Southern Pride: An Alternative Civil War History for the Southern Mind
- ISBN-10
- 1521995842
- ISBN-13
- 9781521995846
- Pages
- 397
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-08
- Author
- Leonard Poe
Description
The Civil War is not over. The Northern Mind is still fighting the Civil War with political correctness and public shaming. Southern heroes and iconography are attacked as mementos of a vile, Southern slave-based aristocracy. The flags carried by our honored dead are removed, monuments to our great men are razed, and streets honoring our patriots are renamed. And we are shamed into silence. To those of us with a Southern Mind, we sense that a great injustice has been done. We feel like it's a matter of Southern pride. "Proud of what, fighting for slavery?" the Northern Mind asks. No! We are proud of a Southern heritage that pre-existed the conflict. We are proud of Southern men who lived with personal honor and individual courage. We are proud of Southern women who were beloved for their charm and grace. We are proud of a Southern society founded on hospitality and Christian values. Pride, honor, gentility, and faith: the pillars that support the Southern Mind. Then and now.But the Northern Mind won the War, and glorified its Northern values: a classless society where anyone can be President, a strong centralized government that can dictate policy to the world, economic interests that are the measure of national morality, and victory in all things by any means necessary. Values and priorities that define the Northern Mind, then and now. This book will remind you that the Confederacy had much to be proud of. It will remind you of familiar Confederate heroes, and introduce you to some that were written out of our history. And it will challenge the popular view of "so-called" Northern heroes. It revisits the Civil War from a Southern perspective, and explores the issues of secession, emancipation, racial integration, republican government, and the appropriate usages of war from a Confederate point of view. Issues that are still alive today. Yes, the Civil War is far from over. This is the history of the Civil War as a Southern Mind wishes it was. To really enjoy it, remember that history dances on a razor's edge, and small things may have large effects as alternate realities ripple over time. Robert E. Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865. Abraham Lincoln was dead only six days later. What if Lee had held on for another week? Could the Confederate States of America have survived? And what would our world look like today if it had? Well, I invite you to take a look.
