Archive for February, 2009

The States Rights movement picks up steam.

     The first quiet rumblings of real change are beginning to be heard as more and more states are bringing bills before their legislatures to reclaim the right to assert their sovereignty and bring an end to the unabated expansion of federal power. While this does not mean the states are beginning to look in [...]

I’m a Good Old Rebel – The Song

     The song which this website takes it’s name from was first penned in the late 1860s by Major Innes Randolph who during the war was a member of General J.E.B. Stuart’s staff.  It depicts the sentiments that many Confederate veterans felt towards the treatment the South was receiving under the Federal program of reconstruction.  [...]

Of Robin Stew and Blue Beef – The Makeshift Food of the Confederate Soldier.

  Confederate Camp – 5th Georgia – 1861      The brave Confederate soldier often had to endure hardships that are unthinkable to us today.  From the marches that lasted from before dawn until well after dusk to the horrible monotony of camp life, the soldiers had much to complain about but the thing that bothered [...]