Today Is The Anniversary Of Picketts Charge. July 3, 1863. Salute!

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Eyewitness recounts York's "surrender" meeting with Gen. Gordon at Farmers, Pa. - Cannonball

This historic old house off Locust Lane in Farmers, Pa., is where Confederate Brig. Gen.

Amazing story of General John B. Gordon and the surrender of York, PA.

Wilson’s Creek was a fascinating battle- Weaver shown above was the first Arkansas casualty of our Second Rebellion.

Documentary of the battle is linked below:

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Omer Rose Weaver of Little Rock, Arkansas, and friends, ca 1860. Weaver was killed in action at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek on August 10, 1861, while serving in the Confederate Army’s Pulaski Light Battery. Arkansas State Archives, PHC 2677.

I was very impressed with my Southern Brethren in TX. God bless y’all this beautiful Texas day.

#BOYCOTTRVA APPARENTLY SOME IN VIRGINIA FIND IT FUNNY TO DESECRATE REMAINS. Governor is silent!

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William Mack Lee – Body Servant of General Robert E. Lee. He stayed with General Lee throughout the war and until the day Lee died in 1870. Mack said of General Lee after his death “I was raised by one of the greatest men in the world. There was never one born of a woman greater than General Robert E. Lee, according to my judgment. All of his servants were set free ten years before the war, but all remained on the plantation until after the surrender.“General Lee left Mack $360 in his will, which Mack used to go to school and started 14 churches. He became an ordained Missionary Baptist minister in Washington, DC.

November 19, 1863 the Gettysburg address was given. Exactly 160 years from today. We Remember our Fallen. Pictures from the memorial at Remembrance Day. We love our American history!

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While a political refugee in London, former Confederate general John G. Walker wrote a history of the Civil War west of the Mississippi Rive

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John George Walker (1821-1893) - Find a Grave...

Civil War Confederate Major General. In 1844, he graduated from Jesuit College in St. Louis, Missouri and was commissioned a Lieutenant into