On This Date, January 9th, 1861, South Carolina Responds To The First In A Series Of Acts Of War Committed

GREAT BALLAD: KELLYS IRISH BRIGADE

#OTD in 1861 – The 10th Tennessee Infantry Regiment enters Confederate service in the American Civil War.

Company D was known as the ‘Rebel Sons of Erin’ because so many of them were Irish. Indeed, the roster of Company D reads like any small town in a 19th century Irish village (every surname was Irish). While the Fighting 69th on the Union side is the most famous “Irish Brigade,” it is estimated that at least 30,000 Irish fought on the Confederate side. Much of the enlistment was due to the…

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Charleston, South Carolina. The bombarded graveyard of the Circular Church. 1865.

*tears*

Happy New Year Dixieland!

June 19, 1864 Battle of Cherbourg France. The CSS Alabama was sunk by the USS Kearsarge. But not without a fight. This shot is still embedded in the side of the Kearsarge today at the Navy Yard. Both the quality of the powder and the coal were thought to have played a part in the Alabama’s loss. The British yacht the Deerhound rescued many in the crew including Captain Semmes. Unfortunately David White a slave from Delaware, who had been freed by Captain Semmes, from a Yankee ship, drowned that day. He is forever immortalized in the sea.

Amazing ironclads! And guns from the Navy Yard! Zoom in for details of each gun

In Defense of Southern Heritage!

Matt Walsh Defends our Heritage!

We need to destroy the Left! “Dr Rainville” probably a man just destroyed a monument to Traveller a horse of Robert E Lee. Garbage ! Complete Garbage! Photo credit: the Virginia Project

Today is the 160th Anniversary of Pickett’s Charge.

Lee was not obsessed with rank like most re-enacting units today. He wore a colonels coat.

Uniform coat worn by Robert E. Lee when he surrendered the army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox court house on April 9th, 1865.