I was fond of General Lee, the man and the car. But the car got outlawed in 2020. Now we got this….

Sacrilege right there

Always liked the story of David O. Dodd. At 17 executed for spying for the Confederacy.

Uslessass Grant

Forrest camped here near my home while laying seige to Paducah. Slapped the yanks around at Ft. Anderson and stole their horses, Lol.

Western Ky was confederate, the east was union....Have several confederate ancestors that mustered out of Hopkinsville, and fought for the army of Tennessee.

Besides family, a local Jack Hinson was my favorite confederate....The book "One man war" details him sniping union soldiers.

Robert E Lee then General Longstreet.

Most of mine were 32nd Alabama later 32nd/58th Consolidated and fought from Stones River to Spanish Fort. That included Chattanooga, where they took the worst of it on Missionary Ridge, to Atlanta and Franklin.
Got many others in the Army of Northern Virginia in various units.

One of my sons is named Jubal Early Warren, the other Nathan Forrest Warren.

… good man lol

Been doing some genealogy lately and dared dig into mama's daddy's side. Kind afraid that I'd find a yank there as they were mountain folk from North Alabama and East Tennessee and there were copperheads in the mountains.

Pleased to say I ain't found a bluebelly yet. Though the copperhead may still be true as I found home guard and state militia not CSA. At least they stood up for Alabama.

Her mama's people were ANV.

Now the American Revolution that took some digging as I knew granny was in the DAR but for the life of me I couldn't think of how as we were Carolina tories in that fight. Turns out on her mother's side we go back to a Brigadier General in the South Carolina militia. He lost three sons that were captured and executed by Bloody Tarleton.

Warrior, speaking of the revolutionary war look up Moore's creek battlefield in Wimington N.C....That was my family starting one of the initial engagements of that war with the British.

Tore the planks of a bridge, greased the support beams, ambushed and lit those redcoats up while they were trying to cross, Lol.

Sounds about right.

Do you have his name? I ran 40 some Revolutionary War generals through a few weeks ago and all but two were cousins and on those two, there was no data. They were mostly second through fifth cousins of mine many times removed.

Most of the high ranking European military and royalty married kids off to each other for a great many generations and our high ranking military, is almost all entirely descended from them.

The weirdest thing is that many of the sons and grandsons of the top European military became Quaker pacifists. The pacifists' offspring took up arms, when necessary and fought in the French and Indian and Revolutionary War.

I had 12 Quaker and 1 Amish many great grandfathers, who were disowned by their religions, for fighting in the battles of New Garden and Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina.

Keith

The confederate’s are them boys we whipped a mess of years ago right? Don’t know if I have a favorite, I’d have to see a list.

I know of the last Highland Charge. Some of my McLeods were in that charge under Colonel MacDonald.

Oh crap, sounds like our ancestors had it out, Lol....Interestingly the Moore's are scottish also.

Brigadier General James Williams KIA at King's Mountain. My great grandmother was a Williams.

The Confederate Army had loads of good men that I'd love to have a beer with, but their leaders' motives were quite clearly wrong. As a matter of fact, as an infantryman myself, I'd bet that I could sit around a fire with a huge majority of infantrymen of any army of the last couple hundred years and we would all fit right in together. Real warriors are all pretty similar folks, at least in my experience. The north fought to keep the country as the founding fathers intended, and thank god they succeeded. Now, the far north backwoods are pretty similar to the southern rednecks when it comes to political beliefs; I think it's more closely aligned to rural vs urban instead of north vs south. Here's what my personal opinion boils down to: the motive behind the Confederacy was shameful, and North America is a better place due to the outcome of this war. However, any man of war, who lives with integrity and stands up for what they believe in, is a man among men to me. Just because you happened to be an enlisted man on the wrong side of the war doesn't make you any less of a man to me.

P.S. - renaming Army bases to erase Confederate names is embarrassing and dishonorable

… agree with your last sentence

…. But The north fought against 1776

I know there's a lot of folks that disagree with me, but that's what's great about this country. I care less about your opinion, and more about the fact that you're able to express it without fear of retribution. That's what the American fighting man is really fighting for. Regardless of opinions about the civil war, I'd wager that we could split a 30 pack around a fire out back and be best friends at the end of the night (as long as your Texas speak comes out close to english).

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