The Ron and Dan Show explores the controversy of a confederate flag flying in front of the courthouse in downtown Shreveport, Louisiana.

Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. A very interesting sub culture if you will that few people realize exists.

A different way of depicting this in German..with images set to music

And the controversy continues

The Civil War is still alive and well in the minds of Civil War buffs.

It has been 142 years since the Civil War ended, but the debate over the Confederate flag rages on!

The American Civil War (1861--1865) was a separatist conflict between the United States Federal government (the "Union") and eleven Southern slave states that declared their secession and formed   more...the Confederate States of America, led by President Jefferson Davis. The Union, led by President Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party, opposed the expansion of slavery and rejected any right of secession. Fighting commenced on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a Federal military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.[1]

During the first year, the Union asserted control of the border states and established a naval blockade as both sides raised large armies. In 1862 the large, bloody battles began. In September 1862, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation[2] made the freeing of the slaves a war goal, despite opposition from northern Copperheads who tolerated secession and slavery. Emancipation ensured that Britain and France would not intervene to help the Confederacy. In addition, the goal also allowed the Union to recruit African-Americans for reinforcements, a resource that the Confederacy did not dare exploit until it was too late. War Democrats reluctantly accepted emancipation as part of total war needed to save the Union. In the East, Robert Edward Lee rolled up a series of Confederate victories over the Army of the Potomac, but his best general, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, was killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863.[3] Lee's invasion of the North was repulsed at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania in July 1863;[4] he barely managed to escape back to Virginia. In the West, the Union Navy captured the port of New Orleans in 1862, and Ulysses S. Grant seized control of the Mississippi River by capturing Vicksburg, Mississippi in July 1863[5], thus splitting the Confederacy.

By 1864, long-term Union advantages in geography, manpower, industry, finance, political organization and transportation were overwhelming the Confederacy. Grant fought a number of bloody battles with Lee in Virginia in the summer of 1864. Lee won most of the battles in a tactical sense but on the whole lost strategically, as he could not replace his casualties and was forced to retreat into trenches around his capital, Richmond, Virginia. Meanwhile, William Tecumseh Sherman captured Atlanta, Georgia.[6] Sherman's March to the Sea destroyed a hundred-mile-wide swath of Georgia. In 1865, the Confederacy collapsed after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House and the slaves were freed.

The full restoration of the Union was the work of a highly contentious postwar era known as Reconstruction. The war produced about 970,000 casualties (3% of the population), including approximately 620,000 soldier deaths—two-thirds by disease. [7] The causes of the war, the reasons for its outcome, and even the name of the war itself are subjects of lingering controversy even today. The main results of the war were the restoration and strengthening of the Union, and the end of slavery in the United States. (more) (less)  less

Civil War Reenactment

Heritage Not Hate Slideshow

Recently drove from Des Moines, Iowa to Murrells Inlet, SC, just south of Myrtle Beach to visit my sister. This is a compilation of pics and video I took with a couple extra from the internet set to Jackyl's   more..."Dixieland."  less

My racist neighbor has threatened to kill my cat, I’m chilling out and waiting for the Grim Reaper to take him to his eternal resting place.

As it turns out, not only is he a racist, he's a homophobe AND a racist!

A civil war reenactment in Dysartsville, NC.

A Confederate Major's letter recounting the lonely days and harrowing nights on the battlefront.

The spirit of General Robert E. Lee is trying to help gather a volunteer force in the material world from the former Confederate states to win back their honor with the assistance of First Lady Laura   more...Bush to liberate Georgia from The Russians. Johnny Cash wrote this song and channeled it through internationally known psychic Speaker Gerald Polley as an anthem for these troops.  less

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Orange Order Twelfth of July demonstration, County Londonderry / Derry, Northern Ireland / Ulster - 2006 - Ulster-Scots   more.../ Scotch-Irish culture  less

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More clearification and nit picking on the subject of racism and the Confederate flag. Not all black people think that the levies were blown up, even though they were blown up in hurricane “Betsy” in   more...1965, not all black people think that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton speak for them; I do not speak for all black people either, just my friends. I'm talking from my own personal, moral, point of view.  less

Prairie Rose, A Civil War Journey; is a new film that tells the fictional historical drama of a young woman's adventure to rescue her husband from a Civil War Union POW camp in Chicago in the fall of   more...1862. Through Cath, a nurse and spy from the camp, Sarah Rose receives a message at home on her farm in rural Kentucky from her dying husband, Will. With Cath's tenacity and brash personality, the generally shy and reserve Sarah sets off with her new companion on a journey across Kentucky and Illinois determined to rescue her newlywed husband from an inevitable death from camp sickness and his battle wounds received at the battle of Shiloh. The difficulty of their journey is complicated by two Pinkerton agents, Agents Winslow and Peterson, hired by the camp commander to hunt down and capture Confederate spies.  less

An interview with Curt Story who was fired by his employer for refusing to remove a confederate flag sticker from his lunch box.