@@wardfrancesphd2142 The myth of the Treasury of Virtue was long ago exposed. The Lost Cause is the belief that the war was lost only because of overwhelming resources and manpower and that state's rights was the cause, not slavery. The Treasury of Virtue is the myth that the North was fighting to end slavery and not conquer those who they believed was in the way of their progress. Robert Penn Warren stated regarding the Northern man: "He has in his pocket, not a Papal indulgence peddled by some wandering pardoner in the Middle Ages, but a plenary indulgence, for all sins past, present, and future, freely given by the hand of history." The South made it clear in their declaration of causes why they were seceding. Please point out the so-called falsehoods. 1) The North was refusing to carry out their constitutional obligation to return fugitive slaves. 2) The radicals in the North had for decades attempted to incite slave rebellions in the South. 3) The radicals/terrorists in the North actually started a slave rebellion under John Brown. 4) Several Northern states' officials allowed some of John Brown's conspirators to walk away when they had them in front of them. 5) Those violations threatened the domestic tranquility that the Constitution is supposed to ensure. 6) The Republican Party of 1860 was a purely sectional party. It's platform was anti-South and pro-North in virtually all aspects. It was pro-tariff and pro-federally funded internal improvements. 7) The Northern pro-tariff men coalesced with the Radical Abolitionists against the South. 8) The Republican Party of 1860 contained all sorts of Radicals. James Henley Thornwell stated in 1850, during a previous Secession Crisis: "They are atheists, socialists, communists, red republicans, Jacobins on the one side, and friends of order and regulated freedom on the other." Your view of the civil war is cartoonish. Slavery isn't necessarily evil. It was successfully defended by virtually all previous religions and philosophers, in one form or another. The Bible doesn't condemn slavery as it was practiced in the American South. During the time of Jesus, some of his followers were slave owners. Philemon was a church leader but he was also a slave owner. His escaped slave became a Believer under Paul. Paul sent him back to Philemon with a message that Philemon should accept the slave as a Brother in Christ. He didn't ask that he be set free. Whether slave, free, rich or poor, all can be Brothers in Christ. Your cartoon view of the War doesn't allow for complexities and context. It's a simpleton's view of the War. LOL PhD? Really? I'm a 9th Grade drop out. That's enough for now. I expect an intelligent response, PhD!
Hiccum Blurpaedius That’s because this is specifically about Gettysburg. If it was in New Orleans you would see 1,500 free black confederates. In Charleston you would see 1,000 Union blacks. If it was North Carolina you would see 300 black confederate soldiers. And so on.
@UCimxZRSVoLl3snuTxIO9keQ A unit of "Colored Troops" as they were known has already gone by, quite early in the parade, and generated a lot of applause, even though they weren't present at Gettysburg, but fought their first engagement some weeks later.
My great-great-grandfather wasn't at Gettysburg he was wounded on May 2nd 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville he was with the 12th North Carolina his name was Calvin sigmon I am proud to say come back into service January of 64 and was present at Appomattox Court House CSA forever
Wayne Sigmon : Amen Brother the blood on that flag still runs through our veins CSA Forever ,my 3rd grt grandfather was at Fort Sumter SC from November 1861 and died February 1862 in Charleston SC his name was John Black 18th SC Infantry CSA ...🤔
I had a g-g-grandfather and his two brothers that fought in the 60th Georgia Infantry, Lawton's/Gordon's Georgia Brigade of Stonewall Jackson's Second Corps. My ancestor was killed during the Second Manassas Campaign during a rear guard action at Bristoe Station, Virginia. My avatar is his photo, it is also on a battlefield marker near where he fell. His brothers survived the war but both were wounded. At Gettysburg they fought under Brigadier General John B. Gordon. On the first day they attacked and rolled up the Yankee line and sent it retreating through the city of Gettysburg and to the heights beyond. Richard Ewell had replaced the recently killed Stonewall Jackson. Lee sent him an order to push those people off that hill "if practical". To Jackson that would've meant attack at once, to Ewell it caused him to decide it wasn't practical. His father in-law served in Georgia Senior Reserves and fought against Sherman. On my mother's side I have a father and son set of ancestors that both served under Lee in Virginia in the last year of the War. The son was 15 and his father 52, they were in the Virginia Junior and Senior Reserves. Their duties included guarding Lee's supply lines. The father was captured and held until his release in June of 1865. Also on my mother's side are many kin that fought in the 26th North Carolina. Virtually all of them were either killed, wounded, and/or captured at Gettysburg.
