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God Bless True Democracy and the Mississippi Voters
As of April 17, 2001 "the banner that led Confederate troops in the Civil War will remain on Mississippi's flag, as voters rejected warnings the symbol is racist and an obstacle to economic development.
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Help Preserve the Confederate Flag and Monuments, Honor the 165,000 Confederate Soldiers Who Died During the Civil War, and the 900,000+ That Served. |
Everyday - in many ways - the Civil War continues. But this is not a war of military combatants,
but a war to preserve our heritage and basic freedoms. Everyday - in the war to preserve the battlefields
and other historic items - a battle is lost; many more so than won. Everytime a cemetery is vandalized,
everytime time a flag is hauled down, or every time a monument is desecrated or removed, our Civil War
ancestors are spat upon.
Draw a line in the sand. The lives lost by the Confederacy were not - and are not - insignificant. These men
deserve to be honored as with any soldier fighting for a cause, when called upon by their government to do so.
Do not forget that all of the United States was made up of individual country-states. Each man had a duty to his own
country-state. When the Southern States seceded, these country-states formed a new union - a Confederacy. Any
dis-loyalty would have been seen as traitorous, as was the same situation in the remaining United States. This
was still a time of honor; a time when country - and a way of life - was worth fighting for. A time when men stood shoulder-to-shoulder and marched headlong into murderous gunfire. And
why? Not for states rights. Not for the preservation of slavery. Not for monetary gains. But for duty and the honor to serve.
To dis-honor the Confederate soldier is to dis-honor the Union Soldier. Do not diminish their heroic actions and make
them appear insignificant. The numbers are anything but insignificant: Confederate: ~900,000 enlisted (of which ~165,000 died); Union: ~1,500,000 enlisted (of which ~365,000 died).
Help preserve our heritage. Remember our true history...
Deo Vindice...
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My Civil War Ancestors |
Ahira Butler -
Private, Texas Volunteer Mounted Infantry,
4th Texas "Granbury's" Brigade, C.S.A.; enlisted May 23, 1861; also Private,
Company E, 3rd Texas Cavalry; also 1st Lieutenant, Company H, 18th
"Darnell's" Regiment, Texas Cavalry, C.S.A; enlisted March 1, 1862;
mustered in at Dallas, Texas March 15, 1862; elected 1st Lieutenant,
May 26, 1862;
tendered letter of resignation as 1st Lieutenant January 8, 1863 due
to atrophy of left thigh (result of a gun-shot wound) and no longer able
to perform duties as a Lieutenant in the infantry (Company H, 18th Cavalry,
now dis-mounted fighting as infantry). Ahira also served in the armed
forces of the fledgling Republic of Texas 1836-1846 and was the Sheriff of
Shelby Co., Texas 1854-1855.
For additional information on the 3rd Texas Cavalry, visit this link:
3rd Texas
Cavalry
For additional information on the 18th Texas Cavalry, visit this link:
18th Texas
Cavalry
Felix Huston Butler -
Private, Texas Volunteer Mounted Infantry,
4th Texas "Granbury's" Brigade, C.S.A.; enlisted May 23, 1861; also Private,
Company E, 3rd Texas Cavalry; also Private, Company H, 18th "Darnell's"
Regiment, Texas Cavalry, C.S.A; enlisted March 1, 1862; also Private,
Company D, Morgan's Regiment of Cavalry, CSA; appears on Company Muster
Roll for Sept-Oct 1863, present; discharged May 1865. Felix was the son
of Ahira listed above.
For additional information on the 3rd Texas Cavalry, visit this link:
3rd Texas
Cavalry
Greenville Caswell Culp - Private,
Company E, 7th Regiment, Missouri Infantry, C.S.A.; killed by "Yankee
Bushwackers" March 1863, near Neosho, Missouri. He enlisted in Missouri
1862 with brothers Daniel, George Adam, John Jackson, and Valentine Culp
along with friend R.L. McBee, either in Cavalry or Infantry; could also
be associated with the 16th Missouri.
For additional information on the 7th Regiment, Missouri Infantry, C.S.A., visit this link:
7th Regiment, Missouri Infantry, C.S.A.
Thomas H. Massie - Private, Company B,
23rd "Gould's" Regiment, Texas Cavalry, C.S.A.; also believed to have been
called the "27th Texas"; enlisted April 18, 1862, discharged May 1865.
For additional information on the 3rd Texas Cavalry, visit this link:
23rd Texas
Cavalry
Benjamin Pierce Patterson - Private,
Infantry Battalion, Smith's Legion, Georgia Volunteers, CSA; also Private,
Company E, 65th "Fain's" Regiment, Georgia Infantry, C.S.A.; enlisted or
conscripted August 26, 1862 at Morganton; reported "deserted" at Loudon
July 11, 1863; captured December 1, 1863 at Benton, Tennessee and sent to
"Military Prison," Louisville, Kentucky; discharged, to Rock Island Barracks,
Illinois December 11, 1863; received at Rock Island Barracks January 1, 1864;
on roll of prisoners who wish to take the "Oath of Allegiance" March 18, 1864;
transferred to US Navy from Rock Island Barracks July 21, 1864 (last known
record). He was the father of Patrick, listed below.
For additional information on the 65th, visit this link:
Co. E, 65th Georgia Volunteer
Infantry Regiment, CSA
Patrick Luther Patterson - Private,
Company D, 32nd Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, U.S.A.; enlisted
November 7, 1862, discharged August 12, 1863; also Company F, 13th Regiment,
Kentucky Cavalry, U.S.A.; enlisted September 28, 1863, discharged January 10,
1865. He was a son of Benjamin, listed above.
For additional information on the 13th Kentucky Cavalry, USA, visit this link:
Thirteenth Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry
John Russell - 43rd Senatorial District, Murray County, Doolittle District, Georgia State Militia, CSA; December 14, 1863, William Carter, Enrolling Officer; Examined and verified, J.P. Freeman, Aid de Camp.
John Wesley Sisk - Civilian attached to Company C, Quartermaster's Department, Construction Corps, USA under "Generals Spears, Sibley, and Cross"; enlisted November 1864 at Cleveland, Tennessee; discharged in 1865 at Chattanooga or Nashville, Tennessee. Was present at the "attack of Hood on Resaca and capture of Tilton, the place where we was camped."
William "W. K." Taylor - Private, Tennessee Infantry, C.S.A.; believed to have died in 1863/1864 from wounds received in action at Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1863.
Joseph "Joe" Winkler - Believed to have
been in the 26th North Carolina Infantry, CSA; according to family legend,
he was wounded through the shoulder, at The Battle of Gettysburg; could
also be known as William Joseph Winkler.
For additional information on the 26th North Carolina Regiment
Infantry, Company F, visit this link:
26th North Carolina Regiment
Infantry, Company F
Civil War Images
Confederate Disharge Paper, 23rd Texas Cavalry, CSA
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