CALCASIEU GREYS/ February 2022

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Major Heros Von Borcke

Chief of Staff for Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart

He was a Prussian soldier who came to

the Confederacy to help the South win its independence.

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General Robert Edward Lee

Born January 19, 1807

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Battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn.

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See battle Details in newsletter, page 4.

(Stone's River NMP, National Park Service)

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Felix Grundy Winder who served

both in Co. E. 1st Special Bn. La. Inf.

and as captain in Co. K, 26th La. Inf.

Killed May 19, 1863 in the Siege of

Vicksburg, Miss. at age 23. 

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Lt. Col. William J. Hardee

Biography of Lt. Gen. William Joseph Hardee

[From The Confederate Military History]

Lieutenant-General William J. Hardee was born in Camden County, Georgia, on October 12, 1815. After receiving a military education at West Point, he entered the army with the class of 1838, as a second lieutenant of the Second cavalry, and was promoted first-lieutenant in 1839, and served in the Florida war of 1840. He was then sent to Europe by the government as a member of a military commission to study the organization of foreign armies, and in that capacity visited the military school at St. Maur, France.
       In 1844 he was promoted captain, and in 1846 crossed the Rio Grande with General Taylor. He behaved with gallantry in the Mexican war, was taken prisoner at Curricito, but exchanged, and for his valor at La Hoya was brevetted major. In 1853 his professional accomplishments caused his selection by the secretary of war, for the compilation of a system of infantry tactics, which was adopted in March 1855. In the following year "Hardee's Tactics" was introduced at West Point, where he was appointed commandant with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1861 he resigned from this commission and entered the Confederate service as colonel of cavalry on March 16th, being assigned to command at Fort Morgan, Ala. On June 17th, he was promoted to brigadier-general, in which rank he organized a brigade of Arkansas regiments, and operated in that State until called with his men across the Mississippi when he was commissioned major-general and put in command of a division of the army in Kentucky and Tennessee under Albert Sidney Johnston. He led the advance from Corinth in command of the Third army corps, and commanded the first line of attack at Shiloh, where he was wounded, but managed his command with such energy that he was promoted, major-general.
       In the following summer he was put in immediate command of the army of the Mississippi, afterward called the army of Tennessee, and during the Kentucky campaign, he commanded the left wing of Bragg's army. In the battle of Perryville, he bore a conspicuous part, and he was immediately afterward promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general. At the battle of Murfreesboro, the left-wing under his masterly leadership was successful in the fight, and he was specially commended by General Bragg "for skill, valor, and ability."
       General Hardee had now well earned the exalted rank which he held and a military reputation which was tersely expressed by his soldiers in the cognomen "Old Reliable." In 1863 he was detailed to defend Mississippi and Alabama, but returned to the command of his corps at Chattanooga, and commanded the right-wing at Missionary Ridge, where General Thomas declared he was "the most efficient general the Confederacy had on the field." The subsequent maneuver of his troops at Cassville and his masterly retreat in the echelon of divisions won the renewed admiration of his opponents. On December 2, 1863, he succeeded General Bragg in command of the army but soon turned this over to General Polk, who in turn gave place to Gen. J. E. Johnston. Under the latter and his successor, J. B. Hood, he commanded a corps of the army of Tennessee through the Atlanta campaign, taking a prominent part in the fighting at Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, and other points, and particularly at Peach Tree Creek and the battle of July 22d, where he commanded the flank movement against the Federal left wing. His corps was again engaged at Jonesboro and the last fighting of the campaign.
       In October 1864, he was assigned to command the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, with the task of collecting at Savannah forces to operate against Sherman's advance. The troops he required were no longer to be found in the South, and by one of the most masterly retreats of the war, he evaded Sherman's overwhelming force before Savannah, and withdrew to Charleston and thence to Columbia. At Averysboro, in March 1865, he punished the enemy effectively, and a few days later he led in the battle of Bentonville the last charge that was made by the Confederacy's war-worn soldiers, and his only son, sixteen years of age, was among the last to fall. In this last battle of the four years, with undiminished spirit, the general, as Johnston has described it, "with his knightly gallantry dashed over the enemy's breastworks on horseback in front of his men." It is told of General Hardee, illustrating his thoroughness as a soldier, that he was the only lieutenant-general who personally inspected the arms and accouterments of each soldier of his corps. General J. E. Johnston said of him that "he was more capable of commanding twenty thousand men in battle than any other Confederate general." General Hardee died at Wytheville, Va., on November 6, 1873, and his remains were interred at Selma, Ala., where he had resided after the war.

General and Mrs. Nathan Beford Forrest "Rest in Peace"

COLUMBIA, Tennessee – Confederate Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest was “put to rest for eternity” Saturday by the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) at the National Confederate Headquarters and Museum at Historic Elm Springs in Columbia, Tennessee.

