First off note that preliminary work on preparing for this major commemoration has been going on for some years:
Civil War 150th
Learn more about the upcoming 150th anniversary of theCivil WarCivilwar.org
Against a background of controversy and criticism from bodies as the NAACP and other Black Civil Rights groups as well as progressive and liberal minded people. The main issue here is that the South this time around must more fully recognises and adress the issue of slavery in it's commemorative events, activities and memorials etc. This is already against background of a number of years of campaigning to rid the South of the Conderate Battle Flag being officially used by Southern States, a campaign that has generally been won.
Confederate flag, campaign against its display spark controversy ...
20 May 2009 ... It started during a day of patriotism. The Sons of Confederate Veterans waved the Confederate battle flagas they marched for the first time ...
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The Campaign Against Southern Symbols
12 Mar 2002 ... The Campaign Against Southern Symbols. by Gail Jarvis ... After last year's complaint by the NAACP, the Confederate flag was removed from ...
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confederate flag issue Guide
26 Mar 2007 ... NAACP leaders meeting in Cincinnati say they will step up their campaign against flying of theConfederate battle flag on state grounds in ...
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The above is just a taster of an issue that is not going to die down and fade away, in fact the 'Old South' long thought to be dieing away is it appears marching back out of the shadows of recent history. Prompted not just because of issues over flying of a flag but since the Atlanta Olympics the 'Old South' has been taking a beating up on what it considers to be it's 'Southern Heritage'. This maybe seen in particular in Hollywood Movies that only show the Confederate Flag if associated with 'White Trash' or depicts the 'Old South' in horror movies were rural White Southerners are seen as 'Incestuous Retards'. Of course such needs to be contrasted by the treatment of 'Blacks' and the issue of 'Slavery' in Books and Films. This I shall deal with in a review of Civil War interest movies in my blog: The Welsh Patriot.
THE WELSH PATRIOT.
- 45 visits - 2 DecSuffice to say now that obviously this has caused animosity and reaction from those who are of interest in largelly white Southern Heritage not least regards the Civil War. However, but then how can such avoid the history, matter and issue of 'Slavery' but it does or at least such is played down. Thus the fourth coming 150th Anniversary of the Cilvil War will, in the South for most part be challenged with no doubt much confrontation on the cards
Plans for 150th anniversary of Civil War face challenges ...
12 Nov 2010... to commemorate next year's 150th anniversary of the Civil War, ... the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission. ...
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Issues there are many, that revolve around matters appertaining to the 'Old South' and a more and more desired 'New South'. Such by no means new as ideal and policy, rattling on long before the Atlanta Olympics, as examples in links below indicate:
Today we want to talk about the "New South." Not the so-called "New South" of today, withAtlanta struggling to become its regional capitol, ...
Southern United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thirty-six percent of all U.S. residents lived in the South, the nation's most populous region..... Two major political issues that festered in the first half of the 19th ...... The Promise of theNew South: Life after Reconstruction. ...
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Meanwhile the British Media is picking up on the above with excellent features as Under a Flag of Remembrance, the South of Civil War begins to rise again by Will Pavia in the Times 4 - 12 - 2010 also in the Sunday Times 2-1-2011 Slavery 'lies' stirs Dixieland Rebels by Christina Lamb. Book wise, a must read if one wants to understand why so much bitterness, then be aware it has much to do with reconstruction that period after the Civil War. Despite having lost the War the 'White South' by various means including the terrorism of the KKK much as the Boers were to do in South Africa came out back on top. The book to read much on this, a real eye opener is The Bloody Shirt by Stephen Budiansky:
Amazon.com: The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox ...
The Bloody Shirt: Terror After the Civil War and over 775000 other books are ..... "The Bloody Shirt" is a well-researched and well-written account that ...
www.amazon.com › ... › Civil War › Campaigns › Appomattox - CachedCelebrating Confederate History Month: The Bloody Shirt « Tild~
7 Apr 2010 ... Coincidentally, this past week I have been reading The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox (2008) a book by Stephen Budiansky about the ...
tildology.com/.../celebrating-confederate-history-month-the-bloody-shirt/ - CachedBooks of particular British/Welsh Interest would be:The Britons who died for the Stars and Stripes - A World on Fire
The American Civil War was unspeakably brutal and the number of casualties ... Battle cry: Idealistic Britons who wanted to defeat slavery joined the fight ...
www.amanda-foreman.com/mailonline_11_2010.shtml -CachedReviews | LYONS' SHARE
More than a decade has passed since Amanda Foremanburst onto the literary ...
www.amanda-foreman.com/literary-review.shtml - CachedRegards Wales see below and note ref to work on this subject by Jeffery Hunter:20 Feb 2007 ... The American Civil War, 1861-5, saw the bloodiest fighting in the history of the United States. A collection of letters at the National ...
www.llgc.org.uk › Home Page › Digital Mirror › Manuscripts -Cached - SimilarDr Jerry Hunter - School of Welsh at the University of Wales, Bangor
- 08:47In 2006, the AHRC awarded Dr Jerry Hunter a major research grant to fund an ... His eagerly awaited study of Welsh writing from the American Civil War, ...
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American slavery and Wales: Dr Jerry Hunter of the School of ...
www.bangor.ac.uk/news/full.php?Id=56 - CachedNew American Civil War Collection at - www.swansea.ac.uk
26 Nov 2010 ... Launch of the Allan Milne American Civil War Collection with a public ... and as Fulbright/AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies Research Fellow at ... Wales UK T: +44 (0)1792 602394. E: artsandhumanities@swansea.ac.uk ...
www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/.../Headline,53011,en.php- CachedS4C - Cymry Rhyfel Cartref America
There have been many books written about the AmericanCivil War, ... where you can find some collected letters and other documents relating to the War and Wales. ... are many Civil War societies in the UK, go to www.americancivilwar.org.uk.
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- Much is made of the Welsh fighting for the North but there were plenty who fought for the South too and, indeed 'Southern Aristocracy' would referr often to the Anglo - Celtic descent. Hence this 'Southern Aristocracy' adopting Fitz, Mac and 'ap' too as example of Roger Gatesby ap Jones:
Catesby ap Roger Jones (April 15, 1821 - June 20, 1877) was an officer in the U.S. Navy who became a commander in the Confederate Navy during the American ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catesby_ap_Roger_Jones - Cached - SimilarFootnote: There is an empty grave in Ewenny Church dedicated to memory of local lad who fought and died for the South. He is actually bueried in a military ceremony in the South, cannot remember full details but have done a post on it in one of my blogs, cannot remember which? Whatever, anyone out there interested in US Civil War Reenactment - Living History note info below:
