High court to decide whether flag emblem suit will be heard
The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 9 will discuss whether to hear arguments in a case in which a Muslim sued Mississippi over the Confederate battle emblem in the state flag.
Lower federal courts had rejected John Ellis Briggs' argument that the Mississippi flag contains a Christian symbol — the St. Andrew's Cross — and that the symbol represents state endorsement of a particular religion.
Briggs' lawsuit seeks punitive damages of up to $77.77 million. It also seeks to have the symbol "removed from display in public places."
Since 1894, Mississippi's flag has contained the Confederate battle emblem, a blue X with 13 whites stars over a field of red. Experts differ on whether the X in the Confederate battle emblem is the St. Andrew's Cross.
- (link from Tyrone N. Butts)

Salvation for Confederates and Yankees (or Historical Evidence of Israel) - by Gary Smith
"The twelve six-pointed stars first came to light on flags of the South: the 57th Georgia, 9th Mississippi and 1st Florida. These were Braxton Bragg's Battle Flags of 1862.

They showed up again: a 1995 postage stamp featuring a uniformed Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, a photograph of Gen. Lee's overcoat as sewn by the ladies of Maryland, an Arkansas belt plate and an 1860 deck of playing cards. Then came the discovery of other Confederates who wore and/or appeared in photographs and drawings with the star(s) of six points: Col. John S. Mosby, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, Gen. Leonidas Polk, Gen. Patrick L. Cleburne, Col. John Haskell, Col. John Henry Winder and Gen. Arnold Elzey to name only a few. A friend of mine and great-great-grandson of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston assured me that "...they were not Jewish" but admitted curiosity about the star's presence..."

Welcome to FreeSouth.net - "Uniting the South thru Song!"
"Listening to the CD really made me homesick for Dixie and I appreciate the new sound. A cross between Alabama, Waylon, Charley Daniel's, Hank Williams Jr.& Johnny Paycheck".--Ron Holland Dixie Daily News.
"THERE'S A SPOT OUT NEGRO RIDGE, THEY GROW THEM CATFISH MIGHTY BIG!"

• "The Confederacy was responsible for halting cannibalism."

• Mabel White, 84, died of cancer this morning at her residence
  As a member of the J.Z. George Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Mrs. White was instrumental in the renovation of the Confederate Memorial Building that was nearly destroyed by fire. "Mabel was my right hand person. Whatever came up, Mabel helped me," said Mary Ann Shaw, who is in charge of the Confederate Memorial Building.
• Book: One nation, divisible: A History of the Democrats The 1860 convention split in half when Southern delegates in support of the Confederacy walked out and Stephen A. Douglas was left holding a doomed nomination.
• Fort Union Guarded New Mexico Frontier for 40 Years
  When news of the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861 reached Fort Union, the Southern-born officers promptly resigned their federal commissions. Included were Maj. James Longstreet and Capt. Richard Ewell, who would become lieutenant generals commanding corps in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
  Maj. Henry Hopkins Sibley, the Louisiana-born post commander, also resigned, and in less than a year, he would lead a Confederate invasion of New Mexico.
  

• This day in Confederate history - Dec 15th
  
• 1862 Nathan B. Forrest crosses the Tennessee River at Clifton with 2,500 men to raid the communications around Vicksburg, Mississippi.
• 1862 In New Orleans, Louisiana, Union Major General Benjamin F. Butler turns his command over to Nathaniel Banks. The citizens of New Orleans hold farewell parties for Butler, "The Beast," but only after he leaves.
• 1864 The battle at Nashville begins.
  The all-girl Rhea County Spartans
  The Rhea County Girls' Company was created in the summer of 1862 through a combination of boredom and the desire to be a part of the war for Southern Independence. Almost all of the "sidesaddle soldiers" had fathers or brothers
  in the Confederate military, and the young ladies evidently felt frustrated because their gender prevented them from enlisting. Since they could not actually join the Confederate Army, they did the next best thing: They created an Army of their own.

