CofCC News More Newsby Col. Robert Slimp The eighth annual Wade Hampton Memorial Service will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 21 at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in the Keenan Chapel. Dr. David Aiken of Charleston, who is a tenured professor of English at the Citadel in Charleston will speak on “ Wade Hampton’s civilizing [...]
by Kyle Rogers The alleged “Massacre at Fort Pillow” was nothing more than election propaganda to ensure that Abraham Lincoln wasn’t defeated in the bitter election of 1864. Photo Right: Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. One of the most inventive and successful Generals in world history. Today Forrest is studied in military academies worldwide. Both [...]
One hundred fifty years ago today, on March 4, 1861, the newly-formed Confederate States of America approved the “Stars and Bars” as the official national flag of the Confederacy. Seven stars representing the seven seceded states formed a circle in a blue canton, which was set in the corner of broad red-white-red bars. A later [...]
by L.R. Olsen (website) On February 17 the South Carolina Conservative Action Council met in Columbia, South Carolina to recognize the 146th anniversary of one of General William Tecumseh Sherman’s war crimes. February 17, 1865, in the closing months of Lincoln’s War of Northern Aggression, General William T. Sherman destroyed Columbia, the capital city of [...]
Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, born February 2, 1803, was the Confederate General who commanded at the Battle of Shiloh until his death on that same battlefield. Born in Washington Co., Kentucky, Johnston attended West Point where he became acquainted with both Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. Davis admired Johnston and considered him the Confederacy’s [...]
One hundred and fifty years ago today, February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the Union and joined the seven Southern states that comprised the inchoate Confederacy. In the months following the bombardment of Ft. Sumter in South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee also seceded to complete the Confederate States of America. The remaining slave-holding states of Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Delaware [...]
The mayor of a tiny Arkansas town raised a Confederate flag over city hall in honor of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s birthday. The flag flew for a few days and was taken down. The all-white town council then voted to allow only the US flag and the state flag on the pole. Only one councilman [...]
Celebrate a true American holiday this weekend! Gen. Robert E. Lee Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
