Historic Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta

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.

Yanks would hang their own. This was Stanton and Lincoln’s policy. Take for instance this prisoner at Ft. Mifflin in Philadelphia. The cell for prisoners is pictured here. These are my photos for your education.

Fontainebleau State Park, Louisiana by Lana Gramlich

Savannah, GA

We honor this CSA Soldier

The grave of an unknown soldier at Oakland Historic Cemetery in Atlanta

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.

Boiled peanuts are a great part of our Southern culture. Rebel Yell!

Davis General Store

General Patton along with Theodore Roosevelt had Confederate Ancestry. They never harbored any ill will against Southern Monuments and Reconciliation. Honor the fallen.

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.