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Three Flags from America's Two Wars for Liberty & Independence
from Tyrannical Governments.
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Governor, if I had foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; no sir, not by me. Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in this right hand.
--General Robert E. Lee, August 1870 to Governor Stockdale of Texas
If it {Declaration of Independence} justifies the secession from the British empire of 3,000,000 of colonists in 1776, we do not see why it would not justify the secession of 5,000,000 of Southrons from the Federal Union in 1861. If we are mistaken on this point, why does not some one attempt to show wherein why?
--New York Tribune, December 17, 1860
I became an avid Confederate sympathizer in August of 2002 after reading Thomas DiLorenzo's book "The Real Lincoln". (I have always been a "Jeffersonian".) The book made me aware of the distortions of history that I received in the government run school system and made me aware of the real issues behind the War to Prevent Southern Independence which was, in reality, America's Second War of Secession, a war for Liberty & Independence from Lincoln's tyrannical government.
See Book Review: The Real Lincoln in messages for details.
Also see:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo-arch.htmland http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo6.html
"...when you’re celebrating on the Fourth of July... fly the flag of the Thirteen Colonies, the First National Flag of the Confederacy, or the Confederate Battle Flag, for these are the appropriate flags for celebrating American independence from tyrannical government. The U.S. flag, on the other hand, stands for exactly the opposite."
Lincoln's Unnecessary War: Facts & Causes
History is often rewritten today in order to satisfy "Political Correctness." We feel that this is an injustice, and attempt to counter this by providing a more realistic account of the War Between the States. Below are links which contain FACTS, not politically correct rhetoric.
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These links present articles which are historically accurate.
Free Traders, Not Traitors -- Economic Issues And The War For Southern Independence
Slavery and Southern Independence
On Secession and Southern Independence
Who Cares about the Civil War? (by Harry Browne)
Tariffs, Not slavery
Southern Civilians Under Fire
The Right to Secede
Lesser Known Historical Excerpts Relevant to The War for Southern Independence
FAQ about the War for Southern Independence
Black Slave Owners - Dixie's Censored Subject
The Confederacy, The Union, and the Civil War - A look at four claims about the War Between the States
Lincoln's War
Facts That Support the Southern View of the Civil War
DiLorenzo and His Critics on the Lincoln Myth
A Look At Four Claims About the War Between the States
Missing History: Omissions in James McPherson's Book THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM
Attacking the Confederate Battle Flag: An Example of Northern White Hypocrisy
How It Was: Four Years Among the Rebels(Book from 1892)
A Moral Accounting of the Union and the Confederacy(PDF document)
Let's put myths to rest(The Lincoln myth)
Machan, Secession, and Slavery
The New York Draft Riots
Taking America Back
War Timelines
Below are links to detailed timelines showing the progression of the War and events leading up to it.
1860-61
1862
1663
1864
1865 - Present
Slavery was legal in the north even after the fall of the Confederacy.
The flag that flew over slave ships was the United States' Stars and Stripes, never a Confederate flag.
Do we want to bring up these facts about slavery?: That Africans were captured by other Africans to be sold into slavery? That Africans sold other Africans to Yankee, not to Southern, slave dealers, for transport in Yankee slave ships? That blacks as well as whites owned slaves?
Do we want to recognize that slavery had never been safer than in 1860: Lincoln personally supported a new constitutional amendment protecting slavery forever, which he signed, and Illinois had already ratified it when war broke out.
"The institution of slavery had never been more secure for the slave owners, with the Supreme Court in their back pocket, with the Constitution itself expressly protecting slavery, and mandating the return of fugitive slaves everywhere-- a mandate Lincoln said he would enforce; with Lincoln also declaring he had no right to interfere with slavery and no personal inclination to do so; with Lincoln personally supporting a new constitutional amendment protecting slavery forever . . . There is nothing the South could have asked for, for the protection of slavery, that wouldn't have been gladly provided, just as long as the South remained in the Union"
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Lincoln's Unnecessary War: Facts & Causes
History is often rewritten today in order to satisfy "Political Correctness." We feel that this is an injustice, and attempt to counter this by providing a more realistic account of the War Between the States. Below are links which contain FACTS, not politically correct rhetoric.
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Black ConfederatesWe are often led to believe that somehow the Civil War was fought to allow the suppression of the Black man, but these articles show that to be a misconception.
Black Confederates Fact Page
Black Contributions in the "Cradle of Secession"
Black Confederate Websites
In Memoriam - Henry "Dad" Brown, Black Confederate Drummer
Confederate unit flag raised at black soldier's gravesite
Regimental flag raised at Henry Brown's gravesite
Amos Rucker, Confederate infantry soldier
Black Confederates Have Their Own Lesson to Teach
Black Confederates - Some Facts
Public Library to Celebrate Black Confederate History (This is a link to a forum with an interesting ongoing discussion of Black Confederates and revisionist history)
Did Black Confederates Serve in Combat?
How Blacks Were Treated by the Lincoln's Union?
H.K. Edgerton: Present-day Confederate
Were Blacks "Forced to Fight" for the Confederacy?
How Did Black Southerners Respond When War Was Declared?
Did Blacks Serve in the Confederate Army as Soldiers?
Why Blacks Fought For the Confederate States of America
The Valor of Black Confederates
Twelve Reasons We Don't Believe in Black Confederates
Dixie's Censored Subject: Black Slave Owners
Black Confederates and the casualty of truth
Diverse Confederates
The myth exists that the Confederate Army was a sea of lily-white Protestant faces with an occasional black "body servant." The truth is something far different.
The Confederate Army had more than 10,000 Native American soldiers from more than two-dozen tribes, including Cherokee Brigadier General Stand Watie. There were more than 5000 Hispanic Confederates and some, like Col. Ambrosio Gonzales and Loretta Velazquez, even came from Cuba. Nearly 3,500 Jewish Confederates lent their service and were among the last to die for the South.
Foreigners from many countries served as officers and enlisted men, including Chinese Confederate soldiers out of New Orleans. The 10th Louisiana Infantry was known as "Lee's Foreign Legion" and there was an all-Polish cavalry unit.
Black Southerners, slave and free, were servants, clerks, hospital orderlies, wagon drivers, and engineer labor forces, but were also chaplains, scouts, foragers, combat soldiers, and feared sharpshooters. They served willingly and they died in Union P.O.W. camps rather than take the Union oath of loyalty.
Together with Southerners descended from waves of Irish, Scottish, and German immigrants, the Confederate Army stood as a group of men whose only qualification was, "Will you fight?"
Click Here to see printed items featuring Diverse Confederates.
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