Gov. Haley Barbour has declared April Confederate Heritage month in Mississippi

picayuneitem.com ^ | 04-03-04

[WKB]

As is customary across the South, Gov. Haley Barbour has declared April as "confederate Heritage Month" in Mississippi. In keeping with this important, public recognition of our valiant Confederate ancestors, the Margaret Reed Crosby Memorial Library, the Friends of the Library, and the Gainesville Volunteer (Sons of Confederate Veterans) are featuring a Confederate "Heritage of Honor" display in the library's foyer through April 12, 2004.

The public is cordially invited to view the display during regular library hours. In declaring April as Confederate Heritage Month, Gov. Barbour said: "Whereas April is the month in which the Confederate States began and ended a four-year struggle; and, whereas, it is important for all Americans to reflect upon our nation's past, to gain insight from our mistakes and successes, and to come to a full understanding that the lessons learned yesterday and today will carry us through tomorrow if we carefully and earnestly strive to understand and appreciate our heritage and our opportunities which lie before us; now, therefore, I, Haley Barbour, Governor of the State of Mississippi, hereby proclaim the month of April as Confederate Heritage Month in the State of Mississippi."

The Crosby Memorial Library display features some dozen unusual, full-size Confederate battleflags, military uniforms, weapons, antique quilts, portraits of Magnolia State Confederates, various Confederate artifacts, and numerous books, magazines, and newsletters detailing the valor of Mississippi's arms during that heroic struggle for Southern freedom. Importantly, the Crosby Memorial Library's Confederate Heritage display is both the largest and longest-running such display in Mississippi and, possibly, the South.

This display has garnered the Margaret Reed Crosby Memorial Library the prestigious "John L. Harris Heritage Preservation Award" from the Mississippi Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans. This award is named for a Black Confederate servant who, in later years as a Mississippi Representative, was instrumental in the construction of the impressive Monument to the Confederate Dead that stands on the grounds of the Old Capitol in Jackson.

Don't mis this rich, colorful, and enlightening display, produced by the Gainesville Volunteers, SCV (MS Division Camp of the Year for four of the last seven years). For more information about our Confederate "Heritage of Honor," please visit www.mississippiscv.org or email huffman@ametro.net.

[stand watie]

YEP. i DO dream of a FREE dixie REPUBLIC without:

1.murder of the UNborn.

2.BIG taxes.

3. gun control.

4.HATEfilled damnyankees.

5.kennedys,schumers,klintoons,etc.

6."social programs" that serve only the powerful & DAMAGE regular folks.

7.the Boss Indians Around and other federal bureaucrats.

8."outside influences" that HATE the southland, her people, her monuments, her mores & customs, etc,etc,etc.

free dixie,sw

[GOPcapitalist]

Maybe it was you?

Nah, it was definately the locals.

[stand watie]

fyi, my ancestor PVT William James (Little Thunder) Freeman, late of A company-4th MO Partisan Rangers, helped sack lawrence.

he said it was the "most sucessful cavalry raid of the war", in a letter to a friend in 1896.the lads GOT all but 2 of the murdering scum that were on the KILL LISTS. too bad that "doc jennison" & "senator lane" were out of town that fine day!

free dixie,sw

[wylenetheconservative]

We celebrate our heritage because we are proud of that heritage. We have something you Yankees don't understand. It's called PRIDE. Our ancestors at Vicksburg held out for months and months with almost no food. You Yankees would have folded in a week under the same circumstances. You attack Mississippi because its people are strong and proud. Our heros like Lee and Jackson fought hard with far less resources than the Northern aggressors. They were true patriots. They didn't committ war crimes, either, like the Northern aggressors did. Sherman burned the homes of civilians and his soldiers raped and plundered. We have much to be proud of. It is you who should be ashamed because you have not been blessed by being a son of the south.

[GOPcapitalist]

One of those state wasn't Texas, which went Democrat in 1964, same as Kansas.

