Recently moved and found this plaque while walking my dog today. The town was the muster point for the 3rd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. Doing some digging it seems that they not only fought across Tennessee and Kentucky but later were under the command of Brigadier General Kilpatrick, who was the commander of Sherman’s Cavalry division during his march to the sea. While the regiment never made it to Savannah, they did under Kilpatrick’s command conduct raids before and during the battle of Atlanta. Absolutely loved finding local history.

May 1, 1863: A joint resolution adopted by the Confederate Congress and signed into law by President Jefferson Davis authorizing the enslavement or execution of Blacks who’ve taken up arms to fight for the Union.

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I saw some people mocking it on Twitter a few years ago, but I can't find it anymore. It's apparently an annual thing that takes place at a cemetery, with some people in Confederate costume. I think that they have a ceremony, and then they solemnly march, quasi/pseudo-military style. The videos I saw showed it happening in what looked like cold, wet weather, if that means anything. Besides the men dressed as soldiers (who were much too old for the roles), there were a couple of women dressed as war widows.

If anybody knows what crackpot ritual I'm referring to, please let me know!

Thanks.

Today, half of that towel—known as the Confederate flag of truce—sits inside a glass case in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, on display as part of the exhibit “The American Presidency.”

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If the traitorous cowards want to celebrate their Confederate Independence day (or whatever TF they call it) we should have a national Cowards surrender day on the anniversary they openly admitted their failure. Perhaps this idea has been floated through here before.....?

Ideas for the official holiday:

1. Confederate submission day
2. Union victory day
3. Appomattox cuck day

I could do this all day. Anyone else got any ideas?

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Only 15.1%

Commute/Work very close to https://www.visitbeauvoir.org

It brings great joy to see how many passers-by routinely piss around the grounds and spit on the fences

I was going through some old pictures from college and I got reminded of an incident that happened on the way to my fraternity formal in Savannah.

My date and I went to school in Florida and we decided to take an extra day off and go through Atlanta (ironically) to visit some friends we knew up there. During our time in Atlanta, my date who's last name was Sherman said she had interesting family history in the city and my history majoring brain immediately connected the dots and was elated to discover my date was descended from one of my heroes. Anyways we had a great time and left late for Savannah.

Because of how late we were, we decided to get dinner on the I-16. We stopped by a Bennigans and my date wanted a drink. Of course the waitress asked for her ID and when she saw the name on the license she said, "Sherman ehh? You know people don't like that name around here." half jokingly. My date, innocent flower that she was sweetly responded "Oh General Sherman was my great-great-great-grandfather." I swear to god that Bennigans' temperature went to freezing as the waitress just threw back the id o the table and walked away.

Ten minutes later, the manager comes to our table and before I can even ask where our drinks are, he says "We aren't going to serve you, please leave." I'm Asian and though I don't experience it much, I still had my fair share of runins with bigots but before I could even stand up to confront him, he said, "Not you, you can stay, but she has to leave."

I guess, by this time people had heard what was going on and I, upon seeing us looked at with quite the bit of animosity, decided to take my date and skedaddle. We made it to Savannah much quicker than my date's grandpa had and I begged her to avoid proclaiming her ancestry while in the city. (I'm both ashamed of this, but also think that our fun and uneventful weekend was because of this.) Anyways, I don't know how it has changed in the 25 years years since, but the hate for Sherman was still quite strong back then and I'm glad cause those traitors deserved it all.

Wish I’d gotten it put up before St Pattys but better late than never.