@@waynesigmon5628 my great-great grandfather was in the 33rd VA and wounded on the same day as yours. He was taken prisoner and spent the rest of the war in PA and in Winchester, VA, paroled in 1865. Passed away in 1927.
Next year, let's get you guys a microphone on the recording! This way we can hear the music AND you. I'm so proud of the new way you film and narrate the parade. .. God Bless The Battlefield Trust!
I enjoyed the American Battlefield Trust Memorial Day article authored by Connor Townsend about his two German immigrant ancestors who fought on opposite sides in the same battle during the Great Rebellion, like many contemporaries, I have come to learn through extant writings of the period, referred to the Civil War. It was pure Americana through the lives and experiences of immigrants, of which we all our, except for the indigenous peoples of the United States of America. As the son of an immigrant, and the Great-Great-Grandson of John Campbell, who fought at Gettysburg at Devils Den with a Philadelphia Regiment, your tale struck an empathetic chord with me on this Memorial Day. My Great Grandmother, the daughter of John Campbell, and her daughter, my maternal Grandmother, used to refer to it as Decoration Day. I remember as a child, about 5-6 years old, in 1959, watching the Decoration Day parade in Jersey City, NJ. This was the city that John Campbell ultimately settled down in after initially residing on Varick Street, in Manhattan, New York City. Jersey City lies on the Western shore of the Hudson River, and since the 19th century has often been referred to as the Sixth Borough. On this Memorial Day, in 2020, I think and pray for my John Campbell, who fought at Devils Den as a 17-year old teenager. Many say, that Devils Den was where the fiercest fighting took place in the Civil War’s greatest battle. Undoubtedly, my teenage Uncle John was scared out of his wits, and most likely had taken the lives of more than one Confederate soldier during the vicious fighting, where bullets flew unceasingly killing men in this human buzz saw, which also included a huge amount of hand-to-hand combat.
I didn't know this myself until a few years ago. In a small town in Ontario Canada they reenact the Civil War every year and it's supposed to be bigger than anything we have here.
To the battle field trust . The civil war band how far could you hear the bands. ? Also in battle how far could you hear Fife and drums?. Did the confederate have fife and drum corps. V
Looking at some of the photos, I can tell there are some solid impressions as well as some hard-core units that know their drill. On the other hand, there were definitely some eye-sore farbs. Extremely overweight, unable to keep in formation/step, belts and kit worn too low, hair out of regulation, and enough glasses/shades to start a bonfire.
They actually had sunglasses back then but they had green glass in the frames. There are photos of a Confederate soldier from Arkansas wearing them with a tophat on. But with that said, when I see someone wearing modern day sunglasses it makes me cringe. As do obese reenactors and female reenactors who are noticeably female and not hiding their gender. It looks ridiculous.
@@topjimmy72 the guy in the photo back then with sunglasses on most likely had syphilis because that’s what those green sun glasses were used for back then
That was good to watch. I did not know which indivuals the various re-enactors were representing. But I liked the thoughtfull following horse manure pick up brigade. Why November? Battle of Gettysburg was June/July wasn't it? Fifty years after Waterloo.
Back in the 60s I was a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Then I started getting letters from the Klan and George Wallace and the like. Found out the relative on my mother's side I used to get in was actually a deserter. Other NC relatives were deserters. Now I am a member of the Sons of Union Veterans. My son was a member of the SCV too until he got some anti-Semetic newsletters in the mail.
Yo...it's 5 city blocks from Lefever Street to the West Gates of the Soldiers Cemetery not over a mile as presented.. the entire Borough is only 1.57 miles long and 7/8 mile wide-- Had all the units adhered to the General ORder to maintain the 6 foot distance between units...this parade would be done in less then 25 minutes... According to the time stamp 28 mins and 7 seconds from the first step off tot he last.. And...where were all the Brass Bands...to play..
@victor soto I was speaking to the obesity of the parade participants and the respect I have for the importance of remembrance; perhaps to prevent a repeat of history. My comment was flippant, your comment macabre. Your point is well taken, I think we both have an understanding regarding the horrors of that war.
give us a break Rich, as a reenactor who goes to events say every other weekend or maybe 5 to 6 times a year, drill we do and practice on marching is done, but when absent for long periods some things you do forget.
