CONFEDERATE HERITAGE NEWS for Feb. 23.

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ABBEVILLE INSTITUTE

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Friend, 

Last summer 80% of the Washington and Lee University faculty voted to remove Lee from the institution’s name. The school has not yet made a decision but presumably will not wait long. 

 

W&L's Administration has been providing Internet presentations, which we believe are too critical of Lee. Most significant among them during the past five months are lectures by Allen Guelzo and Ty Seidule. The one by Seidule is obnoxious as you can see from this YouTube video he did for the Association of the United States Army earlier this month.  

 

Their accusations should be answered. Therefore, the Abbeville Institute is seeking donations of $7000 to finance the production of a six-minute video by Phil Leigh like the one he did here on Confederate statues. 

 

After watching Seidule’s video linked above we trust you will agree that this is a battle we must fight.

- All of us at Abbeville Institute

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Due to severe winter weather, the Tennessee Historical Commission won't vote until March 9 on whether to remove the bust of Confederate Nathan Bedford Forrest in the Tennessee State Capitol. 

Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A proposed amendment could make it illegal to put up signs offering historical context on the site of Confederate statues and other monuments in Alabama.

ISLE OF WIGHT, Va. -- The Isle of Wight Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to relocate the Confederate monument that has stood at the front of the county's courthouse complex for 116 years.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Tour contextualizes Charlottes Confederate statues to keep sharing the history of local Confederate monuments.

ALLENDALE, MI -- Four people have been charged with multiple misdemeanors for allegedly defacing a Confederate monument.

CONFEDERATE HERITAGE NEWS, Feb. 9, 2021

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SHREVEPORT -- The National Register of Historic Places Confederate Monument in front of the Caddo Parish Courthouse which is now covered up by a wooden box, now as the Gettysburg Address, God Bless America, The Pledge of Allegiance, The Start-Spangled Banner, God Bless America, The Bill of Rights and Left Every Voice and Sing, added to the white painted box. The Caddo Parish Commission wants to monument moved.

Caddo Parish Confederate Monument before it was boxed up. (NPS)

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Two Confederate monuments were removed within a three-day period in Georgia. One was a 28-year-old monument installed in 1993 at Lawrenceville, Ga. The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners voted to have it move into storage in January. The other monument was a statue of General Joseph E. Johnston, who commanded the Army of Tennessee through the first phase of the Atlanta Campaign in 1864, and was located at Dalton, Georgia. It was moved to the Huff House. The statue dated from 1912.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Centennial Park is asking the state to remove a historic monument honoring Confederate hero Sam Davis. State law requires the permission of the state for the removal. Sam Davis is called "The Nathan Hale of the Confederacy" because he was executed after refusing to give the names of people who helped him in his scouting duties.

PLAQUEMINE, La. -- The Confederate statue that graced the front lawn of the Plaquemine City Hall since 1912, was removed six months after the Iberville  Parish Council voted  to have it removed. The statue has been moved to storage at an undisclosed location. The statue is of a Confederate of a young soldier standing at attention. The inscription on the base reads 

                                        

The Last "Insurrection" According to the Political Establishment

By Tom DiLorenzo

The Washington establishment, led by a senile 78-year-old man who can barely speak in complete sentences and seems permanently fighting mad, is hell- bent on labeling virtually all Americans who voted for President Trump –Republicans, Independents, and Democrats — as “insurrectionists.”  They have invoked the Insurrection Act of 1807 to justify placing thousands of heavily-armed National Guard (and other) troops in Washington, D.C., who appear to be stationed there indefinitely.  Comrade Pelosi, who turns 81 next month and also seems demented, always angry as hell, and extremely frustrated that she is not a dictator, has called for the placement of manned machine gun nests atop the Capitol building.  She is apparently worried that Trump voters might try to create their own version of one of those mass anti-Trump rallies in D.C. that she orchestrated in early 2017, way back when peaceful assembly and freedom of association were still legal and not acts of “insurrection.”  All of this is supposedly being done in the name of warm-and-fuzzy “national unity.”

This political spectacle reminds your author of how the D.C. establishment dealt with “insurrectionists” in the Southern states in the 1860s, particularly in South Carolina.  The “crime” that these “insurrectionists” were said to be guilty of was agreeing with the founding fathers that the American union was a voluntary union of the free and independent states and not a coerced union held together by violence — like the Soviet Union of the twentieth century.

Many Americans know a little something – very little — about General William Tecumseh Sherman’s “march to the sea” through Georgia, an orgy of rape, pillage, plunder, and murder of civilians and the bombing and burning of entire cities occupied only by old men, women, and children.  We are all taught to know as little as possible about it because as Sherman famously said, “war is hell.”  “Move along, nothing to see here” is the meaning of Sherman’s famous quip.  Of course such a nonchalant attitude made it more likely that there would be more orgies of rape, pillage, plunder and murder by the U.S. government, and there were, all over the world, over the past 150 years.

After his march through Georgia Sherman set his sights on South Carolina, something that few Americans seem to know much of anything about.  They have an opportunity to rectify their ignorance, however, by reading (2017) by Karen Stokes.

Karen Stokes is an archivist at the South Carolina Historical Society and the author of numerous non-fiction and fiction books. A Legion of Devils is a compilation of first-hand, eye-witness accounts of how Sherman’s “bummers,” as they were called, exploded with hate and revenge against the “insurrectionists” of South Carolina, the first state to secede in December of 1860.

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