AN ELEVEN YEAR OLDS PLEA TO THE UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS
In 1901 eleven-year-old Robert Rutland Scarborough gave a stirring speech to Confederate Veterans and Daughters of The Confederacy at Los Angeles, California regarding the birthday of General Robert E. Lee, and their duty to future generations.
"We, the children and grandchildren of the men whom you honor to-night — the men who followed him whose birthday we now celebrate — followed him to death and to glory, come to you with an earnest plea. Is it fair not to let us know the full meaning of our birthright? Tt is not bitterness to those who fought on the other side to tell us the truth; but it is a wrong to us. a great wrong to our loved Southland, and it makes the martyrdom of the thousands who sleep in Southern soldiers' graves useless not to let us know the true history of the years 1861 to 1865. What great deed has ever been achieved that was not inspired by hero-emulation? If we are left in ignorance of the truth about these things, we will grow up feeling that we have the blood of traitors in our veins. Will that make us great men? Do you not think that the story of sacrifice, of noble devotion to the right, of Lee, whose trust was ever in the God of battles, of Jackson, who never fought before he prayed, will stir the blood of your Sons to a resolve to be worthy of their ancestors? Do you not think that the tale of the Southern women, who nursed the sick soldiers, who struggled at home while the husbands and fathers fought, who often saw homes invaded and many of them burned, who gave their clearest men to the "Cause," and yet never wavered in their loyalty to it — do you not think that your daughters, hearing these things, will search their own hearts and strive to live up to the old standard of Southern womanhood — a standard that gives to woman the best, the purest, and the highest place on God's earth — the place of queen in the hearts of her household ?
It is your duty to look into the books your children read and study, and see that they know the truth, and tell them the story of the old South. If this generation wanders from the tenets of the high ideals of the South of ante-bellum days, who is to blame? You have our future in your hands. Make of us the chivalric gentlemen, the pure, modest women that our inheritance should make us; teach us to know and honor everything connected with the magnificent record that Confederate soldiers made — a record unequaled in the history of the world; teach us that when Lee surrendered at Appomattox he never surrendered the honor of the South nor the love of his soldiers; teach us, that when, after thirty -five years, the name of a chieftain can call tears to the eyes of brave men, that chieftain is one whom every Southern boy should study and love till eternal taps are sounded and we join him and Jackson across the river to "rest under the shade of the trees." Do not think that knowing the truth will make us bitter. Brave men are never bitter hitter; and if we follow truly the example of the
soldiers of the Confederacy, we shall be the brave of the bravest. Give us, then, our birthright — the possession of the brightest land, the bravest men, the truest hearts, and the finest military record on earth. And keeping such things in mind, God grant we may be true to the principles that inspired our heroes — the principles of dying for what they believed the right and may we never forget the grandest land on earth, dear old Dixie land"
Robert Scarborough's grandfather, Lt. James W. Scarborough's grandfather served with Co. E. 2nd Louisiana Cavalry.

Corporal Covington Hardy Burnett of Company G, 8th Louisiana Infantry—the “Minden Blues.”

First Sergeant Leander Query, Company H (the "Mecklenburg Farmers"), 35th Regiment N.C. Troops.

“To me, the old Confederate soldier is the most unique character the world has yet produced. It took sixty centuries to make him and when the supreme hour came he made good and taught the whole wide world a lesson it will never forget.
No higher record of martial glory will ever appear. There will never be another Lee, Jackson or Pickett. We will do well to cherish the spirit that our soldiers exhibited and to preserve the traditions and chivalry of our Southland.” J.W. Pearson from Confederate Veteran Magazine, July 1914.

“I write this sitting upon a log just in sight of Cannon’s Bridge. I’m sent to cover the retreat. My men are completely demoralized, and I fear when the crisis comes they will be found wanting. Nevertheless, I shall do my duty. “Coming events,” tis said, “cast their shadows before,” and even now I feel a presentiment of evil. Perhaps I shall never see another sun set, but if I fall it will be with my face to the foe.”
From a letter found on the body of Major Robert Newton Hull, 66th Georgia Infantry, written hours before he would be killed on February 9, 1865 trying to rally his men in skirmishing with the Union 17th Corps at Binnaker Bridge, South Fork of the Edisto River (currently where Hwy 70 crosses the river between Denmark and Orangeburg, SC).
Hull was buried beneath a spreading Oak at a nearby plantation, a grave marked to this day. from Chris Crabb

To whom might President Jefferson Davis be referring?

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Honoring my great-great grandfather, Henry Randolph Hill (1844-1923), who served with the 16th Alabama Infantry in the War of Northern Aggression. He was 16 when he enlisted.--Michael Hill

Scatter Plot DNA Graph 🗺

"Solzhenitsyn wrote that he had taken pictures from an official Soviet-era publication that boasted about the Gulags.

He pointed out that almost all the commanders of the Gulag camps were Jews, by famously including pictures of six Jewish Chekist Gulag bosses of the 1930s." (source)

Oh! Susanna (With Original 'Racist and Offensive' Lyrics)

https://youtu.be/-lhBYeufe1c?si=gz2P-1JJmiRCLWnM