Oct 6, 2024 | Articles
Popular mythology assumes that South Carolina, or perhaps the South in general, invented the idea of secession. Many think that South Carolina was the first state ever to threaten secession. This is not correct. There is a long history of secession efforts by various...
Oct 6, 2024 | Articles
The Great Seal of the Confederacy was the official seal of the Confederate States of America. The seal prominently features George Washington, a southerner, on horseback in the same position as a statue of him in Richmond, Virginia. Washington is surrounded with a...
Oct 6, 2024 | Articles
UNDERSTANDING THE WAR The War Between the States: America’s Uncivil War, by John J. Dwyer The Real Lincoln, by Thomas DiLorenzo Lincoln Unmasked, by Thomas DiLorenzo The Real Lincoln, by Charles L. C. Minor A Constitutional History of...
Oct 6, 2024 | Articles
Following is the actual wording of the Emancipation Proclamation, a most famous document that did not free a single slave. By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation.Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one...
Oct 6, 2024 | Articles
First Official Flag of the Confederacy The first official flag of the Confederacy, known as the First National Flag, was also called The Stars and Bars (flown from March 5, 1861 to May 1863). Meeting in Montgomery, AL, one of the first acts of the Provisional Congress...
Oct 6, 2024 | Articles
Maxcy Gregg was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and was the great-grandson of Esek Hopkins, a commodore of the Continental Navy, and grandson of Jonathan Maxcy, the first president of South Carolina College (now called the University of South...
