Browsing All posts tagged under »Confederate soldier«

Too focused on leaders and Confederate “cause”?

February 16, 2011 by

40

There’s been some talk lately, on the blogosphere and elsewhere, about the possibility that the S.C.V. will get a Nathan Bedford Forrest license plate in Mississippi. Brooks Simpson blogged about it today, and Eric Wittenberg blogged about it on the 10th.  While both of them explain why Forrest should not be on a plate (and […]

Their own worst enemy

April 14, 2010 by

9

Last night, when I was thinking about developing a post about how [many] Confederate celebrationists have essentially made things worse for themselves for not having acknowledged different historical facts in their efforts to “honor” the Confederate soldier, this was posted by Brooks Simpson. What a fine example of how these celebrationists have gone down the […]

Would it not be better to tell the story of the Confederate soldier?

September 4, 2008 by

18

After yesterday’s post, I began to think more about the organization, formed as the male heirs of Confederate veterans, telling a “Southern perspective” of the Civil War. I think it would be more appropriate, as an organization formed of male descendants of Confederate soldiers, to tell the story of the Confederate soldier. However, like telling the “Southern perspective” of […]

Creative Commons License
Cenantua's Blog ©
by Robert H. Moore, II
is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Based on a work at www.cenantua.wordpress.com. For more information about citing this blog, please see "How to cite this site".

Cenantua’s Random Thoughts on Twitter

Archives

Categories

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 588 other followers



Blog stats, since February 2008

  • 206,313 hits
Blog at WordPress.com.
Theme: Inuit Types by BizzArtic.