• Miss. flag issue may resurface in session
  It's been more than three years since voters rejected replacing the 1894 flag with its controversial Southern Cross. The National Collegiate Athletic Association forbids planned tournaments in Mississippi and South Carolina because of the Southern Cross. James Davis, a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans who lives in Starkville, said, "I'd certainly be against changing the flag. At the root of this problem is ignorance about what the war was all about. ...
• Daughters of the Confederacy gather in MH
• Deeper look reveals 'new' U.S. Grant
  Many casual students of the Civil War view Ulysses S. Grant as a butcher with a thirst for alcohol. Even some of his military contemporaries faulted him for his theory of warfare, always eager to match casualties with the undermanned Confederacy.

Student Civil War re-enactor suspended from school for having replica musket in his car

DIXIE'S CENSORED SUBJECT - BLACK SLAVEOWNERS - By Robert M. Grooms - (reader link)

Whitaker Online
You Want to Talk Catastrophes? Lemme Tell You About a Catastrophe
In 1865 we South Carolinians had lost the Civil War, big time. Our young manhood, a whole generation, had been decimated. Former Confederates were denied the right to vote. The majority of South Carolina's population was black and they had been given the vote.

"All is lost!"

On top of that we were occupied by the Federal Army under the Radical Republicans. That occupation lasted twelve years. Thousands of Yankee carpetbaggers came South with a license to steal and Federal bayonets and black votes to work with.

"All is lost!"

Seeing that all was lost for the South, thousands of Southern scalawags joined the majority black vote and the Federal occupation troops and the carpetbaggers.

"All is lost!"

Not only that, but we faced the majority of the ruling Yankee vote that was against us.

You see, the Yankees had their Greatest Generation, too. Millions of Yankees had Saved the Union just as the Greatest Generation Saved the World. They and their families hated us.

"All is lost!"

Looking at that situation, I would not see any hope either. But my grandfather, who later became a Methodist circuit riding preacher, joined the Redshirts anyway. The Redshirts took on the hopeless task of taking South Carolina back.

Not only did we take it back, but South Carolina became a bastion of white supremacy.

(more at link...)

Ref: Hampton and His Redshirts: South Carolina's Deliverance in 1876
The "carpetbagger" government that ruled South Carolina from 1868 until it was overthrown in 1876 caused more destruction than the four years of the War Between the States. Judging by the record which these corrupt politicians left, continuance of their rule would have resulted in the irretrievable annihilation of the fruits of two centuries of labor, ingenuity, and courage. This book is a fascinating chronicle of how the people of South Carolina, led by former Confederate General Wade Hampton and his famous Redshirts, rose up to free themselves from the intolerable and dangerous conditions of the Reconstruction period.

Ref: Lt. Gen.Wade Hampton Camp No. 273 Columbia, S. C.

[Letter to the Editor of News  from the Confederacy]

Subject: A Valid Question

As a son of the South I came across your web site and really liked it.
I wanted to bring up something that has been well received by those whom I have shared this.

I believe with all my heart the Civil War was fought not about slavery but about the rights of a State to say what its citizens can and cannot do. A war to tell Washington that they way we live in the South is the way we want to live and no Yankee who has no idea of what life is here should come and tell us how to live. And so I ask our friends who think the war was fought for slavery this question...

Was the war of the states about States Rights or was it to free the slaves?

If they tell a revision of the truth saying the politically correct lie that it was to free the slaves then I ask them for reparations for all the white soldiers who died to free the blacks. And then there is silence. You can't have it both ways, either it was States Rights or it was for freedom from slavery. Why is there no movement to sue the NAACP for reparations over the thousands of white soldiers in the North who were supposed to have died to free the slaves? Just a thought.


A Southern Boy
Donald

Happy moments, praise God.
Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments, worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.
Every moment, thank God.

"The Southern Gathering" - October 16th-17th 2004
Sponsored by : The Church of the Sons of YHVH, The Aryan Nations & The Posse Comitatus
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General Nathan Bedford Forrest - (Sons of YHVH)

"The spirit of a new proud republic died in the American Civil War.
The evil which subjugated the civilized South grew exponentially and is now
trying to take over the world under the pretense to bring DEMOCRACY..."

• Restoration Project Opens on Civil War-Era Fort off Florida Keys
  During the Civil War, Fort Jefferson served as a Union military prison
  whose most famous prisoner was Dr. Samuel Mudd, convicted of complicity in Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

• Southern pride rallies 'round flag
  Members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans display the old Georgia flag
  in front of the gold-domed state Capitol in Atlanta during an April 1 protest march.
  

• Letter to Editor from reader
  "The Confederate monument at the courthouse in Pender County, Burgaw, NC stands a spectacular monument to our Confederate heroes. Near the base on one side is the carved likeness of Gen. Dorsey Pender. Some low life has carved a swastika in the center of his forehead and stained his face with something the color of excrement. It appears to be permanent damage. Oh, Caucasian what now for thee is left?"

Alabama: last Confederate widow, Alberta Martin, dies at 97
Alberta Martin's May-December marriage in the 1920s to Civil War veteran William Jasper Martin, a Confederate soldier in the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment, Company K. Her longevity made her a celebrated final link to the old Confederacy. After living in obscurity and poverty for most of her life, in her final years the Sons of Confederate Veterans took her to conventions and rallies, often with a small Confederate battle flag waving in her hand and her clothes the colors of the rebel banner. "I don't see nothing wrong with the flag flying," she said frequently.
- (link from Aw Shucks! newslist)

• Last Living Widow of Civil War Vet Ailing
  ENTERPRISE, Ala. -- The last known living widow of a Civil War veteran suffered a heart attack and is unable to talk, her caretaker said Thursday. Alberta Martin, 97, has been in Enterprise Medical Center since suffering the heart attack May 7. She can open her eyes but can't talk, said the caretaker, Ken Chancey.

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