".. The women who held the first “Decoration Day” in Columbus, Georgia in 1866 did so to honor the dozens of Confederate soldiers buried in Linwood Cemetery. This was soon replicated across the South. The Grand Army of the Republic copied the event in 1868 ..."
Columbus, Georgia is my birthplace .. and someday [on my bucket list] I hope to visit this location where southern women chose to honor ALL who died in this horrible war.
We have known this annual day of reflection as Memorial Day for 150 years but it did not originate in the North. The Southern version actually honored BOTH the gray (Confederates) and the blue (Union) soldiers and sailors.
"... The monuments that these modern day Leninists believe represent “white supremacy” were a byproduct of a movement that began one year after the conclusion of hostilities to remember the over two hundred thousand men who died defending the Southern fight for independence.
It took decades to collect enough pennies to build the monuments that are now being toppled in hours.
Not even the Yankees who faced cannon and rifle fire from these Confederate soldiers were so bold to deny Southerners their memorials. Some, in fact, joined hands at dedication ceremonies across the South. If anyone should have hated Confederate soldiers, it was these men. But they didn’t.
Thousands of Union soldiers saluted their Confederate counterparts as they surrendered at Appomattox and wept with them when these Southern patriots gave up their flags. Not one Union soldier burned a Confederate flag or dragged it through the mud when the War was over. The immediate aftermath was magnanimous on both sides..."
A note about the HONOR of the cause of secession (legal just as is divorce in terms of contractual obligations) .. ".. If anyone wants to understand why these monuments were erected, simply read the inscriptions. Not one is dedicated to “white supremacy,” but all honor the Confederate soldier and many the Southern women who supported the cause. Several are dedicated to the “Principles of 1776” and the “Sovereignty of the States,” the same cause Southerners wrote about as they headed off to war in 1861..." This is in defense of a homeland.
The seven southern states attempted peace negotiations with the Lincoln administration but they would have none of that in March 1861 after he was elected. Instead, Lincoln called it an INSURRECTION and used language from a 1790s law that was used to deploy troops to Pennsylvania to suppress the "Whiskey Tax Rebellion". If this is the case .. it (i.e. war) WAS about collection of taxes just as Lincoln said during his first inaugural address. The secession was about abusive taxation (without seven Southern states in Congress, there was a doubling of tariff/taxation passed into law that would have hit the southern states even MORE than the current taxing scheme. The founders knew that taxing one region of the US higher than another would not end well. (Like one spouse blowing more money than the other on themselves .. divorce is inevitable). Leaving a marriage does NOT justify violence against the departing party ,, EVER.
Side note: "People who hate Lee simply can’t understand or don’t like the concept of a Christian gentleman."–Clyde Wilson
Source of quoted material. Please go there for the full article IN context.
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