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Shot on April 28, 2018 during the Mountain Thunder Car Show in Old Fort, North Carolina.
Car Show hosted by Route 70 Cruisers
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It's amazing how many Mississippians seem not to realize that the flag on the right was (and thankfully is) the enemy of the flag on the left.
I think many latter-day Confederate sympathizers have no idea how far the South (and Mississippi in particular) moved toward an embrace of pure evil in the years leading up to the Civil War. I suspect their sympathies are influenced both by their lack of knowledge of the cause for which Southern governments fought and by the undoubted heroism of the Confederate soldiers who fought so bravely against hopeless odds.
When Mississippi was first admitted to the Union in 1817, its citizens still keenly felt the inherent tension between the statement in the Declaration of Independence that "all Men are created Equal" and the institution of chattel slavery.
In an 1818 decision, Harry v. Decker, 1 Miss. 36, the Mississippi Supreme Court declared, "Slavery is condemned by reason and the laws of nature. It exists and can only exist, through municipal regulations, and in matters of doubt, is it not an unquestioned rule, that courts must lean 'in favorem vitae et libertatis [in favor of life and liberty]'?"
In an 1820 decision, Mississippi v. Jones, 1 Miss. 83, the defendant who was charged with murder for killing a slave, appealed on the ground that a slave was not a human being. The Mississippi Supreme Court resoundingly rejected this argument:
"In this state, the Legislature have considered slaves as reasonable and accountable beings and it would be a stigma upon the character of the state, and a reproach to the administration of justice, if the life of a slave could be taken with impunity, or if he could be murdered in cold blood, without subjecting the offender to the highest penalty known to the criminal jurisprudence of the country. Has the slave no rights, because he is deprived of his freedom? He is still a human being, and possesses all those right, of which he is not deprived by the positive provisions of the law, but in vain shall we look for any law passed by the enlightened and philanthropic legislature of this state, giving even to the master, much less to a stranger, power over the life of a slave. Such a statute would be worthy the age of Draco or Caligula, and would be condemned by the unanimous voice of the people of this state, where, even cruelty to slaves, much less the taking away of life, meets with universal reprobation."
And, it should be noted, the Mississippi Constitution of 1832 forbade the importation of slaves into the state of Mississippi from either abroad or from another state within the United States.
But by the days immediately preceding the Civil War, white Mississippians had wholly lost their moral bearings, as can be readily seen from two astonishing Mississippi Supreme Court cases from 1859.
In the case of George (a slave) v. Mississippi, 37 Miss. 316 (1859), the defendant (George) was convicted of the rape of a 10 year old slave girl and sentenced to hang. The Mississippi Supreme Court reversed the conviction. The Mississippi Supreme Court held that as a slave, the little ten year old girl had no protection against being raped because "the common law has no relation to the rights of slaves, and can afford them no protection." Instead, unless the legislature had passed a law specifically protecting slaves, the Roman laws of antiquity were still applicable, which allowed slaves to be "tortured for evidence, punished at the discretion of their lord, or even put to death by his authority." The 1859 Mississippi Supreme Court did note its 1820 decision of Mississippi v. Jones, which had held that slaves were human beings entitled to protection of the law, but summarily rejected it as "founded mainly upon the unmeaning twaddle, in which some humane judges and law writers have indulged, as to the influence of the 'natural law' [and] 'civilization and Christian enlightenment.'"
George the rapist was allowed to live, with the punishment (if any) for his horrendous crime left solely to the discretion of his owner.
In the case of Mitchell v. Wells, 37 Miss. 235 (1859), the issue was the validity of a bequest of $3,000 in a will of a deceased white Mississippian to a Negro woman who was living in Ohio as a free woman under the laws of that state. The woman was the white man's daughter and he had traveled with her to Ohio, a free state, where he had freed her. Mississippi had passed a law forbidding the emancipation of any slaves within the state of Mississippi. However, this law had been interpreted by the Mississippi Supreme Court in 1840 as allowing slaves to be sent to Liberia for emancipation, as this emancipation occurred outside the borders of Mississippi. See Ross v. Vertner, 6 Miss. 305 (1840).
