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.  [...]

       In Columbia, South Carolina, a Senate Subcommittee has passed a bill proposing to mandate that all cities and counties in the state provide a paid holiday for workers on Confederate Memorial Day.      The African American Senator, Robert Ford, who created the bill, said that its goal was to promote understanding by requiring [...]

      Welcome Friends to the inaugural post of Goodoldrebel.com! I hope that this site will become a meeting place for those interested in preserving our Southern Heritage and Confederate History.  All too often today, our culture and heritage as Southerners is coming under attack by the forces of the “politically correct" and misguided individuals [...]