tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84674382590225143802024-03-16T17:50:14.683-07:00Tim Kent's Civil War talesJust different blogs from a lifelong Civil War historian.Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.comBlogger259125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-14319592898500243362023-10-01T19:06:00.003-07:002023-10-01T19:06:38.887-07:00The Man Responsible For Racism in America<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-FY-ALHjLkKiQOrHv1LvpMcoX_2aeTwAjy_0eEjvsJv1XyhT9IbMT6Xw9hdplM0uxqkMWmP5WDyBVOn-0raFzeQ507L03RLmzTXLrxG1ZIY-rhinplRaLx1k1fTR_e1eI87khVE1T2lnLQq_DHEDB819wHzvbUBHCumy2-bo-WkkT3L_V63L_0vcxURiy/s333/valentine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="250" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-FY-ALHjLkKiQOrHv1LvpMcoX_2aeTwAjy_0eEjvsJv1XyhT9IbMT6Xw9hdplM0uxqkMWmP5WDyBVOn-0raFzeQ507L03RLmzTXLrxG1ZIY-rhinplRaLx1k1fTR_e1eI87khVE1T2lnLQq_DHEDB819wHzvbUBHCumy2-bo-WkkT3L_V63L_0vcxURiy/s320/valentine.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Edward V. Valentine</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I've been doing quite a bit of research to learn who is most responsible for the trouble that has been caused in this country in the past few years. The man responsible was one I knew very little about. All it takes is serious research to uncover the truth and I have accomplished that.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I learned that the man most responsible was a man born in Richmond, Virginia in 1838. His name was Edward Virginius Valentine. He was old enough to fight in the war, but missed the entire conflict because he spent the war years studying sculpting in Europe. There isn't a lot of information out there on Edward Valentine, but trust me, the man is to blame for all American racism. If you don't believe me, just ask Washington Post Reporter Gregory Schneider. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> According to Schneider, Valentine's monuments brought "racist mythology to life." Basically, Schneider goes on to explain how those monuments were the main reason that George Floyd was killed by white Minnesota police officers. I'm not sure those cops had ever seen a Confederate monument in their life, but it's easier for the extreme leftists to blame inanimate objects for their problems than real life people. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrRjJ4kPnR_6uGlluyMaLH2KkgRqlgdddfXdkR04mz5_sWoOImfvkERvUQ7dTrPGtkbJkBDxoPYNPpbhyZFb8HHlz403Khc-3c5yRsq5dWUUdRLk_n4FiEGj44wuaMIanx9JcrHH2ooo_qaaWob17UxInXPg1ukrSdx0D3PoxjLmHC4p59wX6Mf14ZRqBD/s266/valentine%20jackson%20grave.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrRjJ4kPnR_6uGlluyMaLH2KkgRqlgdddfXdkR04mz5_sWoOImfvkERvUQ7dTrPGtkbJkBDxoPYNPpbhyZFb8HHlz403Khc-3c5yRsq5dWUUdRLk_n4FiEGj44wuaMIanx9JcrHH2ooo_qaaWob17UxInXPg1ukrSdx0D3PoxjLmHC4p59wX6Mf14ZRqBD/s1600/valentine%20jackson%20grave.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>One of the dangerous monuments that caused George Floyd's death</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> I've been to several of Edward Valentine's monuments myself and yet to have killed anyone or felt any reason to be racist, but I have an IQ above my shoe size unlike most people today. I can see why anyone without much intelligence could feel threatened by a statue today. I also love the way those with a low IQ attempt to teach the rest of us that we are the ones that are wrong. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> One of my favorite arguments is where they tell me these monuments didn't appear until Jim Crow laws started coming into affect. Do these people do any real research before making such statements? Why were there no monuments to Confederate heroes erected right after the war? Could it have been because it was illegal to raise such monuments? It was even illegal to wear a Confederate uniform in public after the war. It wasn't because Confederate's felt guilty or like they had done anything wrong I can assure you. After all, they were just doing what we celebrate every July 4th and that was the right to secede from an overbearing government. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> I have a few questions these genius people need to answer for me. Since they are so set on the war being over slavery, surely they have the answers I need. When the slave trade was open and the Northern states were making quite a bit of money off selling slaves to the South, why were there no large groups of abolitionists? When it no longer made them money, then they became concerned about the morality of the institution. This also goes for England. Great Britain made tons of money off the slave trade, yet by the time of the war, they had become concerned with the morality of slavery (they weren't making money off it anymore). Do you see how things have always worked in the world? Just follow the money and the answer will lie there. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> I pray to God that he will forgive Edward Valentine for creating such monstrous statues that caused so many innocent deaths. If only he had known how dumb we would become. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><b><br /></b></span></div><br /><p></p>Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-11345933098616571542023-06-20T12:48:00.000-07:002023-06-20T12:48:07.574-07:00Making Sense of Juneteenth <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> I’ve been
trying to make sense of this new Federal holiday called Juneteenth. I did a
little research to try and understand it. I googled its origins and found the
explanation that CBS news gives as extremely hilarious. Does anyone do any
research before writing anymore or has the country become that “dumbed down”
that there is no fear of someone having the intelligence to learn the truth?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Before you get upset with me, read
this entire article. I don’t have a problem with people celebrating the end of
slavery. I do have a problem with it being limited to just people with African
ancestors who were slaves. Native Americans were slaves, Irish were slaves, the
Jewish were slaves, and the list goes on and on. I also have a problem with the
explanation given for Juneteenth. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>According to Emily Mae Czachor a news
editor for CBS, the proclamation freed the slaves, but couldn’t free everyone
in Confederate controlled states. Has this person even read the proclamation?
Did the proclamation free a single slave? The answer to both questions is
probably the same. No. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The proclamation was issued as a war
measure only. President Lincoln understood two things about the slaves. The
first was the fact that they kept the Confederate Army fed and the second that
they were home while Southern soldiers were at the front. If he could incite
slave rebellions in the heart of the Confederacy, he could finally win a war
that he was losing. The most surprising thing to Mr. Lincoln was the fact that
the slaves in the South remained loyal. Not a single slave insurrection occurred
during the war. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The states of Kentucky, Maryland,
Delaware, and Missouri would retain their slaves until the 13<sup>th</sup>
Amendment was passed. If Lincoln was so concerned with freeing slaves, these
would have been the first he freed. These states were still part of the United
States and were under his control. He not only never freed a single slave in
these states, there were more he could have freed, but didn’t. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There
were twelve parishes in Louisiana that were exempt from the proclamation
because it was controlled by the Federal Army. (That’s right, these slaves
remained slaves. It wasn’t just Louisiana either. There were forty-eight
counties of Virginia (which illegally became the state of West Virginia see
Article IV, section 3 of the United States Constitution) that were not freed by
the proclamation because it was occupied by the United States Army. There were
another seven counties of what is still Virginia that were excluded. Not a
slave in Tennessee was freed by the proclamation because it was occupied by the
Federal Army. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Unfortunately,
none of this is taught in schools anymore and if it were, it would just be
ignored. So how many slaves did the emancipation free? The answer is zero. You
see, Mr. Lincoln didn’t free a single slave he could have freed, but attempted
to free slaves that he had no ability to free. I can see why it is such an
important holiday, can’t you? <o:p></o:p></span></p>Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-35029157139582351392023-01-31T15:58:00.001-08:002023-01-31T15:58:47.521-08:00The Last Moments of Two Mississippi Brothers<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5d5aefXhjidef6am4hRwIaKj-8Tvp3FQojC0T1PVYGy_gyv5zGmcIs_lupBOcY3HXfNSqifoeu-KKfzrAOnSF77n9Z9O68egb-CFYrJf_7Wmh8sypcbzjhWSnmGOzWLXM0DtdswspnK05MoZswgey7m_DeRflBRbmgd-J4lbtHPedGmisTXGduTjWHA/s355/williams,%20enoch%20henderson,%20lt,%2018%20miss%20inf%20franklin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="250" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5d5aefXhjidef6am4hRwIaKj-8Tvp3FQojC0T1PVYGy_gyv5zGmcIs_lupBOcY3HXfNSqifoeu-KKfzrAOnSF77n9Z9O68egb-CFYrJf_7Wmh8sypcbzjhWSnmGOzWLXM0DtdswspnK05MoZswgey7m_DeRflBRbmgd-J4lbtHPedGmisTXGduTjWHA/s320/williams,%20enoch%20henderson,%20lt,%2018%20miss%20inf%20franklin.jpg" width="225" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIQQle9D2UiCff_HuS8Ogo-eDPTZxz9zp_2ydcSNyLdoPoCzOrOJoLJkEmvJrM3B9IfGtUMv4sLXGLT9z8QgrI8lMBRcQ_Pni3TYe6Wm7KK6g5cfe-xFNy2tHNA8DfFs-ZhzjRdqmO9Kcg1b4Tx-M1c8iKottnleIehi1JbPCiTEFkg3CG2xRl_Z5o6g/s373/williams,%20joseph%20green%20english.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="250" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIQQle9D2UiCff_HuS8Ogo-eDPTZxz9zp_2ydcSNyLdoPoCzOrOJoLJkEmvJrM3B9IfGtUMv4sLXGLT9z8QgrI8lMBRcQ_Pni3TYe6Wm7KK6g5cfe-xFNy2tHNA8DfFs-ZhzjRdqmO9Kcg1b4Tx-M1c8iKottnleIehi1JbPCiTEFkg3CG2xRl_Z5o6g/s320/williams,%20joseph%20green%20english.jpeg" width="214" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>On top is Lt. Enoch Henderson Williams and on bottom is Joseph Green English Williams, both of Company C, 40th Mississippi Infantry. (Photo's courtesy of Danny Jones.)</b></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> One of the saddest stories of the Civil War happened at the Battle of Franklin in Tennessee. Two brothers fought in the same company in the 40th Mississippi Infantry. Enoch Williams was born in 1806 in Georgia. He died one year before the war began. At some point he moved his family to Atalla County, Mississippi. Nothing is known about his wife except her name was Nancy. He had five children, four boys and a girl (some sources state that he actually had six boys and a girl). His oldest son William Williams died two years before the war began at the age of 26. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> Enoch's second son was named Enoch Henderson Williams. He enlisted in Company E, 18th Mississippi Infantry when the war began. Just after the Battle of Shiloh, Enoch transferred to Company C, 40th Mississippi Infantry where he was commissioned a lieutenant. Enoch's brother Joseph Green English Williams also enlisted in Company E, 18th Mississippi Infantry. It was noted that as the two brothers were growing up, they were inseparable. They both attended Mississippi College together and it quickly became obvious that the younger brother Joseph was the better student. It made sense that they would both join the Confederate Army together. Joseph transferred to the 40th Mississippi with Enoch and was also commissioned a lieutenant. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0MfwqlhUGO5h2eAxaBI1okAbi7Iab_7aRzHHKkY2EQjdUgHrfmVv69eoE_SJza87zcuqvs5t5qXcpHA7NxwgEpVvdqQYB6J8ETF5v1XUISQ01GZPfzDH9kslOTZxwzEFN_NFCVVbBk5Mrw_J_XIowDt7tgCJP-rao_3sUgy0NQPO4XPvfC2p0Xcbhog/s247/williams%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="247" data-original-width="171" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0MfwqlhUGO5h2eAxaBI1okAbi7Iab_7aRzHHKkY2EQjdUgHrfmVv69eoE_SJza87zcuqvs5t5qXcpHA7NxwgEpVvdqQYB6J8ETF5v1XUISQ01GZPfzDH9kslOTZxwzEFN_NFCVVbBk5Mrw_J_XIowDt7tgCJP-rao_3sUgy0NQPO4XPvfC2p0Xcbhog/s1600/williams%202.jpg" width="171" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Private Columbus Marion Williams (Photo courtesy of Danny Jones)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> </b>Another brother Columbus Marion Williams joined Company E, 18th Mississippi Infantry and records show that he got sick, was sent home where he died. Family sources say he was severely wounded at Gettysburg and was captured. When he was exchanged he was sent home to Mississippi to recuperate. According to the family, he died of gangrene in the still unhealed wound in 1870 at the age of 25.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> The source that claims there were six brothers says five of them died in the war and only Columbus survived. The names of these brothers or where they possibly served and died are not known if they even existed. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> The story becomes much more melancholy. At the Battle of Franklin, Enoch and Joseph were still lieutenants in the 40th Mississippi Infantry in Winfield Featherston's Brigade. They went into the assault on the right flank of the Confederate Army having to fight their way past an Osage abatis. At some point in the fight, Enoch was shot in the stomach and Joseph was severely wounded in the arm. They were found the next morning, both had deceased, both holding the other brother's wound attempting to staunch the flow of blood. Each had tried to save his brother's life over his own. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> They were probably buried together, the Confederate dead were placed in the ditch outside the earthworks. Later, Carrie McGavock of the Carnton Plantation had these men exhumed and placed in the Confederate Cemetery behind her house. Enoch was recognized (probably by something written in his pocket), however Joseph was not. Enoch rests in the Mississippi Section of the Confederate Cemetery in grave number 3. Joseph rests in an unmarked grave either in the Mississippi Section or the Unknown Section of the Cemetery. We can only hope they are buried near each other. Enoch was 27 and Joseph was 24. