Southern History

"The instance of Jefferson has led to a supposition that French radicalism found hospitality in the South. To the extent that it was linked with the cause of American independence, this was true; but when that cause had been won, and the South began to consider its necessities and the more permanent arrangements of peace, libertarian and equalitarian doctrines languished. It has consistently exhibited a distrust of s…

Bishop of Savannah’s condemnation of the Republican Party. "The revolutionary, unconstitutional and subversive tendencies of the abolition or Republican Party are as evident today as they were forty-odd years ago. Their snivelling and Pecksniffian hypocrisy with regard to Cuba which they intend to annex, is only surpassed by their atrocious treatment of the Filipinos, upon whom they are forcing a system which the pe…

📖 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 John Washington, great-grandfather of George Washington, was a leading Indian fighter who obliterated Indian tribes that had mercilessly murdered outnumbered white settlers, including women and children: "Evidently in reaction the Doegs had turned their hostilities to the whites although the churchgoers at Hen's simple home did not give any thought to such causes. Confirming their worst apprehensions, a…

Cousins: Emzy Taylor (left) and G.M. Taylor (right) “Lone Star Guards” Co. E, 4th Texas Infantry, Hood’s Texas Brigade from Jeff Crone

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The majority of Southerners did not have a vested interest in slavery or secession, but rather continued their agricultural way of life out of necessity. They worked tirelessly, six days a week, to produce what they needed to survive. Upon invasion by the North, many Southerners enlisted to defend their homes and ancestral lands. From their perspective, defending their territory was a matter of necessity. These indiv…

CSS Shenandoah

This Day in History (1865): The captain and crew of the C.S.S. Shenandoah, still prowling the waters of the Pacific in search of Yankee whaling ships, is finally informed by a British vessel that the South has lost the war. The Shenandoah was the last major Confederate cruiser to set sail. Launched as a British vessel in September 1863, it was purchased by the Confederates and commissioned in October 1864. Commanded …

3 August 1942: Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage with three ships, Santa María, Pinta and Niña from Palos de la Frontera, Spain, for the "Indies".

Sure, our current war is gay and retarded.... but we have much better food thus far. https://www.chowhound.com/2225017/american-revolutionary-war-soldiers-dinner-rations/

My family has two familial cemeteries in Missouri (where my family lived for generations). Almost every time I would visit my family, about one weekend a month, we would visit them. I remember walking among the tombstones of my relatives with my Granny, she explained to me how I was related to them. She explained remembering her great grandfather, who fought in the Civil War. I don't know a single person, even among…

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