Southron Sunday - quotes from the WoNA

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President,

then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die

than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
- Belle Boyd

Southron Sunday - quotes from the WoNA

'I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.'
-- Robert E. Lee

Southron Sunday - quotes from the WoNA

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'I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war,

but I could not. The North was mad and blind,

would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.'
- Jefferson Davis

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Southron Sunday - quotes (about) the WoNA

'The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history...the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination -- that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue . The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.'

-- H.L. Mencken

Southron Sunday - quotes from the WoNA

If the right of secession be denied...

and the denial enforced by the sword of coercion;

the nature of the polity is changed, and freedom is at its end.

It is no longer a government by consent, but a government of force.

Conquest is substituted compact, and the dream of liberty is over."

-- Albert Taylor Bledsoe

Southron Sunday - quotes from the WoNA

That either revenue from duties must be collected in the ports of the rebel states, or the ports must be closed to importations from abroad....If neither of these things be done, our revenue laws are substantially repealed; the sources which supply our treasury will be dried up; we shall have no money to carry on the government; the nation will become bankrupt before the next crop of corn is ripe.....Allow rail road iron to be entered at Savannah with the low duty of ten per cent, which is all that the Southern Confederacy think of laying on imported goods, and not an ounce more would be imported at New York; the railroads would be supplied from the southern ports.
- - - New York Evening Post, 12 March 1861

Southron Sunday - quotes from the WoNA

'I am with the South in life or in death, in victory or defeat. I never owned a negro and care nothing for them, but these people have been my friends and have stood up to me on all occasions. In addition to this, I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy war on a people who have done them no wrong, in violation of the Constitution and the fundamental principles of the government...We propose no invasion of the North, no attack on them, and only ask to be let alone.'

--Patrick R. Cleburne

May 1861

Southron Sunday - quotes from the WoNA

'Governor, if I had foreseen the use those people designed

to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender

at Appomattox Courthouse; no sir, not by me. Had I foreseen

these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die

at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in this right hand.'

-- General Robert E. Lee, August 1870, to Governor Stockdale of Texas

Southron Sunday - quotes from the WoNA

The Southern Confederacy will not employ our ships or buy our goods.

What is our shipping without it? Literally nothing....

It is very clear that the South gains by this process, and we lose.

No---we MUST NOT 'let the South go.' -

--- Union Democrat , Manchester, NH, February 19, 1861

Southron Sunday - quotes from the WoNA

Today, 26 April, is Confederate Memorial Day, a
a legal and public holiday in the state of Florida.


'Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.' - Gen. Pat Cleburne, CSA

Southron Sunday - quotes from the WoNA

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'If I thought this war was to abolish slavery,

I would resign my commission,

and offer my sword to the other side.'

-- Ulysses S. Grant

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Southron Sunday - quotes from the WoNA

'I think we should deport them all.'

~ Abraham Lincoln, in response to General Benjamin Butler,

who asked what he was going to do with all the recently free Southern Blacks

Southron Sunday - quotes from the WoNA

'From this time forth I consecrate

the labor of my life to the dissolution of the Union,

and I care not whether the bolt that rends it

shall come from heaven or from hell.'

- Frederick Douglas

Cracker Cattle Drive

Just passing along this info...

Cracker Cattle Drive & Hernando Southern Heritage Festival
October 17th & 18th

Saddle up your horses and join us as we take part in an old fashion cracker cattle drive! This years cattle drive will consist a of two day ride (Friday & Saturday), camp out Friday night with campfire, music & entertainment at camp site, and much more! Saturday, bright and early, we'll head the cattle towards town, picking up riders that opted for a one day ride. Meals on the trail are included in price. Directions and other pertinent information will be mailed to you once your registration is received. Ride one day or two! The choice is up to you.

Two Day Ride: Adults $200 - 18 & under $150
One Day Ride: Adult $100 - 18 & under $75

For More Information:
Kandi McPherson (352)726-8080
Kenny Strickland (352)317-2728
Tony Ellis (352)634-0857

If you would like to receive Registration Forms via email please contact
Angie Rushton at: arushton@tampabay.rr.com
Please title your email as Cracker Cattle Drive in the subject box.


All proceeds from the Hernando Southern Heritage Days Cattle Drive and Festival benefit the continued restoration and upkeep of the Historic Hernando School and the Citrus County Cattlemen's Association. The Hernando Heritage Council of the Citrus County Historical Society appreciates your support.

Olustee

With the annual Olustee battle re-enactment going on this weekend, it seems the perfect time to make mention of my great-great grandfather who fought there.

In October of 1861 - 3 different records, 3 different dates; this one seems to be the most likely - Thomas J Mitchell enlisted at Blounts Ferry in Company D, 9th Regiment of the state of Florida. He served in Finegan's Brigade under Captain John Bryant and later under Captain J. F. (?) Tucker. On or about the 20th day of February, 1864, he was 'wounded by a gun shot, on the top of my skull' at Olustee and was sent home on furlough. He later returned to his Company and was honourably discharged at Appomattox Court House at the end of the invasion.

As a result of his service, Thomas suffered chronic rheumatism in his right hip and chronic dysentery 'from exposure and having to eat unholdsome food during the war in Virginia.' The doctor who signed one of his pension applications wrote 'that he is suffering from Chronic Dysentery and from the effects of a gunshot wound of the head. Ball striking on top of head, at the union of the parietal & accipital Bones, Fracturing the skull, resulting in partial paralisis of right hip & leg, rendering him unable to Earn a livelihood by manual Labor.' I really admire this man, who returned to duty for another year, in spite of his 'partial paralysis'.

Another great great grandfather, who was born in Jackson County, FL, in 1837, enlisted on 17 March, 1862, at Marianna, FL, in Company D, 6th Regiment. He was discharged near Chesterfield, SC on 5 May 1865. In 1906, he was granted a pension of $96 per year. This was increased in 1909 to $120 per year.

Some of the old writing is hard to read. Very frustrating, as this is all totally fascinating for me. And I was never very good at sorting out all the Company, Regiment, Brigade stuff, so I may have gotten things out of order. Feel free to correct me if that's the case.

Hurricane Teen, stay warm out there this weekend... and keep your powder dry! 8-]