Amazing ironclads! And guns from the Navy Yard! Zoom in for details of each gun
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.
Truth
William Mack Lee – Body Servant of General Robert E. Lee. He stayed with General Lee throughout the war and until the day Lee died in 1870. Mack said of General Lee after his death “I was raised by one of the greatest men in the world. There was never one born of a woman greater than General Robert E. Lee, according to my judgment. All of his servants were set free ten years before the war, but all remained on the plantation until after the surrender.“General Lee left Mack $360 in his will, which Mack used to go to school and started 14 churches. He became an ordained Missionary Baptist minister in Washington, DC.
The Scalawag Roy Eugene Barnes, the Disgraced Governor of Georgia, testified on behalf of Fani Willis as a character witness of sorts this week regarding her corruption. He was the 80th Governor of GA. He is responsible for removing the battle flag from the GA state flag. He’s still a scalawag!
The Southern Memorial is at risk at Arlington. God save the Southland. Deo Vindice
John Wesley Holcomb II and Joseph Wilse Holcomb, Co I, 10th Texas Cavalry, ca 1862. Source: Stella Hill Memorial Library.
Just a reminder. George Floyd was killed by drugs and Yankees.
Oakland Historic Cemetery
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.
SAVE Arlington! Reconciliation Monument to Southern Americans established after Spanish American War veterans who served in both wars were honored.
Today is the 160th anniversary of the Battle of Brandy Station. This remains the largest Cavalry engagement in North America. Real History!
“On Friday, June 5th, and later on June 8th, Stuart conducted massive cavalry reviews near Culpeper. Hood's Division attended both events; General Lee attended the latter.
A Southern soldier-reporter in Hood's Division said of the June 5th equestrian spectacle, "It was an imposing sight. One hundred and forty-four companies passed in review in the most splendid order. I counted twenty-six stands of colors, exclusive of those belonging to Stuart's horse-artillery. After the review there was a sham fight, in which the artillery fired over one hundred and sixty rounds, and the cavalry made several brilliant charges. The horses were generally good, and everything indicated a good degree of discipline. Many ladies, blooming in health and beauty, were present. Gen. Hood marched his whole division out to witness the review." Robert Lee Hodge