Arkansas: Confederate Soldiers to Be Reburied
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Six Confederate soldiers whose bodies were dumped into a hastily dug grave after a Civil War battle will receive a proper burial later this month, more than a year after their remains were discovered by a hunter. The reburial is planned for March 20, almost 141 years after the men were cut down while facing Union troops in 1863 during a struggle for the Mississippi River port of Helena, Ark.

The remains were found in a forest in the fall of 2002, when a hunter discovered a few bones and called authorities. Union artillery had once been positioned on the site, which was attacked by Confederate troops south of Helena. "You feel remorse because they didn't have a proper burial. They were just laid out in the woods like that," said Terry Bandy, a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a group of descendants of Civil War soldiers.

The remains of all six will be buried in a single wooden coffin at the Confederate Cemetery in Helena, about 100 miles east of Little Rock. The coffin, built in a style reminiscent of the era, will feature handles adorned with replicas of Confederate belt buckles. The soldiers' identities are unknown, but forensic results due next month are expected to tell their age, whether they suffered from disease and clues about how they died.

"NAZI OUTRAGE COMING AGAIN" - by Alan Stang
"The town that vanished was New Manchester, Georgia. The victims were Southern women and children. The men who did it were Union soldiers. The date was the summer of 1864. The monster who ordered it was Union General William Tecumseh Sherman. The monster who not only condoned it, but also applauded it and rewarded it, was our first Communist President, Abraham Lincoln."

Are Current Bill of Rights Erosions Unprecedented? by Anthony Gregory
More violations of the Constitution probably occurred during Abraham Lincoln’s four years as president than during any other cohesively defined era in American history. Many have pointed out that Lincoln suspended habeas corpus to jail war protesters, shut down hundreds of newspapers that disagreed with his war, established a draft for the first time in American history (except in the seceded South, which had a draft a year earlier), instituted restrictions on firearms, and sent troops to violently suppress the New York draft riot. He also used the war to push through the "American System," a program of de facto nationalization of the transportation industry via massive subsidies to corporations that would agree to build "internal improvements" – railroads, waterways, and canals. The victory of the Union in 1865 not only established that, contrary to popular political theory in the antebellum era, the federal government was completely supreme over the states; it also established that a president could do literally anything he could get away with, no matter how many liberties were suspended, innocents jailed, and people killed in the process. - (reader link)

• Why the Confederacy never surrendered part I
  "The invading Yankee armies caused the C.S.A. Government to be scattered across the South and even across the world, but it was NEVER surrendered. Nor were any treaties of any sort ever proposed or signed by the Confederacy."
• Why the Confederacy never surrendered part 2
• Why the Confederacy never surrendered part 3
• Why the Confederacy never surrendered part 4
  
  
• Virginia: Confederacy Month Wins Early Support
  Va. Senate Debate Looms; Black Caucus Troubled
• Minnesota stand on flag inflames Civil War buffs - Civil War groups in Virginia are outraged
  that the state of Minnesota is refusing to return a flag lost during the Battle of Gettysburg.
  
• The saga of Harpers Ferry
  
  
• Savannah Morning News - 2003 flag based on Confederacy's 'Stars and Bars'
  
• Atlanta: Two Southern gents sparring over their flag designs
• Georgia: Flag referendum resurrects debate
  
  
• Symbolic Controversy - Student opinions differ on wearing Confederate flag
  

New Novel: "A Fistful of Thorns" - by Michael A. Crane
"Born with a hare lip and cleft pallet, he survives General Sherman's gratuitous destruction of his home. Like the rest of Georgia, he comes to loathe that murderous, red headed symbol of Yankee corruption and viciousness. After living through the rapacious carpetbag reconstruction...."
The author, Michael A. Crane is an attorney and former Oakland Police Officer.

Whitaker online: Europeans Are True Yankees
New Yorkers think they are enormously sophisticated and they call all Southerners “hillbillies.”
They call natives of coastal Mississippi or upper Florida “hillbillies.” A large percentage of the people those brilliant, knowledgeable New Yorkers called “hillbillies” never saw a real hill.

