When the Southern States seceded in 1860-61 the US Federal Government refused to recognise the right of their peoples to self-determination (even though the US itself had been born out of a secession from a United Kingdom) despite the fact that the States seceded through the same legal process by which they had joined...
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The counter-factual is always difficult. It’s not easy to imagine the world being greatly different than what we see around us. However, it is certain that had more Southerners embraced the ideas put forth by Robert Barnwell Rhett in the three decades leading up to Southern secession in 1860-61 things would have turned out...
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Jefferson Davis was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. Born in Kentucky, Davis attended West Point and fought in the Mexican-American War. He was the US Secretary of War and a US Senator representing Mississippi in Congress prior to Southern secession. After Mississippi seceded from the United States Davis...
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In December of 1862 President Jefferson Davis spoke to the Mississippi legislature in Jackson. The United States’ war against the South was in full swing and clearly horrified President Davis in its scope and savagery. He referred to the Union forces as ‘worse than vandal hordes’ and was appalled by their criminal behaviour towards...
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A piece of Southern history is back home in the Old North State: One history buff from the North and another from the South maneuvered a heavy Confederate ship’s bell into the Port O’ Plymouth Museum on Wednesday. Speaking instructions to each other in their distinct accents, Daniel McAuliffe of Worcester, Mass., and Jimmy...
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A copy of an extremely rare book on the financial system of the independent South has been discovered: It’s time to rewrite the history books on Confederate States finance, and the evolution of Confederate currency collecting. A sixth example of the desirable and rare, original 1880 Register of the Confederate debt by Raphael P. Thian...
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The following article from The Daily Bell presents a positive view of the Confederate States of America, stressing several key concepts and facts typically ignored by mainstream historians and media outlets: The Confederate States of America, also called the C.S.A and the Confederacy, was a decentralized confederation form of weak central government established by...
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John Keegan, a military historian at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, UK, writes in the forward to John MacDonald’s Great Battles of the Civil War about how geography shaped the conflict between North and South in the 1860s. He also discusses Confederate strategy, coming to an often discussed issue – whether the CSA...
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The following passage is excerpted from Richard B. Harwell’s The Confederate Reader (New York, 1957), taken from pages 44-46: When he visited Texas in 1863, Englishman Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle commented: “At the outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard...
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The Daily Citizen has a pretty good article detailing the events surrounding the creation of the Confederate States of America in 1861: February 4, 1861, fell on a Monday. On that day, delegates from six lower south states congregated at the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to form a national government that would be known as...
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