CofCC News More NewsA 18-year-old student was barred from entering her High School Prom over the weekend because her dress resembled a Confederate flag. Gibson County High’s principal, James Hughes, made the decision to bar the student from entering the prom. Eddie Pruett, director of the Gibson County School system, defended Hughes and said that their have been “race [...]
by 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 [...]
NASCAR spit on it’s southern fan base by declaring that the Confederate flag is offensive. NASCAR reneged on a promise to allow PGA star Bubba Watson drive an original General Lee from the Duke of Hazard tv show as a pace car at the Phoenix International Raceway. Despite being most popular among white southerners, NASCAR [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Exclusive to CofCC.org by L.R. Olsen (website) In this modern era of altered history and political correctness, our Southern history and heritage often fall victim to distortions and half-truths. Unaware of the facts, people are easy prey to those who would use them as tools in their sleazy political agenda. This is what happened January [...]
Celebrate a true American holiday this weekend! Gen. Robert E. Lee Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