@@brianschumacher5914 No excuse for not knowing how to do "Support arms" correctly. (look at 13:00) Look at this to see how it was done: www.libertyrifles.org/research/drill-instruction/support-arms
Brian Schumacher right on . people that don’t re-enact are clueless. Also marching on pavement is not easy. Especially if you have heel plates on . Like you said 4-6 times a year every body can’t be perfect.
NARRATOR: When the parade starts PLEASE BE QUIET! Trying to watch the parade and hear the period music with your non-stop yakking voices is very annoying. You should identify the individual units/ entrants and THAT'S ENOUGH. No one cares what your favorite T-Shirt is, or your running commentary about several Lincolns.
I was there for the 150th anniversary, expected the President to be there. He, Obama didn’t bother to show up. Very disappointing and was very telling about who he really was. I own some land down on Marsh Creek road just off the Emmittsburg road. Love Gettysburg.
Matthew Miller Our presidents go to Normandy but not to Gettysburg? Why should the valor of those storming the beaches of France and islands in the pacific take precedent over the battles of the civil war and the revolution?
FrontLineTexan 21 if you know anything about Obama then you realize why he wasn’t there. And I only found out later, I originally voted for him believe it or not but now enough information is out there to see he did not care for veterans or really for America for that matter. I think that information will be widely known soon. As for Trump I have to believe if he were president for the 150th anniversary he would have been here.
Congrats to all . I'm for Unity but confederate flag should be banned and just use their states flags . Hope to see celebrations like this in the years to come .
Racists can be anywhere. My white niece went to a Hindu festival with a friend. She was verbally harassed. A man then proceeded to push her into a bush and told her to go away since she was white. And she was only NINE.
Beautiful! This is all part of our American heritage...Important to pass these traditions to the next generation.....
@@wardfrancesphd2142 The myth of the Treasury of Virtue was long ago exposed. The Lost Cause is the belief that the war was lost only because of overwhelming resources and manpower and that state's rights was the cause, not slavery. The Treasury of Virtue is the myth that the North was fighting to end slavery and not conquer those who they believed was in the way of their progress. Robert Penn Warren stated regarding the Northern man: "He has in his pocket, not a Papal indulgence peddled by some wandering pardoner in the Middle Ages, but a plenary indulgence, for all sins past, present, and future, freely given by the hand of history."
The South made it clear in their declaration of causes why they were seceding. Please point out the so-called falsehoods.
1) The North was refusing to carry out their constitutional obligation to return fugitive slaves.
2) The radicals in the North had for decades attempted to incite slave rebellions in the South.
3) The radicals/terrorists in the North actually started a slave rebellion under John Brown.
4) Several Northern states' officials allowed some of John Brown's conspirators to walk away when they had them in front of them.
5) Those violations threatened the domestic tranquility that the Constitution is supposed to ensure.
6) The Republican Party of 1860 was a purely sectional party. It's platform was anti-South and pro-North in virtually all aspects. It was pro-tariff and pro-federally funded internal improvements.
7) The Northern pro-tariff men coalesced with the Radical Abolitionists against the South.
8) The Republican Party of 1860 contained all sorts of Radicals. James Henley Thornwell stated in 1850, during a previous Secession Crisis:
"They are atheists, socialists, communists, red republicans, Jacobins on the one side, and friends of order and regulated freedom on the other."
Your view of the civil war is cartoonish.
Slavery isn't necessarily evil. It was successfully defended by virtually all previous religions and philosophers, in one form or another. The Bible doesn't condemn slavery as it was practiced in the American South. During the time of Jesus, some of his followers were slave owners. Philemon was a church leader but he was also a slave owner. His escaped slave became a Believer under Paul. Paul sent him back to Philemon with a message that Philemon should accept the slave as a Brother in Christ. He didn't ask that he be set free. Whether slave, free, rich or poor, all can be Brothers in Christ.
Your cartoon view of the War doesn't allow for complexities and context. It's a simpleton's view of the War. LOL PhD? Really? I'm a 9th Grade drop out.
That's enough for now. I expect an intelligent response, PhD!
@@wardfrancesphd2142 Good day to you!
Remember and respect every American who fought and died for their native state. 🇺🇸🇸🇴
Hiccum Blurpaedius That’s because this is specifically about Gettysburg.
If it was in New Orleans you would see 1,500 free black confederates.
In Charleston you would see 1,000 Union blacks.
If it was North Carolina you would see 300 black confederate soldiers.
And so on.
