Confederate Memorial Day

[Laconian]

We had talented leadership. I swear I will get around to reading Lee's Lieutenants one day. Thick book, sitting in my barrister bookcase in glorious hardcover.

I have not read that in years. I really should get to them again.

[Hollis]

Don't you mean 1890's Hollis???

Nope, it was around 1910, or around there. IIRC

[[WDW]Megaraptor]

Let me just list all the names that I know for it.

The War Between the States
The War of Secession
The War for Southern Independence
The War of Northern Aggression
The Second American Revolution

And I feel like I'm forgetting one.....but yeah, take your pick of those. Most commonly though it is referred to as The War Between the States.

EDIT: Here's the wiki article on it. It's got Union names for it too, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_...ican_Civil_War

My favorite was always "The Late Unpleasantness."

[Cstafford]

Captures the feeling pretty well, I reckon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOi0tC00Luc

(RIP, Levon)

Ive probably listened to this like 16 times today. Forgot how good The Band is.
RIP Levon

[Rattfink]

War of Southern Secession is my term of choice. It is plain, unemotional and truthful.
The Confederacy was an independent country, and thus it was not a civil war in my humble estimation.
I however dislike names that point blame ie "Lincoln's War" and "War of Northern Aggression"

[Hollis]

War of Southern Secession is my term of choice. It is plain, unemotional and truthful.
The Confederacy was an independent country, and thus it was not a civil war in my humble estimation.
I however dislike names that point blame ie "Lincoln's War" and "War of Northern Aggression"

If you want some good discussion, talk to a constitutional law professor or lawyer on the constitutionality of secession. Most that I have known opinion is that the South had the right. If that is actually the case, for the South it was the War of Norther Aggression, for the North, It was the War of Secession.

[IconOfEvi]

"Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees." - Gen Stonewall Jackson

[California Joe]

By the way, Levon Helm lived in Woodstock NY and is being buried there...Just sayin'

[Nizark]

and who says Americans have no attention span.

[Spartan10k]

and who says Americans have no attention span.

Sadly, it seems like there are fewer and fewer of us who remember occasions and traditions such as these as the years go bye......and then there's my idiot generation who think being Southern is the same as being redneck or country; when, on the whole, they don't even know what being from the country actually means. They think it's just wearing a brass fishin hook on their hat, and maybe sewing a Confederate Flag patch on there too while listening to "Country" music... They don't know the first thing about the sacrifices of their ancestors, and the Hell they lived through...

Sorry, rant over...

[Hollis]

Sadly, it seems like there are fewer and fewer of us who remember occasions and traditions such as these as the years go bye......and then there's my idiot generation who think being Southern is the same as being redneck or country; when, on the whole, they don't even know what being from the country actually means. They think it's just wearing a brass fishin hook on their hat, and maybe sewing a Confederate Flag patch on there too while listening to "Country" music... They don't know the first thing about the sacrifices of their ancestors, and the Hell they lived through...

Sorry, rant over...

Yes even worse than those that do not know history, there is good ol'boy bubba. He is the symbol of that stereotype.

[bryant]

I am celebrating here in CT.

[Spartan10k]

How many springs have gone since they
Who wore the uniform of gray
Last looked upon summer snow of dogwood, blooming below
Their southern skies and friendly sun,
Or watched the winding rivers run
Or knew when spring wind's gentle hand
Stretched forth to heal their wounded land.
They sleep where the azaleas spread
Their glorious colors, where the red old hills
And mountain peaks
Stand listening while nature speaks.
And from the woodlands sound the strains
Of memories; where coastal plains
Run down to join the ceaseless tide
Ebbing and flowing as they died.
Let us remember them as time
And tide move on in endless rhyme.
When spring is wearing her bouquet
For the lost legions of the gray.
While bud and blossom, hill and tree
Remember them, so shall we.

http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/confed...r/springs.html

[Token White Guy]

http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/confed...r/springs.html

I wonder if I'm related to Oliver as we have the same last name.