There is no other legend quite like the legend of the Confederate fighting man. He reached the end of his haunted road long ago. He fought for a star-crossed cause and in the end he was beaten, but as he carried his slashed red battle flag into the dusky twilight of the Lost Cause he marched straight into a legend that will live as long as the American people care to remember anything about the American past. – Bruce Catton
Diversity is Our Strength
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Unfortunately, Don, the vast majority of the population today doesn’t know what happened pre-Covid. Brings to mind a quote from Life of Reason. Not a fan of the author, but he did have a knack for the short quip..
A few facts: There were Cherokee Confederates present with General Lee at Appomatox.
Because so many Cherokees allied with the Confederacy, the United States government required a new treaty with the nation after the war.
Sequoyah invented a written syllabary for the Cherokee language. By 1825 the majority of them were literate while only one third of English speakers were literate. Books
and newspapers using the Cherokee syllabary are still in use.
When one considers how poorly the Cherokee were treated by that great pro-Union democrat President Andrew Jackson, it is little wonder their sympathies were with the alternative.