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Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest

ANV Statement on Lee Memorial in Richmond

 

ANV Statement on Lee Memorial in Richmond

Office of the Commander Army of Northern Virginia, Sons of Confederate Veterans September 10th, 2021 For Immediate Release, Despite overwhelming support to keep the General Robert E. Lee memorial on Richmond, Virginia’s famed Monument Avenue standing where it has stood for more than 130 years, we have just witnessed with both anger and sadness its desecration and removal by frenzied radicals and opportunistic politicians. Their loud, unreasoned voices demanding diversity and equity disguise their hatred not just for General Lee and other symbols of the South, but for the entirety of American and Western civilization and heritage. Richmond, once the Capital of the South, is now a decaying city. It is now run by those little people who hate and despise her history. Their solution is to attempt to abolish and completely re-write that history, and so destroy any continuity and the inheritance of millions of Virginians. The insane leftists in charge have thrown all reason out the window. Along with that, the Virginia Supreme Court has tossed by the wayside the Constitution. Where else in this great nation can one sign a contract but then renege on it years later. Yet, one gets to keep the property in direct contradiction to that contract? Is Virginia the only state where legal contracts are unenforceable? Are all contracts unenforceable or just the ones that offend the current tyrants in power? This situation should remind us of another time in history when the Constitution of the United States was overthrown by tyranny. At that moment General Lee was forced to choose between his home state and an oppressive government bent on empire and on subjugating the states in the American South. It would have been easier for General Lee to lead a tyrant's army to destroy property and the rights of the people. Instead, he made the noblest of decisions when he chose to defend his beloved State of Virginia, which had reserved specifically for itself the right to secede when it originally joined the Federal union. Lee, prior to offering his services to the newly-independent Commonwealth of Virginia, had formally resigned from the United States Army. In reluctantly agreeing to serve his native state he committed no treason, rather he rose to protect the people's God-given rights and liberties granted them and otherwise affirmed by the Constitution of the United States. Much in the spirit of General Robert E. Lee's “Proclamation to the People of Maryland,” we support our brothers’ and sisters’ right to defend their history and property. Like “Marse Robert” we choose to stand for our history and for our inheritance, against the rising tide of lunacy and tyranny. Proclamation to the People of Maryland To the People of Maryland: Headquarters Army N. Virginia Near Fredericktown, 8th September, 1862 It is right that you should know the purpose that brought the Army under my command within the limits of your State, so far as that purpose concerns yourselves. The People of the Confederate States have long watched with the deepest sympathy the wrongs and outrages that have been inflicted upon the citizens of a Commonwealth, allied to the States of the South by the strongest social, political and commercial ties. They have seen with profound indignation their sister State deprived of every right, and reduced to the condition of a conquered Province. Under the pretense of supporting the Constitution, but in violation of its most valuable provisions, your citizens have been arrested and imprisoned upon no charge, and contrary to all forms of law; the faithful and manly protest against this outrage made by the venerable and illustrious Marylanders to whom in better days, no citizens appealed for right in vain, was treated with scorn and contempt; the government of your chief city has been usurped by armed strangers; your legislature has been dissolved by the unlawful arrest of its members; freedom of the press and of speech, of the Federal Executive, and citizens ordered to be tried by a military commission for what they may dare to speak. Believing that the People of Maryland possessed a spirit too lofty to submit to such a government, the people of the south have long wished to aid you in throwing off this foreign yoke, to enable you to again enjoy the inalienable rights of free men, and restore independence and sovereignty to your State. In obedience to this wish, our Army has come among you, and is prepared to assist you with the power of its arms in regaining the rights of which you have been despoiled. This, Citizens of Maryland, is our mission, so far as you are concerned. No constraint upon your free will is intended, no intimidation is allowed. Within the limits of this Army, at least, Marylanders shall once more enjoy their ancient freedom of thought and speech. We know no enemies among you, and will protect all of every opinion. It is for you to decide your destiny, freely and without constraint. This army will respect your choice whatever it may be, and while the Southern people will rejoice to welcome you to your natural position among them, they will only welcome you when you come of your own free will. R. E. Lee, General Commanding. The truth is that General Robert E. Lee's noble and unselfish record contradicts the lies of the radical left.   It is past the time for ordinary folks to support respect for all Americans of all backgrounds and to stand against those who would commit what amounts to cultural genocide against those they deem different from themselves.   Lastly, we thank President Donald Trump for his brave defense of America's greatest general, as he also condemns the desecration of the Robert E. Lee memorial at Richmond's Monument Avenue.   R. Kevin Stone Commander Army of Northern Virginia, Sons of Confederate Veterans.       “His (Robert E. Lee’s) deeds will be remembered; and when the monument we build shall have crumbled into dust, his virtues will still live, a high model for the imitation of generations yet unborn.” – President Jefferson Davis, C.S.A., Richmond Dispatch, November 4, 1870