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!

My not-so-good friend, Clint Lacy’s brother Rich, has been hard at work letting his true racism shine through on one of his many blogs…this time on his No Mo Reparations blog.  Here is what he had to say after I commented on Clint’s brother’s childish letter to a SCV member who disagreed with the tactics of the SCV…

Listen Up Corey Meyer!

 Now I’m calling you one for your cowardice!

I called you and you refused to answer your phone; after you insulted me on you blog. You had a chance to back up that big mouth of yours and you didn’t; so let it go and be a man about it, instead of a spineless victim!

I know what’s got you SUV jerks upset; the new breed of Southerner’s in the SCV. You know that your reign of terror is over with, within the SCV ranks. When true Southerners assume leadership of the SCV, you SUV members will be kicked out of the organization.

SO DO YOURSELVES A FAVOR AND LEAVE NOW; YOU ARE NOT WELCOME WITHIN OUR RANKS!

If we had real leadership, this would already have been done. However, McMichael is a granny; so what can you expect?

Yep, that is right, Clint Lacy called my house…well actually the house of my ex-wife and children at midnight to harass me.  Problem for old Clint is that I don’t live there anymore.  I am sure this post will also result in pointless calls to my ex, so here is my cell number 1-309-530-3307…give me a call if you dare.  Just leave my children out of it.

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…

• David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (Oxford University Press, 2006).
• Charles Dew, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (University of Virginia Press, 2002).
• Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 1995).
• William Freehling, The Road to Disunion: Volume 1: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 (Oxford University Press, 1991); The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1876 (Oxford University Press, 2008).
• James McPherson, Battle Cry Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford University Press, 1988).

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

- North Carolina

- Arkansas

- South Carolina

- West Virginia

More to come in the future…