NASCAR and Jesse Jackson

[JetMaxx]

Confederate Memorial Day has always been a very special day to me. My great-great grandfather William B. Farr joined the Confederate army in 1862 at the tender age of 16. He was wounded and captured in central Mississippi; escaped, only to be captured again and seriously wounded in southern Tennessee not far from Shiloh. He was released at the end of the war...at the ripe old age of 19

I always attend Confederate Memorial Day services here in Douglasville, and feel very humbled by the large number of graves flying the stars and bars.

I also become very angry when hearing desparaging remarks in reference to Confederate soldiers. My great-great grandfather fought as a teenage boy, he owned no slaves; because his entire family were dirt-poor tenant farmers. He fought as a boy because his father was too old and ill to fight...carrying the family banner alone, and with honor.


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PW

[JQ Public]

"REV-rund JACK-sun"

hahahahahah...nice play on words there bill. quite hilarious

[streetsoldier]

My CS ancestor, Capt. Philip Benjamin, was 46 when the War Between the States started, and did not raise his cavalry company until after the Union captured New Orleans, and threatened his sister and nieces with "treatment as prostitutes" by order of Union General Benjamin Butler.

After first spiriting them out of LA to GA, he got busy quickly...and joined in the fighting at Pittsburg Landing (Shiloh Meeting House to you Yankees)...and later in a raid with General Nathan Bedford Forrest and the "Orphan Brigade" under General John Hunt Morgan into Kentucky seeking weapons and forage for the troops.

He, too, owned no slaves; he was a river merchant in Vidalia, LA before the war, and was fighting for his family, his home and his State.