Remembering Brave Soldiers Who Died Under The Confederate Flag

  • Thursday, July 2, 2015

One hundred fifty-four years ago over a million men, aged 12-70, took up arms and left their homes and families to defend their way of life as they knew it.  Accurate records didn't exist back then, but as many as 500,000 would die from fighting, disease, starvation and an almost total lack of medical treatment.  

Most of those who fought were farmers, blacksmiths, miners and general laborers.  There was no television, internet, radio, and only sketchy newspapers. But when their government told them to protect their country, they came together and promised to fight to the death against the invaders from up north.

The vast majority never owned slaves. They didn't fight to guarantee that the rich folks on the hill would always be able to own slaves. They fought for their country.  

Most didn't fight under the stars and bars, but that flag has come to be the most recognized flag of the civil war era. To say that these men should be forgotten and their cause be erased from the history books is wrong. 

Nobody alive today was a slave. Nobody alive today owned slaves. 

If you wish to continue to divide the country again, then go ahead and demand the stars and bars be removed.  You will win, because there are no elected officials who are willing to speak up for the real history of our country. It happened, it's over.  

Half a million men died doing what they thought was the right thing under that flag.They died for their families and their farms.  

It is wrong to deny their place in history. 

Harry Presley
Chattanooga

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