Governor Vance was a Unionist. He then changed from Unionist to Secessionist. It is known to most of us about how Vance was in the process of delivering a speech for the Union when word arrived of the firing on of Fort Sumter. Vance stated that he was “canvassing for the Union”. Zeb Vance: from […]
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The Mississippi Economic Council has unveiled a bicentennial banner to mark 2017 – drawing immediate attention, given the political tension over the state flag. Mississippi is the only state that has not removed the Confederate emblem from its state flag. MEC led a move to get rid of the Confederate emblem in 2001 that drew
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Memphis wanted to relocate the statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from a city park. Forrest was responsible for a massacre of black Union troops in 1864 and was the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. African Americans are not thrilled to see his statue. Nope, you can’t do it, the Tennessee
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South Carolina Confederate sympathizers are bitterly divided over a plant to commemorate the Civil War. It’s almost a civil war over the Civil War. The state chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans wants to build a monument to the state’s signers of the 1860 Ordinance of Secession, but the S.C. Secessionist Party lambastes the
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Among the many in North Carolina who joined the Confederate forces during the Civil War was a Watauga County lawyer, George N. Folk who was a representative of the General Assembly. In 1861, he resigned his seat in Raleigh, and ultimately raised, a company for Confederate service, the Watauga Rangers. In 1862, Folk was appointed
George N. Folk and the raid at Fish Springs. Read More »
Memphis City Council tried to remove a Confederate statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest, but that request was denied. Confederate sympathizers are delighted. This victory serves to inspire others to rise up, according to the blog “The Virginia Flaggers.” “God has blessed our Heritage Warriors with a great Victory!” it observes with evident satisfaction. Victory in
Although NASCAR in 2015 asked fans to refrain from displaying the Confederate Flag, don’t try telling that to fans in Talladega, Ala. Near the superspeedway here flags fly everywhere outside motorhomes and are prominently displayed by vendors. Race fans who display it say it’s not about hate, it’s about heritage. It’s about honoring those in
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In incredible footage of a 1914 Confederate veterans’ reunion in Jacksonville, Fla., a former slave, Jeff Mabry, is introduced. These reunions included former camp servants or camp slaves. Mabry doesn’t seem to be wearing an uniform, but he dons at least one reunion ribbon, which suggests that this was not his first reunion. “Yasser Boss”:
“Yasser Boss”: Old Jeff Mabry Attends a Reunion Read More »
Originally the humble Richmond iron steam tug James Gray, the 250-ton ship Lady Davis had a distinguished if brief career in the American Civil War. After being commissioned in the Confederate Navy in 1861 it captured the AB Thmpson, a full-rigged ship of 980 tons and a crew of 23 out of Maine into Beaufort,
For followers of the American Civil War, the bitter divide this elections system is all too familiar. America was in a similar foul mood just before the 1860 elections, with one newspaper, the Charleston Mercury, reporting that Minute Men were organizing all over South Carolina “for any emergency that may arise in the present perilous
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