 | Confederate Army and Soldiers in DVD -- preview trailer Rarely told stories of both the famous and average Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. This film reveals the intimate details of the soldiers' lives in their own words, such as their weapons of choice, their uniforms and how soldiers form fellowships during the war that last throughout their lives. Second in Inecom's Civil War Minutes series. More info: www.CivilWarLife.com |
 | Robert E Lee Accepts Leadership of The Confederate Army Lee was the son of Major General Henry Lee III "Light Horse Harry" (1756--1818), Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter (1773--1829). He was a descendant of Sir Thomas More and of King Robert II of Scotland through the Earls of Crawford. A top graduate of West Point, Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional soldier in the U.S. Army for 32 years, during which time he fought in the Mexican-American War. In early 1861, Lee opposed the secession of his home state of Virginia, but rejected President Abraham Lincoln's offer to give him command of Union forces. When Virginia seceded from the Union in April 1861, Lee chose to follow his home state. Lee's role in the newly established Confederacy was to serve as a senior military adviser to President Jefferson Davis. Lee's first field command for the Confederate States came in June 1862 when he took command of the Confederate forces in the East (which Lee himself renamed the "Army of Northern Virginia"). You are an integral and unique part of the universe. Just as important a part as any other part. There is no one else exactly like you. No one else has your fingerprints, your exact DNA, your exact thoughts or dreams. You are connected to everything and everything you do affects the rest of creation. Try to make the universe a better place. |
 | Treasure Hunting America EP113 Part1 www.whiteselectronics.com Episode features Nina who took up metal detecting after her young son found a $5,000 Confederate States army belt buckle in her backyard. She has had incredible luck in her few years as a treasure hunter, including finding over a dozen Gardner exploding bullets dating back to the Civil War. Episode also features archeologist and high school teacher, David Wilson. David shows off his extensive Civil War artifact collection and takes us to an Confederate old earthen fort to hunt for bullets and grape shot. |
 | The Confederate Naval Jack The Confederate Naval Jack and Battle Flag of the Army of Tennessee. The Confederate Battle Flag represents all Southern, and even Northern, Confederates regardless of race or religion and is the symbol of less government, less taxes, and the right of the people to govern themselves. It is flown in memory and honor of our Confederate ancestors and veterans who willingly shed their blood for Southern independence. A Short History Lesson Just as the War for American Independence of 1776, the War for Southern Independence of 1861 was fought over "taxation without representation." The North was constantly trying to raise taxes on Southerners through high tariffs on imported goods in order to protect the inefficient big businesses in the North. These big businesses could not compete with manufactured goods from England and France with whom the South traded cotton. The South did not have factories and had to import most finished products. The Industrial Revolution allowed England and France to produce and ship across the Atlantic products that were cheaper than the products of Northern manufacturers. When Lincoln was elected President, he and the U.S. Congress immediately passed the Morrill Tariff (the highest import tax in U.S. history), more than doubling the import tax rate from 20% to 47%. This tax served to bankrupt many Southerners. Though the Southern states represented only about 30% of the U.S. population, they paid 80% of the tariffs collected. Oppressive taxes, denial of the states' rights to govern their states, and an unrepresentative federal government pushed the Southern states to legally withdraw from the Union. Since the Southerners had escaped the tax by withdrawing from the Union, the only way the North could collect this oppressive tax was to invade the Confederate States and force them at gunpoint back into the Union. It was to collect this import tax to satisfy his Northern industrialist supporters that Abraham Lincoln invaded our South. Slavery was not the issue. Lincoln's war cost the lives of 600,000 Americans. The truth about the Confederate Flag is that it has nothing to do with racism or hate. The Civil War was not fought over slavery or racism. |
 | Treasure Hunting America EP113 Part2 www.whiteselectronics.com Episode features Nina who took up metal detecting after her young son found a $5,000 Confederate States army belt buckle in her backyard. She has had incredible luck in her few years as a treasure hunter, including finding over a dozen Gardner exploding bullets dating back to the Civil War. Episode also features archeologist and high school teacher, David Wilson. David shows off his extensive Civil War artifact collection and takes us to an Confederate old earthen fort to hunt for bullets and grape shot. |
