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Snow In New Orleans

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Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move. All that and a town square where public executions took place. In New Orleans you could almost see other dimensions. There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again. Chronic melancholia hanging from the trees. You never get tired of it. After a while you start to feel like a ghost from one of the tombs, like you're in a wax museum below crimson clouds. Spirit empire. Wealthy empire. One of Napoleon's generals, Lallemaud, was said to have come here to check it out, looking for a place for his commander to seek refuge after Waterloo. He scouted around and left, said that here the devil is damned, just like everybody else, only worse. The devil comes here and sighs. New Orleans. Exquisite, old-fashioned. A great place to live vicariously. Nothing makes any difference and you never feel hurt, a great place to really hit on things. Somebody puts something in front of you here and you might as well drink it. Great place to be intimate or do nothing. A place to come and hope you'll get smart - to feed pigeons looking for handouts”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

Recently discovered bodies in Williamsburg could have been any of these men- our Brothers

Patton’s CSA ancestor was Col George S Patton grandfather killed at the Battle of Winchester

Happy New Year Dixieland!

Lee’s Gettysburg Headquarters were restored by the Civil War Trust and it was originally the home of Mary Thompson. The Civil War Trust has since gone woke and even changed their name but we do thank them for their sadly woke work. Even the doghouse is the same as what was pictured in period photos. Also see R. E. Lee’s HQ FLAG!

Today is the Anniversary of Picketts Charge. July 3, 1863. Salute!

Picketts Charge - Picketts second wife was Native American. Her name was Morning Mist and she was Haida Indian.

Timetoast timelines

George Pickett Max R timeline.

George Pickett Max R timeline.

The Battle of Fort Blakely Alabama April 9, 1865- this was the last large battle of the War of Northern Aggression. The same day of Lees Surrender at Appomattox.

SALUTE!

The US Springfield Rifle 1861 - .58 caliber was one of the most produced and utilized small arms during the war. Even Rebels used it when we found one or requisitioned Yankee small arms. Credit: Passing Through by Don Stivers during the capture of Carlisle, PA