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Wednesday, December 24, 2014
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Sunday, August 24, 2014
"THE DAY THE SKY CRIED"
"THE DAY THE SKY CRIED"
It was the 3rd day of battle at Gettysburg, the temperture the first two days of battle was recorded 3 times , at 7 a.m., 2 p.m., and 9 p.m. . July the 1st at 2:00 it was 76 degrees and the sky was cloudy, 2:00 p.m. July the 2nd it was 81 degrees and partly cloudy, and today July 3rd at 2:00 p.m. it is 87 degrees which was the time of Pickett's Charge. The temperature and men in wool uniforms! The sounds of the battle have stopped, I am now waiting, waiting for the cannons and musket fire to restart. It is quite, or is it my ears deaf from the loud noise ? I am standing here and I think I am in shock ! Pickett's Charge of Gettysburg, I can't get it out of my head and I think I never will, I honestly want to cry but I know being union my fellow soldiers would ask why. This day of hell I will always remember.....to see the young faces, just boy's.
They are saying General Lee has retreated, there is so much confusion, dead everywhere, laying everywhere, even hanging on fences. Horses dead everywhere, oh my God what has Lincoln done? I over heard General Winfield Scott describe his opinion after Pickett's Charge, he didn't know I was nearby. He said their lines were formed with precision and steadiness that extorted the admiration of the withness of that memorable scene, the attacking force had to exceeded 15,000 men. Marching a long distance only one could imagine what these Confederates were thinking, as they moved forward across that field, that long field. Many of them would die some wounded by the end of the day. The Rebel's Yell's were so eerie, as men dropped and then their colors retrieved, to the wall they came charging with no fear, then they were gone.....
The union soldiers were treated for their wounds, the Confederate Soldiers ignored. Their moans and cries ignored, even stepped over by other union soldiers and doctors. We marched to Seminary Ridge, dead men and horses, everywhere there was confusion. At Little Round Top, Confederate bodies were piled into a valley and partially covered with rocks and brush. Trenches were dug 10" deep and when they were buried bodies parts such as feet and heads stuck out. After awhile the bodies became exposed to the elements and animals, they were still ignored. They were buried in trenches in some places, containing 150 or more decomposing bodies, often hurled into their final resting place, a few bodies exploding, I want to run away from this gruesome site. Some could not be identified due to the heat and laying there so long. When Lincoln gave his address there were still open graves and Confederate dead laying in ditches and the sides of the roads, some still hanging to fences with blacken faces. Did he realize he had caused the death of so many and for what? There is no sane reason for me.
I heard them saying Pennsylvania's Governor Andrew Curtin is commissioning a attorney, David Wills to buy land for the proper burial of the union dead. I heard the Confederates want be allowed to be buried there, at Gettysburg National Cemetery. I don't know the exact number of Confederate Soldiers killed in this useless battle, but I do know I will never forget what I saw or the sounds, the smells. They were men like us fighting like us, and the way their bodies were treated was inhuman, repulsive, and sad, I would only hope if I am killed that my body not be treated like these have.
I do remember one thing, that has stuck in my brain, after the battle was over it rained and rained hard, the creeks swelled, I truly believe the sky cried, mourning those brave Confederates and their treatment..........now I can only pray.
Freda Mincey copyright 2014
It was the 3rd day of battle at Gettysburg, the temperture the first two days of battle was recorded 3 times , at 7 a.m., 2 p.m., and 9 p.m. . July the 1st at 2:00 it was 76 degrees and the sky was cloudy, 2:00 p.m. July the 2nd it was 81 degrees and partly cloudy, and today July 3rd at 2:00 p.m. it is 87 degrees which was the time of Pickett's Charge. The temperature and men in wool uniforms! The sounds of the battle have stopped, I am now waiting, waiting for the cannons and musket fire to restart. It is quite, or is it my ears deaf from the loud noise ? I am standing here and I think I am in shock ! Pickett's Charge of Gettysburg, I can't get it out of my head and I think I never will, I honestly want to cry but I know being union my fellow soldiers would ask why. This day of hell I will always remember.....to see the young faces, just boy's.
They are saying General Lee has retreated, there is so much confusion, dead everywhere, laying everywhere, even hanging on fences. Horses dead everywhere, oh my God what has Lincoln done? I over heard General Winfield Scott describe his opinion after Pickett's Charge, he didn't know I was nearby. He said their lines were formed with precision and steadiness that extorted the admiration of the withness of that memorable scene, the attacking force had to exceeded 15,000 men. Marching a long distance only one could imagine what these Confederates were thinking, as they moved forward across that field, that long field. Many of them would die some wounded by the end of the day. The Rebel's Yell's were so eerie, as men dropped and then their colors retrieved, to the wall they came charging with no fear, then they were gone.....
