I love the kid who comes to guys defense and tell the educated young black guy that the south freed the slaves first…before the North.
This guy is what happens when you fall asleep in history class!
Are we really supposed to take these guys seriously…don’t answer…it’s a rhetorical question. But really, how do they plan to secede with this clown at the forefront of the SCLoS? And for the other nutball…the little southern cultural get-to-gether sounds more like a real hoot of a good time….not!
As we creep ever closer to 2011 and the 150th Anniversary of the War of the Rebellion several states have begun websites for celebrating and presenting the history of the War on the Internet. Unlike the Sons of Confederate Veterans 150th Website, Pennsylvania has a very nice website with some verying informative links and content.
One of the first things to catch my eye under the heading of UNDERSTAND was the part on the causes of the war. For once it was nice not to see a large listing of “lost cause” mythology and I was also pleasently surprised to see a nice list of books and authors who are highly respected in the field of Civil War history…
Each major page on the site provides an impressive list of secondary sources for the reader to expand his/her knowledge far beyond the Pa. 150th site. Even as I write this post I am surfing through the site and I am very impressed with the amount of information that has been provided. It is my hope that as many states that can afford it (I live in Illinois and we can’t afford anything…but I am sure we will have a site) can provide the public with a site similar to this one in scope and appearance.
Here are links to other Sesquicentinnial sites…
- Virginia
- Arkansas
More to come in the future…
In the days leading to the Civil War, a battery of Citadel cadets on Morris Island fired at the supply ship Star of the West as it approached Fort Sumter, forcing the ship to turn around.
A red palmetto flag flew over the cadets during the attack on Jan. 9, 1861, which marked a victory for them, and was a significant precursor to the war.
The war officially began on April 12, 1861, with the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter. But some Citadel alumni and others consider the shots fired at Star of the West to be the first shots of the Civil War… Read the Rest of the Story.
Star of the West entering Charleston Harbor on Jan. 9, 1861
Beck needs to go back and take American History all over again.
Hey Richard, maybe Glenn was taught too much American Exceptionalims in school!
In a recent series of post on both Kevin Levin’s Civil War Memory and Richard Williams’ Old Virginia Blog there as been a great deal discussed and argued over the Casteel statue called “Brothers“. I will not go into a detailed discussion here, for you can follow the links and read it for yourself, but I must make comments on Williams’ latest post about reconcilation at Gettysburg. Here is another picture from the same reunion…
It is a picture of blacks whose job it was to pass out blankets to White veterans North and South. They were not included in the discussion of the war as if the war had nothing to do with their ancestors or their ancestors bondage. I think Kevin is saying that we have enough memorials or statues to this type of interpretation…we get it…now lets move beyond the typical understanding of the war…one that is in the vacuum of race. Let us add race into the picture and then we will have a fuller understanding of why there was a Gettysburg and why there was a reunion.
The Confederate Reprint Company is a neo-confederate site that specializes in books written during and after the War of the Rebellion with, need I say it, a southern viewpoint. Now what I find very interesting is the claim that since the North won the war, they are therefore the Victors, that they have written the history. From the looks of the titles at the Confederate Reprint Company that is not altogether true.
The site is run by Greg Loren Durand (Greg also runs Crown Rights Book Company, Goose Quill Press, and Classic Reels and Broadcasts Company) who must have hit on the idea (only a guess, not fully aware of where his material comes from nor do I care) for his site after doing a Google Books search for an out-of-print book to feed his desire to understand the War of the Rebellion. Well, here is what he found…a great way to make money reprinting books whose copyright is no longer in play. By all means there is nothing wrong with this, he had the idea and ran with it…bully for him. But my question is, why spend the money when you can get it for free…?? Sure, the PDF format is on your computer and I like many history buffs want to hold the books in our hands, but these are not the original books…they are reprints!
Let’s look at a quick example: A True Vindication of the South at CRC- cost $19.00…not bad for a book compared to the prices of books at the bigger booksellers. And now for the free version…at Google Books. I think for my purposes, I will take the free version. I will also be posting the addresses of the Google Books versions of his reprints in the future.
Billy Yank
When it comes time for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War to be marked one needs to dress the part at all the public and privte functions one attends. As I now get older, my waist line is not the same so I have been looking into purchasing a new set of trousers from my uniform and have come across some dress clothing ideas for the well dressed neo-confederate who wants to celebrate in true confederate heritage style!
All of the attire can be found here.
Yes, that is right folks, the Memorial Confederate Tartan Kilt. It is not historic in any way that I can tell, but it is registered with the Scottish National Tartan Registry. Not only is there a confederate memorial tartan color…
But a dress tartan as well…
Yep, one for around the house and one for your sunday best! Just think, you too could look this good…firing your modern musket…
What more could the neo-confederate ask for?
Billy Yank
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