 | Going Home Sung By: Mary Fahl http://www.tarawatch.org:80/ (Help save TARA sign the petition) The American Civil War (1861--1865) was a separatist conflict between the United States Federal government (the "Union") and eleven Southern slave states that declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America, led by President Jefferson Davis. The Union, led by President Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party, opposed the expansion of slavery and rejected any right of secession. Fighting commenced on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a Federal military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.[1] During the first year, the Union asserted control of the border states and established a naval blockade as both sides raised large armies. In 1862 the large, bloody battles began. In September 1862, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation[2] made the freeing of the slaves a war goal, despite opposition from northern Copperheads who tolerated secession and slavery. Emancipation ensured that Britain and France would not intervene to help the Confederacy. In addition, the goal also allowed the Union to recruit African-Americans for reinforcements, a resource that the Confederacy did not dare exploit until it was too late. War Democrats reluctantly accepted emancipation as part of total war needed to save the Union. In the East, Robert Edward Lee rolled up a series of Confederate victories over the Army of the Potomac, but his best general, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, was killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863.[3] Lee's invasion of the North was repulsed at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania in July 1863;[4] he barely managed to escape back to Virginia. In the West, the Union Navy captured the port of New Orleans in 1862, and Ulysses S. Grant seized control of the Mississippi River by capturing Vicksburg, Mississippi in July 1863[5], thus splitting the Confederacy. By 1864, long-term Union advantages in geography, manpower, industry, finance, political organization and transportation were overwhelming the Confederacy. Grant fought a number of bloody battles with Lee in Virginia in the summer of 1864. Lee won most of the battles in a tactical sense but on the whole lost strategically, as he could not replace his casualties and was forced to retreat into trenches around his capital, Richmond, Virginia. Meanwhile, William Tecumseh Sherman captured Atlanta, Georgia.[6] Sherman's March to the Sea destroyed a hundred-mile-wide swath of Georgia. In 1865, the Confederacy collapsed after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House and the slaves were freed. The full restoration of the Union was the work of a highly contentious postwar era known as Reconstruction. The war produced about 970,000 casualties (3% of the population), including approximately 620,000 soldier deaths—two-thirds by disease. [7] The causes of the war, the reasons for its outcome, and even the name of the war itself are subjects of lingering controversy even today. The main results of the war were the restoration and strengthening of the Union, and the end of slavery in the United States. |
 | CSS SHENANDOAH - video of The Shenadoah's Run This is a Live Clip from a concert by Jed Marum with Mason Brown and Jaime Marum at Uncle Calvin's Coffeehouse in Dallas TX. The song was written by Jed Marum and is included on the 2006 released album, CROSS OVER THE RIVER, a collection of original stories in song from the Confederate States, during the War Between the States. The CSS Shenandoah had a successful career sacking Union merchant and whaling ships, causing damage to US commerce late in the war. Unfortunately for the Shenandoah, her voyage extended months beyond the fall of the Confederacy. Once they discovered that Richmond had fallen and Lee's Army surrendured, the Shenandoah and her crew raced back to Liverpool England in order to surrender to the British, rather then risk Yankee wrath and possible hanging. The Shenandoah's Run © Jed Marum, 2004 Download a free MP3 of the original recording from this link; www.myspace.com/musicofthecivilwar Thanks to Trudy Scales for the video recording. More info at www.jedmarum.com Also check out Mason Brown's solo album at http://cdbaby.com/cd/masonbrown |
 | A Tribute To Lieutenant General Stonewall Jackson A Long Over Due Tribute to our great General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson who was a General in the Confederate Army but first a man of God. |