The union soldiers were treated for their wounds, the Confederate Soldiers ignored. Their moans and cries ignored, even stepped over by other union soldiers and doctors. We marched to Seminary Ridge, dead men and horses, everywhere there was confusion. At Little Round Top, Confederate bodies were piled into a valley and partially covered with rocks and brush. Trenches were dug 10" deep and when they were buried bodies parts such as feet and heads stuck out. After awhile the bodies became exposed to the elements and animals, they were still ignored. They were buried in trenches in some places, containing 150 or more decomposing bodies, often hurled into their final resting place, a few bodies exploding, I want to run away from this gruesome site. Some could not be identified due to the heat and laying there so long. When Lincoln gave his address there were still open graves and Confederate dead laying in ditches and the sides of the roads, some still hanging to fences with blacken faces. Did he realize he had caused the death of so many and for what? There is no sane reason for me.
I heard them saying Pennsylvania's Governor Andrew Curtin is commissioning a attorney, David Wills to buy land for the proper burial of the union dead. I heard the Confederates want be allowed to be buried there, at Gettysburg National Cemetery. I don't know the exact number of Confederate Soldiers killed in this useless battle, but I do know I will never forget what I saw or the sounds, the smells. They were men like us fighting like us, and the way their bodies were treated was inhuman, repulsive, and sad, I would only hope if I am killed that my body not be treated like these have.
I do remember one thing, that has stuck in my brain, after the battle was over it rained and rained hard, the creeks swelled, I truly believe the sky cried, mourning those brave Confederates and their treatment..........now I can only pray.
Freda Mincey copyright 2014
Saturday, August 9, 2014
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Alabama Flaggers and Confederate Heritage and Pride join for the Flagging event at Oxford Mississippi
We will be Joining with the Mid Tennessee Flaggers on August 9th in Oxford Mississippi there
will be food available and we will meeting in the Kroger parking lot out there at 10 AM to flag for
our Heritage Grab a flagpole and a flag and come on and Join us. God bless you all and God bless
the south!!
THE ALABAMA FLAGGERS ARE A GROUP WITH THE CONVICTION TO FIGHT FOR OUR Southern heritage, before there is nothing left, but dust in the wind.
Alabama Flaggers Director Freda Mincey Burton
Copyright Alabama Flaggers 2014-2015
Freda Mincey Burton
Confederate Rebel Burton
Alabama Flaggers Event Page on Facebook
will be food available and we will meeting in the Kroger parking lot out there at 10 AM to flag for
our Heritage Grab a flagpole and a flag and come on and Join us. God bless you all and God bless
the south!!
THE ALABAMA FLAGGERS ARE A GROUP WITH THE CONVICTION TO FIGHT FOR OUR Southern heritage, before there is nothing left, but dust in the wind.
Alabama Flaggers Director Freda Mincey Burton
Cause, a motive, purpose, object, the prime mover, motive power, the why and wherefore, and the basis reason. I have been wondering what is our cause? I have heard and learned there are small groups, fighting for our rights, our Heritage. I asked what are we leaving the next generation, I am beginning to question that. There is a incapacity to come together as a group, to remember that the South w...as disgraced and humiliated after the War of Aggression, the civil war, brought to her knees, the men dying on the battlefields, horrible deaths. There bodies thrown on the roadsides and in ditches after Gettysburg, treated like animals. The death on the battlefields like Shiloh, Antietnam, Spotsyvania, and Gettysburg, fighting to preserve the Constitution. Sherman's march to the sea, murdering women and children, burning homes and taking, and taking until the burning of Atlanta. The Southern way of life destoryed to memories and ashes. Falsifying our Flag, the St. Andrew's Cross, making it a Flag of slavery. Will the South rise again? Not with the disinterest of our larger and more well known so-called leaders, that dismiss and decline the call of assistance by others that do care and want to see the South rise from the ashes like a Phoenix, not like bread without yeast. Please wakeup, time is running out, whether you want to believe it or not.
Copyright Alabama Flaggers 2014-2015
Freda Mincey Burton
Confederate Rebel Burton
Alabama Flaggers Event Page on Facebook
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Unity Dedication
This was the Unity Dedication at Plantersville, Mississippi. The Alasippi Rifles acted as Color Guard and did the Salute, this is a group of Honorable men. You will see people accepting booklets which contain Regimental History of their Confederate love ones gone, which we researched for them. On the Monument which I designed, red roses were laid for Mississippi, and yellow roses were laid as a gift from Alabama. A special thanks to our Alabama Flagger Photographers, Evan Snedeker and Miss Taylor Humphrey, who did a great job. Thank you Amy and all the wonderful people I met. A special thanks to Mr. MacReedy, and all the special people who helped me. God Bless. May these Confederate dead rest in peace knowing someone cared. Director Alabama Flaggers, Freda Mincey Burton and Co-Director Confederate Rebel Burton who without him it would not have been possible. Deo Vindice. God Bless The Confederacy.
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Dedication to the unknown grave markers at unity today Alabama flaggers 2014
Dedication to the unknown grave markers at unity today Alabama flaggers 2014
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