@UCimxZRSVoLl3snuTxIO9keQ A unit of "Colored Troops" as they were known has already gone by, quite early in the parade, and generated a lot of applause, even though they weren't present at Gettysburg, but fought their first engagement some weeks later.
Is that a Somali flag or Bonnie Blue Flag.
@@SouthernGentleman people promised freedom who wold go right back to the fields if CSA won
Nathan 556 Bonnie Blue flag
Most awesome parade ever-it's like you are at the real thing. Thank you. God Bless all.
Perfect time of year for a Civil War event. Those wool uniforms are awfully hot in the summertime.
It’s nice that these people can keep history alive with doing their favorite hobby
My grt uncle was KIA Gettysburg battle field on July 4 1863 from the 24 th Georgia infantry CSA. On Lee's retreat .🤔🇺🇸🇺🇸🤔
There were skirmishes. Join a group!
My great-great-grandfather wasn't at Gettysburg he was wounded on May 2nd 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville he was with the 12th North Carolina his name was Calvin sigmon I am proud to say come back into service January of 64 and was present at Appomattox Court House CSA forever
Wayne Sigmon : Amen Brother the blood on that flag still runs through our veins CSA Forever ,my 3rd grt grandfather was at Fort Sumter SC from November 1861 and died February 1862 in Charleston SC his name was John Black 18th SC Infantry CSA ...🤔
I had a g-g-grandfather and his two brothers that fought in the 60th Georgia Infantry, Lawton's/Gordon's Georgia Brigade of Stonewall Jackson's Second Corps. My ancestor was killed during the Second Manassas Campaign during a rear guard action at Bristoe Station, Virginia. My avatar is his photo, it is also on a battlefield marker near where he fell. His brothers survived the war but both were wounded. At Gettysburg they fought under Brigadier General John B. Gordon. On the first day they attacked and rolled up the Yankee line and sent it retreating through the city of Gettysburg and to the heights beyond. Richard Ewell had replaced the recently killed Stonewall Jackson. Lee sent him an order to push those people off that hill "if practical". To Jackson that would've meant attack at once, to Ewell it caused him to decide it wasn't practical.
His father in-law served in Georgia Senior Reserves and fought against Sherman.
On my mother's side I have a father and son set of ancestors that both served under Lee in Virginia in the last year of the War. The son was 15 and his father 52, they were in the Virginia Junior and Senior Reserves. Their duties included guarding Lee's supply lines. The father was captured and held until his release in June of 1865. Also on my mother's side are many kin that fought in the 26th North Carolina. Virtually all of them were either killed, wounded, and/or captured at Gettysburg.
@@waynesigmon5628 my great-great grandfather was in the 33rd VA and wounded on the same day as yours. He was taken prisoner and spent the rest of the war in PA and in Winchester, VA, paroled in 1865. Passed away in 1927.
Next year, let's get you guys a microphone on the recording! This way we can hear the music AND you. I'm so proud of the new way you film and narrate the parade.
.. God Bless The Battlefield Trust!
15:46 now that's the correct formation to march in a parade in the 1860's...
my unit was at 10:57, were one of the only to do it right lol
The Liberty Rifles, one of the top-notch authentic units in Civil War living history.
I enjoyed the American Battlefield Trust Memorial Day article authored by Connor Townsend about his two German immigrant ancestors who fought on opposite sides in the same battle during the Great Rebellion, like many contemporaries, I have come to learn through extant writings of the period, referred to the Civil War. It was pure Americana through the lives and experiences of immigrants, of which we all our, except for the indigenous peoples of the United States of America.
As the son of an immigrant, and the Great-Great-Grandson of John Campbell, who fought at Gettysburg at Devils Den with a Philadelphia Regiment, your tale struck an empathetic chord with me on this Memorial Day. My Great Grandmother, the daughter of John Campbell, and her daughter, my maternal Grandmother, used to refer to it as Decoration Day. I remember as a child, about 5-6 years old, in 1959, watching the Decoration Day parade in Jersey City, NJ. This was the city that John Campbell ultimately settled down in after initially residing on Varick Street, in Manhattan, New York City. Jersey City lies on the Western shore of the Hudson River, and since the 19th century has often been referred to as the Sixth Borough.
On this Memorial Day, in 2020, I think and pray for my John Campbell, who fought at Devils Den as a 17-year old teenager. Many say, that Devils Den was where the fiercest fighting took place in the Civil War’s greatest battle. Undoubtedly, my teenage Uncle John was scared out of his wits, and most likely had taken the lives of more than one Confederate soldier during the vicious fighting, where bullets flew unceasingly killing men in this human buzz saw, which also included a huge amount of hand-to-hand combat.
