Author: Marissa

I’m pretty late on this, but it’s still cool to see. Back in December, the Stonewall Brigade SCV (the organization that is in charge of Lee-Jackson Park) participated in two Christmas parades. One took palace in Fairfield, Virginia (which you can see here), and the other took place in Goshen, Virginia (which you can see here). 

“[I]f the right of secession be denied … and the denial enforced by the sword of coercion; the nature of the polity is changed, and freedom is at an end. It is no longer a government by consent, but a government of force. Conquest is substituted for compact, and the dream of liberty is over.”

“To those who keep alive in loyal hearts the memory of the Confederate dead I would say these men chose the noblest part. This is the best life offers any man: to strive for the highest, the greatest, the bravest that he knows. Is it not better to achieve these things, even at the cost of life itself, than to purchase length of days by mean and sordid living, by cowardice or craft, by surrender of the fine ideals of manhood in base compliance to dishonor? In the heart of every man the everlasting has made answer. If the cause failed, the men were not lost. Looking beyond the little span of human life into the white light of eternity, what better could we have wished for the Confederate soldier than to have played his part as he did? He has left heroic memories that chasten and purify the hearts of all who shall come after him. He has lifted life above the low level of the commonplace into the realm of precious and immutable things, which abide above all change, beyond the reach of years.”

Source: Facebook post from the Virginia Flaggers

Photo via SCV Executive Director Adam Southern can be viewed here or below: