Save the statue

05/09/2024

Russia, Russia, Russia once again!
They really think we're
STUPID

11/09/2022

04/09/2022

From an address written by General Stephen Dill Lee shortly before his death in 1908 --

Nevertheless it has not seemed the whole truth to me that the Confederate soldier went into battle to vindicate a constitutional argument. He went to war because he loved his people, because his country was invaded, because his heart was throbbing for his hearthstone. Here was the land which gave him birth; here was his childhood's home; here were the graves of his dead; here was the church spire where he had learned it was not all of life to live nor all of death to die. No hostile foot should ever tread this consecrated ground except over his dead body. It was the prospect of invasion that made the men of the border States with bleeding hearts go and cast their lot with the Confederacy. He who could have expected a Lee to do battle against Virginia or a Hampton to draw his sword against South Carolina has never learned the language of the human heart. Nothing but the most devoted love of country could ever have sustained the Confederate soldier in his unequal and terrible struggle. It was not necessary to find a reward for the Confederate soldier in unexpected good results of the great conflict. The reward of noble actions lies in the capacity to do them. The Confederate soldier who fought with unflinching courage had the reward of being a brave man. He who loved his country had the reward of being a true patriot. He who faced the cannon's mouth for those he loved dearer than life had the reward of being a hero. He who was faithful unto death had the reward of a stainless honor. What other course could a Southerner have taken?

14/08/2022

A monument to the 'Unknown Confederate Dead' marks the final resting place of approximately 3,000 unknown Confederate soldiers who died during the Atlanta campaign in 1864. In 1869, the Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association had the 'battlefield dead' soldiers that had been buried in hastily-dug trenches near the battlefields, brought to Oakland [cemetery] and independently reinterred in the square guarded by the Lion of Atlanta...

The Lion is carved from marble supplied by the Georgia Marble Company of Tate, Georgia. The monument weighs 30,000 pounds and was carved from the largest block of marble ever quarried in America until that time (1894)...

The figure represents a lion that has received its death wound, and in his agony he is grasping and attempting to draw towards him the battle flag of the Confederacy."

The sculptor was T. M. Brady of Canton, Georgia. He was inspired by a suggestion that the monument emulate the "Lion of Lucerne"
In tombstone symbolism, the lion represents courage, majesty, and strength.

(Georgia History)
Courtesy of The Confederate Cross

04/07/2022

04/07/2022

Have a Blessed Independence Day

01/07/2022

Proud to be a Tarheel!

Remembering North Carolina's Confederate soldiers that fought at the battle of Gettysburg. July 1, 2, and 3rd, 1863.

1863

North Carolina

"To the eternal glory of the North Carolina soldiers. Who on this battlefield displayed heroism unsurpassed sacrificing all in support of their cause. Their valorous deeds will be enshrined in the hearts of men long after these transient memorials have crumbled into dust.

Thirty two North Carolina regiments were in action at Gettysburg July 1,2,3, 1863. One Confederate soldier in every four who fell here was a North Carolinian."

North Carolina Confederates

01/07/2022

Says a lot about the difference between us and them!

24/06/2022

20/06/2022

This is why there were Confederate Memorials.....

Archibald Livingston, of the 3rd Florida Infantry informed his brother Charles in 1864, "Snow, ice and mud so freezing & cold that it I could not stand it. Amid all this some of the Army of Tennessee were barefoot. Hundreds were very indifferently clad, and without good blankets. What a debt of gratitude is due the private soldiers of our armies."

Courtesy of Archivist Teresa Roane