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.
This is the Confederate First National Flag and is considered the original National Confederate Flag from 1861-1863. The Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia is most commonly mistaken as the “confederate flag.”
Credit to the Mariners Museum in Norfolk, VA. This flag would have flown aboard the CSS Virginia. It flew everywhere and in as many places as the battle flag. The First National was coined the “Stars and Bars”
We remember our Ancestors who fought against their cultural extinction. The same applies today. God Bless the Southland! Love this Texas Monument! Keep History Alive. 2,257 Battles were fought to defend their homes.
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.
In Defense of Southern Heritage!
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Lexington, VA has caved to the woke mob. Lexington has distanced itself from their heritage and VMI removed the Stonewall Jackson monument. Keep em Flying! Flag the town! VMI Cadets and Lee and Jackson have been dishonored by woke politicians. #boycottLexington
Lee was not obsessed with rank like most re-enacting units today. He wore a colonels coat.
Uniform coat worn by Robert E. Lee when he surrendered the army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox court house on April 9th, 1865.
Confederate Monument in Indiana. We honor those fallen in prison after being captured at Ft Donelson. Flag a grave today!
George Washington’s Tent was sold by Miss Mary Custis Lee to help families of Confederate Veterans after the war. Robert E. Lee was a direct Descendant of George Washington by marriage.
After the Confederates were defeated in the US Civil War and Robert E Lee’s forces surrendered in 1865, many of them sailed across the Atlantic and sought sanctuary in a rather unexpected place: Stratford-upon-Avon, in the English county of Warwickshire. Islam Issa says: “The county became a hub for Confederates in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. And many people don’t know this but specifically Leamington Spa, just north of Stratford, attracted a lot of Confederates.”