Sadly we did (though having a home state candidate on the ballot certainly didn't help that). Nevertheless, ALL of Goldwater's votes came from the old CSA. Not one single state in yankeeland supported him.

And funny, I seem to recall an election in 1976 when the whole south went Democrat.

You recall wrong then as Virginia and Oklahoma went Republican. As I said, the last time the south was solidly democrat was 1944.

our states of the 'old confederacy' went for Clinton in 1992 and four went for him again in 1996.

...yet the majority of the CSA electoral votes in both of those years went to the Republican, so we did more than our part. Considering two of those four states were the home state of Clinton and his VP, it shouldn't be surprising that he won a few. Compare that to yankeeland though where both times Clinton walked away with a SWEEP save Indiana - the lone holdout and the only state of the old north to vote for Bush and Dole.

[familyofman]

"YEP. i DO dream of a FREE dixie REPUBLIC without:...

4.HATEfilled damnyankees.....

8."outside influences" that HATE the southland, her people, her monuments, her mores & customs, etc,etc,etc."

Remind me not to consider you for any PR that I care about. You rant against "hate" from others, but refer to those you seem to want to convince your cause is just as "damnyankees". You're not going to get any sympathy for your cause that way - especially when you seem to be the one filled with hate.
Gaining respect from others comes pretty damn tough when you star by insulting people. Your heritage will not be looked upon any better when all you do is rant & rave about your "enemies".

[familyofman]

"We have something you Yankees don't understand. It's called PRIDE."

Put down the pipe - stop smoking that 'funny stuff'. Your comments are beyond ridiculous & show your ignorance of your neighbors to the north. Our cause was just & we whipped up your ancestors real good. Get over it - the south was an unjust cause & y'all took a terrible beating because of it.
We have pride - we just need to shout it from the rooftops. Everyone knows we deserve to be proud - you seem to feel the need to have to 'make' us respect you. A stupid way to gain respect.

[GOPcapitalist]

But if you look at the history you will find mine own state of Kansas was Republican when y'all were solidly Democrat.

The fact remains, non-seq, that the single most conservative major party nominee in the 20th century was Barry Goldwater in 64. Six states voted for him and they were all former parts of the old CSA. The true measure of a state's conservatism is not what it does in routine years where moderate RINOs like Gerald Ford are running but rather what it does when the going gets tough. 64 was one of those years and only the south passed the test.

[GOPcapitalist]

Relish our southern heritage with its great characteristics, but do not celebrate some misguided leaders and followers who attacked the United States

They only attacked what was marching through their front yards with bayonets fixed in their direction. Any sane person would have done the same.

[GOPcapitalist]

Our cause was just & we whipped up your ancestors real good.

Wrong and wrong. Your cause was unjust because it NEVER professed itself to be a war of liberation for the slaves. Abolition was only incident to its conduct as a "war measure" and thus cannot redeem the true purpose of its conduct, a coerced union with economic interests at mind. Nor can it redeem the unjust way the war was fought including, among other things, upon civilians and noncombattants with full sanction from the yankee command's highest levels. A moral end is rendered unjust by a sinful means and a moral end that is only incident and secondary to the direct and primary end cannot supplant that primary end.

As for whipping us "real good," I need only point out that your side lost over 100,000 more men than ours did. Often in war, the side that loses the most men also loses the battle - especially when those losses are so huge as to dwarf those of the competition as yankee losses did. Only by having a larger population and an army twice our size did you succeed in winning the war, and then only after four long bloody years in which we consistently held of and repulsed larger forces than our own. Yankeeland got its pyrrhic victory in the end but that's about it.

[wardaddy]

You used to be nicer...what happened?

And JUNIOR....you're the newbie here..lol

[wardaddy]

NonSensical used to be a bit more gracious. I have not been on a Southron thread in awhile and I don't think this thread is one btw.

This thread is about our homestate and not about refighting the WBTS for Nonsensical's pleasure...

