The sovereign “Confederate” states were part of these voluntary, Constitutional United States for 72 years before their secession. Ukraine was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for 71 years before declaring their independence. Russia struck back 23 years after Ukraine’s secession in 2014. The Federals declared war 4 months after the first Southern states seceded. As we see in Ukraine today, it’s honorable to defend your home against an invading army. It was honorable for Southern boys in gray and butternut defending their home states.
I grew up with my family’s oral history of Southern heroism and Yankee war crimes. Extensive reading of history validates both.
But facts can’t stand up to emotions anymore than soldiers of that war could stand up to industrial age weapons. Both truth and good men are mowed down like a scythe cutting grain.
The Left conflates Confederates with treason, racism, and slavery. It’d be a good trifecta of evil if it were true.
The accusation of treason is laughable. Secession and treason are separate terms. Clearly, the Founding Fathers committed treason against the United Kingdom.
- Some states stated their right to secession in their ratification of the 1787 Constitution.
- The Federalist Papers, which were written to sell the Constitution, stated a citizen’s first loyalty was to their State – not the Federal Government.
- Robert E. Lee testified before Congress after the war – and no treason charges were brought against him or anyone else – because they would have lost in court.
- How could Kentucky declare itself neutral, if all states are subservient to the Federal Government?
All of America was racist by any present measure.
- The Federal Army disgraced itself in its abuse of Blacks.
- Five Northern states changed their constitution or laws to disenfranchise or limit the rights of Blacks AFTER the South surrendered in April 1865.
- The Northern states didn’t welcome the newly freed Blacks to move north because of their appalling racism.
- Yet, at the height of Jim Crow, Black Confederates are in pictures of Southern old soldier reunions.
Of course, slavery was an issue. But, it wasn’t the only issue. It certainly wasn’t the issue for the 9 out of 10 Southerners who didn’t own slaves. That was the case for my Holland ancestors of Upcountry South Carolina. They were devout Methodists who thought slavery was a sin against God. Yet, they fought to defend their state. Brother Robert wrote “maybe if we give the Yankees one more could ‘breshing’ out, they will leave us alone” before he was killed at the Battle of Seven Pines.
Throughout the war, why was slavery not abolished in states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri – as well as for the grandfathered slaves in New Jersey? Why was West Virginia admitted to the Union in 1863 as a slave state?
Regardless, the cultural cleansing of all things Confederate continues because it’s important to destroy the history of the South to make Southerners good Socialists and Commies. It’s vital to destroy an American culture which is profoundly Christian and prides itself on vibrant masculinity and femininity – as well as military service being virtuous. Since Southerners are over-represented in the military services and especially in the combat arms, the Left must eliminate their heritage of honor and valor to make them fighting robots.
That’s quite different than Robert Holland’s (2d South Carolina Infantry) view as a free man. He wrote that if the company election of officers appointed the wrong fellows, he would leave and just fight independently “on his own hook.”
Which is what my Great-Grandmother’s brother did as a Partisan Ranger in West Tennessee. She was 8 years old when the Yankees tried to scare her into telling where her brother was hiding. They made her deaf in one ear for life firing a percussion cap pistol by her head. She didn’t tell. Even though they killed all the farm animals and burned the barn.
Lesser men and women are changing the forts named after men proven better than they’ll ever be. Let the destroyers have their day. The long arc of history proves courage, defending against an invader, and honor age well.
It’s good to honor our Confederate dead.
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The Governor of Kentucky declared the Bluegrass State neutral, and Kentucky never seceded. Then, after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy, the legislature petitioned the Union Army for assistance.
Kentucky did have slavery, but the state had far fewer large agricultural farms in which large slave populations were useful. Eastern Kentucky, in particular, much like mountainous West Virginia, was covered with fairly small farms, and slavery just didn’t make economic sense. Even today, eastern Kentucky is about 98% white, because there was almost no enslaved population there from which the population are descended.
Eastern Tennessee, in much the same situation, sought to distance itself from the Confederate government of the state.
Yes. Good, accurate accounting. East Tenn raised some Union regiments.
On the other hand, the city of Lexington removed statues of famous Confederate generals, as though that somehow makes a difference.
Back in the 80s, we used to eat at the Jefferson Davis Inn, at the corner of South Limestone and West High Streets, in the building in which Mr Davis lived while a student at Transylvania College. The JDI went out of business years ago.