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> The only information I could find about the one surviving sibling was Nannie Elizabeth Williams married a man named Johnson. I couldn't find any information on whether they ever had any children. Nannie died in 1911 at the age of 62. She rests today in Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee. The story becomes even sadder when you realize that the only chance for the family line to continue was through Columbus. He married Francis "Fannie" Elizabeth Sallis. They had two children, one child which was born dead in 1868 and a daughter born in 1869 named Elma Marion Williams. Unfortunately, she died at the age of three. Fannie lived until 1926. All four rest today in Sallis Cemetery, Sallis, Mississippi. </span></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-47127126845286724612023-01-23T16:53:00.003-08:002023-01-23T16:53:27.115-08:00Another Civilian Death: James W. Jackson<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidkI88Cs4erFjphYVzz1ydCpont1YaTVPTj5wAmOriie58khh0SAyZg0vhmsO8NM5Z4VB_f3aDZT6Z_9UJ-oo0mPyVv1R43rtXTE7uhbfgr9tOrg_ZP5DmIkfsNBjQP1zIp4k2pm3gbA635xjpdvEAzLqSymVUbyynZXCfj4oITZE9yvmhomlRAZoQhA/s600/jackson,%20james,%20va.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="600" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidkI88Cs4erFjphYVzz1ydCpont1YaTVPTj5wAmOriie58khh0SAyZg0vhmsO8NM5Z4VB_f3aDZT6Z_9UJ-oo0mPyVv1R43rtXTE7uhbfgr9tOrg_ZP5DmIkfsNBjQP1zIp4k2pm3gbA635xjpdvEAzLqSymVUbyynZXCfj4oITZE9yvmhomlRAZoQhA/s320/jackson,%20james,%20va.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>James W. Jackson</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> James W. Jackson was 38 years old when the Civil War arrived at his front door. James lived in Alexandria, Virginia just across the river from Washington, D.C. He was the owner and operator of the Marshall House Inn. Before Colonel Elmer Ellsworth and his 11th New York "Fire Zouaves" arrived at his inn, he was already semi-famous. James flew the Confederate (1st National) Flag atop his hotel which was clearly visible from Abraham Lincoln's office in the White House. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSVL6aLvDfcJrX-Dz-LeSKuIkx6yzkEuhpr83mjY5AhpW4uzRvVXLpVZGnymX-rpkSmLdZx6YOokGjyN3mdsZMgKo0iChHw4sqW4LRFX1zhpna49lfpH9BdjbkzP0wJbq7D8sxWhKxAimOvvnU8sZ6qEzKDHt9qHiWHnoBXMjazbD8H0er0M0BV99zsQ/s599/MarshallHouse1861.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="599" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSVL6aLvDfcJrX-Dz-LeSKuIkx6yzkEuhpr83mjY5AhpW4uzRvVXLpVZGnymX-rpkSmLdZx6YOokGjyN3mdsZMgKo0iChHw4sqW4LRFX1zhpna49lfpH9BdjbkzP0wJbq7D8sxWhKxAimOvvnU8sZ6qEzKDHt9qHiWHnoBXMjazbD8H0er0M0BV99zsQ/s320/MarshallHouse1861.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>James Jackson's Marshall House</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> Lincoln and his cabinet had observed the large Confederate flag flying across the Potomac River and discussed it. James Jackson had been quoted as saying they would take down his flag over his dead body. When Virginia voted to secede from the union, the following day, Federal troops occupied Alexandria. Ellsworth immediately entered the Marshall House and asked a boarder about the flag. The boarder had no knowledge of the flag. Ellsworth then climbed the stairs and removed the flag from the flagpole. While making his way down the stairs, Ellsworth met James Jackson carrying a double-barreled shotgun. Jackson shot Ellsworth in the chest at close range killing him instantly. He missed with the second barrel as he shot at a Private Brownell. Brownell shot Jackson in the face and then repeatedly bayonetted his body before throwing him down the stairs. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCJmZkGxKJig9BD4ii83obYPX-FzVqxr0RcLcOdne2TrM4R1Dht6QrnigOiR8jeZS9oRagF_EJkd9MznBz25oOspMHErMmaile3UNm6CZLbrWYsPqAPGSWC3gbyOTADChYapQwuwS6Hg0zuj12FqeNfBX3mYu_Q7S9eNZpDtq_LgF8bEIc_v0fco9yjg/s284/brownell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="126" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCJmZkGxKJig9BD4ii83obYPX-FzVqxr0RcLcOdne2TrM4R1Dht6QrnigOiR8jeZS9oRagF_EJkd9MznBz25oOspMHErMmaile3UNm6CZLbrWYsPqAPGSWC3gbyOTADChYapQwuwS6Hg0zuj12FqeNfBX3mYu_Q7S9eNZpDtq_LgF8bEIc_v0fco9yjg/w114-h258/brownell.jpg" width="114" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3XRDon_B5aFz0bzYQXu4B8gaE4TTEZunIgIcSaiqkVZZFLAHdOlMDgU7pLrZc2FXLEN_NkaJpIFlaI-CZqX6t5D4mSHMavlXrQ22WZdEbMuVDJGNtRxaUH3j-tzrdGlmMOMLF1rfC8s89enZixNToauevvhUuVka7FQ5buKK4P9n5-ItleqD2bXOcrQ/s256/ellsworth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="240" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3XRDon_B5aFz0bzYQXu4B8gaE4TTEZunIgIcSaiqkVZZFLAHdOlMDgU7pLrZc2FXLEN_NkaJpIFlaI-CZqX6t5D4mSHMavlXrQ22WZdEbMuVDJGNtRxaUH3j-tzrdGlmMOMLF1rfC8s89enZixNToauevvhUuVka7FQ5buKK4P9n5-ItleqD2bXOcrQ/s1600/ellsworth.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Private Francis Brownell (above left) and Colonel Elmer Ellsworth</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> Both sides considered each man a martyr and hero. No one seemed to question the legality of soldier's employed by the Federal government trespassing and removing private property. James Jackson left behind a wife and three children ranging from ages six and twelve years old. He rests today in the city cemetery, Fairfax, Virginia. Elmer Ellsworth was 24 years old and had never married. His only brother Charley had died the year before of smallpox at age 18. Both rest today in Hudson View Cemetery, Mechanicsville, New York. </span></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><br /> <p></p>Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-82678568323870844542023-01-20T17:28:00.003-08:002023-01-20T17:28:57.656-08:00The Sad End to William Bruce Mumford<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMIlItUkXHzX_owpaV1v6P7Kbm2rtbbv8cznOwZux-gtGdyBU7TP6EpEH5i2HOGoPpEbmZ_M_nvmXOLwrbsG8XvR4x0uG6B3uiErmtY1dHJ1D6jQVQ_uMm6I61CHkOtcI-g84hWRKMSnw7UNYI7SXy0UJOMl_XcMc9dKpeG_pH0F3f2xItPeJOVCzTXA/s418/munford,%20william%20bruce,%20la.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="267" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMIlItUkXHzX_owpaV1v6P7Kbm2rtbbv8cznOwZux-gtGdyBU7TP6EpEH5i2HOGoPpEbmZ_M_nvmXOLwrbsG8XvR4x0uG6B3uiErmtY1dHJ1D6jQVQ_uMm6I61CHkOtcI-g84hWRKMSnw7UNYI7SXy0UJOMl_XcMc9dKpeG_pH0F3f2xItPeJOVCzTXA/s320/munford,%20william%20bruce,%20la.jpg" width="204" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>William Bruce Mumford</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> </b>It's bad enough for a soldier to die in war, but when civilians are killed it's worse, especially when that civilian is executed. William Bruce Mumford was one of those civilians. He was forty-one years old when the Federal Navy arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana. He'd served the United States in two previous wars. He'd fought in the Seminole War and was wounded in the leg during the Mexican War. He would walk with a limp for the remainder of his life. Mumford made no bones about where his loyalty lay in the upcoming conflict and would have served the state of Louisiana had he been physically capable. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> From the <i>USS Pocahontas </i>a Captain Morris and several U.S. Marine's marched to the mint in town and removed the Confederate flag and replaced it with the U.S. flag. He did this without orders, the town itself had not yet been surrendered. A crowd soon arrived and became enraged over this act. Captain Morris notified them that removing the U.S. flag would result in them being fired on by the warship. Seven men, including Mumford decided to remove the flag anyway as it had been placed there illegally. The ship did indeed open fire on the seven men, but only Mumford was wounded by a flying piece of brick. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Mumford limped to the mayor's office to present him the trophy, but the angry mob tore it to shreds as he went there. Upon arrival, there wasn't much of it left. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> When the Federal Army finally arrived three days later, Union General Benjamin "Beast" Butler heard about the incident and demanded that Mumford must pay for this "crime." He ordered Mumford arrested and tried before a military court on charges of "high crimes...against the laws of the United States. Of course, he was found guilty in this "kangaroo court." It mattered not that the city wasn't even occupied or had surrendered when he removed the flag. It mattered not that he had served the United States as a soldier in two previous wars. Butler was basically judge and jury. He ordered Mumford to be hanged, but was kind enough to allow Mumford to decide the spot he would die. Mumford chose to be executed in the courtyard of the mint where the so-called "crime" had occurred. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> Mary Mumford, William's wife asked General Butler to visit her and he complied. Despite the pleading of Mary and the children, Butler refused to save the man. Despite repeated pleas from different citizens, Butler remained unmovable on granting clemency. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG9XUT0rItMyB6-pwgx2Zbru88S6vhlyDs0e7iq9nE11f50FPhHV07B6lSLaziGGiwnvfvIhcF49UJS__Oy8Rk4gcrFNG7V7v9v0dU2OU0g3rF4jPidl9njfvrnejW5Y6lnZN_Q68QrSt6rVVp3I4lPIPiKqzEVVaPACKRD_Aim6keM-7TpYJyUCFDjw/s678/us-mint1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="678" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG9XUT0rItMyB6-pwgx2Zbru88S6vhlyDs0e7iq9nE11f50FPhHV07B6lSLaziGGiwnvfvIhcF49UJS__Oy8Rk4gcrFNG7V7v9v0dU2OU0g3rF4jPidl9njfvrnejW5Y6lnZN_Q68QrSt6rVVp3I4lPIPiKqzEVVaPACKRD_Aim6keM-7TpYJyUCFDjw/s320/us-mint1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The Site of Mumford's Execution</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> Butler allowed Mumford to say a few words before his execution. He proclaimed his devotion to the Confederacy, but he also spoke of his love for the U.S. Flag and what it's original meaning before it waged an unconstitutional war against weaker states. He proclaimed his love for the original U.S. Flag and his support for it through two of it's wars. After he was hanged, Louisiana Governor Tom Moore called him a hero. His body was left hanging in front of the mint for almost an hour. General Robert E. Lee demanded of General Henry Halleck why a civilian was hanged for removing a flag before a city had officially surrendered. President Jefferson Davis went a step further. Due to Butler's proclamation which basically called all New Orleans women "ladies of the night" and Mumford's hanging, he ordered that Butler was to be treated as a war criminal and if captured to be executed on the spot without a trial. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> There is a funny irony to this part of the story. Prior to the presidential election of 1860, Butler believing that a moderate candidate could save the Union, had nominated Jefferson Davis for president fifty-seven times to no avail. Years later, Butler would arrange a job for Mumford's widow in Washington, D.C. Mumford was originally placed in a vault in Cypress Grove Cemetery, but he rests today at the foot of a Confederate monument in Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana. He left behind a wife and five children ranging from age's five to thirteen. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEie9jEyRG5Vrolc3gqhTRSZva65DF1m9m5QbS72D2ic26vns0Y0eA5c4ky2o6jguxbmXYajxr86M3M3I2Xz5CCMyKQtlVSG_0WwOXR0NVIkX5FuqNh5CupCyLU339X5qCujUvUlUKQ-PrYzPKiPCR8ItrQjNl8U6EjFWlF8w1AV_ESavKdkF8lfSASokQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="239" data-original-width="211" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEie9jEyRG5Vrolc3gqhTRSZva65DF1m9m5QbS72D2ic26vns0Y0eA5c4ky2o6jguxbmXYajxr86M3M3I2Xz5CCMyKQtlVSG_0WwOXR0NVIkX5FuqNh5CupCyLU339X5qCujUvUlUKQ-PrYzPKiPCR8ItrQjNl8U6EjFWlF8w1AV_ESavKdkF8lfSASokQ" width="212" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>Mary Mumford</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGC8qR_d-utkvZljhKCEVqO1Z2FWxh7xuSgqTsvmevIgckJmDDXcI7IIUT-vjAOevj7m-NPs0-VnN-eynAxiew602kpqGQt7g3KqOqS07NwOOQNyHucgjFsOcKjPYMG_0sveGotUvwzRQ1jHKX-SQFWqVO9Wxe-85_In4cyqjDcpJ0X1U3Fma-D-I4NQ/s170/mumford.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="170" data-original-width="149" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGC8qR_d-utkvZljhKCEVqO1Z2FWxh7xuSgqTsvmevIgckJmDDXcI7IIUT-vjAOevj7m-NPs0-VnN-eynAxiew602kpqGQt7g3KqOqS07NwOOQNyHucgjFsOcKjPYMG_0sveGotUvwzRQ1jHKX-SQFWqVO9Wxe-85_In4cyqjDcpJ0X1U3Fma-D-I4NQ/s1600/mumford.jpeg" width="149" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Mumford's Grave</b></div><br /><b><br /></b><br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><br /><p></p>Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-36052395873021591912023-01-16T19:57:00.001-08:002023-01-16T20:01:15.372-08:00A Tale of Two Brothers<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZsBDrfFzqz-NkVdA9d36D8i3xveYa7LjYTO6cOVKBFCzRslbcglGbi2-lgI3B2dz1NgSJ29QRsBFoyhl6Nls0xKTRzYSApyD7Pzf0bGi71GLj0yb91gF4s_tvN0zWJq9jY7Yj6Sjl2dqlEiPB2PaJuYWQlA4N5ufyx3RPAEI_UO9RXPlWDzoQEvl1Hw/s150/caufield,%20nicholas%20a,%20lt,%205%20la%20inf,%20antietam.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="126" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZsBDrfFzqz-NkVdA9d36D8i3xveYa7LjYTO6cOVKBFCzRslbcglGbi2-lgI3B2dz1NgSJ29QRsBFoyhl6Nls0xKTRzYSApyD7Pzf0bGi71GLj0yb91gF4s_tvN0zWJq9jY7Yj6Sjl2dqlEiPB2PaJuYWQlA4N5ufyx3RPAEI_UO9RXPlWDzoQEvl1Hw/w163-h194/caufield,%20nicholas%20a,%20lt,%205%20la%20inf,%20antietam.jpg" width="163" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Lieutenant Nicholas "Nick" A. Caufield</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> The Caufield brothers lived in New Orleans, Louisiana when the Civil War began. The oldest Nick worked as an accountant. His younger brother William worked as a clerk. Both enlisted in Company F, 5th Louisiana Infantry which was sent for service in Virginia. Nick was elected lieutenant, while William served as a private. Nick was absent back home in New Orleans from November 1861 until February 1862 where he was recruiting for the regiment. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> Not a lot is known about the two between February of 1862 and the Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam) in September of 1862. We know they were both present for 2nd Manassas and Chantilly. It was at Sharpsburg in Maryland that the brother's, serving in Brigadier General Harry T. Hays's Louisiana Infantry Brigade, were posted in the "Bloody Cornfield." It was there that Hays had his men lie prone on the ground because of all the incoming artillery fire. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHSlDmPF4BWT7b77EfQwK4E3edxSSG4Wre-cRvlRoxsctLzDpiT4YAR1x195t3ZrMp7uLkVGohT89Xpb2fgvSCH3Kff5Ipzwzl6cXDLXkg1se-nCF48O2kgocpeAE-nWSK6Vo1VCdg11bkup5mnX305sZiv7v7chJBdD50a10mz35P2CZWUMomhjzHvg/s150/caufield,%20william,%205%20la%20inf,%20antietam.