Civil War Missouri: Sunset for the confederate flag?

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Sunset for the confederate flag?

Southern life has too long been shackled (literally and figuratively) to fealty to the CSA and the flag.

Art, culture, politics, literature, heritage, history, education, architecture - anything brushing up with the Confederacy's 4-year life has to pass a test of 'Confederate-correctness'.

It's been a case of WWJDD, 'what would Jefferson Davis do?'. Virtually everything 'southern' has been viewed through the lens of confederate memory. Anything in conflict with that memory is discarded and the purveyor derided. Now, in a new era, ideas can stand or fall on their own merits.

The flag should have been lowered when the last CSA veteran was buried

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"This book is dedicated to my granddaughter, Lydia Kathleen Diebolt, who was born in Kansas but will live to overcome it" - Kathleen White Miles (1971)
"I sit in a chair and read the newspapers. Millions of men go to war, acres of them are buried, guns and ships broken, cities burned, villages sent up in smoke, and children where cows are killed off amid hoarse barbecues vanish like finger-rings of smoke in a north wind. I sit in a chair and read the newspapers." - Carl Sandburg (1878–1967).
I’ve never been a writer and never will be. Even so, writing for 'publication' under *my* name is an interesting experience. Here’s how I do it, so far: 1) find basic information from well-known sources, 2) write a brief narrative, 3) embellish from other sources (magazines, online, etc.) with interesting detail on the politics, forces, results, personalities and weather. 4) Tighten. 5) repeat step 4 until done ;) - HankC

Book Pile

Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War by T.J. Stiles (Random House, New York, 2002, pps. 510)
Other Noted Guerillas of the Civil War in Missouri by Larry Wood (Hickory Press, Joplin Mo., 2007, pps. 302)
Bitter Ground - The Civil War in Missouri's Golden Valley - Benton, Henry and St. Clair Counties by Kathleen White Miles (The Printery, Warsaw Mo. - Clinton Mo., 1971, pps. 458) (Mrs. Miles died Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007, in Clinton)
In Deadly Earnest - The History of the First Missouri Brigade, CSA by Phil Gottschalk (Columbia, Mo: Missouri River Press, 1991)
Civil War on the Western Border 1854-1865 by Jay Monaghan (Little, Brown and Co., c. 1955, Reprint, pps. 454)
The Battle of Wilson’s Creek by Edwin C. Bearss (Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield Foundation, c. 1992, 4th ed., pps. xii, 170)
Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border, 1863 by Wiley Britton (University of Nebraska Press, c. 1993, pps. 22, 458)
Action before Westport 1864 by Howard N. Monnett (University Press of Colorado, c. 1964, 1995. pps. xxxiv, 190)