...jayhawker and redleg wonders never cease

thanks GOP....you are the big gun!

[Non-Sequitur]

Nah, it was definately the locals.

Don't be too hasty. According to stand watie y'all have this stinky bellybutton thing going on down thar.

[Hacksaw]

Kansas. Good luck.

Only 2 things come from Kansas. Steers and.... Bob Dole!

Actually I like Bob Dole and think he would have been a very good president. I seem to be in the minority in that opinion. What is up with your nutty governor (of course we have "fast Eddie" Rendell here in my current home of PA).

[uncitizen]

Only by having a larger population and an army twice our size did you succeed in winning the war

I'm currently in the middle of General Grants memoirs, and toward the beginning of it he addressed the fact that there are two main myths re why the Union won the war.

One is that the North could afford to lose more men than the South could. He said that just was not the case. I assume at some point in the book he'll prove that but so far i haven't seen it. I assume it means it was skill and strategy, not attrition numbers that won the war. He does tell a good deal about the mistakes that were made by other Union generals and oh if they'd just listened to his advice.

The other myth was that General Lee was a superior general revered by his men as godlike and feared by union men for the same reason. General Grant says poo-poo to that. He served with General Lee in the Mex-Am war and knew that Lee was just a man. Therefore, he was never intimidated by him. Oh the part he writes about Appomattox was delectable. He says how he told Gen Lee, "I remember you...", and Gen Lee replied back "oh, yes, I remember you too..". But Grant says he didn't believe that Lee really remembered him but that he was just being polite pretending to remember him. He didn't think Lee remembered him because he was so junior to Lee and didn't really do anything memorable at the time.

I put this out there for those who may not have read the memoirs. They are terrific. Grant speaks like a regular guy. Ocassionally he speaks highly of himself but it doesn't come off as boastful, just that he knows his strengths, and sometimes he's very self deprecating. He "dishes" a lot about people which is just too good, and sometime complains about being left out of the loop.

[familyofman]

"...your side lost over 100,000 more men than ours did. Often in war, the side that loses the most men also loses the battle - especially when those losses are so huge as to dwarf those of the competition as yankee losses did."

Check the losses on a percentage of population, the south took a much bigger hit. As far as who won - who's territory was occupied after the conflict - the side that holds the ground after the fight - wins. What was left of dixie after the fighting was over was a shambles. The 2 times the south 'invaded' the north went poorly for Lee (Antitem & Gettysburg). Hood did a real good job defending Atlanta as well, now didn't he?
If you can't finish what you start - it's best not to start the fight. Braveery and gallantry were on display - big time - by the soldiers in the fight(s). It's just too bad so many good young men had to die for a 'lost cause'.

[WKB]

It's just too bad so many good young men had to die for a 'lost cause'.



Well at least we have move forward to The Viet Nam
War maybe we can get to Iraq next.

[Hacksaw]

As if the confederacy was a big success. When the best you can do is celebrate losers - you have to have a sense of humor. Guess what - the war is over & y'all lost.

I already saw your sense of humour when I made you the butt of a joke - and in your reaction you let me know that I really mowed your lawn - which interestingly enough was not my intention in the first place. But now that I have seen your anti Southern postings, I don't really feel bad at all.

[Hacksaw]

NonSensical used to be a bit more gracious. I have not been on a Southron thread in awhile and I don't think this thread is one btw.

They are still the same. Wlat will usually get the flaming going, but on occasion others will pop in who have suddenly become experts on the war after reading an article in Cosmopolitan magazine.

[familyofman]

"I already saw your sense of humour when I made you the butt of a joke - and in your reaction you let me know that I really mowed your lawn - which interestingly enough was not my intention in the first place. "

Then what exactly was your intention? Just out making snide little comments about others - please spare me the innocent victim stuff. As far as who won the Civil War - there can be no argument - the Union left ol dixie a mess (kinda like a bi*ch-slapping).