A Little Monday Music - Lincoln, Liberty & The Horse Soldiers

Starting The Week off on a High Note

• I decided to try and start the new week off on a positive high note. But I suspect things will turn into crap soon enough.

 

John Ford and John Wayne on the 

set of The Horse Soldiers

Southern Soldier, Dixie & Bonnie Blue Flag - A Little Monday Music

Why not an independent South?

My family of German immigrants fought for the Union.  One of them, in a Pennsylvania regiment, was wounded at Gettysburg.

Many advocated at the time to let our Southern brothers go in peace.

Borders are not written in stone.  In 1760 the United States itself didn't even exist, Alaska was Russian, Hawaii was an independent nation and Florida was part of the Spanish Empire.

So why not an independent South???

SOUTHERN SOLDIER & DIXIE at GETTYSBURG 150th CAMP DANCE

I'll place my knapsack on my back

My rifle on my shoulder

I'll march away to the firing line

And kill that Yankee soldier

And kill that Yankee soldier!

I'll march away to the firing line

And kill that Yankee soldier

 

 

Happy Decoration Day (Memorial Day)

Former slave and Grand Army of the Republic 

Member, Charles H. Anderson, age 92, 

Photo about 1936-38.

The Other Greatest Generation

Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country's armed forces. 

The holiday, which is observed every year on the last Monday of May, originated as Decoration Day after the American Civil War in 1868, when the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans founded in Decatur, Illinois, established it as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the Union war dead with flowers. 

By the 20th century, competing Union and Confederate holiday traditions, celebrated on different days, had merged, and Memorial Day eventually extended to honor all Americans who died while in the military service. It typically marks the start of the summer vacation season, while Labor Day marks its end.

The first widely publicized observance of a Memorial Day-type observance after the Civil War was in Charleston, South Carolina, on May 1, 1865. During the war, Union soldiers who were prisoners of war had been held at the Hampton Park Race Course in Charleston; at least 257 Union prisoners died there and were hastily buried in unmarked graves. 

Together with teachers and missionaries, black residents of Charleston organized a May Day ceremony in 1865, which was covered by the New York Tribune and other national papers. The freedmen cleaned up and landscaped the burial ground, building an enclosure and an arch labeled "Martyrs of the Race Course". Nearly 10,000 people, mostly freedmen, gathered on May 1 to commemorate the war dead. Involved were about 3,000 school children, newly enrolled in freedmen's schools, as well as mutual aid societies, Union troops, black ministers and white northern missionaries. Most brought flowers to lay on the burial field.

David W. Blight described the day:

This was the first Memorial Day. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.

Read More . . . .

 

How tiny and corrupt our modern 

politicians look in comparison.

 

General John Logan

General Logan proclaimed the first "Decoration Day" to honor the fallen soldiers of the American Civil War.  

He served the state of Illinois as a State Senator, a Congressman, a U.S. Senator and was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States with James G. Blaine in the election of 1884.

Happy Decoration Day (Memorial Day)

Former slave and Grand Army of the Republic 

Member Charles H. Anderson, age 92, 

Photo about 1936-38.

The Other Greatest Generation

Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country's armed forces. 

The holiday, which is observed every year on the last Monday of May, originated as Decoration Day after the American Civil War in 1868, when the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans founded in Decatur, Illinois, established it as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the Union war dead with flowers. 

By the 20th century, competing Union and Confederate holiday traditions, celebrated on different days, had merged, and Memorial Day eventually extended to honor all Americans who died while in the military service. It typically marks the start of the summer vacation season, while Labor Day marks its end.

The first widely publicized observance of a Memorial Day-type observance after the Civil War was in Charleston, South Carolina, on May 1, 1865. During the war, Union soldiers who were prisoners of war had been held at the Hampton Park Race Course in Charleston; at least 257 Union prisoners died there and were hastily buried in unmarked graves. 

Together with teachers and missionaries, black residents of Charleston organized a May Day ceremony in 1865, which was covered by the New York Tribune and other national papers. The freedmen cleaned up and landscaped the burial ground, building an enclosure and an arch labeled "Martyrs of the Race Course". Nearly 10,000 people, mostly freedmen, gathered on May 1 to commemorate the war dead. Involved were about 3,000 school children, newly enrolled in freedmen's schools, as well as mutual aid societies, Union troops, black ministers and white northern missionaries. Most brought flowers to lay on the burial field.

David W. Blight described the day:

This was the first Memorial Day. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.

Read More . . . .

We'll Fight for Uncle Sam

 

How tiny and corrupt our modern 

politicians look in comparison.

General John Logan

General Logan proclaimed the first "Decoration Day" to honor the fallen soldiers of the American Civil War.  

He served the state of Illinois as a State Senator, a Congressman, a U.S. Senator and was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States with James G. Blaine in the election of 1884.

