Picketts Charge - Picketts Second Wife Was Native American. Her Name Was Morning Mist And She Was Haida

Snow In New Orleans

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Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move. All that and a town square where public executions took place. In New Orleans you could almost see other dimensions. There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again. Chronic melancholia hanging from the trees. You never get tired of it. After a while you start to feel like a ghost from one of the tombs, like you're in a wax museum below crimson clouds. Spirit empire. Wealthy empire. One of Napoleon's generals, Lallemaud, was said to have come here to check it out, looking for a place for his commander to seek refuge after Waterloo. He scouted around and left, said that here the devil is damned, just like everybody else, only worse. The devil comes here and sighs. New Orleans. Exquisite, old-fashioned. A great place to live vicariously. Nothing makes any difference and you never feel hurt, a great place to really hit on things. Somebody puts something in front of you here and you might as well drink it. Great place to be intimate or do nothing. A place to come and hope you'll get smart - to feed pigeons looking for handouts”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

Gettysburg Witness Trees

Florida Brigade Trees - Gettysburg Witness Trees

What These Trees Witnessed The Florida Brigade (called Perry’s Brigade, but led by Col. David Lang), comprised of only three regiments total

Florida Brigade Witness Trees. Deserve a visit!

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.

Just a reminder. George Floyd was killed by drugs and Yankees.

John Wesley Holcomb II and Joseph Wilse Holcomb, Co I, 10th Texas Cavalry, ca 1862. Source: Stella Hill Memorial Library.

Confederate Veterans are US veterans by Act of Congress. Happy Veterans Day!

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Confederate Soldiers are American Veterans by Act of Congress

April is Confederate Memorial Month where various commemorations held throughout the month, primarily in the South. In the other states I wo

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Two versions of Gods and Generals anthem. Great song

November 19, 1863 the Gettysburg address was given. Exactly 160 years from today. We Remember our Fallen. Pictures from the memorial at Remembrance Day. We love our American history!