"“The visions we have cherished of a free and independent country have vanished and that country is now the spoil of the conqueror.” John Singleton Mosby from his farewell speech to his command April 21 1865 


"...In the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing....My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good."  Robert E. Lee

THIS WAS TRUE IN 1776 IT WAS TRUE 1861 AND IT'S TRUE TODAY...


They are now fighting the battle of despotism. They have put their Constitution under their feet; they have annulled its most sacred provisions; The future fortunes of our children, and of this continent, would then be determined by a tyranny which has no parallel in history.”  Dr. James Henly Thornwell of South Carolina, in Our Danger and our Duty, 1862




"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson




"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."  -- Thomas Jefferson




"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." -- Thomas Jefferson




"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson




"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."  -- Thomas Jefferson




"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe." -- Thomas Jefferson




"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."  -- Thomas Jefferson




"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."  -- Thomas Jefferson




"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." -- Thomas Jefferson




"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."  Thomas Jefferson 1802




Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand today. Jefferson really knew his stuff. A voice from the past to lead us in the future.

“Negro men, who had wandered a while looking for an invisible freedom, came back and went to work on the farm from force of habit. They now received wages and bought their own food. That was the only apparent difference that freedom had brought them.” Walter Hines Page from Reminiscences of his boyhood during the WBTS.

“The war abolished slavery and with the exception of a few Negroes who found that freedom brought them cares and hardships such as they had not known in slavery, I never heard a Southerner say he regretted it.” Robert Catlett Cave"

“For my part, when the time comes to cross the river like the others, I shall be found asking at the gates above: Where is the Army of Northern Virginia? For there I make my camp.” General Gilbert Moxley Sorrel

On September 11, 1861, Sorrel received his commission as captain, and was assigned as General Longstreet's chief of staff. He was promoted to major on June 24, 1862, and lieutenant colonel on June 18, 1863. He served under Longstreet until October 1864 when he was appointed brigadier general. Sorrel then commanded Sorrel's Brigade of Maj. Gen. William Mahone's division at Petersburg and Hatcher's Run, being wounded in both battles."

"The War may have shaped the life of Jesse James. After a series of campaigns and battles between conventional armies in 1861, guerrilla warfare gripped the state, waged between secessionist "bushwhackers" and Union forces which largely consisted of local militia organizations ("jayhawkers").


A bitter conflict ensued, bringing an escalating cycle of atrocities by both sides. Guerrillas murdered civilian Unionists, executed. Union forces enforced martial law with raids on homes, arrests of civilians, summary executions and banishment of Confederate sympathizers from the state.  


The James-Samuel family took the Confederate side at the outset of the war. Frank James joined a local company recruited for the secessionist Drew Lobbs Army, and fought at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, though he fell ill and returned home soon afterward. In 1863, he was identified as a member of a guerrilla squad that operated in Clay County. In May of that year, a Union militia company raided the James-Samuel farm, looking for Frank's group. They tortured Reuben Samuel by briefly hanging him from a tree. According to legend, they lashed young Jesse.


Frank eluded capture and was believed to have joined the guerrilla organization led by William C. Quantrill. It is thought that he took part in  raid on Lawrence Kansas,  a center for abolitionists.


Frank James followed Quantrill to Texas over the winter of 1863–64. In the spring he returned in a squad commanded by Fletch Taylor. After they arrived in Clay County, 16-year-old Jesse James joined his brother in Taylor's group.


In the summer of 1864, Taylor was severely wounded, losing his right arm to a shotgun blast. The James brothers joined the bushwhacker group led by Bloody Bill Anderson. Jesse suffered a serious wound to the chest that summer. The Clay County provost marshal reported that both Frank and Jesse James took part in the Centralia Massacre in September, in which guerrillas killed or wounded some 22 unarmed Union troops. 


The guerrillas ambushed and defeated a pursuing regiment of Major A.V.E. Johnson's Union troops, killing all who tried to surrender (more than 100). Frank later identified Jesse as a member of the band who had fatally shot Major Johnson. As a result of the James brothers' activities, the Union military authorities made their family leave Clay County. 


Though ordered to move South beyond Union lines, instead they moved across the nearby state border into Nebraska.
After Anderson was killed in an ambush in October, the James brothers separated. Frank followed Quantrill into Kentucky; Jesse went to Texas under the command of Archie Clement, one of Anderson's lieutenants. He is known to have returned to Missouri in the spring. Jesse was shot while trying to surrender when they ran into a Union cavalry patrol near Lexington, Missouri. Jesse James suffered the second of two life-threatening chest wounds."

ANOTHER RESPONSE TO GLENN BECK REGARDING HIS REMARKS ON GENERAL FORREST

"His reputation deserves to be honored more than what it has been. And these slanderous attacks on him will forever continue as long as men like Glenn Beck and David Barton are allowed to boldly proclaim gross untruths. While I respect both men and believe their statements to be genuinely rooted in ignorance of Forrest; I humbly submit that it is incumbent upon them to check the facts before blurting the lies." Full article see link below...

http://shanekastler.typepad.com/pastor_shanes_blog/2012/07/a-response-to-glenn-beck-david-barton-regarding-their-inaccuracies-concerning-nathan-bedford-forrest.html

The 16th president claimed secession was illegal yet, West Virginia was allowed to secede from the state of Virginia and was admitted into the Union “AS A SLAVE STATE” June 20 1863, six months after the Emancipation Proclamation. (The EP took effect in Jan. 1863). West Virginia continued practicing the peculiar institution until Feb. 1865

The admittance of WV was done without congressional approval and violates the Constitution, Article IV, section 3 which states: that…no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state…without the consent of the legislature of the state concerned, as well as the Congress. 

West Virginia then proceeded to send Union regiments to fight Confederates soldiers; most of whom never owned any slaves… 

We have been taught a very selective, distorted and politically correct form of history."