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="128" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHSlDmPF4BWT7b77EfQwK4E3edxSSG4Wre-cRvlRoxsctLzDpiT4YAR1x195t3ZrMp7uLkVGohT89Xpb2fgvSCH3Kff5Ipzwzl6cXDLXkg1se-nCF48O2kgocpeAE-nWSK6Vo1VCdg11bkup5mnX305sZiv7v7chJBdD50a10mz35P2CZWUMomhjzHvg/w163-h191/caufield,%20william,%205%20la%20inf,%20antietam.jpg" width="163" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Private William Caufield</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> As they lay on the ground, William lay in front of his brother, reclining on his elbow and talking to a Lieutenant Gubbins. A Lieutenant Fitzpatrick beside them was wounded and Nick asked if he was hit. A moment later a shell struck hitting William passing completely through his body. The same shell cut off one of Private Fitzsimmons's legs, then cut off both of a Private Jenkins feet before striking Nick in the lower part of the back and exiting his chest. Nick's heart was torn from his chest. One Federal shell had killed Nick Caufield, William Caufield, and Private Fitzsimmons and wounded Private Jenkins. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> The burial location of these three men are unknown, probably originally buried on the field and possibly removed to a cemetery later. Nick Caufield was 26 years old. His brother William was just 21. </span></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><br /><p></p>Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-2398863668983765372020-08-02T01:57:00.000-07:002020-08-02T01:57:44.007-07:00The Baptist Interpretation of the Bible<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Will Dismukes - Ballotpedia" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/ballotpedia-api4/files/thumbs/200/300/WillDisAL.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="arial"><b>Alabama State Representative Will Dismukes</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="arial"><b><br /></b></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="arial"> I'm so happy that I'm not a Baptist. It seems their "politically correct" version of the Bible doesn't read like everyone else's. Will Dismukes went to a party celebrating the birthday of Confederate General and hero Nathan Bedford Forrest. The democratic party can't fathom why he did this, but the truth is, their party has no hero worth mentioning in the same sentence with General Forrest. You expect such ridiculousness from the democrats because they will use anything for a vote. The Baptist Church shouldn't have surprised me either. </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="arial"> In case you are wondering why I'm blaming the Baptists, they forced Will Dismukes who happens to be a Baptist preacher to resign because of his attending the Forrest party. Now why would the Baptist church do this? After all, doesn't the Bible teach forgiveness. Following the war, General Nathan Bedford Forrest became a member of the church and asked for forgiveness for all of his sins. According to the Bible, God forgave him of those sins, but the Baptist church obviously doesn't forgive. </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="arial"> For anyone who would like to know the truth about Forrest's salvation, I highly recommend the book called "Nathan Bedford Forrest's Redemption" by Shane E. Kastler. Mr. Kastler is amazingly a Baptist preacher, although once that denomination finds out about the book he's written, he'll probably be forced to resign. Mr. Kastler did some painstaking work tracing General Forrest's entry into the church and according to the Baptist General Forrest was saved. Now what will all these modern day Baptist do if they were to meet General Forrest in heaven. I suppose they will resign and ask God to send them elsewhere. </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="arial"> Let us look at a few Bible verses the Baptist need to read and learn. In Luke 6:37 Jesus says, "Judge not, and you will not be judged; <i>condemn not and you will not be condemned</i>; forgive, and you will be forgiven." Again from the book of Luke, 17:3-4 Jesus says, "Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; <i>and if he repents, forgive him</i>. And if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent,' <i>forgive him</i>." </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="arial"> In Mr. Kastler's book, General Forrest confessed his sins and asked for God to forgive him, yet the Baptist refuse to accept this. They should try reading 1 John 1:9 it says, "<i>If we confess our sins</i>, He is faithful and righteous to <i>forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness</i>." Matthew 6: 14-15 Jesus says, "For if <i>you forgive others</i> for their transgressions, you heavenly Father will also <i>forgive you</i>. But if <i>you do not forgive others</i>, then your Father <i>will not forgive your transgressions</i>." </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="arial"> I happen to have a friend who is a Baptist preacher, although I'm not sure which sect he is a part of, but I happen to know he thinks like Will Dismukes and forgives those who have asked for forgiveness. So please don't think I'm bashing all Baptists, but it seems the main leaders of that church are so politically correct they choose to please men over God. I would like one of them to explain to me how Will Dismukes deserves to be treated the way he was for celebrating the birthday of a man who completely changed his life and asked his Savior to forgive him his sins, yet they refuse to. </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="arial"> </font></div>Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-21578326918693931102020-07-14T18:00:00.001-07:002020-07-14T18:00:15.486-07:00Christy S. Coleman and the American Idiocracy: If you'll follow...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> </b>I recently agreed to a debate with Christy Coleman, even against her and her minions, by myself. Who won, well, I'll let you decide. Christy chose to debate me in private and left her minions out of the parts that didn't suit her agenda. Therefore, it was all Christy and her minions in public, but was it all Christy during the debate? I'll let you be the judge. According to Christy and her minions, she is the foremost expert on the American Civil War and it is all about the most "Holy" north versus the "Evil" South. Before debating Christy, I had no idea that the "holy" north only agreed to have slaves prior to the American Revolution as a means to appease the South (that's right, holy northern states embraced slavery as a means to kiss a Southerners ass according to Christy, this one truly cracks me up). You heard me right, her most "holy" north hated slavery, but accepted it to appease the Southern states, and according to her minions, she is the genius on that time period. All bow to the great Christy Coleman, the expert (in her own mind) on slavery all the way back to father Abraham, Useless Grant or anybody else who owned slaves. It's all the South's fault, right Christy?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Hey, you Christy followers, you need to line up and drink her Kool-Aid, don't ask what's in it, you don't have the intelligence to understand what she is serving, just drink it, you idiots. Don't worry, Christy has BLM and the NAACP on her side, who cares about the truth when it comes to our nations history. She has the Federal government giving her and her self-righteous group 10 million dollars a year, how much do the rest of us get from the government. Oh, that is right, we just pay in, Christy just withdraws, welcome to the idiocracy of 2020. Pay these idiots to do the thinking, let the government take all your money and give to these idiots so they can get a vote. Oh, Christy told me that we agreed on most points except the war was only about slavery. The Federal government loved the African race and believed in what the constitution preached so much, that they went and wiped out the American Indians just ten years after freeing the Africans and declaring all men are equal. In this "shit-poor" country, all men are created equal as long as you have enough of your race to count in an election. Welcome to the world of Christy Coleman and her ignorant minions. </span></div>
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Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-63682346078661710062020-07-09T20:42:00.000-07:002020-07-09T20:42:27.536-07:00The Reckoning<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> </b>For those of you who have forgotten another race of mistreated people, allow me to introduce you to the Native Americans. You don't see anything about them on CNN or any other news channel because there are only a million of them left. There aren't enough of them to count in an election, therefore their lives don't matter. You rarely hear them crying about the hand their ancestors were dealt, although they have far more right to be offended today. Can you imagine what this country would look like if the government caved in to the things that offend these people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> You won't see large groups of ignorant misinformed white people bowing down to worship or beg for forgiveness to these people because the television doesn't teach these weak minded people to do so. Isn't it amazing how a small box plugged into the wall of a home can completely brainwash the weak minded. That box controls American lives because it takes energy to think for one's self. It's much easier to let the box do our thinking for us because we don't want to expend any energy using our brains. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I happen to be a Christian and you will not find me bowing to any man, ever. I will take my knee to my Father in heaven. Laugh all you want, but I'm not worshiping a race of people because a box plugged into the wall told me to do so. I can think for myself and I have the energy to do so. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> My upcoming book is called "The Reckoning" and it is about the Cherokee and Chickasaw tribes battling the encroaching Europeans in the American South. The struggle was a long and bloody one between two fiercely militant races, the Native Americans and the Celtic people of Ireland and Scotland. Most Southerners alive today have a mixture of Native American and Celtic blood flowing through their veins. I'm reminded of a repeated story from lots of my friends who've served in the U.S. Military. Drill instructors to this day will repeat the fact that they'd prefer to have a unit of Southern soldiers over northern soldiers any day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Among the warriors I cover in my book are a couple of fierce chiefs named Doublehead (Cherokee) and George Colbert (Chickasaw). Both fought valiantly for the land they'd always lived on, only to be cheated out of it by encroaching Europeans. It reveals a group known as long hunters led by the famous Thomas "Bigfoot" Spencer who stood six feet, five inches and weighed almost 300 pounds. The Alabama version of Davy Crockett named Sam Dale who happened to be an Indian fighter, but also became close personal friends with Chief Doublehead. I was slightly reprimanded for not proclaiming a hero and an antagonist in my book, but I wanted the reader to figure out for himself which side was correct in that war. </span></div>
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I support Confederate veterans and because of that I have repeatedly been called a racist. People have stated that I support the idiot that killed George Floyd. Believe me, there is no love lost for this police officer. I don't think he deserves jail time, just announce to the public where he will be released and drop him off there. Justice will quickly be served. Trust me, you don't have to be black to have problems with some of these "Clint Eastwood" police officers. They tend to forget they work for us and are there for us. I've heard that George Floyd was on drugs, etc, but does this give a civil servant the right to kill him? This is not the kind of America the founding fathers envisioned when they formed this government. </div>
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Having explained to everyone my personal feelings on the matter, I would like to explain what we have serving as police officers in this country. During the recent shut down of the state of Alabama, Huntsville Police took action against a salon for operating without being an essential business. Three such businesses were cited. Now fast forward to when the shutdown is over and look at the city of Birmingham, Alabama. A Confederate monument was attacked and damaged against state law by rioters and the police are too afraid to intervene. Oh, they are a cocky bunch against hair dressers and store owners, but when they face a real challenge, they are nowhere to be found. Doesn't that remind you of the bullies you faced in school. They are extremely tough when they face the weak, but when they face a challenge, they always back down. Welcome to our police force today. Scared of their shadows unless they outnumber their opponents five to one. </div>
