A Day For Confederate History Month

 Day for April

Confederate Heritage Month and Memorial

There is a little-known fact about the law that made Confederate Heritage Month and Memorial Day a law for April.  It was made law by the Legislature but never has been repealed.  Governor Deal can change the name on the calendar, but cannot change law.  Here is how GA Law 1-4-20 reads:

(a) The General Assembly hereby finds and determines that tourism is a great economic resource in Georgia; and historical, heritage, and cultural inheritance are among the tourism industry's most popular attractions. Georgia's Confederate heritage, physical artifacts and battle sites, and historic events and persons not only attract visitors, they are potentially of even greater importance and benefit to our state's economy. Increased development of our state's Confederate history and heritage as part of the tourism industry will be enhanced through recognizing, celebrating, and advertising that heritage and history.

(b) The month of April of each year is hereby designated as Confederate History and Heritage Month and shall be set aside to honor, observe, and celebrate the Confederate States of America, its history, those who served in its armed forces and government, and all those millions of its citizens of various races and ethnic groups and religions who contributed in sundry and myriad ways to the cause which they held so dear from its founding on February 4, 1861, in Montgomery, Alabama, until the Confederate ship CSS Shenandoah sailed into Liverpool Harbor and surrendered to British authorities on November 6, 1865.

(c) Officials and departments of state, county, and municipal governments, boards of education, elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, businesses, and all citizens are encouraged to participate in programs, displays, and activities that commemorate and honor our shared history and cultural inheritance throughout each April during Confederate History and Heritage Month.

- See more at: http://codes.findlaw.com/ga/title-1-general-provisions/ga-code-sect-1-4-20.html#sthash.SAHWo1T7.dpuf

A resolution was introduced this year to have the names put back on the state calender.  It didn't pass because it was introduced too late in the session, but it will be up front next legislative session.

This year once again the City of McDonough the county seat for Henry County, GA will recognized Confederate Heritage Month and Memorial Day on the square in McDonough with a Proclamation by Mayor Billy Copeland.  This by far makes the City of Stockbridge look bad as McDonough has more clout and more class than they will ever have.

The Spalding County Board of Commissioners recently voted unanimously to recognize Confederate History Month and Memorial Day with a Proclamation on April 3, 2017.   The Harlason County Board of Commissioners recently voted to recognize Confederate History Month and Memorial Day with a Proclamation.

There have already been several Confederate Memorial Day events in Georgia and many more to come.  The list below covers some, but not all of them.

United Daughters of the Confederacy®

Alfred Holt Colquitt Chapter 2018

cordially invites you, your family and friends to attend an observance of

Confederate Memorial Day

Saturday, the twenty-second of April Two thousand seventeen

at two o’clock in the afternoon

Awarding of Crosses of Military Service Guest Speaker

Michael K. Shaffer

A Confederate Memorial Day observance has been held at Historic Oakland every year since 1866. Our ceremony is held at the base of the Confederate Obelisk, as it has been since the Obelisk was built in 1873. A reception, hosted by the Alfred Holt Colquitt Chapter 2018, United Daughters of the Confederacy®, will follow near the Confederate Obelisk.

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GA-Griffin Confederate Memorial Day - Saturday, April 15, 10:00 am, Stonewall Confederate Cemetery, Memorial Drive, Griffin GA. The purpose of this observance is to honor the men who are buried here. Keynote speaker is Curtis Harris Collier III, from Athens, GA. FREE admission. 770-412-1646, barrowscv@inbox.com

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April 1, 2017

16th Annual Stone Mountain Memorial Service

16th Annual Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Day Celebration

The annual Confederate Memorial Day celebrations will be on April 1st this year. The lodging will be the same as years past at the Stone Mountain Days Inn. Most will arrive on Friday night for a social evening at the Hotel and leave out for home Saturday afternoon after the celebrations or Sunday morning. As last year we will collect the park entrance fee Friday night and early Saturday morning to speed up going through the gate. When you line up Saturday morning please make sure you have paid the fee. A picnic lunch will be provided for $6 (burger, chips and a drink) at the picnic area by the bike parking area before the celebration begins.

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April 8, 2017, the SCV Camp 141 hosted Confederate Memorial Day in Albany, GA at the CSA Memorial Park with Herman Crain as the guest speaker who writes the historical column for the Lee County Ledger.

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Lt. James T. Woodward Camp # 1399 Warner Robins Confederate Memorial day Services:

Friday April 21, 2017 at 6:00pm - 211 Stevens Street in Warner Robins at the Bason Family Cemetery

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Friday April 21, 2017 at 7:00pm -Cliett Cemetery Byron Ga. The Cliett Cemetery is located two miles west of I-75 on the Georgia 247 Connector

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Lt. James T. Woodward Camp #1399

Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 9:00am Confederate Monument, Macon Ga. At the Corner of 2nd Street and Cotton Ave.

Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 10:00am Rose Hill Cemetery Macon Ga. 1071 Riverside Drive Macon Ga.

Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 12:00 noon. Lt. James T. Woodward Cemetery -Hartley Bridge Rd, Bibb County, Ga.

Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 2:00pm Byron City Cemetery, 101 Murdock Ln. Byron Ga.

Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 4:00pm Oaklawn Cemetery in Ft. Valley Ga. Hwy 49 south side of Ft. Valley

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General E. Porter Alexander Porter # 158, Confederate Memorial Day Service:

Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. Our annual Confederate Memorial Day ceremony at Magnolia Cemetery in Augusta, Georgia will feature Mrs. Betty Jean Miller of Kline, S.C. a prominent member of the S.C. UDC. This event will be on Saturday April 22nd starting at 11:00 a.m. featuring black powder salutes and time to honor your ancestors.

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GA-Augusta Confederate Memorial Day Commemoration - Saturday, April 22, downtown Augusta GA. Parade leaving at 11:00 am from the Confederate Veterans Monument in the 700 block of Broad Street, arriving at the Confederate veterans section of Magnolia Cemetery (702 3rd Street) where a memorial service will begin at approximately 11:45 am. Included will be a black powder salute, cannon firing and honor guard. Mrs. Betty Jean Miller of the United Daughters of the Confederacy will be the featured speaker. FREE admission. http://eporteralexander.homestead.com/

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GA-McDonough Confederate Memorial Day Observance - Saturday, April 22, 2:00 pm, McDonough City Square, downtown McDonough GA. You are invited to Henry County’s annual Confederate Memorial Day Observance. Mayor Billy Copeland will be onhand to give a proclamation for Confederate History Month and Memorial Day.  The keynote speaker will be Sons of Confederate Veterans Georgia Division Commander Scott Gilbert. FREE admission. 770-296-5139, zachrycamp108@gmail.com

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GA-Resaca Confederate Memorial Day Service - Sunday, April 23, 2:00 pm, Resaca Confederate Cemetery, Resaca GA. An observance of Confederate Memorial Day will be held at the Resaca Confederate Cemetery, approximately seven miles north of Calhoun on U.S. Highway 41. Turn east on Confederate Cemetery Road. Writer/Historian Ken Herron will be the keynote speaker. Music will be provided by the Company G, 28th Georgia Fife & Drum Corps and Laney House. FREE admission. In the event of bad weather this event will be held at Oakleigh, 335 South Wall Street in downtown Calhoun, the home of the Gordon County Historical Society.706-629-1515, http://exploregordoncounty.com/list/history/oakleigh-gordon-historical-society

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GA-Waynesboro Confederate Memorial Service - Sunday, April 23, 3:00 pm, Waynesboro Confederate Memorial Cemetery, West 6th Street @ Jones Avenue, Waynesboro GA. You are invited to the annual Confederate Memorial Day service to honor Burke County’s Confederate soldiers. Featured speaker is David Hollingsworth. FREE admission. tdlively@hotmail.com

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GA-Marietta Confederate Memorial Day Service - Sunday, April 23, 3:00 pm, Marietta Confederate Cemetery

395 Powder Springs Street, Marietta GA. You are invited to the annual Marietta Confederate Cemetery Confederate Memorial Day Service at the cemetery’s gazebo. FREE admission. 770-427-4662, henrylamonsmith@bellsouth.net

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GA-Brunswick Confederate Memorial Day Service - Saturday, April 29, 10:30 am to 12:00 noon, Newcastle Street and Hanover Park, Brunswick GA. A procession down Newcastle Street from G Street begins at 10:30 am. Meet at Hanover Park, site of Brunswick’s Confederate Monument, for the service beginning at 11:00 am. FREE admission. 912-571-8657

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GA-Bainbridge Confederate Memorial Day - Saturday, April 29, 7:00 pm, Willis Park, downtown Bainbridge GA. Bainbridge’s annual Confederate Memorial Day program will be held at Willis Park, on the square in Bainbridge. FREE admission. 404-456-3393, timfpilgrim@yahoo.com

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GA-Appling County Confederate Memorial Day Ceremony - Sunday, April 30, 3:00 pm, Holmesville, 6 miles south of Baxley on Georgia Highway 15, Appling County GA. The public is invited to the annual Confederate Memorial Day Ceremony at the Holmesville monument site, six miles south of Baxley on Georgia Highway 15 in Appling County. FREE admission. info@applinggrays.org

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It is good to see these localities exercise their right to celebrate Confederate Heritage Month and Confederate Memorial Day.  There are many people here in the state who lost family members in that war and they never owned a slave.  They went because they wanted to protect their homes.  Many people are trying to rewrite history as though the Civil War never existed, but it did.  It is part of the history of Georgia and cannot be whitewashed away to suit certain parties who are no more than racist groups trying to destroy the history of Georgia and the good people of the state.  Please never forget your ancestors to make a group happy.

