Boiled peanuts are a great part of our Southern culture. Rebel Yell!
Davis General Store
Flag a grave today!
Just a reminder. George Floyd was killed by drugs and Yankees.
Does this quote apply today? We could learn from Southern sympathy.
The “carpet-bag” governments, with their grotesque legislatures, plundered and helped to plunder the States, and, not content with stealing all that there was to steal, by means of fraudulent issues of bonds thrust their rapacious claws into the pockets of unborn generations.
Joshua Crews was the son of Isham Crews and Elizabeth Bryant. Joshua's Father was a soldier from the South Carolina Militia in the War of 1812. Isham located his family in Polk County, Florida after receiving a soldier's Land Grant. Joshua was captured July 2nd, 1863 during the Battle of Gettysburg and he died in a Gettysburg hospital on July 25, 1863. Joshua died at 19 years old with no wife or children.
From the tablet on Emmitsburg Road at Gettysburg:
Army of Northern Virginia
Hill’s Corps Anderson’s Division
Perry’s Brigade
2nd 5th 8th Florida Infantry
July 2. Formed line in forenoon in the western border of these woods. Advanced at 6 P. M. and assisted in driving back the Union lines on Emmitsburg Road and by rapid pursuit compelled the temporary abandonment of several guns. At the foot of the slope met Union infantry and the line on the right retiring also fell back. The color bearer of the 8th Florida fell and its flag was lost.
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.
Just woke from a dream. In the dream I could see many Patriots armed in camp. I remember seeing peoples Fathers there of which I had not seen for many years. Then I turned and saw my own Father armed in defense. Then I understood.
Black Mississippi Legislator Defends Confederate Monument Confederate Heritage Month Minute By: Calvin E. Johnson, Jr. In Mississippi on February 1, 1890, an appropriation for a monument to the Confederate dead was being considered. A
April 12-14 1861 Fort Sumter was fired upon. Protective Tariffs that oppressed the South were the cause of the war. Greedy industrialists in the North wanted the cotton for their factories in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. No mention of slavery was found in the Tariff Act seen below. Take note of the Seven Star First National flag at the Fort!
We Hope your Memorial Day was memorable. Remember the Fallen every day.