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Let's take this all a step further. My mom was in city court in Tuscumbia, Alabama and asked for a trial. (City courts in Alabama are make believe courts to obtain these small towns money and that is all they are concerned with). The prosecutor named Harold Hughston III had been through a rough day (according to him). I was representing my mom because she was almost deaf and couldn't hear. He instructed me to inform her that there would be no trial, she was going to pay the court cost and be done with it. I told him that she wanted a trial and that was her right under the U.S. Constitution. He replied, "I already told you, there is not going to be a trial, I've had a long day!" I began to argue with him when he turned to the city judge named John Kennemer (a local lawyer) and instructed him to throw me out of the courtroom. I don't know what Kennemer said because I turned and headed for the door. Just before reaching the door, a Tuscumbia police officer pushed me in the back almost sending me through the glass doors. This officer is one of those police officers like Derek Chauvin and believes he is the next Dirty Harry. His name is Steve Higginbotham and he is the type who wears his uniform about five sizes too small so he can show off his muscles. My dad always referred to him as Tuscumbia's version of "Barney Fife." We all know his type. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I know nothing about this super cop with the enormous ego who works in this small town and probably makes little more than minimum wage, but I've been told many rumors about him. None are very appealing. I was told he had been a New York police officer by a volunteer firefighter near town and he couldn't cut it there, so he had to come to Tuscumbia, Alabama to get a job. I have no idea and I don't care. Everyone in the area refers to the Tuscumbia Police Department as America's version of the Soviet police. They heard a rumor that someone was growing marijuana on Colbert Heights Mountain outside of their jurisdiction and they got all dressed up in combat gear and raided this man's farm to no avail. They also traveled west about fifteen miles to Cherokee, Alabama to write a ticket to the mayor's wife for driving a golf cart on the street. It sounds like they have little to do. Another citizen of the town of Cherokee had an arrest warrant over some small affair. He didn't know he had this warrant. He was pulled over and handcuffed by Tuscumbia Police and then beaten up. He was on crutches with a broken leg because of these super cops, yet there was nothing he could do about it. They are extremely tough when they have someone handcuffed or alone and outnumber their opponent, the rest of the time, you won't see them. Another episode occurred a little over a year ago when they were going to arrest a man named Howard. They shot his house full of tear gas and one of the canisters caught the house on fire. They then told the media that he started the fire himself. Remember Waco? We've heard this story before. So, who do these super cops answer to? Nobody, because, just like in my case, the mayor Billy Shoemaker sent my dad to the city prosecutor Kennemer for a copy of the video. Kennemer sent dad back to the mayor and the mayor sent dad back to Kennemer. Kennemer informed my dad that he couldn't release the video because he was instructed by the mayor not to and he had to work for these people. Enough said. When are we going to stand up to these overbearing, thieving local and state governments. All they want is for us to give them our money and shut up. </span></div>
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Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-63561258933512006062020-05-31T21:13:00.000-07:002020-05-31T21:13:54.362-07:00John Selden Roane: A Governor With No Military Talent<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> </b>John Selden Roane was born in 1817 in Lebanon, Tennessee. He was the nephew of Archibald Roane a governor of Tennessee. Roane attended college at Cumberland College in Kentucky and at age twenty moved to Arkansas where his brother lived. He was elected to the Arkansas state legislature. When the Mexican War began, he raised a company and became its captain. Although he had no military experience, he was soon promoted to lieutenant colonel of an Arkansas regiment. Roane was a likable and intelligent man, but was called too lazy to ever succeed in military service. The regiment performed so poorly at the Battle of Buena Vista that the regiment wasn't used in combat again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> When the Civil War began, Roane was against secession, but sided with his adopted state and received a promotion to brigadier general during the spring of 1862. He took command of a brigade in Van Dorn's army and was ordered to Corinth, Mississippi, but was soon sent back to Arkansas to defend the state from Samuel Curtis's invading force. He managed to harass Curtis enough to save the state. Thomas C. Hindman soon replaced Roane and took his troops. This turned Roane against Hindman. Soon the entire department was in an uproar as Roane was frustrated at Hindman, Hindman was quarreling with Pike, and Roane arrested Pike for Hindman. All that was accomplished was severe fighting among the commanders of the department. </span></div>
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Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-58613994515038518712020-05-28T13:53:00.000-07:002020-05-28T13:53:22.043-07:00Clement Hoffman Stevens: "Rock"<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Clement Hoffman Stevens was born in 1821 in Norwich, Connecticut. His father (a Southerner by birth) was serving in the United States Navy at the time. While a child, Stevens family moved to Florida. When the Seminole War began the family moved to Pendleton, South Carolina (his mother's place of origin) for a safer environment. Like his father, Stevens also joined the Navy and served under two officers that were relatives of his. He married the sister of future Confederate generals Barnard E. Bee and Hamilton P. Bee. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Stevens didn't remain in the Navy long before entering the banking business in Charleston, South Carolina. When the Civil War began, Stevens dove into military studies and became an expert on Civil War ordnance. He was already a colonel in the South Carolina Militia when the war began. Stevens built a battery in Charleston Harbor using railroad iron to protect his gunners. He then traveled with his brother-in-law Brigadier General Barnard E. Bee to Virginia where he served as a staff officer during the Battle of Manassas. His brother-in-law was killed during the fighting there while Stevens was seriously wounded. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> He returned to Charleston and took command of a militia regiment. He and Ellison Capers raised the 24th South Carolina Infantry. Stevens would become their colonel and Ellison Capers was made his lieutenant colonel. Both men would become general officers by the end of the war. He led the regiment in the Battle of Secessionville where he stopped the Federal attack. He remained on the east coast for the next year. During the spring of 1863, his regiment was assigned to Brigadier General States Rights Gist's brigade and sent to Jackson, Mississippi to assist Joseph Johnston's army relieve besieged Vicksburg. Johnston failed to move in time to assist Pemberton and soon Vicksburg was forced to surrender. Gist's brigade was then sent to the Army of Tennessee and fought at the Battle of Chickamauga. A funny incident occurred before the battle. While the battle raged the first day, Gist's brigade was stranded in Rome, Georgia because a railroad engineer was sleeping. Stevens was so angry that he threatened to shoot the man. Stevens had two of his men fire the boilers of the locomotive and forced the engineer to drive them to the battlefield at gunpoint. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> At Chickamauga, he was severely wounded again and had two horses killed beneath him. His division commander William H.T. Walker called him "iron-willed" and recommended him for promotion for his gallantry as a leader in combat. Colonel Clement Hoffman Stevens became Brigadier General Stevens in January of 1864. He was given command of W.H.T. Walker's old brigade when its new commander Brigadier General Claudius C. Wilson died of fever. His brigade participated in the Atlanta Campaign but saw limited action. General Stevens earned the nickname "Rock" at this time from his troops for his steadiness under fire. Stevens was upset at the replacement of Joseph E. Johnston before the engagements around Atlanta.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In the first battle for Atlanta at Peachtree Creek, Stevens was leading his brigade on horseback in a charge against Federal breastworks. Sources conflict each other about whether he was hit by a bullet or artillery fire. Either way, he was struck in the head by a projectile that fractured his skull behind his jaw. While being carried from the field by two officers, they were also shot. Stevens was carried to Macon, Georgia where surgeons removed what they called a bullet and bits of bone. General Stevens died on July 25, 1864. He rests today in St. Paul's Episcopal Cemetery in Pendleton, South Carolina along with his brother-in-law General Barnard E. Bee. General Stevens was 42 years old. His wife Ann had died two years earlier and he left behind two sons. </span></div>
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Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-67566439752019486942020-05-21T22:19:00.001-07:002020-05-21T22:19:23.310-07:00Frank Crawford Armstrong: The General Who Fought For Both Sides<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> </b>Many soldiers fought for both sides during the war, but you hardly ever think of a general officer as having done so. You'd be wrong. Frank Crawford Armstrong was born in 1835 in Choctaw Territory in what is today known as Oklahoma. His father Francis W. Armstrong was an American army officer posted there at the time. Unfortunately, Frank would not remember his father because he died three months before Frank's birth. Frank's widowed mother soon married Mexican War General Persifor F. Smith. At age 19, Frank accompanied his step-father into New Mexico to fight Native Americans. His performance there earned him a commission in the United States Army as a lieutenant without him having to attend West Point. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Following the war, he served in the mail service in Texas, became an Indian inspector, and eventually became Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs. He died in Bar Harbor, Maine in 1909 at his daughter's house. I actually wrote to the local city historian in Bar Harbor a few years ago and asked her about the address where Armstrong died. She knew of the address, but almost called me a liar when I stated a Confederate general died in her town. Having resigned his U.S. Army commission on August 10, 1861 and joining the Confederate Army, his resignation wasn't accepted until August 13th. This means that Frank Crawford Armstrong served three days in both armies during the war. Frank Armstrong was 73 years old when he died and rests today in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. </span></div>
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Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-35478563943401126602020-05-19T21:03:00.001-07:002020-05-19T21:03:02.916-07:00Daniel Frost: The Confederate General Who Deserted<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> There were only a couple of the 426 commissioned Confederate generals who were ever accused of cowardice. Daniel Marsh Frost was not one of them, however he is remembered today as the only Confederate general who deserted his cause. General Frost was born in Duanesburg, New York in 1823. He graduated from West Point ranked 4th in the class of 1844. Dan Frost saw action in the Mexican War and was brevetted for gallantry at the Battle of Cerro Gordo. Following the Mexican War, he almost lost an eye in a skirmish with Native Americans in Texas. In 1853, Frost resigned from the U.S. Army and began a career in business that involved both lumber and fur trading. By 1854, he was elected a senator in the Missouri State Legislature. He left the Missouri legislature in 1858 but became a brigadier general in the Missouri State Militia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> When the Civil War began, Frost was a supporter of the Southern states and raised Missouri troops for the Confederate cause. He and his recruits were surrounded by Federal troops near St. Louis, his men were marched through the city streets as prisoners and a riot broke out. After being exchanged he was commissioned brigadier general in the Confederate Army on March 3, 1862. He served briefly as a staff officer on Confederate General Braxton Bragg's staff before being reassigned to the Trans-Mississippi Department to serve under Major General Thomas C. Hindman. There he led a division in the Battle of Prairie Grove. In the spring of 1863, Hindman was relieved of duty in Little Rock, Arkansas (mostly for ruling the region with an iron fist) and Frost took command. </span></div>
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Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-53841972963268838412020-05-15T16:45:00.001-07:002020-05-15T16:45:10.949-07:00The Tragic Death of Major General John Austin Wharton<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Most people don't understand why people in the South are considered so much more respectful than Northerners. There is a reason for this and it goes way back beyond the Civil War. In the South, there was a code of honor among gentlemen. If you insulted a man, you may find yourself challenged to a duel. I've already written a blog on dueling in the old South if you'd like to read it. </span><a href="http://trrcobb.blogspot.com/2013/05/antebellum-dueling.html">http://trrcobb.blogspot.com/2013/05/antebellum-dueling.html</a> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were rules that were supposed to be followed. I read an article a couple of years ago about newspaper editors in the antebellum South. You'll have to forgive my memory, but I remember being amazed at the number of times the average editor was challenged to a duel during his lifetime for something printed in his paper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Major Wharton wouldn't have the opportunity to defend himself in a duel. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, the Wharton family moved to Texas while he was young. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was described as a "red-haired, freckle-faced boy." </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Wharton graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1850. While in that state, he married the daughter of Governor David Johnson. Upon graduation, Wharton returned to Texas where he practiced law. He soon made enough money to purchase a plantation. He was a strong supporter of secession. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> When the war began, he and other Texans headed to Richmond, Virginia. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They saw action at Manasass (Bull Run), but Wharton was sick and missed the battle. He then became a captain in the 8th Texas Cavalry.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The unit became known as "Terry's Texas Rangers". Colonel Benjamin F. Terry was mortally wounded at Rowlett's Station and his successor Thomas S. Lubbock became sick and died. John was promoted to colonel of the regiment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> At Shiloh, Wharton was wounded, yet he refused to leave the field. He remained in command and helped cover the retreat of the army to Corinth. General William J. Hardee called him "the gallant Wharton." This praise helped stoke the fires of military ambition in Colonel Wharton. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was then placed under command of Bedford Forrest and fought in an engagement at Murfreesboro on July 13, 1862. Forrest commended him for moving forward at the head of his command. He was severely wounded in this assault.