Like many of our compatriots, Miss Jackie and I will be off to Lexington, Virginia the latter part of this week to celebrate the Commonwealth of Virginia’s holiday memorializing the birth(s) of Gen. Robert E. Lee and Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson at the iconic Virginia city in which they both lie at rest.
This pilgrimage is especially meaningful for me this year for a number of reasons. One, the ceremonies in Stonewall Jackson Cemetery and at the Lee Chapel fall on the actual birthday of General Lee; two, I will be able to be present to protest the circumstances surrounding the second year in which the Lexington city council, while hypocritically profiting from the windfall of Confederate heritage tourist dollars on the one hand, continues to publicly besmirch the very history and legacy from which they benefit, and three, I will have the rare opportunity to participate in an event that is personally very significant and honorable... for me as a Southerner and as a descendent of Southerners.
My very good friend, Brother Bill Hicks, a well known and leading proponent of Southern Heritage in Carter County, Tennessee, who is unable to travel to Lexington this year, has asked me to carry his Confederate Battle Flag, which has already been on the front lines at Green Hill Cemetery in Elizabethton, Tennessee and at the Confederate monument in Waynesville, North Carolina, in his stead, on the hallowed ground of Lexington during the Lee-Jackson Day ceremonies there.
It will be my personal honor and privilege to accede to this request and to represent not only Compatriot Hicks, but my own SCV Camp Walker Terry #1758 of Wytheville, Virginia, Bill’s Camp Lt. Robert J. Tipton #2083, Elizabethton, Tennessee, and Vaughn’s Brigade (along with several other members of the Brigade who will be in attendance), as well as my ancestors who served the Cause of Southern Independence in regiments from Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina in the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee.
We look forward to seeing you in Lexington on the 17th, 18th and 19th. Advance the colours!See More
This pilgrimage is especially meaningful for me this year for a number of reasons. One, the ceremonies in Stonewall Jackson Cemetery and at the Lee Chapel fall on the actual birthday of General Lee; two, I will be able to be present to protest the circumstances surrounding the second year in which the Lexington city council, while hypocritically profiting from the windfall of Confederate heritage tourist dollars on the one hand, continues to publicly besmirch the very history and legacy from which they benefit, and three, I will have the rare opportunity to participate in an event that is personally very significant and honorable... for me as a Southerner and as a descendent of Southerners.
My very good friend, Brother Bill Hicks, a well known and leading proponent of Southern Heritage in Carter County, Tennessee, who is unable to travel to Lexington this year, has asked me to carry his Confederate Battle Flag, which has already been on the front lines at Green Hill Cemetery in Elizabethton, Tennessee and at the Confederate monument in Waynesville, North Carolina, in his stead, on the hallowed ground of Lexington during the Lee-Jackson Day ceremonies there.
It will be my personal honor and privilege to accede to this request and to represent not only Compatriot Hicks, but my own SCV Camp Walker Terry #1758 of Wytheville, Virginia, Bill’s Camp Lt. Robert J. Tipton #2083, Elizabethton, Tennessee, and Vaughn’s Brigade (along with several other members of the Brigade who will be in attendance), as well as my ancestors who served the Cause of Southern Independence in regiments from Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina in the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee.
We look forward to seeing you in Lexington on the 17th, 18th and 19th. Advance the colours!See More
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