The Confederacy Under Attack-- Part 326: 500 Attend Largest Confederate Flag Raising

From the July 24, 2016, Google Alerts for Confederate.

**  Largest Confederate Battle Flag Raised in Blairs, Va.  (Win)  And nearly 500 attended.  There obviously are some people offended by these incessant black attacks on our heritage.  Most times if so much as one black person is offended, the flag, statue or memorial has to be removed.  When are we going to get turn-about?

There were 500 people, but even if it was just one had been there, laws must be passed to protect our heritage.

Either that, or blacks must be made to give up something they hold dear.  I'll start with rap and seeing guys' shorts.  And, I am not even mentioning the term A-A as in black people from Africa.  I find that term highly offensive.  Either you're African or American.

And, isn't it true that  it was almost always Africans who sold their fellow Africans into slavery.  If so, perhaps even the word Africa should be banned.

Not Even Mentioning Blacks Shooting Blacks.  --Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack-- Part 318: About That Iowa Congressman's Confederate Flag

From Google Alerts for July 12, 2016, for Confederate.

**  A Confederate Flag flies in this congressman's office.  Representative Steve King of Iowa has come under attack because of the miniature Confederate Flag he has on his desk along with the American flag and a "Don't Tread on Me" flag.

I think I'll move to his district so I can vote for him.

After all, now, the American flag flew over slavery for a whole lot longer than the Confederate one.  Plus. O inderstand, some people have been bitten by rattlesnakes.

As Such, These Flags Should Be Banned As Well.  Mustn't Offend, You Know.  --Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack-- Part 217: Ole Miss Plaque for Confederate Statue

From the March 11-12, 2016, Google Alerts for Confederate.

**  School District, NAACP Respond To Confederate Flag Disturbance At High School.  (West Brunswick High School, Brunswick County, N.C.)  (Loss, They shouldn't have done this.)  A Confederate Flag was hoisted in the courtyard and worn as a cape.  Students shouted "White Power."

**  Mississippi flag featuring confederate emblem outside Oregon Capitol taken down.  (Loss)  Small letter "C" in Confederate.

**  Ole Miss Adding Plaque With Context For Confederate Statue.  (Win)  Well, at least they are letting it stand.  Statue dedicated in 1906.  The plaque will point out that the statue was a rallying point for the 1962 mob opposed to the admission of James Meredith to the school.

--Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack-- Part 184: Confederate Flag for Alabama State U?

From the Feb. 3, 2016, Google Alerts for Confederate.

**  City will pick contractor for Confederate monuments' removal through public bidding.  (new orleans) (Loss)  They'll probably go with a black contractor due to racism.  Remember, this city is now lower case due to its shame.

**  new orleans to Beauvoir:  You can't have our Confederate monuments.  (Loss)  And, what is really surprising is that new orleans doesn't want them in the first place.

**  Plans are for a pole of up to 50 feet to be erected across from the entrance to Alabama State University.  (Montgomery, Alabama)  (Loss)  I looked it up and Alabama State University is a historically black school founded in 1867.  The First Capitol Flaggers want to do this.  Now, whereas I applaud seeing Confederate Flags along our highways, putting it up by a black college is only going to cause more problems than it is worth.

Plus, it would have to have 24-hour security.  We see what BLM does to our graves and monuments.

--Old Secesh

SS Gen. Lyon Disaster-- Part 9: Barnet Losey of the 5th West Virginia

At this point, I am sure that Barney Losey must have been a member of the 5th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, not the 5th Virginia.

The 5th West Virginia Regiment was organized at Ceredo, West Virginia and mustered in October 18, 1861.

Veterans of the 5th who chose to reenlist were almagamated with the 1st West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment on November 9, 1864, to form the 2nd West Virginia Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

However, I have seen another source that said the 2nd West Virginia Veteran Volunteer Regiment was a combination of the 1st and 7th West Virginia.  The 1st West Virginia Veteran Infantry Regiment was made of of the 5th and 9th West Virginia Volunteer Regiments.

Either way, it appears that Barney Losey did not re-enlist as both regiments served the remainder of the war in West Virginia.  How Mr. Losey came to be in Wilmington, North Carolina, is anybody's guess.

I have been unable to find out anything about Barney Losey after his survival of the SS General Lyon Disaster.  

--Old Secesh

The Scourge of Whiskey and Loose Women in Memphis-- Part 3: Shadwell and Habitues

Of interest there is a Wapping Elementary School in the South Windsor Public Schools with motto "Developing Children Who Are Confident, Capable, Caring and Cooperative."  Evidently the term no longer reflects what the slang used to do.

As far as Shadwell, Wikipedia says it is a district in East London on the north bank of the Thames River near Wapping.  This is also a big maritime area.  In the 19th century large numbers of lascar seamen were brought over from India by the East India Company and lived in Shadwell.

So this would be another area where you find lots of sailors.

The word "habitues" means a frequent or habitual visitor to a place.

--Old Secesh

Edward Anderson, CSA-- Part 3: Refused to Surrender

Edward Johnson was then commissioned in the Virginia Provisional Army and served at Norfolk, St. Helena and Crainey Island until the evacuation of the area.  He then joined the Army of Northern Virginia and participated in the Peninsula Campaign.

After that, he served as chief ordnance officer on Lee's staff and later chief ordnance officer for General William Dorsey Pender and then for Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox.

Later, he was commissioned a captain in the regular Confederate Artillery and was at Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Petersburg and Appomattox.

He refused to surrender with Lee at the latter and made his way south to join Johnston's Army in North Carolina.  When it surrendered, he made his way to Texas to join General Kirby Smith's Army which was still in the field.  When he found they had surrendered, he made his way back to Virginia.

Anderson then studied law and ran a successful law firm in Washington, D.C..  He was also actively involved in Confederate affairs for the rest of his life as past commander of Camp 171 of the United Confederate Veterans and helped found the Charles Broadway Rouss Camp 1191.

He died September 2, 1915.

--Old Secesh

Juliet Ana Ople Hopkins "The Florence Nightingale of the South"-- Part 2

Her second husband was a judge on the Alabama Supreme Court and he was named State Hospital Agent in 1861, with the understanding that his wife would carry out the duties of the post.

Mrs. Hopkins often went out onto the battlefields and was once wounded which left her with a permanent limp.  Gen. Robert E. Lee praised her work.

She died while visiting her daughter in Washington, D.C. on May 9, 1890, and was buried at the grave site of her son-in-law, Union General Romeyn Beck Ayers.    Her marker stone was not erected until 1987.  She is not buried in the Confederate Section, but in Section 1.

--Old Secesh

Juliet Ana Ople Hopkins "The Florence Nightingale of the South"-- Part 1

Juliet Hopkins is also buried at Arlington National Cemetery, but not in the Confederate section.

She was born in Jefferson County, Virginia, on May 7, 1818.  During the Civil War she established hospitals in Richmond, Virginia, in 1861 and also got the Matron Alabama Hospitals started.

She was often in the thick of action and was wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines in 1862.  So highly was she regarded in Alabama, that her portrait was on the 25 cent piece and $50 bills issued during the war.

Her first husband was Commodore Alexander Gordon, whom she married in 1837 (he died in 1849).  She married Judge Arthur F. Hopkins in 1854.

--Old Secesh