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Wharton recovered in time to lead his regiment during Bragg's Kentucky invasion. He had a horse shot from beneath him at Bardstown and at Perryville he was praised for leading one of the greatest charges of the war. Because of this, he was promoted to brigadier general on November 18, 1862. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> John Wharton received command of a two-thousand man brigade and joined Joseph Wheeler's cavalry. He was praised by Wheeler and received promotion to major general on November 10, 1863. He continued to serve under Wheeler in the action around Chattanooga. Rumors began to circulate that Wharton was a superior general to Wheeler. These rumors soon reached Wheeler's ears and Wheeler immediately began to complain to General Joseph Johnston about his subordinate. Wheeler stated that ambition had turned Wharton into a "frontier political trickster." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Johnston understood something must be done to retain peace among his commanders. Wharton had applied to President Jefferson Davis for a transfer to the Trans-Mississippi (area west of the Mississippi River) and Johnston realized this would solve his problem. Wharton was ordered to report to Edmund Kirby Smith in Texas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> He arrived there in the spring of 1864 and when General Thomas Green was killed at Blair's Landing, he took command of Richard Taylor's cavalry in Louisiana. Taylor praised his performance, but the Trans-Mississippi didn't receive the attention of the army's east of the river. He soon applied for a return to Johnston's army in Georgia. That transfer regrettably would never occur and John Wharton would die as a result. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Fellow Texan Colonel George Wythe Baylor (brother of Colonel John R. Baylor the famed Indian fighter) and John Wharton would have problems. Baylor had served on General Albert Sidney Johnston's staff at Shiloh. Both men were ardent Texans devoted to the Confederate cause. Deep down, they were very different men. Baylor was a self-made man who'd worked hard all his life for what he'd obtained. Wharton was born to wealth and education. More trouble was brewing than just their backgrounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The first incident between the two men occurred when Colonel Baylor on furlough applied for an extension because of his wife's ill health. Wharton had denied the furlough writing, "I know nothing of Mrs. Baylor's health. Colonel Baylor is needed with his regiment." Baylor believed that Wharton was calling him a liar to have his furlough extended. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Most people saw Wharton as a future politician careful to look for future votes. Like a true politician, most felt he took care of his friends at the expense of others. General John B. Magruder placed Baylor's cavalry under Wharton's command and soon after asked Wharton for troops to serve as dismounted cavalry. Wharton immediately sent him Baylor's men. This infuriated Baylor. According to Baylor (he'd been commanding a cavalry brigade for some time), Wharton had promised him a promotion to brigadier general and now was forcing him to serve under a lower ranking officer as infantry. For Baylor, it was just too much. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Colonel George Wythe Baylor</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The sad part of the episode is the fact that Baylor was placed under a general who wasn't able to take the field which basically ensured him an independent command. Wharton probably saw it in this light. Baylor's pride was hurt and that fact didn't make him feel any better. In his defense, by this point of the war, Baylor was himself in poor health. He'd been suffering from dysentery and had lost a lot of weight. Despite standing six feet, two inches he weighed less than 140 pounds. His brother John R. Baylor was known for his fiery temper and Baylor probably wasn't much better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Wharton didn't help the situation with his language. He was famous for cursing when speaking to his subordinates and talking harshly when he did address them. Things were quickly coming to a climax between the two men. On the morning of April 6, 1865 (just three days before Lee surrendered at Appomattox), both General Wharton and General James Harrison came riding into Houston in a carriage to visit their superior officer Major General John B. Magruder. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Colonel Baylor was in town that morning attempting to enlist the help of General Walter Paye Lane in getting his orders countermanded. Lane refused to get involved (especially after the reports of the way Wharton talked to his subordinates). Having failed to receive any help from Lane, Baylor strolled through town with Captain Sorrel. Wharton, riding in the carriage spotted Baylor and dressed him down for being absent from his command. It had to be an embarrassing moment for Baylor being "chewed out" in front of Captain Sorrel and General Harrison. Baylor informed Wharton that it was imperative that he be in Houston to have his men removed from the situation they were in or they would all desert. He then told Wharton he was going to see Magruder to complain about Wharton. The situation began to escalate and both men's voices began to rise. Wharton demanded to know when he'd ever treated Baylor unfairly. Baylor named several instances that in his mind were mistreatment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Wharton called Baylor a "damned liar." In the old South calling someone a liar was just asking to be challenged to a duel. Baylor then called Wharton a "liar" and stepped toward the buggy with his hand raised. General Harrison shocked at the escalating situation nudged the horse forward. Baylor shouted, "Stop the buggy, sir!" Harrison ignored him. The buggy continued down the street with Baylor still shouting at Wharton. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Unlike in a duel, Baylor had killed an unarmed man. In that time period, this would be construed almost like an act of cowardice. Wharton was 36 years old and rests today in the Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Texas. George Baylor would become a post-war Texas Ranger, writer, and serve in the Texas state legislature. He died on March 24, 1916 and rests today in the Confederate Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas. He was 83 years old. Baylor claimed that he regretted killing General Wharton for the remainder of his life calling it a "lifelong sorrow." Those closest to Baylor reported that he couldn't mention the entire affair without coming to tears. He stated, "I trust everyone who knows me personally will believe me when I say the whole thing was a matter of sorrow and regret to me." Baylor is remembered as a military commander as "a courageous individual fighter...lacked reserve, was a poor disciplinarian, and an indifferent judge of men." Both men are remembered for their fearlessness in combat. Wharton is remembered as a fine combat commander. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> My wife has been after me to get busy publishing blogs again and I've been struggling for subjects. If you know me, you probably think there must be something wrong. I have lots of blog subjects, but not the motivation. I guess if she "nags" me enough, I'll finally get busy. This blog was inspired a few minutes ago by my youngest son Timmy. He was watching youtube when out of the blue, he asked me if General Robert E. Lee (his personal hero) had PTSD. I immediately replied without giving it much thought. I told him I didn't think General Lee had PTSD, but that was a particularly bloody war and I'm sure some had it. Like today, I'm not sure it was as prevalent among officers as the true combat soldier himself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> That statement isn't exactly accurate either. If you look at the Confederate officer, he went into combat with his men. The Civil War (especially in the South) wasn't like the military today. Redd Foxx once said that he backed up so far once that he backed into a general. That wouldn't happen in the Civil War, especially in the Confederate army. Marine Lieutenant General Chesty Puller summed up Confederate leadership in one quote, "In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to last four years." Truer words were never spoken. Let's take a look at what is known about these incredibly brave men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> There were 426 Confederate general's commissioned by President Davis (not all were confirmed). Out of those 426, 77 were killed in combat, not to mention how many were wounded. Some were wounded numerous times. Brigadier General Thomas Benton Smith was so severely wounded that he remained in a mental institution for the remainder of his life. Nineteen Confederate generals died during the war, Archer, Jones, and Winder had heart attacks, Bowen, Grayson, Hogg, Nelson, Smith, Villepigue, Wilson, and Bowen all died of fever, Wharton, Van Dorn, and Walker were murdered, Donelson, Floyd, and Twiggs died of old age, Cocke committed suicide in 1861 and Baldwin broke his neck in the fall from his horse. Another named Frost deserted to Canada during the war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> One Confederate general resigned following the Nashville Campaign from effects that could be construed as PTSD. Major General Henry D. Clayton of Alabama asked to be relieved because of "chronic stress." He'd seen a lot of suffering and death by this point of the war. As a division commander at Franklin, he lost a lot of good men. He never regained his health to the point of returning to the army before the surrender occurred just four months later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I made a quick attempt at answering Timmy's question by looking at the post-war careers of these commanders. If you subtract 77 killed, 1 mentally unfit, 19 who died during the war, that leaves 338 commissioned Confederate generals. Here is what I was able to reveal. Three of those surviving generals committed suicide, but it's impossible to tell if it was because of their war experiences. Buford killed himself over personal and financial problems, Cosby committed suicide because of constant pain from an old war wound (he was 89 years old), and the other was Scott of Louisiana who drank himself to death (this one technically isn't a suicide, but he died in a New Orleans coffee shop). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Out of the remaining generals, eight were murdered, the only one that may have had something to do with the war is General Hindman (we will never know the true reason of his murder). Brantley, Liddell and Grimes were murdered in what appear to be family feuds. Parsons was murdered by Jauristas in Mexico. The rest were murdered in lawyer related issues. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> That leaves the generals who turned to religion. This category is also difficult to establish because some became religious while others were religious before the war. Lowrey and Pendleton were pre-war ministers. General Leonidas Polk who was killed at Pine Mountain was a pre-war Episcopal bishop. Others became religious leaders following the war. Capers (Methodist), Colquitt (Methodist), Evans (Methodist), Hawthorne (Baptist), and Gano (Church of Christ). Many more became religious following the war, but whether it was because of what they'd been through is difficult to determine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In answer to Timmy's question about PTSD, I can't prove they had it, but I can't prove they didn't. It was a different time period and people acted differently back then. Death became an everyday part of life in that war. It's as one old veteran once told me, you've made up your mind your not going to survive and every day that you do has been a blessing. Maybe that was their mindset. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> By the way, the one general that did exhibit signs of PTSD, Alabama Major General Henry D. Clayton, following the war he resumed his law practice, became a circuit judge, became the president of the University of Alabama, and raised a son who became a prominent Alabama congressman, Henry DeLamar Clayton, Jr. </span></div>
