Blacks And Whites Fought For The South And For The Freedom Of Their States As Well.

November 19, 1863 the Gettysburg address was given. Exactly 160 years from today. We Remember our Fallen. Pictures from the memorial at Remembrance Day. We love our American history!

Garth Hudson the last remaining member of the Band has passed. “The night they drove Old Dixie down”

The South attempted to gain independence from the Yankee swines but were unsuccessfully denied by Great Britain and France. The South even offered to free the slaves early in the war

Today is Lee Jackson day and it was up until recently celebrated in many Southern States in celebration of two great Southern heroes. March 14, 1863 Harpers Weekly sketches.

Something you will not hear in school...Alf Whiting was born in Winchester VA. He enlisted in the Army in 1861 serving in Company K, 13th VA Infantry with Isaac Brady, later they were transferred to the 11th VA Cavalry. They were both captured and jailed at Cumberland, MD. Mr. Brady was sent to Camp Chase, OH and Alf was offered his freedom, but refused to take the oath of allegiance or to remain with the Federals. Mr. Brady’s Father, Samuel D. Brady, who lived near Cumberland went on Whiting’s bond for $6,000.00 in the condition that he would not cross the river into VA during the war. Credit: Black Confederate Soldiers - Facebook Community

Whiting attended every Confederate reunion within reach, as well as funerals of veterans and selected his own pallbearers among them.

Celebrating Stonewall Jackson’s 200th Birthday. He died at Fairfield plantation.

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