- TRIBUTE TO THOSE WE
PORTRAY -
 
"The Confederate soldiers were our kinfolk and our heroes.
We testify to the country our enduring fidelity to their memory.
We commemorate their valor and devotion.
There were some things that were not surrendered at Appomatox. We did not surrender our rights in history, nor was it one of the conditions of surrender that unfriendly lips should be suffered to tell the story of that war or that unfriendly hands should write the epitaphs of the Confederate dead.
We have a right to teach our children the true history of that war, the causes that led up to it, and the principles involved."
Senator Edward W. Carmack,
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I borrowed the above from Corporal Bobby Howell's Company I web page. I think it must be as close a statement of the true responsibilities
of each and every reenactor as I have ever heard or read.
I think those old veterans must let loose a rebel
yell that rattles heaven's gates each time this statement is taken to heart by a reenactor.
I hope the 9th
Texas and all Confederate reenactors will remember this each
time they shoulder a musket, mount up, or unlimber their cannon.
Corporal R. White, Company
G 1999 |
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A Salute to their Memory and their Devotion to the
Cause! |
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