Going out in style and principle!

“At the time of secession they only talked about slavery and preserving it.” 

They complained of a long list of grievances such as protective tariffs, internal spending, bounties, centralization, national banks, and more. Only four of the eleven States that ultimately seceded…

JACKSON RALLIES HIS MEN

Culpeper County, Virginia
August 9, 1862.

“It was the moment of crisis at the battle of Cedar Mountain. Hand-to-hand fighting sent the left wing of Stonewall Jackson's army reeling back in confusion. Jackson realized he needed to rally his men. He…

In the 1860 election campaign, numerous Republican leaders championed their party as the true “White Man’s Party” that would keep the western territories safe for white labor

(McPherson, Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982, p. 123).

❌Old time Confederate❌

I'm an old time confederate,
from Manassas to Appomattox

I fought both late and early
And that's good enough for me.
I followed Lee wherever he led,
Flanked around with jackson,
Charged in the rear with Stuart,
And that's good enough for me.

I…

The Republican majority in Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Reconstruction Acts of 1867, and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Thereafter, Congress ignored the guarantee clause - 'The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union…

African-American scholars John Franklin and Alfred Moss:

There can be no doubt that many blacks were sorely mistreated in the North and West. Observers like Fanny Kemble and Frederick L. Olmsted mentioned incidents in their writings. Kemble said of Northern blacks, “They are not…

👆Did you know that Confederate veterans were given an equal role with Union veterans in President Grant’s funeral at his request?

Jefferson Davis
Jeremiah “Jasper” Thompson
Liberty Belle
Unreconstructed Belle
Alice, Queen of Normans ✨

It is clear that elevating blacks was not what motivated war on the South.

Another example of Republican hypocrisy was the Republican Party’s platform for the 1868 presidential election.  Ulysses S. Grant ran for president on this platform, and won handily.  The platform stated…

LITTLE ROUND TOP

The situation of the black American when the war ended was ambiguous. . .  Northerners as a whole, willing to concede freedom, were hostile to equality.  Many of them dreaded an incursion of black folk after the war—especially among lower paid workers who feared Negro…

Copperhead northerners and southerners are the best types of Americans. New England Yankees and commiefornians not so much….. retweet if you agree! 🫡

It is time we wake up and realize that today’s politicians are just two sides of the same coin. Both parties claim to be the guardians of the Constitution and protector of the people’s rights. Yet, their actions contradict the very constitutional principles enshrined in the…

THE GETTYSBURG CYCLORAMA — Truly an American treasure and a must see at least once (recommended more than once over time) while visiting. These specific scenes of the massive painting depict the height of the fighting and movements at, around, and behind The Angle on Cemetery…

William Lundy, was one of the last Confederate Veterans. He was in the Alabama Home Guard in 1865. In this photo he was 105 years old living with his daughter in Florida.

Photo Credit: LIFE Magazine, 1958

Lincoln’s secretary of state, William Seward, the man who claimed in 1858 that there was an “irrepressible conflict” between the free states and the slaveholding states, spoke for many Republicans when he said, “The North has nothing to do with the Negroes.  I have no more…

Both the Southern Confederates and the Indians stood in the way of the Whig/Republican dream of a North American economic empire, complete with a subsidized transcontinental railroad, a nationalized banking system, and protectionist tariffs.  Consequently, both groups were…

The majority of the Northern people didn’t care about minorities at all. General Sherman, as commander over the forces against the Indians, wrote a letter to President Grant expressing his views:

“We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their…

I remember going up mighty close and sitting there and listening to his conversation with the officers of our regiment. He had a calm and collected air about him, his voice was kind and tender, and his eye was as gentle as a dove's. His whole make-up of form and person, looks and…

First of the Founding Fathers to call for independence, first to call for union, and first to call for a bill of rights, Richard Henry Lee was as much a Father of Our Country as George Washington. For it was Lee who masterminded the political and diplomatic victories that ensured…