Despite its precedent in Ross, the 1859 version of the Mississippi Supreme Court contemptuously rejected the daughter's plea that she be allowed to receive her father's bequest. The Mississippi Supreme Court declared the state of Ohio, which had decided that blacks could live as free people within its borders, to be "forgetful of her constitutional obligations to the whole race, and afflicted with a negro-mania, which inclines her to descend, rather than elevate herself in the scale of humanity." It declared blacks to be "an inferior caste, incapable of the blessings of free government, and occupying, in the order of nature, an intermediate state between the irrational animal and the white man." It voided the will's bequest to the Negro daughter because Ohio's attempt to confer rights on black people was morally unacceptable:
"Suppose that Ohio, still further afflicted with her peculiar philanthropy, should determine to descend another grade in the scale of her peculiar humanity, and claim to confer citizenship on the chimpanzee or the ourang-outang (the most respectable of the monkey tribe), are we to be told that "comity" will require of the States not thus demented, to forget their own policy and self-respect, and lower their own citizens and institutions in the scale of being, to meet the necessities of the mongrel race thus attempted to be introduced into the family of sisters in this confederacy?
The doctrine of comity is not thus unreasonable. Like the benign principles of moral duty, which regulate the miniature government of family in social life, it commands no duty, the observance of which will tend to degrade a sister in the family of nations.
If the sister, in violation of morality, and respect for herself, as well as her associates of the old household, will insist on the meretricious embrace, we are neither bound to sanction nor respect it, much less to receive her new associate into our immediate circle."
This passionate embrace of the "right" of one race to exercise totalitarian power over another was at the heart of Mississippian's decision to secede from the United States and to enter into the Civil War. The second paragraph of the Mississippi Secession Convention's Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union reads as follows:
"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin."
When I think of the noble sacrifices of the Southern patriots who charged into the hailstorm of cannon balls, grape shot, bullets, and cannister at Gettysburg, I also think of the fact that many of those so bravely giving their lives were fighting for the proposition that black ten year girls could be raped with impunity and fathers have no right to leave their inheritances to their black daughters.
Still, to this Southern white boy, they were brave and noble, so I ultimately share the sentiments of General Grant in the final pages of his autobiography describing his emotions at Appomattox: "I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though it was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse."
The little building at Millerstown Rd and West Confederate Ave that for many decades was promoted as Longstreets Headquarters. Of course the building post dated the war, and is gone now.
My memories of this place in the 70's was as snack bar, you could get a hot dog and a Coke in those wonderful old 12oz green bottles. A great place for an afternoon snack. My most vivid memory of here was the summer day a bee got into my mom's Coke and she almost drank it.
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This is the area of the Marshall City Cemetery where Confederate Soldiers are buried. Unkown graves are marked with the metal cross. [Note: I do not endorse the use of the Confederate Battle Flag, I document it.]
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Much of the Old Natchez Trace had been abandoned by the start of the Civil War. However, the war did leave its mark on the Trace, as it did upon the rest of the South, as soldiers marched, camped, and fought along portions of this historic old road. Just a 5 minute walk on the Old Trace from the parking area along the Natchez Trace Parkway takes you to the grave sites of 13 unknown Confederate soldiers...a mute reminder of bygone days and of the great struggle out of which developed a stronger nation.
Were they some of Shiloh's wounded who retreated here in 1862 to die beside the Natchez Trace? Did they serve under the daring General Nathan Bedford Forrest who passed this way in 1864? Or were they guarding the Tupelo headquarters of General John B. Hood's Army of Tennessee near the end of the Civil War? We may never know. However, tradition holds that the unknown graves belong to Confederate soldiers who marched and camped along this stretch of the Old Trace. Perhaps they died of wounds, or the lingering hunger, poverty, and sickness in the army camps. Their simple grave markers face backwards - toward the Old Natchez Trace - so travelers might read and remember.
