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Wilson’s Creek was a fascinating battle- Weaver shown above was the first Arkansas casualty of our Second Rebellion.

Documentary of the battle is linked below:

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Omer Rose Weaver of Little Rock, Arkansas, and friends, ca 1860. Weaver was killed in action at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek on August 10, 1861, while serving in the Confederate Army’s Pulaski Light Battery. Arkansas State Archives, PHC 2677.

Joshua Crews was the son of Isham Crews and Elizabeth Bryant. Joshua's Father was a soldier from the South Carolina Militia in the War of 1812. Isham located his family in Polk County, Florida after receiving a soldier's Land Grant. Joshua was captured July 2nd, 1863 during the Battle of Gettysburg and he died in a Gettysburg hospital on July 25, 1863. Joshua died at 19 years old with no wife or children.

From the tablet on Emmitsburg Road at Gettysburg:

Army of Northern Virginia

Hill’s Corps Anderson’s Division

Perry’s Brigade

2nd 5th 8th Florida Infantry

July 2. Formed line in forenoon in the western border of these woods. Advanced at 6 P. M. and assisted in driving back the Union lines on Emmitsburg Road and by rapid pursuit compelled the temporary abandonment of several guns. At the foot of the slope met Union infantry and the line on the right retiring also fell back. The color bearer of the 8th Florida fell and its flag was lost.

Relics of the CSS Alabama. The Alabama had so many Yankee kills that they ended up with several fancy flushing porcelain toilets. One shown here. The ships wheel was inscribed with the phrase. “God helps those who help themselves”. Captain Raphael Semmes freed a slave from Delaware they had captured on a Yankee vessel and made him part of his crew. REAL HISTORY

The “carpet-bag” governments, with their grotesque legislatures, plundered and helped to plunder the States, and, not content with stealing all that there was to steal, by means of fraudulent issues of bonds thrust their rapacious claws into the pockets of unborn generations.

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#OTD in 1861 – The 10th Tennessee Infantry Regiment enters Confederate service in the American Civil War.

Company D was known as the ‘Rebel Sons of Erin’ because so many of them were Irish. Indeed, the roster of Company D reads like any small town in a 19th century Irish village (every surname was Irish). While the Fighting 69th on the Union side is the most famous “Irish Brigade,” it is estimated that at least 30,000 Irish fought on the Confederate side. Much of the enlistment was due to the…

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Lexington, VA flagging

General Polk was one of the greatest Generals in the South. His Polk Flag was distinct and he died with honor in battle defending his homeland!

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Have you ever seen the The Polk Battle Flag? It features the well-known Southern Cross, with an upright cross with the colors reversed. Here