<br />Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-85641644978646733902020-05-08T22:01:00.001-07:002020-05-08T22:01:34.487-07:00The Frustration of Studying the Civil War<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Someone recently called my attention to a Civil War talk board online that mentioned a youtube video I posted several years ago. You would be surprised at some of the names I was called because some of these people didn't agree with my ranking of the Confederate lieutenant generals. If they had bothered to read the introduction they would have learned that I made the video just for fun and to spark some discussion, but now I've learned that I'm an idiot. The computer reminds me of the same people who drive automobiles. Behind a keyboard or a steering wheel it seems many of us become something we wouldn't be in person. If someone doesn't agree with your opinion, then you must be an idiot. It can't possibly be that they are the idiot, that would destroy the perfect world they've created in their own minds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Is there no such of thing as friendly discussion with rational arguments anymore? After further study of my subject, I can honestly say I don't agree any longer with the way I have some of them ranked. One person called me an idiot because I didn't include General Beauregard in the list. It doesn't matter that Beauregard was never ranked as a lieutenant general, but was promoted from brigadier general to full general skipping the ranks of major general and lieutenant general, but of course, I'm the idiot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In my "for fun" video, I ranked Stonewall Jackson as the best lieutenant general. Most people agreed with that choice, but after that I really rankled some feathers. I was attacked because I ranked Bedford Forrest second. The reason given was because Forrest wasn't promoted to lieutenant general until March 2, 1865 and this person called me an idiot for ranking him second when he only served as lieutenant general for a month and that isn't enough time to see how well he commanded at the corps level. What this genius fails to realize is the fact that Forrest had been commanding a cavalry corps since 1863 without having been promoted. Just because he wasn't ranked a lieutenant general, didn't mean he wasn't an excellent corps commander for two years. When he was promoted, his position as corps commander never changed, so why can we not judge him on his corps leadership ability for those two years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The one that always gets peoples feathers ruffled is James Longstreet. Ever since the movie Gettysburg came out, he has been claimed by many people to be the greatest commander of the war. In this country today, all it takes is a fictional movie based on a fictional novel to change peoples perception of someone. Longstreet obviously fits this category. If I had a nickel for every time someone watched that movie and told me that Lee would have won at Gettysburg if he'd just listened to Longstreet. The move Longstreet proposed was expected by Meade and he was just itching to retreat to a better position on Pipe Creek. Without cavalry present (Jeb Stuart was off on a useless raid) it would have been almost impossible to perform the flanking move without Stuart's cavalry screen. Another question I have about Longstreet is why he made the move he made in Knoxville, Tennessee later the same year. On November 9, 1863, Longstreet assaulted Fort Sanders with around 3000 men. The fort only held a little over 400 Federal troops, yet the attack was a disaster. Longstreet lost over 800 men compared to just 13 Federal casualties he inflicted. Instead of responding as General Lee would have done and took the blame, he immediately began to emulate Braxton Bragg by arresting his subordinates. The mark of a true leader is when he takes the blame for his mistakes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> If I had the video to make over, I'm sure there are several I would reorder. I ranked Jubal Early high because of his advance to the outskirts of Washington and Wade Hampton because of I felt he was an excellent cavalry corps commander especially his Beefsteak Raid. S.D. Lee I feel like I may have ranked too high. He made a severe mistake at Ezra Chruch and failed Hood at Columbia, Tennessee, however he helped save the army during the Battle of Nashville. I perhaps ranked Richard Heron Anderson low because of how he allowed his staff to run his forces. There were times when he acted like he had little interest in the war. Hardee is perhaps ranked too low because he was called "Ole Reliable," however he was the biggest back biter in the army. He undermined all of his superiors including Sidney Johnston, Braxton Bragg, Joseph Johnston, and John Bell Hood. However, when offered command of the army, he refused the responsibility. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of A.P. Hill, but he was often rash, just look at his actions at Bristoe Station. He was impulsive and got a lot of good men killed by his aggressiveness. He can be compared to the way General Hood is often perceived. The lieutenant general in my personal opinion that I believe should be ranked in the top five is D.H. Hill. He only saw action as a corps commander at Chickamauga was the reason I ranked him low, but he was a dependable commander and if he didn't suffer from chronic back pain which left him extremely sarcastic to subordinates and superiors alike he may have reached his true potential. He became so rude to others that General Lee was happy to see his dependable subordinate transferred to Bragg's army.</span></div>
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Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-11729113913991855622020-03-01T19:47:00.004-08:002020-03-01T19:47:55.801-08:00Fearless Marines under a cowardly Commandant<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> On February 17, 2020, Marine Commandant David Berger ordered the removal of all Confederate flags or icons from all U.S. Marine bases. I can understand why. After the showing the Marine Corps put on at the Battle of Manassas against a bunch of untrained, barely organized Confederate farm boys. Those bad Marines at Manassas ran like school girls. I would want to erase that memory also, if I was commandant of that group. During the war, it was said that President Lincoln asked General Winfield Scott why he beat a larger Mexican Army and took Mexico, but couldn't subdue the far weaker Confederate nation. Scott replied, "Because those men you want me to subdue are the very ones that I used to take Mexico." Maybe Berger shouldn't burn any bridges. He may need some Southern Marines to help him win a war some day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Of course David Berger is from the wishy-washy state of Maryland which couldn't decide which side to take during the war. Well, Berger is making a stand. Now don't think I'm putting down Marines, but they will never make a Marine that can go through what those Confederate soldiers went through. Eating and sleeping on the ground, fighting horrible diseases (smallpox, yellow fever, just to name a few), and beginning a four year war with a full company of 100 men, only to surrender four years later with 6 of those having survived. He needs to read the book <i>Co. Atych</i> and then he may learn a little history. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This brings me to the second part of this blog. An old friend of mine was in the Marine Corps. He almost had twenty years of service and was ranked First Sergeant if my memory is correct or it may have been Sergeant Major. He quit the Marines. I asked him why he would get out with just a few years left. He explained to me how the Marines allow certain groups of people (minorities) special privileges that the white Marine doesn't receive. His exact words to me was the Marine Corps today is racist and not the way you think. If this is indeed true, Lord help us if we ever get into a real war, not one that you just push buttons. That Marine Corps flag doesn't much impress me anymore if they stand for political correctness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Now I know I will be attacked for writing such a blog, but allow me to demonstrate how the changing of history occurs. Twenty years ago, people understood the Civil War was about more than just slavery. They understood that unfair taxation was involved. They understood that fear of an overbearing Federal government (too bad those evil Southern slave supporters were right on this one) was involved. You tell lies enough and sooner or later you will convince the weak minded and a few intelligent people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Here is how the Marine Corps is beginning to justify their stance on this subject. Recently they've began their own campaign to rewrite history. A Gunnery Sergeant named Thomas Williams is spreading tails that the Marines didn't really embarrass the Corps at Manassas. I guess he's right. In twenty years it will be taught in school that they drove Stonewall Jackson off of Henry Hill that day. Do you see how its done now? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> One article I read claims the Marines fought ferociously. Well, let's check the numbers. There were 353 Marines that charged across Henry Hill. Out of that number there were 9 killed and 19 wounded with 6 missing for a total of 34. That's a little over 9%. Now let me show you what a unit fighting ferociously in that war would have looked like. My grandfather was in Company B, 35th Alabama Infantry and they advanced across the field at Franklin with 24 men. After the battle there were only 2 that weren't wounded. That is 92% and that is an example of ferocious fighting. Within twenty years I'm sure these politically correct historians and military commanders will have the roles reversed and the Marines suffered 90% casualties that day on Henry Hill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> While I read one book that stated the Marine Corps played a minor role in the Civil War, I've found an article by a Marine that explains how the war couldn't have been won without the Marines. One of these have to be the truth, both can't be right. He ends his self serving article with the words "Semper Fi." </span></div>
Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-33237224232016636732019-07-28T19:09:00.000-07:002019-07-28T19:09:22.587-07:00Twitter and the Idiocracy...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> </b>I've written a couple of blogs about Mr. Levin (the expert on the American Civil War) if you count re-writing history as being an expertise these days. My publisher has insisted that I become more active on social media and my wife has forced me to learn new things. One new thing she has introduced me to is something called twitter. My wife went and subscribed me to everyone that tweets on the Civil War and other history. That's how I came to hear the garbage that Mr. Levin is posting on social media. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> He has written a book about the myth of the black Confederate soldier and I'm sure it's as accurate as the garbage he put out in his book on the Battle of the Crater. Mr. Levin doesn't allow the truth to get in the way of his version of history. I recently received a tweet from Mr. Levin with a picture of a black Confederate soldier sitting next to a young white lady at a Confederate reunion. Mr. Levin immediately tells his followers that "this individual showed up at a Confederate reunion in Tampa, Florida." Well, Mr. "Lying" Levin, you are wrong again. This individual happened to show up at a Confederate reunion in Memphis, Tennessee. He had his photograph taken with the granddaughter of the colonel of the regiment which happens to be the 5th Alabama Cavalry. This man is Reuben Patterson of Florence, Alabama.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Now I've had numerous discussions with these New England "historians" about there being black Confederate soldiers. They always bring the subject around to these men are not listed on a muster role of the regiment so therefore they are not soldiers. If you go into battle (in cavalry regiments the bugler had to go into battle to sound the various orders to the troopers), do you think a bullet cares if you have your name on a piece of paper? The next thing they tell me is that these men were body servants and cooks. Well, I used to work with a guy that served in Vietnam a year as a cook. Although the United States Army calls him a veteran, by the New England "historians" perspective, he wasn't even a soldier. I mean you can't have it both ways. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Another question I would like answered is this: If these men weren't soldiers, why were they given Confederate pensions? In order for a white Confederate to receive a pension, he had to prove he served faithfully, and never deserted. Do you think the states in the financial shape they were in following the war would give these men money without proof of service? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> There is the story of captured Federal prisoners at Murfreesboro being whacked over the head with a saber by a black man named Jake. These men were terrified to be captured thinking the Confederate soldiers might kill them. Jake advancing with the 8th Arkansas Infantry whacked these prisoners on the head and shouted, "You ought to get home, then!" I'm sure Jake wasn't a soldier, he probably just picked up a saber to beat his liberators over the head with (makes New England sense I guess). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Allow me to tell you another story of a black servant that also lived in Florence, Alabama when the war began. When William "Billy" Patton entered Confederate service, his best friend as a boy was a servant the same age and owned by Billy's father. This servant was named Sam. Sam promised Billy's mother that he would go to war with Billy and if anything should happen to his best friend he would bring the body home. William A. Patton was elected a lieutenant in Company C, 16th Alabama Infantry. At the Battle of Shiloh, the regiment was part of General Wood's Brigade. Wood was also from Florence, Alabama. Advancing past Shiloh Church the unit overran Waterhouse's artillery battery near Water Oaks Pond. During this assault, Lieutenant Billy Patton was killed. Sam brought the body back to the church and remained with it during the night. The next morning Sam found a mule and began the long road back to Corinth where he could place Billy's body on a train back to Alabama. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> During the day, the Confederate army began its retreat to Corinth and coming upon Sam and his best friend's body, they confiscated his mule because they needed all they could get to pull off the wagons, captured artillery, etc. Sam would not let that stop him from keeping his promise, but placed William's body over his shoulder and continued to Corinth. He delivered the body to his home which is called the "Sweetwater Mansion." Thanks to Sam, Billy's funeral was held in the parlor of the home. The house still stands there today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Now New England "historians" have a hard time understanding the South. Most know very little about how life was here, yet they can sit and proclaim how evil the South was and how holy the north was without daring to research their subject. They rely on presentism. Using modern standards to judge history. This is extremely unfair. One more question they can never seem to answer for me is this: If slavery were so bad and harsh, why didn't the slaves rise up in rebellion when Lincoln issued his emancipation proclamation? With all the white men gone to war, this would have helped the Union win the war, yet it never happened. This was one of Lincoln's hopes when he issued his proclamation. He was losing a war that was quickly becoming unpopular in the north. People were growing tired of the long casualty lists. Newspaper reporters were jailed for speaking the truth. Members of state legislatures (Maryland) were arrested in the dead of night. The largest mass execution of 38 Native Americans by the U.S. Government in 1862. Yet the New England "historian" ignores all the things that portray his side of the fight as evil. Thus Kevin Levin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Robert S. Garnett was born in Essex County, Virginia in 1819. Robert graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1841 ranked 27th out of 52 cadets. Despite his lower ranking, he was placed in the artillery. Most graduates ranked outside the top ten ended up in the infantry. Garnett did eventually become an infantry officer where he served during the Mexican War. Twice he was praised for his bravery there. Robert was the first cousin of Richard Brooke Garnett who would also become a Confederate brigadier general and would lose his life at Gettysburg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Prior to the Civil War, Robert would see more action against the Native Americans of Puget Sound. In 1857, he married Marianne Nelson and a year later they had a son named Arthur Nelson Garnett. Both Marianne and Arthur would come down with what was then termed "bilious fever" and both died. Marianne was from New York and both were laid to rest in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Marianne was twenty-six years old. Arthur was seven months old and outlived his mother by six days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> When the Civil War began, Garnett was made a brigadier general and sent to western Virginia where he was given command of green troops, poorly armed, and heavily outnumbered. Before leaving Richmond, Virginia for his command, Garnett had told a friend, "They have not given me an adequate force. I can do nothing. They have sent me to my death."