Posted on 01/19/2009 9:34:23 AM PST by mwdouglass
Confederate Heroes’ Day commemorates those who died fighting for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. An official state holiday in Texas, Confederate Heroes’ Day has fallen annually on January 19th — the birthday of Robert E. Lee — since its approval on January 30, 1931.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy sponsor the annual celebration of the holiday, which includes parades, reenactments in honor of past Confederate heroes, and other events.
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/holidays.html
Sorry, I’m not going to celebrate people who fought to destroy our Constitutional Republic.
That’s what we’re doing tomorrow, isn’t it?
And to you too! Deo Vindice!
Signed into law in April 1985 by Gov. Bill Clinton.
I’m so glad someone posted something about Gen. Robert E. Lee. Thank you.
I second that. I had family on both sides.
They (we) didn’t fight to destroy our Constitutional Republic. We only wanted to leave, peacefully, same as we joined. If things keep up the way they are going it will probably happen again.
Blue and Gray meet at Gettysburg, 1913.
“the brave fighters on both sides “
Relatives on both sides (maternal=Northerner, paternal=Southerner) fought. Interesting family history there.
Better copy...
That’s just awesome, and inspiring. Think I’ll do the same. Thanks!
[BTW, the official name of the Civil War in federal archives is The War of the Rebellion. Of course, we Southerners know its real name as the War of Northern Aggression. < /tongue-in-cheek>]
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(4) No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.
>>Sorry, I’m not going to celebrate people who fought to destroy our Constitutional Republic.
That’s what we’re doing tomorrow, isn’t it?<<
Just think - if the South would have won OR been allowed to leave peacefully; tomorrow might never happen.
...thanks for posting that photo....on my wall I have a similar one of two g-g-uncles at Gettysburg standing in front of the Stars n Bars....July 1-3, 1913 was the last of the big encampments....50 years to the day since the battle....remakable that they survived the battle, the war and were still around a half century later....tough old birds I’d say!
They wanted to live in peace by attacking a union fort... Right...
Importantly, while 179,000 black soldiers fought on the side of the Union forces, many of whom were in labor battalions little removed from slavery, as “war contraband”, from 30,000 to 100,000 black men fought on the side of the Confederacy.
Immediately at the conclusion of the war, and again, at their retirement to receive pensions, around 1910, there were concerted effort to deconstruct heavily documented Civil War history, so that it would appear that the Confederacy had no black soldiers. Many records still exist of black Confederate soldiers whose occupation of “soldier” was lined out and replaced with either “tradesman” or “personal servant”.
For this reason, today few blacks are aware of their ancestors participation with the Confederacy. Some of them include the offspring of white aristocracy who served as officers, and either had children with slaves, or with freeman mistresses.
In New Orleans, for example, there was a parallel white and black social scene, and the pinnacle of black society provided debutante daughters to the “Octoroon Ball”, where women who were 1/8th black could become the polite mistresses of a wealthy aristocrat.
To be thus selected meant that she would live in luxury in the city, and any children she had would be part of the aristocrat’s family, often being sent north to be educated and set up as entrepreneurs to expand the family business. Being only 1/16th black, they would have no social problem in the north, being seen as white.
But there are likely many black Americans around today whose ancestors prospered and were loyal to the South and the Confederacy. But their own history has been denied them.
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