Remember all who fought for both sides as in the end they fought for there home and family at there core
No we don't remember traitor
Roger That!!
Sad to see a fellow american disrespect the fallen even if they were confederate
One of these years I intend to take part in this whenever I can afford to take the trip.
No you don't.
Are you a student of kendo?
@@ThomasPaineintheArse Not exactly, though I've seen it done before. Its pretty cool.
Question. During the parade, why is there no cannons being towed ?during this event ?
I was there a year ago. What an amazing experience.
If we don’t remember history. History is doom to repeat itself.
History is not taught in school anymore. So it falls onus to do the teaching. Or force the school to bring back history.
How do you git a chaplain uniform. ? And the chaplain flag. ? To fly. During reactor events?
I loved that the announcers couldn’t shut their pie holes for one second. It really made the video special.
I haven't been able to do this for years. I miss doing it. Former member of the 1st Pa Rifles, Co. B. Hope everyone had a great time!
At 29:29 is the 21st Georgia Fife and Drum
This was such a great parade! Glad to be apart! Wish it was happening this year!!
Watched last year and now this year. Very special to watch if you can not attend in person.
Why don’t you visit the chaplain museum of the Civil War. I think that would be a good idea.
I didn't know this myself until a few years ago. In a small town in Ontario Canada they reenact the Civil War every year and it's supposed to be bigger than anything we have here.
Saw yall sitting on the roof! 2nd FVB 1stPa res 19:36
it was a great parade, remembering the campaign of bloody history of one nation to became unity
To git camp sighs. How much time do they need for reservations? also this is for the 1 to the 5 of July
15:42 That wheel! Wow!
Parade starts at 5:15 .Would be a better video if those 2 guys would shut up and stop talking over everything.
Some drone footage of this parade would have been awesome. It was fantastic to watch anyhow and appreciate the video. Good job!
29:12 Texans
Yer darn tootin!!
I remember watching the parade last year
Awesome stuff, Gettysbros and Gettysgals!
I can see General Lee riding across the high school football field in the background
To the battle field trust . The civil war band how far could you hear the bands. ? Also in battle how far could you hear Fife and drums?. Did the confederate have fife and drum corps. V
All this power, I sincerely hope you use it responsibly.
Estive em 1983, em visita;neste local da mais importante batalha da guerra civil.
I absolutely Love this parade
That parade was fun I marched with the 2nd Delaware and they are the most Friendliest people I’ve ever met and I am part of that Regiment
Never put horses at the beginning of the parade. Can you guess why?
GREAT................... Maybe next year!
I love seeing americans celebrating this war and recognizing their nation unity
Looking at some of the photos, I can tell there are some solid impressions as well as some hard-core units that know their drill. On the other hand, there were definitely some eye-sore farbs. Extremely overweight, unable to keep in formation/step, belts and kit worn too low, hair out of regulation, and enough glasses/shades to start a bonfire.
They actually had sunglasses back then but they had green glass in the frames. There are photos of a Confederate soldier from Arkansas wearing them with a tophat on. But with that said, when I see someone wearing modern day sunglasses it makes me cringe. As do obese reenactors and female reenactors who are noticeably female and not hiding their gender. It looks ridiculous.
@@topjimmy72 the guy in the photo back then with sunglasses on most likely had syphilis because that’s what those green sun glasses were used for back then
Three cheers for these brave boys, hip hip! Huzzah! Hip hip! Huzzah! Hip hip! Huzzah!
Thank goodness the bands and marching soldiers drowned out the announcer. He kept on speaking but it was practically impossible to understand him.
I really enjoyed it from the south bronx ny
That was good to watch. I did not know which indivuals the various re-enactors were representing. But I liked the thoughtfull following horse manure pick up brigade.
Why November? Battle of Gettysburg was June/July wasn't it? Fifty years after Waterloo.
The parade is in November because it's in remembrance of Lincoln giving the Gettysburg address which he gave on November 19th, 1863..
@@timothyhuebner3889 Many thanks. An impressive, succinct and dignified address. Said a lot in such a small time.
12:15 That voice crack is amazing
no more parade this year…🥺
Back in the 60s I was a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Then I started getting letters from the Klan and George Wallace and the like. Found out the relative on my mother's side I used to get in was actually a deserter. Other NC relatives were deserters. Now I am a member of the Sons of Union Veterans. My son was a member of the SCV too until he got some anti-Semetic newsletters in the mail.