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Upon arriving at his command, he attempted to extricate them from the mountains and back to the Shenandoah Valley. The Federals under McClellan were pursuing the Confederate force. Garnett personally managed his rearguard during the retreat. Rains had turned the roads into a mess. Upon reaching a place called Corrick's Ford on the Cheat River, Garnett attempted to fight another rearguard action here to delay his pursuers. He placed the 23rd Virginia Infantry on the shore under future Brigadier General William B. Taliaferro. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The Federals arrived and were repulsed two times by Taliaferro's regiment. Garnett was recommending a position to place skirmishers when several Federal soldier's opened fire. Garnett's aide Sam Gaines was mounted at his side and ducked the shots. Garnett scolded his assistant for dodging bullets. During the war, commanding officer's had to inspire their soldiers by standing bravely while bullets passed close by. Gaines apologized saying he felt the wind of the bullet and it caused him to flinch. Garnett quickly changed his tone and spoke compassionately to Gaines about how an officer should act in combat.</span></div>
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<br />Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-89513301628588924222019-02-02T20:53:00.000-08:002019-02-02T20:53:20.558-08:00Just When You Think It Can't Get Any Worse<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Pretend your father was called on by his government (the state of Alabama) to go fight a war against an invading force. Let's pretend your father was a poor farmer who could barely own shoes, but he went to war because his state asked him to. The war was four long bloody years and he either got sick or was killed in combat. What could make a person more proud than for his family member to have given his life fighting for his home, his country. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Now you need to fast forward a hundred and fifty years and find that a certain group of people have twisted what your father fought for. They've made him appear to be evil. They hate what and who he fought for. Pretend this group is a minority group that cries all the time about how mistreated they are and what the majority group owes them. Then throw in some spineless politican or lawyer just like Judge Michael Graffeo of Birmingham, Alabama. He is know to stir controversy to get attention and a vote, the laws of the government be damned because he needs a vote. Now a monument was raised to your father and others who gave his life for the state of Alabama. The state passes a law protecting all historical monuments, but Judge Graffeo (a liberal democrat if that happens to surprise anyone) rules in court that Alabama law is null and void in Birmingham, Alabama. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Well, isn't that ironic? Judge Graffeo just proved the state of Alabama and everyone else that fought the Federal government in that war were correct and that anyone can declare law void that wants to. So, I should say I am declaring my personal property free of any government laws just like Judge Graffeo has done. I'm not paying income taxes, property taxes, or any other taxes because I just declared those tax laws unconstitutional. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Now remember this about lawyers. They ask these young men to go fight a war for them and then later turn on them. They turn on the very soldiers that they sent to fight. You can't be any more of a coward than that. Judge Graffeo is a typical "kiss ass" attorney attempting to weaken this country by kissing up to those that will give him what he wants. This is why I could never be a politician. I have too much dignity and morals to do the things they are willing to do. A prostitute would be more honorable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Now you must wonder why the state of Alabama is broke. We are paying legislaturer's to make laws and after they spend a year finally getting it pushed through, one judge decides to take it upon himself to rule it unconstitutional. How stupid is this republic? Pretty damned stupid. I've just learned that a Revolutionary War monument was vandalized in Wilkesboro, North Carolina and even more ridiculous is the fact that the state of Texas are passing around the idea of renaming the state capitol of Austin. Austin is named after Stephen F. Austin. Some people are offended by the city being named after this man (imagine someone being offended today). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Stephen Austin is called the "Father of Texas." Born in 1793 in Virginia, Austin was a politician who took 300 people and settled in Texas. He eventually became Secretary of State of Texas and periodically during his life he owned slaves. The man had conflicting views on slavery and hoped Texas would eventually abolish the practice. Fast foward to today and they want to change the name of the capitol of the state he helped found. Things are just going to get worse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I told my buddy Tommy Hubbert that in our lifetime we will probably see Washington, D.C. changed to something else. I'm guessing it will be called Lincoln, D.C., Obama, D.C., or perhaps MLK, D.C. Everything in this country white needs to be erradicated. As congressman Mo Brooks said, "This country has declared war on white people."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> During my last blog we discussed how the Northern politically correct historians change the truth to suit their agenda's. We talked about how Jane Dailey (shown above) changed the historical painting entitled "Lee and His Generals" to suit her agenda. She either doesn't know that only corps and army commanders were pictured in the painting, not brigade and division commanders or she is ignorant of what she claims to be a historian of. She claims that William Mahone was left out purposefully because he attempted to take care of the black race following the war. I was speaking with a colleague recently and stated, "You would think a professor of history would understand why a division commander would be missing from a painting of all corps and army commanders. After all, the greatest division commander in the Confederacy was Patrick R. Cleburne and he wasn't in the painting." My friend replied, "You would think, but most historians today don't have a clue. They write to make their side of the argument sound legitimate."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Mrs. Dailey could have written about General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard of New Orleans who was an army commander and was in the painting. Following the war, he fought to help blacks obtain equal rights and what "thanks" did he get for that? Well, the mayor of New Orleans had his monument removed from public places. So, there you go, write a story about that one Mrs. Dailey. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> To add to their view of Southerners we need to read Kevin Levin's blog post asking if the Sons of Confederate Veterans truly want to restore the home of William Mahone. The home in question is William Mahone's boyhood home in Courtland, Virginia. Levin (an obvious psychic who knows what people are planning in the future) states that the S.C.V. will no doubt interpret the story about Mahone's pre-war career while ignoring his post-war career. Hey Kevin, perhaps you can avert some future murders and save lives since you already know what a group is planning to do in the future. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The problem with these modern day "northern historians" is the fact that they think all Southerner's are ignorant and only a "Yankee" can be intelligent. They don't understand that the S.C.V. has a charge to remember those who fought for the Southern states. It has nothing to do with post-war politics or racism. There happen to be black S.C.V. members as bad as that galls the "northern historians." Even Levin states that Mahone would not want the Sons of Confederate Veterans in his home. Since Levin knows so much about what all these people from the war wanted, perhaps he can channel General Robert E. Lee and ask him what his thought process was before deciding on Pickett's Charge. It would be a great help to the true historians that only deal with the facts, not assumptions that fit our agenda. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> What these modern day revisionist historians from Chicago and Boston fail to tell everyone is the fact that race relations in the South would have always been favorable if not for the interference of northerners. Why did things go wrong following the war between the races. To start with, the republican northern congress wanted to maintain control of congress and by doing so, they outlawed anyone associated with the Confederacy from voting. That meant all male's above the voting age in the South. They allowed uneducated blacks the right to vote and hold office and make a complete shamble of the Southern economy. This is where the trouble began. The black race was taken advantage of by northern politicians for their own benefit (imagine any politician doing something like that if you can). I hear the "northern politically correct historian laughing at me already," but I can provide examples to the fact behind this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> When the republicans came to power in South Carolina following four long bloody years of warfare, the state debt stood at 5.4 million dollars. That doesn't sound like a lot of money today, but let's see what happened following the republicans placing uneducated blacks in the state legislature. Once reconstruction ended in a time of peace, that debt had gone from 5.4 million dollars to 18.5 million dollars. Guess who had their taxes raised to pay for all this graft? The white race that had recently been made poor by four years of a losing war. How long did it take South Carolina to repay the 18.5 million dollar debt? It was after World War II, but don't tell these modern northern historians because they can just pretend none of this happened. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Let us look at these people the Federal government placed in power in the South Carolina legislature during this time. Of 63 members in 1868, 50 were black and 13 were white. Of the 63 members, only 22 could read, 8 could write correctly, and 41 had to make a mark for their signature. Only 19 were tax paying members of society and yet they voted to levy $4000.00 worth of taxes on each white person in the state. That is poor white people who had lost everything in the bloody Civil War. Why are these facts never mentioned by these modern "northern revisionist historians?" I think we already know the answer. </span></div>
Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-92113025887541112212019-01-06T22:25:00.001-08:002019-01-06T22:25:23.908-08:00The Yankee P.C.: Never Let The Truth Get In The Way Of A Good Story, Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I was recently doing what I do best and that was studying information on Confederate generals. I came across an article that would have made me laugh if it wasn't for the fact that most people will read what this woman has written and believe it. The lady's name is Jane Dailey, an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago (of course). She begins her article mentioning attending a conference in Charleston, South Carolina. She had gone to an old marketplace to browse the shops for a souvenir for her son. She complained that all she could find was "Confederate memorabilia." That was when she noticed a painting (one of which I have hanging in my living room at this moment) called "Lee and His Generals." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Allow me to quote her directly here. "Inspecting it, I saw that something-or rather, someone-was missing. I was looking for a tiny, bearded, Major General, a divisional commander who was with Lee at Appomattox and who shared in the decision to surrender that April day in 1865. I was looking for General William Mahone of Virginia, and I did not find him because he was not there.....How did such a high-ranking Confederate commander wind up missing in action in a Charleston gift shop? Not, I think, by accident."