Note - the original grave markers may have borne names, but they disappeared long ago. In 1940, Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi arranged for marble headstones but they were stolen. The National Park Service erected the headstones now in place like the one seen in the photograph above.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Generals Robert E Lee, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Stone Mountain Park Georgia
Like my father before me, I will work the land
And like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand
He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the mud below my feet
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat
-'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down'
The Band
Taken at dusk, Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond VA.
Gonna try my best a lots to keep it zipped up today !! Try That Is ;)
My sweet daddy, used to tell me, I talked to much .......
IMAGINE THAT ? Have a Great Day Friends ....
Stone Mountain GA
August 2015
I ran into this gentleman yesterday on a drive through rural Pennsylvania. I was apprehensive but he was nice and agreed to pose for me.
I'm afraid I'm still feeling the cultural effects of traveling to Bawcomville yesterday............ So here's some music for ya'll.........
Photograph published on March 2nd, 2022 { link below}
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Photograph also published in Buzzflash on July 16, 2022 { link below)
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Photograph also published on 8/22/2023 { link below}
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Photograph also published on 8/23/2023 { link below}
The Nathan Bedford Forrest Boyhood Home is a historic log house in Chapel Hill, Tennessee. It was the childhood home of the Confederate General from 1830 to 1833 and is currently owned by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The log house was initially built by W.S. Mayfield in the 1820s. When it was acquired by William Forrest, Nathan Bedford Forrest's father, in 1830, the house was significantly extended. Although Forrest was born in another house, he lived in this house with his parents during the years indicated above, and it is "the only home still existing associated with Forrest" in Tennessee. Meanwhile, the house was purchased by Stephen W. Rainey in 1833. It remained a private home for the next four decades. The house was then acquired by the state of Tennessee in the 1970s and since 1997, under the control of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). As of 2017, the "caretaker" of the house is Gene Andrews, a resident of Nashville, Tennessee and a member of the SCV.
The property consists of 50 plus acres, a circa 1825 two story log and frame house, a double crib log barn, a log corn crib, and the remnants of a frame smokehouse. A stone-lined well and limestone fence are still in existence. Between the house and barn is the remains of a small rectangular growing plot that was possible the Forrest family garden. A limestone cavern is located nearby. An amazing number of the houses architectural details, which are contemporary to Forrest's occupation, are still intact. These included the mantles over the two fireplaces, staircase and railings, windows and doors. The site is an excellent representation of a mid-nineteenth century rural Tennessee or Southern farmstead with amazingly little or no intrusion from the twenty-first century such as no electricity or running water and access is attained over a two thousand foot gravel road.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 13, 1977.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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On Explore No. 455 February 27, 2009
This was taken as Saintbridge, Grace, and I ventured into the mountains of West Virginia. The creative addition to this home caught my eye. The view below shows a broader perspective......
this looks better large..... View On Black
♫ Redemption Song ~ Playing For Change ♫
I owe Tyra a deep debt of gratitude for having the courage and strength to do this shoot with me. It was an image that I have had in the back of my mind for months. She was perfection. Thank you Tyra. Thank you.
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Confederate Cemetery, with the Village of Appomattox Court House in the background. The American Civil War ended in the village on April 9, 1865, when Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. U.S. Grant.
This display of baseball caps for sale at a farmers fair reveals the true nature of Trumpism and its symbiotic relationship with the old southern racist Confederacy.
Photograph published on March 25, 2022 { link below }
Tombstone of William Porcher Miles, who designed the Confederate Battle flag, Green Hill Cemetery, Union, Monroe County, WV.
Once in a blue moon things are not like they seem, or at least are supposed to be, even deep in the heart of the old Confederacy.
This photograph could make one feel perhaps hopeful that -despite the recent violent setbacks like the senseless racially motivated mass murder of black people by a white supremacist in Buffalo, New York- racial tensions in the US could one day end.