Will there be a new American Civil War?

Civil War in Russia, 

Czar Nicholas II

By Gary;

Will there be a new American Civil War?

Why not?

Many say we are already in the middle of a Marxist Revolution.

The Communist and Marxist filth are funded by Democrat billionaires and protected by the Democrat Party, by the FBI and the Deep State.

Insane Leftists have tried three times to assassinate President Trump. The corrupt FBI and Secret Service (helped by Corporate owned media) have done everything to cover up the facts and censor the Internet.

Americans think in terms of our own Civil War. But in the 20th Century alone dozens of major and minor Civil Wars have taken place all over the world with one group or another angling to seize power.

In the U.S. we see Democrat Party Marxist thugs arresting the Republican MAGA Nationalists and imprisoning them without trial or in sham phony trials. 

Like pallets of gasoline, a Marxist Civil War is already here just waiting for someone to strike a Boston Massacre style match.

Anti-Communist White Russian 

troops in the Russian Civil War

Anti-Communist Chinese Nationalist 

troops from their Civil War

Iranian Civil War

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Mexican Civil War

Governor Pancho Villa

An American Civil War?

Three times the Left has tried to assassinate President Trump and cities have been burned by the Marxist Brown Shirts of the Democrat Party.

DoD Authorizes Lethal Force Against Americans

A Marxist Civil War

Marxist Democrats keep pushing and pushing for a violent Revolution by shutting down free speech, shutting down a free press, demanding gun confiscation and holding political prisoners without trial.

We have become what we fought against in the American Revolution.

Greg Reese

A Little Monday Music - Horse Soldiers - I Left My Love

Starting The Week off on a High Note

• I decided to try and start the new week off on a positive high note. But I suspect things will turn into crap soon enough.

The Horse Soldiers is a 1959 American adventure war film set during the American Civil War directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers.

The screenplay by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin was loosely based on the Harold Sinclair (1907-1966) 1956 novel of historical fiction of the same name, a fictionalized version of the famous Grierson's Raid by Federal cavalry in April-May 1863 riding southward through Mississippi and around the Mississippi River fortress of Vicksburg during the Vicksburg campaign to split the southern Confederacy by Union Army Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.

John Ford and John Wayne on the 

set of The Horse Soldiers

A Little Monday Music - The Bonnie Blue Flag

 

Starting The Week off on a High Note

• I decided to try and start the new week off on a positive high note. But I suspect things will turn into crap soon enough.
  

"The Bonnie Blue Flag", also known as "We Are a Band of Brothers", is an 1861 marching song associated with the Confederate States of America. The words were written by the entertainer Harry McCarthy, with the melody taken from the song "The Irish Jaunting Car". 

The song's title refers to the unofficial first flag of the Confederacy, the Bonnie Blue Flag. The left flag on the sheet-music is the Bonnie Blue Flag.

2nd South Carolina String Band

Hurrah! Hurrah!

For Southern rights, hurrah!

Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star.

Happy Decoration Day (Memorial Day)

Former slave and Grand Army of the Republic 

Member Charles H. Anderson, age 92, 

Photo about 1936-38.

The Other Greatest Generation

Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country's armed forces. 

The holiday, which is observed every year on the last Monday of May, originated as Decoration Day after the American Civil War in 1868, when the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans founded in Decatur, Illinois, established it as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the Union war dead with flowers. 

By the 20th century, competing Union and Confederate holiday traditions, celebrated on different days, had merged, and Memorial Day eventually extended to honor all Americans who died while in the military service. It typically marks the start of the summer vacation season, while Labor Day marks its end.

The first widely publicized observance of a Memorial Day-type observance after the Civil War was in Charleston, South Carolina, on May 1, 1865. During the war, Union soldiers who were prisoners of war had been held at the Hampton Park Race Course in Charleston; at least 257 Union prisoners died there and were hastily buried in unmarked graves. 

Together with teachers and missionaries, black residents of Charleston organized a May Day ceremony in 1865, which was covered by the New York Tribune and other national papers. The freedmen cleaned up and landscaped the burial ground, building an enclosure and an arch labeled "Martyrs of the Race Course". Nearly 10,000 people, mostly freedmen, gathered on May 1 to commemorate the war dead. Involved were about 3,000 school children, newly enrolled in freedmen's schools, as well as mutual aid societies, Union troops, black ministers and white northern missionaries. Most brought flowers to lay on the burial field.

David W. Blight described the day:

This was the first Memorial Day. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.

Read More . . . .

We'll Fight for Uncle Sam

How tiny and corrupt our modern 

politicians look in comparison.

Gettysburg Address

General John Logan
General Logan proclaimed the first "Decoration Day" to honor the fallen soldiers of the American Civil War.  

He served the state of Illinois as a State Senator, a Congressman, a U.S. Senator and was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States with James G. Blaine in the election of 1884.