The Civil War in Lexington
"News reached Lexington, Kentucky of the attack on Fort Sumter by Confederate forces in South Carolina...
...an armed body of men bearing the Confederate flag passed through the streets of Lexington, heading south to swell the Confederate army, amidst cheers for Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Lexington's Confederate Brigadier General and guerrilla raider John Hunt Morgan
was born in Alabama, but was long a resident of Lexington, Kentucky.
Morgan had a yen for military service, and in the late 1850's he organized the Lexington Rifles, a pro-Southern militia. His command of the militia was to set the stage for his Confederate cavalry activities.
By early 1862, Morgan had earned a reputation both in the North and South for his daring raids

Separation, Secularism, or States Rights? - By James Brown Jr.
"There are two extreme positions which divide patriots concerning the subject of the Constitution. The first is a watered down version of the "separation of church and state" myth. The second is the theory that the Constitution is secular and humanist. Both views have been created through a misunderstanding of the order of authority between the Federal government and the States (States Rights)..."

• The Truth About The Confederate Battle Flag - by Pastor John Weaver
• Confederate flag has been banned form display at Sullivan East High School
• Georgia: Confederate Band, reenactors, city make nice for Christmas
  

• PATHS OF THE DEAD: Railroader buried at Rose Hill has place in Civil War lore
• N.J.’s unique role in Civil War on exhibit
  
  
• In local news 80 years ago this week - Stonewall Jackson statue
  One seldom-recalled tale concerns the origin of the statue of Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson in Capitol Square, the first statue honoring a Confederate leader erected in the city. Oddly, neither the city nor the state was responsible for the statue's commission.
  The Dec. 2, 1923 Times-Dispatch included a report on the statue's background that was inspired by a recent one-day visit to Richmond by former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. While here, Lloyd George expressed great interest in the Civil War. Lloyd George viewed several battle sites around the city in a tour led by newspaper editor and historian Douglas Southall Freeman. As Lloyd George later studied Jackson's statue in Capitol Square, he expressed his admiration for the general's character, calling him "a man of great quality."
  

• Bowling Green, Kentucky: Civil War fortification remnants dot the city
  Bowling Green, while not battle site, was a crucial crossroads during the war
  “In the autumn of 1861 he had advanced to Bowling Green, a railway junction of high strategic value to the south of the Green River, a tributary of the Ohio. Here he stood brazenly, hoping to rouse Kentucky and marshal Tennessee,” Winston Churchill wrote of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, commander of Confederate forces in the Mississippi Valley at the beginning of the War Between the States.
  
• Albert Sidney Johnston "Unrealized Potential" February 2, 1803 - April 6, 1862
• WAR PHOTOGRAPHS - THE DEATH OF C. S. A. GENERAL ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON

[Letter to the Editor regarding Howard Dean]

"Dear Sir:

Don't be too hard on Howard Dean.
Here's an exact parallel to his Confederate flag pronouncement: If Beauregard Bo-Dean, Democratic frontrunner from Dixie, had said: "I want to appeal to the Boston Irish who spraypaint shamrocks on walls," I would know exactly what he meant. I would say, "He doesn't really understand us, but he means well."

I enjoy your web page. Thanks for your time."

• If Democrats look away from Dixie, White House win may be tough
• Skinzlist: Dump Dean or Slash Steinberg?
  "Dump Dean? Howard Dean has been doing a pretty good job of dumping himself, what with his "apology" for seeking support from Confederate-flag wavers, code-word for whites. Dean does realize that the Democratic Party, indeed any party, cannot win without the white vote..."
• Betrayed By His Party - By Barbara Kay
  Al Gore was only the third Democrat since the Civil War to lose every single southern state in the Old Confederacy
• Mr. Sharpton deftly dumped the entire history of the Confederacy, lynching and racism
  down upon the startled head of Mr. Brokaw
• A year after fall from power, Trent Lott still loved, criticized by many
  During 30 years of public service, Lott mixed a fierce devotion to Southern history, including the Confederacy
  
  
• "Southern identity grows less assertive" - "SAD" - Smedley Butler - (link to Original Dissent forum)
• Giving thanks in hard times
  Thanksgiving Day became an official federal holiday by presidential proclamation of Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
  Until 1863, Ares, the Greek god of war, smiled more frequently on the Confederacy. From July 1 through July 3, 1863, the North American continent saw its single bloodiest battle when Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army clashed with Union troops commanded by Gen. George G. Meade near the sleepy farming community of Gettysburg, Pa. The battle, a Southern defeat, left a horrendous 51,000 American casualties in its wake. Lincoln, at last seeing Union fortunes turning, bade the country to set aside the last Thursday in November as a day of thanksgiving.
  
