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Even critics agree the Confederate Battleflag is one of the most perfect and iconic flag designs in history. Consider its vexillology: simplicity, bold colors, meaningful symbolism (St. Andrew's cross), and distinctiveness that makes it instantly recognizable and memorable.

This year, make a New Year’s resolution that matters: get out and support living history! Take your family, your kids, your friends—go to a "Civil" War reenactment at least once. Keep American history breathing. Show up! #reenactment #reenactors #livinghistory #historymatters

I have zero white guilt. I have zero Confederate guilt. My ancestors were awesome and deserve respect! -RJ

Fort Branch Confederate earthworks/Fort museum, North Carolina. [video taken Nov 3, 2024, RJ] Overlooking the Roanoke River near Hamilton, North Carolina, the historic Fort Branch Confederate earthwork is one of the best-preserved in the South https://t.co/7Syo7Y0DGR

“Christmas Day in the Confederacy was observed with that peculiar mixture of solemnity and cheer which the times demand. Our gallant armies in the field had no plum puddings, but they the consciousness that they were defending their homes.” - Savannah Editorial,Dec 27, 1862

Lucy Buck's diary, Front Royal, Virginia, Dec 24, 1863: "Ah! Dear, tomorrow will be a lonely, dreary day for me with none of the dear ones we were expecting – not even Nellie and Laura. There are only five pairs of stockings and there are five of our house circle absent"

“Christmas Day, and I am here in the mud with nothing but hard crackers and bacon. I could not keep the tears back when I thought of home and the little ones hanging up their stockings and looking for me. It is the saddest day I have ever spent.” –Confederate Pvt William Fletcher

Christmas in Dixie! “This is Christmas Day in Dixie. We had a little bacon and cornbread, and some of the boys shot a squirrel. We sang ‘Dixie’ around the fire and that was our Christmas.” Confederate Letter in Alabama Department of Archives and History #Christmas #Americana

“Christmas again and the Yankees have burned half the county – we have nothing left but a little parched corn and salt – Mamma made a tiny cake with one egg and we divided it among the children – we sang Silent Night and cried ourselves to sleep” -Amanda Worthington – Dec 25,1864

“Christmas Day, my dear wife, and I have spent most of it with tears in my eyes. The thought of you and the children sitting by the fire without me is more than I can bear. I never felt so sad and lonely in my life.” – Confederate Pvt Alexander Dunn, 37th NC. Letter,Dec 25, 1864

"This is Christmas day—my thoughts continually revert to those dear absent brothers who were wont to share our Christmas cheer and gladden the hours of this festive season for us. God bless them and preserve them and return them to us in peace and safety." - diary, Lucy Buck,1861

Christmas in Franklin, TN! Diary of Judith McGuire (Dec 25, 1864)… “This is Christmas morning...My own eyes were not dry when I saw the sorrowful faces of the little ones around me, and thought of the fathers and brothers who are absent or lying in soldiers’ graves.” #South

“We had our Christmas dinner yesterday—hard-tack and water. But we sang ‘Dixie’ till the woods rang, and that made it Christmas in Dixie after all.” – Confederate soldier in the Army of Tennessee (letter published in the Mobile Advertiser & Register, Jan. 1863) #Christmas

“This is Christmas Day. it is cold… My thoughts carry me back to dear old Alabama, to wife and children and friends. God bless them all and protect them.” - Confederate Col William C. Oates (letter from camp near Fredericksburg, Christmas 1862) #Christmas #Americana #heritage

“Christmas has come again to Dixie, but under sadder auspices than any we have yet known. Famine stalks through the land, the invader ravages our fields, and the prisons of the North are filled with our gallant sons” – Editorial, Richmond Whig – December 26, 1864 #Christmas

Salute! Confederate Veterans Memorial Park near Brantley, Alabama! “My dearest Sarah, I fight for you, our children, and our home in Louisiana.” - Confederate Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, 6th Louisiana Cavalry. From a letter to his wife, Sarah, dated April 1863. #memorial #park

Salute! We need these men today! “I am here to defend Georgia from the invaders. If we lose, our homes will be burned, and our people will suffer. I pray God gives us strength.” – Confederate Corporal Thomas J. Newberry, 29th Georgia Infantry (1863) #Salute #heritage #South

Salute! Georgetown, Delaware! “For the roof over my kin and the land of my fathers, I fight with all my might; the Constitution stands as our sacred compact, and I’ll die to uphold it.” – Confederate Sgt. William H. Morgan, 11th Mississippi Infantry #heritage #americana

Salute! Ringgold, Georgia! “I fight not for glory or for slavery, but to keep the Yankee from my doorstep and my children safe in their beds.” - Confederate Cpl. James E. White, 7th Virginia Cavalry, in a letter to his wife in 1864 #heritage #americana #AmericanFlag #honor