History & Articles regarding Southern Heritage
NO MENTION OF INCIDENTS LIKE THIS IN SCHOOL HISTORY BOOKS...It doesn't fit their agenda. “Attack on Our Soldiers by Armed Negroes! A member of the Indiana Twentieth Regiment, now encamped near Fortress Monroe, writes to the Indianapolis Journal on the 23rd. Yesterday morning General Mansfield with Drake de Kay, Aide-DE-Camp in command of [...]
SHERMAN’S WAR ON WOMEN… The War was raging and General Sherman had begun a scorched earth policy he believed that terrorizing civilians was the best way to destroy the South’s morale and ability to wage war. In July 1864, approximately 400 mill workers in Georgia - nearly all women, were taken prisoner by [...]
by DAVID JOHN MAROTTA and MEGAN RUSSELL JUNE 23, 2013 Although they opposed permanent tariffs, political expedience in spite of sound economics prompted the Founding Fathers to pass the first U.S. tariff act. For 72 years, Northern special interest groups used these protective tariffs to exploit the South for their own benefit. Finally in 1861, [...]
How the end of slavery led to starvation and death for millions of black Americans In the brutal chaos that followed the civil war, life after emancipation was harsh and often short, new book argues Paul Harris Saturday, 16 June 2012 Hundreds of thousands of slaves freed during the American civil war [...]
Slave trade was Rhode Island's 'number one financial activity' Exhibit opens tonight with reception at the Jamestown library By Jeff McDonough Few people living today in Rhode Island realize that the slave trade was once a vital component of the Ocean State's economy. "The numbers are astonishing," says Ray Rickman, project director [...]
The Slaves of General Forrest There has been a lot of controversery surrounding General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Some say he started the Ku Klux Klan, which is untrue. In fact, General Forrest called for the KKK to disband after the group became too violent. Another false assumption is that he was a cruel slave [...]
Forrest was postwar activist for black civil rights Greg Tucker, Daily News Journal July 13, 2015 Retired Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest was an outspoken advocate for the civil rights of the freedmen in postwar Tennessee. This advocacy and his popularity with the Memphis black community were resented by some of his white contemporaries who [...]
Slavery and the War By Michael Armstrong Nov 27, 2017 The recent apoplexy over White House Chief-of-Staff John Kelly’s comments about Robert E. Lee and the Civil War have revealed on ongoing problem in the thinking of many Americans when it comes to history and politics in general – the inability to see [...]
The Whitewashed Tyranny of Abraham Lincoln By Tara Dodrill The Health Wyze Report November 24, 2017 Abraham Lincoln was the best U.S. President, motivated by a patriotic and Christian desire to preserve the union of states and free the slaves. At least that is what modern textbooks suggest. There is a bigger story [...]
Myth: The War Between the States Was Fought Over Slavery October 09, 2017 Richard Lee Montgomery Living in the Land of Cotton: http://livinginthelandofcotton.com/ True or false? Abraham Lincoln gave us the answer. When asked in March of 1861 by a newspaper reported at a Virginia Compromise Delegation, “Why not let the South go?” [...]