Deo DeVince

A Man Of Honor

A former Georgia State Trooper rode along with H.K. Edgerton to make sure no one bothered him on his walk up to Hogansville from LaGrange along Hwy 29 or Hogansville Rd.

 He was walking up Hogansville Road, I pulled up to him and we talked for a few. I offered him a ride, but he refused saying he was carrying the colors and marching for the cause. So I made sure I stayed on Hogansville road and he got safely to his resting point in Hogansville.

Mr. Edgerton, born in 1948 in North Carolina, has been a voice for those who wish to celebrate their Southern Heritage.  He was once the head of the NAACP Chapter in his hometown in North Carolina and later realized that what the people needed to understand was the truth.  He became a member of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans because one of his ancestors was in the war.  He has traveled the nation with the battle flag and has given numerous talks on the heritage that has been attacked by those who don't know better.  As he has said many times that flag does not belong to those pointed head people in the white robes.  It belongs to those poor dirt farmers who left their homes to try and protect them.  He has also remarked that many of the people who call themselves "civil rights workers" are no more than radicals who use the flag of the black panther movement as their symbol.  Mr. Edgerton is so tired of the society today wanting to rewrite the history books to suit what is politically correct for them.  That makes them no better than jackals trying to rape history and trying to make it all for nothing.  He said that the flag he totes never flew over a slave ship, only the United States flag and the flags of the European nations bringing the slaves to the West Indies to work the plantations across the islands, Central and South America and into North America.  Mr. Edgerton has been a voice for what is lacking in the South and that is guts to be able to stand for what you believe.  And he walked the lonely road in Georgia with a retired gentleman to make sure no one bothered him.

Blog Staff.

Councilman Alexander Supports Confederate History Month

Councilman Alexander Supports Confederate History Month.

You may ask yourself how is this possible because Councilman Alexander has made it clear he does not support American Veterans. The last time I was able to talk to the Stockbridge City Council I told them of the U.S. Government making Confederate Veterans American Veterans. And yet Mr. Alexander was unable to learn what I was talking about. Or he refuses to learn the truth of the great Confederate Army. Last year Mr. Alexander was instrumental in denying me my constitutional right to address the Stockbridge City Council, which is part of Amendment 1 of the Bill of Rights which he so often uses in his defense,  to ask for a proclamation to honor our Confederate Veterans. All they had to do was either vote yea or nay, but to deny a person the right to speak because you are prejudiced is wrong.  He has admitted it when he was boasting about getting cleared of all ethics charges brought against him by several people including myself.

I have sources that have informed me of just how hard it is to work with Mr. Alexander. That he always thinks he knows what is best for the people of Stockbridge and it is usually what is best for making him look good or for his cronies. He also touts diversity to everyone, but only if it is his kind of diversity most of the time liberal progressives like himself don’t believe in diversity. I have been told and we all have seen this that he cannot stay away from the front of a camera that is being self-centered at its best. We have seen him on the news where he calls them just so he can be on TV and cuddle with a reporter and that is another question why is he putting his arms around a news reporter? Just what can cause someone to act like this. The city council may need to send him to a doctor like they did the former mayor. Someone that has an agenda for himself or someone that he is working for such as a friend from Atlanta. The last time I was around Mr. Alexander he would not look at me. But he did turn one time and I was right there. I noticed something disturbing I had been trained in a previous job I had in the 90s. His eyes were glassy and skin was waxy,  I do not know what is wrong with him, but these are some of the signs of a serious problem.

Stockbridge has gotten into worse shape while Mr. Alexander has been on the city Council. Because whatever is wrong with him it will bring Stockbridge down the same destructive path I fear he is on. The entity I worked for in the 90s have taken notice of the shenanigans going on in Stockbridge and I know if they have to come in it will not be good. I ask the citizens to help get him recalled or at least vote him out of office. Maybe even have the city council have him removed because he is doing everything in his power to have some of them removed in the next election.

So just how does he support Confederate History Month. By not letting me speak he lit a fire under me. I will be posting more here and on facebook about our Confederate Veterans for the entire month of April. You see he does not know me I am a very hard headed person that doesn’t give a damn about how people think of me. I have been called every name in the book throughout my life and I just don’t care anymore, so there!!!!

Alfred Britt.