GENERAL MOUTON STATUE FUNDRAISER

 

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Gentlemen, After several COVID related continuances, the fight in court to protect the Mouton statue in Lafayette is about to get back underway. In the past, the Mouton Chapter of the UDC, which is party to the case, has solicited funds to pay attorney fees and it has been much appreciated. With that said, attorney fees don't stop as the case continues and the Mouton Chapter is once again in need of your donations. At this point, a bill for $1,500 is coming due March 19th with an additional $2,500 due the end of April and $2,500 due by the the end of May. Jessica McChesney is spearheading the fight and fundraiser and will gladly accept donations by way of checks, money orders, cash apps, Venmo, etc. She is even willing to come and pick up donations in person if need be. Checks can be made out to CASH or UDC Mouton Chapter. They can be mailed to Jessica at 1400 East Bayou Pkwy, Unit 4C, Lafayette, La 70508. She can be reached via cell phone at 337-298-0070 and/or email at Jtallchic23@aol.com should anyone want to contact her directly to make a donation or have any questions. The Mouton Camp stands with Jessica and the ladies of the Mouton Chapter in this fight and is doing all it can to assist them. Please consider helping them individually and as Camps and donate what you can. The protective order on the statue is solid but because of the efforts of those who want to see the statue removed, it must be defended and the Mouton Chapter is standing up. YOS, Charles Lauret Adjutant, Mouton Camp 778 Chief of Staff, LA Division

CONFEDERATE HERITAGE NEWS, March 9.

 

Important Information that you should know about the Division, the Confederation and your Heritage!

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Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

You Made It Happen!   Senate Bill 158 is Defeated!   Friends,   Thanks to the actions of our compatriots and our circle of friends, the Georgia State Senate did not allow Senate Bill 158 out of Committee. It is now too late for it to be voted on.   The massive response of SCV members and other friends of the traditional Southland showed the Senate that there was no support for the proposal to place the King Bell atop the Confederate carving at Stone Mountain and re-purpose the park to “create and maintain an appropriate and suitable monument for civil, voting, and human rights.” In fact, there was considerable opposition.   For several years now we have all been depressed as we have seen statues and monuments desecrated or removed. Today we have gained a major victory for the Georgia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans and our supporters.   All the credit goes to you, the membership, for your efforts. Calling and emailing your State Senators to vote against Senate Bill 158 worked. This Bill was on the verge of passing out of committee and then proceeding to the Senate floor. One Senator even claimed that passage was “a done deal.”   The extra effort to write, email, call and visit your legislators made a tremendous difference.   I am immensely proud of our Division and thank you all for your dedication and hard work.   Thank you,

CONFEDERATE HERITAGE NEWS for March 8, 2021.

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The South's Defender

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LOUISA, Va. (WSET) — A 1,500 square foot Confederate flag visible from a major Virginia highway will soon be flying from a diminished flagpole.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Cemetery officials are working to determine the best way to remediate damaged Confederate monuments at a city-owned cemetery.

GRETNA, La. (AP) — The board of the largest school system in the state decided not to form a committee to analyze whether some school or mascot names should be changed because they're honoring figures tied to slavery, the Confederacy, or segregation.

ASHVILLE, N.C. -- New data shows North Carolina ranked second in the number of Confederate monuments removed in 2020.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Not much is written in Virginia’s history books about William Mahone, a general who fought with the Confederate states during the Civil War.

[County manager explains resolution moving the Confederate Monument] STASTESVILLE, N.C. -- On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, the Iredell County Commissioners voted 4-1 to approve a resolution of the Iredell County Board of Commissioners.

SEVEN CRITICAL BATTLES IN THE WTBS   

  When Southern rebels bombarded Fort Sumter in South Carolina in April 1861, it was the start of a war between the Union and the secessionist Confederate States of America that would stretch on for four bloody years.

RICHMOND, VA. (AP) — People who want Confederate monuments to be returned to Richmond are trying to take their case to the Virginia Supreme Court.

CONFEDERATE HERITAGE NEWS, March 8, 2021.

 IMMEDIATE RELEASE[U.S. Departmennt of Defense]

Statement by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on the Department's Representatives to the Congressionally-Mandated Commission on the Naming of Items in the Department of Defense That Commemorate the Confederate States of America

FEB. 12, 2021

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I am pleased to announce today the names of four outstanding leaders who have agreed to serve as the Department’s representatives to the Congressionally-mandated commission on the naming of items of the Department of Defense that commemorate the Confederate States of America.

They are:

• Admiral Michelle Howard, U.S. Navy, retired
• General Bob Neller, U.S. Marine Corps, retired
• Dr. Kori Schake, Director of Foreign & Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
• Brigadier General Ty Seidule, U.S. Army, retired (Emeritus Professor of History, U.S. Military Academy)

Each of these individuals possesses unique and relevant experience, in and out of government, that I know will inform this important effort.  I am enormously grateful for their willingness to serve the nation again, and I thank them in advance for the wise counsel I am confident they will provide.

I also thank the Congress for establishing this process, and I continue to pledge my personal commitment – and that of the Department – to making sure it succeeds.  I look forward to seeing the results of the commission’s work in the months ahead.

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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