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Lady Val  Thu Aug 04 2011, 12:23PM   Registered Member #75 Joined: Sat Nov 01 2008, 10:22AM Posts: 472 Dear Gov. McDonnell: Great visionaries realize that seminal moments in a man’s life are apt to be not what is expected. The high honor, the ascension to power, the great victory—all of those decisive events—when viewed…

http://www.scv674.org/SH-5.htm “On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln won the election of President of the United States by collecting only 39 percent of the popular vote and carried every northern state except New Jersey. The Federal Record notes 81.2% of eligible voters participated in this election. Six out of ten of the American people had not…

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a…

My G-G-grandfather, Henry Bogan, FINALLY has a sevice marker! I’ve been waiting for this for quite a few years now. The government would never approve him one,but last year at the Camp Moore reenactment, they had a few that had incorrect information on them, so they weren’t going to be used, so we got them…

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. –Thomas Jefferson The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. –Thomas Jefferson It is incumbent on every generation to…

From the Lost Cause to the New South: A Brief History of Southern Heritage by K. Steven Monk From 1861 until 1865, the Southern states of what we today call the United States of America existed as a sovereign nation known as the Confederate States of America. Because of differences in culture, economics and religion…

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Memorial Day was originally known as Decoration Day because it was a time set aside to honor the nation’s Civil War dead by decorating their graves. It was first widely observed on May 30, 1868, to commemorate the sacrifices of Civil War soldiers, by proclamation of General John A. Logan of the Grand Army of…

No law had ever been passed that explicitly outlawed secession, the argument simply having been sidestepped by events. From the legal point of view it would have been difficult to accuse Mr. Davis of having committed any crime. Judge Chase felt there was no strong legal case against him for having been the president of…