December 28, 2020 Dear Ms. Lunelle, During the year of 2020, I saw so many people willfully enter into sin; their bodies full of darkness, full of judgment of others, willfully committing sin, as they knew full well to destroy a person’s character like the Honorables General Robert E. Lee, General Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson, General Nathan Bedford Forrest, General John Hunt Morgan or their Commander in Chief, President Jefferson Davis, and so [...]
December 25, 2020 Dear Ms. Lunelle, On this Sunday morning of December 20, 2020, which would mark my last day in Florida, the Honorable and Renowned Attorney, David McCallister, and I would begin the day by attending the morning church service of St. Catherine of Alexandria Episcopal Church, the church denomination of the Honorable General Robert E. Lee, a Christ-like figure in the South and arguably in the North. It was no [...]
December 20, 2020 Dear Ms. Lunelle, On this day, December 19, 2020, after being guest speaker at the Augusta Jane Evans Wilson Chapter 2640, United Daughters of the Confederacy, with little time to spare, Attorney David McCallister and I would travel up the road to the beautiful town of Melrose, Florida, to participate in their annual Christmas Parade of Lights, where the usual sponsors (the Melrose Business and Community Association) had decided [...]
December 8, 2020 Dear Ms. Lunelle, The attacks on the Southern woman continue as USA Today and its networks across the South propose to examine the legacy of the Confederacy on systemic racism; whatever that is supposed to mean. My Yankee friends during the period of so-called Southern reconstruction created systemic racism in the South...the public school system, the Freedmen's Bureau, the Union or Loyal Leagues, Governmental appointments, demonizing of Southern religions, [...]
December 7, 2020 Dear Ms. Lunelle, On Sunday morning, December 6, 2020, the local newspaper, the Asheville Citizen Times’ front page headline story would read: “Confederate Reckoning / Southern History TextBooks.” This story is a part of “Confederate Reckoning”… a collaborative project of USA Today Network newsrooms across the South to critically examine the legacy of the Confederacy and its influence on systematic racism today. As if this was not enough, the [...]
December 6, 2020 Dear Ms. Lunelle, Herein lies the continuation of the letter sent by the Honorable Rev. R.L. Dabney to General Howard, head of the Freedmen's bureau, marked part 2 of 4 continued. To Major General Howard _________________ Chief of the Freedmen's Bureau, Washington But more definitely, I wish to remind you that there is a minimum limit, which the circumstances of the case forbid you to touch. Common sense, common [...]
Dear Ms. Lunelle, It is a well-known fact that the Honorable General Thomas Stonewall Jackson befriended the African people; he and his wife opening up the doors of their home and church to teach the Africans how to read and write when it was against the law to do so. General Jackson's Chaplain, the Honorable Rev. R.L. Dabney from Prince Edward County, Virginia, was well renowned as a southern minister before the [...]
Dear Ms. Lunelle, It was my intent when I don the uniform of the Southern soldier on a day in America when millions would give thanks for many things that have made them happy for their time on earth to post the Southern Cross in the public square at the Cenotaph of the Honorable Governor, Zebulon Baird Vance. However, upon arriving at a place that was always synonymous to cheer and laughter [...]
Dear Ms. Lunelle, The Memphis Daily Appeal on August 8, 1868 would headline: Meeting of the Conservative Club of Colored men of the Fourth Ward at Stillman Hall A large and enthusiastic meeting of colored men was held at the Stallman Hall last night. Some three hundred colored men were present. Loud calls were made for the Honorable General Nathan Bedford Forrest, whose notoriety for befriending the black man, was well known [...]
