Confederate Memorial Day

[medxam]

"Lest we never forget their sacrifices"!

medxam

 

[Bullet Bob]

I haven't been excoriated or castigated recently for a grammar question, it must be time.

Your quote doesn't make sense as written, it seems to say we should be sure to forget?

Do you have a link to the quotation?

I can find this one:
Oh lest we forget all the sacrifices made,
here - Lest We Forget – Their Sacrifice

And "lest we forget" is the refrain of Kipling's "Recessional"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recessional_(poem)

And others, but nothing matching your quotation; but I only searched one page.

Thanks.

 

[1morethan8]

In Tennessee it is on Jefferson Davis' birthday, June 3.

 

[Damn Yankee]

Come down and see where the Men have been laid to rest fighting the "Northern Aggressors".

Beauvoir Confederate Veteran's Cemetery

You Southern Boys might like this Page.

confederate heritage fund

 

[jrm53]

I take care of a rural cemetery and a fellow I know got a list of all the Confederate veterans and drove a small piece of pipe by their stones and put battle flags by them, these were not the stars and bars but a different looking flag. There were about 8 or 9 of them with one on my great-great grandads marker. I have the American flags that I put on the Veterans graves with the bronze or granite markers. It always looks great mowed and the flags flying on Memorial Day. Jeff

 

[Iggy]

Sharpton and Jackson are on their way to visit you.

 

[rwsmith]

I had better.....

I had better just keep my mouth shut.

 

[tndrfttom]

Confederate Memorial Day in Florida

The Florida Statues for legal holidays include April 26 as Confederate Memorial Day. (I believe April 26th was the date Gen. Johnston surrendered his forces to Sherman). I hang the "Bonnie Blue Flag" by my front door on April 26th but nobody in the neighborhood makes the connection.

 

[wreckville]

Deo Vindice.

 

[redneckemt]

Sharpton and Jackson are on their way to visit you.

Be funny if they were decentants of members of Nathan Beford Forrest's elite Company of Body Guards. Most of whom were African American.

 

[sheepdawg]

I pass Forrest's grave everyday. This very liberal city's leaders want to dig him and his wife up and bury them elsewhere. They have already changed the name of the park he lays in rest from Forrest Park to Health and Science Park.

It's a shame.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

In 2004 or 05 I was at Gettysburg, and took a walk down the Confederate line. There were monuments from the southern states to show where their regiments started Pickets Charge from. One state (I think Alabama) had a monument that listed all of their regiments that had no survivors. It took a half hour for my eyes to dry after reading that. My dad's Grandfather had been 7th OVI but was recovering from wounds at the time. (His other grandfather was still in Germany) Both of mom's grandfathers made the trip to Pa. One from Georgia and the other from Alabama, but fortunately, both walked back home. Ivan

 

[Iggy]

I walked Pickett's Charge. That is a mind blowing experience, and I growed up a yankee.

 

[Damn Yankee]

The question I have do people really believe that all of these men who died on both sides died for repeal of slavery? Most of all the Confederates didn't own slaves a not much land.

I've been to Chickamauga and seen all of the monuments from the different states.


Read about the Morrill Tariff Act Lincoln-Tax-War

You tube has some nice videos.

ashokan+farewell - YouTube

 

[the ringo kid]

I pass Forrest's grave everyday. This very liberal city's leaders want to dig him and his wife up and bury them elsewhere. They have already changed the name of the park he lays in rest from Forrest Park to Health and Science Park.

It's a shame.

Id gladly love to have them interred here. We have a small abandond cemetary near th outskirts of town. When i can? I plant small Battle flags on their resting places. I say abandoned because--there are only 4 men buried on it. Three were Confederates and the last was a man who fought in the Spanish-American War.

Our family has some property in Concan, and if they want toremove Forrest and his Wife from there? we willgladly accept them on our property.

 

[Squarebutt]

Several years ago my work took me to Savannah and I found myself working with an engineer who is the great-great grandchild of Confederate General Joseph Johnston. The general was wounded twice, and fought gallantly until the war was over. He had so much respect for his foe that he went to General Sherman's funeral in New York in 1891. He stood in the rain, caught pneumonia, and died a few weeks later. Those old soldiers respected one another until the end.
I'm the great-great grandson of a veteran of the Vermont 16th. They served at Bull Run and other sites, and defended against Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg. I have deep respect for all those who fought that terrible war, on both sides, and I have been troubled by the recent controversies over the Stars and Bars. I'm not the only Yankee who understands what it really stands for, and it's too bad the descendents of those brave Americans are no longer allowed to honor them in the manner of their choosing.
Tomorrow we'll be at a cookout with friends, with guitars, fiddles, mandolins and such, and I'll be dedicating "Ashokan Farewell" to those old soldiers. All of 'em.

 

[vonn]

I fear our country may again see such a tragedy as we become more and more divided in our beliefs.

 

[Johnny_w]

The question I have do people really believe that all of these men who died on both sides died for repeal of slavery? Most of all the Confederates didn't own slaves a not much land.

I've been to Chickamauga and seen all of the monuments from the different states.


Read about the Morrill Tariff Act Lincoln-Tax-War

You tube has some nice videos.

ashokan+farewell - YouTube

On Dec. 24, 1860, delegates at South Carolina's secession convention adopted a "Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union." It noted "an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery" and protested that Northern states had failed to "fulfill their constitutional obligations" by interfering with the return of fugitive slaves to bondage. Slavery, not states' rights, birthed the Civil War.
On Aug. 22, 1862, President Lincoln wrote a letter to the New York Tribune that included the following passage: "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union."
High tariffs had prompted the Nullification Controversy in 1831-33, when, after South Carolina demanded the right to nullify federal laws or secede in protest, President Andrew Jackson threatened force. No state joined the movement, and South Carolina backed down. Tariffs were not an issue in 1860, and Southern states said nothing about them.
Five myths about why the South seceded - The Washington Post

 

[1morethan8]

Through the smoke and the mud and the blood we walked behind Robert E. Lee..
Sixty miles from Richmond to face the Union Army..
We dug our holes and we built a wall 'cause we knew they'd be a fight..
If the blue coats wearin' soldiers crossed the river that night?

Sure as hell that sundown came a hundred thousand men..
And it's sure did shock me Lord, Kin killing Kin..
The cannonballs were heavy filled with iron and steel and lead..
And the James river water ran a bloody red.

Lord is it right did you mean for me to kill my brother here tonight?

It's been one hundred forty years and as I look around..
I see a mighty city where there once was a battle ground..
I thought when Lee surrounded we would fight no more..
But the ghost of Lee can still see us fight the civil war!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-MX0PXDWis

 

[radar1972]

I pass Forrest's grave everyday. This very liberal city's leaders want to dig him and his wife up and bury them elsewhere. They have already changed the name of the park he lays in rest from Forrest Park to Health and Science Park.

It's a shame.

The name of the subdivision I live in is 'Bedford Forrest'. They can move them to my back yard.