History is alive at Arlington National Cemetery-April is Confederate History Month in America!

Access N. Georgia ^ | 4-6-06 | Calvin E. Johnson, Jr

[SJackson]

April is Confederate History Month in America!

Is that true? If so, great.

[TomServo]

Dixie Ping, Sir!

[SJackson]

The reference to Moses Ezekiel might be of interest.

[stainlessbanner]

Dixie Ping

[LeoWindhorse]

I replaced the 118 yr old fallen and broken headstone
of my former Confederate soldier great Grandfather recently.
It was just placed at the beginning of this month.
Feels good.....

[Moose4]

I honestly did not know there were Confederate soldiers buried in Arlington. That is very, very neat. That spirit of reconciliation is sadly lacking these days.

I'll check back here in a few hours when the "disinter the traitors and burn their bones" Southron-slander crowd shows up.

}:-)4

[TexConfederate1861]

Brother:

You are not kidding. There are people on this board that would disinterre our Confederate Heroes in a second!

[stainlessbanner]

On the North side of the Memorial is carved the inscription written by Dr. Randolph Harrison McKim, who went from the ranks of the Confederate Army into the Ministry, and was the rector of Epiphany Church in Washington for 32 years. The inscription reads:

"Not for fame or reward -
Not for place or for rank -
Not lured by ambition -
Or goaded by necessity -
But in simple -
Obedience to duty -
As they understood it
These men suffered all -
Sacrificed All -
Dared all - And Died -"

More pictures of the Arlington Confederate Monument

[colonel mosby]

The fact is that the men who fought on both sides were remarkably gallant and selfless.

However, the country would have been a lot better off if the manic depressive Lincoln had stayed in Illinois to practice law.

[wardaddy]

I donate to the McGavock cemetary here myself...around 1500 fallen kinsmen.

[wardaddy]

and some of the most strident anti-South FReepers are also loudmouth Quislings on immigration.

What a surprise..

[Non-Sequitur]

"Not for fame or reward -
Not for place or for rank -
Not lured by ambition -
Or goaded by necessity -
But in simple -
Obedience to duty -
As they understood it
These men suffered all -
Sacrificed All -
Dared all - And Died -"

I've always admired that inscription. Not just because it was appropriate for the monument but because you could take it, word for word, and put it on a monument for Union soldiers, or World War I soldiers, or Revolutionary War soldiers, or Gulf War soldiers and it would remain entirely fitting.

[Non-Sequitur]

However, the country would have been a lot better off if the manic depressive Lincoln had stayed in Illinois to practice law.

So which pisses you off more? The fact that Lincoln fought the war that Davis initiated? Or the fact that he won it?

[Colt .45]

"Not for fame or reward -
Not for place or for rank -
Not lured by ambition -
Or goaded by necessity -
But in simple -
Obedience to duty -
As they understood it
These men suffered all -
Sacrificed All -
Dared all - And Died -"

And that is what separates that generation, from the youth of today. I am proud to be from Southern stock, and I despise all closed-minded Yankees with their "We were right" attitude. They wouldn't know "right" it it was slapping them in the face.

[Non-Sequitur]

I am proud to be from Southern stock, and I despise all closed-minded Yankees with their "We were right" attitude.

Don't look in the mirror much, do you?

[smug]

it was appropriate for the monument

That's darn right conciliatory coming from you.
I am in the process of reading Jay Winik's "April 1865", and was wondering if you have read it. And if so, any comment's about it you might have.

[Non-Sequitur]

I am in the process of reading Jay Winik's "April 1865", and was wondering if you have read it.

I have. I thought it was a great book, very interesting. I especially liked the post-Appomattox, post-assasination parts. So often civil war histories treat Appomattox as the end of the war when it actually spluttered on for another two months. Winik gives a nice, short history of what happened during that period. Nice bio of Forrest, too.

[Colt .45]

Don't look in the mirror much, do you?

Couldn't even if I wanted to as your head's always in the way.

[Non-Sequitur]

Couldn't even if I wanted to as your head's always in the way.

I realize I'm way ahead of you in most things, but not in arrogance.

[Colt .45]

I realize I'm way ahead of you in most things, but not in arrogance.

Arrogance is your middle name judging from some of your postings. And the only thing your ahead of me in is hat size!