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.”
In 1995 the US Postal Service issued Civil War Commemorative stamps… that’s about the only thing the Federals got right! They even used “War Between the States” in the title of the stamp sheet.
In Defense of Southern Heritage!
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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
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The Principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form. Jefferson Davis
Flag a grave today!
General Patton along with Theodore Roosevelt had Confederate Ancestry. They never harbored any ill will against Southern Monuments and Reconciliation. Honor the fallen.
On this date, January 9th, 1861, South Carolina responds to the first in a series of acts of war committed by the United States government against the Palmetto State, by firing on the Star of The West, attempting to reinforce Ft. Sumter. Credit John Fisher