This is the grave of Jubal Early. Unfortunately born in 1816, one of the worst people in all of American history grew up in the Virginia elite. His father had a 4,000 acre tobacco farm worked with large groups of slaves. Early went to private...
Treason in Defense of Slavery
It doesn't really need to be repeated here I suppose. But it is always worth remembering that all the myths about the Confederacy being this anti-capitalist state is trash and.
Ralph Northam's past may be, uh, racially problematic, but he's certainly making up for it now. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is expected to announce plans Thursday for the removal of.
This is the grave of States Rights Gist. Yes friends, you read that right. This man was named States Rights Gist. See, he was born in 1831 in Union, South Carolina to a family that were southern extremists. This was the era of Nullification. At...
This is the grave of Ben McCulloch. McCullloch was born to a once wealthy Tennessee family in 1811. His father had graduated from Yale and his mother (always buried here.
This is the grave of Fannie Battle. Before you note the discrepancy between the spelling of her name on the tombstone and in this post, note that every single reference.
This is the grave of Henry Wise. Born in Accomack County, Virginia in 1806 to parents from the Virginia slaveholding plantation elite, Henry Wise grew up in luxury. He graduated from what is today Washington and Jefferson College in 1825, studied with the Virginia legal...
This is the grave of Stephen F. Austin. Born in 1793 in Wythe County, Virginia, in 1798 the family moved to eastern Missouri, which was the extreme frontier at that.
This is the grave of the traitor George Pickett. Pickett was unfortunately born in 1825 to an elite Virginia family in Richmond. For awhile he was going to go into.
This is the grave of Jesse Bright. Born in Norwich, New York in 1812, Bright's family moved to Indiana in 1820. Bright was, well, bright, and was admitted to the bar in 1831. He became a leading young Democrat and rose pretty rapidly in Indiana...
This is the grave of the vile traitor Albert Sidney Johnston. Born in 1803 in Washington, Kentucky, he was educated first at Transylvania University in Lexington and then at the.
What a time to be alive. A senior official at the Veterans Affairs Department hung a painting of the first Ku Klux Klan grand wizard and Confederate general in his.