  
• Former tobacco plantation a bed and breakfast
  With the rumblings of secession and the start of the Civil War, the younger Barker boys left to fight for the Confederacy. During 1862, Union forces occupied Clarksville. Fortunately for the Barker family, the Union commander prevented his soldiers from burning the estate.
• Six members of the local United Daughters of the Confederacy chapter traveled to Tennessee for the national convention.

• Crosstarlist: Confederate Flag Remains Protest Against Exploitation
  "Dean had good reason to say "guys" in "pick-up trucks"
  JACKSON - The reason Howard Dean spoke of appealing to guys in "pickup trucks" and not Volvos or Lexus is because the South was so exploited by Carpetbaggers and Freedmen following the Civil War that its economy had never recovered. So, lacking in industry, Southerners have taken to small craftsmanship, truck-farming and single-owner service-work to make ends meet. And, the Confederate flag remains their protest against continued ruinous economic policies, carting off their wealth, and tyrannical social-policies, forcing descendants of slaves over them..."
  
  
• U.S. Army Occupied Bagdad, Florida 139 Years Ago During Civil War
• In search of Dean's confederacy
• Edwards: Confederacy Dispute 'Dangerous'
  
  
• Confederacy used charming sisters as spies
  At first, no one suspected the two lovely Ohio ladies who traveled extensively about the South. But in time, Ginnie and Lottie Moon were revealed as Confederate spies. The Moon sisters were born in Virginia but moved to Oxford, Ohio, as youngsters. Lottie married Jim Clark, soon to become a judge, and her younger sister moved in with them. Both women became couriers for the South, using their charms to easily slip through Union lines with secret dispatches.
• Confederate Arizona
  ARIZONA ORDINANCE OF SECESSION
  Passed by the People of Arizona in Convention Assembled at La Mesilla, Arizona Territory, March 16th, 1861

• Why do the neocons hate Dixie so? - by Patrick J. Buchanan
  
Howard Dean wants the white trash vote," wrote Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer in recent mockery of the Vermonter. "That's clearly what [Dean] meant when he said he wanted the votes of 'guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.'"
After Dean was savaged by Al Sharpton, who called the Confederate flag an "American swastika," Krauthammer was rhapsodic. His humiliation serves Dean right, Krauthammer chortled. He should never have pandered to Southern "yahoos" and "rebel-yelling racist redneck(s)."

• Crosstarlist: Dean Nixes Meeting with Confederate-Flag Backers
  Haden not surprised by snub; Carter defends diversity-protest Risher overturns school-election
  BOSTON - No sooner had Howard Dean announced that he liked "guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks" than flag proponents swung into action to meet with the former Vermont Governor. However, they were quickly turned down. The Nationalist Movement, which is non-partisan and non-political, but which led the Mississippi drive for the flag, was first to contact Dean to propose a meeting. "We'd like to hear specifics on how you will endeavor to promote the flag and the people, blood and honor it represents," they said.

• Gold found in shipwreck off Georgia
  Gold coins found amid the wreckage of a side-wheel steamer that sank off the Georgia coast in 1865.
  Officials believe the coins are part of a Yankee cargo of thousands of $20 gold pieces that the SS Republic was carrying from New York to New Orleans for "Reconstruction" of the South.
• Beauvoir maintains integrity of Civil War era
  BILOXI -- Located on the beach in Biloxi, is the home of the only President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, called Beauvoir. The home and grounds include 51 beautiful acres, a breathtaking view of the beach and tons of history.

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