The Confederacy, The Union, and the Civil War

The Confederacy, The Union, and the Civil War – A look at four claims about the War Between the States

Author: Michael T. Griffith

Recently some members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans drafted a statement to be placed on a proposed monument at a Confederate grave site in a Texas cemetery. The statement contains four claims regarding the Confederacy, the Union, and the Civil War. The purpose of this article is to examine those claims. The text of the statement is as follows:

The Confederate dead died for states rights guaranteed under the Constitution. The people of the South, animated by the spirit of 1776, to preserve their rights, withdrew from the federal compact in 1861. The North resorted to coercion. The South, against overwhelming numbers and resources, fought until exhausted.

On Secession and Southern Independence

On Secession and Southern Independence
By Dr. Michael Hill
President, The League of the South

The voluntary union (or confederacy) of States known as the United States was born of a secessionist movement against Great Britain, and our Declaration of Independence is, at base, a secessionist document. How, then, can secession legitimately be called “un-American?”

History Revised by Political Correctness in Louisiana

The news of the changes in long-standing proclamations declaring Confederate History and Heritage Month observances in Shreveport and Bossier City, Lou­isiana has prompted the following statement from Christopher M. Sullivan,  Commander-in-Chief, Sons of Confederate Veterans: