From the Virginia Civil War Sesquicentennial Facebook page:
Partners in Richmond will come together April 1-4 to mark the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War and emancipation.As someone on Facebook noted, "While the 'official' sesquicentennial will be celebrating the burning of Richmond, the Virginia Flaggers may very well be the only people standing for the Confederate soldier over the next few days."
Highlights include Thursday’s illumination and tours of the downtown area that burned in the evacuation fire; Friday’s tours and roving living history programs interpreting the first day of Union occupation; and Friday and Saturday evening memorials at Lumpkin’s Jail and the Slave Burial Ground that include a sacred ground procession to slave-trading sites, original musical tributes and an interactive finale.
On Saturday, the commemoration will take over Capitol Square with a pop-up museum, a family area, a living history area, a community tent collecting oral histories and items for a time capsule, the HistoryMobile, and two hubs for walking tours.
A commemorative parade of Union Army living history interpreters will reach Capitol Square in time for an 11 a.m. ceremony on the Capitol Portico featuring Gov. Terry McAuliffe and the Virginia Union University Choir.
Complete listing of Richmond's Journey events: <snip>
Deep heartfelt thanks to you, Virginia Flaggers, for doing so.
Long after the sesquicentennial is over, The VA Flaggers will continue to remember and honor the Confederate Soldier.
ReplyDeleteAmen!
DeleteCorey, are you really that dense? You're burning leaves in your back yard and it accidentally catches your house on fire. Did you burn up your house? No. Besides, there would have been no Confederate soldiers to burn anything if there had not been an the illegal invasion by a barbarous army. Regardless, the utter destruction of Richmond is not something to celebrate, but to commemorate and mourn. Haters celebrate it.
ReplyDeleteThe Loss of Richmond to the Invading Yankee Government was truly a Loss for America, indeed Man-Kind as well. America is still suffering that loss to this day.
DeleteJust as David mentioned, regardless of the upcoming anniversaries next week, there will still be Confederate Memorial Day services across the South this April and May....this year and next year, and the year after that, and after that.
ReplyDeletePreach on!
DeleteNo one in their right mind would participate in events that celebrated the destruction og Richmond, the capital of the last - best - hope for standing up for what the founding fathers intended this country to be! "The night thy drove old Dixie down!"
ReplyDeleteSo True.
DeleteCareful Connie, if you disagree with corey, he might try talkin someone into punchin you in the nose !
ReplyDeleteWe have Confederate Heroes Day on January 19th here in Texas. It's a half day for state employees as it's an officially recognised state holiday. The Texas SCV celebrates Confederate Memorial Day. As an aside, five years ago, they put up a new Memorial in Clarkesville, Red River County, Texas. And some new ones in Cleburne, Texas. Lately, I've been seeing people put First Nationals above their Lone Star flags on their flag poles. Most people usually have just the Texas flag. That's all we had in school, when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteA commemorative parade of Union Army living history interpreters will reach Capitol Square in time for an 11 a.m. ceremony on the Capitol Portico featuring Gov. Terry McAuliffe and the Virginia Union University Choir.
ReplyDeleteThis doesn't make me sick, it aggravates and angers me. I bet they wouldn't have Jihadis marching in New York to commemorate 911. Or have a New York choir sing praises to Bin Laden and his obvious triumph. I swear, Yankees constantly claim "We're all one country", yet keep acting like they're a different country with different national interests and prerogatives. Oh well, at least we have Confederate memorial day.
Commemorating/celebrating emancipation is fine but the burning of a city?...with "lantern tours" of the burned areas?" That's sick. Really sick.
ReplyDeleteBut based on the "powerful images" at Levin's Flog very few were taking notice. Many of those along the parade route appear to be attending to personal business. Even the ceremonies at Capitol Square have only a few hundred in attendance.
BR you are so right. I wasn't there, don't know what it looked like outside the frame of the camera that took those pictures, but the sesqui celebration in Richmond looks decidedly underwhelming. The "power" and extent of it seems to reside in the imagination of floggers like Levin and his sycophants.
Delete"Civil War 150th: Richmond commemorates end of war and visit by Lincoln
Deleteby Katherine Calos Richmond Times-Dispatch
A day that focused on freedom more than defeat, on promise more than loss, on blessings more than sorrows, brought an estimated 5,000 people to Capitol Square on Saturday for the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War and slavery."
5000? Wide angle photos -from the same newspaper- show about 300.
An observation...
DeleteOutside of the USCT and civilian re-enactors (40+/-), the choir (30+/-), and a few speakers, there are very few black people in attendance.
Makes you wonder who are the prime motivators behind the event.
Yes, BR -- but over at Levin's flog, they're waxing eloquent about the event, as revealed in a tiny handful of photos that they evidently assume encompass the entire event/experience. The Internet has made people lop off whole sections of their cognitive ability...
DeleteI wonder if the two black ladies in period attire have found out yet that hoop skirts are racist.... Guess not.
Can someone please tell me how to get an email to the History Channel?
ReplyDeleteThanks,
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