
These ancestors need and deserve to be
remembered and honored. It is our duty.
MEN WANTED!!
Captain Henry P. Turner has been authorized by the State of
Mississippi to raise a Company of LIGHT ARTILLERY.
The unit shall be Company C of the 1st Mississippi Light
Artillery, Also to be known as TURNER’S BATTERY.
The government has already furnished 6 pieces of field
artillery and all necessary equipment to operate the battery.
All that is needed is men who are willing to uniform
themselves to the battery uniform regulations.
Turner’s Battery wants 100 men on our roster ready for
active duty. No waiting for cannon equipment—no delays
waiting to organize—you can become active as a cannoneer
immediately upon your decision to enlist.
Young men! Patriots! Come forward at once to serve with the
men of Turner’s Battery at Battle Reenactments, Living
History programs, Live Round shooting events and Memorial
Services. Rise up and defend the honor
and history of our great country.
All those deciding to connect themselves with this company
will report themselves to, or may request additional
information at:
Battery Headquarters
519 chestnut drive
Starkville, MS 39759
662-323-2606
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Celebrate the Sesquicentennial with a visit to the home of our founder!
The Stephen D. Lee Home & Museum
316 7th Street North, Columbus, Mississippi
There probably is not one member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans who has not heard of Lieutenant General Stephen Dill
Lee. However, there are probably very few that realize that he, like four other Confederate Generals, adopted Columbus,
Mississippi as his home nor that his final resting place is Friendship Cemetery in Columbus.
Many personal items of S.D. Lee are in the museum as well as furnishings and decorative items given by his family. One room
houses a wonderful collection of original Civil War artifacts including Robert E. Lee’s spurs, a flag thought to be of the 43rd
Mississippi Regt. and a drum from the 42nd Alabama Regiment. A larger-than-life portrait of N.B. Forrest is also in the
museum.
It was the first property in Lowndes County to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a Mississippi
Landmark.
The Lee Foundation maintains the house solely with revenue from event rentals and tours as well as from donations.
SCV members may tour at no charge.
Open Fridays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or by appointment, call 662-435-2368.
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This newsletter may contain copyrighted material the use of
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Southern Life and it’s peoples, the Southern Causes, Southern
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We believe this constitutes a “fair use” of any such copyrighted
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Become a Friend of the
If you are not eligible to become a member of the Sons of
Confederate Veterans, but wish to affiliate yourself with the
General William Barksdale Camp in Columbus,
Mississippi and take part in their activities; then the Friends
of the SCV program may be for you.
The memory and reputation of the Confederate Soldier, as
well as the motives for his suffering and sacrifice, are
being consciously distorted by some in an attempt to alter
history. Unless individuals make a stand for the Southern
Soldiers and resist those efforts, a unique part of our
nations' cultural heritage will cease to exist.
“Friends” receive a nice certificate suitable for framing, a
FOSCV lapel pin and a subscription to the
Confederate Veteran magazine.
Contact the Camp Commander listed on the front page
or
Visit the websites www.1800mydixie.com or
www.1800mysouth.com and click on the “Friend” Tab for
information and a downloadable application.
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Rally to us Men! Join The Sons of Confederate Veterans while you still have the Right!
g{tÇ~ lÉâ4
The Barksdale Camp truly appreciates the continuing support of our membership and its supporters.
We wish to encourage each and everyone of you and your guests to join us.
Our goal is to become the “Flagship” Camp of the Mississippi Division!
The official policy of the Sons of Confederate Veterans on hate
The Sons of Confederate Veterans is not a hate group. The SCV does not knowingly allow anyone with ties to hate
groups to join and has removed, and will remove anyone from its ranks who expresses racist sentiments.
Loving the South and defending its culture, symbols and heritage does not mean hate. In fact, many SCV members are
descendants of African-American, Catholic, Jewish, Native American, Hispanic and Asian Confederates. The
contributions of these groups to our great Southern culture have made it a beautiful and unique region. To deny their
descendants membership in our organization would betray our principles and the very ancestors we fight to honor.
We welcome all descendants of Confederate Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines who honorably aided the South in its struggle
for Southern Independence.
Who We Are:
Charge to the
"To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will
commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans is preserving the
history and legacy of our Confederate ancestors, so future
generations can understand the motives that animated the
Southern Cause.
The SCV is the direct heir of the United Confederate
Veterans (UCV), and the oldest hereditary organization
for male descendants of Confederate Soldiers.
Organized at Richmond, Virginia in 1896, the SCV
continues to serve as a Federally acknowledged
non-profit, historical, patriotic, non-racial and
non-political organization dedicated to ensuring that a
true history of the 1861-1865 period is told and preserved
for future generations. Approximately 30,000 members
strong, membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans
is open to all male descendants of any veteran who served
honorably in the Confederate Armed Services. There are
SCV members and Friends of the SCV in all 50 states and
almost a dozen countries in Europe!
To your strength will be given the defense of the
Confederate soldier's good name, the guardianship of his
history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of
those principles which he loved and which you love also,
and those ideals which made him glorious and which you
also cherish."
Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee,
Commander General,
United Confederate Veterans
New Orleans, Louisiana, April 25, 1906
Answer to Trivia Question
Battle of Picacho Pass, North of Tucson, Arizona
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Women and the Civil War

Civil War Brochure_2 - Palm Beach County History Online

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Heritage Defense - is www.gascvmc.org.