Huh. Ted Poe (R-TX) thinks it’s appropriate to quote Nathan Bedford Forrest on the floor of the House of Representatives. Forrest, a major figure in the early KKK, also led the massacre at Fort Pillow in 1864. Now, in mild defense of Ted Poe, I have occasionally used the Herman Goering “when I hear the […]
Category: confederate heritage month
Nicholas Lemann’s Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War, focuses on the activity of Adelbert Ames, a former Union officer who became governor of Mississippi during Reconstruction. Ames pr
It’s Memorial Day for Morons. April 26 was originally proposed as a day of remembrance by a Mrs. Charles Williams of Columbus, Georgia, who wrote a letter in 1866 that appeared in newspapers acr
James Buchanan, arguably the worst chief executive in American history, was born on this date in 1791. The only president to hail from Pennsylvania, Buchanan stood for nearly everything the state’s Quaker founders detested, including the institution of slavery, which he sought to extend before watching inertly as it cleaved the nation in two. A […]
April 17, 1861: An Ordinance to repeal the ratification of the Constitution of the United State of America by the State of Virginia, and to resume all the rights and powers granted under said Constitu
Today is the 134th anniversary of the massacre in Colfax, Louisiana, where white and black militias clashed in an Easter Sunday battle that left scores of blacks dead. According to a racist historical
Loomis does some good work with Old Slow Trot, George Thomas. Thomas was, for all intents and purposes, written out of history because he didn’t conform to the post-reconstruction archetype of e
Today is the anniversary of the massacre of Union soldiers at Ft. Pillow, Tennessee, in 1864. Located in Jackson Henning, Tennessee, about 40 miles from Memphis, the fortress complex had been abandoned by the Confederate Army and occupied by 300 Tennessee cavalrymen and 300 Union troops. Of the latter, nearly all were African Americans newly […]
On this date in 1938, the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America sprung forth into the world in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As it turns out, the distinctive barbe
Let’s say you’re the sort of goob who argues that African Americans served willingly in the Lost Cause of the Confederacy (scroll down in comments for a priceless takedown from Rob —