I just ate dinner tonight at Sole off the square in Franklin Tennessee about 20 minutes from my home in Nashville.
I noticed the town square CSA memorial statue faces due south.
I love Franklin, some Northerners (not the good ones)recently tried this same crap here as Duhon and his Marxist pals at United AID....but they got nowhere.
One of the two mentally handicapped freepers thus far on this thread asking why there are no Union memorials in Maryland has apparently never been to a Civil War battlefield (Sharpsburg)where the Union memorials outnumber the CSA memorials by about 30 to 1
The ignorant also ask why we don’t put up Union memorials down here to Southerners who rejected the butternut-grey of their peers?
We have some actually in places like East Tennessee but everyone came to resent Reconstruction heavy handedness including even former Union sympathizers.
My mom was buried last month at Evergreen Cemetary in Mufreesboro outside Nashville about 30 miles SE and where about 20 yards from under the large Oak where she rests lie about 200 true Southern lads who gave all they had for their kinfolk and land 150 years ago.
Guess where I directed all her flowers beside the pall to be placed?
I ain’t never gonna take a crap on my ancestors and I’m teaching my kids the same lesson. Proudly.
My great great grandfather...one of several CSA ancestrors:
“One of the pioneering first families of Sullivan’s Hollow, Mary Elizabeth’s father, Thomas Rassberry Byrd, worked as a cobbler in the Confederate Army at the Battle and Siege of Vicksburg under Capt. Bontison. “Papa was only a lad when he served. It was late in the war. He traveled to Vicksburg and the surrounding camps repairing the soldiers’ shoes. He would tell us about the terrible conditions of the people of Vicksburg. It stayed with him his whole life-—the sacrifices of the Vicksburg people.”
Mrs. Causey and her sisters were all inducted into the Meridian Robert E. Lee Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, the only known family with five surviving “Real” Daughters of the Confederacy. “
If you won’t stand up for where you come from then you’ll fall for anything.
This argument over Southern deconstruction is just part of a larger effort to dismantle Western Civilization piece by piece and they reckon they should start with the most vulnerable. Those here who pile on in their insatiable thirst for self righteousness are either ignorant or stupid or disingenuous as to why they are here on FR to begin with.
I’m off to bed for now.
However, I’m loving this new found freedom.
Thanks, Obama and the wrong Rev. Wright.
I’ll be back tomorrow to read the thread, and post accordingly.
Nitey nite, y’all.
“This argument over Southern deconstruction is just part of a larger effort to dismantle Western Civilization piece by piece and they reckon they should start with the most vulnerable. Those here who pile on in their insatiable thirst for self righteousness are either ignorant or stupid or disingenuous as to why they are here on FR to begin with.”
Well said!
History is History.... Facts are Facts.....
Those who are offended by either, will simply have to make that part of their Family’s History and Facts.
They can not and should not attempt to alter History, by removing artifacts or memorials to those who participated.
Wonderful post, wardaddy!
I feel the same way, though I can’t express it as well as you do.
Thank you for posting your thoughts.
Best post I’ve seen on FR. Hat tip to wardaddy.
“Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern books their verison of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our mamimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.”