Mystery Regarding Lincoln's Assassin Enthralls Retired Professor
Terre Haute resident believes John Wilkes Booth fled to India, taking Hoosier's name.

Modern Christianity: The Child of Yankee Reconstruction
31 July, 2003 - by Hobie D' Amico, yankee occupied Georgia territory, C.S.A.
from the website
I'll Take My Stand
I'll Take My Stand is a pro-Christian liberty, pro-Confederate, pro-agrarian, anti-industrialism, anti-yankee, anti-scalawag, anti-empire, web site that will chiefly cover material written by writers that seek to advance the Christian Confederate Cause in a true, honourable, educational manner. - (links suggested by Gary Smith on our forum)

LINCOLN'S CIVIL WAR AGAINST NEW YORK by John Chodes - (reader link)
Between 1861 and 1865 there were two wars being fought simultaneously in the United States by Abraham Lincoln and his Republican administration. The first was to prevent the independence of the seceded Southern states. The second was a civil war in the North upon the six states controlled by the Democratic Party: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.

Happy Lee and Jackson Day! - from Pastor James Brown Jr
"The Independent Christian Action Network celebrates this day in honor of two great Christian soldiers. General Robert E. Lee was born on this day in 1807. On the 21st of this month General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was born in 1824. Don't give lip-service to an adulterer, a communist, and a agitator on this day. Let's honor real American heroes by reclaiming this land back for Jesus Christ. Only this time we are not settling for half of the country!"

[Reader asks about] "CSA licence plate
"Hi, I see that there is a link on your site for CSA passports. I am looking for CSA licence plates for my car, with issue numbers. Do you know of any such thing? Of course, it would be mounted on the front, but I would love to have something such as that. I think it would be another great way to show my Southron pride.
Thank you," - Kevin
[Editor note: if anybody can help on this - send me an email and I'll post.]

• "IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE CONFEDERATE FLAG,
  YOU'LL HAVE TO HAVE THESE MANY DIFFERENT WAYS TO PLAY DIXIE.
  NEAR 12 DIXIE "MIDI" FILIES--GREAT LISTENING!
  Place these as icons on your desktop for anytime listening. http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/8313/dixmidi.htm
  - Gary Smith
  P.S.--I got 'em all."

First Message Of Jefferson Davis To The Provisional Congress Of The Confederate States of America
Gentlemen of the Congress: It is my pleasing duty to announce to you that the Constitution framed for the establishment of a permanent Government for the Confederate States has been ratified by conventions in each of those States to which it was referred.
To inaugurate the Government in its full proportions and upon its own substantial basis of the popular will, it only remains that elections should be held for the designation of the officers to administer it.

There is every reason to believe that at no distant day other States, identified in political principle and community of interests with those which you represent, will join this Confederacy, giving to its typical constellation increased splendor, to its Government of free, equal, and sovereign States a wider sphere of usefulness, and to the friends of constitutional liberty a greater security for its harmonious and perpetual existence.

"Flagging fortunes of the Confederacy"
During its brief but eventful history, the American Confederacy was big on flags.
The first standard, adopted before the first shots were fired in the civil war, became known as the Stars and Bars. It displayed two broad red stripes and a white one with a canton of stars representing each of the confederate states. However, the banner's resemblance to the Union side's Stars and Stripes led to confusion in the first major battle of the war, at Manassas. General Beauregard, determined to ensure that such a fiasco would not be repeated, championed the design of a new battle flag which would be clearly distinguishable.
Origin of the Confederate Battleflag

Origin of the Confederate Battleflag

• Writers, filmmakers do battle with Civil War material
  "Cold Mountain" is not a battle story. It's the tale of a Confederate deserter
  The men and women of "Cold Mountain" are locked in a struggle for survival that descends in every war: An elderly woman, out of food, slits her goat's throat slowly yet tenderly, murmuring, "You done good, girl."
  A Union soldier lays a baby on icy ground to coerce its mother.
• Emancipation forum aims to dispel myths - Abolitionist descendant among those to discuss Lincoln proclamation
  One common misconception is that the Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the United States. It did not.
  

North Coast Copperhead Courier Tribune ranked in referring sites to AW SHUCKS!