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!
Hat Tip to All Other Persons blog…
This is a great post and article on how some neo-confederates have distorted a picture of Black Union Soldiers with their white officer into a photo of “black confederates”.
Here we have the original photo…
A contemporary recruitment poster…
Here is the fake 1st Louisiana Native Guard photo…
And finally, the website that sells (or sold the photo…appears not to be for sale any longer) the photo…The Great War of the Confederacy’s Rebel Store.
If you want to read about how this photo and its fake were discovered head on over to Retouching History for the complete scoop.
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!
Today my youngest son had a doctor’s appointment in Springfield and to my surprise we ended up taking a quick side visit to the Lincoln Home. This was my children’s first visit to the home and my oldest son thought it was pretty cool to see the house in which the 16th president lived. They had studied Lincoln for his 200th birthday towards the end of last school year in kindergarten no less.
I was surprised to see all the changes that had taken place since my last visit. Many of the homes near Lincoln’s have been transformed to their earlier glory. Some work is still in progress, but things look fantastic…even on a dreary October day like we had here in Illinois today. I was also a bit taken aback when the guide inside the house began to point out which furniture was actually original to the house and what was histoically accurate but did not actually belong to the Lincoln’s. In all the other times I have been through the house, the guides did not disclose which furniture was real or not…for whatever reason.
My stay was not as long as I wished, but then again I was not expecting to make the visit in the first place. The day was cool and cloudy and the kids were hungry after the doctor visit so we quick made a visit to the gift shop and headed out. It is never fun going to the doctors, but if we have a chance to see the Lincoln home on occasion, it makes the trip that much more bearable.
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!
WASHINGTON- The normally nonchalant Barack Obama looked nonplussed, as Nancy Pelosi glowered behind. Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men’s club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn’t. But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!
The outburst was unexpected from a milquetoast Republican backbencher from South Carolina who had attracted little media attention. Now it has made him an overnight right-wing hero, inspiring “You lie!” bumper stickers and T-shirts. The congressman, we learned, belonged to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, led a 2000 campaign to keep the Confederate flag waving above South Carolina’s state Capitol and denounced as a “smear” the true claim of a black woman that she was the daughter of Strom Thurmond, the ’48 segregationist candidate for president.
Wilson clearly did not like being lectured and even rebuked by the brainy black president presiding over the majestic chamber. I’ve been loath to admit that the shrieking lunacy of the summer — the frantic efforts to paint our first black president as the Other, a foreigner, socialist, fascist, Marxist, racist, Commie, Nazi; a cad who would snuff old people; a snake who would indoctrinate kids — had much to do with race. I tended to agree with some Obama advisers that Democratic presidents typically have provoked a frothing response from paranoids — from Father Coughlin against F.D.R. to Joe McCarthy against Truman to the John Birchers against J.F.K. and the vast right-wing conspiracy against Bill Clinton.
But Wilson’s shocking disrespect for the office of the president — no Democrat ever shouted “liar” at W. when he was hawking a fake case for war in Iraq — convinced me: Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it. “A lot of these outbursts have to do with delegitimizing him as a president,” said Congressman Jim Clyburn, a senior member of the South Carolina delegation. Clyburn, the man who called out Bill Clinton on his racially tinged attacks on Obama in the primary, pushed Pelosi to pursue a formal resolution chastising Wilson. “In South Carolina politics, I learned that the olive branch works very seldom,” he said. “You have to come at these things from a position of strength. My father used to say, ‘Son, always remember that silence gives consent.’ ”
Barry Obama of the post-’60s Hawaiian ’hood did not live through the major racial struggles in American history. Maybe he had a problem relating to his white basketball coach or catching a cab in New York, but he never got beaten up for being black. Now he’s at the center of a period of racial turbulence sparked by his ascension. Even if he and the coterie of white male advisers around him don’t choose to openly acknowledge it, this president is the ultimate civil rights figure — a black man whose legitimacy is constantly challenged by a loco fringe.
For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both. The state that fired the first shot of the Civil War has now given us this: Senator Jim DeMint exhorted conservatives to “break” the president by upending his health care plan. Rusty DePass, a G.O.P. activist, said that a gorilla that escaped from a zoo was “just one of Michelle’s ancestors.” Lovelorn Mark Sanford tried to refuse the president’s stimulus money. And now Joe Wilson. “A good many people in South Carolina really reject the notion that we’re part of the union,” said Don Fowler, the former Democratic Party chief who teaches politics at the University of South Carolina. He observed that when slavery was destroyed by outside forces and segregation was undone by civil rights leaders and Congress, it bred xenophobia.
“We have a lot of people who really think that the world’s against us,” Fowler said, “so when things don’t happen the way we like them to, we blame outsiders.” He said a state legislator not long ago tried to pass a bill to nullify any federal legislation with which South Carolinians didn’t agree. Shades of John C. Calhoun!
It may be President Obama’s very air of elegance and erudition that raises hackles in some. “My father used to say to me, ‘Boy, don’t get above your raising,’ ” Fowler said. “Some people are prejudiced anyway, and then they look at his education and mannerisms and get more angry at him.” Clyburn had a warning for Obama advisers who want to forgive Wilson, ignore the ignorant outbursts and move on: “They’re going to have to develop ways in this White House to deal with things and not let them fester out there. Otherwise, they’ll see numbers moving in the wrong direction.”
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