Posted on 04/02/2015 4:24:38 PM PDT by BigReb555
“The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.”
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“The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.”
Come all and bring your family and friends to learn a little Southern history at the 14th Annual National Confederate Memorial Day Service to be held at Stone Mountain Park on, near Atlanta, on Saturday April 11, 2015 at 1 PM in front of the Carving Reflection Pool. The event is Hosted by: The Georgia Society Military Order of the Stars & Bars. The guest speaker will be: Mr. Michael Shaffer President of the Civil Round Table of Cobb County and member Friends of Camp McDonald. For additional information contact:
Mr. David Denard 706-678-7720 or denardodian@bellsouth.net
The Georgia General Assembly in 2009 officially and permanently designated the month of April as Confederate History and Heritage Month of every year.
April, Confederate History and Heritage Month, is significant as it is the month the War Between the States began (1861) and ended (1865)., and
The Great Locomotive Chase, where Union spies attempted to steal the Confederate Locomotive "The General" and destroy rail lines and bridges, took place on April 12, 1862.
Why do some schools ignore the teaching of American history? Boys and girls once learned about American soldiers who for over 200 years marched off to war. The young people read about: George Washington, Robert E. Lee and Booker T. Washington. Northern and Southern children stood up proudly to sing patriotic songs from a standard song book that included "Dixie".
After the end of the War Between the States, Northern and Southern women formed memorial organizations. They made sure all soldiers were given a Christian burial and a marked grave. Memorial Days were begun in many states North and South of the famous Mason-Dixon Line. Great monuments were also erected that still cast a giant shadow over many town squares and soldiers' cemeteries across the U.S.A.
April 26, has become to be recognized as Confederate Memorial Day in many states. For over one hundred years the Ladies' Memorial Association, United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans have held memorial services on or near this day.
Efforts to mark Confederate graves, erect monuments and hold memorial services were the idea of Mrs. Charles J. Williams. It is written that she was an educated and kind lady. Her husband served as Colonel of the 1st Georgia Regiment during the war. He died of disease in 1862, and was buried in his home town of Columbus, Georgia.
Mrs. Williams and her daughter visited his grave often and cleared the weeds, leaves and twigs from it, then placed flowers on it. Her daughter also pulled the weeds from other Confederate graves near her Father. It saddened the little girl that their graves were unmarked. With tears of pride she said to her Mother, "These are my soldiers' graves." The daughter soon became ill and passed away in her childhood. Mrs. William's grief was almost unbearable.
On a visit to the graves of her husband and daughter, Mrs. Williams looked at the unkept soldiers' graves and remembered her daughter as she cleaned the graves and what the little girl had said. She knew what had to do. Mrs. Williams wrote a letter that was published in Southern newspapers asking the women of the South for their help. She asked that memorial organizations be established to take care of the thousands of Confederate graves from the Potomac River to the Rio Grande. She also asked the state legislatures to set aside a day in April to remember the men who wore the gray. With her leadership April 26 was officially adopted in many states. She died in 1874, but not before her native state of Georgia adopted it as a legal holiday. It is still officially recognized in Georgia today.
Mrs. Williams was given a full military funeral by the people of Columbus, Georgia and flowers covered her grave. For many years a yearly memorial was conducted at her grave following the soldiers' memorial.
Follow the many Confederate History Month events during April and throughout the year on face book at: http://www.facebook.com/ConfederateHeritageMonth
Look for events like this to be outlawed soon.
” a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.”
He sure got that right .
American by birth , Southern by the grace of God .....I would not trade my southern heritage for all the gold in Alaska .
Deo Vindice baby !
You’all blew it! You should of took DC early on.
There’s nothing wrong with celebrating the courage of individual Confederate soldiers and officers, but I don’t think that succeeding from the union and inciting a civil war which claimed over 600K lives is anything to be proud of. But if they want to celebrate it anyway, it’s their business.
Which Confederate flag?
The Bonnie Blue Flag?
The Stars and Bars??
The Battle Flag?
Many like the Battle Flag because it is like waving a RED FLAG in front of a Lib-b(r)ull.
http://lowndes.msghn.org/Friendship/Friendship.shtml
Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, has been called “Where Flowers Healed A Nation”? On April 25, 1866 the ladies of Columbus, Mississippi decided to decorate both Confederate and Union soldiers’ graves with garlands and bouquets of beautiful flowers. As a direct result of this kind gesture, Americans celebrate what has come to be called MEMORIAL DAY each year.
The Civil War was about State rights... not slavery..
so will the NEXT civil war.. be about State Rights..
Democrats despise State Rights..
And not all republicans are republicans...
Amd where did most of these deaths occure? North or South?
First of all, the word is "seceding." Secondly, a number of Southern states had asked the federal government to remove its forts from their property under threat of violent takeover. The feds refused. Thirdly, the South did no more to "incite" the Civil War than the North did, and blaming one side over the other is simplistic.
None of which bears too heavily on the pride Southerners rightfully feel about their heritage of fierce independence and gentility. Those are some of the traits embodied in the Confederate flag, and are most certainly virtues of high esteem.
And by the way, I'm a Yankee born and bred. But my sympathies lie elsewhere ...
Well, there wouldn’t have been any war deaths if the North let the South secede. The South, after all, didn’t invade the North (not until after the war was on).
It was about the rights of certain states to deny human beings rights ascribed by the founders of the nation to all men ... rights which no state or states, according to those founders, possessed. As such, it was one hundred percent about slavery. Read the declarations of secession if you're not convinced.
If you're still of that opinion, ask yourself what your first course of action would be if your state passed a law enslaving or proscribing you. Then tell me about state's rights.
BS, my little 1st grade teacher.
99% of us in this great nation are just a few generations removed from ancestors who were serfs.
Interesting post. Could you clarify?
If you’re still of that opinion, ask yourself what your first course of action would be if your state passed a law enslaving or proscribing you. Then tell me about state’s rights.
IF..... we had a republic I could move.. unless already enslaved.. in degrees..
are workers enslaved?..
States should demand to be able to enslave they citizens..
like: Mass, Conn, NY, NJ, Penn, Calif, Wash, Ore already do..
and even force them to join UNIONS.. slavery is in degrees.. from Serf to political prisoner..
The American Constitution FAILED to limit Federal Givernment..
Which was it’s entire purpose for existing..
Failing THAT it became worthless.. WORTHLESS.. toilet paper..
For decades americans have elected people that despise the Constitution..
Little wonder it’s worthless... most in Congress TODAY despise it..
What “right” was defended, if it was not the “right” to own other human beings? Like abortionists who want to argue for “the right to choose,” the “states rights” argument very conveniently leaves out the choice being made.
Celebrated in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania in 1864.
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