Great coverage, but audio needs vast improvement, should be on tv not that corporate advertising drivel of holiday parades..
Never forget. God Bless all the troops.
Yo...it's 5 city blocks from Lefever Street to the West Gates of the Soldiers Cemetery not over a mile as presented.. the entire Borough is only 1.57 miles long and 7/8 mile wide-- Had all the units adhered to the General ORder to maintain the 6 foot distance between units...this parade would be done in less then 25 minutes... According to the time stamp 28 mins and 7 seconds from the first step off tot he last.. And...where were all the Brass Bands...to play..
Daniel Meyers 10:30-11:00? That’s the 73rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment Band. There were at least three others in the parade as well.
32:20 Flag of European Union? What means a Flag of the EU there?
Vivan los Confederados! Viva el general Roberth E. Lee!
Is a nice parad I like it
I was in this parade
The Confederates practically just repeated the Union's mistake at Fredericksburg.
Yanks and suthruns. TOGETHER FOR OUR COUNTRY!!
👍
never forget the confederacy blew a 3-1 lead at gettysburg
I wonder what the soldiers who fought & died there would say about the U.S today.
32:25 salute to the boy scout
Had Thomas J Jackson been there the story would have ended differently.
Today we need a new birth of freedom, freedom from socialism/communism/progressivism.
sure. let the corporations and the billionaires keep robbing us. what a patriot!
@@brianwolle2509 Back to your Lerone Bennett and Howard Zinn, comrade.
At least the Hogs remember whistles and bones enough to avoid them.
I'd rather see them fat, than to see them wither.
@victor soto I was speaking to the obesity of the parade participants and the respect I have for the importance of remembrance; perhaps to prevent a repeat of history.
My comment was flippant, your comment macabre. Your point is well taken, I think we both have an understanding regarding the horrors of that war.
What about the Confederacy Texas was part of the Confederacy my Grandfather said Mexican fought with Confederacy against the Union
It the ghost of General
Jackson
These guys need to work on marching in formation
give us a break Rich, as a reenactor who goes to events say every other weekend or maybe 5 to 6 times a year, drill we do and practice on marching is done, but when absent for long periods some things you do forget.
@@brianschumacher5914 No excuse for not knowing how to do "Support arms" correctly.
(look at 13:00)
Look at this to see how it was done:
www.libertyrifles.org/research/drill-instruction/support-arms
Brian Schumacher right on . people that don’t re-enact are clueless. Also marching on pavement is not easy. Especially if you have heel plates on . Like you said 4-6 times a year every body can’t be perfect.
They're only reenactors, not professional soldiers! Give me a break.
A little practice goes a long way
NARRATOR: When the parade starts PLEASE BE QUIET! Trying to watch the parade and hear the period music with your non-stop yakking voices is very annoying. You should identify the individual units/ entrants and THAT'S ENOUGH. No one cares what your favorite T-Shirt is, or your running commentary about several Lincolns.
I was there for the 150th anniversary, expected the President to be there. He, Obama didn’t bother to show up. Very disappointing and was very telling about who he really was. I own some land down on Marsh Creek road just off the Emmittsburg road. Love Gettysburg.
Matthew Miller
Our presidents go to Normandy but not to Gettysburg? Why should the valor of those storming the beaches of France and islands in the pacific take precedent over the battles of the civil war and the revolution?
FrontLineTexan 21 if you know anything about Obama then you realize why he wasn’t there. And I only found out later, I originally voted for him believe it or not but now enough information is out there to see he did not care for veterans or really for America for that matter. I think that information will be widely known soon. As for Trump I have to believe if he were president for the 150th anniversary he would have been here.
do you really want all that distraction?
Very cool. Good to see they didn't wimp out on the Confederate flag! It's our nations history. Get over it!
Congrats to all . I'm for Unity but confederate flag should be banned and just use their states flags .
Hope to see celebrations like this in the years to come .
Great parade, horrible announcers
the real natives are the ones who were here in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans
And the new dEMOCRAT govmint think dey gonna win?
Jennie Wade shouldn’t have been baking bread in the middle of no man’s land.
southern racists
Racists can be anywhere. My white niece went to a Hindu festival with a friend. She was verbally harassed. A man then proceeded to push her into a bush and told her to go away since she was white. And she was only NINE.