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Allow me to introduce the painting to you. "Lee and His Generals" was painted by G.B. Matthews and was copyrighted in 1907. Jane Dailey is correct, you will not find William Mahone in the picture. Would you like to know the real reason why? Any historian worth their salt will quickly figure the answer out without writing a dishonest article to fit what they want history to read like. Let's see why Major General Mahone isn't in the picture. From left to right are the top commanders in the Confederacy. In the Confederate Army, General's commanded army's, Lieutenant General's commanded corps, Major General's commanded divisions, and Brigadier General's commanded brigades. From left to right in the painting are General John Bell Hood (commander of the Army of Tennessee in 1864), Lieutenant General Richard Stoddard Ewell (commanded a corps in Lee's Army), General Braxton Bragg (commanded the Army of Tennessee from 1862-1863), General Albert Sidney Johnston (commanded the Army of Mississippi from 1861 to 1862), Lieutenant General Wade Hampton (commanded Lee's Cavalry Corps late in the war), General Edmund Kirby Smith (commanded all forces west of the Mississippi), Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early (commanded a corps under Lee in 1864), Lieutenant General Ambrose Powell Hill (commanded a corps under Lee from 1863 until his death in 1865), Lieutenant General Richard Heron Anderson (commanded a corps in Lee's army in 1864 and ironically Mr. Matthew's painted the wrong general here, he accidentally painted Virginia Brigadier General Joseph Anderson), Major General John Brown Gordon (commanded a corps in Lee's army at the end of the war), Lieutenant General Theophilus Holmes (commanded a corps in Arkansas), Lieutenant General William J. Hardee (commanded a corps in the Army of Tennessee), General Joseph E. Johnston (commanded the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee), Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner (commanded a corps in the Army of Tennessee), Lieutenant General James Longstreet (commanded a corps in Lee's army), Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk (commanded a corps in the Army of Tennessee until his death in 1864), General Robert E. Lee (commanded the Army of Northern Virginia and in 1865 became commander of all Confederate armed forces), Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest (commanded a cavalry corps in Tennessee), General P.G.T. Beauregard (commanded the Army of Tennessee), Lieutenant General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (commanded a corps in Lee's army), General Samuel Cooper (the highest ranked general in the Confederacy), Major General Jeb Stuart (commanded the cavalry corps of Lee's army until his death in 1864), Lieutenant General Richard Taylor (commanded a corp in Louisiana), Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton (commanded the army at Vicksburg), and Lieutenant General D.H. Hill (commanded a corps in the Army of Tennessee). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I'm sorry the list is so long, but any true historian will readily notice why William Mahone is not in the picture. Each commander above commanded at least a corps or an army. Division commanders are not pictured at all. William Mahone was not ranked high enough to warrant his picture being in the painting because he never commanded more than a division. There are two major generals pictured above. Major General Jeb Stuart who commanded Lee's cavalry corps and would have eventually been promoted lieutenant general had he not been killed in the spring of 1864. The other is Major General John B. Gordon who also commanded a corps in Lee's Army in 1865. Had the war lasted longer, he no doubt would have been promoted. He actually claimed to have been promoted to lieutenant general in his memoirs, but he signed his parole at Appomattox as major general. There are other major general's who commanded corps for brief and long stretches during the war who did not get their pictures in the painting. Major General Benjamin F. Cheatham commanded a corps in the Army of Tennessee for over six months, yet he didn't get his picture in the painting and he deserves his image there more than Mahone. Major General Patrick Cleburne (one of the Confederacy's top generals also commanded a corps briefly, yet he is not in the painting. You would think a historian would understand this, but it doesn't help sell her story to admit the truth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> There is another sly falsehood that she slips into the story and figures it will not be noticed. Allow me to quote her again. "After the war, Robert E. Lee recalled that, when contemplating a successor, he thought that Mahone 'had developed the highest qualities for organization and command.'" Now General Lee did make the above statement about General Mahone's ability as a commander, but did he seriously contemplate making Mahone his successor? This was written by General Mahone and he quoted Lee after the war as making this statement to Lieutenant General Wade Hampton in which he overheard the remark. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I'm not calling General Mahone a liar, it is quite possible that General Lee made this statement as a compliment to General Mahone's leadership abilities. General Lee was a product of the old army. He better than anyone understood that a division commander does not have near the responsibility as a corps or army commander. I find it hard to believe that Lee would have wanted to promote a division commander to command of the army above all his corps commanders. We also know that General Lee thought highly of the ability of James Longstreet, who was ranked just behind Lee in the Army of Northern Virginia. There is more information about who Lee wanted to succeed him should he fall. Late in the war, after assigning Major General John B. Gordon to corps command, Lee came to respect his ability at such responsibility. Lee respected Gordon so much, that on his last two offensives (Fort Stedman and Appomattox), Lee entrusted these important attacks to his new corps commander. Lee went so far as to tell Confederate President Jefferson Davis that if he were to be killed that he thought it best for the Confederacy and the army for John B. Gordon to be given command. He didn't mention General Mahone at all during the war as a likely successor. There was nothing General Mahone had ever done to warrant jumping two grades to army command.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Furthermore, at Gettysburg, the attack was made en echelon from right to left. This means that one division would advance and strike the enemy and hopefully when the Federal army shifted reinforcements from one sector to assist in the defense, the next division would advance into a gap in the line, thus breaking the Federal army. The assault began with Hood's division, then McLaws's division, followed by Richard Anderson's division. Pender's division was slated to advance following Anderson's, yet this never occurred. A brigade commander in Anderson's division dropped the ball. This man seemed to lose his nerve and never advanced, causing the en echelon attack to stall. Pender's division never entered the battle because of one man and that man was General William Mahone. Jane Dailey fails to mention this failure in her article of pure praise for General Mahone. </span></div>
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Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-11465454167856287932018-06-17T13:51:00.000-07:002018-06-17T13:51:14.407-07:00Year of Glory by Monte Akers: An Excellent Book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I just finished reading the book <i>Year of Glory </i>by Monte Akers. The book deals with Jeb Stuart's military career from June 1862 to June 1863. I'll be the first to admit that I've never been a very big Jeb Stuart fan, but Monte's book has since changed my mind. I couldn't put the book down. I even read several parts of the book to my wife and she said, "He was your clone."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Working on the railroad I earned the nickname "Instigator" because of pulling pranks and jokes on people and enjoying a good laugh. Jeb was much the same way. This book is full of funny stories about some of Jeb's funnier moments. I'd always read how Jeb was seeking personal attention when he left Lee's Army blind in Pennsylvania during the Gettysburg Campaign. Monte Akers helps explain how and why things occurred the way they did. He doesn't do like most biographers and attempt to make his subject sinless, but points out that Stuart was human and prone to make mistakes. The book is a great read and I highly recommend it. I could hardly put it down and there is a part two to this book that I'm already in the process of purchasing. Book two covers from Gettysburg until Stuart's death and if it's half as good as this book, it will be a great book. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> There are several interesting stories and many are commical, especially the story of a Prussian staff officer sitting on a wet painting, but there was one story that particularly interested me. In the chapter on Chancellorsville, Stuart and his staff camped beside a barn that served as a field hospital for Federal soldiers. The Prussian volunteer staff officer named Scheibert made a note of the difference in wounded Confederate soldiers and wounded Federal soldiers. According to Scheibert, Confederate soldiers considered it a disgrace to groan aloud when they were wounded, but suffered stoically in silence. He said a person could tell if the hospital was Federal or Confederate by the sounds. Scheibert mentioned meeting a captain walking to the rear during a battle with his hat covering one hand. Scheibert asked the captain if he was severely wounded, there being a great deal of blood on the officer's uniform. The captain replied, "No, only the hand is gone." Scheibert went on to mention other instances to back his claims that Southern soldiers took wounds with little complaint while the Federal soldiers groaned and cried aloud. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I'm not trying to say Southerner's are tougher or stronger than Federal soldiers. It was the Southern ideal of honor and bravery that made them act in such a manner even when they understood their wound was mortal. According to the book <i>Attack and Die</i> by Grady McWhiney and Perry Jamieson all of this was a direct result of Southerner's ancestry. The descendants of the Celtic people mostly settled in the South. The Celt's were a warring people. Take that and have part of the population intermarrying Native American's and you have yourself a perfect fighting machine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Again, I highly recommend <i>Year of Glory</i> by Monte Akers. I have come away with a completely different view of Major General Jeb Stuart and now I must have the next book.</span></div>
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<br />Tim Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02678554985222437552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467438259022514380.post-64884219697675100982018-06-05T20:47:00.000-07:002018-06-05T20:47:36.857-07:00Who Cries For The Children?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> My last blog saw me going into a diatribe about how horrible Southerners were to own slaves and how terrible it is to have memorials to Southern soldiers (even the ones that owned no slaves). I thought I would touch base on a few facts about the Holier Than Thou Northerners during the War Between the States. If you who don't want to know the truth about America's history you'd better stop reading here. You will of course be offended or pretend none of this is true. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> For some reason, everyone is so offended by slavery, yet ignore the fact that northern industries relied on child labor (slavery) during the war. How much did they rely on children? Most numbers suggest up to fifty-five percent. You heard me right, fifty-five percent of the Union's industrial force was made up of children. Who cares, right? After all, those children were mostly poor Irish immigrants and not of a darker complexion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Now I can hear the northern apologists and liberals crying out that these children weren't owned, but in fact they are wrong. When you make a nickel a day, working seven days a week, and learn at the end of the week you owed the company twice the money you've made since they fed you during one of these sixteen to twenty hour shifts, you may wish you were a Southern slave. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The cartoon above is a demonstration of Northern capitalist during the Civil War bidding on children to work in their factory's for little to no pay. Poor children like these were kidnapped off the streets and forced to work. Not only are children required a certain amount of rest for their growing bodies, they are also in dire need of a good diet. In these northern factories, they received little of either. Why would these business owners want children to work for them? That answer is easy. Children are easier to control, just take a leather strap to them if they slack off working, and there is no danger of them going on strike. Plus, it was basically slavery under a different name, but like I said before, who cares about them, they are too light complected. White lives don't matter, remember?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Now you may think they weren't that rough on these children, but you'd be wrong. They were forced to mine for coal, tend to furnaces, and do all types of jobs that are considered dangerous to grown men. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Worse than slavery, child labor has been in existence in this country far before 1776 and did not end when African slavery was abolished in 1865. No, child labor carried on sixty plus years following the Civil War, but it's alright because it was mostly a northern factory thing. The rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Greed, same problem we have in this country today. If you haven't heard of the northern sweatshops during the Civil War, you've been hiding your head in the sand. Nobody ever mentions any of this today, it's all about the African slave. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> By 1820, forty percent of northern cotton factories were employed by children between the ages of eight and twelve. This percentage increased to fifty-five percent during the Civil War to keep pace with military needs. All of this is fine right, because the humanitarian Union Army was fighting to free the poor mistreated Africans. Once the war was over guess what those northern factories added to their employment lists? You guessed it, African children. Now I hear everyone beginning to protest, but somehow this has to be the South's fault. The north is sinless in all regards and get the free pass as usual. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Let's briefly take a look at what happened in the country of Cuba in the year 1912. The black race was being taken advantage of by big business owners in Cuba and the United States. The mistreated African's began what was labeled the "Negro Rebellion" against harsh working conditions. Now this same country that invaded the South over concerns for slavery sent 2,789 marines to force these blacks back to work and put down their rebellion for better living conditions. By the time it was all over somewhere between 3000 and 6000 African-Cubans had been killed. Why did the United States side with the Spanish against the Africans? The answer is simple. Follow the dollar in this country. Below I leave you with a few photographs of northern slave labor that lasted until the 1920's. </span></div>
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