(11.0) HISTORY - Vanquished but Valiant Lest We Forget Johnny Reb CSA

VANQUISHED but VALIANT

(and Outnumbered By More Than 2 to 1)

Lest We Forget

"Johnny Reb"

CSA

"Stars and Bars" flag

Confederate States Army

Photo Memory Gallery

Robert E. Lee, General, CSA

"Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less."

Born January 19, 1807 - Died October 12, 1870

An Information, Opinion, Photos, & Sources Report

Compiled by Ocklawahaman Paul Nosca

Created: 04 March 2013

Moved to This Website: 25 June 2015

Last Revised: 01 June 2016

NOTE: Click-on individual photos to enlarge them!

http://www.va.gov/opa/publications/factsheets/fs_americas_wars.pdf

"Sons of Confederate Veterans"

http://www.scv.org/

IN WHAT WAS ARGUABLY THE MOST ILL-FATED U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN HISTORY

ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN 1860 WAS ELECTED WITH A PLURALITY -- ABOUT 39.9% -- OF THE POPULAR VOTE

THE "WAR BETWEEN THE STATES" STARTED SHORTLY AFTER LINCOLN WAS INAUGURATED

http://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1860

U.S. President

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

01 December 1862

State of the Union

Speech and His Plan

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29503

http://www.infoplease.com/t/hist/state-of-the-union/74.html

U.S. President

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

10 April 1865

Asked the band to play the song, "Dixie"

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9505E2D91738E033A25754C0A9649C946897D6CF

http://americananthem.tripod.com/history-DIX.html

http://www.historynet.com/abraham-lincoln-speeches

http://www.history.com/news/what-lincoln-said-in-his-final-speech

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/lincolns-last-speech/?_r=0

http://www.thelincolnlog.org/Results.aspx?type=CalendarMonth&year=1865&month=4

CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY is April 26th

JEFFERSON DAVIS birthday is June 3rd

THE HIGHEST RANKING MEMBER OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WHO EVER JOINED THE CONFEDERACY

JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE

1821 - 1875

Was Vice President of the United States under President James Buchanan 1857-1861

As a Southern Democrat lost to Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election of 1860

Served the Confederate States of America as General and Secretary of War

http://www.britannica.com/biography/John-C-Breckinridge

http://www.history.com/topics/john-c-breckinridge

LIST OF STAFF OFFICERS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY 1861-1865

https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030921096/cu31924030921096_djvu.txt

"Let Our Colors Be" by Frank Thomas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVJ32U4rqA4

Putnam County, Florida

ALTHOUGH THE FLAG THEY DIED TO SAVE

FLOATS NOT OVER ANY LAND OR SEA

THROUGHOUT ETERNAL YEARS SHALL WAVE

THE BANNER OF THEIR CHIVALRY

1861-OUR CONFEDERATE HEROES-1865

Putnam County, Florida

Putnam County, Florida

Leon County, Florida

IN LOVING

MEMORY

DEFENDERS

OF

NATURAL

BRIDGE

LEST WE FORGET

Leon County, Florida

The 6 flags that have flown over Leon County and/or the State of Florida:

United States of America - State of Florida

Spain - France - Great Britain - Confederate States of America

Marion County, Florida

1861-1865

THE SOUTH REVERES

HER WASHINGTON,

JEFFERSON, MADISON,

MONROE, ANDREW JACKSON,

AND OTHERS, WHO LAID

THE FOUNDATIONS OF

OUR GRAND REPUBLIC.

SHE HONORS HER LEE,

STONEWALL JACKSON,

STUART, JOHNSON, FOREST,

AND EVERY BRAVE SON

WHO FOUGHT TO PRESERVE

OUR LIBERTIES,

GUARANTEED BY THE FATHERS,

UNDER THE CONSTITUTION.

CONFEDERATE

Marion County, Florida

The 5 historic national flags that have flown over Marion County and/or the State of Florida:

France - Spain - United States of America - Great Britain - Confederate States of America

Marion County, Florida

Marion County, Florida

Marion County, Florida (east of the Ocklawaha River)

Marion County, Florida (Parramore Prairie, just east of the Ocklawaha River) HOMESTEAD circa late 1880's

Marion County, Florida (Parramore Prairie, just east of the Ocklawaha River) HOMESTEAD circa late 1880's

James Henry Parramore, Assistant Surgeon, Medical Corps, 29th and 50th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Confederate States Army

HOMESTEAD LOCATION

Marion County, Florida (Parramore Prairie, Ocala National Forest, just east of the Ocklawaha River)

Putnam County, Florida (just south of the Ocklawaha River)

Alachua County, Florida (just north of Orange Creek)

Alachua County, Florida (just north of Orange Creek)

Leon County, Florida (just southeast of the Ochlockonee River)

1st SGT James Oliver, Co C, 5th FLA INF, CSA

Infantry Company of Captain William D. Bloxham, CSA, during the "War Between The States"

William D. Bloxham later became Florida's only two term Governor (1881-1885, 1897-1901) before the 1970's!

Vicksburg, Mississippi

Craig County, Virginia

Botetourt County, Virginia

Old Glory flies, but Stars and Bars you'll also see,

Way down South in Florida Dixie!

Marion County, Florida

1969-1970 Pinellas County, Florida

1969-1970 Pinellas County, Florida

1969-1970 Pinellas County, Florida

A HORNET'S NEST

"There ain't no forgetting!"

REFERENCE AS: Nosca, P. 2016. "Vanquished but valiant, lest we forget Johnny Reb, CSA" webpage report. "Ocklawahaman and other topics" website. Paul Nosca, Eureka, FL.

https://sites.google.com/site/ocklawahamanandothertopics/vanquished-but-valiant-lest-we-forget-johnny-reb-csa

Email: ocklawahaman1@gmail.com

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