 | B.O.B "Currahee" - Camp Toccoa Camp Toccoa was a United States Army paratrooper training camp during World War II five miles west of Toccoa, Georgia. It was first planned in 1938, constructed by the Georgia National Guard and the Works Projects Administration beginning January 17, 1940, and was dedicated December 14, 1940. The facility was initially named Camp General Robert Toombs after a Confederate Civil War General. In 1942 the U.S. Army took over the site. There were very few buildings or facilities there and original personnel were housed in tents. More permanent barracks were built as the first paratroopers started to arrive. The story goes that Colonel Robert Sink, commander of one of the first units to train there, the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), thought that it was bad psychology to have young men arrive at Toccoa, travel Route 13 past a casket factory (the Toccoa Casket Company) to learn to jump at Camp "Tombs", so he persuaded the Department of the Army to change the name to Camp Toccoa. Initially, Camp Toccoa used the Toccoa municipal airport for jump training, but due to a transport accident, it was abandoned for having too short a runway for safe C-39 and C-47 operations. All further jump training occurred at Fort Benning, Georgia. Camp Toccoa also lacked a rifle range, so airborne trainees would march thirty miles to Clemson Agricultural College, a military school in South Carolina, to practice on the college's shooting range. The most prominent local landmark is Currahee Mountain. Paratroopers in training ran from the camp up the mountain and back, memorialized in the HBO series, Band of Brothers, with the shout "three miles up, three miles down." Members of the 506th refer to themselves as "Currahees", derived from the Cherokee word gurahiyi, which may mean "standing alone". The crest is surmounted by a group of telecommunications towers. |
 | Know your History. Betsy Ross In 1776 George Washington and two representatives of Congress, Colonel Ross and Robert Morris, asked Betsy Ross to make a flag according to a rough drawing they carried with them. At Mrs.Ross's suggestion, stars with five points were used instead of six. Bennington Used in the Battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777 by the American militia. Led by General John Stark, they defeated a large British raiding force, thus protecting the military supplies at Bennington. This flag was the first to lead American armed forces on land. Star Spangled Banner 13 stars and stripes The "Star-Spangled Banner" was flying above FT. McHenry at Baltimore when the British attacked on September 13, 1814. The original FT. McHenry flag is displayed in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Star Spangled Banner 15 stars and stripes This design, born with the second flag act on January 13, 1794, is our only official flag ever to have more than thirteen stripes. Bunker Hill On the night of June 16-17, 1775, the Americans fortified Breed's and Bunker Hills overlooking Boston Harbor. Although they had not officially declared their independence, a fight was underway. When the British advanced up the slope the next day they saw this flag. Continental This flag uses a version of the British Red Ensign with a green New England Pine tree substituted for the Union flag in the canton. The Continental flag is believed to have been carried at the Battle of Bunker Hill. First Confederate This flag was adopted but never officially enacted. For twenty five days the Confederate States of America had no officially approved flag.This flag was raised in a ceremony on March 4, 1861, it contained seven stars, representing the original Confederate States. Bonnie Blue On September 11, 1810 a troop of West Florida dragoons set out for the provincial capitol at Baton Rouge under this flag. They were joined by other republican forces and captured Baton Rouge. On September 23, 1810 they raised their Bonnie Blue flag over the Fort of Baton Rouge. The Alamo This flag was used from 1824 until the 1830's. On March 6, 1836, the Mexican army under General Santa Anna breached the walls of the Alamo at San Antonio, Texas. 187 defenders died that morning. All were avenged six weeks later when Sam Houston, with the cry "Remember the Alamo," defeated Santa Anna and established the independence of the Texas Republic. Culpeper This flag represented a group of about one hundred minutemen from Culpeper, Virginia. The group formed part of Colonel Patrick Henry's First Virginia Regiment of 1775. Their unusual dress alarmed the people as they marched through the country. The word "LIBERTY OR DEATH" were in large white letters on the breast of their hunting shirts. They had bucks' tails in their hats and tomahawks and scalping knives in their belts. Fort Sumpter Major Robert Anderson raised flag over Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor on December 26, 1860. This is the 33-star US national flag that flew over Fort Sumpter during the Confederate bombardment of 12-14 April 1861. Gadsden This flag was first used by Commodore Esek Hopkins, the first Commander in Chief of the New Continental Fleet, when his ships put to sea for the first time in February, 1776. Grand Union This flag was never officially sanctioned by the Continental Congress but is considered the first flag of the United States. Itwas in use from late 1775 until mid 1777. In its blue canton was the red cross of ST. George and the white cross of ST. Andrew. The thirteen stripes signified the original colonies. Green Mountain Boys On August 16, 1777 the "Green Mountain Boys" fought under General Stark at the Battle of Bennington. It's green field represented their name and the thirteen white stars a tribute to the thirteen colonies. Tauton This flag was raised on the Liberty pole in Taunton, Massachusetts, on October 21, 1774. Sometimes only the word "LIBERTY" was added to the flag. Serapis Flag This flag was raised by Captain John Paul Jones on the British frigate Serapis. During the fight the British captain asked Jones if he was ready to surrender. Replied Jones: "Sir, I have not yet begun to fight. |
 | Currahee Mountain (Band of Brothers/Toccoa) This video is for my dear husband William, who is a huge history buff and Band of Brother's fan. He was extremely excited to hear that we were close to Toccoa and this is just strictly for our viewing pleasure of our trip there. Currahee Mountain is a mountain located in Stephens County, Georgia near Toccoa. It is the last (or southernmost) mountain in the Blue Ridge mountain range. Currahee appears to be derived from the Cherokee word gurahiyi (Cherokee: ᎫᎳᎯᏱ), which means "water cress place" or may mean "standing alone." [1] Currahee Mountain rises about 900 feet above the local topography and, with an overall elevation of 1740 feet, is the highest peak in Stephens county. Part of the mountain is in the Chattahoochee National Forest. The mountain was made famous internationally by Steven Spielberg's TV series of Band of Brothers. The mountain was featured during the training of the American Paratroopers at Camp Toccoa, Georgia where they ran up and down Currahee. The name of the mountain became the motto for these paratroopers including the famous quote: "3 Miles up, 3 Miles down". Camp Toccoa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For the summer camp of the same name, see Camp Toccoa (summer camp). Camp Toccoa Toccoa, Georgia Type Military Training Base Built 1940 In use 1941- ca. 1946 Controlled by United States Camp Toccoa was a United States Army paratrooper training camp during World War II five miles west of Toccoa, Georgia. It was first planned in 1938, constructed by the Georgia National Guard and the Works Projects Administration beginning January 17, 1940, and was dedicated December 14, 1940. The facility was initially named Camp General Robert Toombs after a Confederate Civil War General [edit] WWII In 1942 the U.S. Army took over the site. There were very few buildings or facilities there and original personnel were housed in tents. More permanent barracks were built as the first paratroopers started to arrive. The story goes that Colonel Robert Sink, commander of one of the first units to train there, the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), thought that it was bad psychology to have young men arrive at Toccoa, travel Route 13 past a casket factory (the Toccoa Casket Company) to learn to jump at Camp "Tombs", so he persuaded the Department of the Army to change the name to Camp Toccoa. Initially, Camp Toccoa used the Toccoa municipal airport for jump training, but due to a transport accident, it was abandoned for having too short a runway for safe C-39 and C-47 operations. All further jump training occurred at Fort Benning, Georgia. Camp Toccoa also lacked a rifle range, so airborne trainees would march thirty miles to Clemson Agricultural College, a military school in South Carolina, to practice on the college's shooting range. The most prominent local landmark is Currahee Mountain. Paratroopers in training ran from the camp up the mountain and back, memorialized in the HBO series, Band of Brothers, with the shout "three miles up, three miles down." Members of the 506th refer to themselves as "Currahees", derived from the Cherokee word gurahiyi, which may mean "standing alone".[1] The crest is surmounted by a group of telecommunications towers. [edit] After WWII The camp closed at the end of the war. In the late 1940s, it served as a Georgia State Prison site, housing primarily youthful offenders, but several escapes forced the state to close the site, moving the operation to a new facility at Alto, Georgia. The twisting trail up Currahee is now named for Colonel Sink. The only remaining building from the camp is the mess hall, which sits on a corner of a Milliken & Company textile plant. Patterson Pumps Company occupies another portion of the grounds. |
 | The States in the Civil War: Pennsylvania The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania had a great impact on the Civil War. It gave the most men to the Union Army, second only by a couple thousand by New York, the bloodiest and biggest battle in North America, the Battle of Gettysburg, was fought there, and the state provided many fine and brave generals to the Union Army (in fact, it even provided one general, John Pemberton, to the Confederate Army.) If you would like to have your state featured in a video documenting its contributions to the Civil War, send me a message about it. |
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